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[Fournier] Though the term ’conspiracy theorist’ itself dates as far back as the 19th century, it became much more prominent in the years following the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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If you want to innoculate yourself against propaganda, "INFLUENCE: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini is a good place to start.
It is a short book, but after reading it, you will understand how used car salesman, telemarketers, advertisers and such try to take advantage of you. Once you see it, it cannot be unseen.
[Atlantic Council] Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine? The answer to this question really depends on when you’re asking. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Russian dictator focused his ire on NATO and sought to blame rising tensions around Ukraine on the military alliance’s post-Cold War expansion. As his troops crossed the border on February 24, Putin changed tack and declared a crusade against "Ukrainian Nazis." More recently, he has sought to portray Ukraine as a "terrorist state" while insisting that Russia is in fact fighting against "Satanism."
None of these arguments stands up to serious scrutiny. Instead, the various different narratives coming out of the Kremlin reflect Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts to justify what is in reality an old-fashioned colonial war of imperial conquest.
Putin has long sought to use NATO expansion as an excuse for his own aggressive foreign policies. This plays well with the Russian public and also resonates among segments of the international community who believe the United States has become too dominant since the end of the Cold War. However, Putin’s attempts to position the invasion of Ukraine as a reasonable response to NATO encroachment have been comprehensively debunked by his own actions.
According to Reuters, Ukraine informed Russia during the first days of the invasion that it was ready to meet Moscow’s demands and rule out the possibility of future NATO membership, only for this offer to be rejected by Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went public in the following weeks with similar proposals to abandon Ukraine’s NATO ambitions, but Russia chose to continue its invasion.
The entire notion that Russia views NATO as a credible security threat was further undermined in summer 2022 when Moscow passively accepted neighboring Finland’s historic decision to join the military alliance. Putin has repeatedly cited Ukraine’s deepening NATO ties as justification for his invasion, but the prospect of imminent Finnish membership provoked no meaningful security response whatsoever from the Kremlin.
If Putin genuinely believed a NATO invasion of Russia was even a remote possibility, he would surely have reinforced the Finnish border. On the contrary, in the months following Helsinki’s decision to join the alliance, Russia dramatically reduced its military presence close to Finland and the nearby NATO member Baltic states in order to bolster the invasion of Ukraine. Whatever Putin may say in public, he clearly understands that NATO poses no threat to Russia.
Russian myth-making about "Ukrainian Nazis" is even older than complaints over NATO expansion and dates all the way back to Soviet World War II propaganda. For decades, Moscow has exaggerated wartime cooperation between Ukrainian nationalist groups and the Third Reich while conveniently ignoring the far more consequential Nazi-Soviet Pact. By conflating Ukraine’s centuries-old liberation movement with Nazism, generations of Kremlin leaders have sought to render Ukrainian national identity toxic in the eyes of domestic and international audiences alike.
Putin’s enthusiasm for the "Nazi Ukraine" trope is very much in line with his broader efforts to place the Soviet World War II experience at the heart of modern Russian identity. Over the past two decades, Putin has turned traditional Russian reverence for the generation who defeated Hitler into a quasi-religious victory cult complete with its own feast days, holy relics, and doctrinal dogmas. This has enabled him to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet era while attacking contemporary adversaries as the spiritual successors to the Nazis. In Putin’s Russia, accusations of Nazism are a routine feature of the public discourse and have been leveled against a dizzying array of individuals, organizations, and entire countries, but Ukraine remains by far the most popular target.
The effectiveness of these tactics has always depended heavily on outside ignorance of Ukraine and Russia-centric reporting by Moscow-based international correspondents. Unfortunately for Putin, his invasion has shone an unprecedented media spotlight on Ukraine that has done much to debunk the whole "Nazi Ukraine" narrative.
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Oh, the Atlantic Council. Boy, talk about honest brokers! I bet they aren't engaging in motivated reasoning at all!
Vladimir Putin is himself a result of US foreign policy. If you pretend history started in February 2022, then yes, Russia “started” this war.
