Since we're on the topic, how many of you noticed that Modern Greek was added to the Russian high school curriculum just recently?

I understand that, and it has been profitable.

Although I think the game has changed since then. Europe now has a generation of spineless politics that do not seem to understand what it has taken to get here. I think in some sense, it would have better not to shield them from certain realities of life. They've grown soft and vulnerable like teletubbies, and it would be cruel to try to sustain that forever.

At least I have seen the Kosovars express gratitude towards the US. I can't really say as much for western Europeans.

Aggressive posturing on both sides! I just know which side I prefer to be on. I know two wrongs don't make a right, but Putins Policy is not really about making friends, he has actively taken out journalists and political dissenters, rigged elections and changed laws to keep himself in power, and banked billions through fake businesses set up by friends (I would hazard a guess Trump is in there somewhere too), he has riled up nationalism and homophobia he even irradiated a Sushi bar in London. And this man has the power of a nuclear arsenal without anyone to control him. Murica on the other hand is not much better, but at least if I want to criticize its foreign policy, no one is going to disappear me, and it will take a lot of buying out for Trump to really own Congress.

Do you get a choice?

Are you 15?

Ah ha, that explains it. There you go:

Personally nothing. But I am British a pro European Brit to boot and Britain has since WWII been an ally of the Americans, we are part of their WWIII game plan, we love them to bits don't you know?

America simply does not want to see the resurgence of power that Russia had at the height of the Soviet Union. But as this is about NATO not America, the point is mute. I feel like I am banging my head against a wall, do you not have work to do?

No, are you a plum?





No if I was talking about chem trails and geoengineering, the Illuminati or Area 51, then I would deserve the alu-hat gag. I am talking about very possible realities in the 21st century. We even have disclosure of this from various security agencies around the world. China is constantly hacking for military and industrial secrets, why wouldn't creating soft regime change be an equally good way to wage a war?

It would certainly make a pleasant change from NATO's usual methods.

At least one bit of Orthodoxy is getting acceptance on this thread!

And how many of you saw thia story...

http://news.sky.com/story/us-congres...el-rt-10726705

I bet that freaked a good few people out

I get the point you're making, you just have a rather hysterical way of making it. You are not going to get disappeared by Vlad, unless you are a misbehaving spy. He has also been in charge of a nuclear arsenal for the best part of 20 years, and shown himself perfectly capable of not using them. You have nothing to fear.

The only reason this sabre-rattling has come about is due to the totally unnecessary idiotic expansionist ambitions of the EU in Ukraine. They stepped on Putin's feet with absolutely nothing to back it up, left a country in a Civil war, and now wish to rectify that by forming an army of their own.

Eh, the game has changed. The USSR was driven towards expansion by a leftist ideology of world domination. I don't really see an ideology behind Putin's Russia, so I'm not seeing a vehicle by which they can project Russian power. I don't think there are enough Russians in the world to station in every street corner, so from my perspective, Russia isn't really as much of a threat as made out to be.

At the moment, I'm more concerned about that EU ideology. It lacks a certainty rationality, as far as I'm concerned. There is a certain mindless obedience to it demonstrated by people like you that disturbs me. Fortunately, it doesn't have military legs to project itself, yet.

I don't really have a problem with Russia thriving as a country. I don't really think we need to try to contest Russia as we did in the Cold War, yet. I'd be happy to come to some detente and cooperation.

Trump gets this, ideologues do not. We'll see whether Trump can moderate the US hardliners. Like he said, "We might get along, we might not."

Just going back to the dossier, I've read this Reuters article a few times now and seen it reported by other news agencies. If anything, the fact that this guy is behind the FIFA report that brought down Sepp Blatter, and the fact that the Trump dossier was initially commissioned by Republicans, lends weight to there being a degree of credibility to the report. Obviously, none of us know what that degree of credibility would or could be, so we can only speculate.

Let people ruminate on the credibility of the press, I'll be absolutely clear on the agencies I respect, being Reuters for news and Magnum for documentary photography.

Now...Trump can take a swipe at CNN every day of the week. I'd like to see him take on Reuters. This article doesn't contain any sensationalist crap, it's worth the read and worth thinking about.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa...-idUKKBN14W0HV

Apparently there is no smoke without fire...

And let's not forget what happened when Carla del Ponte decided to focus on organ trafficking by the Kosovars against the Serbian minority in Kosovo.

The Western Media had decided that the Serbians are the bad guys and the Kosovars are the good guys.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnigh...3986001621200/

he says it well.

They probably didn't help themselves in that regard with Srebrenica et al.

He says it well but don't understand why the Shakespeare reference. I have a slow day...

Is he the buffoon or what?

Except this was the US' doing. EU didn't interfere with government-building in Ukraine.

Now it's all clear, you and Phos are Krembots! the EU did not want Ukraine, rather Ukraine wanted to join the EU so you are peddling Kremlin propaganda, I get it now

But didn't it all start when Vlad invaded the Crimea, because he was gutted that it wasn't part of Russia anymore and it was a very important strategic location for the Russian navy? Just saying.