"ManOfMayhem" can characterize Russia any way he wishes , but the fact remains that all 17 of America's intelligence agencies agree that it hacked the DNC and tried to influence the 2016 Election!
As previously stated, what does Russia produce that has made its way onto American retail shelves?
| The 2016 CBC Massey Lectures: The Return of Cold War 1:20 Listen to Full Episode 53:59 In his 1989 essay The End of History? American thinker Francis Fukuyama suggested that Western liberal democracy was the endpoint of our political evolution, the best and final system to emerge after thousands of years of trial and error. Fukuyama seems to have been wrong: our recent history -- filled with terrorism and war, rising inequity and the mass flight of populations -- suggests that we've failed to create any sort of global formula for lasting peace and social equity. In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh explores how pronouncements about the "end of history" may have been premature. **This episode originally aired November 3, 2016. "On the afternoon of February 22, 2014, in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, you could smell the scent of revolution. Earlier that day, the country's parliament had voted to eject its reigning President, Viktor Yanukovych from power, following three months of protests and clashes ... Meanwhile, protesters rode atop trucks in the central avenues and squares of the city...celebrating what they believed would be the dawn of a new era in Ukraine's political future. Only a few hours later, however, in a city roughly 500 miles away, more fateful decisions were underway which would lead Ukraine down a more uncertain and violent path." Fukuyama's essay was inspired by the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980's. But the Soviet Union -- or the idea of it, the muscle behind it -- is back. The Cold War, a kind of standoff between two superpowers, is not unique in human history, but today's version of the Cold War is triggering a domino effect -- instability in Ukraine and the Middle East, the return of a threat to liberal democracy. Jennifer Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. From 2013 until 2016, she was the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Responsibility to Protect. She co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and the Central European University (Prague). Welsh is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on international relations, the changing character of war, and Canadian foreign policy. She was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, and is of Metis descent. She now lives in Italy, with her husband and two children. |
People of your mindset should all live in California and then secede from the US. You can fight Putin to your heart's extent then. I don't feel like you're kind are my countrymen. You have destroyed this country from its founders intention. Get the hell out and move to California.
I definitely agree with the Garland situation being a disgrace but I struggle with the Dems not putting Gorsuch through. Not because I think the Dems should ideologically agree with Gorsuch but because of the practical effects. What will they actually accomplish? Nothing. The options seem to be either the Republicans change the rules and force him through anyway or maybe even end up nominating someone even worse from the liberal perspective and shove them through.