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muriel_volestrangler

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5. Speaking as a European (and I don't think you're one), I don't want integrating with Russia

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:20 PM

Jan 2017

especially in its current homophobic, religion-pushing, insanely economically unequal state. And I resent others telling me I should welcome my new overlord when it's a murdering fuck like Putin, whether he plans to achieve this integration by military means, or by economic force.

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DAVE LINDORFF: Real Russian Threat--invading or trading with neighbors? [View all] yurbud Jan 2017 OP

Dave Lindorff preferred Ron Paul to Barack Obama, so it makes sense this psycho hate monger geek tragedy Jan 2017 #1

so you never agreed with Republicans on anything...like those who are piling on Russia now too? yurbud Jan 2017 #2

Russia is a rightwing ethnonationalist mafia state, regardless of whether geek tragedy Jan 2017 #3

that doesn't determine whether our government likes them or not and never has yurbud Jan 2017 #8

Right on! billh58 Jan 2017 #4

Speaking as a European (and I don't think you're one), I don't want integrating with Russia muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #5

Who says they would be overlords? And what economic force is there? Europe's economy is 7x bigger yurbud Jan 2017 #6

It's Putin's methods muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #9

It's not necessarily Putin who will succeed, but in the longer view of history it's the way things yurbud Jan 2017 #12

So what you're advocating is "ignore anything that Putin does, and hope Russia turns into a muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #13

no. I'm advocating taking words of people who have wasted a lot of our money and gotten a lot of yurbud Jan 2017 #14

And yet, he sent troops into Ukraine and Georgia muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #15

If tension with Russia flares into a shooting war, Europe will be the battleground yurbud Jan 2017 #7

Hence, the Georgian anschluss, the Crimean annexation and Ukrainian invasion. LanternWaste Jan 2017 #10

Putin could argue that those countries are like Latin America for us yurbud Jan 2017 #11