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It's not a TDS issue.  One can challenge a premise without having to divide sides.

The bottom line here is that if we can expect higher oil prices if our intent is to keep both Russian and Iranian oil off the world market.  But if we are to do that, then we need to ensure that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and safe, and encourage other oil producers like Iraq and Saudi Arabia to increase exports.  Trump has fallen short on that last part, which is what has generated some of the criticism.

No, it really was a clear example of TDS in action.... extreme loss of mental/reasoning function.   Thank you.

As for your point. The Straight of Hormuz is a war zone. Properly so taking down Iran after 47 years of war.  Iraq and Saudis cannot  move more oil while that is in action. I would say Trump has done well in what has moved. In bringing on Venezuela oil . A buck a gallon.. Trump has done exceedingly well indeed.

The criticism is based solely on opposition to Trump and the politics of MAGA /Conservatives as a whole. I.E.. Democraps/Marxist and the .. quite frankly, never-Trumper idiots .. both factions with extreme TDS to the point of actual mental incompetency.

As for Russian oil, why should we keep it off the market. We should be allies with Russia... not drive them into alliance with the CCP. We have far more interest and common ground with Russia than we do the E.U. and Brussels.

We defeated the Soviet Union , only to see the Marxist take over Western Europe.  Our real enemy is in Brussels and Bejing... not Moscow. we sould ally with the Rus and ionce again free Europe... they from the East.. us from the West.

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No, it really was a clear example of TDS in action.... extreme loss of mental/reasoning function.   Thank you.

Yeah, "Trump Deification Syndrome," i.e. "Kissing the Golden Arse," and you're eat up with it.
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That's rich coming from a moron like you.

 

Wow, I don't think I can sleep tonight.

 For what you think of me to bother me.. I actually have to have some respect for you.  I have none, just like with Rosie/Cheney/Diniro.  You, are even less than them in my estimation.

Seek treatment... :getwell:
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As for Russian oil, why should we keep it off the market. We should be allies with Russia...

Allied with people who do this?










F*ck Russia.

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Allied with people who do this?


F*ck Russia.

Have you seen pictures of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima?

War is hell,  and we started that war in Ukraine. Also, at most that is a civil war if we do not use Ukraine as a proxy for Brussels and their Marxist left expansion.  It would already be over with very few casualties, hell it would not even have started if not for obama and the regressive left Marxist in Brussels.. the One world Odor scum.

We caused that destruction in your photos.

Distance from Moscow to Kiev.....  469 miles
Distance from Brussels to Kiev.... 1346 miles
Distance from DC to Kiev.............4891 miles

Why the hell are we f'king with Russia in their very backyard. Kiev was the original founding city of the Rus.

 Our strategic interest lie with Russia.. not Brussels. Both in resources, people and opposition to Marxism.
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War is hell,  and we started that war in Ukraine.

A damned lie.

Russia's Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598

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Russian national Igor Strelkov, a former commander of pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, has claimed personal responsibility for unleashing the conflict in which 4,300 people have been killed since April.

"I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war," Strelkov said in an interview published Thursday with Russia's Zavtra newspaper, which espouses imperialist views.

"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa," Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning "Shooter" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.

"There would have been several dozen killed, burned, detained. And that would have been the end of it. But the flywheel of the war, which is continuing to this day, was spun by our unit. We mixed up all the cards on the table," he said.

So I guess you're A-OK with Russian atrocities like this?



Or THIS?



Or THIS?



Or THIS?



It does not surprise me that you're just another Putinista, no better than those at TOS.
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Have you seen pictures of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima?

Yes.  The primary difference between those cities and the ones in the photos above is that your listed cities belonged to the aggressors - the original invaders.


War is hell,  and we started that war in Ukraine.

Uh, no.  Russia started that war.


Also, at most that is a civil war if we do not use Ukraine as a proxy for Brussels and their Marxist left expansion.

Again, no.  Nothing civil about it.  Russia started the war.  They invaded a sovereign country.  They are the sole aggressor here.


It would already be over with very few casualties, hell it would not even have started if not for obama and the regressive left Marxist in Brussels.. the One world Odor scum.

It would already be over had Ukraine decided not to fight back.  The fact that they did has been a huge embarrassment for the Red Army.  And it's pretty damn pathetic to hear someone use such a lame excuse as that:  If Ukraine had just surrendered, then Russia wouldn't have had to kill so many Ukrainian civilians, not to mention send its own soldiers to their deaths invading a sovereign country.

