I would assume anyone selected for duties involving other Nations would be well-advised to have experience with foreign Nations.
It's one thing to know about other nations.
It's another to be on the payroll of the Kremlin's propaganda media outlet. But we already knew that.
It is stupid to create an adversarial relationship with a nuclear power. We are creating that relationship, not Russia.
Errrrrwha?
Putin is a thug and an authoritarian, who wants to destabilize the US in order to get his way. We should not be playing nice with him, or making it easy for him to invade his neighbors.
No, we mostly stayed out of it
The lack of American ground troops, and Russian opposition to intervention (Syria has Russia's only base in the Middle East) is why it's dragging on so long. And since you missed it, Syria is a mess because instead of respecting democratic protest, Assad decided to kill a bunch of Syrian citizens and start a civil war.
Yeah, that was unjustified.
That doesn't justify anything Putin has done, and did not damage US-Russia relations.
Uh, hello? The Taliban was not only screwing its own people, it was sheltering Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Granted, our hands are not entirely clean, since we *cough* supported the Mujahideen during the *cough* Soviet invasion and occupation, but yeah, that was largely justified.
That also doesn't justify anything Putin has done, and did not damage US-Russia relations.
Dipping into the archives, are we?
In 1912?
Nope, sorry. We did support a coup... in
1954.
Nope, didn't invade there either
In 1915. You gonna hit the 19th century soon?
Russia annexed Crimea after a 95% referendum approval. After the USA sponsored coup d'etat in Ukraine....
That's a crock of ****.
The Ukrainian election was legit; Putin almost certainly had Yushchenko poisoned for his victory; and the referendum was held
after Russian invaded.
Meanwhile, we can talk about Russia brutally subjugating Chechnya, and keeping a brutal dictator (Kadryov) in place, not to mention using Chechnyian special forces soldiers for all kinds of dirty work; invading Georgia; using cyber warfare on Estonia because they moved a Soviet-era statue; cutting off the natural gas pipeline to Europe in order to screw Ukraine after legitimately electing a pro-Western government; murdering opposition members, including journalists; fabricating lawsuits against wealthy critics of Putin; oh, and deliberately sabotaging the American electoral system. And that's just off the top of my head. Do you want me to go on?
