tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post7530284601489943630..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: Ukraine: belling the catDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-2285499221458474092014-03-06T19:36:23.703+01:002014-03-06T19:36:23.703+01:00Thanks Bill!Thanks Bill!David Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-61086269466872244702014-03-06T19:20:46.749+01:002014-03-06T19:20:46.749+01:00Hey David,
Keep up the thinking!
I posted the foll...Hey David,<br />Keep up the thinking!<br />I posted the following on my FB (where nobody will read it, as most of them -- excepting Frank - are more interested in cute pictures of dogs, cats and babies). <br />http://www.alternet.org/world/ukraine-crisis-calls-less-bluster-more-common-sense?page=0%2C1<br />Quote from this article:"In a Western media culture that largely disdains context or history, Putin has been made the villain in the piece. But Russia has legitimate security concerns in its near-neighbor."<br />Also, see what my friend, David Seaton , has to say about the situation. http://seaton-newslinks.blogspot.ca/ - For example, from "Ukraine: Belling the Cat ": "Americans could better understand the Russian position if they imagined the US reaction if America's access to the Panama Canal was threatened. The United States once invaded Panama for that very reason".<br />Those that urge a big stick approach are , well to be blunt, neo-con idiots. On the other hand, absolute worst case scenario, it might be a way to decrease the earth's overpopulation by a few billion once the intercontinental ballistic missiles start flying, and the resultant nuclear winter would slow down global warming.<br />I also recommend listening to Dan Carlin's podcast "Poking the Bear":http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/csarchive/Show-270---Poking-the-Bear/Ukraine-Russia-Putin.<br />Also, y'all might want to read "The War that Ended Peace-The Road to 1914" - a quote from the book's introduction: "It is easy to throw up one's hands and say the Great War was inevitable but that is dangerous thinking, especially in a time like our own which in some ways, not all, resembles that vanished world of the years before 1914. Our world is facing similar challenges, some revolutionary and ideological such as the rise of militant religions or social protest movements, others coming from the stress between rising and declining nations such as China and the United States. We need to think carefully about how wars happen and how we can maintain the peace. Nations confront each other, as they did before 1914, in what their leaders imagined was a controlled game of bluff and counterbluff. Yet how easily and suddenly Europe went from peace to war in those five weeks after the assassination of the archduke."Vil Mahoubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06681346532769481943noreply@blogger.com