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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:27 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:05 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:03 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:00 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:36 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 7:53 pm MDLF76 -- were you this much of a Russia hawk before Trump ?
(1) Were you at all uneasy about the future when the USSR flew apart into a gaggle of new ersatz nations, with no history of independent governance & no democratic tradition or institutions ?
(2) Were you in favor NATO expansion to the borders of Russia ?
(3) Do you support NATO membership for Ukraine & Georgia ?
(4) Did you support Obama's attempts at reset with Russia ?

The Kurds are not our only allies with a stake in Syria.
The Turks have legit issues with the Kurds.
The Kurds are equally responsible for the armed impasse with Turkey.
The Kurds had ample opportunity to reach an accommodation with Turkey,
We did our best to facilitate that accommodation. Some issues are irreconcilable.
The best we can do is try to prevent genocide & restrain ethnic cleansing.
Don't make the perfect the enemy of making the best of a bad situation.
Why are you always supporting Russia?

It’s really odd and repugnant.

DocBarrister :?
Stockholm Syndrome from all that time at sea during the Cold War....or too many viewings of Hunt For Red October.
How'd you guys feel about the reset button ?
Was Rudy Giuliani running point with Lev and his boys on that?
Do you guys think NATO membership should be extended to Ukraine, if they clean up their corruption ?
I wouldn’t have a problem with it. You think Trump and Rudy should withhold $40MM in aid and pressure the Ukraine President to read a prepared statement to implicate Hunter and Joe Biden in a corruption scandal with no evidence?
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The aid was not withheld.

Greetings from our Kurdish allies in Syria.
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/ ... 2226955265
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:48 pm The aid was not withheld.

Greetings from our Kurdish allies in Syria.
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/ ... 2226955265
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:31 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:27 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:05 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:03 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:00 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:36 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 7:53 pm MDLF76 -- were you this much of a Russia hawk before Trump ?
(1) Were you at all uneasy about the future when the USSR flew apart into a gaggle of new ersatz nations, with no history of independent governance & no democratic tradition or institutions ?
(2) Were you in favor NATO expansion to the borders of Russia ?
(3) Do you support NATO membership for Ukraine & Georgia ?
(4) Did you support Obama's attempts at reset with Russia ?

The Kurds are not our only allies with a stake in Syria.
The Turks have legit issues with the Kurds.
The Kurds are equally responsible for the armed impasse with Turkey.
The Kurds had ample opportunity to reach an accommodation with Turkey,
We did our best to facilitate that accommodation. Some issues are irreconcilable.
The best we can do is try to prevent genocide & restrain ethnic cleansing.
Don't make the perfect the enemy of making the best of a bad situation.
Why are you always supporting Russia?

It’s really odd and repugnant.

DocBarrister :?
Stockholm Syndrome from all that time at sea during the Cold War....or too many viewings of Hunt For Red October.
How'd you guys feel about the reset button ?
Was Rudy Giuliani running point with Lev and his boys on that?
Do you guys think NATO membership should be extended to Ukraine, if they clean up their corruption ?
I wouldn’t have a problem with it. You think Trump and Rudy should withhold $40MM in aid and pressure the Ukraine President to read a prepared statement to implicate Hunter and Joe Biden in a corruption scandal with no evidence?
I wouldn’t have a problem with it either.

Besides, there is no major nation on Earth that is more corrupt, diseased, criminal, and repulsive than Putin’s Russia. The Russian “government” is no less than the world’s most powerful criminal cartel, run by a cadre of Russian oligarchs who are intent in sowing chaos in Western democracies and promoting the rise of authoritarian leaders (including Trump) all over the world. They rely on promoting the racist anti-immigrant “nationalism” that is gaining momentum all around in the world, exemplified by the bigotry and racism of Trump’s MAGAts. The Russian criminal cartel lends illicit support to its corrupt, moronic, and racist surrogates all over the world, including the Republican Party in the United States.

The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
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The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about -- it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
https://apnews.com/935a3b0c820c42bdb948dcdaa39d317e
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about -- it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
https://apnews.com/935a3b0c820c42bdb948dcdaa39d317e
But Burisma is?
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
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DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
Perhaps our self-admitted brain dead NATO allies could join us in doing something about this :
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... to-forces/
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:02 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about -- it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
https://apnews.com/935a3b0c820c42bdb948dcdaa39d317e
But Burisma is?
Yes, if they are buying influence with a key US policy maker.
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Surprising praise of Trump's restraint from a former critic :
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/tr ... sses-90516
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:28 pm Surprising praise of Trump's restraint from a former critic :
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/tr ... sses-90516
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DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
How much lethal military aid did Obama send to Ukraine ?
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:40 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
How much lethal military aid did Obama send to Ukraine ?
Typical ... tactical “warbrain“ thinking on a subject that demands thoughtful strategic analysis.

The Obama administration provided nearly a billion dollars in non-lethal military aid, including military trainers, and coupled that with sanctions that cost Russia tens of billions of dollars. The tactical decision to provide non-lethal aid served the Obama administration’s strategic goal of de-escalating the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine ... an approach that achieved some success.

Most importantly, Obama never tried to extort the Ukraine government as Trump clearly did.

