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I mean the guy is just a straight up mobster lol
Putin is more like Richie from The Sopranos. Both are power hungry manlets.More like Putin is a much worse, Russian version of Tony Soprano that will just eat through everything for the simple fact it exists.
Yeah that's a better comparison I suppose, but really it's just... the guy is a petty crook at root. He fucking stole Robert Kraft's superbowl ring, for fuck sake. He's a monster that runs a huge country and wakes up every day thinking about how he can have more and everyone else can have less. Just basic greed multiplied out a thousand times over by virtue of military/political mechanisms.Putin is more like Richie from The Sopranos. Both are power hungry manlets.
I don't know what I hate tankies for more.But you're failing to take into account that aMeRIcA DoESn'T get tO Be ThE GoOD gUY
Specifically considering how ass our foreign policy has been, they should be overjoyed to fiiiiinally get something actually right lol. Like, really right. But no, that just pisses off the tankies even more lmao because it's not about foreign policy, or human decency, or anything other than raw virtue signalling.I don't know what I hate tankies for more.
That they're sub human scum.
Or that they make me argue that America isn't that bad.
I'm kidding. It's the latter.
yeah idk what all that is about bro. i'm responding to the comment:Exactly. Zero well planned scheme's in place.
You're pointing to the stupid years where America spent trillions of dollars fighting people in caves and mud huts and saying this is the 4d geopolitical chess master that can manipulate any country in the world. Could have turned Russia but chose not to.
I told a story about Poland playing America to get into NATO to illustrate this exact point of tankie scum arrogantly dehumanizing of the rest of us.
American governments are not smart enough to do what tankie scum accuse them of doing. It's incredibly difficult and your administrations are too stupid.
The premise of the tankie scum argument is that 4d geopolitical chess master America could have very easily balanced the contrasting wants and desires between Eastern Europe and Russia in a way that satisfied both parties and resulted in Russia becoming an advanced democracy.
But America deliberately chose not to do that because.... I dunno whatever immature @Possum Jenkins stated.
And your counter argument that they are capable of this incredibly difficult geopolitical balancing act is that you spent trillions of dollars bombing the ME?
Way to re-enforce my point.
I mean the guy is just a straight up mobster lol
I don't think corruption is even the right word. It's by design.It's definitely a major problem of corruption. Once a leader gets too deep, it's virtually impossible for them to not put their personal ambitions way beyond anyone or anything else. Take a look at Bibi and fraud and bribery charges, yet is untouchable while the wars keep going on. And there's little doubt of the amount of fraud and corruption under Putin's leadership that he can't make a clean exit from his leadership position any more so doubles and triples down on holding power and authoritarianism. Which of course, if it wasn't so extreme, might actually have made Russia a more attractive partner to western Ukrainians.
Yeppers. A war with 20 million dead and a trajectory of only having deadlier weapons will do that.
- Israel powerless bottom, US doesnt has room to talk. They're suporting a genocide without precedent in Gaza!![]()
The context is Russia as per the thread subject.yeah idk what all that is about bro. i'm responding to the comment:
"The thorn in the whole side of the America is always the bad guy is how much the foreign policy changes.
You can't look at Clinton administrations foreign policy. Then observe Bush's foreign policy. Then observe Obama's foreign policy and say there's some well planned scheme here."
if there's some extra context i didn't have, then fine, but the post you were responding to didn't suggest there was. there's been a pretty obvious concerted effort by the west for the last 35 years or so to destabilize the middle east.
obama created power vacuums. so did bush and clinton. hell, bush sr. too. that's kinda their thing.The context is Russia as per the thread subject.
Still not seeing the well planned scheme I mentioned being employed in the middle east.
The policy has been horribly destructive but it has not been consistent. Except for the Israeli cock gobbling of course.
Here's the first google results for:
how has obama destabilized the middle east
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Obama’s Tarnished Legacy in the Middle East
President Barack Obama had to deal with a dysfunctional state system and fraying civil societies, as well as blowback from George W. Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet his own actions and inactions throughout two terms of office contributed significantly to the great unraveling of the...www.thecairoreview.com
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Obama’s Ugly Legacy in the Mideast
The war in Syria was like a stone thrown into a lake. The initial splash has subsided, but the waves are spreading throughout the region. Where the waves meet the shores of the lake, they splash again into new wars. The wars of the Persian Gulf, the Kurds, and Israel are beginning.www.heritage.org
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The Middle East that Obama left behind
New US president inherits legacy of “perpetual warfare” in the region.www.aljazeera.com
Two of them say he created a power vacuum.
Saying this is all part of some plan and electing Obama was the power vacuum phase and the "was the power vacuum a mistake?" phase all in one is verging on CT territory.
Yup. You guys will do that.obama created power vacuums. so did bush and clinton. hell, bush sr. too. that's kinda their thing.
Well.... if Trump wins, he will be oh so happy to join the gang.North Korea, Russia, and Iran is just two swwweeetttt.
Good lord you are fuckin nasty lolNorth Korea, Russia, and Iran is just two swwweeetttt.
not being enemies with nuclear powers isnt a bad thingWell.... if Trump wins, he will be oh so happy to join the gang.
I wonder how "swwweeettt" that will be for you?
@Possum Jenkins want to explain this one?Dude, Mearsheimer is an actual, literal turd lol. He's the granddaddy of Russia shills lmao