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FreepFryer

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3. They're not running either. They have completely disproportionate and dangerous influence -

Reply to byronius (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 03:15 PM

Sep 2018

But exaggerations and fearmongering embolden our enemies and certainly won't help us defend our country (as your lack of any comment thereto seem to assume we cannot).

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Reading Judt's 'Postwar' -- the Russians are doing to us what the Russians have always done. [View all] byronius Sep 2018 OP

They're absolutely not 'running the country.' That's the kind of inflationary alarmism Putin loves. FreepFryer Sep 2018 #1

I appreciate your take. However -- byronius Sep 2018 #2

They're not running either. They have completely disproportionate and dangerous influence - FreepFryer Sep 2018 #3

Yes, but. byronius Sep 2018 #4

Trump is not Russia. we MUST talk about this fraud/invasion, but not by being intellectually lazy... FreepFryer Sep 2018 #5

Jeez, and here I thought I was being intellectually quite stout by reading 'Postwar'. byronius Sep 2018 #7

You said Russia was 'running' the country, and the Congress. That's simply untrue, and unhelpful. FreepFryer Sep 2018 #8

Hmmm. byronius Sep 2018 #9

Russia is just taking advantage of the "unique situation" we have in the US ck4829 Sep 2018 #6