Russia, in the meanwhile, is celebrating Europe’s mounting difficulties and is doing everything to make them even worse. Putin is funding most of the neo-Nazi parties of Europe as well as useful idiots like Corbyn. For Putin, there’s no difference between Farage and Corbyn, since both aim to weaken the EU and the NATO. And the weak EU and NATO automatically strengthen Putin.
Putin Funds Europe’s Dummies
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Unrelated, but what the fuck is she doing? Not Rubio, not Cruz, not Trump. But Hillary Fucking Clinton.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/266173-clinton-calls-for-new-sanctions-on-iran
“Hours after the U.S. dropped sanctions on Iran as part of the nuclear deal, Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton called for new sanctions on the nation for its ballistic missile program.”
I mean, I know why she’s doing it but it’s still disgusting.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-foundation-defends-acceptance-of-foreign-donations-1424302856
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Oh God. It’s like she’s trying to lose the nomination, seriously. The people she’s trying to please with this will never vote for her anyway, so what’s the point?
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Yeah, she may beat Sanders in the primaries but in the general election she still needs those Bernie voters to show up for her.
I’ve been so supportive of her campaign but this totally turned me off on her, and I bet I’m not the only one.
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This is simply dumb, if nothing else. What good is she to anybody if she loses the election? And this is a path to losing the election. People who are likely to respond positively to this all vote Republican.
So dumb.
Let’s see if it comes up in the debate tonight.
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She doesn’t think she’s going to lose? She’s trying to reinforce the perception of herself as the “centrist and sensible” candidate for people voting in the primary? How many times are people saying “I like Bernie but he’ll never be able to win the general election?” “Bombing people into oblivion” is the moderate Republican response now; she’s only calling for sanctions again.
She really likes being a hawk?
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Even if she is completely certain of getting the nomination, she will still need people to be energized and come out to the polls in the general election. Of course, everybody is likely to forget this by that time, but still, it’s a dangerous game.
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Iran is still a very dangerous enemy and Hillary is right in that she doesn’t forget that.
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NEVAR FORGAAYT!
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Enemy, schmenemy. The lifting of the sanctions on Iran is a huge blow against Putin. Who has real, not imaginary nuclear weapons. That he was threatening to use not two years ago.
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Is Putin the only reason you support the removal of sanctions against Iran?
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Putin is a big reason but I was always for the lifting of the sanctions. A hungry, enraged Iran is not contributing to the stability of the region.
I believe that there are many Iranians who would be interested in a more secular government and they just need to be given a chance to see that the rest of the world doesn’t reject them. I also believe that there is an opportunity to reintegrate Iran into the world and that the country will flourish if it loses its pariah status.
Yes, the ayatollahs are deranged. But there are many Iranis who will be willing to ditch the ayatollahs.
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The big question is whether strengthening the hard-line anti-American ayatollah regime (which is clearly what Obama is doing) will improve the chances for the average, basically pro-American Iranian citizens to achieve their dream of a secular, more democratic Iran.
Remember that it was Iranians who started the so-called “Arabian Spring” with street protests back in 2011, carrying banners appealing to Obama, and our President gave them NO support, not even kind words, at all.
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All of this is great news! I like Hillary better every day. 🙂
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If it comes down to Hillary vs Trump, will you be open to choosing Hillary?
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Honest answer: If it’s Trump vs. Hillary, I will NOT vote for Trump. I will leave the Presidential selection on the ballot unmarked, and vote Republican for the downstream candidates.
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“A hungry, enraged Iran is not contributing to the stability of the region.
I believe that there are many Iranians who would be interested in a more secular government”
My sample is, of course, friends who are graduate students, but in my experience Iranian students are the most ‘progressive’ among their middle-eastern compatriots. Especially the women. Strong, assertive, don’t take no shit from anybody. They remind me your descriptions of Russian women. Like I said, this could be a sample bias in that the kind of people I would choose as friends would be more likely to have these qualities.
Compared to fucking Saudi Arabia, our great ally, Iran is so far ahead on all counts it’s not even funny.
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“My sample is, of course, friends who are graduate students, but in my experience Iranian students are the most ‘progressive’ among their middle-eastern compatriots. Especially the women. Strong, assertive, don’t take no shit from anybody.”
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A very close friend of mine graduated and got a job as a professor at an east coast university. Her husband, also doing a phd here but not finished, would have had to stay behind for at least an year. He started to grumble about the distance. She flat out told him she was going, and if he expected her to stay back for him (by rejecting the job offer and do a post doc at our school), she would rather divorce him.
He now flies to the east coast twice a month to see her.
Forget muslim, I don’t see many women, even so-called feminists making this move.
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My (very) impressionistic idea is that the Iran sanctions are kind of like the Cuban embargo – very helpful to the regime while not being very good at achieving any particular US foreign policy goals besides making and keeping enemies in the region.
It’s also my understanding that Iran has had democratic training wheels for several decades and is probably ready for the real thing instead of simulacrum they have now.
I can’t think of a country with more wasted potential than Iran. If they could just dump the theocratic fossils running things they could really go places. Ending the sanctions I think would probably hasten that transformation.
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