POLL: Is Russia a threat to the US?

[Decus]

You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Note to self: never waste time arguing with a person who thinks there is stability in the Middle East with the US involvement there.

There is stability in the Middle East. I have spent 4 1/2 years living and working in the ME. You know nothing about the stability of the region.

Teaching English as a private tutor to a few people qualifies a person to conclusively assess and determine geopolitical dynamics? Seriously, your talents are needed at the State Department.

Some "less qualified" people seem to have a different view:

"The political dynamics and violence that shape the current series of crises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – and daily events in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen – dominate the current course of virtually every aspect of these states including much of the current course of violence and instability in the region."

The Underlying Causes of Stability and Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: An Analytic Survey | Center for Strategic and International Studies

Fun fact - the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Board of Trustees Chairman is former Democratic Senator Sam Nunn.

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[QuickHitCurepon]

Some of Russia's allies and friends are: Syria, Iran, and China. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of both Western and Eastern Europe, the Ukraine/Crimea situation being a perfect example, which, therefore, makes them a threat to the US because of our links to those areas. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of the Middle East because of their support of Iran and Syria. Syria is seriously destablizing the ME at the moment, and Iran is a continuous threat to the peace and stability of the ME. The US has direct, hands on friendships and connections to stable Middle Eastern states. Putin is a brutal, ruthless dictator who absolutely cannot be trusted.

BULLSHIT.

Is Russia a threat to the US of A?

I do not give a shit about Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Crimea.

Don't care, and irrelevant, that Syria, Iran, and China are allied with Russia .

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You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Our bases in those regions are at risk for one reason and one reason only. We have been the aggressors ever since we invaded Afghanistan without sufficient provocation. Willfully continuing the aggression in Libya and Syria made our intentions clear to everybody there.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

You are talking to a simple-minded twit. He doesn't understand the importance of US power being in the face of evil people actually keeps the peace.

In his shallow mind, if we just packed up our bags....Russia, China, Iran, the terrorists would go back to their boring lives and leave people alone.....they wouldn't say invade a neighbor like Ukraine, oh wait.

BULLSHIT.

Is Russia a threat to the US of A?

I do not give a shit about Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Crimea.

Don't care, and irrelevant, that Syria, Iran, and China are allied with Russia .

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You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Does getting in the face of another person ever work? Doesn't it usually end up in fist fights?

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Give it time.

 

[Katzndogz]

The overall stability of the world affects national security and that gives us the right to dictate to every nation how they should live and what they can and cannot do.

Uh no. That's how countries get demolished.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Obama is a far bigger threat to the USA

Utter nonsense. You should try living in Russia under Putin. You'd change your tune real fast.

What's the real difference between them? Go ahead and explain it to us.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Note to self: never waste time arguing with a person who thinks there is stability in the Middle East with the US involvement there.

There is stability in the Middle East. I have spent 4 1/2 years living and working in the ME. You know nothing about the stability of the region.

 

[Mojo2]

Obama is a far bigger threat to the USA

I agree and almost clicked thanks, but how is he FAR bigger threat? he will be gone in couple of years, how is he more of a threat than Bush or Clinton?

Obama's evil treachery will live for generations after he leaves. (If he leaves.)

Pardon my answering your question with a question: How has FDR's legacy lived longer than Bush or Clinton's?

 

[Mojo2]

Russia Stifles Free Speech, Pressures Editor of Independent Website to Resign

Cortney O'Brien | Mar 15, 2014

Don’t mess with the Kremlin.

The editors at Lenta.ru were reminded that free speech is not all that welcome in Russia when last week the state pressured the site’s editor, Galina Timchenko, to resign.

On Tuesday morning, the country’s media watchdog formally cautioned the website after it published an interview with the leader of a Ukrainian nationalist organization that Russia has denounced as fascist. By afternoon, the site’s editor for the last decade was ousted and replaced by another editor viewed as more loyal to the Kremlin.​

But, contrary to the Kremlin’s wishes, the independent online news organization is not staying silent. The 69 staff members promptly posted a scathing statement on their website’s front page, condemning the government’s bully tactics.

