radius777
radius777's Journal+1. The West's naivete regarding Hitler
mirrors our approach to Putin, who is an existential threat to liberal democracy and is actively waging war against us.
Putin got away with stealing Crimea and installing Trump - and has become emboldened.
We should be expanding and strengthening NATO, supporting pro-Western movements and countering Russian cyberwarfare. Thugs like Putin only understand dominance, and we should be forcing him into a subordinate and weakened position. Simply ignoring and/or appeasing him is not an option... it's a zero sum game.
+1. Russia/Putin is a hostile and cancerous force in this world,
and not in any way a legitimate regime. We should expand and strengthen NATO and support pro-Western governments - and force Putin into a subordinate position.
Just as our media normalized Trump the West has made a grievous mistake in normalizing Putin - a KGB thug and dictator who is waging war on the West.
Ukraine is a sovereign nation and should be in NATO. Putin can go F himself.
The West has appeased Putin for far too long, who annexed Crimea and then interfered in our 2016 elections which gave us Trump and a RW Supreme Court for the next 20 years.
Putin is an anti-Western white supremacist thug like Trump is, an existential threat to liberal democracy.
We should be expanding and strengthening NATO - power/dominance is the only thing thugs understand.
We should also be strongly supporting pro-democracy movements inside of Russian, eg Navalny.
Lol, is Laurence Tribe a 'TV Lawyer'?
what about ex Sen. Claire McCaskill, both of whom have been very critical of Merrick Garland.
Tribe was on MSNBC the other night and he (his words, not mine) said he think the DOJ has 'rolled over and played dead' when it comes to prosecuting Trump who should be indicted for sedition. Tribe said there is more than enough evidence to do so.
Face it - Garland is another Mueller - in that he values institutions more than justice or 'appearing political'.
We have Trump running around admitting he wanted to overturn the election, fake elector schemes, pressuring the VP, etc.
If this is not sedition (and treason) then what is?
+1. As an Xer I agree. Boomers simply don't get this
and the rage and desperation that is driving the younger generations.
Boomers grew up in a relatively safe and prosperous environment created by FDR and the Greatest Generation. They had the Cold War and Vietnam to deal with, but overall the West was in good shape compared to now.
All we Xers got was consumerism, Reaganism, crack pipes and crystal meth and a hollowed out economy and rising cost of living. We were told that the manufacturing jobs were leaving, but there would be limitless 'high tech' jobs for the future. Now followed by what the gen Y and Z are getting which is even less than we got. That is why so many have turned against 'the establishment' because they feel empty and betrayed.
+1. Putin is waging information warfare across the globe.
Trump was elected due to a major Russian campaign of disinformation, which helped him win a close election over Hillary, which then allowed him to appoint 3 Supreme Court justices which now cements the court's rightward tilt for a generation.
Russian hackers hack companies and gov't agencies all over the world on a daily basis. Russian troll farms work to control narratives online.
IOW, Putin has already committed serious acts of aggression against the West, yet has suffered few consequences and feels emboldened as a result.
To defend the West and democracy,
and stop Russian expansionism. They cannot be allowed to invade an sovereign country. The annexation of Crimea was bad enough and should've been dealt with more harshly.
NATO is already helping Ukraine, who wants to be in NATO, and only isn't due to West appeasing Putin, instead of standing up to him like we should.
Bill Clinton and NATO was correct in the 90s to deal with the genocide in Bosnia, and iirc had to go around Russia to do so.
In 1995 in central Europe, Bosnian Serbs had begun wiping out the largely Muslim population in their own country. That July, violence reached a climax when Bosnian Serb soldiers overran the city of Srebrenica and murdered more than 8,000 defenseless men and boys. "That was a real shock for everyone," says Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General. "And for that to happen in Europe, many decades after World War II, was something that nobody could sit back and swallow." In response, President Clinton initiated Operation Deliberate Force, a massive NATO military response. "He didn't blink," National Security Coordinator Richard Clarke said. "We knew that day that we had a commander-in-chief who was rational and comfortable with the use of force."
+1. Many PoC are already unhappy with
the direction of the Admin and the DoJ/Garland, and this move to prosecute a rising black woman in Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby who made a mistake is a disgrace, while RW traitors like Trump and his cronies walk around free. There are many white business owners who abused the CARES act to the tune of hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions - yet a black woman is the one who becomes the face for CARES fraud.
Note to white Democrats: Biden/Dems can't win without strong support from black and brown Democrats. Appointing a black female Supreme Court justice is not enough - there has to be policies that black/brown voters want. Voting Rights and Police Reform should've been the first order of business.
How did Sara Gideon lose, wonder
if it was racism against a brown-skinned woman.
Gideon was a solid 'mainstream Dem' candidate, the perfect 'soccer mom' type, who led in most of the polling.
Yet Maine went for washed up Collins while also voting for Biden on the same ticket. If they voted for Biden, then why not also Gideon.
Just seems as there could've been a Bradley effect to this race, in what is a blue but also very white state.
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