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
Russia
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.
I guess Russian hackers aren't scary after all
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 11/12/2018 - 1:28pmRussian hackers are the greatest threat to our once great democracy. Or so we've been told. It's the primary reason behind the economic sanctions, our foreign policy, and Democratic konspiracy theories.
Since it is supposedly this important, and this hard to defend against, a collective, international effort is called for.
Maybe Europe doesn't fear Russia all that much
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 10/07/2018 - 12:45pmEurope, especially the Baltic states, are terrified of Russian aggression.
Or so we've been told.
Today Latvia had an election.
Hey, let's threaten Russia with a preemptive military strike
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/03/2018 - 1:04pmI don't know about you, but I think that threats of global nuclear annihilation are generally a bad idea.
U.S. threatens Russia with a naval blockade
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 3:13pmThis is crazy talk.
Crowdstrike cashes in
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 09/22/2018 - 1:33pmRemember Crowdstrike? It's the company that single-handedly thwarted Putin's hacker invasion, or something like that.
They've been on a winning streak.
Spinout - the latest close call in Syria
Submitted by arendt on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 11:06amTuesday's Russian/Syrian/Israeli/French fracas drove home to me how absolutely powerless I am in the face of events. Of course I know that I have no control over what various militaries do half a world away. But, this event emphasized that I have absolutely no idea what just happened (and therefore I have no ability to protest).
U.S. using Ukraine to threaten Russia
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 4:27pmTensions are rising fast in the northern Black Sea and the U.S. has taken sides.
