ChicagoExpat

No, all who are Kremlin stooges are Kremlin stooges. Sorry that makes you uncomfortable, Bob!

Who could it be.... hmmmm... Except Russia keeps attacking its neighbors. You forgot that part.

there is no one in the world except a Kremlin stooge that would seriously consider that an Article-5 invoking "attack on a NATO member." It was an attack on a Russian-owned an operated pipeline. NATO has been expanding eastward and northward SOLELY because countries are afraid of Russia. Period. You don't seek protection when there's no threat. And those Eastern European countries were only Russian colonies because they were forced to be.

If we're talking about the guy with the blue lion avatar, I'd say it's poorly polished Kremlin disinfo and that his employer ain't getting his ruble's worth out of this guy.

I just refuted your other post, chucklehead. I destroyed it. Killing cockroaches is neither fun nor challenging after a while of doing it.

China is emptying Russia of its natural resources, all while telling Putin to keep looking West, that's where the real threat is. When I was in Russian language school some years ago, part of the training of course was reading articles from Russia. In the teens, before they were all killed, sent to Gulag, or got in line, Russian journalists used to report on this, even 10 years ago. Of course they can't anymore. Yes, Vladimir, it's the West that is the real threat, not the power- and resource-hungry Borg state that is right on your border... with whom you've had actual shooting wars in the past.

This is all so dishonest I'm not even going to bother refuting it.

You drink long and deep at the well of Kremlin agitprop. It may well have been that Ukraine destroyed the pipeline. But it's "not an attack on a NATO member." Not in the least. It's a pipeline owned primarily by a hostile power with investment from several Western European companies willing to do business with today's version of late 1930s Germany. So your initial assertion is hilariously wrong. You even think like a Russian. Russia has no actual friends, just frenemies it depends on while simultaneously being taken advantage of (China, Iran) and FSU states it dictates to, It's hard for you to imagine that the West has alliances formed out of both common interest AND friendly ties, without coercion. The idea that Germany, of all countries -- one of the strongest economies in the world -- just does what it is told is as ignorant and baseless as your Zakharova talking point that Ukraine attacked Germany. You obviously don't know any Germans. If ANYONE has compelled Western nations to look more to the U.S. for leadership, it's Putin himself. One of the most wonderfully ironic results of his war is that he expanded NATO, succeeding where NATO couldn't. Well done, Vova! It's absolutely incredible you shill for this guy.

While Russia frequently makes nuclear threats, and no one who pays attention should have any doubt that they will do virtually anything to advance what Putin wants, I don't think even Putin would truly use nukes, especially on a neighbor. Incredible for me to say it... but I think that's a bridge too far even for him.

Is that the B-52s? The chick with the beehive hairdo... Edit -- ha yes I see it is, hilarious 🙂

That's simply not true. Israelites had their roots in Mesopotamia.

Right, the usual agitprop steeped into the Russian soul -- we're always in danger of being invaded at all times! Obey your leaders! There is much I like about Russian culture, but they are the most paranoid, xenophobic people on earth. They truly believe this nonsense, and people like Putin are only too glad to exploit that and stoke it.

They'll be killed/humiliated/imprisoned/sent purposely to die. Even you know this, Bob.

MEDVEDEV?!!? That guy is a clown and universally regarded as such, especially by Russians. He will NOT be able to hold Putin's blood and soil kleptocracy together. This is part of the problem of a dictatorship, especially one that 1) has been in power for a long time and 2) kills any other competent person with leadership abilities -- there is usually no clear successor, someone with the charisma/absolute ruthlessness/a degree of ability the original autocrat had. In fact, such systems totally depend on ensuring there is no one else. The Stalin/Hitler dilemma. And it's true here as well.

Except Ukraine isn't trying to reach the gas lines in order to maintain a further offensive into Russia. So, dumb and totally inappropriate analogy.

Actually, if the theory that the "MIC" really runs everything were true, they'd be giving them as much as they good, no?

Changing my post. But yes he supports Hamas.

Why would they? And truly, you haven't kept up to date with ANYTHING -- not only details but the very broad strokes of history and policy. "Zionists" -- >>DRINK<<

They were polytheists, yes, but the Greek gods were adorable teddy bears compared to the Canaanite gods, who routinely required child sacrifice.

Quoting the definition above just undermined your previous arguments! And I've never defended the devastation of Gaza; in fact I've never mentioned it to you. This is not your day, WD. Maybe get to work on that 10th book instead of wading into arguments on subjects you know nothing about.

Again, just like the socialism rag you promote, you're steeped in Leftist ideology but are totally unacquainted with reality and what words mean. You don't understand what "Zionism" ACTUALLY means; you take it to mean acquisition of "Greater Israel", which it does not. There ARE people who support the latter and they are a small minority of Israelis. WD, when you find yourself defending events like October 7, you really ought to take a long, hard look at the state of your soul.

Well, we need to be precise, don't we? If we're talking about the WB and Gaza (which as everyone knows, the latter is fully Palestinian) we and most others agree; if you're calling for the destruction of the Jewish people, that's something else altogether and it's the usual Sieg Heils dressed up in a keffiyeh. And again, if you're going to appeal to any history prior to the1940s, the Jews get the land (including ALL of the WB and Gaza, much of Jordan, etc) as the existing people with the oldest historical link to it, NOT the Arab invaders.

And we don't even know who is actually "indigenous." The idea that the tribes that existed when Europeans came to North America were the same ones in the same places since time immemorial is pretty hilarious. The Lefty thing (primarily in academic circles in North America, but big in Australia too and maybe elsewhere) of beginning a meeting or presentation by first paying tribute to the "indigenous inhabitants" of the land is comedy gold, not only for the meaningless pandering and virtue signaling, but for how just plain factually wrong it is. I have been to not one but two events here in Bangkok with the Australian ambassador (an otherwise lovely lady) who began her comments by paying tribute to Australian aborigines (!) though she's not actually in Australia.

No, the Canaanites are NOT the ancestors of today's Palestinians. The Midianites/Ishmaelites are their ancestors. There were no Arabs in any numbers in the Levant (or North Africa, or anywhere else) until the Jihad swept out of the Peninsula, post-Muhammad. Read a book. The amount of ignorance you're spewing is astonishing. Your support for socialism is cute in an "aw, look at what he believes, someday he'll grow up" way; your support of Hamas and Palestinian genocidal fantasies is disturbing.

But Russia's got lots of men, and recruits from Nepal, India, West Africa, etc, so even when it doesn't end well, they'll still have guys to maintain their war.