Posted on 07/20/2014 1:10:29 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
And FDR let the Russians take a pounding at the hands of the Germans and without that strategy, the Russians would have gone deep into W Europe after the war.
Don’t bash the Bieb.
Ohhh wait until that son of a chef sees that one —
He doesn’t need to personally order you dead. He just lets his fanboys take care of that at their own time and pleasure. That’s the big analysis I have come too. You can criticize Putin all you want, but don’t expect the dogs in his home to be hospitable, or expect him to have the dogs on leashes.
That’s the sad time of day when your enemy has more discipline within his own house than you do.
.....And right now with America being very weak it will only get worse the next two and a half years.
Putin has nothing to fear, with wimpy Obummer in charge. In 1983, we had Reagan who went all out against the Soviets and bankrupted them by beefing up our military and creating anti-missile defenses. Now we have Obummer who does the opposite, tearing apart our military while funding the Russians space and missile technology. Different scenario now.
You’re talking about a four-time elected president of Russia. Do some Russians dislike him? Sure they do, but his popularity is borderline diety with the Russian populace, and most of his dissent that gets recorded is the kinds of people we would view as nuts. With the Russians, Putin has a very good PR campaign. And what’s sad is that he actually runs the opposing team in a fairly orderly manner, while our nation is controlled by a college fraternity/sorority packed into one.
....Or that in two years time Americans will get the “wake up and smell the coffee” moment and vote in better and stronger leadership for thw WH.
Actually, Stalin signed a Pact with Hitler in 1939. Hitler stabbed him in the back in 1941, though they both invaded Poland in 1939. Stalin provided trainloads of war supplies to Hitler right up to days before Hitler invaded Russia in ‘41. Churchill and others warned Stalin, but Stalin didn’t believe them. Hitler did kill many people in Eastern Europe and Russia in a genocidal conquest. FDR, as soon as he could, aided Russia with all types of war equipment. Russia did go deep into Western Europe after the war; they were in Berlin, after all, Czech (remember 1968?)and Hungary (remember 1956). It was a communist ploy to call all of Central and Western Europe Eastern Europe without regard to geography or historic reality. This was done to make Soviet/Russian control over these nations seem all the more natural. But the nations held by the Soviets behind the Iron Curtain were mostly central European ones. Yet Marxist and commies called the captive nations Eastern Europe. Liberal Democrats did too. I see nothing crafty, prescient, or cunning in FDR’s policies. He was if anything the most naïve US President whoever dealt with the Soviets or “Uncle Joe” as he called the butcher Stalin. Roosevelt was very much like Obama in the sense that both of them believed their own charisma would make criminal tyrants swoon to them and bend their ideology.
In light of the recent Malaysia Airlines tragedies (one missing, one brought down by the Russians) I completed a project I began some time ago to remind us of an earlier Russian involved murder of hundreds of innocents. Will someone please remind obozo that it’s still a jungle out there!
(It’s a short 8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgCIrUeuh0&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
That's the Soviet propaganda version of WWII. The truth is D-Day was a massive operation that could not have been achieved any sooner than it was. We fought the Germans where we could as soon as we could, starting in North Africa and Italy. We also had to put massive resources into the Battle of the Atlantic, and the air offensive against Germany (not to mention Japan). And the reality is that almost exactly half of Germany's armed forces were deployed on the Western Front, from Greece to Norway, from late 1942 on. We also provided the Soviets with aid, especially 2.5 ton trucks. Without those trucks the huge Soviet offensives of 43-45 would not have been possible.
Word is, Putin will invade Ukraine if the final round of sanctions go through.
Since the West will not use military force including nuclear weapons, and Russia is willing to undergo that privation, who do people think will win ?
Putin knows that the bottom line is military force. Diplomacy is for weaklings. So until we ramp up and get serious with our military, he will get away with what he wants. First issues - Closing the Border and Missile Defense for America. Support Poland and Western Europe. And STOP Supporting Terrorists. It always bites you in the behind.
Putin/his successor's legacy is in a good position; especially due to the US military's/Administrative obsessiveness in promoting vaginas/pigment/contrarian ideologies rather than reason and time tested measures.
The same goes for who the electorate pick to represent them. The moderates today who currently are the best we can get, were the poison yesterday. We continue to pick destructive ideologues which does not help either.
Well, Museums are not churches, which was the original comment by someone else.
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