How Putin Controls the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia

[Brenda Fernández]

so all they do is in their actual best interest and they aren't failing and
on the brink of collapse?

Care to clarify apart from trolling?

k, thx!

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:05:14 -0300
> Brenda Fernández <me at brendafernandez.com> wrote:
>
> > USG incompetence is hard to understand in these matters.
>
>         there isn't any incompetence involved.
>
> > I have no
> > idea why they fuck up like this,
>
>
>         right, you don't.
>
>
>  getting involved in a conflict,
> > supporting a side their are against to fight against the other side
> > they are supposedly also against, but always on paper, they will
> > never go there be killed. So why involve yourself in the first place
> > other than to destroy what remains of your reputations, what remains
> > of your money and relevance? But it's interesting nonetheless, to
> > watch and see them fall, which they've been invariably doing since
> > Vietnam.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Razer <Rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On 09/22/2015 05:26 AM, rysiek wrote:
> > > > They are both fucked up, in many *different* (systemic racism in
> > > > the US; systemic homophobia in Russia), and several *similar*
> > > > ways (oligarchy
> > > running
> > > > things). And yet they are able to play us, because predominantly
> > > > we
> > > simply
> > > > cannot see the bigger picture and cannot seem to understand
> > > > *anything*
> > > more
> > > > complicated than the simplified beyond belief "USA BAD RUSSIA
> > > > GOOD" (or
> > > the
> > > > other way around) worldview.
> > >
> > > For so many years now the geopolitical 'grand game' has been "Good
> > > Cop/Bad Cop", "Mutt and "Jeff" played on the typically indigenous
> > > people-d extractive resources nations (and in other ways against the
> > > west's manufacturing satraps) by the US AND Russia. Either you pick
> > > one side or the other or we have a war in YOUR country where YOUR
> > > people get killed and your society/way of life destroyed. There are
> > > no "nice guys". On the other hand I bristle when Syria's ally is
> > > accused of warmongering for doing what allies are supposed to do.
> > > Come to their defense in the traditional manner against an army of
> > > mercenaries that the West claims on one hand to be fighting, and on
> > > the other, had a large part in it's creation.
> > >
> > > Americans just sat idly by with their thumbs up their asses in
> > > denial while the State Dept and CIA created AQv2 from the Libyans
> > > we hired to sodomize Muammar al-Gadaffi with swords, and if the
> > > Russians want to eradicate that threat to Syria and the region,
> > > have at it.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>


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