1: This war is a result of NATO aggression.
2: This war is a result of the CIA funding and arming nazis in West Ukraine for decades. More recently they launder this process through the National Endowment for Democracy.
3: This war is a result of the US-backed Yeltsinite shock therapy that destroyed the Russian economy.
4: This war is a result of the NATO-backed, CIA-backed, IMF-backed coup on Ukraine in 2014 that put Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk in power, and put the Ukrainian economy into the hands of the west through IMF structural adjustment programs.
It’s amazing how Atlantic Council noticed Russia’s “imperialism” of waging a war on their own borders against a CIA-backed gang of nazis shelling their own countrymen since 2014 but didn’t notice the deep state's decades-long imperialism of arming and training those nazis in the first place.
"US/NATO Provoked Ukraine War Say Most Experts On Russia"
"Politicians and members of the media have nearly universally expressed shock and dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but their incredulity is belied by the fact that numerous Russia experts and historians have been predicting these events practically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, pointing out that a Russian response to ongoing NATO incursions was virtually inevitable."
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Poor Russia! Someone's always picking on it.
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Re #1: Russian, what a warped world view you have. In the west that would be called a persecution complex, a mental illness. If yours is the typical Russian outlook, no wonder Russia is sinking fast into fascist morass, has no friends or allies. Only a few hellhole client states.
Your problems are your own making because you can't see others past your own nose. The solution is also staring at you in the mirror. Open your eyes, learn to filter the truth from the lies you are told and be able see others from their viewpoint. Otherwise your neighbors will continue running to the west as fast as they can and your society will become more isolated, poorer and keep going back in time.
[ThePrint] After maximizing it's reach on Twitter, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... now has YouTubers to push its narrative. Even Indian creators have started to land at Kabul airport.
In October this year, the Taliban ran a hashtag promotion on Twitter called #UnitedAfghanistan. At one point, Twitter showed that over 1,25,000 tweets on the platform were using the hashtag with many pro-Taliban social media accounts also participating in making sure the message finds its legs online. The hashtag in all probability was magnified further by using bots. The idea behind this campaign by the Taliban was to promote the message, largely to the global audience, that the Pashtun-led Taliban now in power sought a ’united’ Afghanistan, made up of all ethnicities. It showed Taliban leaders with other ethnic leaders in the country. And to dispel rumours of internal strife between the prevailing power blocks of the Kandaharis and the Haqqanis, it showed photos of Mullah Yaqoob, Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Blinky Omar ...a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality. Died of an unspecified ailment in a Pak hospital... ’s son and acting defence minister along with Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , of the notorious Haqqani Network who is also the acting interior minister. Twitter has been a boon for the Taliban, which as of today, has a very well devised, understood, and designed media strategy. The Taliban know what kind of narrative the West wants to hear, and approaches its interactions with foreign media with that in mind.
The ISIS ecosystem, fuelled by young and tech-savvy recruits, specifically from Europe, developed robust information creation and distribution ecosystems that prevail and are replicated even today. Many pro-ISIS cases in India during this period were also radicalisation by the online materials and propaganda released by ISIS and its affiliates. These included well-produced and high-definition videos shot in Hollywood style action movies, online magazines with infographics and data visualisation, and even podcasts. A lot of these publications, at the peak of the Islamist group’s reign over territories that at the time were as large in geography as the United Kingdom, continue to be released despite the territorial defeat of the caliphate. Today, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Khorasan Province (ISKP) has its own propaganda outlets targeting India, Pakistain, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Maldives, and South Asia in general. It is imperative to remember here that two of the most destructive attacks attributed to Islamic State took place in South Asia in Bangladesh in 2016 and Sri Lanka in 2019.
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As long as they put a stop to opium production they're all right with me. Our people are dying from opioids that come directly from their fields.
One wonders why the US didn't put a stop to this, but actually posted guards on the opium fields to keep the supply safe from Taliban attacks. Weird, eh?
[SavageMinds] Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia.
Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine. US President Biden and his State Department spokesmen have explained that Ukraine is just the opening arena in a much broader dynamic that is splitting the world into two opposing sets of economic alliances. This global fracture promises to be a ten- or twenty-year struggle to determine whether the world economy will be a unipolar US-centred dollarised economy, or a multipolar, multi-currency world centred on the Eurasian heartland with mixed public/private economies.
President Biden has characterised this split as being between democracies and autocracies. The terminology is typical Orwellian double-speak. By "democracies" he means the US and allied Western financial oligarchies. Their aim is to shift economic planning out of the hands of elected governments to Wall Street and other financial centres under US control. US diplomats use the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to demand privatisation of the world’s infrastructure and dependency on US technology, oil and food exports.
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The only weakness in this...literary wonder is the author assumes in the U.S. government a level of competence and forethought that I have yet to see.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 9:00 Comments ||
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Russia didn’t / doesn’t / won’t and cannot “control” Germany. That’s a fevered fantasy of neocons and stupid liberal Globalists.
Economist Michael Hudson’s well-argued point re Germany is clearly and simply that what the US is imposing on Germany and Russia is stupid and destructive, for everyone except US banisters and LNG companies. (Along with, of course, the US MIC. Don’t ever forget Lloyd-Raytheon and Lockheed.)
Germany is, and soon will cease to be, the world’s most advanced manufacturing economy. Russia is, and will remain for generations to come, the world’s biggest supplier of all the energy, materials and metals that German manufacturing critically relies upon.
For Germany to turn away from such a country and make itself 100% reliant upon a self-interested and unscrupulous foreign supplier, one who’s charging the Germans 4-5x as much and forcing a foolish “green energy” policy on them as well —- this amounts to national suicide.
Well, it won’t be the first time that Good Germans have followed a monstrous leader over the cliff. It’s what Good liberal Globalist Germans do.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 9:27 Comments ||
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* what the US is imposing on Germany and Russia is stupid and destructive, for everyone except US banksters and LNG companies
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 9:28 Comments ||
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Nice. Behold the liberal Globalist’s snarling contempt for his people and his nation. For them, it’s The Grift Uber Alles.
Scheiss happens, meinen freunden!
What’s German for suck it up, bitchez?
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 9:48 Comments ||
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I'm really not the guy who watches Youtube speeches. Makes it difficult to comment. Prefer everything in writing.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 9:50 Comments ||
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Only a fool who doesn’t understand economics or strategy would fail to see that Germany and Russia are natural, obvious partners.
All the transparently phony lib-globalist blessings about “muh democracy” and “autocracy” cannot alter this hard fact if realpolitik.
It’s beyond foolish for Germany to make itself totally reliant on US LNG. The only explanation for this collective suicide is the corruption of the German elites — Exhibit A being the corruptocratic cunt Ursula von der Leyen.
Unbelievable. She’s at it AGAIN—- whoring for Pfizer now:
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 10:03 Comments ||
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* the transparently phony lib-globalist bleatings about “muh democracy” and “autocracy”
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 10:04 Comments ||
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"Only a fool who doesn’t understand economics or strategy would fail to see that Germany and Russia are natural, obvious partners."
Certainly true, but not a Russia invading and destroying its neighbors.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 10:16 Comments ||
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Buddy, we’ve been through this. Minsk II, and what the Russians proposed in early April and Zelensky was ready to sign, were good agreements.
Your problem is not with Russia. It’s with the Biden Administration’s fanatical warmongers. They quashed the peace deal between UA and RU.
It was that rancid little butterball Nuland and her confrères who staged the 2014 coup that set the country on fire.
It was the rabid neocons esp Lindsey Graham and John McCain (No Peace Be Unto Him) who stoked the flames into an 8-year civil war with berserk Ukrainian neo-Nazis slaughtering thousands in the East.
It was Nuland again plus Winken-Blinken and Brandon who backed up a gasoline tanker and sprayed fuel on the flames from March 2021 through February 21. At their urging, Ukraine suddenly declared, right after Biden’s inauguration, a ludicrous vow to “take back” Crimea. And then escalated the war with a massive increase in shelling of Donetsk in mid-February 2022. These are FACTS.
