Posted on 02/23/2015 5:19:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
War as a game? Check.
Foreign leaders as caricatures? Check.
Sightings of Russian invaders? Check that too.
Yup, welcome to the new Cold War.
The relationship between Russia and the West, fraught by any measure, this week devolved into something looking more like a ridiculous Cold War parody film from the 1960s than any sort of modern diplomatic arrangement.
Related: Why Putin May Be the Lesser of All Russian Evils
On one hand, there was Russian President Vladimir Putin, practically smirking at the news that his proxy fighters in Ukraine had driven government troops out of the contested city of Debaltseve.
To the soldiers who were injured and killed under rocket and artillery fire even while in full retreat – by weapons plainly provided by Russia – Putin offered the sort of consolation one might toss off to the loser of a football game: “It’s always tough to lose. But life is life; it just goes on. No need to dwell on it.”
On the other hand, there was the release, in Germany, of a documentary supposedly detailing Putin’s early years as a KGB agent in East Germany. Among the supposed revelations: Putin used to be a drunk, lazy, fat, wife-beating incompetent, who resorted to plastic surgery in order to create his current persona that highlights fitness and vigor.
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His mommy was a commie his daddy was a commie. His Peepah was a commie and peepah suggested that Frank Marshall Davis (Communist Party USA) be his mentor after pappy died
This **** aint rocket science.
The complacency makes me livid.
Bill Ayers said he was their GUY!
No complacency though to stick all their hands into government employment and the dole funded by taxpayers.
“When L.A. gets nuked,”
The only way that ISIS and AQ could accomplish their goals is to take the US off the table.
Really. The US is the only one with the military and money to mount an effort to stop them.
Weapons of mass destruction going off in 12 of our major cities would pretty much do the trick.
That is a lie they love to sell.
The movie “enemy at the gates” shows the fallacy of socialism.
You can never legislate away envy or jealousy.
God said they were sins.
The propaganda officer knows it and he sells it to the people.
Divide and conquer
Sin on sin in the name of humanity.
I gotta hit the rack but Lord! we are dumb all over and maybe a little ugly on the side...
It doesn’t matter - since we spend more on OUR military, he cannot defeat us. Get back with me when he (or China) matches our spending.
(the attitude of many FReepers, unfortunately)
Because no one knows actual history anymore.
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