Russia repeatedly tests European and Alaska airspace

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altmin said:
There were plenty of politicians back in the 30s who wanted to ally with Hitler, luckily they were in the minority. At this point they control all three branches of government.
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I have no doubt that there were, but they simply stayed in the closet with those feelings. In other words no politician back then actually came out and verbally or through written word formally endorsed Hitler. I think Nye or somebody like that came closest.
 
altmin said:
There were plenty of politicians back in the 30s who wanted to ally with Hitler, luckily they were in the minority. At this point they control all three branches of government.
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And a lot of far right, whit nationalist types have been trying to make the case over the last few months that we should have allied with Hitler, not Stalin
 
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Trump Calls for Massive Tariffs on China and India

"Donald Trump has asked the EU to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on India and China as part of a joint effort to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine,"
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Said one U.S. official: “We’re ready to go, ready to go right now, but we’re only going to do this if our European partners step up with us.”

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I know China and India buy a lot of Russian oil on the cheap but this strikes me as a guy with no desire to fight posing as a pugilist and praying that his more level-headed buddies hold him back.

Just symbolically, this seems to require direct action against Russia, not collateral tariffs. And a 100% tariff on India would seem to directly co fluctuate with Trump’s new posts about being on the verge of a trade deal with India to lower their tariffs …
 
ZenMode said:
Speaking of Obama... I bet Romney would like to have a word or two with him about this situation with Russia. ;)
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Nah. There is a lot of "Whose fault is it really?" that exists regarding some domestic issues, and even - potentially - with the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The current mess with Russia, though? That's on Trump.
 
ZenMode said:
Speaking of Obama... I bet Romney would like to have a word or two with him about this situation with Russia. ;)
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I suppose I could admit that Romney's fascination with Russia seems less ridiculous than it did at the time. Without saying he was right per se, perhaps "the 1980s wants its foreign policy back" line was unjustified.

But again, that's the problem with the GOP. Since they are so rarely serious about anything, nobody takes them seriously. "Russia" was attributed to Romney doing more red-baiting, to recreate the electoral dynamics of the cold war. Remember, Romney's campaign was notorious for lying, though it was a truth bomb compared to Trump. Remember "Lyin' Ryan"? Guy lied about his marathon time for no reason. He lied about a lot of other stuff too. I had a colleague whose wife was good friends with Paul Ryan's wife and so they would see each other every year at some vacation at a lake somewhere in Wisconsin. He had always known Paul to be a straight shooter, so his transformation into professional bullshitter was hard for my colleague to take.
 
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