Mike Bloomberg, in newly surfaced 2015 remarks, compares Putin's attack on Ukraine to US annexing California: "What would America do if we had a continuous country and a lot of people in that country wanted to be Americans. Does California ring a bell? We just went and took it."
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More Bloomberg on foreign policy: "With the whole crazy Islamic world with all of its chaos that's going on, we'll never be able to stop Iran from being a nuclear power. To do it, if we did, you have to have Russia as an ally in these things."
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“Bloomberg’s misunderstanding of history, false equivalence and sympathy for Putin’s perspective is troubling as he now vies to be the leader of the free world.“https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/11/not-long-ago-bloomberg-likened-putins-attack-ukraine-americas-annexation-california/ …
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He's right. NATO was designed to not extend beyond Germany but we have intentionally used it to encircle Putin
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nothing wrong with that at all.
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I think Noam Chomsky has made the same point?
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He's right about that.
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NATO orchestrated a coup and overthrew Ukraine's government. Crimea even voted to become part of Russia. NATO does not have the moral high ground.
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Never did.
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