Pathetic.


We caused that destruction in your photos.

Nope.  Russia caused that destruction.  Russian bombs.  Russian missiles.  Russian artillery.  Russia alone did that.


Distance from Moscow to Kiev.....  469 miles
Distance from Brussels to Kiev.... 1346 miles
Distance from DC to Kiev.............4891 miles

Why the hell are we f'king with Russia in their very backyard.

Why the hell is Russia f'king with Ukraine inside Ukraine?  The war ends the second that Russia pulls its troops out of Ukraine - troops that have been there for 12 years.



Kiev was the original founding city of the Rus.

In that case, Russia belongs to Norway, since Norwegians founded Kyiv.


Our strategic interest lie with Russia.. not Brussels.

Our strategic interests have never lied with Russia.  Ever.  At any point in US history.  Russia has never been our friend.
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Not a single Belgian bomb fell on this city.  100% of the damage you see here was caused by Russian shelling.

Damn, I hate liars.
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“Ally with Russia”


And Ronald Reagan rolls in his grave

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Yeah, "Trump Deification Syndrome," i.e. "Kissing the Golden Arse," and you're eat up with it.

When the EverTrumpers came up with that (ignoring they already had it with BDS), I also countered with saMe name, type II.  TDS Type II.  Sycophants for Trump, as opposed to those who are reverse with endless hatred for Trump.
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And Ronald Reagan rolls in his grave

Of course Reagan defeated the communist/Marxist/Left in the defunct Soviet Union, only to have the communist/Marxist take over Western Europe and rule from Brussels.

Reagan was not a dunce. He would recognize the world has changed and that the E.U. is our communist enemy now.. Russia would be his ally... and ours.
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Damn, I hate liars.

Don't look in a mirror then, would be my suggestion.
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Getting us involved in a war of choice, and then suggesting that the American people sacrifice for it with higher prices, takes a special kind of arrogance, especially coming from a billionaire president was wealth has increased since taking the presidency


I thought those of us who are conservative were against putting further  financial burdens on the American people and  businesses? I guess I’m not in sync with this new conservatism that requires fealty  to a man….🤷‍♂️


Remember how mad the Fox News crowd got when Obama said that energy prices would have to  “necessarily skyrocket”  to pay for his cap and trade scheme
You are going to compare going to war to stop people who have been killing Americans for nearly 50 years and chanting "Death to America" from getting a deployable nuclear weapon with adding taxes to supposedly stop a climate crisis that humans quite arguably have not caused and is based on flawed model projections that have repeatedly failed in their predictions?

When we have to pay for nonsense, that is one thing.

Survival of millions of Americans is another.

Maybe the "FOX News crowd" (I haven't watched it or any network news in years) is just smart enough to tell the difference, while the rest don't know what a woman is.
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Reagan was not a dunce. He would recognize the world has changed and that the E.U. is our communist enemy now.. Russia would be his ally... and ours.

Again, there has never been a point in our history where Russia was our friend, much less our ally.  Their entire economic/political philosophy is diametrically opposed to the US, and their interference in US affairs proves it.  But hey, if you want to kiss the ass of the person that Obama and Hillary cut deals with, be my guest.  But don't sit here and tell lies about what Reagan would do.
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Again, there has never been a point in our history where Russia was our friend, much less our ally.  Their entire economic/political philosophy is diametrically opposed to the US, and their interference in US affairs proves it.  But hey, if you want to kiss the ass of the person that Obama and Hillary cut deals with, be my guest. 

Again , you are very very wrong, as usual.  We allied with them in WW ll

Cutting deals , you mean like Burisma and the Ukraine?  Reagan very much would be allied with today's Russia over todays Brussels. Understanding that is not kissing ass. It is embracing reality. Not living in the dead geopolitical past.

Fortunately, more and more Patriots here in America are coming to that realization.

I hope Trump gets to normalize relations with Russia. We could do great things together. Starting with freeing Europe from Marxist-Fascism again. Them from the east, us from the west. Ending the New World Odor for good.
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Our strategic interests have never lied with Russia.  Ever.  At any point in US history.  Russia has never been our friend.

Well, wrong again.. did you forget WW II?  We allied with Russia, sent them arms via Murmansk. Maybe you are going to claim that did not happen either.



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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943.

