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“We expect a massive toughening of the stance towards Russia,” a high-ranking western diplomat in Washington told the FT. “There is a hatred for Russia amongst [Biden’s team] that is really amazing. It’s not just rational; it’s also very emotional.”
@ArtyomLukin ^ | Nov 10 2020 | Financial Times, quoted by Artyom Lukin

Posted on 11/10/2020 7:32:42 PM PST by rintintin

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To: Mariner

They will claim they want to fight Communism but in fact they are Communists themselves.

Like calling Trump a fascist when the BLMAntifbi are the jackbooted thugs.


101 posted on 11/11/2020 10:22:14 AM PST by ScholarWarrior
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To: ScholarWarrior

They should reclaim their heritage and become Democrats again.


102 posted on 11/11/2020 10:40:11 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I’ll bash a communist Puntist dumbass all the day you’ve yet to address the questions at hand wanna know why?Because you know it’s all true Communist Russia is backing those Islamists satanist just as they are with the Democrats and other socialists as long as they are I’ll keep the truth exposed the shined on them.


103 posted on 11/11/2020 11:06:02 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Live Free or Die)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

“wanna know why?”

I and everyone watching already know why.

We want to see you keep typing.


104 posted on 11/11/2020 11:09:37 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Zhang Fei

“WWI was a matter of deciding whether we wanted to become a German state.”

One of us failed history. I graduated from every school I’ve attended with an A average.


105 posted on 11/11/2020 7:34:11 PM PST by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Rembrandt

[One of us failed history. I graduated from every school I’ve attended with an A average.]


I’m glad you did. The fact is many defensive wars are prophylactic. They are fought to prevent an aggressive enemy from acquiring insurmountable advantages in resources and population. If your adversary gets too powerful, it’s already too late to fight him. If Germany had taken over Russia, Britain and France, it would have been irresistible. I understand Barbara Tuchman has boiled it down to mobilization schedules.

IMHO, Germany (or at least its rulers) wanted to be uber alles. Not unique to Germany, and probably the goal of all rulers in some form or fashion since the beginning of time. Although in most cases, the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak. Without US intervention, Germany would have conquered France, the Low Countries and possibly Russia as well. In time, it would have overrun Britain. That’s why the Brits fought on the side of their ancient enemy, the French, to prevent that agglomeration of irresistible power across the English Channel.


106 posted on 11/11/2020 7:52:26 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Rembrandt

There’s another aspect of being involved in wars that’s not always fully appreciated. Often, victorious combatants rack up one victory after another, and are halted only by manpower and/or supply problems. The reason for this momentum is experience - new concepts and weapons are tested in battle, and flaws are ironed out.

Countries that hunker down and hang back, hoping to be the last man standing, generally lack this experience. That is why, in many cases, they end up overrun, if the aggressive power happens to prevail against its initial opponents. That was in part why it was essential that Uncle Sam get an oar in. Better to learn difficult and painful lessons on some foreign battlefield than on American soil from an invading army flush with manpower and resource gains from an empire triple the size. “Si vis pacem, para bellum” cannot fully be realized from training drills alone.


107 posted on 11/11/2020 9:22:14 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: rintintin

[Obama] CIA Chief Brennan hid intel saying Russia wanted Hillary win in 2016

May 13, 2020 - Ryan Morgan

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is working to declassify documents relating to the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and, according to Fox News’ Ed Henry, some of those declassified documents will actually show a Russian effort to benefit Hillary Clinton during the election, not Donald Trump.

Henry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that four or five new batches of intelligence are being declassified, one of which contains an assessment that Brennan sought to suppress, showing that Russia wanted Clinton to win. ..."

“Remember the U.S. intel community came out with that remarkable statement, an assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and most importantly the intel report claimed that Russia interfered because they wanted Donald Trump to win,” Henry said. “That of course followed the narrative of the now-discredited Steele Dossier.

Well, it turns out Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan also had intel saying ‘actually Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable..."

108 posted on 11/18/2020 8:40:53 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: rintintin

Steele’s Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020

In an effort to depict Donald Trump as if he were in an espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, the Obama administration used bogus information, from a man the FBI suspected was an actual Russian spy"

It turns out that Igor Danchenko, the man the FBI suspected of being an actual Russian spy, initially provided the bogus information about the American, Carter Page, through a former British spy, Christopher Steele.

Through a couple of cut-outs, Steele had been retained by the Clinton campaign to dig up — or, alas, to make up — Russian dirt on Trump. Through his private intelligence business in London, Steele was known to be working for Russian oligarchs, while Danchenko was on Steele’s payroll.

That is, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians."

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020

109 posted on 11/18/2020 8:40:53 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: rintintin

The “Trump-Russia collusion” story was of course a hoax, a COVER, to hide what THEY (the notoriously traitorous Democrats) were doing, as the only evidence for Russia collusion involves THEM!

