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JustRalph
03-16-2014, 07:49 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-says-russia-could-turn-us-radioactive-212003397.html
Scary stuff........
Clocker
03-16-2014, 08:05 PM
Does this call for another red line? :confused:
lamboguy
03-16-2014, 08:06 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-says-russia-could-turn-us-radioactive-212003397.html
Scary stuff........boy you are amazing, you find just about everything, and that certainly is scary
fast4522
03-16-2014, 08:09 PM
They are just mouthing off, President Vladimir Putin and his whole country know that Clint Eastwood was correct. It is just talk because besides the duck effect, we have the empty chair duck. It means nothing as long as the leash is kept tight on Kerry. Mid term elections will cinch up the rest of our fears, and send Europe into a tumble. With his hands tied further he might even vacation more and coast out of office.
FantasticDan
03-16-2014, 08:22 PM
What is this guy, Russia's version of Hannity/Rush/Beck? :rolleyes: :bang:
Clocker
03-16-2014, 08:37 PM
What is this guy, Russia's version of Hannity/Rush/Beck? :rolleyes: :bang:
I think it's the Russian version of the Daily Show, poking fun at people that take themselves to seriously. Like Obama.
FantasticDan
03-16-2014, 08:42 PM
I think it's the Russian version of the Daily Show, poking fun at people that take themselves to seriously. Like Obama.Um, no. This "news anchor" has also recommended that Russia's anti-gay laws go even further. For eg, when a homosexual dies in an accident, their heart should be "buried or burned" so that it doesn't get used in a transplant.
Clocker
03-17-2014, 01:20 AM
Um, no. This "news anchor" has also recommended that Russia's anti-gay laws go even further. For eg, when a homosexual dies in an accident, their heart should be "buried or burned" so that it doesn't get used in a transplant.
Wow, he sounds as bat-shite crazy as Harry Reid ranting about the Koch brothers!
redshift1
03-17-2014, 01:58 AM
Alas Babylon !!!!
HUSKER55
03-17-2014, 05:53 AM
didn't Russia have a problem paying for fuel for its fighter jets a few years back?
Clocker
03-17-2014, 10:25 AM
didn't Russia have a problem paying for fuel for its fighter jets a few years back?
No longer a problem. Russia is a primary supplier of natural gas to Europe. Which is another reason the EU doesn't want to get involve with stopping Russia in Crimea.
therussmeister
03-17-2014, 11:22 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-says-russia-could-turn-us-radioactive-212003397.html
Scary stuff........
Is this news to you that Russia is the only country capable of turning The US to ash?
Would it be news to you to find out The US is the only country capable of turning Russia to ash? Would you also find that scary?
PhantomOnTour
03-17-2014, 12:07 PM
Is this news to you that Russia is the only country capable of turning The US to ash?
Would it be news to you to find out The US is the only country capable of turning Russia to ash? Would you also find that scary?
Thank you, Russ - I was wondering what the big news is here.
Guess what, China can probably level the USA also...annnnnnnd???
I wonder if the Turks sit around wringing their hands because the USA or China or Russia could launch 5,000 nuclear warheads into Istanbul and kill everyone.
Oh my !!!!
PhantomOnTour
03-17-2014, 12:09 PM
Wow, he sounds as bat-shite crazy as Harry Reid ranting about the Koch brothers!
Which is just a fraction of the bat-shit-craziness of the Righties around here ranting about Obama....day in, day out, year in, year out....ad nauseum, ad infinitum...waaaah waaaah waaaah
BlueShoe
03-17-2014, 12:40 PM
As an unapologetic Hawk, have always insisted that the Cold War did not end in 1991 with the dissolvement of the Soviet Union, but that it continued on unabated, with only a few names changed. Recent events seem to have validated this opinion.
Putin is a hard line Communist and former KGB thug. Putin, along with millions of older Russians, grew up fearing and hating the West, the USA in particular. Many of them long for the old glory of the USSR, and wish to restore it.
