Post by jasmin2sable on Jan 22, 2017 2:34:57 GMT
You are not paranoid or part of a paranoid culture when you recognize that people are trying to attack you. The US has obviously made it a holy mission to “contain” Russia. We moved NATO right up to their borders (after promising not to), planted a huge missile base 50 miles from the Russian border, purchased and supported a coup in Ukraine with the clear intent of depriving Russia of its only warm water port in the Ukraine, put two “rapid response” bases on their borders, slapped sanctions on Russia when the people of Ukraine refused to accept the illegal government the coup installed, and have lied every day about the hundreds of invisible Russian stealth tanks we claim are in Ukraine -which the OSCE can’t find and no one can film. Obama has publicly told the UN that Russia is “not as bad as Ebola but is worse than ISIS.” McCain and other hawks have repeatedly called for crippling the Russian economy and “eliminating the Russian threat”. They aren’t paranoid, we ARE attacking them constantly. There is NO nuclear arsenal “on a hair trigger”. Putin has never once threatened to use a nuclear weapon on anyone. The current fantasy in the American media comes from a deliberate misquote of what he said. Several months ago he was addressing a class of school children. They expressed fear that the US would attack them, to. After all, the US has attacked 16 countries in the last 20 years and has repeatedly threatened Russia. Putin assured the kids that they were safe because Russia had a nuclear deterrent. The next day, American media and American politicians screamed out “Putin Threatens Nuclear War!!” He didn’t – ever. So far, the collapsing economy has worried Putin, but in no way threatens his position. Russians get the news. They have internet and television. They know who is causing their problems. They have heard Obama brag (falsely) about how much his sanctions have hurt Russia and heard him threaten to keep hurting Russia until it bows to American power. They know who their enemy is – the power mad megalomaniacs in Washington. Putin is on their side. Him they like. Us they hate – more each and every day.
Here’s what Rightweb says about Loren Thompson and his Lexington Institute:
“Because of its general advocacy in favor of Pentagon spending (if not always specific programs), and because it receives substantial support from military contracting companies, Harper’s magazine has called the institute “the defense industry’s pay-to-play ad agency.” The magazine quoted Loren Thompson, the Institute’s chief operating officer, as saying, “I’m not going to work on a project unless somebody, somewhere, is willing to pay. This is a business.”[3] A June 2008 report from the Mobile Press-Register noted that “almost all funding for … the Lexington Institute comes from the same defense contractors who frequently have a stake in the programs that [Thompson] writes about.”"
Here’s the link to the article I quoted. I encourage everyone to read it. Please be aware of what you’re dealing with in Loren Thompson.
rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Lexington_Institute
The current wisdom in Washington today is that if nobody gives voice to such fears, then they don't need to be addressed. That's how a peaceful world stumbled into the First World War a century ago -- by not acknowledging the worst-case potential of a crisis in Eastern Europe -- and the blindness of leaders back then explains most of what went wrong later in the 20th Century. If we want to avoid the risk of reliving that multi-generation lesson, then U.S. policymakers need to do something more than simply wait for Putin to crack. That day will never come. In the near term, Washington needs to work harder to defuse tensions, including taking a more serious look at the history that led to Moscow's move on Crimea. Over the longer term, Washington needs to get beyond its dangerous aversion to building real defenses against long-range nuclear weapons, because it is just a matter of time before some dictator calls America's bluff.
Here’s what Rightweb says about Loren Thompson and his Lexington Institute:
“Because of its general advocacy in favor of Pentagon spending (if not always specific programs), and because it receives substantial support from military contracting companies, Harper’s magazine has called the institute “the defense industry’s pay-to-play ad agency.” The magazine quoted Loren Thompson, the Institute’s chief operating officer, as saying, “I’m not going to work on a project unless somebody, somewhere, is willing to pay. This is a business.”[3] A June 2008 report from the Mobile Press-Register noted that “almost all funding for … the Lexington Institute comes from the same defense contractors who frequently have a stake in the programs that [Thompson] writes about.”"
Here’s the link to the article I quoted. I encourage everyone to read it. Please be aware of what you’re dealing with in Loren Thompson.
rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Lexington_Institute
The current wisdom in Washington today is that if nobody gives voice to such fears, then they don't need to be addressed. That's how a peaceful world stumbled into the First World War a century ago -- by not acknowledging the worst-case potential of a crisis in Eastern Europe -- and the blindness of leaders back then explains most of what went wrong later in the 20th Century. If we want to avoid the risk of reliving that multi-generation lesson, then U.S. policymakers need to do something more than simply wait for Putin to crack. That day will never come. In the near term, Washington needs to work harder to defuse tensions, including taking a more serious look at the history that led to Moscow's move on Crimea. Over the longer term, Washington needs to get beyond its dangerous aversion to building real defenses against long-range nuclear weapons, because it is just a matter of time before some dictator calls America's bluff.