Posted on 10/12/2015 2:45:32 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
What is “ our territory” in Syria?
Has the UN or the US Congress authorized us to claim and defend parts of Syria? Has Assad been charged tried and convicted by a World Court? Whose government is it, anyway?
Christie is such a rank dummass it is embarrassing
Are all the expatriate Russian Welfare Cheats living in New Jersey fans of Christie? If so, they aren’t anymore.
Hope his comments are circulated far and wide. We do NOT need his kind in office.
Idiot
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Muslim 70.2%, Christian 26.2% (Russian Orthodox 23.9%, other Christian 2.3%), Buddhist 0.1%, other 0.2%, atheist 2.8%, unspecified 0.5% (2009 Census)
Muslim 75%, Russian Orthodox 20%, other 5%
Sunni Muslim 85%, Shia Muslim 5%, other 10% (2003 est.)
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Armenian Apostolic 92.6%, Evangelical 1%, other 2.4%, none 1.1%, unspecified 2.9% (2011 est.)
I’m no naive peacenik. But what is it with these politicians ? Trying so desperately it seems to conger up implausible or even absurd scenarios to provoke full- scale war with Russia - and for what?
Interesting.
Years ago I ran across the trails used to smuggle drugs. The relationship between Afghanistan and Russia was all evolved around the drugs. Grown in Afghanistan, manufactured in Russia. One article said it second only to oil in Soviet economy
The need of Croatia to distribute the drugs to Europe was pointed out even then :otherwise the trail was almost tripled. Saved material to the old computer that crashed and haven’t looked into it since.
BUT its always in the back of mind when dealing with anything Russian
Message to Governor Christie:
This is the big leagues with major league consequences for being wrong; you’re not telling people in South Jersey to ‘get the hell off the beach’ because a hurricane is coming.
I had him figured for another fool. Confirmed.
Agg to the list of certain dolts running.
Snarly
Been
Murko
Chrispy cream
Let him go. Stuff his fat ass in an airplane.
Obama is sending our Navy to cruise through the sea territory that China is claiming. I think he wants to get our people killed and lose ships.
The sugar in all those donuts have clogged his cranial arteries..
Christie needs to stick to holding up contractors and riding around Jersey in his limo.
Tony Soprano diplomacy.
A few more pounds?
Syria has donuts? Who knew?
And after WWIII and the Ruskies nuke New Jersey...?
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Too late.
Yes, the problems caused by drug smuggling are horrible. The problem for soldiers and governments are a little different from the problems caused to civilians back home, and here’s how.
Soldiers and governments (including both ours and Russia’s) generally do not want to profit from the drug trade or to use drugs to cause misery to their enemies. The problem for soldiers is that of weighing the importance of public affairs (getting along with those in a local, foreign populace) against the horrors caused by illegal drugs.
More specifically, a local populace involved in a drug trade might work against an antagonistic influence (against “our” enemy in their own country, whether “we” are the Russians or the Americans). So to disrupt their drug trade would be to cut off a potential ally in a war and to make another enemy of them. Such locals are often not very rich or literate and tend to see their trade as being benign and as being their only livelihood.
Accusations are fabricated in conspiracy stories against soldiers and governments by civilians (most often by fascists). It’s a difficult problem to solve.
As for the main national and cultural differences between the U.S.A. and Russia, the U.S.A. tries to influence other nations to suit U.S. interests. Russia generally does the same. But each does so under different conditions and with different methods to choose different kinds of allies.
At the end of the 1990s, I was honored to chat in person with each of a couple of former Russian commanders here, in America. I was only enlisted and not an officer, by the way. But as with most who’ve served, we only discussed funny personal situations of the past with no mentions of anything having to do with tactical defense. We laughed.
There was mutual admiration and relaxed comfort. In each case, onlooking Russians who had not served appeared to be angry about our friendly interactions. Some civilians just don’t understand. Why? For one, some of the information that they received has been different from what we of prior service learned. Also, we’d had very little freedom and only the choice of following orders while on duty. During those chats, we were here and free with no one having the authority to monitor or control what we said.
Being a buffet slayer does not make one a warrior.
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