1) Soon-to-be unclassified docs reportedly state (surprise-surprise) Russians actually wanted HILLARY to win, not Trump! Obama CIA chief Brennan hid the evidence!!

2) Top Putin aids (Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Trubnikov) provided disinformation (fake ‘dirt’) on Trump! (via RUSSIAN AGENT Igor Danchenko) for Clinton campaign/DNC paid-for Steele dossier!!

3) Burisma owner [Mykola Zlochevsky] was/is a RUSSIA ALLY! Joe Biden’s son worked for and brought in millions from Burisma. Joe is ON VIDEO BRAGGING about extorting the Ukrainians into firing the prosecutor who was investigating his son and the corrupt RUSSIA-ALLIED owner of the company.

4) Obama-Biden DENIED desperately requested military assistance to Ukraine
...during the Russia invasion of Crimea!!

5) For 8 years the Obama-Biden-Clinton admin immensely HELPED the Russians, via Obama’s promised and delivered “flexibility” on missile defense, the Russia-favoring New Start nuke treaty, the Putin-loving Iran deal (Iran and Syria are pawns of Russia in the oil/gas-rich Middle East), the Uranium-One deal, where Obama-Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of 20% of our uranium production!

6) They (Obama-Biden) deliberately slashed OUR military to pieces. Fortunately, Trump has since brought it back times 10.


110 posted on 11/18/2020 8:40:53 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: StoneWall Brigade
Re: (Marxist) “Black Lives Matter”, (Marxist) Venezuela and RUSSIA...

2015: Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

by Bill Gertz, February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14.

It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. ...”

111 posted on 11/18/2020 8:40:53 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

The Links Between Black Lives Matter and Nicolas Maduro Revealed

by PanAm Post Staff | June 23, 2020

Black Lives Matter purportedly exists to combat the alleged racism inherent in America’s police forces. ...”

Yet, at the PanAm Post we have found that while Black Lives Matter claim to oppose police abuse and racism around the world, the organization is simultaneously a great supporter of some of the world’s most brutal and repressive dictators. In particular, the founders of BLM have been staunch supporters and allies of the sanguinary Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro and of the Castro regime in Cuba.

In December 2015 Black Lives Matter sent a delegation, headed by the organization’s co-founder, Opal Tometi, to act as observers during the Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of that year. The Maduro regime did not allow accreditation for observers from the Organization of American States, the UN, or the EU. The only accredited observers where from regimes and organizations friendly to the “revolutionary cause.”

Later that same month Tometi penned an article where she espouses, word for word, the regime’s standard text for international propaganda. “In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world ,” wrote Tometi about one of the world’s most corrupt voting systems in history.

Earlier in 2015 Maduro was given an award at the “Afro-descendants Summit” held in Harlem. Maduro was invited at the behest of the Black Lives Matter leadership. ...”

112 posted on 11/18/2020 8:41:40 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: StoneWall Brigade
Sept 2015...

Ivan Pentchoukov on Twitter:
[Venezuelan President] Nicolás Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.

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2020...

Russia to boost Venezuela ties amid US pressure

February 8, 2020 - BBC

Russia has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.

Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro's government by force were unacceptable.

The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime. ..."

"Russia is a key ally of Venezuela, lending it billions of dollars and backing its oil industry and military."

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You can include in this alliance, communist China, communist North Korea, and Iran.

113 posted on 11/18/2020 8:41:40 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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Russia and China’s Growing Military Interaction; Surprised?

by Peter Zwack | September 9, 2018

The drums are already rolling for the upcoming Russian “Vostok” (east) wargames commencing on September 11. With its focal point in the Trans-Baikal region of eastern Siberia adjoining Chinese Manchuria and Mongolia, this is a nationwide Russian military and societal event.

Touted by Russian minister of defense Sergei Shoigu as “unprecedented in scale, both in terms of area of operations and numbers of military command structure, troops, and forces involved,” Russian state press is declaring that up to three hundred thousand troops and one thousand aircraft will be involved, with the majority from the Eastern and Central Military Districts.

This would be even larger than the near-legendary Zapad-81 maneuvers held in the western USSR during the depths of the Cold War. ...”

114 posted on 11/18/2020 8:41:40 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Thanks ETL, yes Venezuela’s most definitely is a communist proxy surrogate of Communist Russia and part of Russia’s expansionism into South America.
You can bet that they are arming up the Venezuelans with SAM’s, SRBM’S, MRBM’S, S-300 S-400 missile defence systems radar networks via by direct shippinment and by the Islamic fascist Republic of Iran.


115 posted on 11/18/2020 8:51:18 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Live Free or Die)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD
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"Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years.

These are primarily for outward consumption.

There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes.

Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep".

-- Mikhial Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to the Politburo in November of 1987.

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116 posted on 11/18/2020 9:18:59 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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