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'90s Sitcom "Seinfeld" Predicted NATO Strategy in Ukraine
Sometimes life imitates art...
Ricky Twisdale, Thu, Mar 12
In this clip from the episode "The Labelmaker" from the 1990s sitcom "Seinfeld," Kramer (Micheal Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) become obsessed with the board game "Risk" a game of world domination.
The pair's subway dialog presciently describes how US/NATO policy in Europe has operated since 1991.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia completely withdrew from Europe leaving only a naval base in Crimea. Washington apparently believed Ukraine was just another "road apple" on its drive to completely encircle and neutralize Russia.
In the video, It is notably the Ukrainian himself who angrily overturns and destroys everything, under the mistaken perception that he is somehow defending his country.
He doesn't understand that to some, the fate of Ukraine is simply a game.
'90s Sitcom "Seinfeld" Predicted NATO Strategy in Ukraine
Sometimes life imitates art...
Ricky Twisdale, Thu, Mar 12
In this clip from the episode "The Labelmaker" from the 1990s sitcom "Seinfeld," Kramer (Micheal Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) become obsessed with the board game "Risk" a game of world domination.
The pair's subway dialog presciently describes how US/NATO policy in Europe has operated since 1991.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia completely withdrew from Europe leaving only a naval base in Crimea. Washington apparently believed Ukraine was just another "road apple" on its drive to completely encircle and neutralize Russia.
In the video, It is notably the Ukrainian himself who angrily overturns and destroys everything, under the mistaken perception that he is somehow defending his country.
He doesn't understand that to some, the fate of Ukraine is simply a game.
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'90s Sitcom "Seinfeld" Predicted NATO Strategy in Ukraine (Original Post)
bananas
Mar 2015
OP
Cirque du So-What
(25,922 posts)1. Kramer as Putin
Yeah, I could see that.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)2. what else does Putin want us to think, "Russia Insider"? lol
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. I still like the Lone Gunmen
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)4. do you have the link
for the whole episode? Loved Newman )
7962
(11,841 posts)5. Talk about a lame excuse for an article. Jeeze.