You can deny these facts all you like, but the regime change that must occur for peace to have a chance is in Washington.
Thanks to last night’s results, we’re a bit more than halfway there. Which explains why Z-man made his hard turn last night and announced his readiness for negotiations:
Ukraine urging globe to ‘force Russia into peace talks,’ hard turn from previous stance
By Evan Simko-Bednarski November 8, 2022 6:50pm ET
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 10:40 Comments ||
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...and the Russians are abandoning Kherson. Another good will gesture, no doubt.
Why the heck should Ukraine negotiate away their territory when they are steadily taking it back, and gutting the Russian armed forces in the process?
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TASS: "Russia has never refused to conduct negotiations with Ukraine, and it is still ready to hold them taking into account the emerging realities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Wednesday."
Posted by: Matt ||
11/09/2022 11:08 Comments ||
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I’m, because they’re losing, and the few remaining Ukrainians in Kyiv are now freezing in the dark?
Deny the facts all you like. The Biden Administration’s little puppet is now clamoring for negotiations.
He can put the dots together. The GOP just took back the chamber in which all spending bills must originate. His gravy train is finished.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 11:09 Comments ||
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The emerging reality is that escalation of the war — Russia pounding the shit out of UA’s infrastructure, and more bloody battles — benefits no one. Especially not the 3 million Kyiv residents who are now facing severe deprivation and possibly death as winter sets in.
It’s only the Biden Administration’s insane neocons (plus a few hardliners on each side) who want the war to continue.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 11:13 Comments ||
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It’s only the Biden Administration’s insane neocons (plus a few hardliners on each side) who want the war to continue.
You haven't talked to many Ukrainians then.
The Ukrainian flag has been raised over Snihurivka, Mykolaiv Oblast
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Especially not the 3 million Kyiv residents..."
Russia has shown itself to be quite proficient at committing war crimes. It seems to come naturally to them.
Posted by: Matt ||
11/09/2022 11:23 Comments ||
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Dude. Since last night, the T-shirt man is calling for peace talks. He’s asking for them. Look it up.
The Big Grift is finished. We’re finally going to learn how many of our billions were stolen and where they went.
Pitbull Jim Jordan will be all over this. Sic ‘em, boy. G-r-r-r
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 11:32 Comments ||
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Developing: "Putin's defense chief orders retreat in Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city Russian forces captured, in new battlefield humiliation"
Posted by: Matt ||
11/09/2022 11:38 Comments ||
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Why are you so invested in this?
What business is it of ours? The whole point of America First is to stop the grifters and neocons from dragging us into their pointless Forever Wars.
We just won back the House. America First. For once.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 11:47 Comments ||
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I'm invested in the survival of the 3 million civilians in Kyiv you think are about to die from cold or hunger caused by Russian bombardment. The question is, why aren't you?
Posted by: Matt ||
11/09/2022 11:54 Comments ||
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We just won back the House. America First. For once.
You are gonna be a sad and disappointed little boy in January.
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Because literally thousands of people were slaughtered by the Ukrainians’ neo-Nazis. They have no moral standing.
When we start crusading and butting into other people’s squabbles, morality starts to get really complicated.
We’ve done this again and again sngain, and come to grief every time. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria.
If Iranians kill Iraqis, or Iraqis kill Kurds, or Kurdish PKK terrorists kill Turks, or Turks kill Syrians, or Syrians kill Syrians or Libyans kill Libyans —- it’s none of our business. Ditto for Slav-X and Slav-Y.
We have no dog in their fight. None.
And even if we did, our escalating the killing helps NO ONE. Except our Swampie grifters and neocon nutcases.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 12:07 Comments ||
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To think "America First" is not wrong at all.
To think that Russia winning in Ukraine doesn't matter to America is.
China is watching closely. Abandon Ukraine and China will draw its conclusions.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 12:08 Comments ||
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they have no moral standing
"They" being who? The kindergarten class at Kyiv Elementary No. 1?
