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Russia Mulls Lithuania's 'Illegal' Independence From Moscow
Newsweek ^
| 6/9/2022
| Brendan Cole
Posted on 06/17/2022 8:49:40 PM PDT by rmlew
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To: rmlew
Maybe Lithuania should honor their 30 year agreement with Russia and not block Russian rail and road traffic to Kaliningrad.
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posted on
06/19/2022 9:21:09 AM PDT
by
jpsb
To: Poison Pill; BobL
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posted on
06/19/2022 9:28:13 AM PDT
by
jpsb
To: Paladin2
Do Lithowankers still worship Odin?
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posted on
06/19/2022 9:41:13 AM PDT
by
ganeemead
(There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
To: Mount Athos
Look, you have a handful of senile old coots repeating mindlessly slogans from the MSM and the Biden administration who know nothing and want to learn nothing. When you are incapable learning new things, you default to looking at the world the way it was when you were younger. For this contingent, they haven’t figured out that Russia is not the USSR of that Putin isn’t Stalin, Krushchev, Andropov, or Brezhnev. Worse, they don’t understand what has happened socially, culturally, institutionally, and politically in the US in the last 35 years or so. They think they are still living in Reagan’s “Morning in America”. It makes their lives simple and comfortable.
So, trying to treat them as “normal” is pointless. I’ve tried, for example, to explain the history of the Ukraine conflict, the damage Biden’s policies are doing to us and our erstwhile allies and how they have helped Russia, how we are foolishly benefitting China, how the media are lying about nearly everything relating to the conflict, what’s actually happening on the ground, how the Ukrainians are being used as pawns in a proxy war, and so on.
I think we should leave them to their Ensure and cable TV. They are invincibly ignorant.
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posted on
06/19/2022 4:58:16 PM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: Mariner
The first generation neocons were originally Trotskyites who became disillusioned with the USSR Marxism/Leninism beginning after Stalin had Trotsky murdered in Mexico City. The second generation consists mainly of messianic narcissists who want to remake the world in their “neoliberal” image. I’m amused that one prolific poster claims not to know what a “neocon” is.
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posted on
06/19/2022 5:16:57 PM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: achilles2000
Sometimes the people you write off are right about something
To: rmlew
Russia has its nutjobs as do we. This goes nowhere.
To: oldvirginian
'Illegal' Independence From Moscow, oldvirginian wrote:
So there are Nazi’s in Lithuania? That is the Russian buzzword, right? Who knew that 77 years after Adolf took a lead sleeping pill there would be Nazi’s all over Europe?
The Nazis co-opted nationalists in Soviet-occupied territories and some of these are lauded today in ex-Soviet Republics. They celebrate some in Lithuania and Ukraine. Of course, Putin and his apologists forget the Russian Liberation Army and other Russian Nazi collaborators. And then we have the neo-Nazis in the Wagner Group, the private army of the KGB.
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posted on
06/19/2022 7:10:38 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: NorseViking
The funniest thing is that Poland sent all her tanks in Europe for promise to get German and American replacements. Now, it is said that replacement isn’t free and won’t arrive until several years later:) I’d call it an easy picking.
No. Poland has sent 3/4 of its T-72MP tanks. They still have PT-91 Tawdy Tanks (Polish equivalent to T-90). They also have Leopard II Tanks. American tanks were already on order. And Poland is working wit South Korea on a Polish verison of the K2 Black Panther.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Polish_Land_Forces
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posted on
06/19/2022 7:29:44 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: BobL
AS if the John Birch Society weren’t livid about the shoot down of KAL 007
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posted on
06/19/2022 7:30:38 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: Big Brother Go to Hell
Because you hate the European Left, you side with the Bolshevik war on the European right.
And we need NATO to conquer the Russian-Chinese-Iranian axis. Grievance rots the mind and soul. Putin declared Ukraine an illegitimate country. He is combining revanchism, irridentism, and historical fantasy to justify invasion, annexation, and ethnic cleansing. We haven't seen this since Stalin and Hitler.
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posted on
06/19/2022 7:38:36 PM PDT
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rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: Mount Athos
Sometimes, but there has been a tendency by these people to fall in line with government/media psyops on other subjects - Covid for example. I’m not concerned at all about intelligent disagreement over what is happening in the Ukraine, but one of the posters I’ve been watching’s entire repetoire of argument was to tell other posters who had written thoughtfully or had provided useful facts to “Go back to Russia!”, ask “Are you Russian?”, or refer to the poster as a “Putinista” or traitor.
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posted on
06/19/2022 8:18:38 PM PDT
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achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: rmlew
So it all depends on whose Nazis they are I guess. As long as they take orders from the Kremlin they’re good to go. Kinda hypocritical of Vlad and his boys to want the only Nazis to be their Nazis. I imagine there are enough of Adolf’s disciples to go around.
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posted on
06/19/2022 10:33:43 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. The FBI is the second largest.)
To: rmlew
I won’t fall for the neocon notion that America needs Eurotrash “protection” from anybody. Those godless effetes and perverts can’t/won’t even protect themselves! They’ve been basking under the U.S. nuclear umbrella for 77 years.
Eurotrash countries spend up to half their GDP on “free” college, housing, health care, etc. instead of military forces. They mock and ridicule us for not doing the same, even as we’ve been spending trillions protecting them over the decades! That’s why “progressives” on both sides of the Atlantic threw poo flinging fits when Trump merely hinted that America might leave NATO.
To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Right on! I wouldn’t fight for the EU even if I were of military age, would dodge any conscription attempt, and would expect any children of mine to do the same.
Nobody can “make” America put “boots on the ground,” no matter what Russia does to the Eurotrash countries. Roll over in your grave, John McCain!
That’s why we need Candace Owens in office if/when that day comes. She would wad up the treaty that created NATO in the first place, throw it in the trash, and say something like, “I won’t send America’s sons and daughters to get crippled, maimed, and killed fighting for Sodom and Gomorrah!” Which is what western Europe, more than any other place on Earth, is...
To: achilles2000
You sound like John Kerry in 1971. Not to mention John Kerry in the late 80s... young skull full of mush.
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posted on
06/21/2022 3:59:35 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: piasa
I see you either have no comprehension of the situation or you are a partisan of Obama/Biden/Soros/ WEF foreign policy.
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posted on
06/21/2022 8:35:17 PM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: Big Brother Go to Hell
I won’t fall for the neocon notion that America needs Eurotrash “protection” from anybody. Those godless effetes and perverts can’t/won’t even protect themselves! They’ve been basking under the U.S. nuclear umbrella for 77 years. France and the UK have their own nuclear umbrellas including nuclear bombs , and ballistic missile submarines. You don't know basic facts. I'm sorry that you live in a fantasy world where everyone aside from ersatz isolationalists and KGB worshipers are neocons. Once you have read the
Conservatism FAQ by the traditionalist Jim Kalb and understand what neoconservatism and fusion conservatism are, we can talk like adults. Until then, I'm not wasting my time with a petulant sophomore who has no understanding of politics and history using terms he doesn't understand.
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posted on
06/22/2022 1:33:24 AM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: Big Brother Go to Hell
Do you get paid in BitCoin, Rubles, or Yuan?
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posted on
06/22/2022 1:35:44 AM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
To: rmlew
That would be like me asking you, “Does Boeing, General Dynamics, or Lockheed Martin pay you to beat the war drums?”
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