You sir, also fail to mention why the Americans went to Afghanistan. There was a certain bad guy living there at the time that was responsible for 9-11-2001 or did you forget that?

You sir, also fail to mention why the Americans went to Afghanistan. There was a certain bad guy living there at the time that was responsible for 9-11-2001 or did you forget that?

Cont letter from Putin

You might as well learn two additional concepts: CTO, which stands for Counter Terror Operation, and hexogen. This is important. For real. And in future, try to avoid places with other people, train stations, airports - well, especially train stations and airports - bus stations, markets, concerts and crowds in general.

If you still have to fly, make sure to be at the airport three hours in advance. At each entrance, there will be check points. Better not joke with the guards. Shave off your beard. Lighten your hair. Turn your pockets inside out and let them frisk you when they tell you. Never - never! - leave home without identification documents.

Yes, don't forget sanctions from our international friends, that is to say, our new enemies. You guys are in Russia now.

And then a few tiny matters. Well, a bunch of them, really:

It is prohibited to protest in Russia.

It is prohibited to resist the unlawful arrest and unlawful detention.

It is prohibited for regions to be autonomous. It is forbidden to leave the Russian federation. Separatism is prohibited.

It is prohibited for foreigners to adopt Russian children.

It is prohibited to propagate homosexuality.

It is prohibited for Madonna and Lady Gaga to perform.

It is prohibited to put up unauthorized posters.

The television network Dozjd is prohibited.

Any day now, online money will be prohibited.

Prices in Moscow is twice as high as in Kiev. On everything.

And, finally, for us (and now also for you), it is forbidden to sell alcohol from eleven at night till eight in the morning. The Sobriety Act, you see.

You sir, also fail to mention why the Americans went to Afghanistan. There was a certain bad guy living there at the time that was responsible for 9-11-2001 or did you forget that?

Believe it or not, Obama is more of a right-wing corporatist than even Regan. don't EVEN try to tell me this country is going downhill due to liberals when Obama's fiscal actions have been 1000x more conservative than Bush. Obama's no more a liberal than Bill Maher is a conservative. Obama's a corporatist conservative with progressive leanings.

Sorry to snap you back to reality, but your ignorance was irritating me.

u r a clown, sir. when you don't have facts, you just make them up, amirite?

Only fter Russia dropped in thousands of paratroopers and ferried tanks across the strait of kerch. No big deal.

Comrade Ludvig Enraga,

I am pretty confident Piraten is just trying to satirize Comrade Putin's and the government's more authoritarian stance...

Only fter Russia dropped in thousands of paratroopers and ferried tanks across the strait of kerch. No big deal.

I want Americans to stand up for their constitution (Which is being eroded day by day) and for them to stick true to their principles. Go look at people like Ron Paul. He stands for the Realness, the 'old times' America which is gone now. The America that was a beacon of freedom for the world, not the globalist policemen where corporations reign supreme.

If the American people can't take back what they rightfully should have then I want nothing to do with them. Actually **** all powers and superpowers, I want Humanity to retake this world in the name of freedom. We need a huge revolution world wide!

Do what the French did and guillotine all of the corrupt immoral leaders that infest our planet.

Last point ita easy to point the figure when the tanks are not on your border and nut jobs are not romming the streets threating you if you vote incorrectly Russias are bulles i dislike them because the ones that live on my street in London have tried to mug me more than once for example.

Get stuffed idiot, you don't know what you are even talking about.

For those who care to learn a bit before making braindead comments on it, here's some basic info on the situation:


Crimea is part of Ukraine which used to be a part of Russia. Crimea has been a largely pro-Russian area of the Ukraine for some years now. It's not like Russia is invading Ireland or anything, they were annexing Crimea to get the Ukrainian military out of it so that Crimea could become a part of Russia again. As of right now, Putin is insisting that they have no intentions to further hassle Ukraine.

On the flip side, this action was brash and violated several international laws. Russia did something similar years ago with Georgia (the country, not the state), but I really don't recall what happened with that.... it kinda got fogged out with all of our stupid war bullshit over here in the US. Our news pretty much stopped covering it and we lost interest. Anyway, they pretty much got away with hitting Georgia. That means the international community is taking this latest action very seriously.


And that is a VERY basic rundown of the situation. Now, people, please learn about the topic before you post on it....

And you fail to mention why Soviets were there.... You see how things are sorta symmetric here.

Corporate Conservative, maybe he is one. But from my observations he is most definitely not a fiscal conservative. A look at our debt, yes, and you will see the difference between him and Putin.

The reforms Putin makes and the reforms Obama makes--starkly different.

I apologize earlier for not using the correct term, Affordable Care Act. Quite simply, I don't think it deserves that name. For a lot of people I know, as well as myself, it isn't affordable. In this case, I see no logic to say that it is, and lie to myself

Ron Paul is my hero! He doesn't give a crap about big government, being a police state internationally, or big business. And it's sad that people don't support him because he doesn't totally want to screw over either Liberals or Conservatives.

That is an ignorant argument. It has happened before using that same excuse/pretext with the **** annexation of austria, the Anschluss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss

The Soviets went there to prop up the government of Afghanistan. They were not attacked by a terrorist group prior to their invasion. The U.S was. But, I guess you are one of those conspiracy nuts that believes, the US blew the World Trade Center itself.

Fiscal conservatism is all about cutting government spending and reallocating government money to where it is needed (not trying to insult your intelligence by over-explaining it, just trying to be thorough for the sake of other readers). I'm not saying Obama is a fiscally conservative, I'm pointing out that he is far more fiscally conservative than our last president (who was supposed to be, by definition as a conservative, fiscally conservative). All of our last several presidents however have been corporatists. Apart from the Bush's, they were all in fact fiscally conservative corporatists.

The problem with corporatism is that they take all the money they save from cutting the budget and funnel 90% of it into either subsidies for companies who contributed for their campaign's or to the defense budget (which is a round-about way of funneling money to corporations who profit off of war by making weapons/ammunition/fatigues/etc.). Bush expanded the US government immensely while he was in office and Obama steadily shrunk it his entire first term in office. The deficit we are currently in is a result of Bush's government & military expansion and poor financial choices, topped off by the war we were so stupidly led by the nose into. Just about every right-wing news organization in the country goes on and on about how much the deficit is growing every day, but that's nothing but rhetoric. People don't realize it because you can't see it by just looking around, but the budget deficit has gone from 10 percent of GDP in 2009 -- when Obama first took office -- to about 4 percent of GDP in 2013.

Here's a chart of what the deficit has looked like over the years Obama has been in office. The second graph shows the deficit in dollar amount from 2009-2014, and the third graph shows the deficit as a percent of GDP over the same time span.