#7239

To the victor goes history

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#7240

Do you mean to say history is written by the victor?

#7241

Yes that’s exactly what I mean .

In other news : russia has deployed troops to Syria , who are now in combat and beleived to be setting up an airfield for wider operations

#7242

We never defeated any of those countries in a war, so that quote doesn’t make sense here.

#7243

Makes perfect sense . The Soviet Union was on the winning side of WW2 hence why starlins dark actions (equal to that of hitler ) slip under the radar

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#7244

Oh okay, i thought for a second you were implying that the atrocities committed in Russia were American propaganda.

But those other countries, China, Vietnam Cambodia, we never learn about the genocides that took place there.

Japan’s actions in World war 2 were equal to Nazi Germanys, but they still deny them and don’t teach about them in school. But they’ll happily teach that evil Americans nuked Japan.

#7245

They backing the government or ISIS?

#7246

Please tell me that’s not a serious question ? Of course they’re backing the government . And engaging with NATO backed rebels , should get interesting if they deploy air assets against the free Syrian army .

this is the sort of rubbish im talking about when the west go against russia .

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart for the second time in four days to express concern over reports of Russian military activities in Syria, warning that it could fan more violence.

so us conducting air strikes in Libya , syria and iraq doesnt fan more violence ? ISIS is a global threat , we need everyone dropping everything they have on them . if russia are joining the party we should be putting our troubles aside and using this as a rock to repair the damaged relations between the west and east .

and no better way than hunting some rag heads :slight_smile:

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#7247

Just making conversation :smile:

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#7248

The Obama administration has done everything in their power to alienate Russia. We were actually on pretty good terms for a while, Putin was the first leader to express his condolences over 9/11, and Russia gave us a memorial with the victims names on it.

Now we’re back at each other throats.

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#7249

That is not on Obama.

Putin’s ratings were getting fucked to the point he needed an enemy, and now he has one. His power is secure, with 90% approval ratings, higher than ever before, while Russian economy and liberties are on downward spiral.

#7250

could say it was the same for obama (back fired hugely ) . but even before , putins ratings were above 60% which is still pretty high .

most western leaders would die for such ratings :slight_smile:

putin has done alot of good for russia , dealt with the corruption , where the oligarchs basically run russia , until putin basically stabbed them all in the back after they got him in power :slight_smile:

but as you rightly point out a few posts ago , russians dont want freedom like we enjoy .
they want a strong leader and one that will stand up to the outside world

#7251
#7252

Yeah, but it was going downwards, and that was happening just before the inevitable Russian economy slump due to falling oil and gas prices.

#7253

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4h4kn0vg1s

The official position of the Czech government on quotas is “how the fuck do you want to implement it, move the refugees around like a fucking cattle”?

We are now offering asylum to every Syrian that enters the country and is detained by the police (frequent police checks now on border train stations as well as highways), but only about 1 out of 100 accepts it, everyone else wants to continue to Germany.

They vote with their feet, how Brussels wants to shuffle them around, that is beyond me.

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#7254

right now it seems germany and the UK are the top locations they want to get to . luckily we are slightly harder to reach , but my worry is if germany grants them citizenship , how many will flood to us ?

#7255

It is Germany and Sweden actually. But yeah, UK is close enough.

Lebanon just made it illegal for Syrian refugees to work in the country. There are 2 million refugees in Lebanon now.

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#7256

i think we need boots on the ground out there . secure a chunk of syria / iraq and set up camps .
we cant depopulate syria , or it will be fucked for decades

#7257

he strikes again :slight_smile:

http://news.sky.com/story/1550430/us-to-take-10000-more-syrian-refugees-in-2016

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#7258

:slight_smile: :slight_smile: first world problems

http://www.theladbible.com/articles/lad-complains-to-aldi-on-their-facebook-page-and-gets-an-epic-response