Well there is a difference between "can become" and "are". I can become a Russian citizen too. So does that make the distinction between the US government and the Russian Federation "merely academic". I don't think so.
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Well there is a difference between "can become" and "are". I can become a Russian citizen too. So does that make the distinction between the US government and the Russian Federation "merely academic". I don't think so.
Well Biden says he did. Who was there, you or Biden? You can doubt a lot of things, but it doesn't mean your doubts are justified. Knowing what I know of Biden's "back slapping" personality, I think it is totally consistent with Biden.
NO, I mean like you need to beef up on your American history - among other things. Texas was an independent republic with its own president for 10 years prior to being annexed by The United States, that annexation was done at the behest of the Republic of Texas. And that annexation occurred 169 years ago, long before the US became a global super power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas
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curiously (there's that word again)
I saw/see more tracks in the supposedly 'earlier' picture than in the "later" one.
Eye of the beholder?
No it is just a matter of science.
Now it has come to light that Russia has violated the 1987 nuclear missile treaty. Russia is testing nuclear intermediate range cruise missiles. This is indeed feeling more and more like we are dealing with a neo Nazi regime in Russia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28538387
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28538387
More like a throwback to Communism than Nazi. Putin was in the KGB before he was "elected" president.
Hmm. I ran the brightness up and down on the photo and I could identify every single existing track in the second picture.
Not really, Ukraine has an almost 200 billion dollar economy. Its public debt is only 12 billion dollars. Ukraine has plenty of room to borrow more, much more, and it has the ability to pay it back. What the US loan guarantee does for Ukraine, is it allows them to borrow money at very low interest rates. Additionally now that Ukraine has overthrown its corrupt Russian overlords, it has the ability to grow faster and become a more modern country.
And not paying the US government, should it come to that, would be devestating for Ukraine.
More sanctions against Mother Russia were just announced a few minutes ago. And the noose tightens on Mr. soulless.
What difference does that make? It took a war with Mexico to keep it.
Gee, I don't know.
Annexing an independent democratic republic which existed as such for 10 years and which pettitioned the US for annexation, isn't the same as forcibly annexing a country against the will of said citizens. And as I previously wrote, the US was not a world power at the time. It was a backwater. The big military powers were in Europe. At that time the US was a young fledgling country. Mexico had recognized Texas as an independent state in the years preceeding the Mexican American War.And let me remind you, the issue here was my statement powerful countries don't forcibly annex their neighbors and your use of Texas in an attempt to refute that claim. The annexation of Texas wasn't by any stretch forcible. The US didn't forcibly annex Texas nor was the US a powerful country by the standards of that time. And let's not forget, that event happened nearly 2 centuries ago.
Similar to the difference between having sex with someone against their wishes, and having sex with them consensually. We take a very different view of those two things.
I doubt that's the case. What's more likely is the Rebels assumed that was a US AWACS using a 777 fuselage, when they shot it down they realised their error. (I'm sure AWACS would of had countermeasures)
As for the blame game, the Aircraft was heading from WNW to ESE, that meant it was heading from Ukrainian positions (and the West in general) to rebel held locations. If the Ukrainian government had been responsible, they would of been shooting at planes going the other direction (or from ENE), so it was most definitely Rebels that were responsible.
I wouldn't even suggest Communism, this is something more personal for Putin I think. It is sad to see however that a few decades of progress can be undermined within just a few years.
The "rebels" claim they thought it was a Ukranian cargo aircraft.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-came-bodies-children-not-military-crew.html
Texas stole it from Mexico by force and we added it to the US a little later. Mexico didn't acknowledge Texas independence. Same thing if the Russian/Ukrainian separatists steal it from Ukraine and then Russia annexes it.Gee, I don't know.
And let me remind you, the issue here was my statement powerful countries don't forcibly annex their neighbors and your use of Texas in an attempt to refute that claim. The annexation of Texas wasn't by any stretch forcible. The US didn't forcibly annex Texas nor was the US a powerful country by the standards of that time. And let's not forget, that event happened nearly 2 centuries ago.
Hey, I can also add New Mexico and most of California, stolen by the force known as the Mexican-American War.
Yeah you can do a lot things, but that doesn't' mean they make sense. I suggest you stop digging your hole.
Texans fought a revolutionary war with Mexico and won 10 years before pettioning the US for annexation. The annexation of Texas was peaceful. Just admit it, you screwed up again.
Yeah, it was peaceful because the annexation was not coherced, Texans wanted annexation after 10 years of independence. And the US government had no part in the Texas revolution or in the peace Texas made with Mexico. Keep digging
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why don't you do yourself a favor and just stop talking before you make your self look like more of an idiot or a racist. first you claim that most ukraians speak russian they don't and than you try as youreyes did erase their national identity. this may be hard for you to accept but ukranians aren't russians they are ukrainians. continuing to miniamialize their ethnic identity doesn't make look smart or well informed just the opposite. most of the people in Ukraine who speak russian are ethnically russian.