Rune (07-06-2020)
"...in a Warsaw speech that gently criticized Russia". Ronald Reagan is probably laughing from the grave.
"The president also had tough words for Russia on Thursday, though he did not fully endorse allegations, backed by U.S. intelligence agencies, that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election that he won.
Trump meets President Vladimir Putin for the first time face-to-face on Friday in Hamburg, the site of the G20 summit."
It was after the "face-to-face" where Putin did whatever he did to convince Trump to stop criticizing him. Thanks for the link!
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Rune is paraphrasing Edmund Burke.
"Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
–Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 82-83 (1770) in: Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 1, p. 146 (Liberty Fund ed. 1999)."
Burke supported the rights of American colonists and disagreed with the monarchy's treatment of British citizens in the Americas.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Rune (07-07-2020)
How many Democrats serve honorably in the military? Did you serve? In the US military, that is, not China's or anyone elses.
Speaking of which, have you ever condemned Putin? Can you condemn Putin? Are you able to post "Vladimir Putin drops to his knees to blow Trump'smicropenis"mushroom" dick??
....or are you like Tom, the Brit bath house cocksucker living in Thailand, who loooooves to bitch about American Lefties taking away freedoms but refuses to ever say a single bad word about either British Royalty or that lame piece of shit coward who is the King of Thailand? Are you a coward like Tom or just a liar?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Rune (07-06-2020)
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