When you start a thread with “there are too many on FR willing to believe Putin” you are inviting a dialogue along the lines of what we just had so, no, I didn’t hijack anything. And no, we do not trust Putin, we just trust Obama less. You know, Obama, the guy who said to Mitt Romney “the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”.
That is childish
Global threats and the eternal threat of Russia and it’s reemergence under Putin, is a topic that stands on it’s own, regardless of who is president.
So far you indicate no interest or knowledge in foreign affairs or history or military matters, and want to bring the thread into a discussion of the 2012 election, Mitt Romney and who is president.
We didn’t suspend discussions of Russia and the USSR during the Carter years.
The next thread may be about China and it’s blue water navy, and it’s building an attack military.
Your ignorance is revealed when you indicate that you think resistance can start years after the war is lost.
What’s the saying, “An incompetent within your own house is far more dangerous than ten competent enemies without.”