Morality Games
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It is possible to foment protest. This can very easily be seen when countries fall on severe economic hardship and ultra nationalists groups step in to fill a need.
No it isn't. As a matter of fact one cannot refrain from doing something, not even for a moment, even if it's no more than engagement on the mental platform.
First of all, the statement as worded is meaningless. But if you are saying that a person cannot be made to do something that they already want to do a priori, that is possible also. I don't want to go to work, but I do it because of the money. So money is one way. It can be done through deception. Usually in national elections in the US, a majority of the effort is spent trying to convince voters who have not decided to vote for a particular candidate. Not only that but voters can be made to change their minds through clever propaganda. Dukakis was leading in the presidential polling in 1988, but the Willie Horton ads help change all that. So your notion is not true, no matter how you look at it.
I don't know where you have been, but yes the US does indeed support grassroot protest against Putin and other world leaders. For example, consider Garry Kasparov, perhaps you have heard of him.
Please note that this council has neocon intellectuals as it's members.
As to what Kasporov thinks about Putin, here's an excerpt from a piece that Kasparov wrote
And please note this
Here you just don't know what you are talking about and have simply fabricated a tale. First of all, not all "ethnic Ukrainians" want to be a part of the EU. Anyone who has been following recent events in Ukraine knows that some right wing Ukrainian groups who were influential in the Maidan protests have openly said that they do not want to have anything to do with the EU. Not only that, but when you look at some of the polls, you find the following:
https://www.kyivpost.com/content/uk...lit-over-eu-customs-union-options-332470.html
... the statement as worded means exactly what it should mean. People protest because they want to protest. Even in cases where "fomentation" occurred, they are still responsible for the results of their actions.
Here you just don't know what you are talking about and have simply fabricated a tale. First of all, not all "ethnic Ukrainians" want to be a part of the EU. Anyone who has been following recent events in Ukraine knows that some right wing Ukrainian groups who were influential in the Maidan protests have openly said that they do not want to have anything to do with the EU. Not only that, but when you look at some of the polls, you find the following:
Indeed. I fabricated a fairy tale when the poll says people who live in the east parts of the country (heavy with ethnic Russians and Russian speakers) favor the customs union and those in the west (heavy with ethnic Ukrainian and native speakers) favor the European Union.
Polls like that aren't a reliable metric because there are one hundred reasons why they show the results that they do.
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