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Howard Switzer's avatar

Seems to me you ignore the violent US engineered coup in 2014 that installed a regime hostile to its own Russian speaking population and began making war on them for opposing the coup in support of the over-thrown elected government. It is a proxy war the US had planed for decades to weaken Russia's economic position. With the Ukraine government attacking the Donbass they declared their independence. Russia watched this escalate on its border for 8 years before deciding to intervene on their behalf. Russia is not an imperialist nation, they do not have 900 military bases around the world enforcing their empire's desires, the US does. And the US is notorious manipulating wars to profit its military industrial complex. I agree with point 1 & 2 of your plan but the rest needs to be negotiated between Ukraine and Russia and the US, which has undercut every peace effort so far in its insatiable greed for profits, needs to but out.

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Bonnie Blodgett's avatar

Agree with all comments. The writer won't be satisfied unless Russia returns to its Bolshevist roots. He is not so much opposed to Putin's regime as he is to fascism, as am I. He doesn't understand that this is a standoff between two equally fascistic rivals for control of the world and that the U.S. is the far more aggressive party in this rivalry, putting not only Russia but China on the defensive and using their authoritarianism as the excuse even as they (we) grow more authoritarian ourselves thanks in part to the elitist neoliberal (i.e. neocon) policies of the past several decades that have enriched those at the top and impoverished those at the bottom. We are also perfectly happy to be allies of regimes like the Saudis and Israel, overlooking THEIR authoritarianism and crimes and to sell THEM massive amounts of weaponry. It is the writer who is naive, not those of us who live in the U.S. and have been watching all this closely for decades, including our country's control of NATO expansion and its own clear corporate-driven policies that change regimes whose resources we want to control. In the case of Russia it's both fossil fuels AND its vast farmland, notably Siberia, which Cargill is eyeing as the new global breadbasket as the climate warms, which is why Cargill did NOT leave Russia, giving the excuse that "food should not be used as a weapon." Yeah? Since when? This IS a race to the bottom, but at this point it looks like our own country is accelerating it (also climate change) at a faster rate than the nations we demonize, including India and China.

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