Kaptain - Do you ever think for yourself?
Every post you make indicates that you just watch cable news, get the gist of their leanings then take the opposite view.:wacko: I don't have CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC. The only cable news I see is when I'm in Prague each winter or visiting relatives in the UK and it is usually Russia Today (the 24 hours 7 days a week anti-Nazi channel). My comment about looting was based on impressions from my personal experiences with Russians, not on MSM reports. Virtually everything I know about the disaster itself comes from aeroplane enthusiasts such as relatives who are pilots and aircraft engineers and a couple of online sites such as Airliners.net (including some pathetic attempts to prove a conspiracy*). Turn off CNN/FOX/MSNBC and get real news sources.
Russia has some legitimate concerns. There is little doubt that the West's rulers would love to replay the asset-stripping 1990s. The whole gay thing typifies just how ridiculous the West has become. NATO expansion is not a good idea. But none of that changes the facts about Russia. I have very bad news for Putin-worshipping WNists. He imprisons actual Russian nationalists - not to be confused with Russian imperialists and Eurasianists. His "surrogate father" was Jewish. He has the support of Jewish oligarchs - just different ones from those closely connected to American Jews like Khodorkovsky. Jews in the Russian media, such as Vladimir Soloviev, have been leading the propaganda campaign against "Nazi" Ukraine. Putin is not King Billy on a white horse (I suspect only Scots, Ulstermen, and elderly Canadians will get that reference) coming to our rescue. Just because the mainstream left don't like Russia doesn't mean Russia is always right. That's the kind of knee-jerk reactionary thinking that gets the right a very well-deserved reputation for anti-intellectualism.
Anyway, I told Don the other night I would try to ignore certain posters to avoid conflict so I'll leave it at that.
* You don't need to speak German to understand how laughable this is:
http://www.mimikama.at/allgemein/bild-einer-videoanalyse-des-angeblichen-absturz-videos-in-der-ukraine/
Every post you make indicates that you just watch cable news, get the gist of their leanings then take the opposite view.:wacko: I don't have CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC. The only cable news I see is when I'm in Prague each winter or visiting relatives in the UK and it is usually Russia Today (the 24 hours 7 days a week anti-Nazi channel). My comment about looting was based on impressions from my personal experiences with Russians, not on MSM reports. Virtually everything I know about the disaster itself comes from aeroplane enthusiasts such as relatives who are pilots and aircraft engineers and a couple of online sites such as Airliners.net (including some pathetic attempts to prove a conspiracy*). Turn off CNN/FOX/MSNBC and get real news sources.
Russia has some legitimate concerns. There is little doubt that the West's rulers would love to replay the asset-stripping 1990s. The whole gay thing typifies just how ridiculous the West has become. NATO expansion is not a good idea. But none of that changes the facts about Russia. I have very bad news for Putin-worshipping WNists. He imprisons actual Russian nationalists - not to be confused with Russian imperialists and Eurasianists. His "surrogate father" was Jewish. He has the support of Jewish oligarchs - just different ones from those closely connected to American Jews like Khodorkovsky. Jews in the Russian media, such as Vladimir Soloviev, have been leading the propaganda campaign against "Nazi" Ukraine. Putin is not King Billy on a white horse (I suspect only Scots, Ulstermen, and elderly Canadians will get that reference) coming to our rescue. Just because the mainstream left don't like Russia doesn't mean Russia is always right. That's the kind of knee-jerk reactionary thinking that gets the right a very well-deserved reputation for anti-intellectualism.
Anyway, I told Don the other night I would try to ignore certain posters to avoid conflict so I'll leave it at that.
* You don't need to speak German to understand how laughable this is:
http://www.mimikama.at/allgemein/bild-einer-videoanalyse-des-angeblichen-absturz-videos-in-der-ukraine/