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31 Dec 2016, 5:32 am

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I find Obama's behavior in this bizarre. First Israel and now Russia. Today he has turfed out 35 Russian diplomats.

I don't think it will amount too much though. It is almost like a tantrum. Trump will reverse everything, he is already allied with Putin.

It's a bit early for things to go nuclear though. That will start in the Middle East.


Israel is getting what it deserves and the 35 diplomats thing just makes Obama look bad.



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31 Dec 2016, 8:34 am

Putin's actions are almost always all reactive and rational, people don't know how much funny business that our own country is up to in other countries that the Obama administration put into overdrive. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, to assign aggressive or expansionist motivations behind these conflicts is a fundamental misunderstanding of what cause them to happen. The US is not always the good guys.



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31 Dec 2016, 9:55 am

Jacoby wrote:
Putin's actions are almost always all reactive and rational, people don't know how much funny business that our own country is up to in other countries that the Obama administration put into overdrive. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, to assign aggressive or expansionist motivations behind these conflicts is a fundamental misunderstanding of what cause them to happen. The US is not always the good guys.


The United States has never resorted to espionage or covert operations in the last 8 years. If any believes that, I have some swamp land I'd like to sell.



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31 Dec 2016, 10:34 am

Of course it can happen. You are dealing with humans and the software they program.


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31 Dec 2016, 11:08 am

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if Putin and Trump are in fact in bed with one another...



I think we can all agree that this would be the worst porno ever.



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31 Dec 2016, 11:16 am

EzraS wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Putin's actions are almost always all reactive and rational, people don't know how much funny business that our own country is up to in other countries that the Obama administration put into overdrive. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, to assign aggressive or expansionist motivations behind these conflicts is a fundamental misunderstanding of what cause them to happen. The US is not always the good guys.


The United States has never resorted to espionage or covert operations in the last 8 years. If any believes that, I have some swamp land I'd like to sell.



And how do you know this?

Are you basing it on our long history of not doing espionage?

Or on the fact that the intelligence agencies in the USA are so poorly funded that the have to hold bake sales to pay for informants($43,400,000,000 in 2013)?

I hope your swamp land has aligators, they are more pleasant than Drumps cabinate.



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31 Dec 2016, 11:22 am

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dcj123 wrote:
if Putin and Trump are in fact in bed with one another...



I think we can all agree that this would be the worst porno ever.

:D


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06 Jan 2017, 1:09 am

I'm interested in your theories as to how and why Clinton would've ''invaded'' russia, I agree she'd have taken an unhelpful and unproductive hardline stance toward them and messed relations up further and continued the proxy skirmishes but she is certainly no dummy and invading russia would be the stupidest thing anyone in that office had ever attempted. Putin was acting in the national interest over Crimea, I don't begrudge what he did there, NATO has been encircling and provoking the bear for a long time now.



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08 Jan 2017, 6:04 pm

Answer: YES.

And it might be more due to an alliance. As you know, while Obama blew off the threat of a nuclear Iran, Israel, which doesn't seem to like Iran's talks of wiping it off the face of the earth, may make a preemptive strike against the Iranian nuclear facilities BEFORE Iran can finish its nukes. That might lead to a war between Iran and Israel. As Iran and Russia are allies, Russia may also declare war on Israel. And since the US and Israel are allies, if Trump is more loyal to Israel than Russia, then the US will declare war on Russia and Iran and Russia and Iran will then declare war on us.