Russians VS Democracy and the Germans Depart
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So the Russians are giving us the cold shoulder and there is nuclear activity going on and the US is left out of the circle. This is not about the war in Iraq. I knew these things would start taking place once these other countries saw America start to fall apart. I have always thought the German people would be functioning in the world as Russians and collaborating with the Chinese.
The Chinese are a huge threat to any country because they are so big. The Chinese are a threat financially, politically and socially. The Germans are smart people and they are very influenced by lifestyle and idealism, and this is threatened right now. The fact is, China is rising and the rest of the world is paying attention. America isn't defending herself in any way. She's not keeping her technology within her borders, she's not rewarding intelligence but rather coddling ignorance and she isn't making sure that the super people .. the inventors, the builders, the creators will want to come here. America was a place for the Albert Einsteins of the world to go - its not so anymore!
The Germans never displaced the people, instead they sent the military - the Nazis - and they have been acquiring and collecting information for the Germans for a very, very long time. They have quite a grasp on the latest technologies and they have been busy gaining ground in the race. They have been functioning under the guise of the Russians and working with the Chinese. When Americans started to stifle intelligent thinking, the Germans would logically move to their own. America is dividing and the question is, will the intelligent people scatter to other places or will the idiots realize they have no logical basis and that they are destroying America? My worthless ex-mother-in-law moved to England and I wish the rest of her type would join her!! That's what I would like to see, the idiots move to other countries and lets see how long they last. Its new reality TV! Let the liberals have one state and run it as they see fit..oh wait! They HAVE done that! Its called California and its so deep in debt the people cant move out of there fast enough to avoid the ridiculous taxes and outrageous laws!
Anyway, The Germans are going to take the place of America if Americans don't pull their heads out of their asses. Decisions take far too long in this Country and the fact that we cant even decide to push a bunch of illegal immigrants out shows that we are weak and ignorant. The choice is CLEAR for God sake! They are breaking our laws in this Country and that says it all! The rest of the world has no respect for such weak people and they aren't going to slow down what they already have because America is twisted in a knot. Since America is shaking behind her guns, there will several countries poised to take the lead role in the global market.
INTELLIGENT AMERICANS have to stand up and rebel against these people like Hillary Clinton, Sean Penn, Michael Moore. It all seems warm and fuzzy but from far away, America has become a group of clowns! Too many Americans own business and are afraid to say what they think, or they have neighbors of a certain race and are afraid to stand up for certain issues or they have a barber who immigrated from Puerto Rico so therefore cant have an opinion about illegal immigration. Whatever the reason...no one seems to have an opinion about anything other than how bad, mean and evil America is!
America is a collection of people from all over the world - who share the same ideas, the same goals for the Country and the same lifestyle preferences. These illegal mexicans that have come here have no desire at all to live the American lifestyle and they have no idea whats good for this Country because they don't CARE! They want this land for their own and they couldn't care any less about you or me, or our Flag, our religions - they couldn't care any less what the American lifestyle is all about! They don't even bother to learn English because they figure this Country will be theirs soon enough anyway. I hate to break it to the mexicans, but if America collapses - others such as the Germans will come here and shoot all of you in the head! You wont EVER get this Country, the rest of the world would never let you have it!
And the REASON that America has been so successful is because we all speak the SAME language!! The number ONE reason China has been faltered has been the many different dialects and inability to communicate properly! Now if you want to call me a racist, you go right ahead! The fact is, if you don't speak English in this Country than I have a lesser opinion of you and yes, you should care what I think about you because I, out of the goodness of my heart, have allowed you to stay here, live off my taxes (instead of that money going to my Uncle who lost his legs in the war), get a job to buy that new car you're driving and the house you live in and I have PAID for your children to have braces when I cant even get them for my own child. I have allowed this!! You haven't earned anything, we give it to you!
This Country is so wealthy that every Vet should have the best of everything and instead they sit on the sidewalk, begging and living in filth while illegal mexicans - who cant even read the road signs while sitting in their big new Dodge trucks speed by them .. now do YOU think that's fair??? As a Human Being, do you thing that this Country should be this way????????
The next time you are at the stop light, look around you. What types of vehicles are the Americans driving and what types of vehicles are the mexicans driving???
