Posted on 05/19/2024 2:46:10 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
A Russian victory is an Iranian victory. Moscow and Tehran have formed a military bloc with the aim of defeating the United States and its allies in the Middle East, Europe, and around the world. Russian and Iranian military forces have been fighting alongside one another in Syria for nearly a decade.
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Ideologically, the Left with its army of anti-Christ Wokeducation warriors are a slow poison to any country, which most of the NATO countries are promoting. China is the benefactor of the current Russia and Iran vs. the US and Israel conflict as it provides them both business and intel, while impoverishing both Russia and the West.
But it is the immediate militarily threat which calls for the militarily force, while the God-fearing work combat the ideologically enemies in all realm.
As an active conservative evangelical then I yet have relatively more yet limited freedom to publicly act as such here in the US than in Russia, but which is more than in China, which is more than in Iran.
My strongest unity is with evangelicals in all countries, though attacked by both the left as well as certain unequivocal Putin devotees.
You're right! Russia is the perfect neighbor. Never did nuffin' to nobody.
Poor Russia, everybody is always so mean to her. Sniff
We should be isolationist and not care about the outside world burning.
What "interests" would those be?
Here were the key points, about the Slovak leadrer, I noticed in the article you supplied the link for:
“But in 2018, he [Fico] was forced to resign in disgrace after the assassination of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova led to countrywide protests against his governing Smer party and its perceived ties to corrupt oligarchs.”
“Fico threatened to cut state advertising to independent television networks and threatened their parent companies with ineligibility for state contracts – tactics that have gutted independent media in neighbouring Hungary.”
“On the day he was shot, parliament was scheduled to vote on a law restructuring state broadcaster RTS to give the government more direct control over it.”
Fico also got rid of a special prosecutors office that was looking into a ton of corruption cases.
What is similar about many eastern European countries and Russia is the economic dominance of oligarchs, which is a vestige of how political power moved quickly into personal financial power in all the former Soviet Soviet-alligned states with no dominant history of real capitalism and free markets. The oligarchs - all of them - begin with some vestiage of political or bureaucratic power-position and from it gain financial power for themselves, to the point where THAT - oligarch power - becomes power itself.
Russia is bereft of it as is Ukraine and many others.
Where did I say that it was?
And our lovely political “thinkers” started this war to begin with.
“I decided to try to find an article not strongly linked with either Europe or Russia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/assassination-attempt-opens-slovakias-wounds-some-linked-to-pm-fico
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Very informative article you posted, thank you very much.
Many Western countries seem to be utterly divided 50/50, (including America) these days.
This is a rather “new” phenomenon that started barely 10 years ago. But why? And how? Something surely happened in order to make this destructive phenomenon come about.
I think that West indeed has a number of flaws, but we could have tackled them if Russia and China had not been masters at “fanning the flames” on those issues - truly exacerbating it all. How did Russia and China managed to do that? Well... they used our very own tools : Social Media.
Social Media is slowly destroying parts of our Western societies by dividing us, making us distrust everything, or making us believe false things... It gives and IMMENSE power to those who want us ill. Social media is the perfect trojan horse giving our enemies a massive propaganda advantage against us.
Russia isn’t the perfect neighbor?
Formerly enslaved nations might be right to fear them?
This is the most idiotic thing I have read in a while. President Putin was forced by idiotic Neocon warmongers to find any port in a storm and the only ports he could find id Iran, China and Turkey. I hope you're proud of yourselves! This didn't need to happen.
Usa-France said:
Now is not the time to turn a blind eye on what the Iran-Hamas-Russia-North Korea military and political alliance is doing against American interests non-stop all over the planet, even in Africa...
wastedyears:
What “interests” would those be?
Usa-France:
Those “interests” are based on trade and doing business. It’s what made America an immense superpower, especially in the aftermath of WWII when the planet had to be rebuilt.
America without its allied countries (its customers) would not be functional. And (historically speaking) without France it most probably would not have been able to get its independence...
But it’s not only that. When it comes to America’s military presence around the planet, it’s what guarantees its security and preserving its true independence today.
It’s a way to resist the ever expanding GINSCA (Globo-Islamo-NeoSoviet-Commie-Alliance) which is everywhere and hates America.
So when you say:
“We should be isolationist and not care about the outside world burning.”
That would be a dream come true for the GINSCA giving them all the necessary leeway to massively expand themselves even further everywhere - spreading like cancer. Don’t believe one second that America would be spared from that expanding cancer!
The only thing our enemies yearn for is that America isolate and corner itself in its basement like a traumatized bullied teenager who has decided to not defend himself anymore - letting the bullies expand and remain untouchables.
