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Mike Lawler Facebook post: February 27 at 5:00 PM Putin is a thug and a tyrant who must not be allowed to succeed in Ukraine. If he does, I am confident he will go into Moldova and other former Soviet satellite countries. It is important that we speak with one voice that the United States and our allies around the world continue to oppose Russia, and provide Ukraine with the support that they need, militarily and financially to win this war. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My reply: March 11, 2023 at 2:30 PM You're wrong, Rep. Lawler. Russia doesn't need more territory. The very idea is infantile. The US has been wrangling for control of Ukraine since 1945, and seriously since 1991. There were TWO coups - one by stolen election and the other outright violent seizure of power. US spent $5 billion on creating a communications infrastructure in Ukraine that fueled the uprising and infecte...

The law being rioted against under direction of the US Department of State and CIA, etc., in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is a mild version of this US law, which is not only in full force and effect, but has been actively used over the past few years as a weapon of the state against dissent. Recent use of FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) by US DOJ here: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/recent-cases US intel front groups like "Human Rights Watch" publish stuff like this while doing nothing to stop Washington from prosecuting actual democratic dissidents in the US: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/07/georgia-foreign-agents-bill-tramples-rights FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT 22 U. S. C. §611 DEFINITIONS § 611. As used in and for the purposes of this subchapter-- (a) The term  "person"  includes an individual, partnership, association, corporation, organization, or any other combination of individuals; (b) The term  "foreign principal"  include...

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My comments on this at the time here Here is the text of a memo, ostensibly from RAND Corporation, leaked in July, 2014, in the early months of the Maidan coup regime: MEMORANDUM On the advisable course of action in case the peace plan fails In case further negotiation with southeast Ukrainian insurgents should prove futile, the only practicable solution should be a swift crackdown on the separatists and terrorists, to be undertaken irrespective of public opinion or operation costs. Procrastination would dramatically reduce the operation’s chances of success. Possible political and material downsides of an operation should be greatly outweighed by the following probable gains: Activists of a pro-Russian political movement get decimated, pro-Russian voters get disorganized. A significant share of the region’s coal industries get destroyed in the fighting, or are otherwise designated for a quick shutdown, thus relieving Ukraine’s budget of the burdensome subsidy costs. Shutting down ...

From the New York Times editorial page on July 15, 2018, the day before Trump met with Putin in Helsinki Trump, Treasonous Traitor The president fails to protect the country from an ongoing attack. July 15, 2018 By Charles M. Blow NYT Opinion Columnist Put aside whatever suspicions you may have about whether Donald Trump will be directly implicated in the Russia investigation. Trump is right now, before our eyes and those of the world, committing an unbelievable and unforgivable crime against this country. It is his failure to defend. The intelligence community long ago concluded that Russia attacked our election in 2016 with the express intention of damaging Hillary Clinton and assisting Trump. And it was not only the spreading of inflammatory fake news over social media. As a May report from the Republican-run Senate Intelligence Committee pointed out: “In 2016, cyber actors affiliated with the Russian Government conducted an unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign against state el...