PhantomOnTour
03-17-2014, 12:41 PM
Truth hurts, don't it?
You will have to answer your own question, Tom.
I've always known the Cons on this board are crybabies...when you realize that for yourself than you tell me if it hurts or not.
johnhannibalsmith
03-17-2014, 12:54 PM
...their heart should be "buried or burned" so that it doesn't get used in a transplant.
The solution is to do heart surgery to avoid a transplant?
JustRalph
03-17-2014, 01:38 PM
It's not that the guy is pointing out a fact everyone already knows, it's that he said it on State Run Television in the middle of a pissing match with a weak American President who they are making fun of everyday.
Christ! That makes a difference......
Who do you think approves everything said on the network?
If you don't get that, shame on you
FantasticDan
03-17-2014, 01:49 PM
It's not that the guy is pointing out a fact everyone already knows, it's that he said it on State Run Television in the middle of a pissing match with a weak American President who they are making fun of everyday.
Christ! That makes a difference......It does?
I wonder, when rough and tough so-not-a-pussy Reagan was Prez, do you think State Run TV ever said anything the least bit aggressive about the USSR in regard to the US? Or were they just so intimidated that they dared not?
Christ! Gimme a break. :rolleyes: :bang:
You will have to answer your own question, Tom.
I've always known the Cons on this board are crybabies...when you realize that for yourself than you tell me if it hurts or not.
Instead of calling people crybabies, why not address the serious problems we have painstakingly laid out as to why we oppose Obama and the democrats?
I think we have some serious concerns that you guys across the aisle seem willing to ignore.
thaskalos
03-17-2014, 03:09 PM
We can't control the bullshit that our OWN television commentators spew in our own country...and we should lose sleep over what foreign TV commentators say about us to their own countrymen?
Television throughout the world has become nothing but a war for ratings...and controversy is the surest way to win this war. TV commentators will tell the public exactly what this public wants to hear.
The Russians were scarred to death of Reagan.
That is not the same thing as finding the POTUS a joke.
PaceAdvantage
03-17-2014, 07:40 PM
It does?
I wonder, when rough and tough so-not-a-pussy Reagan was Prez, do you think State Run TV ever said anything the least bit aggressive about the USSR in regard to the US? Or were they just so intimidated that they dared not?
Christ! Gimme a break. :rolleyes: :bang:You're right. The world is moving ahead quite nicely since Obama has been at he helm.
In fact, we're all better off now than at any point in our history.
All hail dear leader.
mostpost
03-17-2014, 07:42 PM
The Russians were scarred to death of Reagan.
That is not the same thing as finding the POTUS a joke.
At first I was going to disagree with your statement that the Russians were scared to death of Reagan. But you are probably right. The question is what does that mean? How will they react in the face of that fear? The answer is not in the manner you might think.
Anyone faced with a powerful enemy reacts by trying to become as powerful as that enemy. That is what the Soviet Union did in the early Reagan years. Brezhnev, Andropov and Cherenko were old line communists. They would not have hesitated to plunge the Soviet Union into a depression in order to match Reagan's arms escalation. They did not hesitate to do so.
Fortunately for Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev attained power in 1985. Gorbachev was a communist, but he was a Russian first. He was also a pragmatist. He saw that the communist system was failing. He realized that the Soviet Union could not be sustained; nor could the satellite empire in Eastern Europe.
Give credit to Reagan. He was willing to compromise with Gorbachev on a number of issues including disarmament. He stopped the deployment of medium range missiles to Europe; he agreed to the mutual destruction of a number of weapons systems.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, the independence of the Eastern Bloc nations; none of this would have been possible had Gorbachev not been in power. The hard line communists like Brezhnev would have done anything to maintain the communist hold on the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc, even to the point of destroying their own country.
PaceAdvantage
03-17-2014, 07:50 PM
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, the independence of the Eastern Bloc nations; none of this would have been possible had Gorbachev not been in power. The hard line communists like Brezhnev would have done anything to maintain the communist hold on the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc, even to the point of destroying their own country.That's one way of looking at history. The mostpost, liberal, anti-Reagan way of looking at it...
