Posted on 01/28/2005 8:43:55 PM PST by Destro
You could not get an American woman on your own so you bought one from Russia and got burned?
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Look, that Yukos situation was ridiculous. There are clearly some other elements involved, but that was clearly not the proper thing to do.
I can't think of many other places where it would have been handled in the same way.
Russia wasn't only against us going to war in Iraq. They had military advisers in Iraq in the lead up to the war which means they contributed to the deaths of U.S. troops. There is documented facts that Russia did much more than just say they were against the war. They sided with our enemy. Your loyalties may be with Russia but mine are with the great United States of America.
Its funny......they put nukes right off our shores, invade countires to spread their miserable and failed communist goverment/system, have their leader have a hissy fit and bang his shoe on a platform saying "WE WILL BURY YOUU!!!" .....and then years later the dolts wonder why we hold a grudge?
Because China has our country's economy by the balls and squeezes often. Just like China threatens to nuke half the US and a year later Bush is buddy buddy with them while our CEOs jump with glee to kick American workers out and send everything they can to their Chinese bed buddies.
"Why are the American media, both liberal and conservative, so unanimously anti-Russian?"
Because an attack on Communism/Russia is synonimous with an attck on Christianity, which is to say an attack on Western Culture and its creators.
That was the Soviets - not the Russians - the man who said "we will bury you" was Ukranian. Stalin was Georgian. Russia was part of an ethnicity/nationalist supressing Soviet system.
And helping to poison a candidate in Ukraine won't help win any brownie points.
Boosh be stoopid! Down with stoopid neocon china-lackey fascist EU Chechin Boosh.
"Why are the American media, both liberal and conservative, so unanimously anti-Russian?"
Liberal media are anti-Russian because the Russians overthrew the Soviet regime. Conservative media are anti-Russia because they didn't overthrow...well...Russia.
Please! Do it if it means that all the Mexican illegals go to Russia.:)
I see your point though, that most of us don't realize why Russia doesn't like NATO creeping up on it's doorstep.
Dont care....they were all communists and wanted the US destroyed, you cna sugar coat it all you want but the main goal of communist russia was to destroy the United States
Could it be the 100s of millions killed last century as a direct result of Russia?
No, you are stuck in the nineties when Clinton was in power and you had free reign to attack US foreign policy.
That time is over.
Welcome to now.
To take you analysis to task, while all empires are harsh - I am sure the Judeans and Gauls did not see the benefits of Roman civilization as we now do - the Czarist Russians while expansionist - did not destroy indigenous natives, say the way Americans did to the Indians. While the Muslims the Russians conquered may not have had it so well and many Muslims may have voted with their feet many Christians found the Russians as liberators (From Armenians to Bulgarians to Greeks) from the Muslim yoke of tyranny. Many Christians also found the Russians to be liberators against the oppressive rule of the Lithuanian-Polish empires as well.
I rather blame the Germans - Communisim was invented by a German and imported into Russia as a German block ops operation.
Putin endorsed Bush for president after all.
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