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From a minor (slightly edited) Facebook entry on my part, meant to be humorous/ironic in these tragic times (and in honor of Nikolai Gogol, perhaps the greatest of Russian/Ukrainian writers in his best works, because at least he could be ironic and skeptical (but don't forget Bulgakov):
USA power-politics cynics would say: OK, the russkies got Crimea, but we're getting back Cuba, a far bigger prize (and especially now, with USA's growing hispanic population - "hispanic": a vague term employed by the USA Census). So, basically, we're still winning in the post-Kold War game. Cuba has far better cigars than Crimea (unless they are imported from said Cuba) -- and lots more water than an arid Tartar peninsula (American Indians -- well, what can this "God-chosen Euro-American" say, except that manifest destiny handled 'em Indians in the same way as the white-race russkies handled the Tartars).
And soon-to-be freed-of Castro Cuba is ripe for American investment/tourism -- not to speak of "cheap" labor for American companies -- labor far more appreciative of dollars than the "lazy" American "underclass," now demanding an excessive "minimum wage."
USA power-politics cynics would say: OK, the russkies got Crimea, but we're getting back Cuba, a far bigger prize (and especially now, with USA's growing hispanic population - "hispanic": a vague term employed by the USA Census). So, basically, we're still winning in the post-Kold War game. Cuba has far better cigars than Crimea (unless they are imported from said Cuba) -- and lots more water than an arid Tartar peninsula (American Indians -- well, what can this "God-chosen Euro-American" say, except that manifest destiny handled 'em Indians in the same way as the white-race russkies handled the Tartars).
And soon-to-be freed-of Castro Cuba is ripe for American investment/tourism -- not to speak of "cheap" labor for American companies -- labor far more appreciative of dollars than the "lazy" American "underclass," now demanding an excessive "minimum wage."
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As for Iran, once we have it back in the USA orbit which could be the case in less than ten years
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(when the Ayatollah reaches his version of euphoric eternity), it's a far bigger prize for America still-no. 1 than bankrupt Ukraine (with all due respect for the long-suffering Ukrainian people, victims of vampire empires for centuries) is for Putin's economically disastrous Russia.