Re: A list of Nutters
Somehow in your history lesson you forgot to mention how Germany and Russia started WWII as allies.
You're falsely representing the Molotov-Ribbentop pact as an alliance, while it was no such thing; it was a non-aggression pact that included dividing up the 'buffer' country of Poland.
This is something called geo-politics; in the case of the Russians it is well documented that both the Germans and Russians knew that they would eventually clash. The Molotiv-Ribbentrop pact was just a way for Russia to be able to build up their military after the extensive 'cleansing' by Stalin, while for the Germans it was convenient as they could focus their attention to the west without interference from the Russian.
By annexing half of Poland, Russia also thought to obtain a buffer-zone in case the Germans eventually would decide to invade.
I believe it's Churchill who said (I am possibly paraphrasing) 'In geo-politics there are no friends, only interests.' In this case the Russians in the followup to WW2 acted in their own interest. Pretending any western country did not act in a similar manner is ignorant at best. Just look at how the Allies reacted to the invasion of Poland; the German invasion of Poland should have triggered a declaration of war from the UK, yet it didn't do this because it was not prudent to do so at the time.
The US supplied the Mujahedin in Afghanistan to give the russians a bloody nose, they were essentially setting the stage for their own ousting from Afghanistan just recently, as the Mujahedin evolved into what his now the Taliban.
Grow up. The world is not black and white, good and bad.
There are only different degrees of assholes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
