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The trouble started in 2014. A US supported coup took out the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, with his eastern base, and - Ted Snider for Antiwar.com Original

History may one day show that two important events did not receive the attention they deserved. One may have led to the horrible way the war in Ukraine - Ted Snider for Antiwar.com Original

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Why did Russia make the decision to go to war in Ukraine in 2022? It had been over two decades since the US and NATO broke their promise and marched - Ted Snider for Antiwar.com Original

Alliance. and what people are out there arguing for right now, is a preventative war against russia. we are nato should something mobilize and attack and go into the skies over ukraine and start destroying russian assets. people want to argue explicitly for going to war against russia right now, then i think they should say that. and i do not criticize president zelenskyy or anyone in the government of kyiv right now. they are fighting for their lives and they are fighting for the existence of t...

The last thing any dictator would want to do and throwing out the libya model which john bolton was deliberately trying to sabotage the negotiates because we knows what the libya model means and north korea said were not going to go the way of saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi and so when the national security adviser who just a few months ago was talking about how he wants to wage a preventative war against north korea when he says we insist that you go and do exactly what libya did, thats not...

Its incredibly frustrating. >> this relationship has been essentially been deinstitutionalized, we do have nuclear weapons, being modernized, we see what the russians are doing in syria, so i dont think either side is served by the current interstst affairs. we have to be tougher with them, but also find a way to talk to them. and we have to basically be able to manage both sides of this relationship at once. >> all right, we have to go. next on "gps" trump on trade, is he starting a global econ...

Compromised settlement. jackson embraced it immediately. one of the things about jacksonian leadership is an agreement that they would never buy from obama, they might buy from trump, sort of a nixon to china kind of thing. whether trump will do this, thats a whole different question. but sfrtructurally, yes, it cou happen. >> richard, you made a point in a tweet which i thought was very interesting and important, which is john bolton, the new national security adviser has been threatening war a...

Advantage of it as the south koreans and north koreans meet. i hope thats going to evolve into a situation where we sit down with north korean diplomats, fwbecause to go to w, a preventative war, to choose that with fwhanorth korea would unconscionable. >> you wrote the cover story in this weeks the "economist" magazine and the head on the piece is "the one-year-old trump presidency. is it really this bad?" you dont write the heads but do you think internally there was a pushback, the one-year-o...

Congress exercising its constitutional responsibilities to determine whether or not a nuclear strike is ordered by the united states against another country as part of a preventative war. and thats why ive introduced legislation along with ted lou, congressman from california, to ensure we have that debate and we have that insertion of congressional authority to ensure that donald trump does not start a nuclear war where we have not been attacked with nuclear weapons. because obviously under the...