Posted by: Matt ||
11/09/2022 12:12 Comments ||
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Isolationism and world power number one don't get together.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 12:16 Comments ||
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“Russia winning in Ukraine doesn't matter to America”
Correct. It means three things above all, none of which impinges on American freedoms or American security:
- Ukraine will be neutral and not aligned with NATO
- Crimea and Sebastopol remain Russian and not threatened by NATO
- Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine will have autonomy and no longer be attacked, murdered and tortured by far-right Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
None of these outcomes has anything whatsoever to do with our freedom or our national security. They are totally irrelevant to us.
By contrast, prolonging the war will definitely drag America down in the eyes of the non-European world. Our foolish intervention is already pushing China and Russia closer together, and the Saudis closer to Russia, and the Indians closer to Russia.
We’re eroding our influence and our position in the world. For nothing.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 12:55 Comments ||
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Billy B, don't count your chickens before they're hatched. We are still hopeful but many of the congressional races are still in contention.
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Isolationism and world power number one don't get together.
You can be powerful without going around the world telling other people who can govern their countries and who can't.
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^ This
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11/09/2022 13:02 Comments ||
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Judging from the Russian troll farm output telling Americans what they ought to do, the Russians are getting desperate. Running away from Kherson w/o a fight or even looting all the toilets. Can you imagine the humiliation?
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Isolationism and world power number one don't get go together.
Ah the “isolationist” canard. I’m saying we should be MORE attentive to the regions that really do affect Americans’ freedom and security, which are 1) our southern border and 2) the home front. Both are under siege now, thanks to the idiotic and criminal intervene-everywhere, protect-nothing policies of our GloboHomo zealots. The overseas region that truly matters is the Pacific — and no, not the South China Sea; Taiwan will in due course be Hung Kong’ed and brought under China’s control, and it’s pointless to pretend we can prevent it.
I want my country to be free, safe and prosperous. Thirty years of foolish globalism and interventions all over the globe — my God, the list of all the overseas wars we’ve started or escalated since 1988 us as long as your arm — these foolish adventures have had the OPPOSITE effect.
Excepting our top 1/10th of 1 percent, we are unquestionably poorer today — and less free and less secure as well— than we were at the time of the USSR’s collapse.
Our elites were given a golden prize, and they trashed it. It’s simply astonishing how badly they’ve fucked up, and how much damage they have caused to America.
To hell with those fools. Their reign of misrule has come to an end.
America First.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 13:13 Comments ||
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* Hong-Kong’ed
getting “Hung-Kong’ed” sounds like Paul Pelosi’s idea of a good time
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 13:16 Comments ||
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America First.
You have done your duty Russian troll. Go collect 50 rubles from the casa.
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^ The GloboHomos’ only riposte is to say “Russian TROLL!!!” or “Isolationist!!” every time anyone points out the stupidity of their policies. It’s yet another measure of their bankruptcy.
Eastern Europe is irrelevant to our freedom and security. Not our problem. Let the Euros sort it out amongst themselves.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 13:22 Comments ||
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If you let others do it by brute force, you'll cease to be a world power pretty soon.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 13:26 Comments ||
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Just quit pretending to be a "concerned conservative American". The troll script is worn out. Why not tell us the economic, political and social situation in Russia so that we can learn something.
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America went through isolationism in the 1930s. Imagine America abandoning the UK, Germany and Japan attacking the Soviet Union together.
Abandon Taiwan and China will grab it. But don't believe for a minute that it will stop here. China will want its side of the Pacific Ocean, and who knows it might want it all.
China is heavily investing in Africa, South Asia and South America. It will show up in Mexico, too.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 13:35 Comments ||
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Why are Communists so damn wordy and make their spiels unreadable? It's like they are trying their best to emulate Russian authors.
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Russia is a classic Fascist state with yearnings to recreate their "great" Communist past. That is what this war is about, Putin's great desire to reassemble the Soviet empire. Maybe enough Russians will wake up, otherwise winter is coming for them.
