Posted on 10/03/2017 9:31:00 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Thank you for rigging our elections Puty pute.
Don’t forget us in 2018 and 2020.
The US should take the Monroe doctrine to work both ways, no one mess in our hemisphere and we won't mess in theirs.
JMHo
The Monroe doctrine was originally meant to do exactly that. Until WWI, America had a policy of staying out of Europe’s idiotic wars.
The Monroe doctrine was seen as a hurdle in public opinion to deal with to get us into the war.
Finally the Brits schemes to drag us in were successful.
My experience is that Democrats that I have known had no problem with the Communist Soviet Union or Communist China. But post-communist Russia and much less communist China has them often using the “communist” label.
Often liberals fail to share their reasoning. Rather they tell you the words that they believe “will work with people like you.” Sincerity is a lost virtue among liberal intellectuals.
Non-radical Islam is more dangerous than Putin.
We are seeing an attempt by neocons to push for war with Iran, again. Breitbart is playing along with this for some reason.
Putin is a threat because of its aims, but not a large threat due to its limitations. Russia is shrinking and fast in population and has the economic size of Italy.
I agree its hunger is for Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Next will be Poland, Bulgaria. But it is not the threat of the Islamic invasion of Europe.
Russia is about as Christian as Britain, as in not at all. It’s all fake, as is Putin’s embrace of the Church.
Domestically I think the Deep State and illegal immigration is far a larger threat than both.
Yes, of course. They destroyed their culture with 70+ years of communism. Regardless, it seems that someone in Russia realizes that national culture, commonly accepted moral standards that are usually manifest in practices religion, are how you prevent your people and nation from going extinct.
I am familiar with the quote that you are probably using as a basis for this claim: "biggest geopolitical catastrophe, etc. etc." What a naive reading of this fails to grasp is Russian culture. Russians are a very patriotic people, and lamenting over their loss of power and influence on the world stage is NOT the same as pining for Communism to return.
I live in Russia at the moment, and the only Communists I see are the old babushkas who pine for the days of "certainty"...the kind of certainty that if you stand in the bread line, you will eventually get your bread. The new generation dosen't have this problem at all.
I see absolutely zero indicates that Putin is ideologically Communist in any way whatsoever. He is a Russian patriot, and that is it.
I of course cannot judge whether or not Putin is a believer himself, but I do know that he was baptized by his mother as an infant, in secret, and ostensibly against the wishes of his father, who held some kind of position in the party.
I agree its hunger is for Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Next will be Poland, Bulgaria. But it is not the threat of the Islamic invasion of Europe.
Forgive me, but in what world do you live in? Russian population is not shrinking. In fact, the post-USSR negative population growth was arrested by 2008 and has been growing since. Right now, the total fertility rate per woman is ~1.75. For reference, the USA is at 1.84, Germany, 1.50, and Poland, 1.32.
GDP shrinkage due to the oil price crisis in 2014 has been arrested due to massive investments in manufacturing (import replacement), and GDP growth in 2017 is again positive. Domestically, "Made in Russia" is appearing everywhere.
There is absolutely no "hunger" for what the Russians call prebaltika. They already have Kaliningrad on the Baltic sea, and more territory inside than can possibly be used in the next century.
Stop with the neocon warmongering, please!
This is correct. Western liberalism (including neoconservatism) are internationalist and globalist, just like Marxist socialism. All of these ideologies devalue the nation state as a sovereign entity in favor of world government and "world citizenry." This is why both Democrats and establishment Republicans are so committed to open borders and to free trade.
Putin's kleptocratic authoritarianism has plenty to criticize, but it has nothing to do with and little in common with Marxism.
You really don't fear Russia swallowing up Eastern Europe? I think we have a Russophile here.
I've seen nothing to indicate that Putin has any interest in or commitment to Marxist-Leninist ideology (his nostalgia for the USSR was due to Russia being a superpower, not because of Communist ideology). The kleptocrat part is correct - he's something in the style of the non-ideological tinpot dictators that ruled most Latin American countries with the help of gangster-oligarchs until recently. Putin is more in the mold of a Trujillo than a Castro.
Good point.
Conversely, I also have no use for the mass hysteria of Clinton Democrats or neoconservatives who try to convince us that Putin is some mortal threat to US security or that he's some omnipotent puppetmaster controlling our elections and media. The worst he's capable of is continuing to meddle with non-NATO former Soviet Republics like Ukraine and Georgia. Unlike Islamists or the Norks, he isn't irrational enough to risk a war with the United States by taking on any NATO country (even former Soviet Republics).
But I have no doubt he is a threat to the Ukraine, and the rest of Eastern Europe, that he killed journalists, and that he is helping Iran create its bomb.
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