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Putin redraws Russia's borders, Obama makes Final Four picks

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Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:49 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Now I'm confused. Who decided to be World Emperor ?
Well, who has a military bigger than everyone else combined?

Facts, rappy. If you learn to see them, you'll learn to love them.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:56 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Our standing army isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, bigger than all others combined. The PRC has 2x the active military as does the United States.

India's active military is only slightly smaller than the USA's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_troops#The
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Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:52 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


In terms of people, no. But in terms of people plus materiel and weapons systems, yes.
Really, rappy? You're going to compare boots on th ground to a military with globe-spanning advanced weapons systems?

Does China or India have 10 aircraft carriers, over 4000 military aircraft, 72 submarines, 62 destroyers, about 500 continent-based ICBMs, and 800 military installations around the world?

Well... no.

But if that's what you want to argue- that all of that military spending has gotten us NO strategic or tactical advantage whatsoever.... well, just remember that the next time you say that we need more military spending!

In any case, I realize that China has designs on the rest of the world, but their plans (so far) are more along the nature of trade, not war. They have deals all over the world- Mexico for copper, Brazil and Argentina for food, oil wherever they can find it (the former Sudan, the former Libya etc), investments everywhere in Africa including Central African Republic, Egypt and Kenya (altho what they want out of Egypt besides the Suez Canal is beyond me!) etc etc. However, if there is a destabilization in their trading partner- such as Sudan, or their trade routes are interdicted, they have absolutely no military force projection. So in terms of "enforcing" their contracts... they'd have to depend on international banks and so forth to sanction various nations... like THAT'S gonna happen in China's favor!

The USA is responding to the Chinese trade threat by destabilizing China's trading partners- creating South Sudan, sending forces into CAR. The USA is also responding in-kind (supposedly) by creating trade partnership- the TPP- which excludes China.

OOC, you seem to react to several threats as if they were ALL existential: jihadism, China, Russia, and liberalism.

Which, in your opinion, is the greatest threat, and why?

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Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:20 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


O-man sez the greatest threat is a nuclear bomb in Manhattan - but wait, he already declared that the war of Terrorism was over, there were no more terrorists, so you can re-elect him in 2012. Without terrorists, who does he think will release nukes in Manhattan? The Occupy clowns? They can't even figure out how to stop pooping on each other in broad daylight.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:43 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



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Well, who has a military bigger than everyone else combined?


Words mean things, Siggy.

Had you said STRONGER, then fine, that's a different story. But you merely said 'BIGGER'. And what, more than anything does it take to win a war ?

Boots on the ground.

China has far more 'boots' than does the US. Hell, they have more than the US and India combined.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:51 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


What does it take to win a war?

LOTS of PEOPLE - marching!

Yes, I can see it now. All those Chinese, matching under the Pacific to attack the US! THAT'LL WORK!



"To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776)

OONJERAH
We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:04 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by AURaptor:




LOL! Greatest editorial picture ever!

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 4:52 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Barry's bracket, much like his HOPE for America, is BUSTED !!!





Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 4:59 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


definition of a troll: "and I refuse to chase others in a mindless, endless circle of " debate " on the internet. If I 'bitch out' of a discussion, I've said all I'm going to say on the matter, my views have been presented, and there's nothing left to add."



RUSH LIMBAUGH is a BLUE PILL ADDICT!
As evidence of "rape mentality"
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is
whore

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies



And this is Geezer being non-partisan ... HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
Dem Super Pac slams Obamacare because it really sucks and will cause herpes
Geezer
So some Democrats are running on pointing out that the Healthcare.gov rollout was an unmitigated disaster

I feel so vindicated.

"Just glad that some Democrats are acknowledging the bad job done in developing Healthcare.com." "it'll be interesting to see if these same Democrats acknowledge" "these Democrats seem to understand what the real Obama Kool-Ade drinkers still won't address" " it's about Democrats using criticism of the rollout in their campaign ads".







"To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776)

OONJERAH
We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 5:21 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:




LOL! Greatest editorial picture ever!



The best part? In steerage, there's room enough to house the homeless !

Obama cares SOOO very much !

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:50 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Barry's bracket, much like his HOPE for America, is BUSTED !!!



Amazing tournament! Only one #1 seed in the final four.


Florida vs. U.Conn. >>>> Florida

Wisconsin vs. Kentucky >>>> Kentucky


Go Gators!

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:20 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



I don't know if we'll see an all SEC title game, but odds are that UF will come home w/ the title. Should be fun to watch.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:25 PM

REAVERFAN


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Originally posted by SignyM:
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Do you have any sense of freedom and real world disgust for a dictator that invaded a sovereign nation?
Yes, I do.

I'm outraged... OUTRAGED.... that The Shrub invaded not one but TWO sovereign nations to the tune of over 100,000+ dead and a trillion dollars, the result of which is two broken nations which are hotbeds of sectarian violence, violence against women, and jihadism.

And I'm outraged... OUTRAGED... that Nobama did the same thing to Libya, was prepared to do the same thing to Syria, and that people in his administration had designs on Iran.

I'm OUTRAGED that Nobama has seen fit to use drones against anyone (including US citizens), anywhere, anytime... sliding past the authority of Congress to "declare war" by simply redefining war as "boots on the ground"... that this fucking spider sits in his White House web with his illegally-obtained information and his kill list.

And, to top it all off, I'm OUTRAGED that we saw fit to promote the overthrow of YET ANOTHER DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT (which BTW we're also trying in Venezuela) using Nazi wannabes and $5 billion.