DocBarrister :roll:
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:21 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
Perhaps our self-admitted brain dead NATO allies could join us in doing something about this :
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... to-forces/
Criticizing NATO allies (again) ... just what a Russian mole would do.

DocBarrister ;)
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DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:20 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:21 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
Perhaps our self-admitted brain dead NATO allies could join us in doing something about this :
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... to-forces/
Criticizing NATO allies (again) ... just what a Russian mole would do.

DocBarrister ;)
I'm welcoming our NATO allies to join us on the E front. We're all in for the Poles & the Balts.
NATO's largest & wealthiest EU member remains worfully unprepared.
Criticism of NATO laggards is still warranted.
Your sudden hawkishness against Russia smells of political opportunism.
Have you found your souvenir reset button yet ?
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old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:55 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:20 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:21 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
Perhaps our self-admitted brain dead NATO allies could join us in doing something about this :
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... to-forces/
Criticizing NATO allies (again) ... just what a Russian mole would do.

DocBarrister ;)
I'm welcoming our NATO allies to join us on the E front. We're all in for the Poles & the Balts.
NATO's largest & wealthiest EU member remains worfully unprepared.
Criticism of NATO laggards is still warranted.
Your sudden hawkishness against Russia smells of political opportunism.
Have you found your souvenir reset button yet ?
You do understand that there is something very wrong with someone’s perspective when they criticize Hillary Clinton and U.S. allies more than Vladimir Putin and his murderous regime?

In fact, it’s difficult to recall any criticism from you against Putin and his crime lords. You have never explained that. Never ....

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DocBarrister wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:32 am
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:55 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:20 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:21 pm
DocBarrister wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:09 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:54 pm
The fact that you focus on Ukrainian corruption while ignoring the filthy, immoral, and murderous detritus of Russia only reflects your truly distorted, delusional perspective on the world, Old Salt.

DocBarrister :?
How about, it's not our fight & none of our business.
Go play with your reset button.

On a related note, Macron declares NATO brain dead without US leadership :
It’s our fight if Russia interferes with our elections and invades a sovereign nation in Europe.

And Ukraine is definitely OUR BUSINESS ... that nation shares a border with no fewer than four NATO allies: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. That’s why no president should screw around with the military security of Ukraine in order to extort the Ukrainian government for their own political benefit.

All of the corrupt, reckless, and moronic things Donald Trump has done doesn’t seem to bother you. But you criticize Hillary Clinton’s good faith attempt at a diplomatic reset with Russia?!?

Your hypocrisy truly is astounding.

DocBarrister :roll:
Perhaps our self-admitted brain dead NATO allies could join us in doing something about this :
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... to-forces/
Criticizing NATO allies (again) ... just what a Russian mole would do.

DocBarrister ;)
I'm welcoming our NATO allies to join us on the E front. We're all in for the Poles & the Balts.
NATO's largest & wealthiest EU member remains worfully unprepared.
Criticism of NATO laggards is still warranted.
Your sudden hawkishness against Russia smells of political opportunism.
Have you found your souvenir reset button yet ?
You do understand that there is something very wrong with someone’s perspective when they criticize Hillary Clinton and U.S. allies more than Vladimir Putin and his murderous regime?

In fact, it’s difficult to recall any criticism from you against Putin and his crime lords. You have never explained that. Never ....

DocBarrister :?
Putin's malevolence is a given in every discussion. Selectively whining about it, only when you find it a politically advantageous talking point, then questioning the patriotism of anyone who doesn't join you, demonstrates how phoney you are. I don't recall you coming to Mitt's defense when Obama mocked him for naming Russia as our most dangerous adversary, or questioning Clinton's patriotism when she politically opportunistically offered Putin a reset button, emboldening him to move into Syria, Crimea & the Donbass.

I offer my opinions as to what motivates Putin & (more importantly) the Russian people & my ideas on how best to contain & deter Putin, while peacefully coexisting with Russia, until Putin passes from the scene, without alienating the Russian people to the point of permanent enmity.

The Cold War was a tremendous victory for the US, NATO & democracy. I don't want to see us fritter it away, for partisan political advantage.
Our slide backward toward Cold War levels of confrontation is alarming, dangerous & tremendously wasteful. Especially when our NATO allies are not willing to join us in our politically motivated escalation. Russia is not (yet) an existential threat to the US, but we're motivating them to become one with a foreign policy that is being used for domestic political score settling.
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:50 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:48 pm The aid was not withheld.

Greetings from our Kurdish allies in Syria.
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/ ... 2226955265
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Back to RT.
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MDlaxfan76 wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:25 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:50 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:48 pm The aid was not withheld.

Greetings from our Kurdish allies in Syria.
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/ ... 2226955265
Sad
Back to RT.
RT ??? Senator McCarthy -- that's a direct link to the twitter feed of the Commander of our SDF allies.
It doesn't get any more unfiltered than that.
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old salt wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:31 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:25 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:50 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:48 pm The aid was not withheld.

Greetings from our Kurdish allies in Syria.
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/ ... 2226955265
Sad
Back to RT.
RT ??? Senator McCarthy -- that's a direct link to the twitter feed of the Commander of our SDF allies.
It doesn't get any more unfiltered than that.
My reference wasn't to that tweet, just the train of posts you've made today...aligning with what we'd hear from RT.

I'm confident that you mean well.
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