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The Russian Media Thinks a Race War Is Brewing in America
The New Republic ^ | August 15, 2014 | Josh Kovensky

Posted on 08/18/2014 12:50:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

he protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown are eliciting predictable glee from Russian media outlets, some of which are making it seem as if a race war is about to break out in America.

An RT article, “Protests Against Police Tyranny have Spread Across the Main Cities of the USA," suggested that the nation is on the brink of chaos as the "rage of Americans ... spreads across the entire country." Sputink i Pogrom, a nationalist newsmagazine, tweeted out, "What do you think? Should Russia grant Obama asylum in Rostov after the Ferguson Maidanites occupy Washington?" And Svobodnaya Pressa, a popular Russian news website, ran an article calling the Ferguson protests “AfroMaidan,” in reference to Euromaidan protests in Kiev, Ukraine, earlier this year.

In that Svobodnaya Pressa article, Sergei Bespalov, the docent of the humanities division of the Russian Academy of Agriculture and State Service, attributes the events in Ferguson in part to the “fact” that white Americans have “prejudice towards African-Americans … in their blood.” Bespalov predicts further unrest, adding that “if [Obamacare] is cancelled, this could … provoke racial conflicts,” and that “a significant part of African-Americans and Latinos could perceive [Obamacare’s cancellation] as a challenge from the white majority.”

It’s hardly surprising that the Russian media jumped on the opportunity to use the events in Ferguson as “proof” of American hypocrisy. But explicitly linking Ferguson to Maidan reveals the Kremlin's deep fear of dissent—the fear that any breakdown in authority will automatically lead to widespread chaos. Look at what happens, these articles imply, when you give the people too much power.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; obama; obamacare; putin; raceriots; racewar; russia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, has there ever been a 72% majority that has completely and willingly castrated itself? Committed collective suicide? It might be a first.
21 posted on 08/18/2014 1:00:22 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When has a 12% minority ever defeated a 72% majority in world history? I can think of no such example and I’m a pretty big history buff. Can anyone here show me such an occasion?

ISIS? Only 10 to 20,000 fighters taking over most of Iraq.

22 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: combat_boots

Not really. Mr. Obama has few black aides of any stature, save for Valerie Jarrett and General Eric Holder. This is a left-wing, almost entirely white, faculty lounge/press-room/union-hall/NGO/board-room led insurgency using Mr. Obama as a mascot, talisman and shield against calls to slow down, any arguments, impeachment and the like. Blacks didn’t bring us Obamacare, gays in the military, cash-for-clunkers, the stimulus, gay marriage and all the rest, leftist whites did.


23 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moses freeing the Jews from bondage?

Of course that victory is more properly chalked up to the original Army of One. Or rather The One, God.


24 posted on 08/18/2014 1:02:19 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

12%... you seriously think many hispanics, white leftists and others won’t be on THEIR side??


25 posted on 08/18/2014 1:02:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There will be no winners, only losers if we have a race war.


26 posted on 08/18/2014 1:02:44 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That was after what amounts to a civil war, religious war, insurgency and invasion, all rolled into one. Have we had any of those here since 1865?


27 posted on 08/18/2014 1:03:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Russian media is acutely perceptive. When it comes to reporting what is going on in the US, most foreign media, which have no compelling reason to support the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, are able to make a much more unbiased assessment of what is going on here.

The Current Occupant is actively engaged in CREATING racial tensions in the territory once known as “the United States of America”, partly through misreporting of actual incidents, and by shifting large numbers of persons who have illegally entered the US territory to widely scattered points all over the territory. The presence of these illegal entrants has the very direct effect of TAKING AWAY opportunities and many of the accumulated entitlements that the existing black underclass in the territory have come to depend upon, thereby exacerbating already heightened racial tensions.

Eric Holder has not been the best steward of the exercise of law enforcement at the Federal level, with a bias against prosecution of certain classes of criminal activity, while being almost brutal in suppression of certain other persons who are not actually in conflict with the law, but they “might” be “domestic terrorists”.


28 posted on 08/18/2014 1:03:42 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There will be a race war but it's a proxy for something else entirely.

29 posted on 08/18/2014 1:03:44 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I realize there were extenuating circumstances, LOL.


30 posted on 08/18/2014 1:05:45 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BitWielder1

The left, being the tools of Satan, are using the “black culture” as a proxy weapon against the (up to now) prevailing traditional Judeo-Christian, Western Culture.


31 posted on 08/18/2014 1:05:54 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama attended racial hate rallies at Jeremiah’s “church” for 20 years.

They taught that AIDS was invented by whites to kill blacks.

Does Obama have any surprises for us before he leaves office?


32 posted on 08/18/2014 1:07:43 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Balding_Eagle

the soviets have been instigating race war as well as the total socialist takeover of our states, for many years now...so of course they say this!


33 posted on 08/18/2014 1:08:14 PM PDT by felixandbowinkle (let irritations pass and become truly happy and strong..fhu.com!)
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To: GeronL

Okay, but do you think ALL Hispanics will stand with the blacks, ‘cause brother, that ain’t how it’s going down as we speak. But let’s say 1/3 of the Latino population, most Muslims and 1/3 of the white people stand with the blacks. What does that make the numbers look like? And how about the Asians, Indians, Native Americans and Jews? The African immigrants? And then add in weaponry and weapons knowledge, current service-members, policemen, veterans, outdoorsmen and preppers.


34 posted on 08/18/2014 1:08:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: combat_boots

Maybe we should do the feminist thing and burn our bras!


35 posted on 08/18/2014 1:09:08 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Russian media outlets, some of which are making it seem as if a race war is about to break out in America.”

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Are they wrong? It doesn’t seem like it from up here.


36 posted on 08/18/2014 1:10:17 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Thank you, Freepers. You all know who you are. You mean a lot to me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t leave out the fact that, if the gov’t is still under the control of President Jarrett, that it will also be siding against patriotic Americans.


37 posted on 08/18/2014 1:10:21 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Mount Athos

You mean besides pardoning EVERY black individual in prison, jail, probation or parole, which is within his purview?


38 posted on 08/18/2014 1:10:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: MrB

Until it doesn’t. I was taught early on in Army basic training that I was not to follow unlawful orders and that there was severe punishment for those who did. They still teach that?


39 posted on 08/18/2014 1:12:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: proud American in Canada

If they’re right you won’t escape the flames. You do know that, don’t you? Canada’s once large and proud military is not so much a joke as a farce.


40 posted on 08/18/2014 1:14:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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