Us Special Forces Deployed At Russian Border To Defend Baltic States ‘Scared To Death’ By Vladimir P

I think this is more "make Russia the evil empire" tactic our Goberment is pushing down our throat. It seems to me that stopping US expansion of the neoliberal attempt to take over Crimea was completely justified. Our type of capitalism has to expand and consume more and more. We propagandize that our system is better than socialist countries. I do not think so. Our type of Government just makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-special-forces-russia-border-lithuania-latvia-estonia-putin-scared-to-death-a7509736.html?cmpid=facebook-post

 

Russia is not a socialist country,and there are extremes of wealth and poverty there too.

 

Man... why does it have to be americans. Its not like they're the only NATO country with an army.
On a sidenote: those baltic states have had NATO support for years. Its not something completely new.

 

The US supplies half the troops and funding for NATO and the UN and decides the real agenda for both. We routinely win half the Nobel and Olympic gold medals because we are modern day Rome and the third most populous country in the world. Very likely, those special troops are composed of professional doctors, lawyers, and others rather than resembling something like the dirty dozen and their job is to deal with whatever the intelligence community discovers on the fly like the troops that killed Osama Bin Lauden. These are the guys who could kill any James Bond or Tony Montana wannabe.

I'm a military brat and have met dozens of admirals and generals and spooks and special troops. In fact, the father of one best friend of mine from high school was a CIA spook and another friend of mine was a navy seal just like his father. Frequently, you don't really want to know what any of them, the pentagon, or the government is dealing with because reality is often stranger than fiction and, once seen, some things cannot be unseen when you really wish you could forget what you've seen. Modern day Rome has its ugly side and when you are talking about 300 million people it frequently is much uglier than anyone really cares to dwell upon including those who feel unable to look in the other direction, but it also has its own beauty and romance a few are driven to defend.

 

Not sure what you think happens in Russia?

Obviously not everything depends on the type of government alone. Both capitalism and socialism CAN be great and fair to everyone. In reality they're both subject to human greed, opportunism and corruption.

 

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a rather naive take on things, don't you think?

 

Yea, Russia is really a mess, and I agree with you that it IS possible to have Capitalism work for all the citizens, but I tend to view the approaches to Governing similar to what the Dali Lhama thinks.. He said, “I consider myself a Marxist...but not a Leninist. We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist. In capitalist countries, there is an increasing gap between the rich and the poor. In Marxism, there is emphasis on equal distribution, many Marxist leaders are now capitalists in their thinking”.

 

No, I really do not think it is naive. America adopted a "Manifest Destiny" to make the world a Capitalist system. We have caused havoc and destruction in the process. Tell me otherwise.

 

the naivete creeps in whenever you forget that America did/does/will do the exact same type of shit that every other country/nation/political body has done since the beginning of time.
also naive to think for one second that Russia or China or any other nation is any less ambitious.

it is a myopic perspective

 

I don't really see this as some clash or power measure between capitalism and communism or socialism anyway. So if OP does i agree with Nox: a bit naive or simplistic way to view and portray things

 

Boy, now that is naive. The Nordic countries are not at all like the Capitalist behemoths. Like Ron Paul said "We're under great threat, because we occupy so many countries," Paul said. "We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We're going broke. The purpose of al-Qaida was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it. They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11, but we're there occupying their land. And if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation, we're kidding ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say, China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?"

Would you like "every country", as you put it, to occupy our country with military bases?

 

America did take it to a new level.

 

Maybe i am misreading it but this sentence doesn't seem right. Neoliberal attempt to take over Crimea? It was part of the Ukraine.

 

Your right and I meant the Ukraine....my bad. But the EU is just a product of neoliberial expansion. Here are some reasons why we got involved in taking the Ukraine away from Russia influence.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/6/what-does-the-westwantfromukraine.html

 

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0[/YOUTUBE]

 

I normally find Ted Talks pretty stupid and filled with pop and pseudo-science and utter bullshit, but that's a great one. The all-too-real reality I've known all my life from the inside growing up talking to people who can raise the hairs on your neck without saying a single word. Seriously, many of them make you feel like hanging out with crack addicts is a better option and this guy is one of the more presentable ones precisely because they wanted someone who could sell their offer first. He's absolutely right that the system has to change, but the day of reckoning must come first and humanity must pay the price before finding the heart to insist on doing things differently. This is one reason I write the Book That Can Never Be Written and welcome the next scientific revolution.

 

I don't have a problem with our government, but I see what you're talking about. I don't want a war any more than the next guy, but from what I understand the government is "very confident" according to a news show this morning, that Russia hacked our election. There are sanctions as a result, and if you ask me it hasn't been highly publicized, for whatever reason. I don't understand it, but maybe we should fear Russia.

 

To me this looks like a tense and potentially very dangerous flashpoint. But we'll have to wait and see how the new US administration will shape their policy toward Putin. My guess is that Trump will want to cosy up to him - that could lead to all kinds of hitherto unimaginable consequences.

 

What exactly? That the UN is guarding the russian border of those baltic states? That is a continuation of a practice that has been going for years. That they're americans? I also think that is unfortunate and unnecessary but I don't see it necessarily as some kind of inevitable catalyst. Ideally though it would just be troops of other UN countries (maybe even european, we still have some left )