Phydeaux
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ORIGINAL: Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Socialism is a disaster.
For the nation as a whole, it improves things and leads to greater progress.
Uh huh. why don't you pretend to support your position. Still waiting for an example of where socialism made things better for a nation.
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It may come as a shock to you, but the US doesn't control the entire world. We have to play the geopolitical hand we're dealt.
But as far as creating long term competitors, we did that with Japan and Germany, didn't we? Should the US feel as threatened by that as you feel threatened by China?
Japan and Germany are reliable allies. China is a nuclear competitor that is taking agressive actions in the south pacific, designed to cut us access to these areas in a time of war, and hence remove our ability to assist japan, taiwan, phillipines - all us allies.
One measures threat according to your opponents action.
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As for Russia not being an agressive nation.
You're smoking things again. Crimea and 1/3 of ukraine begs to differ.
You really don't know what you're talking about, do you? Most of their history, they've invaded other nations, conquering on average a country the size of belgium every year of their existence If you ever bothered to read history, you would know this.
Fixed it for you.
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The territories you're referring to have been fought over many, many times. Russian history is often said to have begun with Kievan Rus, and "Ukraine" is a name derived from Russian, which means "by the border" or "borderland." Ukraine itself has also been invaded numerous times, by Scythians, Polovtsy, Bulgars, Turks, Poles, Lithuanians, Austro-Hungarians, and Germans. That's part of the reason the Russians had to migrate out of there and settled near what is now Moscow, which is how Moscow became the center of their culture and political power.
It's true there's been a lot of bad blood between them in recent years, and I do sympathize with the Ukrainians. But Russians and Ukrainians are more alike than they are different, and I think they'll come to terms eventually. I would also say that Putin probably could have handled things better, but so could we. This is hardly an example of Russian "aggression."
Right. And if having an army in someone elses country isn't an example of aggression nothing ever will be. You are dishonest.
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), but even someone who is there to infringe on your ability to continue to live can't be shot, either. You can no defend yourself from something you don't know is going to happen. The cops aren't going to be there 24/7 to protect you. They can only react once a crime has been committed, or a threat has been made. By the time the cops are called, or they get there, you could be dead and the perps gone. 
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