But I must admit that the above, coming from you, even surprised me. It shouldn't have...but it did.
boxcar
03-17-2014, 07:56 PM
Um, no. This "news anchor" has also recommended that Russia's anti-gay laws go even further. For eg, when a homosexual dies in an accident, their heart should be "buried or burned" so that it doesn't get used in a transplant.
Now, that's heart-breaking news. :rolleyes:
Boxcar
boxcar
03-17-2014, 08:02 PM
We can't control the bullshit that our OWN television commentators spew in our own country...and we should lose sleep over what foreign TV commentators say about us to their own countrymen?
Television throughout the world has become nothing but a war for ratings...and controversy is the surest way to win this war. TV commentators will tell the public exactly what this public wants to hear. (emphasis mine)
And just who do you think should control our "OWN television commentators"? The government? Is that what you want: Government-controlled news?
Boxcar
horses4courses
03-17-2014, 08:47 PM
That's one way of looking at history. The mostpost, liberal, anti-Reagan way of looking at it...
But I must admit that the above, coming from you, even surprised me. It shouldn't have...but it did.
So....what is your version of the "facts"?
The rest of the world was afraid of Reagan.
They felt he was crazy enough to do something stupid.
Luckily, we got out pretty much unscathed.
Grenada doesn't really count....... :rolleyes:
The rest of the world was afraid of Reagan.
They felt he was crazy enough to do something stupid.
Luckily, we got out pretty much unscathed.
Yes, they did,
But he wasn't.
No luck involved - he played it right, combining the threat of power with the offer of compassion.
Talk to the people of the Eastern Block about scathed.
horses4courses
03-17-2014, 11:03 PM
Yes, they did,
But he wasn't.
No luck involved - he played it right, combining the threat of power with the offer of compassion.
Talk to the people of the Eastern Block about scathed.
You're telling me Reagan brought down the Eastern Block?
That's too funny...... :lol:
Tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev
and it all just fell into place......
Greyfox
03-17-2014, 11:46 PM
You're telling me Reagan brought down the Eastern Block?
That's too funny...... :lol:
and it all just fell into place......
Both you horses4courses and Tom are right, to a point.
The fact is $$$$$$$ were beneath the tearing down of the Berlin wall, along with the dissolvement of the Soviet Socialist Empire.
horses4courses
03-18-2014, 12:04 AM
Reagan watched the inevitable happen, getting all the credit from conservatives.
Decaying, inefficient, systems that couldn't survive much longer.
Mostpost is right.
Brezhnev, and the old regime, would have tried to keep those sewer pits going.
Gorbachev, and his wife, had an appreciation for the West - and it's benefits.
fast4522
03-18-2014, 07:04 AM
Ronald Reagan had an effect this any liberal will agree, all knew what would make the hair on the back of Reagan's neck stand up and most would not go there. Today what is going on in Crimea and President Vladimir Putin have George Soros and the Bilderburg group becoming crybabies, Europe may tumble out of control and cost them huge revenues. There is always something an administration can benefit our country. For me it would be that Europe burns and the Bilderburg group gets smoked, hail the chief.
PaceAdvantage
03-18-2014, 09:36 AM
So....what is your version of the "facts"?
The rest of the world was afraid of Reagan.
They felt he was crazy enough to do something stupid.
Luckily, we got out pretty much unscathed.
Grenada doesn't really count....... :rolleyes:My version doesn't automatically look to give as much credit as I can to Gorbachev, while simultaneously looking to minimize as much as possible Reagan's contribution to the historic changes that occurred during this time period.
BlueShoe
03-18-2014, 11:53 AM
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, the independence of the Eastern Bloc nations; none of this would have been possible had Gorbachev not been in power.
Yes it would have happened eventually, perhaps not for many years, but it would have happened. But most surely it would not have happened when it did had Reagan not been in power.
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