Hogan, my erudite friend

[LincolnDuncan]

Are you still on the Trump train?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

If he is, he best get off quick, cuz

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[Colonel Hogan]

If he is, he best get off quick, cuz

https://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt28sfPhKV1r4dytpo1_500.gif

http://www.thedatereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/i-love-you-man-p-johnny-depp-27190197-500-211.gif

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Are you still on the Trump train?

I think it is most accurate to say that I see myself as an "objective" observer interested in, but more than slightly apprehensive about, its "progress."

http://i.imgur.com/8oLy0L3.gif

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I think it is most accurate to say that I see myself as an "objective" observer interested in, but more than slightly apprehensive about, its "progress."

http://i.imgur.com/8oLy0L3.gif

Seeing the Russians with a smug attitude in the Oval Office is scaring the shit out of me.

It looks like a victory lap.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Seeing the Russians with a smug attitude in the Oval Office is scaring the shit out of me.

It looks like a victory lap.

I'm somewhat less concerned about that than his penchant to "load, fire, aim" and leave his hapless staff to make up plausible explanations for his actions which he then turns around and undercuts.

The Russia's and China's of the world will attempt to take such advantage of his perceived intellectual weakness that they will eventually overreach and inevitably draw a counter-response or rebuke. That's my theory, at least. That international relations may be slightly more self-regulating than his ability to fuck up domestically, which could be unlimited.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Erudite? Is that a gay man's wedding ring stone?

 

[hashtag46]

Seeing the Russians with a smug attitude in the Oval Office is scaring the shit out of me.

It looks like a victory lap.

Why would it scare you?
What do you think they would do? Send their tanks over? Nuke the US?

I never understood the Russia bogeyman thing.

Russia might have questionable regional politics, just like certain US allies do.
But I don't see it pose any existential threat to the US.

 

[sr71plt]

Russia might have questionable regional politics, just like certain US allies do.
But I don't see it pose any existential threat to the US.

You probably are just as well living with those delusions--as long as you do.

 

[OldJourno]

You probably are just as well living with those delusions--as long as you do.

Actually, he picked up those talking points watching Obama during the 2012 debates.
"Uh, Mitt, the 1980s called and want their foreign policy back," Mr. Smug said, and only a few short months after promising Putin he would have more "flexibility" in gutting the U.S. arsenal after the election.

 

[OldJourno]

BTW, sr71pffffft, have you figured out that you misspelled Israel earlier today?

 

[sr71plt]

BTW, sr71pffffft, have you figured out that you misspelled Israel earlier today?

No, it's easy to do. Guess you don't have much excitement in your life that you have to make a big deal out of minutia. You're such a small-minded dipshit.

 

[toeskr]

No, it's easy to do. Guess you don't have much excitement in your life that you have to make a big deal out of minutia. You're such a small-minded dipshit.

Says the small minded dipshit that had no trouble at correcting a misspelling I lifted from one of your cohorts.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are you still on the Trump train?

He never was.

Why do you refuse to pay fucking attention?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Seeing the Russians with a smug attitude in the Oval Office is scaring the shit out of me.

It looks like a victory lap.

Obama did the same fucking thing and you never said boo...



You stayed on that crazy train through thick and thin.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm somewhat less concerned about that than his penchant to "load, fire, aim" and leave his hapless staff to make up plausible explanations for his actions which he then turns around and undercuts.

The Russia's and China's of the world will attempt to take such advantage of his perceived intellectual weakness that they will eventually overreach and inevitably draw a counter-response or rebuke. That's my theory, at least. That international relations may be slightly more self-regulating than his ability to fuck up domestically, which could be unlimited.

*chuckle*

 

[hashtag46]

NATO is making up Russian threat to justify its own existence – former French intel chief
https://www.rt.com/news/388612-bonnet-nato-france-russia/

"Picturing Russia as in international menace “doesn’t work anymore. I can assure you that the French people, fortunately, no longer believe it,” Bonnet added.

In the current historic moment, NATO “isn’t a useful organization, but a dangerous one,” Bonnet said, adding that “the North Atlantic Alliance should be disbanded altogether.”
“I saw what NATO did in Yugoslavia [in 1999], waging a war there without an international warrant… Now NATO is invading Afghanistan, although this country isn’t in the North Atlantic,” he said.

He expressed regret that “for political reasons” Paris is neglecting cooperation with intelligence services of Russia, Syria and other countries that are “directly fighting against terrorism.”
Such international cooperation would be more effective in tackling extremism in France than the emergencies law and other measures currently imposed by the country’s’ authorities, the former intelligence chief said."

It's like talking with kindergarden children.
"The russians are coming!"

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Obama did the same fucking thing

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[4est_4est_Gump]

NATO is making up Russian threat to justify its own existence – former French intel chief
https://www.rt.com/news/388612-bonnet-nato-france-russia/

"Picturing Russia as in international menace “doesn’t work anymore. I can assure you that the French people, fortunately, no longer believe it,” Bonnet added.

In the current historic moment, NATO “isn’t a useful organization, but a dangerous one,” Bonnet said, adding that “the North Atlantic Alliance should be disbanded altogether.”
“I saw what NATO did in Yugoslavia [in 1999], waging a war there without an international warrant… Now NATO is invading Afghanistan, although this country isn’t in the North Atlantic,” he said.

He expressed regret that “for political reasons” Paris is neglecting cooperation with intelligence services of Russia, Syria and other countries that are “directly fighting against terrorism.”
Such international cooperation would be more effective in tackling extremism in France than the emergencies law and other measures currently imposed by the country’s’ authorities, the former intelligence chief said."

It's like talking with kindergarden children.
"The russians are coming!"

So he agrees with Abu Ivanka al-Amriki?

 

[hashtag46]

So he agrees with Abu Ivanka al-Amriki?

Looks like it.
And many brits. too. You should have listened to Des, when he was posting here.

Why do they call him that? It makes no sense to me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I listened to Des...



I also think NATO jumped the shark when it brought in Turkey.

I also agree with Bolton that the UN should have the top ten stories blown off.

International cooperation and peace is only possible in one-on-one relationships and I sure as hell don't want to go to war over Georgia, Crimea or Ukraine. That's Germany's problem...

 

[Conager]

You probably are just as well living with those delusions--as long as you do.

How concerned were you about Obama's message to the Rooskies caught on a hot mike?