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Hi Foxy,
Sorry about that short response, I was using my smartphone to comment and accidentally posted my comment before I'd finished writing it.
Don't take this the wrong way; but do you assume I'm not aware of mostly everything you mentioned?

I knew everything you mentioned, except the quote from Lenin.

Do you think that because I'm on the right conservative 'racist bigot' side of things or that because I hold a different opinion to you that I must be unintelligent or uninformed or ignorant of things?

"Wars Of Liberation"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23A16mjojh8

"The conceptual differences between democratic legal traditions
and totalitarian communist systems which use law as a political
weapon are so great, that it is inconceivable that the two
systems would work for their mutual benefit in any matter
involving international political issues and human rights."

Let me ask you what do you think Ronald Reagan meant, when he said "If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism"?

You mention the Bill of Rights, but you fail to mention the attack upon it.
How many of those amendments get routinely trampled upon nowadays?
- And I'm pretty sure that those documents were not so much a representation of the rights of citizens, as much as they were supposed to be about the limits of government.

"You claim that there are free elections - and that Russia has changed today? How many dissidents and journalists and politicians who oppose Putin are still alive? And how successful are anti-government
demonstrations in Moscow?"

To understand why Putin might act the way he does you first have to understand the "Regime Change Script", then you'll also understand that the so-called 'free and independent media' are an active part of that script.

And so, if the US or any other country wants to send its 5th column spies and journalists to deliberately undermine a nation and start civil wars for regime change, then I could care less if a journalist goes floating down the river face down.

Watch the videos, look what the US does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNeqrTbkZmM

mhaze,

The US has given more than $1 billion to the Ukraine
since the Russian invasion in 2014. It has maintained
its hawkish stance on Russia. This recent money simply
highlights the disconnect between the US President's
rhetoric and his administration's policies.

The following link explains:

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/trump-defends-putin-bromance-while-mattis-works-to-arm-russian-foe-2018-7/

It is not news that Trump is in the news again today, and not news it is not good news for him again, both are daily events and still some find reason to defend him? again, pause, be honest, tell us what you would say if this news was about the great man Obama?

AC,

Western analysts do not consider Russia a democracy.
How could they? Putin controls all the media and
television outlets and any opposition is virtually
invisible. Human rights organisations and activists
have accused Putin of persecuting political critics
and activists as well as ordering them tortured or
assassinated.

The elections in Russia are in name only. In truth they
are a sham and a smokes-screen - designed to confer
democratic respectability on to a corrupt oligarchy.

For Russians accustomed to unaccountable rule from on
high, this is nothing new. More surprising is the supine
acquiescence, bordering on complicity from western
democracies.

I have nothing further to add.

Foxy,

Yes I get it. If the US does something that can be spun as helpful to Putin its proof that Putin owns Trump. If the US does something that is unhelpful to Putin, its proof that Putin owns Trump. And this is serious analysis!

Your link is headlined "As Trump continues to defend his Putin bromance". Is that another of those unbiased reports you happened to find on Google? Funny how you just google something and always, always find something to confirm what you want to be true.

no! focus! what if ANY Democratic POTUS acted as Trump has? support him if you must but do you understand just what type of a man he is?as we near the mid terms we may, just may, see him rejected by many more than those who supported him as he ranted his way around the hillbilly south