Should all Russians be sterilized and Russia partitioned between its neighbors?

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No and yes.

What the f**k is wrong with you? What have Lithuanians, Ukrainians or Mongolians ever done to you to punish them this way?

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I wonder what would BRTD be saying had Putin been in good relations with Obama and Hillary.

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I wonder what would BRTD be saying had Putin been in good relations with Obama and Hillary.

You think Obama and Hillary would ever warm up to such a autocratic despotic thug?

Please look at the current list of US-allied leaders who are fitting the description just as well and ever more than Putin.

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I wonder what would BRTD be saying had Putin been in good relations with Obama and Hillary.

You think Obama and Hillary would ever warm up to such a autocratic despotic thug?

Please look at the current list of US-allied leaders who are fitting the description just as well and ever more than Putin.

Name one who has seized territory and is backing a campaign of terror against another territory in a neighboring country.

Saudi Arabia in Yemen comes close.

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I wonder what would BRTD be saying had Putin been in good relations with Obama and Hillary.

You think Obama and Hillary would ever warm up to such a autocratic despotic thug?

Please look at the current list of US-allied leaders who are fitting the description just as well and ever more than Putin.

Name one who has seized territory and is backing a campaign of terror against another territory in a neighboring country.

Saudi Arabia in Yemen comes close.

They didn't actually annex any part of Yemen and Yemen was barely a functioning country beforehand anyway.

So it's fine then?

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I wonder what would BRTD be saying had Putin been in good relations with Obama and Hillary.

You think Obama and Hillary would ever warm up to such a autocratic despotic thug?

Please look at the current list of US-allied leaders who are fitting the description just as well and ever more than Putin.

Name one who has seized territory and is backing a campaign of terror against another territory in a neighboring country.

Saudi Arabia in Yemen comes close.

They didn't actually annex any part of Yemen and Yemen was barely a functioning country beforehand anyway.

So it's fine then?

No but it's nowhere near as bad as Putin. Besides it's not like I'm saying positive things about the Saudi royal family, actually if you read my posting history I hate them too.

It might turn out to be just as bad, or even worse, given what is going on in the region. Saudi actions, direct and indirect, poses at least the same threat as Russian action in Europe.

Yeah, they haven't formally annex anything, but they still effectively occupy foreign territory and support what is increasingly a puppet regime.

Saudi Arabia > Putin reasoning does not compute.

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Also as bad as the Saudis are they never put a sociopathic rapist in control of a major country.

Sad as this is to recognize, the American voting public (in the right states) did that their very selves. Yes, Russian intelligence was almost certainly peripherally involved And That's Terrible, etc., but I can't really tell why people on the left are supposed to suddenly start believing everything CIA spooks spin at us just because we have a common enemy and haven't figured out their angle yet.

Literally the worst thing American liberals can do is to say "it's all because of Putin" and disregard numerous other factors why Trump is President-elect, not Hillary.

FTR, it doesn't absolve Russian government by any means. The point is, let's not look for one simple comforting explanation of what was much more complex development.