Is Germany cozying up to Russia?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:58 pm
I know that is this going to be a waste of time I would do better to encourage my grandchildren to learn Russian.
If you cowards are going to let your fear of Russian nukes control you we might as well start surrender negotiations with the Russian now. We are in this fix because Obama is a cowardly son of a bitch. Do you think it might be time for American and western volunteers to fight the Russians in Ukraine? Oh what a stupid question where would they come from ANTIFA. Do you really think a boycotted will work? How well did it work with CUBA?
And for the record I love Putin he is great man and I have always loved him ever since the day I was born. And my family has always loved him.
http://theweek.com/articles/544692/germ ... ing-russia
As everyone now knows, Russia is slowly invading and annexing parts of Ukraine, which could have very serious ramifications in terms of the West's credibility in protecting smaller states from the orbit of authoritarian tyrannies like Putin's Russia.
Now, Russia keeps pretending that the whole Ukraine fiasco is an internal affair started by rebels, and that Russia itself has no involvement. Ukraine and the U.S. have produced voluminous evidence to the contrary. No one believes Russia. (Heck, bald-faced, bravado-fueled lying is a great Communist tradition.) Except that maybe Germany believes Russia.
Last week, Germany became the only noteworthy country besides Russia to disagree with the U.S. government over the extent of Russia's involvement in Ukraine. More broadly, Germany has been striking a more dovish tone than the rest of the EU and the U.S. about Russia's involvement in Ukraine, even as Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on the EU to keep the sanctions pressure on Russia.
Overall, this is a big problem.
Given that Russia has nukes, one of the very few available options for containment is through economic sanctions. But for economic sanctions to work — and financial sanctions in particular — countries have to present a united front.
If you cowards are going to let your fear of Russian nukes control you we might as well start surrender negotiations with the Russian now. We are in this fix because Obama is a cowardly son of a bitch. Do you think it might be time for American and western volunteers to fight the Russians in Ukraine? Oh what a stupid question where would they come from ANTIFA. Do you really think a boycotted will work? How well did it work with CUBA?
And for the record I love Putin he is great man and I have always loved him ever since the day I was born. And my family has always loved him.
http://theweek.com/articles/544692/germ ... ing-russia
As everyone now knows, Russia is slowly invading and annexing parts of Ukraine, which could have very serious ramifications in terms of the West's credibility in protecting smaller states from the orbit of authoritarian tyrannies like Putin's Russia.
Now, Russia keeps pretending that the whole Ukraine fiasco is an internal affair started by rebels, and that Russia itself has no involvement. Ukraine and the U.S. have produced voluminous evidence to the contrary. No one believes Russia. (Heck, bald-faced, bravado-fueled lying is a great Communist tradition.) Except that maybe Germany believes Russia.
Last week, Germany became the only noteworthy country besides Russia to disagree with the U.S. government over the extent of Russia's involvement in Ukraine. More broadly, Germany has been striking a more dovish tone than the rest of the EU and the U.S. about Russia's involvement in Ukraine, even as Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on the EU to keep the sanctions pressure on Russia.
Overall, this is a big problem.
Given that Russia has nukes, one of the very few available options for containment is through economic sanctions. But for economic sanctions to work — and financial sanctions in particular — countries have to present a united front.
I'm curious why you think your grandchildren should learn Russian rather than Mandarin Chinese. China has 10 times the population, 10 times the available military manpower, 3 times the military budget, 3 times the active-duty military personnel, 8 times the GDP compared to Russia...and, probably most important, 18 times the population density. (Russia has only about 22 people per square mile—compared to 376 for China and 92 for the U.S.—so why would the Russians be the ones looking for more Lebensraum???)
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