During the Conference, the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War II era. The most notable achievements of the Conference focused on the next phases of the war against the Axis powers in Europe and Asia. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin engaged in discussions concerning the terms under which the British and American"

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You are going to compare going to war to stop people who have been killing Americans for nearly 50 years and chanting "Death to America" from getting a deployable nuclear weapon with adding taxes to supposedly stop a climate crisis that humans quite arguably have not caused and is based on flawed model projections that have repeatedly failed in their predictions?

When we have to pay for nonsense, that is one thing.

Survival of millions of Americans is another.

Maybe the "FOX News crowd" (I haven't watched it or any network news in years) is just smart enough to tell the difference, while the rest don't know what a woman is.


Sigh :facepalm2: :facepalm2:


Donald Trump said that Iran was two weeks away from a nuclear bomb and using it against the US and Israel to justify his war


That assessment contradicted his own intelligence agencies. Did Trump ever say where he got that information before taking this country to war? 

Do any of you people ever venture outside your information bubble? Or is the go to reaction is to reject  anything that contradicts Donald Trump and attack anybody and anything that expresses  any kind of skepticism as having TDS,  whatever that means?


Donald Trump also said in 2018 that Barack Obama would launch strikes on Iran to try to boost his poll numbers

And he ran a campaign in 2024 with the promise to keep us out of new wars and warned that if Harris got elected, she would get us into another war in the Middle East and many on his staff specifically said 
Iran because, these are his words and not mine, she was “weak and incompetent”

Well, his poll  numbers were down when he launched his strike. And his war as further dragged down his poll number, so that was a miscalculation.

I will admit that if somebody told us in 2024 that Donald Trump will get us in a war in Iran, I wouldn’t have believed it

And if he told voters in 2024 that he would take us to war in the Middle East again if elected, he would’ve lost to Harris

Now we ended up with more Americans dead, loss of more blood and treasure, higher prices here at home, an emboldened Iran who now has learned they can control the world economy, and the left ready to take power as a result

Worth it? I don’t think so and a majority of Americans agree with me









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I wasn't aware that this was the "Trump Forum" since I don't see his name anywhere on that banner up top or on the home page.

There are a few that believe there should be a safe space for them were their belief systems  are validated and not challenged

I see all of this as a lost opportunity. Republicans held both chambers and the presidency and it’s been  squandered.

This war, and the way it’s being conducted,  is the final nail in their coffin
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Reagan was not a dunce. He would recognize the world has changed and that the E.U. is our communist enemy now.. Russia would be his ally... and ours.

Now that's 100% pure delusion!   *****rollingeyes*****

Russian TV hosts say Alaska belongs to them ahead of Trump-Putin summit

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Russian state television personalities have renewed claims that Alaska rightfully belongs to Russia as President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage on Friday.

During a recent broadcast of Russia-1’s “60 Minutes” program, propagandist Olga Skabeyeva referred to Alaska as “our Alaska” while discussing a joint Russian-Chinese military patrol that approached within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast, Newsweek reported.

The comment came after State Duma Deputy Adalbi Shkhagoshev mentioned “our aircraft approached the borders of Alaska,” prompting Skabeyeva to incorrectly claim he had said “our Alaska.”

Putin ally and TV host Vladimir Solovyov also last year called for Alaska’s return to Russia during a state media program, along with Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics and Moldova, saying they should all be “returned to the Russian Empire,” Newsweek reported.


Putin Ally Calls for Alaska’s Return to Russia

https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-solovyov-calls-alaskas-return-russia-2006979

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Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, recently called for Alaska's return to Russia during a recent Russian-state media program.

During the recent program, Solovyov said Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova, and Alaska should be "returned to the Russian Empire."

"Do you think I'm joking when I mention Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova? Everything returned to the Russian Empire. And Alaska too, while you're at it," Solovyov said in a translated video.

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Again , you are very very wrong, as usual.  We allied with them in WW ll

AFTER they allied with the Nazis but then got stabbed in the back.  Churchill knew exactly what they were.

Operation Unthinkable – Churchill’s plans to invade the Soviet Union

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/operation-unthinkable-churchills-plans-to-invade-the-soviet-union/

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Cutting deals , you mean like Burisma and the Ukraine?  Reagan very much would be allied with today's Russia over todays Brussels. Understanding that is not kissing ass. It is embracing reality. Not living in the dead geopolitical past.

Good grief, you are delusional!

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Fortunately, more and more Patriots here in America are coming to that realization.

Who?  Tucker Carlson?

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I hope Trump gets to normalize relations with Russia. We could do great things together. Starting with freeing Europe from Marxist-Fascism again. Them from the east, us from the west. Ending the New World Odor for good.