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#39 If you let others do it by brute force, you'll cease to be a world power pretty soon.
We are in fact rapidly losing power. We cannot even fight and win one war— let alone two major wars against Russia and China. The Heritage Foundation evaluated each branch of our military for readiness and competence, and gave the Army, Navy and Air Force each a failing grade. Failing.
You keep pretending that what’s already happened — the decline of our military and loss of our influence — will happen if we don’t keep shoveling trillions into shitholes around the globe. You’re seriously deluded.
Oh and those “brutes” keep winning, everywhere. The brutes kicked us out of Afghanistan — after a trillion wasted and 20 years of blood spilled. The brutes prevailed in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia. Every one of those was a pointless waste of American blood and treasure.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 14:36 Comments ||
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You sure are Russki. Just a show of your former self militarily, economically, politically, socially from the beginning of this year. Begging North Korea and Iran for weapons, uniforms. What next? Begging for snow?
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Preventing Russia from annexing Ukraine is America's interest. Eastern NATO members are next on the Bear's menu and better to maul it now and send it running back to the cave before it can digest Europe's largest country and recreate the Soviet empire in new Fascist colors.
#59
Ridiculous. The Ukrainians fight for their freedom and sheer existence.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 15:27 Comments ||
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Buddy, that’s the same line we heard about the Afghans. And the Kurds, Syrians South Vietnamese blah blah. Another year, another corrupt shithole country we’re told we need to defend.
I don’t wish any of them ill. It’s just not America’s problem.
If the Euros want to intervene, hey, be my guest. Just leave America out of it.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 15:47 Comments ||
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I think we'll leave Russia out of this.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/09/2022 15:48 Comments ||
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Who is “we”?
Why are you demanding we get involved in a shithole like Ukraine?
Seriously, who the fuck are all these people demanding that America get involved in a region that nothing whatsoever to do with our freedom or security? On behalf of the most curtly country this side of Nigeria.
Why is that America’s problem? European shitholes like Ukraine are Europe’s problem.
You deal with your shitholes, we’ll deal with ours — Philly, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, DC …
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 15:54 Comments ||
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* On behalf of the most corrupt country this side of Nigeria
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 15:56 Comments ||
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“The” Propaganda??
What English speaker would use the definite article with propaganda?
Go away, troll
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 15:58 Comments ||
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FFS, we have so many humongous problems to solve now at home. We’ve just seen another clown show election in which — YJCMTSU — a brain-damaged freak, a lifelong bum and now mental patient who can’t even utter a coherent sentence was supposedly elected to serve in the United States Senate.
As if that’s a normal result of a free and fair election in a normal country. Right.
Either because the election was stolen — again — or because a majority of Americans are truly warped by hatred of the GOP, America is truly fucked if we intervene even one more time in another foreign disaster.
Our house is on fire. Put out the fire at home.
America First.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 16:05 Comments ||
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Go away, troll
You first, Putie-puffer. You have a word for word posting from the Russian script.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 16:07 Comments ||
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Look, the one Senate candidate who clearly and strongly articulated the America First message was that new GOP candidate who won in a landslide: JD Vance in Ohio.
Had the GOP put forth a slate of intelligent and forceful, true America-First senate candidates like JD Vance, we would have won easily in each of the close races.
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 16:12 Comments ||
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Here come da stoopid.
Yep, you keep coming back stoopid, posting the Russian script like a good little Deadnick.
#71
Hey we get it: you miss the Cold War and want to show off what’s left of your military knowledge but for the rest of us Americans, this war is another pointless intervention in a shithole where we have nothing at stake.
Your venom should be directed at the assholes who have wasted literally TRILLIONS on these foolish adventures while running our country into the ground.
They’re even depleting the stocks we need for own defense. We are weaker than we’ve been at any time since 1979. WTF?
Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 16:37 Comments ||
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Ref #69: Had the GOP put forth a slate of intelligent and forceful, true America-First senate candidates like JD Vance, we would have won easily in each of the close races.
