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This is something I've alluded to for a while... NOT AN ALL OUT BATTLE- Rather measured actions. Carefully taken. Calculated.

After the 2014 Maidan revolution and the subsequent secessions of Lugansk and Donetsk in Ukraine, and after the rejoining of Crimea with its original nation of Russia, the Western media went on a campaign to prove the Russia is (/ was / was about to / had already / might / was thinking about / was planning to … etc.) invade Ukraine. For the next year or so, about every two weeks, internet news sources like Yahoo!

While the American people and press are pretty much complicit in reassuring the masses that America is the only “right” superpower on earth, and that Russia and China represent “enemy threats” for doing nothing more than existing and being successfully competitive in world markets, Russia Channel One got a stunner of a video interview with Ariel Cohen.
Who is Ariel Cohen? Wikipedia offers this information about him:

March 17, 2019 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - US Ambassador to Australia Arthur Culvahouse Jr.

I really wanted to stay away from this one... but found the targeting of Turkey and Turkish people too compelling an aspect to pass over*The “Islamaphobia” hand is being overplayed. This is media driven identity politics for the masses. Serves the elites, always.*The usual call for gun control? Yup, those gun laws have to be changed!  And now is the time for those changes!

Busy past couple of days... so I'm just posting some updates on situation covered here over the yearsState Department

On March 16, 2014, Crimea held a referendum election on the question of rejoining the Russian Federation and seceding from Ukraine. The vote passed by an enormous margin, nearly 97% of the voters saying they wished to rejoin Russia. That number was amplified by the 83.1% voter turnout. Clearly this was a very pressing matter for the Crimean people.

TASS New agency reported March 14 that Moscow sees US activity in regard to missile tests stands as proof that the Americans intended for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to fail.
TASS reports (emphases added):

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I've not even finished listening to this interview... No matter, it's excellent thus far!  Guns and Butter