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Did you happen to notice in the post right above yours that I mentioned having family there?
People who are actually living through this?
In various regions of the nation.
I have visited them 3 times since the Russian incursions of 2014.
I've seen with my own eyes a good bit of what's going on there.
But Russia saved Syria from that.
Russia's priority is most certainly not the Syrian people. What they want most is to make sure their interests in the region are best protected by a very malleable head of state. When Assad's usefulness to them in that regard begins to dry up they'll get rid of him themselves. In the meantime, a whole lot more innocent folks are gonna die.
No I didn't read that.
You have been to The Ukraine three times since 2014?
Wow. Probably some serious eye candy all over.
If you've been there and you've spoken to people there and got a good feel as to the view of the people , to me that carries a lot of weight.
I've said before you can't fully understand a situation unless youve seen it firsthand.
I dealt with that many times when hearing falsehoods and myths about Colombia.
But I've never really debated the Russia/Ukraine situation with you because I don't know a lot about it and what I've read has been contradictory.
I did speak to a couple of Russian girls a few times at work about it last summer. Got the impression they werent to happy about it but we doing go into strong detail.
So in a thread about that you would be most knowledgable.
With the Russian hacking accusations coming fron the DNC, CIA Brennan, Obama, Clinton, Grahm, Mccain, ect these are people who I feel have ZERO credibilty and justly earned.
To me they are bought and paid for traitors and criminals so I don't believe a word they say , ever.
Especially since no proof or evidence has been offered. Seems theyre just throwing crap against the wall , again.
Its 2 different topics anyway.