“The dismissal of an independent chief editor and the appointment of a person who can be controlled from outside, including directly from offices in the Kremlin - that is already a violation of the media law."​

Timchenko’s successor, Alexei Goreslavsky, unsurprisingly, is much more sympathetic to the Kremlin. Until recently, he oversaw a pro-Kremlin website and even helped an ally of President Putin’s become the mayor of Moscow last September.

Perfect.

The ever bold Lenta.ru employees summed up their country’s freedom-crushing authority best:

"The problem is not that there is nowhere left for us to work. The problem is that there is nothing left, it seems, for you to read.”​

Russia Stifles Free Speech, Pressures Editor of Independent Website to Resign - Cortney O'Brien

 

[1776]

Shitstain...I did 20 years in the military.

You....are probably barely 20 years old or you have the mind of a teen on drugs.

Typical diversion of a kook....you can't refute Russia is evil so you go on some cum guzzling rant.

You are talking to a simple-minded twit. He doesn't understand the importance of US power being in the face of evil people actually keeps the peace.

In his shallow mind, if we just packed up our bags....Russia, China, Iran, the terrorists would go back to their boring lives and leave people alone.....they wouldn't say invade a neighbor like Ukraine, oh wait.

You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Excuse me, CUM SWALLOWER

Are you a lifer in the armed forces?

Is your unit facing a RIF?

Do you want them to re-institute to the draft so that you can take a peek at the young recruits manhood while they take showers?

"fess up, and the truth shall set you free.

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[1776]

Stupid ****...so are we the ones setting up a ADIZ in the South China Sea??? Going after fishermen from the Philippines, Vietnam, etc in international waters? No that would be CHINA.

Are we the ones invading European countries??? No...that would be Russia.

Iran has Saudi Arabia and Israel in a secret alliance against them. Oh, that must be our fault, not that Iran is run by evil mullahs that even the Jews and muslims agree to counter together.

Afghanistan...well maybe you missed 9-11, asswipe. FYI...the USSR aka Russia invaded Afghanistan in the 70s and caused the situation there which led to the rise of Islamic terrorist nuts like UBL.

So dumbfuck, explain to us again why we are the troublemaker and the aforementioned countries aren't.

You are talking to a simple-minded twit. He doesn't understand the importance of US power being in the face of evil people actually keeps the peace.

In his shallow mind, if we just packed up our bags....Russia, China, Iran, the terrorists would go back to their boring lives and leave people alone.....they wouldn't say invade a neighbor like Ukraine, oh wait.

You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Does getting in the face of another person ever work? Doesn't it usually end up in fist fights?

 

[1776]

Are you that stupid? Well maybe you are since you can't figure out my avatar is ridiculing Putin and Obama.

A question for the kooks that like Russia....why did the Russians stay in those Eastern European countries and form the USSR/Warsaw Bloc????

If Russia was so innocent like you say, then why did they enslave millions after World War 2 and start the Cold War up until the late 80s-early 90s???

It's hard to take you seriously with that avatar. You state here disdain for "kooks that like Russia" and then give Putin this kind of attention every time you post. Look at your avatar. I don't think that is anymore right than praising Putin as leader of the hour.

 

[pvsi]

You don't understand international relations; our security depends on the security of our friends and allies. One example: the US has a large naval base in Bahrain, right in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, & Saudi are all friends and allies. Iran, and now Syria, threaten the stability of the Middle East. Russia being a friend, ally and supporter of Iran, a state which threatens to destabilize the entire region, threatens the US because it threatens our friends and allies, & as well, it puts the naval base in Bahrain at risk. It is not at all irrelevant that Syria, Iran and China are allied with Russia. It doesn't matter whether or not YOU give a shit about Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Overall world security and stability have an effect on the US. You are a very silly person if you think the stability or instability of other parts of the world have no effect on the US.

Note to self: never waste time arguing with a person who thinks there is stability in the Middle East with the US involvement there.

There is stability in the Middle East. I have spent 4 1/2 years living and working in the ME. You know nothing about the stability of the region.

Baghdad's fortified green zone or Syria?