America’s isolationism would be an act of extreme anti-nationalism... and it would be a pro-globalist act. Because it would give our historical enemies the leeway to expand without any limits - AGAINST America’s interests (I explained above).
You see... our enemies don’t suffer from your qualms and “bunkering down in your cellar” syndrome. Our enemies (especially Russia and China) are MASSIVELY anti-isolationists! They take over everything bit by bit. They feed on our masochistic “isolationism”. They see it as an extreme form of American weakness.
I’m not.
I didn’t say that they were.
Show me where I said they were.
So you don’t see the Iran / Russia pact?
Your sunglasses are extremely powerful!
Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/26/putin-forming-axis-of-terror-welcomes-hamas-iran-moscow/
“George Washington warned our young nation about “foreign entanglements” after he had unpleasant entanglements with the French!
Sorry, haven't read any of his books. I work from reality, and the reality of what is being allowed to take place is not for the betterment of this nation, in fact is is absolutely for the determent of this nation
So, hardly is my response to you.
I am talking about the invasion of this nation. Apparently you think the invasion of our borders are being done by those who truly are seeking a better life, so you equate the reality to some fiction you read. This only shows that you live in a fictional world devoid of the reality if you are going to point to a fictional book, even if it may portray some of what I am talking about. That would show that his fictional work is based off of what is really taking place in reality, and that you are unable to see that.
All one really needs to do is look at the statistics of who is actually coming into this nation. These are not people that want to join in, they are people who want to take from.
It's not even a point that one can debate when one dives deeper into the issue, as opposed to those who dip their toes in, as apparently you do.
While you are busy fearing Russia, it's apparently enough to distract you from the bigger fear you should be focused upon, and that is the threat coming from within. Keep it up, and you will learn the hard way. The U.S. is far easier to take from within than it is to do so externally. Because if the attack is coming from within, then those at control of the levers of power determine to either act or not act, and that makes all the difference in the world. When those internal controls are breached, it adds in the ability to allow hostiles to invade with impunity. Which is exactly what is happening right now on a 24X7 basis. The combatants are then able to determine where the critical infrastructure is located & position themselves to attack those critical infrastructures when they communicate back that they are ready for whenever the command is given to attack.
As I have stated many times, what is happening in Ukraine, is a distraction to get people like yourself to foolishly allocate resources towards that effort. For as those assets are allocated somewhere else, that is more the invaders do not need to be concerned about.
You think because you are book smart that this makes you a great thinker, but doing the one thing does not guarantee that intelligence naturally follows. I have met many like you throughout my long life, and quite frankly people like you fail to impress. Because you lack common sense and critical thinking skills.
Ivan Ilyin was correct in his thinking, and I agree with him, and that is what Reagan did to finally defeat them. But the force was a financial force applied, not a military force applied. Unfortunately though, by the time they fell, H. W. Bush had been defeated, and William Clinton was poised to take over.
But that still had zero bearing on Putin. Sure, the intentions were based upon good intentions in the beginning, but the power this nation had soon corrupted her internally as these leaders began to realize the greater wealth & power they could accumulate for themselves personally.
The saying that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, is not something that some clever person came up with. It came from smart people who saw the reality. Those in power seek to acquire absolute power, because that secures their power. That very power Ivan Ilyin was speaking of.
If you are incapable of seeing the direction this nation is taking, and that are leaders are no longer concerned about the well being of its citizens. Then that proves that you lack the ability to think critically, and thus are not as smart as you believe yourself to be, even though you are well read. Believe me, being well read is a good thing, but it must be taken to the next level, because reading only introduces one to an idea or concept. To go to that next level you must use that to assess what you see happening, and that seeing cannot be limited to a narrow view, especially if there is a real push to steer you to focus on that narrow view. It must instead be as wide a view as possible. If not then you miss what is happening beyond that narrowly focused view.
Wake up man, you are helping those who have control of the levers of power of the most powerful nation on earth, and their intentions are evil, and not well intentioned at all. It is with deep sadness & anger that I even have to accept this reality, but if you look around with a critical eye then it becomes obvious that what we are saying is the truth.
What you will also see is that we desire to put this nation back upon the righteous path that the creator through his working with the founding fathers of this nation envisioned for this nation to become as the example for the world, veered off course the moment we tossed out any mention of the creator and prevented it from being aired in the public square.
Do you doubt that Joe Biden is supporting the Ukraine? If Joe Biden is for it, I'm against it.
None of this is our problem. Ukraine and the eastern satellites are in Russia's orbit, not ours. A don't care what kind of propaganda you spew. We have no dog in this hunt. Or we shouldn't have.
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