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nafod wrote:So do you think the agreement is that we look the other way while Putin takes back the Baltic countries?

When oil prices collapsed at the end of 2014, Russia's rouble lost some 60 percent of its value to the dollar. GDP per capita dropped from $15,000 to $9,000 and the economy shrank by about 4 percent year on year.

Spending cuts were introduced and poverty rates increased. In 2015, the proportion of poor families with an income sufficient for purchasing food only increased from 22 to 39 percent, according to a study by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, while the middle class shrunk by 16 percent, according to Sberbank CIB Ivanov Consumer Confidence Tracker.

The standard of living deteriorated most significantly for Russia's poor outside the major economic centres.

A December 19, 2016, incident in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in which more than 70 people died after drinking bath lotion made of 90 percent ethanol demonstrated the desperation some people face. The victims - mostly poor and homeless - drank the substance because one bottle cost only 30 roubles (50 cents), six times less than a bottle of vodka.

Local media commented that the economic crisis, along with a higher alcohol tax, pushed more Russians to use illegally made alcohol and alcohol products. Over the past two years, poverty has reportedly been growing in the Irkutsk region, spreading to more than 21 percent of the population, while the real value of salaries has fallen by more than 10 percent.

powerlifter54 wrote:

nafod wrote:So do you think the agreement is that we look the other way while Putin takes back the Baltic countries?

Hard to tell if Trump will continue that Obama policy.

Saber Strike is a long-standing U.S. Army Europe-led cooperative training exercise designed to improve joint interoperability through a range of missions that prepare the 13 participating nations to support multinational contingency operations. The exercise - taking place from May 27-June 22 in multiple locations throughout Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -

Herv100 wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:I think when a naive fool like Obama, from a party deeply immersed in support and praise of Communism, lectures Romney on Russia not being our enemy, tells an emissary "tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after my last election", has his SecState do a "Russian Reset", and is unresponsive to numerous transgressions on the real and cyberdomains, it is time for a change.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the bad guys in Aleppo are Isis showed us Obama is more than a fool, he is dangerously inept. Not potentially, actually.

And gone in 2 weeks. Thankfully.

Shortly after intelligence officials delivered a highly-classified briefing on the Russian government’s alleged interference in US politics to President-elect Donald Trump, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published an unclassified version of the report. This version outlines the majority of the joint conclusions of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation. While it contains no major new hacking revelations, what is new is its focus on the role of Russia’s state-funded media organization, known as RT, and its international satellite media operations [...]

In an appendix to the report, the agencies laid out a detailed, publicly-sourced analysis of RT’s alleged propaganda operations, including television programming that promoted the Occupy Wall Street movement and focused on information countering US government domestic and foreign policy. RT, in the agency’s assessment, used coverage of the Occupy Movement to promote the notion that change wasn’t possible within the US democratic system and that only “revolutionary action” could affect real change. Many of the ideas promoted by RT, such as coverage critical of “fracking” for natural gas in the United States, aligned both with domestic opposition to the US government and with Russia’s own interest in curtailing US development of natural gas and reducing the price of the oil and gas upon which Russia’s economy is highly dependent.

dead man walking wrote:you want the truth?

russia holds a fuck-ton of donald's debt. vlad has said he'll forgive some of it if he can have melania as an occasional play toy. donald is game, but only if vlad throws a tiny, limber russian gymnast his way. he also wants to make sure that any action that includes daughter tiffany results in better terms for him. he's trying to discredit the usas's spooks so no one will believe them when they get wind of this menage a cinq and leak it.

pizzagate is nothing compared to this.

are you on this, benny?

nafod wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:I think when a naive fool like Obama, from a party deeply immersed in support and praise of Communism, lectures Romney on Russia not being our enemy, tells an emissary "tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after my last election", has his SecState do a "Russian Reset", and is unresponsive to numerous transgressions on the real and cyberdomains, it is time for a change.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the bad guys in Aleppo are Isis showed us Obama is more than a fool, he is dangerously inept. Not potentially, actually.

And gone in 2 weeks. Thankfully.

You don't like Obama? I never voted for him either.

But what about Trump and Putin? You cool with how Russia specifically worked to influence the election on his behalf? The connection between Trump and Putin that had to be there via Manafort? Trump making excuses for Russia taking Crimea? The bro love between them? His suggestion that maybe NATO should be history?

Should Trump draw a line on the Baltics? Yes or no?

Obama's a dot, so yelling OBAMA every time someone gives Trump a hard time isn't going to work in a couple of days. It shouldn't work now. Trump should be evaluated on his own (lack of) merits.

You know Trump was a draft dodger? Poor guy temporarily had bone spurs in his heels. Pussy.

It blows me away how many military actually like him. Not tolerate him - like him. Honor, courage, and commitment he is not.

No documents related to the hacks of the Democratic National Committee emails or Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails appear to be altered or forged, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election released Friday.

nafod wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:I think when a naive fool like Obama, from a party deeply immersed in support and praise of Communism, lectures Romney on Russia not being our enemy, tells an emissary "tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after my last election", has his SecState do a "Russian Reset", and is unresponsive to numerous transgressions on the real and cyberdomains, it is time for a change.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the bad guys in Aleppo are Isis showed us Obama is more than a fool, he is dangerously inept. Not potentially, actually.

And gone in 2 weeks. Thankfully.

