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Post by jdredd on Aug 29, 2016 22:25:49 GMT -5
The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! The Russians Did it! HA! HA! HA! liberals Commie Democrap in panic mode Russians Rigging the Votes?? Hairy the body odor Reek (Reid) Blaming the Russians? liberals democrap having a meltdown Too Priceless! FBI is already broken caused by Cliton scandal! Russians Did it! liberals Meltdown! Gee, the Russkies are doing what the CIA has been doing for decades in foreign countries all over the globe.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2016 14:02:35 GMT -5
gulfnews.com/opinion/editorials/bombing-aleppo-is-a-gross-crime-that-has-to-stop-1.1902451"The renewed bombardment of civilians in Aleppo is a gross crime against humanity that the entire world needs to recognise and take joint action to do everything possible to stop. Innocent families and children are caught up in a disgraceful war in which the armed forces are attacking civilians as a regular part of their shocking campaign. The horrors of the civil war in Syria have now been highlighted by world powers at the United Nations where they traded accusations of barbarity and war crimes. Syrians have lived in terrible conditions, with an appalling loss of life for many years, but now the outside world has joined in their fury following the failure of the Russia-America-backed ceasefire. After the short-lived and ineffectual truce came to an end, the Americans alleged that the Russians were never very serious about making it work and used it to get Bashar Al Assad’s regime forces into a better position." Sure, airstrikes are all fun and games as long as it is just America (and Israel) doing it, because we do humanitarian airstrikes. But rotten Russkies don't.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2016 21:24:29 GMT -5
I think the Military/Industrial Complex (a term that is out of fashion but still applies) had so much fun (and made so much money) in the Cold War that they really want to do it again. Which is probably why I'm seeing so many articles in the press about alleged Russian aggression. They still want us to believe Russia wants to take over Europe. Which may be why some people are so peeved with Trump's alleged coziness with Putin, including appointing an old Capitalist Crony of Russia, Rex Harrison Tillerson, as Secretary of State. Should be fun watching him try to get approved by Congress.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 10:35:26 GMT -5
liberals Having a Melt down The Russkies did it! Hey liberals you maggot F uckers Last time I heard Voting machines is not connected to the Internet! If that was true you Maggots would be rigging the votes online Long Ago!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2017 12:38:47 GMT -5
Let's not forget Western Europe's old boogeyman, Russia.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 10, 2018 22:52:24 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/opinion/democrats-warning-russia.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region"In the face of complacency from Republicans fearful of what attention to these intrigues might reveal about the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia, Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have issued a report that appears to be the most comprehensive public accounting of Russia’s war on the West. It drives home the point that the 2016 election, which every American intelligence agency has said involved Russian interference to help elect Donald Trump, is part of a pattern in which Mr. Putin has worked to erode Western institutions and undermine faith in democratic practices. Few countries in Europe have escaped his malign intrusions. The report should serve as an alert for the United States to work urgently with its allies to protect democracy. There is a significant impediment, however, and that is President Trump and the congressional leaders who enable him. Mr. Trump persists in his bizarre fascination with Mr. Putin and refuses to acknowledge that Russia poses a security threat, even though his own recently released national security strategy says Russia, along with China, seeks to “challenge American influence, values and wealth.” Republicans in Congress have expressed more concern about those who revealed Russia’s meddling than about the meddling, and have done nothing to ensure it cannot be repeated." This just goes to prove Dumbocrats are not immune to paranoia, which is usually a conservative trait. Plus, don't the Russkies know the world is AMERICA'S playground only? Who else has 800 foreign bases? And if the aim of Russia trying to get Trump elected was to "undermine faith in democratic practices", it worked for me!