Just wow!  So you want to join forces with Putin and conquer Europe?  I'll bet you're a fan of Stalin and Mao too...
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AFTER they allied with the Nazis but then got stabbed in the back.  Churchill knew exactly what they were.

Operation Unthinkable – Churchill’s plans to invade the Soviet Union

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/operation-unthinkable-churchills-plans-to-invade-the-soviet-union/

Good grief, you are delusional!

Who?  Tucker Carlson?

Just wow!  So you want to join forces with Putin and conquer Europe?  I'll bet you're a fan of Stalin and Mao too...


Lol

And to think that that individual you’re responding to believes we are the ones with the mental health problems


He probably was not around when Reagan was president, but I can say with 100% certainty that Reagan would not be allied with Russia. Not then and not today.
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Our strategic interests have never lied with Russia.  Ever.  At any point in US history.  Russia has never been our friend.
Our strategic interests were damned well allied with Russia during WW2 to defeat the Nazis and Japan.

Who ever said Russia was our friend?  No more than Saudi Arabia is our friend but we have similar strategic interests with them.
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Our strategic interests were damned well allied with Russia during WW2 to defeat the Nazis and Japan.

Who ever said Russia was our friend?  No more than Saudi Arabia is our friend but we have similar strategic interests with them.

Prior to 1917 Russia was one of our greatest trading partners.
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Well, wrong again.. did you forget WW II?  We allied with Russia, sent them arms via Murmansk. Maybe you are going to claim that did not happen either.

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Who ever said Russia was our friend? 

Well, ol' Fantom just did.
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No.

I do not accept higher prices for another forever war in the Middle East.

Use the Defense Prodction Act to fast track energy projects and approvals.

If Biden could greenlight windfarms off Nantucket so quickly, Trump should be able to greenlight oil, gas, coal, electricity, and nuclear power projects.

The whole point of Energy Indepenedence is to free our economy from the tyranny of Middle East and OPEC petro-politics.

What part of America First has Trump forgotten?
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We fought against the commies who created the Soviet Union IIRC.

They had no idea who they were fighting...Bolsheviks, Whites, Czechs, or Japanese, if you read their memoirs and accounts.
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They had no idea who they were fighting...Bolsheviks, Whites, Czechs, or Japanese, if you read their memoirs and accounts.

Considering who their CIC was at the time I don't doubt that for one second despite his rhetoric.

And just in case you don't already know, it was people like Armand Hammer and Walter Durante who propped the Soviets up until they got their feet firmly planted.
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Well, ol' Fantom just did.

Well, that is a lie .. as usual from you. I said allies and strategic shared interest.    ****slapping

If you wish to engage with me, try telling the truth sometime.  Although, there is no reason we cannot be friendly with Russia. Two great peoples should be.
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Well, that is a lie .. as usual from you. I said allies and strategic shared interest.    ****slapping

If you wish to engage with me, try telling the truth sometime.  Although, there is no reason we cannot be friendly with Russia. Two great peoples should be.

Putin is a scumbag and a mass murderer? That good enough for you? I have no animosity towards the russian people, but i don't exactly feel sorry for them.

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Well, ol' Fantom just did.

An outright lie.

A person with integrity would admit it, too.
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Although, there is no reason we cannot be friendly with Russia. Two great peoples should be.

You're nuts.
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Putin is a scumbag and a mass murderer? That good enough for you? I have no animosity towards the russian people, but i don't exactly feel sorry for them.

I'm feeling the same, and could say the same regarding the Iranian People.
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If we had just let them eat the Tide pods, none of this would be happening right now

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Putin is a scumbag and a mass murderer? That good enough for you? I have no animosity towards the russian people, but i don't exactly feel sorry for them.

Same could be said of Hillary and many other. politicians/world leaders.. ours included.

That does not change the fact that we ally with other nation based on mutual shared interest, often of a strategic nature, not the perfection or perceived lack thereof, of any given leader. Not sure if Putin is a mass murderer, but Stalin certainly was, and we made alliance with him.

War casualties do not make a nations leader a mass murderer BTW. Russia's war in Ukraine is as justified as most wars, likely more justified in fact... including our involvement in such places as Viet Nam. We killed tens of thousands of civilians in Hanoi alone with indiscriminate carpet bombing.

Again, the war in Ukraine is not as clear cut a war of aggression as some here make it out to be. Russia has plenty of legitimate casus belli to engage in it.
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You're nuts.



