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Tune in to TV Land right now. It's a film about how bat**** Russians are. Everybody Loves Raymond convertibility.

And should bat**** himself intrude, just write him off.
 
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Pacer92 said:
Never worried. Good entertainment tho!
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Better entertainment was Putin admitting he lied about Crimea. Such entertainment to see Putin prove me right about how all of this had plans going before most people thought. Sad to see that in the 21st century we have leaders who care less about international law and the sovereignty of neighbors and feel it necessary to lie to invade but then admit it like it was no big deal. Maybe he was laying low to avoid scrutiny of admission.
 
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The stones this guy has in trying to legitimize his invasion...

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/16/russia-s-takeover-of-crimea-was-legal-says-putin

Something to point out. The 20K soldiers that were already there (so technically it was a seizure and not an invasion) were granted approval by Yanukovich. Never before were Russian ground troops allowed in Crimea outside of the naval bases. And those on the bases were no where near that number. Why would Yanukovich change policy in effect from independence on? Why would he allow 20K Russian soldiers the ability to go anywhere on the Crimean peninsula? These guys were already staged for the seizure to happen. This goes to one of my points that Viktor was complicit in setting events up for Russia.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
The stones this guy has in trying to legitimize his invasion...

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/16/russia-s-takeover-of-crimea-was-legal-says-putin

Something to point out. The 20K soldiers that were already there (so technically it was a seizure and not an invasion) were granted approval by Yanukovich. Never before were Russian ground troops allowed in Crimea outside of the naval bases. And those on the bases were no where near that number. Why would Yanukovich change policy in effect from independence on? Why would he allow 20K Russian soldiers the ability to go anywhere on the Crimean peninsula? These guys were already staged for the seizure to happen. This goes to one of my points that Viktor was complicit in setting events up for Russia.
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I've linked the video from YouTube here in the past, but Illarionov (I believe it was), Putin's former economic right-hand man that then defected, claims that the Kremlin had been planning the seizure of Crimea and the events we've seen in Ukraine for years.

Who knows. May just be sour grapes, but his claims seem pretty credible, particularly in light of what Putin himself is now willing to reveal about it.

Whenever someone makes such accusations against the Kremlin, I for one, tend to take them seriously, especially considering that many people who make such accusations have a strange habit of dying prematurely.
 
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Velo Vol said:
What do they do in Israel?

By the way, is Crimea all that great? It's winters aren't any better than those in Tennessee, are they?
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...st-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?_r=0

I did take it beyond Netanyahu and go to Stalin's policies. If he wasn't diluting local populations from forced deportations he was bringing in thousands of ethnic Russians into these areas to negate any desires for nationalism and separatism. It is one reason why the former Soviet republics have such large Russian populations. And what has caused so many issues in these nations now. The Holodomor in Ukraine killed a few million ethnic Ukrainians. Fertile and valuable farmland could not be left unattended. Stalin brought in tens of thousands of Russians into the areas recently "vacated". It's one reason the Donbas area is so predominantly Russian.

As far as Crimea, the climate there is far better than anything further north. It is the closest thing they have to Florida. If you cannot afford to leave the country (which because of sanctions is a higher percentage than even a year ago) for vacations you go to Crimea.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
I think they need to keep trying...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsetxsa8PP8
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What is that? Just classic Russian macho-man buffoonery or an attempt to make it look like one of them was assaulted by an enemy?

That actually reminds me of the Raymond movie that came on (for some reason; never seen anything like it on that channel) on TV Land last night. The creator of "Everybody Loves Raymond" made a movie about his attempt to get a version picked up in Russia. And, besides typical Russian business hijinks and craziness, many of the Russian group he hired to evaluate the show's potential kept going on and on about how it would never make it in Russia because Raymond's character is too much a "wimp" that lets his wife have too much freedom and control.

I fell asleep before it ended, but I think they finally made it work. I guess they gave the Raymond character a lash to whip Debra with when needed. Ras would probably love it.

I also didn't realize there is apparently a Russian "Married With Children." For a country that hates us so much, they sure don't mind consuming our culture, but that seems to be fairly standard across the world.
 
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That also reminds me of a Salon article (very liberal site obviously, although this article was out of character) by a Russian woman some months ago about how much she prefers Russian men to American men, because they're so much more "manly" and don't mind smacking their women around every now and then.

Besides the near psychosis the woman demonstrated, she based her concept of American masculinity from her time spent studying at Columbia.

I don't think Ivy League is anyone with any ounce of sense's notion of "American masculinity," but, for her, apparently it sufficed.
 
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