Would you favor NATO pulling out of the east?? All/some??
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
you can't just ask NATO or Russia to simply abandon front lines.
You can start a PROCESS of de-escalation is what I'm saying..all that gets worked out.
To do ANY OF THIS requires talks. There aren't even low level talks going on now.
Kerry had ceased meeting with Lavrov except for perfunctory updates on Syria.
Tillerson is supposed to go to Moscow in early April..he got all this Russiaphobia baggage he has to carry.
Hopefully they start some talks to normalization,but you can bet the Dems will scream about it.
You were around for Cold War 1,same as me. They held low level talks constantly to keep from escalations.
Low level talks lead to crafting treaty talks -which are then ironed out at the Summit level for the big flourish/signings.
That process worked..do it again.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
i don't think so. it's amazing what talks can accomplish. ..but check this out..our old friend James Clapper does get around!
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Putin tells Le Pen Russia has no plans to meddle in French election
peaking after their meeting, Le Pen said Putin represented “a sovereign nation” and “new vision”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-pen-in-moscow
“A new world has emerged in the past years. This is Vladimir Putin’s world, Donald Trump’s world in the United States, Mr [Narendra] Modi’s world in India,” she added.
“I think I am probably the one who shares with all these great nations a vision of cooperation and not one of subservience - a hawkish vision that has too often been expressed by the European Union.”
Russian support for Le Pen appears to have similar roots to the well-publicised backing of Donald Trump. There is both the pro-Moscow rhetoric of the candidate, and the broader goal of supporting a “chaos” candidate who would be likely to erode European unity on issues such as sanctions against Russia.
Le Pen has publicly backed the Russian annexation of Crimea and frequently expressed admiration for Putin.
A Russian hackers’ collective released emails that appeared to show Le Pen had received a loan from a Russian bank in 2014 in return for taking pro-Moscow positions in public.
Le Pen has denied those allegations, but makes no secret of the fact that the Front National has taken loans from foreign banks because French financial institutions refuse to fund the presidential campaign.
On Friday Le Pen said the subject of Russian financial backing for her party had not come up in her meeting with Putin. She did, however, reaffirm her position that if elected she would seek a swift removal of EU sanctions on Russia.
Earlier in the day she had called on Russia and France to work together to save the world from “globalisation and Islamic fundamentalism”, two of her campaign issues. “I’m a totally free woman,” she said. “I don’t want to be under the yoke of the US … I don’t want to be under the yoke of Russia.
Last year, Le Canard Enchaîné, the French satirical newspaper, reported that Mike Turner, a Republican on the US House of Representatives’ permanent select committee on intelligence, had urged American intelligence agencies to look into Le Pen’s Russia connections.“We are in a period where conspiracy theories appear to be very much in fashion. As soon as something goes wrong, it’s Russia’s fault. This makes me smile.”
James Clapper, the then director of national intelligence, wrote in a letter dated 28 November that the Front National “publicly acknowledged that it had received a $9.8m loan from a Russian bank with links to the Kremlin, allegedly brokered by a sanctioned Russian Duma deputy, according to French press reports”.
The Front National treasurer, Wallerand de Saint-Just, has insisted Le Pen’s visit is not a campaign fundraising exercise. His comments came as party members admitted they were still short of millions to run the campaign.
Opinion polls suggest Le Pen and the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron will go through from the first-round presidential vote on 23 April to the second round run-off on 7 May.
Putin also has a good relationship with the rightwing Les Républicains candidate François Fillon, who also looks favourably on Moscow.
Bill (03-25-2017)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
anatta (03-25-2017)
Kissinger: “demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.”
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Cold War 2.0 Russia hysteria is turning people’s brains into guacamole.
We’ve got to find a way to snap out of the propaganda trance
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Buddha: "trust the person who seeks truth and mistrust the person who claims he has found it "
1.2.3.4.5.6.7. All Good Children Go to Heaven
Cold War is detrimental to Russia whenever they allow themselves to get suckered into funding an arms race with the US. That's how we beat them last time.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
But Putin, the ex-KGB spook is savvy enough to know that there are many people in the West, like you, like Trump, et al. who will provide cover for him and provide excuses for him, thus tempering any Western responses as he seeks to re-constitute, in some form or other, the old Russian empire, the old Russian sphere of influence and domination
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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