Putin a dictator??? You jest!

The nation with the military which totals up to the rest of the world COMBINED, with designs on every single friggin' square inch of this globe is NOT Russia.

Look in the mirror, buddy. Whatever respect the President of the USA is supposedly due, they pissed away a long time ago when the decided to be World Emperor. So put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!

This has been a tradition. War for profit.

Gen. Smedley Butler knew it in the early 1930s. He also exposed an attempted fascist coup against the US government. He's gone. Their kids are still there.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Want to know one family with a history of war profiteering? 2 of them were recently president. Funny they both started BS wars for profit.

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Monday, March 31, 2014 7:31 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

I don't know if we'll see an all SEC title game, but odds are that UF will come home w/ the title. Should be fun to watch.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall


Really?
I was thinking that Florida's record this year against Wisconsin was 0-1. Are you conjuring UK to get WI out of Gator's way?

3 Big 10 teams went to the elite 8. Didn't see many SEC even in the whole bracket. Fla isn't playing the girl scouts this week. WI has been playing in a conference of real teams.


As an aside, did you all know Smedley Darlington Butler was the only Marine Corps officer to be awarded 2 Congressional Medals of Honor?

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Monday, March 31, 2014 7:40 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Now that Obama's bracket is broken, should we try a pool of which invasion Putin has scheduled next?
Will it be across Georgia to connect to Armenia?
Will it be across western Ukraine to connect Crimea to Moldova?
Will it be eastern Ukraine?
Or elsewhere?
Anybody?

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Monday, April 7, 2014 7:52 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Now that Obama's bracket is broken, should we try a pool of which invasion Putin has scheduled next?
Will it be across Georgia to connect to Armenia?
Will it be across western Ukraine to connect Crimea to Moldova?
Will it be eastern Ukraine?
Or elsewhere?
Anybody?



No takers?

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Monday, April 28, 2014 8:30 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


So now Putin says that since Russian Special Forces have invaded the whole of Ukraine, nobody should defend against them, or throw them out of Ukraine.
Good thing Barack is putting an end to this.

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Monday, April 28, 2014 9:18 PM

JONGSSTRAW





Himmler yucks it up with Ukrainian SS guards at Mauthausen death camp.

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Monday, April 28, 2014 11:15 PM

REAVERFAN


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
So now Putin says that since Russian Special Forces have invaded the whole of Ukraine, nobody should defend against them, or throw them out of Ukraine.
Good thing Barack is putting an end to this.

Good thing he's not.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:42 PM

JONGSSTRAW





Ukrainian SS guards take a break from their duties at Belzec death camp.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:31 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


So Jongs, you're saying we WANT the gay bashing Putin to take back all of Ukraine ?


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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:00 AM

JONGSSTRAW






Ukrainian SS guards waiting to welcome new arrivals at Treblinka death camp.

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Friday, May 2, 2014 5:40 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by reaverfan:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
So now Putin says that since Russian Special Forces have invaded the whole of Ukraine, nobody should defend against them, or throw them out of Ukraine.
Good thing Barack is putting an end to this.

Good thing he's not.


So you figure Putin should be encouraged to confiscate any country he desires? You OK with him taking over USA?

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Friday, May 2, 2014 5:42 PM

MIKER

Once I found Serenity


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

And the MSM gushes over Obama's pick. Unfuckingbelievable.



Dude, the man is cool under pressure.

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Friday, May 2, 2014 7:18 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



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Police say 42 killed in Odessa in worst violence of Ukraine crisis

Reporting from Moscow—

A clash Friday between supporters of Ukrainian unity and Russian-backed separatists in the Black Sea port of Odessa left 42 people dead and scores injured, police said.

Thirty of the victims died of smoke inhalation after a fire was set in the central trade union building, where pro-Russia separatists reportedly had taken up sniper positions to fire on pro-unity demonstrators, police said.


http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-wn-ukraine-russia-odessa-cla
sh-20140502,0,6927270.story#ixzz30bSEeHff



Well Mr. Kerry. That went well, didn't it ?

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Friday, May 2, 2014 7:24 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


UN Security Council takes no action in 13th emergency meeting on Ukraine

The U.N. Security Council on Friday for the 13th time failed to take action on the growing crisis in Ukraine, with Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin demanding a "swift halt of all violence" and Western powers scoffing at his country's indignation.

Council members accused Russia of equipping and funding the pro-Russia forces that have seized government buildings in 10 eastern cities. Ukraine on Friday launched its first major offensive against the insurgency.

"Russia ... has released bands of thugs on Ukraine ... and is suddenly discovering this mixture might escape its control," French ambassador Gerard Araud said.


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Russia+calls+emergency+Security+Coun
cil+meeting+Ukraine/9800417/story.html

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Friday, March 18, 2022 5:51 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Former Obama Adviser Slams Biden’s Putin Excuse For Inflation: “People Don’t Believe That”

https://americanlookout.com/former-obama-adviser-slams-bidens-putin-ex
cuse-for-inflation-people-dont-believe-that-audio
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Saturday, July 22, 2023 6:42 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Friday, May 24, 2024 7:32 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


A Chinese Mercenary talks about Russians, Indians, more Russians and more Mercs, insight into what it's like from the Russian side and clearly not impressed with Russians, says Polish have superior mortar firing equipment or building technique

says he can not trust his own team mates and they ran away during a combat



he as individual chose to be there and kill for money.

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