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So you didn't even read through the article you linked to? That's becoming increasingly common for some reason.

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I read the article fully and it shows that your smear of Ukraine with Azov is the exact same bullshit Putin is selling out of his own mouth as he seeks to ethnically cleanse Ukraine.

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I'm in favour of the "Shame!" scene from GoT, myself

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There has been no "ethnic cleansing" in the Donbass

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Ridiculous. Saddam invaded his neighbor, agreed to weapons inspections as a condition of parole, and then played whack-a-mole with the weapons inspectors for years. He gets a pass? What the hell did Ukraine do that even remotely compares?

Do you think the Iraqis want Saddam back, or do you think they prefer being the only functioning democracy in the Arab world (where "nation building never works" somehow), with peaceful transitions of power? That malignant al-Maliki clown, who Obama pulled the rug out from under, still lives, just like Shrub does.

How much of Iraq or Panama did the U.S. annex?

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Sure, because she was really transporting drugs. You have Putin's word on that, after all.

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(1) It wasn't "Yugoslavia" anymore, comrade.

(2) Clinton undertook multi-lateral action, with NATO allies, that ENDED a genocide.

Was Eisenhower's invasion of France a "war crime"?

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for ...? Enforcing the treaty Saddam signed, agreeing to weapons inspections? Overthrowing a malign dictator hated by the vast majority of the people he ruled? Saving the Iraqi National Soccer Team from corporal punishment? Bringing democracy to an Arab country?

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LOL. All Russia wants is to carry out a political genocide, maybe a few hundred thousand murders is all. They brought the crematoriums with them for quick clean up! Oh, and maybe ban the fake "Ukrainian language."

If only the US wasn't "blocking negotiations," no doubt the Ukrainians would have happily agreed to give up being "Ukrainian."

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Saddam agreed to cooperate with weapons inspections - yes or no?The U.S. annexed 0% of Iraqi territory - yes or no?

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Your moral compass is fucked. They announced a political genocide ("de-nazification") and brought crematoriums in tow. Wow.

Even Switzerland stopped being neutral - and they were neutral on Hitler.

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"de-nazification" means what? The guys with the tattoos in the prison yards, is that all? Your garden variety Illinois Nazi types, that's what Putin is so concerned about?

You're high. It means "genocide". Duh.

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Yes, Saddam agreed. He even agreed to allow inspections of his personal spaces in his residences. The inspection team estimated that they were 97% finished with the process when the Pentagon informed them that they had to immediately evacuate their residence because they were going to bomb the building next door preparatory to the full invasion. They had found nothing, and didn't expect to find anything in the other 3% of spaces and documents that they were inspecting. Of course DC knew this because Hussein's son-in-law had been in charge of the process of WMD destruction and after it was completed defected to the US with 11 filing cabinets of documents. Washington didn't want to hear this so tricked him into going back, alerted the Iraqi government where to find him, and he was conveniently executed.

All of that is immaterial anyway, since the US had no internationally recognized right to invade even if they had been manufacturing Blackpox by the ton.

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You've got the son-in-law story ass backwards. https://abcnews.go.com/Nigh...

Backed into a corner, you'll just make shit up. Cool. And I guess "Yugoslavia" was okay then, since the international community went along, contrary to your other statements too.

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In Ukraine the neo-Nazis are allowed to commit pogroms against the Roma with impunity, it was so bad they were fleeing to Poland, one of the countries historically most oppressive to them. One of these things is not like the other.

I suspect 'de-Nazification' is roughly equivalent to 'de-Baathification'. BTW, when did they find that 'Nazi' was a genotype? Do you have a link to any peer-reviewed research?

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brought crematoriums in tow

Oh, good grief. Are you snorting Pentagon press releases or what?

Switzerland "stopped being neutral" because unlike Hitler the Russians don't launder their money through Geneva.

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