Well he was a huge novelty in the campaign

Look at how they treat bernie or ron paul?

way different

if they REALLY hate you, they never talk about you

We’ve reached a sort of fatigue interestingly

and even the impeachment process helps Putin, because it helps undermine faith in american govenrment

at least Sh0t argues in good faith I really commend the guy

hence that crazy dude taling about 'we will get our guns, etc"

Putin can't lose

he's a G

the usual people who match Russia in these moves unfortunately drank the koolaid, probably on that racial stuff

Yeah he’s an authoritarian dictator

He’s quite good at it

Though he’s not particularly good at running Th country

definitely not

And made it fairly easy for Obama to destroy his economy

Which is a reason he wanted trump so bad

From the POV of a russian geopolitical strategist, they pulled their nuts out of the fire big time

Same with the UK too

Yeah

Only country i'm not sure about is Germany

But think of how big a risk it was

Because if Clinton won, which was a more likely outcome

I don't think they had a choice by then, we might have actually encouraged them to get gangsta

She could come down hard with sanctions

yea if HIllary won, we'd still be 2014 status quo there

I think it was just a move of desperation

I think it would be worse frankly

I agree, thats what i mean

To me the Iran deal was a big part of it

She could have blocked a lot of lower level imports, not just the oligarch money movement

Yeah no doubt

If Iran can ship oil to Europe, Russia is fucked

yup, having that outlet was their goal

Merkle is the one I can't read

Austria is obvious with that natural gas deal

I read german politics and I see stuff on her from the point of view of 'staying around too long'

Paul Lever's book is great too

I think Merkel is a savvy player with an precarious domestic politic situation

Christopher Story always called the EU the European Soviet

Could Russia lure Greece away?