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Comical, I think you're really reaching here. If the U.S. wanted to "invade", they wouldn't do it by renovating schools and hospitals for children in an impoverished country.
And why would the US navy want to renovate "schools and hospitals for children" specifically in Crimea?
Do you see the US Navy renovating "schools and hospitals for children" somewhere in Haiti or Bangladesh?
There are plenty of "impoverished countries" in the world that need this kind of renovation. Why don't the US Navy get busy with it?
"Next" for what?
We know that Romania is already in the EU, but what the specific interests of the US there might or not might be - we can't know for sure.
"Next" for what?
We know that Romania is already in the EU, but what the specific interests of the US there might or not might be - we can't know for sure.
Probably overthrowing the legal government with a maidan and replacing it with Jews, freemasons, fascists and codreanuists. And then giving 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 trillion loans and prosecuting and torturing all who dare speak Russian. And yes to place some missile bases targeted upon Lenin's mausoleum. And yes, the USN building a school in Constanta.
You are not helping your case. Not helping at all.
In fact now when I think more about it, Russians had all the good reasons to be concerned about that US Navy "tender" in Sebastopol.
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Yes, evil American sailors butchering poor African children while glorious Soviets liberate them from fascist American imperialist capitalist pigs!
What it has got to do with Soviet times? In Soviet times everything was all good - both powers were counter-balancing each other and it was probably the most peaceful and prosperous period both for Russia and the West alike.
Probably overthrowing the legal government with a maidan and replacing it with Jews, freemasons, fascists and codreanuists. And then giving 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 trillion loans and prosecuting and torturing all who dare speak Russian. And yes to place some missile bases targeted upon Lenin's mausoleum. And yes, the USN building a school in Constanta.
Don't you f**king see how delusional you are?
I didn't think much of it, until I looked into it, and -
( And what do you know, among other things mentioned in the article -
"Other countries mentioned as sites for what Colin Powell calls our new "family of bases" include: In the impoverished areas of the "new" Europe -- Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria; "
Re: that great American footprint 'round de world'...
Welll you know England once had its Hadrian Wall. China had its Great Wall and I believe there is archaeological evidence of an ancient Dacian Wall. Now in the modern era, it would seem the US has been successful in continuing the concept of 'walls' to intercept encroachment from the East particularly in Europe and almost in Central Europe. Without that presence wouldn't it be not way off to have seen Russia following her historical 'exceptionalism' driving itself all the way west to the Atlantic, to Scandanavia and down to Gibraltar?? We must remember checks and balances. That keeps a modicum of peace and makes one think three times for trying to take advantage.
Re: that great American footprint 'round de world'...
Welll you know England once had its Hadrian Wall. China had its Great Wall and I believe there is archaeological evidence of an ancient Dacian Wall. Now in the modern era, it would seem the US has been successful in continuing the concept of 'walls' to intercept encroachment from the East particularly in Europe and almost in Central Europe. Without that presence wouldn't it be not way off to have seen Russia following her historical 'exceptionalism' driving itself all the way west to the Atlantic, to Scandanavia and down to Gibraltar?? We must remember checks and balances. That keeps a modicum of peace and makes one think three times for trying to take advantage.
What "historical exceptionalism?"
What all the way west to the Atlantic ( and the rest)?
What historic period are you talking exactly about?
And the last but not least - where do you see the "encroachment from the East?"
Now in the modern era, it would seem the US has been successful in continuing the concept of 'walls' to intercept encroachment from the East particularly in Europe and almost in Central Europe. Without that presence wouldn't it be not way off to have seen Russia following her historical 'exceptionalism' driving itself all the way west to the Atlantic, to Scandanavia and down to Gibraltar?? We must remember checks and balances. That keeps a modicum of peace and makes one think three times for trying to take advantage.
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What "historical exceptionalism?"
What all the way west to the Atlantic ( and the rest)?
What historic period are you talking exactly about?
And the last but not least - where do you see the "encroachment from the East?"
Plenty of historical periods, in both directions. How about Justinian's (of blessed memory) invasion of Italy and Spain? The west's conquest of Constantinople.
Many times over, the dividing line that represented the balance of power was somewhere in what we call today the Balkans, both since the time of Constantine's civil wars in the early Fourth Century and again for centuries after the Slavic migrations/invasions, and as recently as the post-WWII period: remember "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic ..."? The pendulum has been swinging the other way over the past 25 years or so and now the west is encroaching.
A bit too far and certainly too fast for my taste, it risks upsetting the checks and balances of power (well, it's already upset), even and especially within western so-called democracies.
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