PUTIN RULES 67% LESS souls than the US, has 1/9 the US GDP--yet OWNS the POTUS

[Frank Apisa]

more stupidity,,Give it up Frank -"no collusion"

No stupidity on my part.

In any case, Putin does own Trump.

[dukkha]

all roads lead to Russian praise with you

did you say something- 'box of rocks?".

My way leads to detente' and peace, cooperation and respecting Russia as a world power.

You way led to Donbass, Cold War 2.0 and insane military spending on NATO and
"European Reassurance Initiative" spending
Your way is war.

[Frank Apisa]

You didn't answer anything Frank. I know why. Because to answer that honestly, it blows a massive hole through this hole lie filled narrative about Trump and the Russians.

You got your answer.

It bothers you...it triggers you.

I understand why.

[Truth Detector]

Julian Assange on email hacking: Russia is not our source

[dukkha]

No stupidity on my part.

In any case, Putin does own Trump.

repeating the same unsupported meme isn't going to help your case

[Truth Detector]

You got your answer.

It bothers you...it triggers you.

I understand why.

You didn't answer anything Frank. I understand why. Because to answer that honestly, it blows a massive hole through this hole lie filled narrative about Trump and the Russians.

[Frank Apisa]

repeating the same unsupported meme isn't going to help your case

There is no stupidity on my part...

...and I have not lied.

[Frank Apisa]

You didn't answer anything Frank. I understand why. Because to answer that honestly, it blows a massive hole through this hole lie filled narrative about Trump and the Russians.

I answered you.

Stop allowing it to upset you so.

[dukkha]

I’m ashamed of my country, I’m ashamed of my president, I’m ashamed of myself,” the Arizona Senator told McCainFace the Nation in early 2015 because of the Obama administration’s refusal to arm the staunchly pro-western, debatably crypto-fascist Poroshenko regime in Kyiv.
That was around the time that McCain met with a lifelong white nationalist and neofascist cult worshipper of Stepan Bandera’s memory in Washington DC, that is, Andriy Parubiy, Oleh Tyahnybok’s former partner and co-founder of Svoboda’s more explicitly Neo-Nazi predecessor, the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU). It is likely they met before, considering Parubiy was the Commandant of the Maidan Self Defense Forces, in which capacity he may have been guilty of crimes against humanity, particularly for his apparent role in the 2014 Kyiv (Feb 20) and Odessa (May 2) massacres, which put together were probably no less responsible for the civil war in Ukraine than Russia’s annexation of Crimea or any of Putin’s attempts to destabilize the country.
McCain and Parubiy met again in the summer of 2017, also in the US capital, by which time the latter was made Ukraine’s Speaker of Parliament, and the Nation reported that “John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been urging Ukrainian soldiers to break the Minsk cease-fire agreement.”
https://medium.com/@mossrobeson/john...y-89ffa249ef06

[Truth Detector]

I answered you.

Stop allowing it to upset you so.

Stop lying Frank. You didn't answer anything Frank. I understand why. Because to answer that honestly, it blows a massive hole through this hole lie filled narrative about Trump and the Russians.

[Truth Detector]

I’m ashamed of my country, I’m ashamed of my president, I’m ashamed of myself,” the Arizona Senator told McCainFace the Nation in early 2015 because of the Obama administration’s refusal to arm the staunchly pro-western, debatably crypto-fascist Poroshenko regime in Kyiv.
That was around the time that McCain met with a lifelong white nationalist and neofascist cult worshipper of Stepan Bandera’s memory in Washington DC, that is, Andriy Parubiy, Oleh Tyahnybok’s former partner and co-founder of Svoboda’s more explicitly Neo-Nazi predecessor, the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU). It is likely they met before, considering Parubiy was the Commandant of the Maidan Self Defense Forces, in which capacity he may have been guilty of crimes against humanity, particularly for his apparent role in the 2014 Kyiv (Feb 20) and Odessa (May 2) massacres, which put together were probably no less responsible for the civil war in Ukraine than Russia’s annexation of Crimea or any of Putin’s attempts to destabilize the country.
McCain and Parubiy met again in the summer of 2017, also in the US capital, by which time the latter was made Ukraine’s Speaker of Parliament, and the Nation reported that “John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been urging Ukrainian soldiers to break the Minsk cease-fire agreement.”
https://medium.com/@mossrobeson/john...y-89ffa249ef06

[Sailor]

Think about it people! A country with an ex KGB officer as it's head--permanently--who rules a country of 144,000,000 vs. 330,000,000 with the 2.7% of the WORLD'S GDP--1.8 TRILLION, 1/10 of US, yet OWNS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Explain it to me, I'm in stunning disbelief.

Nobody can explain mental illness to a mentally ill person.

[Truth Detector]

Nobody can explain mental illness to a mentally ill person.

So true!

[Superfreak]

how is it Putin is still at the top spot in Russia


their constitution doesn't provide for that


how is it hes still there?

because of people like you

[Cypress]

since you are incapable of reading..it's showing that Communism was an answer to the corrupt Czarist rule it replaced, and those leaders used it to industrialize Russia -all true.

The problem is Communism became hegemonic as well - nobody is defending Communism, but it was an important step in modernizing an agrarian Tsarist Russia
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which has nothing to do with our meddling in Ukriane's Euromaiden, that cause the annexation of Crimea
and later the war in Donbass. The USA did it -not Putin

Communism did not replace the Tsarist regime.

The communists overthrew a liberal/socialist provisional coalition government in a violent coup. The provisional government was what replaced the Tsar.

Then after the communists were soundly defeated by liberals and democratic socialists in the 1917 election to the constituent assembly, they dismissed the constituent assembly, rounded up and shot or imprisoned liberal and moderate socialist leaders, and practiced what they always intended to practice - totalitarianism.

Idiots Guide to the Russian Revolution
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...79#post3292779

Naturally, there were improvements over the Tsarist regime. Women's rights, literacy, and mass education vastly and rapidly improved after the Soviets took over. No question that they implemented rapid industrialization, which in the grand scheme opf things was to both their benefit and ours, seeing as it allowed them to defeat Nazi Germany. But there was an incalculable human cost to industrialization. Namely the Gulag, the use of slave labor, and the deaths and forced labor of millions of citizens, including great uncles of mine. So its fine to talk about the benefits the Soviets brought to the Russian Empire. I am sure it sounds good in theory, and printed as an opinion column. But Americans actually have no idea how many people died, were enslaved, and were dehumanized to achieve industrialization.

Don't you think you could say that any developing nation state could rapidly industrialize, if it made the choice to turn millions of it citizens into slaves to achieve that goal?