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[alice malice]

Did you see this?  Not that I would know if they have the facts right,
but it is a fairly detailed account anyway. And, I'm not, obviously,
interested in the truth or the facts here, but in how the Empire,
under the supposedly weak and ineffectual gum chewing  Obama, pivots,
ropes and dopes and builds a legacy. America is still the program to
watch. Putin can take his shirt off and pull out his big nukes,
wrestle his bear and play Castro in the wood, but Obama is waging war
all over the planet and all the world can do is get behind his leading
from behind or be pushed aside and made to scramble after a depleted
bank account. The decline of America theory we keep hearing about is
obviously not a good one. The Empire is striking back at phantoms, at
Castro's ghost, can see Obama smiling at his portrait of JFK, at
Putin's dog and pony show to South and Central America, at old and new
Europe alike, even at OPEC and the Saudi Arabian oil kings, and he's
not swaggering, not giving grand 3 hour speeches, he's just cool, a
cool cool killer.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706.html



On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> Am 19.12.2014 um 03:47 schrieb alice malice:
>>
>> It's impossible to know the truth. Though you admit this, Thomas, it's
>> fairly obvious that your summary is limited, as you say, by the
>> propaganda you read and favor. So forget about your claim to the
>> truth, what you provided is your opinion of what happened, a claim to
>> history.
>
>
> I make factual claims. Some of them are debatable (and I usually make a
> point of saying so), most of them, in my opinion, are not.
>
> Just refute them, will you?
>
> Thomas
>
> P.S. As for "truth" and "history": I fear those big words that make us so
> unhappy.
>
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