Russia is about to win Cold War 2.0
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 4:19pm
Russia completed a major new gas pipeline this week.
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Where are all the good Russian socialists gone?
Submitted by mimi on Sat, 03/16/2019 - 7:55pmThere is a long history of high-profile Russians turning up dead or seriously ill in foreign countries.
Trump v Merkel
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 4:48pmRelations between Washington and Berlin have gotten cool in recent years, and yesterday Berlin had to assert it's independence from the U.S.
Washington prepares to sanction our closest allies
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/07/2019 - 1:41pmThe Washington political establishment appears to be ready to do something that can't be undone. Once you sanction your allies either they fold, or they stop being allies.
Once you let them define socialism as anything --
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 10:13amthen you'll be the "socialist" bogeyman for life.
Check out this piece from Thursday:
Why is there so much Russian fearmongering?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/12/2019 - 11:36pmThe U.S. prepared to apply more sanctions on Russia this week. After years of increasing sanctions, it might be difficult to find anything in Russia that hasn't already been sanctioned.
The important thing is that the sanctions are working, right?
Just how dastardly and evil is Russia?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 11:25pmAs Rachel Maddow would say, "Russia!Russia!Russia!"
Consider this recent WashPost headline: Russia secretly offered North Korea a nuclear power plant, officials say
Welcoming the New Year
Submitted by CB on Mon, 12/31/2018 - 8:32pmNew year's messages from Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel
So do you like sex? Russia!
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 12/24/2018 - 1:58amMaybe Bernie wasn't a Putin Puppet after all
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 12:16pmWe've all been told that anyone who didn't support Hillary in 2016 was a treasonous Putin Puppet, and that goes double for those sexist, racist Bernie supporters.
Yet deep, deep down in a new Senate report, it turns out that Russian trolls weren't all that fond of Bernie supporters after all.
France requests U.S. stop meddling, spreading fake news
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/10/2018 - 9:48pmFrance's democracy is under attack by the country that is universally considered the biggest threat to peace on this planet.
The French are concerned about Trump's interference.
Heads its Russia! Tails its Russia!
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 12/04/2018 - 8:39pmThe Deep State has gotten lazy and stupid.
I hadn't seen anyone cover this yet, but I may have missed it.
"Big Bad Russia" was so bad we stole all their B movies.
Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Sat, 12/01/2018 - 4:46pmLike Soviet rocketry, Russian sci fi movies were way ahead of anything Hollywood was putting out in the 50's. There were some very good movies that were quite well done and had better production values than found in the west.
Russian sci fi was about exploring our universe and about science and what was possible. Everytime that Hollywood stole a Russian sci fi movie, they turned it into monsters invading or threatening mankind.
How very fascist of us.
Those scary, scary Russians and their dastardly peace talks
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 11/20/2018 - 1:13pmThose darn Russians are aggressively threatening everyone.
Don't believe me? Just look at this Bloomberg article published today titled:
How NATO Is Preparing for the New Cold War
A huge military exercise in Norway signals the alliance’s pivot back to its original foe, Russia.
Trump's sanctions are backfiring
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 11/15/2018 - 5:46pmIn September Turkey decided to buy a Russian S-400 missile system in defiance of U.S. sanction threats.
The threats remain, but the sanctions never happened.
