Remember how Putin came to power? And made himself very popular and beloved by the electorate? And deflected every threat to his power? And got the people to love and support him in the midst of all sorts of failures?
He has one primitive yet infallible trick called “radical Islamic terrorism.” Whenever there is a chance he won’t get what he wants, he stages a convenient act of terror, blames it on Scary Muslims, and presents himself as the country’s savior from said Scary Muslims.
First, he used this strategy to get everything he wanted domestically. These days, he doesn’t want anything else domestically because he has all he needs. Today, he wants something internationally. He wants the sanctions to be lifted and for the world to recognize that he has the right to do whatever he wants in FSU countries. (That’s for now. The moment he gets this concession, he’ll want more.)
So the Scary Muslims Stratagem is trotted out again. France made it known that it’s almost ready to lift the sanctions, so France gets hammered by terror attacks where citizens of Russia have an active role.
And then the US made it known it’s ready to remove the sanctions. . . The Scary Muslims (who are not really Muslims) operation has already been tried on US soil. Remember Tsarnaevs? The operation didn’t bring any immediate results because the US wasn’t ready to roll over and play dead just yet. But as a trial run, it went swimmingly.
For those who read in Russian, here is a great article on the subject.
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” France made it known that it’s almost ready to lift the sanctions, so France gets hammered by terror attacks where citizens of Russia have an active role. ”
What’s the logic here? Wouldn’t an attack by Russian citizens make a country want to maintain sanctions? Or does he not want sanctions lifted but rather…. sanctions to collapse?
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Collapse is a good word to describe this situation. The collapse of Europe is what the Kremlin ardently hopes to see. And you know how dumb the EU leaders are. It’s so easy to nudge them in a useful direction.
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“And you know how dumb the EU leaders are. It’s so easy to nudge them in a useful direction.”
The single most economical explanation for the actions of Merkel and other western EU leaders at present is that they want to dismantle the EU. Their actions make no sense at all in terms of logic, economics or humanitarianism.
Is Putin paying them or are their interests (as they perceive them) and his simply coinciding?
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Hollande is so dirty and so devoid of all principle that I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was some monetary interest involved. Merkel is unbribable, I believe, but what she actually is I still don’t fully comprehend. That link you left about her exhorting companies to hire refugees is what we call beyond good and evil. It’s like she’s mocking both the refugees and the companies. It’s the definition of trolling.
German companies have a huge labor shortage but the labor they need is extremely highly qualified, educated and specialized. Merkel has done all she can to ensure that these workers leave the country. And now she asks companies to substitute these workers with refugees. This can’t be for real.
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\the labor they need is extremely highly qualified, educated and specialized. Merkel has done all she can to ensure that these workers leave the country.
What has she done except inviting refugees?
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For instance, it is still very hard in Germany for professional women to be mothers and still continue their careers. One German government after another expresses concern about falling birth rates, yet nothing gets done to make it possible for women not to leave their jobs for 3 years. And these are precisely the kind of jobs that can’t be left for this long. I recommend the writings of French feminist Elisabeth Badinter on the subject. She explains how Germany stands out negatively in this respect among other European countries.
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And I just want to add that few things anger me more than the use of falling birth rates as a justification for policy by people who do everything to make childbirth next to inaccessible to women who have any sort of choice.
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Still, what has she done except “it is still very hard in Germany for professional women to be mothers and still continue their careers” ?
Why won’t “extremely highly qualified, educated and specialized” workers from FSU and EU come to Germany?
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this is pretty close to 9/11 truther shit.. you are bettter than this. anyway
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I know it hurts. But I believe in you. You can get over the disillusionment with your candidate. Hey, we all backed a bad candidate at one time or another. I used to be a supporter of the Ukrainian president Yuschenko.
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I have no doubt that 9/11 was an inside job, and I have no doubt that Clarissa is right on this. Why am I so convinced? Because both point of view are more credible intellectually and informed that the official version.
And hey, don’t forget that your candidate have said that Obama in the founder of ISIS.
(In fact, if you want to talk about Occidental influence in ISIS, let’s talk about Nicolas Sarkozy, another Putin admirer)
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I have no doubt that 9/11 was an inside job, and I have no doubt that Clarissa is right on this. Why am I so convinced? Because both point of view are more credible intellectually and informed that the official version.
And hey, don’t forget that your candidate have said that Obama in the founder of ISIS.
(In fact, if you want to talk about Occidental influence in ISIS, let’s talk about Nicolas Sarkozy, another Putin admirer) …
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Please, according to Guiliani, Bush wasn’t President when 9/11 happened, a notion only entertained by people like Ani DiFranco (TW:spoken word).
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I said that it was an inside, no that Bush did it.
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…not…
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I said that it was an inside job, not that Bush did it.
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I was responding to Matt…I don’t know that it was an “inside” job, but I do know Bush ignored multiple warnings from multiple intelligence agencies and that Cheney already wanted to go to war in Iraq and seized the opportunity to push Congress to authorize the AUMF.
That is known.
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The idea that 9/11 was an “inside job” — that the U.S. government was in on it — is ABSOLUTELY NUTS! That belief is unhinged paranoia approaching schizophrenia-level derangement. If you seriously believe that, get yourself committed to the nearest nuthouse immediately.
It’s as absurd as the old WWII claim that Roosevelt knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, and allowed it because he wanted to be a wartime president.
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This is a compliment to Americans, Dreidel. People refuse to believe that the US leadership could be as incredibly inept as to allow such a catastrophe.
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Well, for who Bin Laden worked just before the creation of Al-Qaeda? (Beware, here come the Soviets again!)
By inside job, I didn’t talk about politicians…
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I also think somebody was helping from the ground. Not from the White House or anything like that but I think it’s possible somebody was directing the flights.
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And of course, I could easily take my plane and fly so close to the Pentagon on 8-11 unnoticed! 😈
And also, It’s so easy to take hostages in 3 other planes when we knew that the first WTC tower was attack! 😈
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…attacked…
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I’m a Hanlon’s razor fan: so I don’t think Bush ignored those warnings as some part of a nefarious plan.
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Bush was simply dumb. But he looks like a genius next to Trump, so. . .
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Of course he was dumb, he had nothing to do with this.
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I have no idea what “really” happened on 9/11 and I won’t pretend I do. Still, a lot of the official story doesn’t pass the smell test unless you accept massive levels of complete incompetence and/or corruption throughout the US government (which I don’t exclude out of hand).
But…. whatever happened and whoever was behind it all the US government used it in an insanely cynical and immoral way to pursue irrational and morally bankrupt foreign policy goals that cannot be justified by any human system of ethics.
W was either a) afigurehead with no influence on US foreign policy,
b) the worst US president in living memory (and maybe ever),
c) evil at an almost Biiblical level.
There are no other choices.
That the Republicans have no repudiated his toxic policies and corrupt and failed aministration is one reason (not the only one but it’s up there) that we may be facing President Trump.
Republicans only have themselves to blame for the current state of their party.
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