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Crappy Town: Best of: Croatia
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/10/best-of-croatia.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Guilty Unless Empire's Client in Good Graces. Though the US facilitated Croatia's 1995 Operation Storm the ICTY was free to prosecute Croatian officials seeing the country later on fell out of favor with Washington, but what does it say about US righteousness when even a court that is an instrument of Western interventionism in the region finds fault with the US-backed offensive? 4/2011, 850 words. Croatia: Popular Sanction EU Style.
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Crappy Town: Best of: Culture
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/10/best-of-culture.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Over the years I have tried to bring attention to the peculiar and unflattering way in which the West insists on viewing Eastern Europe and the Balkans and its peoples. This is more a matter of culture rather than policy, but it unfortunately ends up influencing the foreign policy of Western states in the region to make it more bellicose and entitled. The most important of such efforts of mine:. The Chauvinists at it Again.
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Crappy Town: Ethnicity in Donbass
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/08/ethnicity-in-donbass.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. War in Ukraine is inter-regional, not inter-ethnic. Trouble is Donetsk and Lugansk regions are also home to other 4.2 million people who declare their nationality on official population censuses to be Ukrainian. Despite this the Ukrainian government troops have not found themselves welcome by populaces of towns they have re-captured as it would be expected if this was really a fight of Russian against Ukrainian. Conceivably, if the ...
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Crappy Town: Croatia Did Not Vote
http://www.crappytown.com/2012/01/croatia-did-not-vote.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Croatia Did Not Vote. For one thing Sunday there was no campaign silence otherwise customary for polls in Croatia, enabling the government to continue to advertise for membership into the very day of the vote and make the most of the far greater visibility of its publicly funded pro-EU campaign, compared to that of the underfunded, but spirited, grass roots anti-EU effort. We are in dire straits! Vote for the future of this country!
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Crappy Town: Ukrainians Are Right to Suspect EU Deal Would Be Harmful
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/01/ukrainians-are-right-to-suspect-eu-deal.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Ukrainians Are Right to Suspect EU Deal Would Be Harmful. Research of public opinion in Ukraine. Suggests a plurality of 39% of Ukrainians believes signing the EU Association Agreement would have a net negative impact on Ukraine. Only 30% of Ukrainians believe it would be beneficial to sign it. The Ukrainian public is right to doubt the usefulness of the deal. The nine hundred pages long. Economic "regulations" (actually restrictions.
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Crappy Town: Obama's Delusions
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/03/obamas-delusions.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. In denouncing the Russian seizure of Crimea in Brussels last week Obama contrasted the Russian invasion of the peninsula with the United States' own invasion of Iraq:. Other commentators have pointed out the absurdity of claiming the American invasion was supposedly more defensible of the two given the differences in bloodshed they entailed. The Iraq War resulted in approximately 500,000 deaths. Since US wars are no longer a means o...
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Crappy Town: Best of: Russia, Ukraine
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/10/best-of-russia-ukraine.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Best of: Russia, Ukraine. The best or most important of my posts dealing with the East Slav world:. Ukraine: Back to Normal. Ukraine which is anti-Russian is Ukraine which is at odds with itself. 2/2010, 1300 words. Western Press: A False Friend to Russia's People Power. Overview of the situation in Ukraine as regards the orientation of the public and the government. 12/2013, 1150 words . EU to Ukraine: I Want You to Want Me. Posted...
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Crappy Town: Croatia: Popular Sanction EU Style
http://www.crappytown.com/2012/01/croatia-popular-sanction-eu-style.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Croatia: Popular Sanction EU Style. Croatia is not, and will not be a member of the European Union until at least July 2013, but that has not stopped it from adopting the worst practices of the EU already. Next Sunday its citizens will vote whether to join the EU, and do so under the understanding that should they pick the wrong option, they will have to vote again. It will just be repeated six months, or one year later. A Yes.
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Crappy Town: Best of: Western Interventionism
http://www.crappytown.com/2014/10/best-of-western-interventionism.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Best of: Western Interventionism. The best or most important commentary on Western military adventurism and its culture outside the regions that I write the most about (the former Soviet Union and the Serbo-Croatian speaking space):. Aggressive and criminal "rules of engagement" of troops occupying Iraq breed a culture of depravity. 10/2009, 1350 words. Seeing Through the ‘Humanitarians’. 3/2011, 1100 words. 4/2011, 1100 words.
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Crappy Town: Ukraine: Back to Normal
http://www.crappytown.com/2010/02/ukraine-back-to-normal.html
Lets go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.". Hoban Washburne, Firefly. Ukraine: Back to Normal. Yushchenko's win would have meant the continuation of the orange, anti-Russian course, Timoshenko's victory its cessation and Yanukovich's victory its reversal. In the end Yushchenko was handed a total defeat, his bankrupt vision garnering a puny 5% of the votes - possibly some sort of a record low for an incumbent candidate while, as said, Yanukovich ended up edging out Timoshenko. Ukraine: Back to Normal.
