Eastern Europe is not the West or Russia's plaything. They can choose whichever way (or a balance between the two) that they want to go. They're sovereign countries who can make their own decisions.
The piece you reference also ignores the fact that most of Eastern Europe and it's...
So... we should appease Russia while it landgrabs anywhere it feels entitled to then?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/world/putin-doubts-expanded-nato-meets-new-threats.html?_r=0
Seemed reasonably fine with it at the time. The reason why so much of Eastern Europe want in on NATO is...
The Eastern Europeans should be able to decide their future for themselves without others choosing it for them, particularly through military interventions.
The region isn't Germany and Russia's plaything any longer. Or at least it isn't Germany's..
Legitimate claims that are historically theirs? By those standards your applying Russia could have legitimate claims to a plenty of sovereign countries. At what point is enough enough for you? A Second Winter War with Finland? Maybe the three Baltic States? Or most of Central Asia? How about...
I know he's an extreme narcissist and kind of understand why he's behaving like this even if it's simply ridiculous behaviour.
But why (presumably) normal, everyday people like walsingham feel the need to engage on stuff like this escapes me... why the * does it matter? like at all??
The real question is: why does it even matter?
He literally just became the most powerful man on the planet, and most of his first day in this position he's spent ranting about crowd numbers as though it's a dick measuring contest with the previous President...
He'll be spending massive amounts of political capital on Russia alone which a huge chunk (majority?) of the GOP is deeply uncomfortable with.
If he survives his first term I'm confident that he'd face a challenge within his own party for re-election in 2020.
Now that election period is officially 100% over please continue on to the new thread: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/45th-president-of-the-united-states-donald-trump.1156514/
Continued from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the election threads, now complete with an actual President!
I've added the Play Nice prefix which is exactly what it says on the label.
Keep it on topic, keep it civil and be respectful to people even if you don't agree with them. If you...
Continued from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the election threads, and Part 1 of the President Trump thread.
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I've added the Play Nice prefix which is exactly what it says on the label.
Keep it on topic, keep it civil and be respectful to people even if...
Well obviously Obama was such a bad President that he was ruining the US as President before he even had become President :rolleyes:
Reminds me of insane troll logic like this:
Truthiness has never been more relevant then it is now.
It's a fair point actually. Definitely changes the dynamic of how Putin holds power if he can't just blame the evil Americans/West when something goes wrong.
Oh I'm sure the Chinese likely would as well, but they in no way used hacked info to undermine one candidate and exert influence over the other.
Both the CIA and FBI saying there was hacking by Russia, Wikileaks, Alfa, Manafort, Trump demanding watering down of GOP Ukraine policy, Tillerson...
I find it very hard to believe that the Russians didn't hack the RNC as well, and considering Trump's dealings with Russia, Manafort's $12m adventures in Ukraine, the communications between Trump Tower and Alfa in Moscow etc. if the truth came out about Trump just like it did about Clinton then...
Continued from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
I've now added the Play Nice prefix which is exactly what it says on the label.
Keep it on topic, keep it civil and be respectful to people even if you don't agree with them. If you want to come in here and troll, name call etc. you're potentially...
Nah mate I haven't, I'm just going off the fact that my grandfather up to my great-great-great grandparents were virtually all born in Syria or Palestine and the keen interest I have in the region because of that connection.
You were the only that claimed Syria and Libya were stable until the...
Very well put point.
A bigger issue is the winner takes it all system in the first place where Candidate A can get almost the same electoral reward for winning FL + PA by a small margin as Candidate B does for winning by several million votes in CA.
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