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Post by jdredd on Jan 17, 2018 1:41:22 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/pentagon-nuclear-review-cyberattack-trump.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"Mr. Trump has rarely publicly criticized President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for Russia’s aggressions around the world. But the Pentagon document describes Moscow’s actions as so destabilizing that the United States may be forced to reverse Mr. Obama’s commitment to reduce the role and size of the American nuclear arsenal. Russia is adopting “military strategies and capabilities that rely on nuclear escalation for their success,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote in an introduction to the report. “These developments, coupled with Russia’s invasion of Crimea and nuclear threats against our allies, mark Moscow’s unabashed return to Great Power competition.” "return to Great Power competition." Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me, and the Pentagon's wet dream. At least Trump doesn't seem to be buying into it. Yet. Give him time.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2018 2:22:22 GMT -5
Gosh, I guess Russia is Bad Guy Numero Uno again. Why is it that Americans love to hate Russia?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 15, 2018 4:42:33 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/us/politics/trump-russia-putin.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsWASHINGTON — It was a jarring moment, even for an American leader whose curious attraction to Russia has often resulted in mixed messages from the United States. Just a few hours after President Trump doused expectations of extracting any confession from President Vladimir V. Putin on Russia’s election meddling when they meet on Monday, his own Justice Department issued a sweeping indictment of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The bold move, precisely the kind that Mr. Trump has long resisted, demonstrated how he is almost wholly untethered from his administration when it comes to dealing with Moscow. Whether it is Russia’s interference in the election, its annexation of Crimea or its intervention in Syria, Mr. Trump’s statements either undercut, or flatly contradict, those of his lieutenants. Ya gotta love this. The Foreign Policy Establishment NEEDS Russia as a nemesis (to keep our European vassals in line), and Trump is not playing along. All I have to say is too bad you can't go back in time and replace Truman with Trump.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 13, 2018 0:57:29 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/russia-macedonia-greece.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"United States officials say they intercepted communications in June showing that Mr. Savvidis was working as Russia’s conduit to undermine an agreement between Greece and Macedonia that would have paved the way for Macedonia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greece has long objected to Macedonia’s entry into NATO. Moscow, which sees the expanding alliance as a major threat on its border, was determined to defeat a referendum on the deal. In retaliation, American officials made an unusually aggressive move: They turned over the intercepts to the left-leaning Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The Greek government responded by making a rare break with Moscow, expelling two Russian diplomats from Athens and barring the entry of two more. American spies and diplomats remain elated. Although a referendum vote last month in Macedonia on the agreement was inconclusive — the Macedonian Parliament must now decide, perhaps as early as this week, whether the country joins the Atlantic alliance — American officials see the exposure of Mr. Savvidis and the expulsion of the diplomats as a rare victory in a catch-up effort against Russian disinformation campaigns in Europe and the United States." Who can complain about elated spies? But this is just the latest tiny episode in Europe's paranoia about Russia that is centuries old. The Cold War was just one previous confrontation, and this all started long before Putin.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 5, 2018 15:43:13 GMT -5
I love how Trumpty the Clown slammed all the international institutions like the UN, the EU, the IMF, etc. and only praised NATO, the anti-Russian alliance. He just bitched that the other NATO countries do not squander as much money on defense as we do.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 6, 2018 4:19:09 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/petro-poroshenko-putin-ukraine.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"KIEV, Ukraine — In 2014, for the first time in seven decades, a state sought to redraw Europe’s map by way of military aggression. Russia’s theft of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula commanded condemnation and economic sanctions from around the world. But as the news coverage moved on, Moscow was left to design a new assault: an 12-mile bridge between Russia’s mainland and Crimea. The Ukrainian people will not watch as Russia continues its creeping annexation of our country. Four years ago, in the aftermath of our revolution, Ukraine alone was not able to withstand a Russian military adventure. But today our resolve is strong, and we are prepared to stand up to Russia. This is why I have enacted limited martial law in Ukrainian territory near the Russian border, so that we are able to mobilize and protect our security should Russia dare to intensify its aggression. But we also need the support of the international community in the form of further sanctions against Moscow for its latest assault." Everyone who wants to die for Kiev please raise your hands.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2018 4:51:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/europe-france-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"PARIS — Ever since World War II, the liberal global order that has spread more freedom and prosperity around the world than at any other time in history has been held up by two pillars: the United States of America and the United Nations of Europe, now known as the European Union. Both of these centers of free markets, free people and free ideas are being shaken today by rural and beyond-the-suburbs insurgencies of largely white working-poor and anxious middle classes, which have not generally benefited from the surges in globalization, immigration and technology that have lifted superstar cities like London, Paris and San Francisco and their multicultural populations." "Dominique Moïsi, one of France’s top foreign policy analysts, put it to me like this: At a time when America, which was always the European Union’s life insurance policy against predatory threats from the East and was the world champion of democracy, begins to withdraw from the world; when Russia returns with a vengeance to global politics; when Germany turns inward and Italy rebels against E.U. spending limits and moves closer to autocratic Russia; when so many roads now lead to Beijing; and when the U.K. is hellbent on suicide, “suddenly what happens in France goes beyond France. We are the last barrier protecting the European idea. If Macron fails, it can bring the end of Europe.” My magical thinking side say this is karmic payback for Europe "winning" the Cold War, but more likely it's the idea that we were all going to be wealthy Stock Market investors was not grounded, no matter how "free" we are. The flip side of freedom means winners and losers, and some folks are not good losers. But I suspect we will "muddle through this somehow", and the Russkies are in it together with us.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 15, 2019 19:33:21 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html"WASHINGTON — There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO, the military alliance among the United States, Europe and Canada that has deterred Soviet and Russian aggression for 70 years. Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States. Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set." What is the nature of this "aggression"? Is it in the eye of the beholder? Does it go back to the defeat of Napoleon, or further? I'm not sure. And where did Trump get these military spending "goals"? Did he pull them out of his ass or was he fed a bill of goods?
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Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2019 23:05:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/opinion/sunday/nato-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"The idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO is surreal. The alliance, now numbering 29 countries, has been the foundation of trans-Atlantic stability and prosperity for seven decades. It continues to keep a predatory Russia at bay and diminish the danger that American soldiers might once again have to fight on European soil. Yet in Donald Trump’s go-it-alone presidency, the possibility of America’s withdrawal has become such a concern that Congress is taking steps to prevent it.The Democratic-led House on Jan. 22 voted 357-22 for a bipartisan bill that would tie Mr. Trump’s hands by refusing him any federal money to pay the costs of leaving the alliance." Here's the "liberal" NYT whining about Trump's skepticism of NATO. What is hilarious to me is that so many craven countries continue to live in such fear of "predatory" Russia.
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