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NRaleighLiberal

(60,006 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 05:57 PM Jan 2019

So Russia fucks with our election - we get shithead. fucks with Brexit - they are in their mess.

Putin has to be just rolling on the floor on the ease at which people are gullible - get a few social networking sites to run the propaganda from some bot farms and you can start to screw with the countries you would love to destroy.

I was listening to a bit of Brexit stuff on the radio today - most of the people over there didn't even know what they were voting for. A revote seems the only sensible thing to do.

Now as for our mess.....Robert Mueller, Clean Up needed on Aisle 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Initech

(100,036 posts)
7. Germany and Italy are the next dominoes to fall.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:06 PM
Jan 2019

The fact that there's ultra far right Nazis protesting in these countries are scary enough. Look at Hungary and Poland to see what will happen to France.

BannonsLiver

(16,294 posts)
8. How?
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:06 PM
Jan 2019

That’s what I keep coming back to. That and the concept of MAD.

Patton had it just right about those slimy, duplicitous fuckers after WW2.

Initech

(100,036 posts)
10. Like I keep saying I am normally against war.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:09 PM
Jan 2019

But I wouldn't mind seeing one well placed missile aimed at taking out Putin and his troll army.

BannonsLiver

(16,294 posts)
12. I wish it was just Putin
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:41 PM
Jan 2019

Unfortunately he has broad public support among the people. Imagine a country where at least 60 to 70 percent of the populace were trump devotees.

Blaukraut

(5,693 posts)
14. No need for missiles. Hack their electric grid and take it out for a few weeks
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 07:12 PM
Jan 2019

They use cyber warfare and so should we.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
3. Apathy and ignorance over there and here in US will be our death.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:00 PM
Jan 2019

I have said for a long time that if people arent going to wake up to who is who, what is what, that we will not survive.

tenderfoot

(8,425 posts)
4. The only thing about this is who the fuck would want anything to do with Russia...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:02 PM
Jan 2019

knowing they could do that to you too? I don't see why anyone would warm up to Putin.

Squinch

(50,911 posts)
6. People who think another ten million dollars will make them stop hating themselves for being
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:04 PM
Jan 2019

corrupt and empty.

Squinch

(50,911 posts)
5. You have to hand it to Putin. He must have been planning this for years, and it was
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:03 PM
Jan 2019

very well done. I do wonder how many Senators he has on his payroll now, and how many years it will take us to unspool from his influence.

Initech

(100,036 posts)
9. Putin is a James Bond villain.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:07 PM
Jan 2019

Who apparently murdered Bond instead of placing him in an easily escapable situation and is carrying out his evil plan.

SWBTATTReg

(22,065 posts)
11. Sanctions may be lifted on the Russians but I guarantee you that people dealing w/ them...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:21 PM
Jan 2019

from now on will be very hesitant to deal w/ them being that they are so underhanded in their dealings w/ the outside world. You don't get a sizable business or reputation dealing in such underhanded methods. They (the Russians) may think that they won the game, but look at what really they gained...their economic punch is next to nothing (other than oil, and oil is in excess on the marketplace). With the markets in upheaval somewhat w/ BREXIT and rump, they pretty well shot themselves in the foot, and hamstrung themselves everywhere across the board.

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