@Drlee , not a good sign;
I am not going down your list of unsubstantiated nonsense.
Meaning; ''I'm going to deflect from and not address what you said because I don't have a logical rebuttal''.
Seriously dude. You drank the Russian Kool-Aid.
I've lived there and have family and friends there. I know what's going on, and for all practical intents and purposes, pretty much everything Western journalists and intellectuals write about Russia is either lazy, stupid, or malignant.
You do realize that this is not an argument. Don't you? Rather than address the facts you just call it "projecting". Amateurish. Won't work.
No, really, that's what this crap is, a projection of Western aggression upon it's designated victim.
There are excellent reasons why the US and Russia cannot be allies. Russian hacks us continuously.
Hacking is near universal in the information age and originates with the international corporations
They invaded Ukraine.
No, they didn't. Russian ethnic enclaves faced destruction from Neo-Fascists that all but totally control the Ukraine's new government, and they separated from this hostile new order. I know, I met a few of the over a million refugees who fled the Ukraine and had to find new homes in the Russian Federation. The West is and was willfully ignorant of their stories...
They tried to undermine our elections.
No, they didn't. Again, chaos and the rise of new Fascist orders around the world in the wake of American political disorder is something Russia neither wants nor needs.
They are our historical enemy from the cold war and those feelings go deep.
Only from reactionary old idiots who still think Russia is Communist. Most of them ironically are Trump supporters. I know, because I fight them online almost every week with their stupid and senseless hatreds.
But here is the best reason. They do not want to be. Putin had every opportunity to behave and he won't.
Bullshit. Putin has spent almost his entire political career bending over backwards to be a loyal ally of the United States and the West, while NATO inches ever closer to her frontiers, and Western intelligence agencies work tirelessly to break her apart and find a new Yeltsin to help them loot Russia once more.
Russian is a pariah state and not worth out time. There is absolutely no reason for us to make nice to Putin. If Russia is butt hurt because we don't like him let him take the steps it will take to repair our relationship. In the meantime Russia is just Brazil with nukes....
Spoken like a true racist conservative after all
Guess you really are a GOP man, writing out racist and xenophobic remarks about one of the few ''acceptable'' targets of said racism and xenophobia...
I thought you were better than that, and personally as a Slav and Orthodox Christian who knows the real Russia, it saddens me deeply, the ignorant hatreds.