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More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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The internal story of Russia right now must be a pretty interesting one.

The guy who does Caspian Report did a story a couple days ago arguing that Putin's recent aggression, both internally and externally, is a sort of corner he'd backed himself into that he can't get out of to the detriment of the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4sK36cU3Y

Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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Assuming this is your GitHub profile, https://github.com/sannysanoff, it looks like you live in Kharkov, a city that Russia is actively trying to control[1]. I was wondering how you feel about that.

[1] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/did-kha...

Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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No proof as usual. Let's just make Russia our enemy because they don't want to put men in women's restrooms and other similar issues that progressives can't accept.

But being friends with Saudi Arabia and radical Islamist groups that want to cut off infidel heads is no problem.

The article that I'd really like to see: "More of Clinton's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead"

Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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The internal story of Russia right now must be a pretty interesting one. The guy who does Caspian Report did a story a couple days ago arguing that Putin's recent aggression, both internally and externally, is a sort of corner he'd backed himself into that he can't get out of to the detriment of the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4sK36cU3Y

Really? Russia is now having a military base in Iran and Turkey will likely leave NATO and cooperate with Russia. Israel is also no friend of the Obama administration to put it mildly.

Oh and we here in the EU are also very happy with the current Western elite (which hopefully will soon be destroyed by a Trump administration) sending us millions of illiterate Arab men.

Maybe Obama will negotiate with ISIS to open a military base in the Caliphate. Everything seems possible with liberal progressives at this point.

I've already seen feminists claiming that Sharia law is very feminist, so it seems they are getting accustomed to the idea.

Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counterterrorism context.

So all those attempts at eliminating Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi were in a "strict counterterrorism context"?

> No other major power employs murder as systematically and ruthlessly as Russia does against those seen as betraying its interests abroad. Killings outside Russia were even given legal sanction by the nation’s Parliament in 2006

Maybe if they did those killings with drones or have a "kill list" like the US president keeps, it will be OK in the eyes of the NYT. Or if the person "betraying its interests abroad" is another country's head, an outright military invasion, like against Iraq and Libya, would be OK with the NYT.

The article even went as far as bringing up murders during the Soviet era. The NYT should next do another piece on CIA murders at about the same time.

Re: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

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post #6

No proof as usual. Let's just make Russia our enemy because they don't want to put men in women's restrooms and other similar issues that progressives can't accept. But being friends with Saudi Arabia and radical Islamist groups that want to cut off infidel heads is no problem. The article that I'd really like to see: "More of Clinton's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead"

Yup. It's far more interesting that the guy Assange hinted was behind the DNC leaks was murdered. And that a notable anti-Clinton author wound up dead recently too.

But Russia's evil, so forget everything that's going on at home.

Even worse than the fact this article brings up mostly old shit is the fact that it's not even particularly interesting. Just more of the same.

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