No, Senator McCarthy - opposing an American empire is not the same as opposing the American nation. The reality is that only one can exist in the end. I would rather see America the nation exist than an American empire.
Leading with personal pejorative, followed by hand waving does not merit rebuttal. Pseduo "arguments" are DOA. As you provided no counterfactuals or demonstration of error, my three paragraphs of history stand.
Bill Clinton was barely elected; JFK was barely elected -- does that give those who resent a leader the right to eliminate him and effect regime change?
Irrelevant. Being barely elected is an explanation what contributed to events and being turned out of office by one's own elected parliament to effect regime change is a fact, it is their constitutional right. In America we call that impeachment.
Hey, Jan 6 had plenty of angry people storming the gates of power too. How come so many of those people deserve to be imprisoned?
Your attitude reeks of double standards and hypocrisy. Do As I Say, But Not As I Do. You want to have you cake and eat it too.
Irrelevant. Whatever law the demonstrators broke deserves punishment for the law they broke. That is as true of someone in Euromaidan breaking a window or door of their parliament as it is of someone on 1/6 doing so to Congress. The remainder of your comments are just more unmoored personal characterizations and ranting.
Crimea was already in Russian hands, like Guantanamo is in American hands. Cuba would be Ukraine as a whole.
Obviously, you didn't or can't actually read and comprehend what I wrote. I said, Crimea was NOT in
RUSSIA's hands, meaning it WAS NOT under their jurisdiction prior to their invasion. Crimea was a part of the sovereign nation agreed to by treaty, and reaffirmed by the US, UK, and RUSSIA just four years prior to Russia's invasion.
Like Guantanamo, the Russians had a lease that covered a base area and a port, WHICH DID NOT cover most of Crimea. All of Crimea was a part of Ukraine. The Russians decided to take ALL OF IT and annex it.
Any rational and reasonable observer would compare the two bases, and their lease status to a foreign nation. IF the US used that as an excuse to take an extra 10,000 square miles of Cuba (the size of Crimea) and annex it then that is as illegal as what Russia did.
No, if you accept Maidan 2014, then you have to accept Jan 6 as legitimate. Otherwise, you're trying to have your cake and eat it too; Hypocritical double standards based on nitpickery and hair-splitting.
Meaningless drivel. Protest, speech, assembly etc. are fundamental human rights. That part is legitimate. So is putting public pressure on legislators, conducting strikes, etc. The parts that include certain public nuisance, vandalism, and other laws of conduct are not legal.
Most importantly, what is entirely legal is to be impeached, regardless of how much or how little one "accepts" the reality of massive protests. Given his surrender to Putin's blackmail, he earned it.
