Who's Afraid of the Boogeyman? (Russian spies and the Second Cold War)

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/Nyquist/whos-afraid-of-the-boogeyman ^ | 7/1/2010 | JR Nyquist

[Thunder90]

The FBI has arrested nearly a dozen Russian spies, with more arrests to come. Echoing the spirit of today's media, the headline of the Christian Science Monitor asked the following question: "The cold war is over, so why the fascination with Russian spies?" But the Cold War is not over. The Communists merely told us it was over, and we believed them. As for our supposed fascination with Russian spies, the subject is merely an entertaining human interest story. It is a story that almost nobody understands. That is to say, we have been conditioned, over many years, to dismiss the threat of thousands of Russian agents working day and night to compromise our government, our national security, our economy, our unity, and our political process.

The United States is not invincible, but Americans act as though it is. We are so spoiled, so oblivious and comfortable, so distracted by entertainment, that the harsher realties of our time have utterly escaped us. In the days after 9/11 we briefly came to our senses. Unfortunately, President Bush told the American people to buy airline tickets and live as though 9/11 had not occurred, because he was afraid our economy would collapse if we weren't shopping and having fun.

[Thunder90]

The Neo-Soviet Bear is present. And it grows stronger every day.

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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[hennie pennie]

Here’s the author I mentioned to you when this story first broke.

[reasonisfaith]

I’m just a little curious, how many of them can be counted at the highest levels of our government.

Our biggest mistake was not finishing what Senator McCarthy started.

[duckln]

!30 million people, million of square miles of tundra to defend, no warm port, negative birth rate, enemy of the Islamists, and now a democracy with a flat tax apparently making slow positive progress.

What's your game? Do you thing the plundering of Russia is in our interest?

Idiot!

[Clemenza]

I've often said that the if the Chinese need women, all they need to do is march into Russia and take all the blonde tarts they can have. However, tell Mr. Chang to bring some latex, and not to have children in mind (many Russian women being sterile due to using abortion as a primary form of birth control).

If Russia disappeared, I would not be crying, Islamists to the south or not.

[marron]

The communists have the White House, both houses of congress, they are writing our legislation which our congress passes unread.

They control the universities and most of our information media. To the degree that they aren’t simply hedonists, our entertainment media too.

We have been ceding control of our schools and information media for several decades now and now we are paying a real political price. You can’t let your enemy control your information and education institutions for two generations and think you aren’t going to pay the ultimate price.

[Smith Winston]

so much hatred...
it can’t be good for you

[duckln]

What the hell does Chinese women have to do with Russia? What's your point?

Russia will not disappear in our lifetimes. If it does what will take it's place?

Like it or not the Islamists view them as our allies, and we should work to make it so..

[Clemenza]

Russians are savages who have a long history of imperialism toward civilized and uncivilized peoples. Even their attempt to "westernize" under Peter the Great and Catherine were a mask to expand the empire westward and southward.

BTW: The many peoples of the Islamic world do not view the largely secular, non-western people of Russia as "America's allies." I don't know what you are smoking over there.

When Russian abandon imperialism towards the west and south, then we can talk about bringing them into the civilized world. Until then, let them continue to die a slow death in their petro-state.

[alloysteel]

The Russians may not be overtly Communist any more.

But they are still Russians, and as such, are still darkly paranoid and much given to Byzantine intrigue, including strategic murders and acting as double agents. Secret police and citizen informants existed long before the Soviets gained power.

[Smith Winston]

actually they are not “dying a slow death” at all. Russia is back to positive population growth.
So much for your wishful thinking.

[Smith Winston]

“still darkly paranoid and much given to Byzantine intrigue, including strategic murders and acting as double agents”

so, basically, not at all different than any other great country/empire in the history

[Clemenza]

http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-02-01/demography-russia-growth-danger.html

[Clemenza]

Russophiles are almost as irritating as Anglophiles, although at least the latter 1. extended liberty and protection to many of their subject peoples, 2. are civilized westerners, not half-breed savages who raped their way across eastern Europe as they "liberated" it and 3. have been a good ally since the late 19th century.

Other than oil and mail order whores, Russia provides no net benefit to humanity. None.

[Smith Winston]

from that link:

“Russia’s population increased last year to 142 million - its first growth in a decade and a half. “

Just as I said.

[Smith Winston]

I don’t think such nazi-like statements are allowed on FR.

[LibertyRocks]

Dang... I really don’t like, nor trust the Russian (Neo-Soviet) government headed by Putin... But your comment leaves me wondering which Soviet-occupied country you grew up in... Because that’s the only way I could understand your extreme hatred of not just the Russian government, but of its people as well...

[denydenydeny]

The United States is not invincible, but Americans act as though it is. We are so spoiled, so oblivious and comfortable, so distracted by entertainment, that the harsher realties of our time have utterly escaped us.

Modern liberalism-as opposed to hardcore Leftism-is founded on this understanding. Liberals believe that American prosperity is this magical device from which you can siphon an infinite amount of money for infinite social programs.

[ETL]

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a bizarre 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html