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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 12:31 PM Jun 2017

Ali Velshi: Putin right about America interfering in other countries' elections (VIDEO)

Ali Velshi has given a level of seriousness to MSNBC lacking with most journalists who provide internationally biased news. Ali Velshi is breaking that norm. It will give Americans a better ability to question U.S. international policies.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/06/05/ali-velshi-putin-right-america-interfering-countries-elections-video/

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Ali Velshi: Putin right about America interfering in other countries' elections (VIDEO) (Original Post) egbertowillies Jun 2017 OP
I have no problem with our government interfering in the elections of other countries. NCTraveler Jun 2017 #1
Yeah, well that's an unpleasant truth that folks L & R tend to gloss over... Wounded Bear Jun 2017 #2
So true but you are being generous. DURHAM D Jun 2017 #4
'Whataboutisms' from someone who doesn't give a damn emulatorloo Jun 2017 #3
 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
1. I have no problem with our government interfering in the elections of other countries.
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 12:33 PM
Jun 2017

We have done so and will continue to do so.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes our actions in this area have been to our detriment.

Wounded Bear

(58,832 posts)
2. Yeah, well that's an unpleasant truth that folks L & R tend to gloss over...
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 12:35 PM
Jun 2017

Hell, our problems with Iran can be traced directly back to the 50's, when we overthrew an elected government so we could install a west-friendly gov't that would sell us oil. That led to the revolution in '79 that took down Carter and got Reagan installed.

Our fingerprints are all over most of the more heinous autocracies in Latin America over the last century.

Still, that doesn't absolve the USSR meddling in ours.

DURHAM D

(32,620 posts)
4. So true but you are being generous.
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 12:52 PM
Jun 2017

I would change this to read "we could install a west-friendly dictator"

Eta: I have often wondered what the ME would look like today if Eisenhower had not sided with the Brits back then.

emulatorloo

(44,289 posts)
3. 'Whataboutisms' from someone who doesn't give a damn
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 12:51 PM
Jun 2017

about the integrety of our 2016 election

Putin doesn't get a fucking pass, and no apologist is going to convince us to stop making sure there are consequences for Trump and his traitorous cronies.

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