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The Vladimir Putin appreciation thread.
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According to who? Vice News, Snopes, Buzzfeed, WaPo, CNN?
None of the above ..
I don't play them games
Putin himself showed a video that supposedly shows russian forces fighting Isis in Syria in 2016 .
But the video he showed and claimed was russian was in fact a 2009 Apache gunship video taking on 15+ Taliban fighters in the dark
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If anybody wants to hear a clear and concise assessment of Geo politics from Russia's point of view as of 2016, here it is. This is from 2016 economic forum.
The Chinese authorities are facing similar developments as of early 2017.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/thaad-missile-defense-us-south-korea-china.amp.html
The popular narrative would be to class China and Russia as paranoid, are they though?0 -
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Bill Maher explains the Trump - Putin connections in detail:
Personally, the level of Paul Manafort's involvement was the biggest surprise: I knew he was part of it, I just didn't know how much. I don't think I'm the only one - hie name does not appear anywhere else in this thread. The Washington Post has more on that, here:... when I read the recent reports that President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had offered to brief Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska on the presidential election last year, I was alarmed.
Because to Russian intelligence in 2016, Manafort would have looked like the ideal spy. Someone like Deripaska is exactly how they would have gotten to him.
Deripaska, an aluminum magnate worth about $6.5 billion, is a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy. Putin demands fealty and pretty much whatever else he wants from people like Deripaska, who understand that if they don’t live up to their end of the bargain, they could end up like another famous former oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who displeased Putin and was sent to a tuberculosis-ridden prison for more than a dozen years. Although Deripaska has repeatedly denied any connection to Russian intelligence, these oligarchs understand that in addition to making money for themselves and Putin, they occasionally will be asked to be the Kremlin’s eyes and ears, and facilitators, if need be. Russia’s security services work closely with them; unlike in Western democracies, there’s no concept of a conflict of interest. Everyone has the same interests at heart: Putin’s.
Manafort would have understood all of this clearly, of course.From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
Fact putin himself claimed a US Apache gunship video from Afghanistan in 2009 was russian forces in Syria in 2016
You'd make a great journalist
Nah too busy to be journalist
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xze1DtXUQeU
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