You don't like Obama? I never voted for him either.

But what about Trump and Putin? You cool with how Russia specifically worked to influence the election on his behalf? The connection between Trump and Putin that had to be there via Manafort? Trump making excuses for Russia taking Crimea? The bro love between them? His suggestion that maybe NATO should be history?

Should Trump draw a line on the Baltics? Yes or no?

Obama's a dot, so yelling OBAMA every time someone gives Trump a hard time isn't going to work in a couple of days. It shouldn't work now. Trump should be evaluated on his own (lack of) merits.

You know Trump was a draft dodger? Poor guy temporarily had bone spurs in his heels. Pussy.

It blows me away how many military actually like him. Not tolerate him - like him. Honor, courage, and commitment he is not.

Turdacious wrote:

When oil prices collapsed at the end of 2014, Russia's rouble lost some 60 percent of its value to the dollar. GDP per capita dropped from $15,000 to $9,000 and the economy shrank by about 4 percent year on year.

Spending cuts were introduced and poverty rates increased. In 2015, the proportion of poor families with an income sufficient for purchasing food only increased from 22 to 39 percent, according to a study by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, while the middle class shrunk by 16 percent, according to Sberbank CIB Ivanov Consumer Confidence Tracker.

The standard of living deteriorated most significantly for Russia's poor outside the major economic centres.

A December 19, 2016, incident in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in which more than 70 people died after drinking bath lotion made of 90 percent ethanol demonstrated the desperation some people face. The victims - mostly poor and homeless - drank the substance because one bottle cost only 30 roubles (50 cents), six times less than a bottle of vodka.

Local media commented that the economic crisis, along with a higher alcohol tax, pushed more Russians to use illegally made alcohol and alcohol products. Over the past two years, poverty has reportedly been growing in the Irkutsk region, spreading to more than 21 percent of the population, while the real value of salaries has fallen by more than 10 percent.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 42953.html
The article leaves out two of the other major causes: American led sanctions and the American led ending of sanctions against Iran (and the effect that had on oil prices). Must be hard on Vlad, knowing he's spent the last few years getting bent over by Obama.

nafod wrote:
Obama's a dot, so yelling OBAMA every time someone gives Trump a hard time isn't going to work in a couple of days. It shouldn't work now. Trump should be evaluated on his own (lack of) merits.

You know Trump was a draft dodger? Poor guy temporarily had bone spurs in his heels. Pussy.

It blows me away how many military actually like him. Not tolerate him - like him. Honor, courage, and commitment he is not.

bennyonesix wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

When oil prices collapsed at the end of 2014, Russia's rouble lost some 60 percent of its value to the dollar. GDP per capita dropped from $15,000 to $9,000 and the economy shrank by about 4 percent year on year.

Spending cuts were introduced and poverty rates increased. In 2015, the proportion of poor families with an income sufficient for purchasing food only increased from 22 to 39 percent, according to a study by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, while the middle class shrunk by 16 percent, according to Sberbank CIB Ivanov Consumer Confidence Tracker.

The standard of living deteriorated most significantly for Russia's poor outside the major economic centres.

A December 19, 2016, incident in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in which more than 70 people died after drinking bath lotion made of 90 percent ethanol demonstrated the desperation some people face. The victims - mostly poor and homeless - drank the substance because one bottle cost only 30 roubles (50 cents), six times less than a bottle of vodka.

Local media commented that the economic crisis, along with a higher alcohol tax, pushed more Russians to use illegally made alcohol and alcohol products. Over the past two years, poverty has reportedly been growing in the Irkutsk region, spreading to more than 21 percent of the population, while the real value of salaries has fallen by more than 10 percent.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 42953.html
The article leaves out two of the other major causes: American led sanctions and the American led ending of sanctions against Iran (and the effect that had on oil prices). Must be hard on Vlad, knowing he's spent the last few years getting bent over by Obama.

You Deep State shill. Our FP has been murderous, shameful and disastrous. Go fuck youself and your snide comments. We have destabilized the entire world except China's SOI and for what? And with Obama we had a full fledged civil war and millions of dead people.

bennyonesix wrote:Typical great poast Turd. Nice work.

If you are actually Catholic, which I doubt, but you may have some typically tendentious conception in mind, this may interest you on the topic. But I am sure you think there is nothing to see here.

http://theweek.com/articles/670249/chil ... pe-francis

You know who hates the poor handling of the child abuse scandals the most? Practicing Catholics.

dead man walking wrote:you want the truth?

russia holds a fuck-ton of donald's debt. vlad has said he'll forgive some of it if he can have melania as an occasional play toy. donald is game, but only if vlad throws a tiny, limber russian gymnast his way. he also wants to make sure that any action that includes daughter tiffany results in better terms for him. he's trying to discredit the usas's spooks so no one will believe them when they get wind of this menage a cinq and leak it.

pizzagate is nothing compared to this.

are you on this, benny?

powerlifter54 wrote:I think when a naive fool like Obama, from a party deeply immersed in support and praise of Communism, lectures Romney on Russia not being our enemy, tells an emissary "tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after my last election", has his SecState do a "Russian Reset", and is unresponsive to numerous transgressions on the real and cyberdomains, it is time for a change.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the bad guys in Aleppo are Isis showed us Obama is more than a fool, he is dangerously inept. Not potentially, actually.

And gone in 2 weeks. Thankfully.