cnocbui wrote: » Add Erdogan to complete the triumvirate of dictatorial ratbags who all love each other as much as they hate democracy and opposition.
Gatling wrote: » They started fleeing when Assad stated butchering his UNARMED population using the army because Syrians wanted democracy not autocratic rule , Fact
Elmer Blooker wrote: » NOT fact. I once posted a video of a protest in Daraa in 2011 at the beginning of the Syria conflict.
conditioned games wrote: » Best leader in the world by a country mile. Charismatic, highly intelligent, articulate, mentally strong and has formed ties with other countries to counteract the corrupt US dollar financial system.
Gatling wrote: » Then made up your own commentry which you translated or at least clamied to have heard on the video all unvaried
Elmer Blooker wrote: » Have a look at this map which shows where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. Russia is not one of them. You can see that many members of the British Commonwealth have anti LGBT legislation, a fact that is completely covered up by the media and of course not a word from hypocritical Canada, Australia and Britain! Actually I meet people all the time who believe the anti Russia fodder thats fed to the masses and are ABSOLUTELY convinced that homosexuality is illegal in Russia.https://76crimes.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/76-countries-for-76crimes-8-2016.jpg?w=610&h=268 No refugees left Syria until the country was invaded by foreign jihadist mercenaries. I won't ask for a source for the bombings, that would be the bloke who lives in the English midlands.
Jimmy Garlic wrote: » It wasn't a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency from the very start where western backed terrorists were funneled into Syria.
Jimmy Garlic wrote: » I remember the day when the Patriarch Kirill blessed Vladimir Vladimirovich. I am not really religious but there was something amazingly powerful about it. Along with Vladimir Vladimirovich the Patriarch Kirill is one of the wisest men in Russia.
Gatling wrote: » BS and you absolutely know it , I'm honestly actually surprised this thread is allowed to stay one just to increase one posters post count while clearly trolling
server down wrote: » Nothing you say is particularly Irish related. .
XsApollo wrote: » Gatling I’d say has an American flag over his bed and a picture of an F-22 on his ceiling so he can sleep tight.
server down wrote: » Do you only have harsh words for anti-Western dictators? The kingdom of Saud is a dictatorship/kingdom. There’s far more liberty in Russia, Iran and Turkey - all have elections.
Gatling wrote: » F22 is so 1990s next
server down wrote: » Do people believe that Putin wouldn’t win a free election in Russia?
pitifulgod wrote: » Do you believe it's good to have a democracy where neither journalists or political opponents are safe?
XsApollo wrote: » These guys don’t have a bad word to say about anything western or US and anytime their double standards are brought up they say that’s not we are discussing here. Gatling I’d say has an American flag over his bed and a picture of an F-22 on his ceiling so he can sleep tight. If they could muster up the same passion they have against the Russians for the US you might be able to have a discussion with them. But no, it’s Putin all Putin.
Vapid hatred for its own sake, or more commonly as a means to appear trendy or to give the impression that one is in possession of some kind of sophisticated understanding of geopolitics (which tends not to be the case), is indeed a very bad thing. In politics, as in society generally, the options are not 'good' or 'bad' the options are 'least worst' and 'worst' - the kind of open ended contempt I frequently see for the USA tends to be from people who cannot accept that fundamental truth. Moreover they tend to be angry at the inability of the US and the wider world to overnight become a model of a perfect society that can do no wrong. Idealism might lead one to despise US policy but realism should take one back to at-least examining it cynically.
Irish Praetorian wrote: » Suspect that's directed at me at least partially so here's a post I made previously that might clarify things: That's my line basically, I've no US flag over my bed or F22 on my ceiling, but I'm reasonably convinced that of the options available to us, US hegemony is the least malign on option.
server down wrote: » No. That said the idea that the US has a free unbiased press is nonsense. A tiny minority of the US citizens know about US actions. These days you have to depend on the internet for real news.
server down wrote: » You haven’t been paying attention to the last decade or two. The best option is in fact multiple powers in equilibrium. Including Europe if it were independent of US hegemony.
XsApollo wrote: » You didn’t deny it anyway
