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You have literally done nothing to address any of the points, other than insult me and attempt to assert intellectual superiority through non factual rhetoric. Cut it out dude, if you want to claim adulthood or change my point of view, then you can start by engaging in a respectful debate.
Trump is not connected to the Saudis in way Hillary is. He may end up doing business with them, he may end up establishing trades with them, but he will never be in their pocket the way Hillary is. There is a reason they're saying they will hike up prices of oil if he wins. Why should any American citizen listen to Saudi threats, especially after their involvement in 9-11?
As for Russians, they're gonna get pounded economically? Where are you getting your facts from man, the 1990s? Not trying to be rude, but that's not at all how the current climate is. Russia and China just signed over 58 trade deals last week, totaling over 50 billion dollars. China has a minority ownership in Roznef now. Both countries have astronomically increased their military spending, and are expanding their sphere of influence. With UK leaving the EU, and EU wanting its own army outside of NATO, you're gonna see a closer relationship between the EU and Russians. The main reason the EU even went with the sanctions was because they thought they were gonna replace Russia with Turkey as their main natural gas provider once the Qatar pipeline was built. That will never happen, as Russians are going to restore Assad to power. Europe will do business with Russia again, and this time with reduced US/UK influence.
You really think we're not in a cold war? The west has already tried to make a naval base in the black sea, and it got shut out by Putin. It responded with economic sanctions, which have not had any influence on Kremlin's foreign policy.
Contempt is the wrong approach here. They have the resources and fortitude to endure the worst of times. We need a businessman at the table, who will negotiate a healthy relationship before the two nations. Hillary's approach to Syria and Libya ruined those countries and Europe, and her approach to Putin will ruin the rest.
Brutal.
Certainly, Russia had to quiet down bigtime when the crude oil prices crashed, but to opine that, "Russia sucks and is only marginally above North Korea" is one of the more profoundly stupid posts to be made in seriousness I've read on Sherdog in the War Room in months. Allow me to add the fact that Russia has been mobilizing more military hardware to the Baltic borders than they have at any time since World War II, and NATO forces are counter-mobilizing although the top Russian studies expert in the United States, Stephen Cohen (a former professor of mine, actually), argues that it would take Putin less than 60 hours to overrun these forces should he desire. Because we all know North Korea could totally threaten NATO forces.
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Been a long time since I took a political philosophy course, but I'm pretty sure mass "mobilization" along borders is a lynchpin of what we define as Cold War tactics.
