us-russia relations

Well we finally had a Republican telling the Truth, everyone of the Crazies is compromised, especially the MAGA Republicans. https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-congressman-thinks-coworkers-have-been-taped-sleeping-with-spies-2023-12

Suppose Republicans take the House and Senate by 2024. Suppose that Donald Trump wins a second term. Suppose further that the war in Ukraine remains just as hot by that time. Would a Republican-controlled government stifle aid to Ukraine? Would sanctions against Russia be reversed? Would Trump...

Putin has amassed a very large army on Ukraine's border. They have demanded some very big things. -no more NATO expansion eastward. -no Ukraine membership in NATO. -NATO brings its forces back to 1998 locations. This is some serious stuff. And NATO's response? "**** YOU". Now, if Putin...

"White House press secretary Jen Psaki said intelligence shows Russia is laying the groundwork for invasion by planning a false flag incident, and through a social media disinformation campaign framing Ukraine as an aggressor." US intelligence warns Russia 'laying the groundwork' to invade...

So, after Biden's script writers called Putin a "killer", he was asked about that and said the following today (original video), text auto-translated from a trustworthy translation into German: :popcorn6

What is his deal with Bounties? First Puerto Rico, and now Afghanistan.

Kidding about Lothlórien of course. If they need energy they just do some voodoo tricks on their trees. No need to buy from Mordor. But Turkey has been unruly and is not only building a pipeline, but also has been buying weapons from Mordor, so the alleged representatives of the Yankistanis...

US cruiser nearly gets itself rammed by Russian destroyer. For anyone familiar with sailing the US vessel was clearly the give way vessel it was approaching the Russian vessel on the Russian''s Portside and the Russian vessel was on the starboard side of the USN cruiser. The Russian vessel was...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/donald-trump-putin-nato/index.html Seems trump and Putin are going to have themselves a one on one sit-down in the not too distant future. This thread serves as a one-stop shop for all predictions both silly and serious. My initial prediction...

So much for the argument that the majority of the country wanted Trump, eh? New thread for continuing discussions from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325745

His report seems makes more sense the Justice Department position that Lesin got drunk alone in his room and bludgeoned himself to death.

New thread for continuing discussions from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=321467

For decades the USA has been promoting, enacting and justifying coups all over the world. Iran, Vietnam, Egypt, Syria, Guatemala, Lebanon, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Nicuraugua, Panama, etc etc. We have been sticking our noses in other people's business, and finally its come back to bite...

New thread for continuing discussions from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=317528

So this just happened. Its kicking off a wee bit http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/uae-and-saudi-arabia-cut-ties-with-qatar--live-updates

The other threads are either too general or too specific. To start with, I'm cataloging some old news. These are the different times that Trump claimed to have a direct relationship with Putin. Nov 2013 Roberts: Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin? A conversational relationship or...

Hello all! I have not seen this posted yet, so I thought I would do so now. When then Senator Jeff Sessions was interviewed in the Senate by his fellow senators a few weeks to discuss his appointment as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions actually swore under oath that he did not have any contact...

This will likely end up needing merging with other threads on the same thing, this is a big story. Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking :jaw-dropp Further reading: New Yorker: TRUMP, PUTIN, AND THE NEW COLD WAR - What lay behind Russia’s...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39004987 Looks like Russia has realised a tad late that it has overplayed its hand in regards to Trump. Must have started to think being so pally with him was in fact going to stop them achieving their goals. I think Putin and his cronies have done their...

Being "respected" by Putin is a perk... but what about the rest of the world? One common factoid that Trump and other Republicans have pushed is the idea that Obama isn't "respected" by other countries. This is of course a highly questionable assertion considering that Obama has continued to...

Obama has vowed to retaliate against Russia for their interference in the election. What form will that retaliation take?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-officials-putin-personally-involved-u-s-election-hack-n696146 Because Putin really dislikes Clinton and he also figures anything that's bad for NATO is good for him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/us-formally-accuses-russia-of-stealing-dnc-emails.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Removing any shred of a doubt as to why Trump is running and what will happen. If Trump becomes President, Putin will run America.

Trump asks a foreign Country to carry out espionage against our country for his own gain, and they did. Comparatively, this is FAR worse than the Watergate scandal. The Feds have begun an investigation into the recent hacking, but so far have not indicated whether Trump would be part of that...

I think the interesting thing about the latest release of DNC emails by Wikileaks isn't really what's in the emails themselves, but who they come from. The hack, remember, came from Russia. And hacking is still a crime last time I checked. Who benefits ultimately? Trump. And why would Russia...

Monday: John Kerry announces a plan to send additional arms to be to the Baltic States. Tuesday: Putin puts in order for 40 new nuclear ICBMs. Wednesday: NATO hold exercises only 100 miles from Kalingrad Naval Base. Given Russia's recent continued incursions into - or close to - NATO member...

Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that tensions between Russia and European powers over the Ukraine crisis could result in a major conflict or even nuclear war, in an interview to appear in a German news magazine on Saturday."A war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a...

Russia is coming apart at the seams. Putin's desperate. Estonia's border region has a lot of ethnic Russians. What if there's an "incident"? Would NATO invoke it's article V defense clause? Would Obama risk going to war with Russia over Estonia? If you were Obama, would you risk it? I don't...

Justin Raimondo over at antiwar.com takes a look at the cause of the whiny response of US pre$$titutes to V.V. Putin's Valdai speech.

I'm wondering why the media isn't talking about how Russia's actions have pretty much KILLED nuclear non-proliferation around the world. After what Russia has done and is doing, no nation will ever again give up their nukes or nuclear ambitions. In 1994, Russia committed to respect Ukrainian...