#73
The GOP must get away from celebrity and sportsball player candidates.
Reagan was the exception that proves the rule. He was an all-around man who happened to be a underwhelming actor, but was also a union head, governor and still one of our best and most long-term influential on the world stage Presidents.
Larry Elder, Herschel Walker, Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon are not Ronald Reagan.
Not even close on their best days.
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11/09/2022 19:21 Comments ||
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Posted by: Billy B ||
11/09/2022 19:28 Comments ||
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They’re even depleting the stocks we need for own defense. We are weaker than we’ve been at any time since 1979.
You mentioned we had two oceans protecting us and that we don't need to keep such spending up... now you are saying we need it for our defense. Which is it? You flip flop worse than a 3 dollar whore during fleet week.
And no I don't long for another cold war. Grew up during one already thank you very much. Which is why I am happy to give Ukraine weapons as long as they are willing to fight and die for their country. Russia won't stop with Ukraine. I don't want a war, but Russia doesn't give a shit what I want. So they can die in Ukraine and lose their breeding population and be sent to the dustbin of history.
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#71 They’re even depleting the stocks we need for own defense. We are weaker than we’ve been at any time since 1979.
Once again, true, if we = Russia. Which is now using 1960s era tanks, rusty AK-47s, filling its lines with untrained and unsupplied mobik cannon fodder, and is reduced to buying arms from Iran and North Korea. The Russian army is dying in the mud of Ukraine.
[Gateway] It seriously feels like we are watching the first wholly manufactured election in our history, in which all of the key competitive races have had the results directly programmed by Langley.
Americans are suffering through the most crushing economic conditions, rampant crime, reckless foreign/nuclear war flirtations, most aggressive perverse assaults on family and parental rights in history, all topped off by an embarrassing unpopular disaster in the White House leading a shrill, tin-eared bellicose fascist junta that appears indifferent to the ordeal they are inflicting on working people.
And yet the Democrat monolith is barely dented. Either the country has large states filled with brainwashed zealots who are too stupid and mindless to comprehend the reality of the collective damage they are ratifying with votes for at best lackluster at worst appallingly unimpressive if not foolish candidates.... or we are seeing direct black box voting manipulation. Final tabulations are being perpetrated on a scale that renders typical ballot and voter fraud schemes unnecessary anachronisms as the decisive votes that have now kept the ruling junta largely intact. At worst they are literal fabrications piled onto Democrat vote totals by a few keystrokes entered in some master election hacking operation run by IC criminals in a league with and part of the Democrat Crime Syndicate.
The experts Lindell brought together have been quite explicit and factually well-supported in laying out how the fraud goes far deeper and is far more comprehensive than any sort of ham-handed ballot harvesting, ballot box stuffing, or illegal voting schemes on the ground. I
Festerman’s supposed win is beyond any rational explanation and defies every known political and electoral principle and truism that we have seen hold firm throughout our entire history.
It would be suicidally ludicrous to think that this pack of criminals won’t use every last means at their disposal to the bitter end.
And there’s good old Fox News chipper as ever as they announce the results of this massive national fraud, without the slightest question as to why every indication has somehow been wrong, choosing only to focus on the handful of obvious victories that were allowed to go forward because they were either too inevitable or simply unnecessary to reverse.
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I take it the DoJ investigation into Hunter Biden's China connections, laptop, and potential misdeeds has suddenly been moved to the back burner ?
Any news on the Seth Rich murder? The strangulation of Jeffrey Epstein? The Jan 6 D.C. detainees? The current status of Julian Assange and Guislane Maxwell? The origins of COVID ?
Did I mention Hunter Biden's unauthorized USG travel? Foreign Placement and Acceess (P&A). Chinese comfort ladies? Documented drug use ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
[Gateway] It seriously feels like we are watching the first wholly manufactured election in our history, in which all of the key competitive races have had the results directly programmed by Langley.
/\ Thanks Rich. I guess if we had a 'need to know'.... we'd already know. But really..."what difference does it make ? 
