You seem to be saying both that Russia are a powerful force in the world that are currently sidelining the US in geopolitics, and that current western focus on them as a threat is "obsession". Doesn't seem to follow.
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She wasn't, she was asked a question, that's all.
Wow, I agree. And a sane and rational post Will, WTF! Well it is Christmas after all. Merry Christmas to you.
It's Christmas time.
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...letter-from-putin-his-thoughts-are-so-correct
There goes Putin, playing the Moron Elect like a fiddle. A few niceties to him and Trumpski will be putty in his hands. That's all it takes, blow smoke up his arse and he will do or say anything, he's such a feckwit. Putin is going to play him like crazy over the next 4 years (if he lasts that long) and all we can do it sit back and watch it happen.
Personally though I think many Republicans have forgotten what the stance on Russia used to be like so they need some reminding. I reckon that all the TV and cable channels should just run Rambo II and Rocky IV back to back all over the Christmas holidays. That will sort it out.
Being replaced in geopolitics doesn't make then an enemy. US could hve acted in a more forceful manner but did not, Russia did. Not debating which is right or wrong here, but yeah...there still is a cold war leftover obsession over Russia.
Where did I say enemy?
The Intercept is fully owned by a single rich individual, who isn't Russian.
Shows how badly America fecked up when Arnold Schwarzenegger seems like an intellectual heavyweight of a politician compared to the President Elect.
Hmm.
7:48 AM PT -- The husband of the unruly passenger tweeted an hour before the plane took off, "Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5, flying commercial. My husband chasing them down to harass them."
Sounds premeditated more than an question it is harassment.
Agreed the Tweets from the wife weren't clever, but according to witnesses the man just asked her a simple question and told her that her Father had divided and was going to ruin the country. He wasn't shouting, or aggressive, but obviously he shouldn't have done it, but there was no need to remove him from the plane either.
Anyway, enough nonsense back to the Moron Elect and yet more of his nonsense....... Making threats to the U.N. yet again.
He's just such a pathetic, dim, cnut.
He's just so completely clueless.
He's just such a pathetic, dim, cnut.
He's just so completely clueless.
The difference is that Saudi Arabia conceded something (many things initially) that the US wanted, namely alliance to counter Iran (whose democratically elected leader Mossadegh CIA deposed - Operation AJAX - in favor of the reviled Shah who favored US Oil companies but who two decades of CIA sponsored savagery toward his own people inspired the 1979 Islamic revolution.)
From the US point of view SA is the willing bedrock of regional stability, (other than funding or sponsoring extreme fundamentalist groups, like ahem Al-Qaeda who are dead set on destroying us, and other than sponsoring terrorists group in Iraq, Syria and most recently Yemen, they have been a bedrock of regional stability) even though I'd agree this has become more questionable in recent years.
But look back at the 70s and 80s and you'll understand why there is a relationship there, and why it benefited both the US and the Saud family (you mean we secure the oil, you peg the price of oil to USD, you buy $Billions of dollars weapons from us, you purchase trillions of US Treasuries, I think I get the gist of the relationship. It's been going on since Eisenhower in the 50's and we are willing to close an eye to the all the naughty things Saudi Barbaria does domestically and abroad. Sometimes we even fight their proxy wars in Syria and Yemen. All in the name of democracy)
You don't want to normalize relations with Russia because Russia has been unwilling to normalize relations on any acceptable terms. Yes Obama and HRC tried, and they also thought Putin was one thing while he later proved to be another. (Yeah, I mean we just tried to expand NATO at every step, and put an anti-missile shield in Poland, and tried to marshal the Ukraine opposition and install our own guy in there we have done nothing that could be perceived as aggressive towards Russia. We almost went to nuclear war in the 60's during the missile Cuban crisis but that was a different era. Blame it on JFK
I was discussing strategy. You asked why the US has an alliance with one disgraceful regime and not another, and I told you why.
Anyway, enough nonsense back to the Moron Elect and yet more of his nonsense....... Making threats to the U.N. yet again.
He's just such a pathetic, dim, cnut.
Maybe he's going to make sure the US pays the UN what they owe?
yeah ok
This scumbag has appeared on stage with Trump. Expect him to be made "equality and diversity" spokesman in his government.
Merry Christmas, langster.
I hope your health issues won't prevent you making a spectacle of yourself over the holiday.
Wow interesting (if you're right!). I'd love to see some links (genuinely), because it runs contrary to everything I've read so far.
mankind that survives will wish they were dead.
The ones who died instantly will be the lucky ones.
I actually believed that for a split second such is the state of things at the moment
Disgusting.
That's quite fitting really, and ends up much like his election forecasts.I find it a little odd though how both the Moron Elect and Putin both decide to talk about nukes on exactly the same day. Very strange. Also, The moron seems to have a serious hard on for nuclear weapons. He's mentioned them more during the campaign and since he won than I think I've ever heard any world leader talk about them. Well except from searching for them, or stopping Iran from having them. It's yet another power trip for him. All eyes on him, he holds the power, that's all he gives a feck about.
Like clockwork
Putin wrote him a little letter, too.
This. Man. Will. Have. Nuclear. Codes.
I presume Trump is wanting to bolster his countries arms to make up for his small hands.
Hopefully there's more chance of a military coup than there is of Trump pushing the button (the real one, not the send button on twitter).
I find it a little odd though how both the Moron Elect and Putin both decide to talk about nukes on exactly the same day. Very strange. Also, The moron seems to have a serious hard on for nuclear weapons. He's mentioned them more during the campaign and since he won than I think I've ever heard any world leader talk about them. Well except from searching for them, or stopping Iran from having them. It's yet another power trip for him. All eyes on him, he holds the power, that's all he gives a feck about.
Nate Silver is wrong. Again. Actually, the map will be all red, every State would vote for the republicans after a nuclear holocaust ... the only survivors would be the gun owners!
I doubt guns would do too well against nukes.
anyome clued up in these matters can give an estimate of how long it'd take for the fallout to reach Oz? Need to start digging my shelter.
Damn. I had my hopes up.
The film with Gregory Peck is great. I love the sad resignation of facing extinction that only Aussies could muster.
Sometimes the "formal owner" and the "real owner" are not the same person!
Not against nukes. Against the survivors from the nukes. There will be a lot of survivors, especially in rural areas.
Exxon and the new Secretary Of State
There isn't much stuff that is being hidden here...and if
a. Intercept was controlled by Putin indirectly, and
b. Putin supports Trump
it would be impossible to explain the actual content they put out.
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