The post that was quoted here has been removedIs Russia taking over the Ukraine? I thought it was a done deal that they took Crimea. I know they considered Crimea theirs all along and are saying they want to protect Russian speakers which would also require taking over half of the Ukraine.
So you don't think it's on the Russian agenda to go any further?
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou mean you're closer to the propaganda. I'm sure I could trot out some "expert" somewhere who takes my view, too. Putin is the dangerous one, in my mind. The everyday, 'man-on-the-street' in Russia just wants to feed his family and live his life. I'm not calling all Russians 'dangerous', or 'war-mongers', or 'imperialists'. But we cannot blindly trust Putin. What's going on in Ukraine backs that up. Putin said all he wanted was the most 'Russian' part of the Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula. After they appeased him with that (echoes of Neville Chamberlain's policies), suddenly Crimea wasn't enough, he wanted the entire Ukraine. I'm telling you, Georgia (and possibly Moldova) is next.
I know it's part of your belief system that Americans must all be ignorant, and yes, a lot of what passes for debate in the Debates forum proves this out, but contrary to your bias, not all Americans are ignorant fools. Even the ones who disagree with you, believe it or not.
The post that was quoted here has been removedAs are you if you think we are going to sit and accept criticism that we are fools and that Russians have the 'real' truth to the issues. You keep talking about "American propaganda". I submit that it is you who have swallowed the Russian propaganda. You give the Russian propaganda more weight because you are closer to it, as I do the same with the American propaganda. At least I'm not calling you an arrogant fool for doing so. Your statements that the typical Russian thinks Americans are arrogant and full of "world domination" show the extent of the effect of Russian propaganda on you. Most Americans couldn't care less about "world domination". And yet you still insist that it is Americans who are the fools.
If this Cohen is so pro-Russian that he would tout the Russians as the 'innocent ones' and the Americans as the 'aggressors' (even though he is American himself, at least by birth), then pardon me for thinking he himself might also be influenced (as you have complained that Americans are influenced by US propaganda) by Russian propaganda. His grandfather was Lithuanian and he was a close personal friend of Mikhail Gorbachev. No wonder he has "Pro-Russian" views. He's not exactly an unconcerned bystander in this issue.
If you expect me to take a step back and examine the 'US propaganda machine", then you should also be prepared to also step back and examine the "Russian propaganda machine", especially as it concerns Putin.
11 Jul 15
The post that was quoted here has been removedAfter World War II, the USA has had to maintain some bases all over the World to attempt to keep the peace. The USA has attempted to cut back on some bases, but in many cases those nations don't want a complete withdrawal. However, it could save us a lot of money if the world was safe enough to withdraw troops in every area over the world. But then look what has happened when Obama withdrew most of our troops from Iraq. The USA is damned if we do and damned it we don't.
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Putin’s Culture of Fear and Death
Boris Nemtsov threw his big body, big voice and big heart into the uphill battle to keep democracy alive in Russia.
By
Garry Kasparov
March 1, 2015 5:41 p.m. ET
Boris Nemtsov, my longtime friend and colleague in the Russian opposition, was murdered in the middle of Moscow on Friday night. Four bullets in the back ended his life in sight of the Kremlin, where he once worked as Boris Yeltsin’s deputy prime minister. Photos showed a cleaning crew scrubbing his blood off the pavement within hours of the murder, so it is not difficult to imagine the quality of the investigation to come.
Vladimir Putin actually started, and ended, the inquiry while Boris’s body was still warm by calling the murder a “provocation,” the term of art for suggesting that the Russian president’s enemies are murdering one another to bring shame upon the shameless. He then brazenly sent his condolences to Boris’s mother, who had often warned her fearless son that his actions could get him killed in Putin’s Russia.
Hours after Boris’s death, news reports said that police were raiding his home and confiscating papers and computers. President Putin’s enemies are often victims and his victims are always suspects.
Boris was a passionate critic of Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine and was finishing a report on the presence of Russian soldiers in the ravaged Donbas region, a matter that the Kremlin has spared no effort to cover up. But the question “Did Putin give the order?” rings as hollow today as when journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in 2006, the same year that Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London—or when a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine last year.
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Mr. Kasparov is the chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. His book on Vladimir Putin, “Winter Is Coming,” will be published by Public Affairs in the fall.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/garry-kasparov-putins-culture-of-fear-and-death-1425249677
Perhaps it would do you good to read this book “Winter Is Coming" written by Garry Kasparov.
The post that was quoted here has been removedI have not looked into the 'New Chronology' of history controversy. And this is the first i have heard that Kasparov believes in the 'New Chronology' of history.
However, we do have what is called 'Dark Ages' and much of our current accepted history is not without controversy. So I do not see the fact that Kasparov is questioning some aspects of history troubling, since such questioning has often uncovered information that was not known.
Since none of us were there to know for sure what happened, his supposed beliefs on those historical times is really of no importance to the validity of his views of present times. So whether he is right are wrong on the history of the Middle Ages does not mean he does not know what is happening in his own lifetime.