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There are no good guys leading the charge in or out of Ukraine, all are equally corrupt and evil.
Kissing Putin's ass while sucking his fingers is a Slavic trait, I'm surprised you developed it.
The displaced people have only one upside and that is they may be accepted as refugees in a foreign country.
The biggest problem I see in America is giving certain people the benefit of the doubt, an honest naïveté that trusts the wrong people when they should be run out of town.
I enjoy watching the BBC when they send someone from the London bureau to interview someone wearing a MAGA hat deep in the Mississippi countryside, entertaining but skewed, maybe you should flip channels once in awhile.
Of course the enemy is firmly within the gates now and the great experiment has probably failed.
Trump's four years were a promise of change, probably too little and too late to make any lasting difference, we will know in a few days.
Their is a Russian saying "Slaves give birth to slaves..." applies to a class of people from the Ukraine countryside.
Ayn Rand came from Russia and learned English as a second language and then became a best selling author and philosopher in her new language, that is uncommon genius.
I don't know where you came by your hatred of the USA, but I will stand by what Ayn Rand said:
"I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.'
"Since the golden age of Greece, there has been only one era of reason in twenty-three centuries of Western philosophy. During the final decades of that era, the United States of America was created as an independent nation. This is the key to the country—to its nature, its development, and its uniqueness: the United States is the nation of the Enlightenment."
"America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism."
"The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law. The principle of man’s individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system—as a limitation on the power of the state, as man’s protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history. All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary co-existence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man’s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man’s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights."
"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money—and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being—the self-made man—the American industrialist.
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase “to make money.” No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity—to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, make us your slaves, but feed us.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am mistrustful of Russians in power – recently slaves themselves, they will become unbridled despots as soon as they have the chance to be their neighbours' masters.” Maxim Gorky |
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