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squarehead666
reply to post by NavyDoc
If I'm skint, I don't kick the neighbours (or anyone else's) doors in and take their s**tedit on 15-4-2014 by squarehead666 because: content
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rickynews
However, the suggestion that the "West has made it's attempt at bringing the whole globe under its dominion and singularly failed" is something that is offensive, and very inaccurate.
it is very accurate and sorry if the truth hurts.
rickynews
Let's face it, the 'West" is code for The United States, who has been a beacon of hope and freedom across the globe for the past Century.
Are you joking or can I have some of that stuff you are smoking.
As big as you are the west does not just mean the USA it's Europe too and "freedom" is not something you get from the USA.
I even read that in some states you are not even free to collect the rain water that falls from the sky and in other places you cannot smoke in your own home whilst giving home grown vegitables to someone will get the police kicking in your door and selling none steralized milk to people that want to buy it becomes a terrorist act of war.
So free that you cannot even deal with the crimals that pull off 9/11 because they are not only above the law but are the law.
Can you not see why Russians are not rioting to join you and the people in the Crimea all ran the other way at the thought of this "freedom" because I can
Putin’s approval rating hits 80 percent
Obama 's approval rating hits 43 percent
rickynews
The 'West" is the only reason you and I are not living in a world dominated by Nazi's, or Communists,...lest we forget.edit on 15-4-2014 by rickynews because: (no reason given)
squarehead666
Let's be honest dude, we have no idea of the specs of that bird.....Or even if there ever was one.
All I want is to see an end to all this warmongering.....It's utterly ridiculous!
It's like we've suddenly become blind to all the lessons of history. Sure the oil's running out, big deal, if we (collectively) devoted half as much effort to developing alternative technologies as we do to squabbling over the remaining resources, we'd have a solution in a decade.
Remember the people driving this are interested in short term profits only, they don't care what happens down the line, it's all about quick profit now, for them.....And we've all quietly fallen into line, we've completely confused profit with progress.
I know this has rather drifted off topic, but I think it is pertinent to the thread, as these are the very forces driving the confrontation we see in the Ukraine region.
rickynews
The 'West" is the only reason you and I are not living in a world dominated by Nazi's, or Communists,...lest we forget.edit on 15-4-2014 by rickynews because: (no reason given)
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rickynews
The 'West" is the only reason you and I are not living in a world dominated by Nazi's, or Communists,...lest we forget.edit on 15-4-2014 by rickynews because: (no reason given)
Yes but what we have today is looking more like Germany in 1930's every day.
"The sovereign people of Ukraine have an absolute right to self-determination, and self-government. This is the crux of the whole crisis in Ukraine. Who is Russia to deny these good people their right ?"
Did you mix up names here.
Russian wants the people of the Ukraine to have a vote and it is the USA that is blocking it because its puppet might not win.
The bloody Coup was finance by the west and cost lots of money, a vote will un do the coup and waste all that money so I am with you 100% on "these good people their right" Yes a right to vote.
Now you might think that you know which side will win but lets face it you was most likly conviced that everyone in the Ukraine hated Russia last month and if it so many people are with the nazi party that took over then why has a vote not been rushed throught by the USA to ligitamize the new government.
VirusGuard
reply to post by NavyDoc
"I've been to Russia in the last year (ancestral homeland). Security is just as bad and you meet dicks in uniforms all of the time--at least they still take bribes though. "
Well you beat me on that one, been very close but no I've never been.
"You don't seriously believe that Russia is a real democracy and is not ruled by oligarchs who want to turn a profit or control the country?"
Well lets me answer by saying that Russia seems to be moving in the right direction whilst the USA is moving in the other direction so looking forwards I would edge my bets on Russia.
Met Russian military personal and they scared the $hit out of us and also american personal who had this habbit of stopping what they were doing twice a day to salute a flag and they looked scared to death incase they past wind whilst a tune was played out over the speaker system.
ten on ten ! Again I would edge my bets on Russia
Cydonia2012
This free money you talk about comes with far to many strings attached and I would think that the USA could do with all that money itself to cut the worlds bigest prison rate down to size where old people comit crime to do time just so they can get some medical treatment.
Our puppets are the only ones that get to see this free money that you have to stump up from your taxes and maybe you can tell me how $4bn spent in the Ukraine has helped any of the working class people and then I might be able to say why people bite the hand that feeds it
edit on 15-4-2014 by VirusGuard because: Just took my sock off
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rickynews
I even read that in some states you are not even free to collect the rain water that falls from the sky and in other places you cannot smoke in your own home whilst giving home grown vegitables to someone will get the police kicking in your door and selling none steralized milk to people that want to buy it becomes a terrorist act of war.
Danbones
here is how ther real war is going on the homefront
Putin’s approval rating hits 80 percent
www.washingtonpost.com...
Obama 's approval rating hits 43 percent
www.gallup.com...
VirusGuard
reply to post by NavyDoc
Yes agree with most you say but it's not duty that makes them salute a flag pole, its fear of what happens if you don't and this is taken far too far on US military bases in Europe that even the locals are intimidates into playing along, yes I had to freeze on the spot too.
"One good thing we did for Germany in the post war period was to forbid former Nazis from having positions of power"
Yes only because of paper-clip, you shipped them off to work for the CIA.
I have picked up a few signs of big Russian money creeping into Europe to be spent on propertry too and that is just one more reason that Europe is not quite as happy about the USA poking it's nose in where it's not wanted but in this case its all for the wrong reason.
So would you agree that Germany and Russia was getting too freindly for comfort and maybe what we are seeing is an attempt by the USA to end this little relationship.
VirusGuard
reply to post by NavyDoc
Yes agree with most you say but it's not duty that makes them salute a flag pole, its fear of what happens if you don't and this is taken far too far on US military bases in Europe that even the locals are intimidates into playing along, yes I had to freeze on the spot too.
"One good thing we did for Germany in the post war period was to forbid former Nazis from having positions of power"
Yes only because of paper-clip, you shipped them off to work for the CIA.
I have picked up a few signs of big Russian money creeping into Europe to be spent on propertry too and that is just one more reason that Europe is not quite as happy about the USA poking it's nose in where it's not wanted but in this case its all for the wrong reason.
So would you agree that Germany and Russia was getting too freindly for comfort and maybe what we are seeing is an attempt by the USA to end this little relationship.
Cydonia2012
I read about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny too but at some point we need to distinguish fantasy from reality....
Look what happened to the world the last time Russia and Germany got friendly.
SLAYER69
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Is that what you say each time you loose a war ?
I dunno, Saddam is fertilizing desert daisies and his worlds 4th largest army was turned to Russian made scrap metal.
Why invaded in the first place because killing people will only make them hate you more.
Tell yourself that each and every time you fire up a lawnmower, drive to work etc...
Maybe if your Democracy was not rules by bankers then just maybe some places that the USA invades would actualy welcome the intervention
Remind us all which little slice of heaven of a country you live in again?