Friday, December 30, 2016

Putin passes on playing diplomatic expulsion poker

US unilateral sanctions on Russia for alleged hacking lasted a single day before Russia hinted at retaliation, matching Uncle Sam's ouster of 35 Russian diplomats with 35 Yankees, before Russia's Putin declared he wouldn't play the diplomatic tit for tat game. Get real. Nations hack like they spy and lie, relentlessly. But nobody matches US mendacity when it comes to regime change; hundreds of thousands dead in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. And yes, the next big target, Russia's Vladimir Putin. The warmongers and neocons infesting our government and media, having failed in every regime change venture, would love to add Russia as a failed regime change target. Does even 1% of Americans know Putin saved our bacon twice in three years; first by using diplomacy to derail imminent US bombing of Syria over likely false claims Syria used sarin gas on rebels, then facilitating the 5 plus 1 Iran nuclear agreement which likely prevented war with Iran. Putin's help preventing further regime change in those two countries is precisely why the neocons want him out as Russian leader, oblivious to the reality any successor may be less inclined to assist our 240 year old Uncle safely across the street, as Putin gallantly did. To the neocons, disfavored regimes are like underwear...to be changed daily. 


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