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Mar 15 2017 05:02pm
Every time I watch the news it's always news about Russia hacking or Putin doing stuff most of which is bad. Is Russia really bad or is it just the media trying to give that impression? Don't see them reporting any good news...
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Mar 15 2017 05:04pm
Politically uninformed Puppy

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Mar 15 2017 05:10pm
Well putins political opponents do keep dying in mysterious ways
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Mar 15 2017 05:11pm
Russia isn't "evil", it just goes against the interests of the majority of the western world's political interests.

While definitely not a perfect country, it's not worse than several countries on "our side".
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Mar 15 2017 05:17pm
Quote (zarkadon @ 16 Mar 2017 00:11)
Russia isn't "evil", it just goes against the interests of the majority of the western world's political interests.

While definitely not a perfect country, it's not worse than several countries on "our side".


pretty much this
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Mar 15 2017 05:19pm
Quote (zarkadon @ Mar 15 2017 06:11pm)
Russia isn't "evil", it just goes against the interests of the majority of the western world's political interests.

While definitely not a perfect country, it's not worse than several countries on "our side".


Yep. They certainly don't share our core values, but we don't have to treat them like some boogeyman. It's not good for America or the West for Russia to gain more influence around the world, so we should take steps to prevent that. It's also not good for our president to sweet talk the leader of Russia.



Putin's a killer, but like the President of the United States said, America has a lot of killers as well. /s

This post was edited by IceMage on Mar 15 2017 05:20pm
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Mar 15 2017 05:24pm
Regardless, we shouldn't be picking a fight with Russia
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Mar 15 2017 05:43pm
Quote (IceMage @ 16 Mar 2017 00:19)
Yep. They certainly don't share our core values, but we don't have to treat them like some boogeyman. It's not good for America or the West for Russia to gain more influence around the world, so we should take steps to prevent that. It's also not good for our president to sweet talk the leader of Russia.



Putin's a killer, but like the President of the United States said, America has a lot of killers as well. /s


Excluding countries that take out the opposition will leave you with very few countries to deal with.

Quote (IgoSoHard @ 16 Mar 2017 00:24)
Regardless, we shouldn't be picking a fight with Russia


Preferably not, but we can stand strong together when needed.
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Mar 15 2017 06:06pm
They're sorta like Batman and Superman - sorta friends but because we dont want war with them, but we got a sneaky suspicion there up to something.
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Mar 15 2017 06:22pm
Quote (IgoSoHard @ 15 Mar 2017 19:24)
Regardless, we shouldn't be picking a fight with Russia

agreed, unfortunately the military industrial complex-holding left and GOPe make their millions by profiting off international conflicts. Anyone who voted for (c)linton wanted to escalate tensions with Russia.
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