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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 410215" data-attributes="member: 35">Did you read the article I linked to?&nbsp; The provocation began years ago, and it isn&#039;t solely about sending billions in military aid to Ukraine.&nbsp; &quot;In 1995, 18 retired U.S. foreign service and State and Defense Department officers <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/09/21/should-nato-growa-dissent/" target="_blank">signed a letter denouncing these NATO recruitments</a>, saying they would convince Russians that the U.S. was seeking to &quot;isolate, encircle, and subordinate them.&nbsp; It is this NATO penetration into Russia&#039;s sphere that is the root cause of the current conflict.&quot;&nbsp; George Bush Sr&#039;s Administration assured Russia that NATO would not &quot;move one inch eastward,&quot; but the US betrayed that promise.&nbsp; &quot;Putin and other Russian leaders have complained bitterly about this Western duplicity.&quot;As for seizing Crimea, &quot;the 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan revolution overthrew the pro-Russian Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych, replacing it with a strongly pro-Western government. Russia, which at the time was ringed with U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, some of the former Soviet Central Asian republics and the Middle East — as well as <a href="https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/#lat=42.22817191118702&amp;lon=37.63232013940903&amp;zoom=0&amp;layer-5" target="_blank">NATO bases stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic republics</a> — feared this might lead to a NATO naval base at Sevastopol on the Black Sea, previously a major Russian and Soviet naval and commercial port. Faced with what it perceived as a potential strategic disaster, Russia seized Crimea and reincorporated it into Russia.&quot;Democrats are war criminals just like Republicans are, but they&#039;re not going to go after people for crimes that they&#039;re complicit in.As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was part of deal to sell off 20% of US uranium to Russia.&nbsp; Russian oligarchs subsequently gave a large donation to the Clinton Foundation.Biden&#039;s son Hunter (among other family members) were involved in influence peddling schemes, which involved &quot;selling access to Biden&quot; in return for special favors.That sounds like corruption and possibly even crimes to me.&nbsp; Dems and neocon Republicans have a common enemy in Trump, so perhaps that&#039;s why only he was put on trial.Of course.&nbsp; As I said before, Dems and Republicans won&#039;t go after people for crimes they&#039;re complicit in.IMO, war crimes are far more egregious than trying to hide payoffs to a porn star.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 410215, member: 35"] Did you read the article I linked to? The provocation began years ago, and it isn't solely about sending billions in military aid to Ukraine. "In 1995, 18 retired U.S. foreign service and State and Defense Department officers [URL='https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/09/21/should-nato-growa-dissent/']signed a letter denouncing these NATO recruitments[/URL], saying they would convince Russians that the U.S. was seeking to "isolate, encircle, and subordinate them. It is this NATO penetration into Russia's sphere that is the root cause of the current conflict." George Bush Sr's Administration assured Russia that NATO would not "move one inch eastward," but the US betrayed that promise. "Putin and other Russian leaders have complained bitterly about this Western duplicity." As for seizing Crimea, "the 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan revolution overthrew the pro-Russian Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych, replacing it with a strongly pro-Western government. Russia, which at the time was ringed with U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, some of the former Soviet Central Asian republics and the Middle East — as well as [URL='https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/#lat=42.22817191118702&lon=37.63232013940903&zoom=0&layer-5']NATO bases stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic republics[/URL] — feared this might lead to a NATO naval base at Sevastopol on the Black Sea, previously a major Russian and Soviet naval and commercial port. Faced with what it perceived as a potential strategic disaster, Russia seized Crimea and reincorporated it into Russia." Democrats are war criminals just like Republicans are, but they're not going to go after people for crimes that they're complicit in. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was part of deal to sell off 20% of US uranium to Russia. Russian oligarchs subsequently gave a large donation to the Clinton Foundation. Biden's son Hunter (among other family members) were involved in influence peddling schemes, which involved "selling access to Biden" in return for special favors. That sounds like corruption and possibly even crimes to me. Dems and neocon Republicans have a common enemy in Trump, so perhaps that's why only he was put on trial. Of course. As I said before, Dems and Republicans won't go after people for crimes they're complicit in. IMO, war crimes are far more egregious than trying to hide payoffs to a porn star. [/QUOTE]

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