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originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: DISRAELI
Appeasement, or paying dane-geld, seldom, if ever, works. It only enables.
originally posted by: Nikola014
a reply to: gortex
Are you saying Russia is bombing hospitals on purpose?
As this election had shown, stop blindly believing everything you hear from your mainstream media, because most likely, they are intentionally misleading you, and lying to you
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: UKTruth
Yes. Yes. The big bad bully. I get it.
Russia is an innocent under attack. Got it.
Now then, where exactly did I even bring up the US in this? Or Russia? My comment was a generality concerning the concept of appeasement.
I happen to have serious issues with the US behaviour around the world, have had for some little time now. I also have issues with Soviet, I mean Russian, behaviour. Sorry 'bout that last, with Putin in office, there's little difference to my eye, between Russia, and the USSR. Oops.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: DISRAELI
Appeasement, or paying dane-geld, seldom, if ever, works. It only enables.
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
originally posted by: dogstar23
a reply to: TrueAmerican
They weren't about to end the lives of every single Russian by launching a nuclear strike on the US.
Yeah you're right. They weren't about to end the lives of every single Russian. Because they have just prepared their citizenry for it. Chances are millions of them would have survived it. And still might. This isn't over yet. Trump's actions on Syria remain to be seen.
One would hope Putin would at least wait until Trump takes office. The bigger question is though, will Obama wait? He's still the President until then.
originally posted by: RAY1990
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
originally posted by: dogstar23
a reply to: TrueAmerican
They weren't about to end the lives of every single Russian by launching a nuclear strike on the US.
Yeah you're right. They weren't about to end the lives of every single Russian. Because they have just prepared their citizenry for it. Chances are millions of them would have survived it. And still might. This isn't over yet. Trump's actions on Syria remain to be seen.
One would hope Putin would at least wait until Trump takes office. The bigger question is though, will Obama wait? He's still the President until then.
Lunacy, Mutually Assured Destruction is still a cold hard fact.
You don't mention Russia has did these exercises for several years.
You failed to mention Russia doesn't have an effective antimissile program, nothing like the iron-dome the west has worked on.
You fail to mention that in a nuclear holocaust 10,000+ nuclear bombs would be detonated, even 1/10 of that would create furnaces out of cities that would most likely cause a long nuclear winter.
So no, nobody would survive a nuclear war and if they did I highly doubt they'd associate with any former government of the world.
Since when did Republicans become Russian sympathizers?
You can paint any picture you want, there is the easel. But some can see what you are painting and it doesn't match the scene. The scene of a dictator using everything in his power to hold power, denying Russians rights that are considered basic in much of the modern world. A leader so hell bent on putting himself and his nation into a corner it isn't even funny. Russia makes the vague threats not the West.
Don't get me wrong the west are not angels either and everyone spreads propaganda. For some it works well, obviously.
Because I see more and more people being patriots of nations that were not their birth nation.
It goes way beyond "anyone but Hillery" type mentality.
originally posted by: TrueAmerican
Kremlin- Clinton Victory Would Have Led to World War 3 Between Russia and the US
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: MALBOSIA
Assassination of political opposition, freedom of press, disability care, treatment of the terminally I'll. Sexuality and other protected statuses such as religion or sex. Haha I'll not bother listing more random things...
As I said, Russians do not have the same rights or privileges many nations in the west do.
Russia is changing though, has been for a while.