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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Oberon
I think it depends really, I mean I honestly didn't think Russia would take Crimea, so I'm not going to turn around and say for definite that they're not going to take Eastern Ukraine either.
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Well I think they will take eastern Ukraine and I believe the west will let them get away with it.
Their always formidable propaganda machine has managed to muddy up the waters sufficiently that a fair number of people in the west now believe them over their own governments, their own news media not to mention the last 160 years of almost non stop Russian expansionism.
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Where do you find 'em, August ?

I just had to stumble upon that one, I tell you, my good fellow !
Thanks for the laugh, Sir.
By the way : that list is for you personally, Sir, so that you'll have the opportunity to sit around the hearth reading (if you ever happen to buy some books related to the subject) and so learning a little bit more about your own history, during the long autumn and winter evenings to come...
US ingerence/interventionism through military attack, sabotage and agitation since the end of the second world war.
- Democratic republic of Congo : 1960-1965
- Dominican republic : 1961
- Dominican republic : 1965-1966