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Russia uses soviet tactics to discuss ferguson


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2014 Dec 2, 8:12am   12,030 views  48 comments

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/soviet-propaganda-back-in-play-with-ferguson-coverage/511975.html

Those relying on Russia's state-run media right now are probably under the impression that all of America is up in flames and on the brink of imploding because the U.S. government is tyrannical and has been oppressing the underdogs for too long — and Ferguson is proof. In the Russian press, what started out as protests following Monday's decision not to indict the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a small town in Missouri back in August has morphed into an existential crisis worthy of front-page stories and hour-long segments on state-run television. Why should these protests warrant so much attention not only from Russia's state-run media, but also from the Foreign Ministry? Why has the late 18-year-old Michael Brown become such...

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47   MisdemeanorRebel   2014 Dec 3, 11:58am  

Robert Sproul says

Oh good:

"U.S. Army sending 100 tanks to Eastern Europe to deter ‘Russian aggression"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/us-army-sending-100-tanks-eastern-europe-deter-rus/

I don't think I have ever seen Putin back down. Ever.

Well, this is what Neocons want, endless war. The deployment is typical Neocon Bombast and Posturing. Even the dumbest US Army MBA Graduate General Officer must know that 100 tanks is a speedbump. Although, sometimes I wonder.

There are no George Kennans anymore. Nobody that's truly Serious. Only radical Jacobin Neoliberal/Neocons, the same people Reagan and Nixon kept in the basement of the White House and rolled their eyes at. People like Victoria "Nurse Ratchet" Nuland.

Underestimating Russia's resolve and fortitude is a longtime habit of Western Europeans. "You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." - Hitler. Yet, at the gates of Leningrad and Moscow, with Kiev, Smolensk, Novogorod, Bryansk and Minsk all gone, there wasn't even the least bit of a sign of a Political Collapse.

Poland in the 1500s (The Time of Troubles), the Swedes in the 1600s, Austro-Hungary in the 19th-20th, Napoleon, etc. Each one thought they would crush the Tsar and his ill-trained backward Russian peasant rabble in one fell swoop. Yet those Russian peasants - Konev was a lumberjack; Vatutin born a literal peasant - Humble Soldier to General both - defeated the formerly implacable crack Panzer Armies including Tiger I tanks at Kursk in 1943. Led by the finest Prussian Aristocrats like von Kluge, and Tank Masters like Hoth with years of actual combat experience - both were crushed by Russian peasants. That year, the Russians outproduced the Germans, even with half their industry overrun.

48   FortWayne   2014 Dec 3, 12:44pm  

Robert Sproul says

Oh good:

"U.S. Army sending 100 tanks to Eastern Europe to deter ‘Russian aggression"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/us-army-sending-100-tanks-eastern-europe-deter-rus/

Invade is the new "deter" right? We are such a screwed up nation these days.

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