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originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: rigel4
Spewtin didn't have the guts to stay and tough it out.
Seems he didn't like the discussion about Ukraine, so he took his ball and went home because he didn't like the way he was treated although he brought it all on by himself.
originally posted by: rigel4
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: rigel4
Spewtin didn't have the guts to stay and tough it out.
Seems he didn't like the discussion about Ukraine, so he took his ball and went home because he didn't like the way he was treated although he brought it all on by himself.
I mean...sending warships to Australian waters is just about the most arrogant, in your face
thing he could have done. short of baring his arse at the lunch table.
originally posted by: Dimithae
a reply to: Ancient Champion
Here let me answer that for you. BECAUSE ITS OUR COUNTRY TOO. And we have EVERY right to try to make it better despite others telling us to leave. I really wonder what would have happened if King George would have told Washington,Franklin,Jefferson and that whole cast of characters "if you don't like paying those taxes and living under British rule,THEN LEAVE that land and go elsewhere".
I'll bet the Indians would have liked it,don't you think? I feel that anyone that doesn't want to protect our constitution and bill of rights should leave. Those are the most important documents every written for us and yet we can't get the lazy so and so's to get up and help us protect them.Instead they spend all they're time attacking those that want to protect them. Some Americans.
originally posted by: WCmutant
originally posted by: johnnyBgood
20 years ago I would have never believed that my future self would ever say such a thing as this but it seems to me that Russia may be the only thing (along with China and India of course) standing in the way of a complete nazi (or ashkenazi) take over of the world.
Has the world really changed that much or is it just my perspective I wonder? Probably just my perspective.
I'd say Russia only. China is a creation of the USA. As for India, has it ever really pulled away from it's English influence or did it just take a different form?
Communist Mao was a creation of TPTB. Everything that has spawned in China since Mao's death has been supported by US corporations and banks. We really need to seek to find the US/western influences in Russia and see if something similar is happening in Russia. (I'm pretty sure we can all see the western influences in India already.)
originally posted by: Ancient Champion
My question is, If people hate the US so badly then why do they continue to live here? I never understand that. If you love Russia so much then why haven't you moved there yet?
originally posted by: johnnyBgood
originally posted by: Ancient Champion
My question is, If people hate the US so badly then why do they continue to live here? I never understand that. If you love Russia so much then why haven't you moved there yet?
Love the country, hate the government. Pretty simple really. Even so, If I could move out of the country I would. This place is a ticking time bomb.
If you would like to help finance my move I can set up an account for donations.
originally posted by: DYepes
I think its impressive because a world leader tells it like it is the way HE interprets it, and not parroting a script written to him by the rich of his country.
originally posted by: WilsonWilson
Russia is involved in terrible activities, stealing businesses within Russia from their rightful owners, corruption on a massive scale, the stealing of assets from it's people and putting into privately held hands of the privileged few. Murder on the international scale.
It's no better politically, and then you add the horrific atrocities it encourages on it's people. Why would you choose to support it. Weird.
Pillage as Privatization
Over the past quarter century, several trillion dollars worth of public property in every sector of the Russian economy was illegally transferred or violently seized by gangster-oligarchs acting through armed gangs, especially during its ‘transition to capitalism’.
From 1990 to 1999, over 6 million Russian citizens died prematurely as a result of the catastrophic collapse of the economy; life expectancy for males declined from 67 years during the Soviet era to 55 year during the Yeltsin period. Russia’s GNP declined sixty percent – a historic first for a country not at war. Following Yeltsin’s violent seizure of power and his bombing of the Russian parliament, the regime proceeded to ‘prioritize’ the privatization of the economy, selling off the energy, natural resources, banking, transport and communication sectors at one-tenth or less of their real value to well-connected cronies and foreign entities. Armed thugs, organized by emerging oligarchs “completed” the program of privatization by assaulting, murdering and threatening rivals. Hundreds of thousands of elderly pensioners were tossed out of their homes and apartments in a vicious land-grab by violent property speculators.
US and European academic financial consultants “advised” rival oligarchs and government ministers on the most “efficient” market techniques for pillaging the economy, while skimming off lucrative fees and commissions –fortunes were made for the well-connected. Meanwhile, living standards collapsed, impoverishing two thirds of Russian households, suicides quadrupled and deaths from alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV and venereal diseases became rampant. Syphilis and tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions – diseases fully controlled during the Soviet era remerged with the closure of clinics and hospitals.
Of course, the respectable western media celebrated the pillage of Russia as the transition to “free elections and a free market economy”. They wrote glowing articles describing the political power and dominance of gangster oligarchs as the reflection of a rising “liberal democracy”.
originally posted by: Dimithae
a reply to: Phage
1.Give the masses a crap education,keep em dumb.
2.Twist history and feed them the ole red white and blue nonsense that we are perfect.
3.When someone finally gets sick of our corrupt bums and attacks us for meddling in they're affairs,label them the bad guys and drop bombs on them.
4.Keep the band playing and the flag waving,and have others try to ridicule and berate any who don't tow the government line with the rest of the little flag wavers.
5. 'yawn' whatever.
This has got to be the biggest fact twist you ever did.
Trucks full of food and medical stuff was delivered and keeps being delivered to Eastern Ukraine. You'd prefer people starve ?
As for Weapons ??
Well you'd love it if Kiev Fascists could just kill all the Eastern Ukrainians, luckily Putin is not YOU, and has sent them plenty of guns.
You hate that, I love it, sounds like my kind of people are winning
This issue isn't about whether Russia is right or wrong,its more complex than that.
This is what happens when TPTB are let to run wild and do whatever they want.
Americans need to look behind the curtain and pay attention to the man really running things.
We are not responsible enough since we can't even get our own government under control.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
originally posted by: DJW001
Apparently, in the New World Order of Putin's the United States must respect the sovereignty of other nations, but Russia is free to annex its neighbors.
If the people in Crimea did not want to be part of Russia and had not filed officially to that effect, I believe he wouldn't have done it. And you're leaving out A LOT of the events as they proceeded to that point of a general referendum. You must be one of those "revisionist history" dudes.
Can you show me where the people of Crimea filed to be annexed by Russia before the Russians invaded? Pretty sure Russia invaded, had a vote they refused to allow to be monitored, leaked false numbers about the turnout, and then by mistake let the actual numbers get out that showed very few people voted, and only about half voted to leave the Ukraine .. all while Russia soldiers occupied the area.