You are living in 1980. The ideological paradigm of Soviet/Russia evil... Western Europe good,  has been turned on it's head.

1980 called, they want their cold war back.

I do not live in the past. I acknowledge that Russia is a far better ally... both Strategically, materially in resources,  and ideologically for us than is the Fascist-Marxist New World Odor in Brussels. The very New Worl Odor which backed Russia into a corner , set the conditions for no other option but war for Russia.

For a free world, I see no other logical alliance to oppose both the CCP and Brussels. Russia, while corrupt(like we are not?) is not an evil ideology opposed to free people. Hell, for all the evil bogeyman Putin is to you, He has brought religion(Christianity) and morality back to Russia.

Interestingly,  this shows just how deeply tied Kiev is to Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church

"The history of the ROC begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus', which commenced in 988 with the baptism of Vladimir the Great and his subjects by the clergy of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.[12][13] Starting in the 14th century, Moscow served as the primary residence of the Russian metropolitan.[14] The ROC declared autocephaly in 1448 when it elected its own metropolitan.[15] In 1589, the metropolitan was elevated to the position of patriarch with the consent of Constantinople.[16] In the mid-17th century, a series of reforms led to a schism in the Russian Church, as the Old Believers opposed the changes.[17]

The ROC currently claims exclusive jurisdiction over the Eastern Orthodox Christians, irrespective of their ethnic background,
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I had thought better of you Weird, it seems I was right. 
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I had thought better of you Weird, it seems I was wrong.  Goosestep with your bad-self... carry on.

I self censored.

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I self censored.

Cool, no harm done. We all lose it sometimes in the heat of the moment. We disagree, and both hold reasoned positions.   :patriot:
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You are living in 1980. The ideological paradigm of Soviet/Russia evil... Western Europe good,  has been turned on it's head.

1980 called, they want their cold war back.


Well you got it!









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I do not live in the past. I acknowledge that Russia is a far better ally...

When its not invading and destroying its neighbors and demanding the return of Alaska...



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both Strategically, materially in resources,  and ideologically for us than is the Fascist-Marxist New World Odor in Brussels.

Rigggght....



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The very New Worl Odor which backed Russia into a corner , set the conditions for no other option but war for Russia.

Now you're directly channeling Vladimir Putin...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qS6J-WbTD8

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For a free world, I see no other logical alliance to oppose both the CCP and Brussels. Russia, while corrupt(like we are not?) is not an evil ideology opposed to free people. Hell, for all the evil bogeyman Putin is to you, He has brought religion(Christianity) and morality back to Russia.

Except for all the people he's had killed to stay in power...but ya gotta break some eggs to make that omelet, right?

Nerve agents, poison and window falls: A list of Putin's critics that have been attacked or killed

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/nerve-agents-poison-and-window-falls-a-list-of-putins-critics-that-have-been-attacked-or-killed/4623578/

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Interestingly,  this shows just how deeply tied Kiev is to Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church

More Putin nonsense... 

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/how-putins-obsession-with-history-led-him-to-start-a-war-6732f619

https://theconversation.com/how-moscow-has-long-used-the-historic-kyivan-rus-state-to-justify-expansionism-178092


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uiN4sx3AHI
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Don't look in a mirror then, would be my suggestion.

Looking into a thousand mirrors won't change the FACT that Russia is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Looking into a thousand mirrors won't change the FACT that Russia is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Well, you have the New World Odor ..NeoCon dogma/propaganda down pat. I will give you that much.  tipping hat!!
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Well, wrong again.. did you forget WW II?

I think you are the one who forgot it.  Russia helped start WWII.  They invaded six countries before the US even entered the War.  And by the end of the war, they had taken control of Eastern Europe and launched the Cold War.  Ally?  Yeah, right.
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Well, you have the New World Odor ..NeoCon dogma/propaganda down pat. I will give you that much.  tipping hat!!

Don't know anything about that, but even Stevie Wonder can see that Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Don't know anything about that, but even Stevie Wonder can see that Russia invaded Ukraine.

Heh.. now that was funny!
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Ally?  Yeah, right.

Yeah right. Now you got it.  Even after all that .. we allied with them against a greater evil.

We should do so again, the greater evil exists in Brussels. And Putin/Russia are just defending their own people/backyard against Brussels/New World Odor expansion and active coup in Ukraine  of a pro-Russian , democratically elected government.

Hell, Putin and Russia have done nothing compared to Stalin. Mao.. Nixon went to China after all.
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