11 Jul 15
The post that was quoted here has been removedThere are a few grains of truth here. Missing from this post however is the fact that America has no plan whatsoever to "conquer" Russia. Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler all tried to do this, and failed. It can't be done, and America knows this.
11 Jul 15
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Originally posted by bill718Indeed. Then there are all those attempts to conquer Afghanistan...
There are a few grains of truth here. Missing from this post however is the fact that America has no plan whatsoever to "conquer" Russia. Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler all tried to do this, and failed. It can't be done, and America knows this.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
11 Jul 15
Originally posted by Shallow BlueWhat about the mass murdering war criminal GW Bush? Are you giving him a pass? Obama is killing people with air strikes on Iraq and Syria. Isn't he a mass murderer too? What about the Saudi kingdom? Yemen is not exactly blessed with peace right now. I could go on and on.
Duchess64, a notoriously hard-line Stalinofascist, publishes another rambling, lie-packed apology for that mass murdering war criminal and dictator, Vladimir Vissarionovich Putin.
What a Dutchess64 surprise...
11 Jul 15
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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.
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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.
12 Jul 15
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Originally posted by FishHead111Obviously the Russian.
Which country and political system would you rather live in ?
Personally I see little difference between what the US has today and what Russia had then and still has today. What's the difference between a one party system and a two part party system?