I wish someone could explain to me, in terms I can understand, what the difference is between Afghanistan asking for outside help and Crimea asking for outside help - other than it was asked of the "wrong" people.
Not much difference at all, in fact it is the classic playbook that 'they' are still using today.
In the mid-70's the Afghan Government was quickly adopting all the UN Human Rights guidelines and Washington funded and supported the hard-liners that were quickly going extinct because nobody was willing to support their 'brand of rule'. That is when the terrorism started with attacks on women who were in public positions in Education and Politics and it resulted in the Government asking the USSR for help in fighting the 'terrorists' whose methods are the same as they were in the Ukraine and would have happened in Crimea as they would have 'resisted' becoming an NATO/IMF puppet.
Afghanistan did not "ask for outside help", it was invaded after an attack on the USA was planned and executed from its territory.
Well this certainly proves you are a troll rather than just ill-informed.
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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[SIZE=-1]Zbigniew Brzezinski:
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair
[SIZE=-1]Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
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...... now we are going to be faced with a series
of despot regimes Korea, China, Russia, the militant Arab world. If we are not careful we
are in for a very rough time and a long period of international stability. No one saw a war
coming out of an assassination in the Balkans either that resulted in WWI
Would that be unlike the 40 year long cold war that the US ran where it extracted trillions and not a shot was fired??
China and Russia are writing bills that allow more freedom, the US and it's Allies are writing things like the Patriot Act and various Austerity bills that make them totalitarian states. You have your glasses on upside down.
I hope spring spares them soon.
Not to fear, it is only the US that would intentionally cut off the gas. If NATO still does that at the Russian border it will be the Ukraine that will be the last on the list to get imports from anyplace else and they would gladly let million and millions of Ukrainians freeze to death, after all you don't need many peasants to run the farms owned by International Corporations and the food grown is only for export rather than it being for local consumption. Perhaps you missed the 60's, 70's and 80's in Latin/South America.
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Russia Calls Off Retaliation -- Says "Never Mind"
33:54 -39:30 Discussion of the situation in Crimea and Russia's annexation of that country and the potential for financial sanctions levied by both sides with perhaps dramatic consequences. The sanctions turned out to be a non event, with the United States placing sanctions on eight Russian cabinet members (but not Putin himself) leaving the Russian President to declare there was no further need to retaliate against the United States. This issue could be raised at a future date. Discussion of how Russia used the threat not to use the dollar in international trade to take over Crimea. Discussion of how international situations are over blown into crisis and how its more difficult now to convince Americans that military action is necessary after the Iraq invasion based on the existence of weapons of mass destruction. Comparison of Iraq and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Discussion of why Europe and the U.S. backed down.
- See more at:
http://xrepublic.tv/node/8075#sthash.DZCt1LwU.dpuf
Notice the complete lack of a sustained aerial bombarbment prior to 'knocking the gates down' and the Kiev never sent any orders teiing them what to do.
Is the Commander smiling at the 0:30 mark? Taken over but no injuries. Another story has them being given 3 choices, stay at their posts as part of the Crimean Military, quit and stay in Crimea as citizens, of leave with your family for duties in Kiev.
What do you think the 'majority' will do?? If you picked the first choice you would be correct.