We had an illegal working for us, his name was Amador, pretty nice guy and he told me something. He told me that he was brought to America and in exchange for being brought here he had to sell drugs for FIVE years to pay the debt. If he refused .. him or some family member dies! So this is a mexican mafia and its very active in this Country -selling drugs to our children and adults, paying off people in all types of political positions and effecting the American lifestyle, allowing mexicans to quickly invest in communities that Americans - who have worked all their lives cannot afford to do. Is this why that Vet on the corner lost his legs?? So we can sit here and pay the Mexican mafia to shit on us????
I was told that when several mexican families get free milk and cheese for their children (called the WIC Program) and such they pool the food together and start small restaurants using these free foods! While the Vet sits on the cornet begging for food, living in filth, in the cold! I wonder if anyone cares whether HE has cheese and milk?!?! I seriously doubt it!
How could anyone in another country think highly of us? We have the proverbial stupid sign posted right on our faces! So the next time you are out, and you see an illegal in brand new clothes, a new car and buying more food than you can afford .. don't think that immigrants have more ambition than you or that you are lacking something, not crafty enough, etc.,- the fact is, you couldn't POSSIBLY earn what immigrants have because you will never be given the opportunities they are given.
America is a unique place - and instead of worrying about what some displaced hippies who missed their chance to change the world via protest and have tried to live that through their children (even trying to bring the fashion back!) might think about us - we should take a hard look at our lives, be thankful for what we have and realize that we are Americans and that our Country is in internal politcal trouble right now, we need to make a decision as a People and a GREAT first step to send a message to the rest of the world would be to sweep our own floor of illegals and show them we CAN make a decision. It's the best mass decision we could make to change our positioning in the world today and I think if we don't do it, we are going to lose to the people waiting in the shadows and that would be the Germans and the Chinese!
-Fish
U.S. Relations With Russia Chill Despite Bush Eyeing Putin's Soul
Tuesday , December 19, 2006
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON .. The now familiar face of deceased Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, the victim of a lethal dose of radiation poisoning, has left many Americans wondering if Russia today is as alien to them as it was during the Cold War.
Before dying, Litvinenko pointed his finger directly at Russian President Vladimir Putin, who denied committing any crime, and while the case will likely never be resolved, at least two U.S. senators say the former KGB colonel is moving the country away from democracy and other U.S. ideals.
"I think this guy is taking Russia backward," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
"Russia is moving more and more to an oligarchy here. Putin is consolidating power," added Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who appeared with Graham on "FOX News Sunday" earlier this month.
"Our relations with Russia have to get straightened out," Biden said, suggesting the United States have a "direct confrontation" with Putin, and perhaps even threaten to review the country's membership in the elite G-8 group of industrialized nations.
Russia is no longer the largest partner in the communist Soviet Union nor is it locked any longer in a mutually destructive nuclear arms race with the United States. But the country is not the thriving free-market democracy American policymakers had hoped would flourish after the fall of the USSR in 1991, and many analysts on both sides say they are disappointed the United States can not call Russia "friend."
"It's not a Cold War, but it's not much warmer," said Nikolai Zlobin, a fellow with the World Security Institute in Washington, DC. "We don't have bilateral relations anymore. It's open space, it's empty."
"The Cold War was marked by a conflict of ideologies and a conflict of interests," said Jay Bergman, Russian history professor at Central Connecticut State University. "The differences in our respective ideologies and interests remain and might be as much as in the Cold War."
Putin is largely the reason why Americans are scratching their heads and wondering what happened since those heady days when hands across the two continents seemed to spell such promise.
Since taking office in 1999, he has consolidated economic and political power with the government, controls much of the country's rich oil and natural gas industry and keeps an iron thumb on dissidents through control of the media and intimidation, according to Aleksandr Grigoryev, editor of Washington ProFile, a privately run news bulletin that provides Russian journalists reports from the United States.
"No one else has the same level of power as Mr. Putin does in Russia," Grigoryev said. "Everything depends on Putin."
In the midst of it all, Russia has consistently sided against the United States on critical positions at the U.N. Security Council, including support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and calls for tough sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
"The level of anti-Americanism in Russia has risen sharply," Grigoryev said, noting that a recent poll showed 25 percent of Russians believe the United States is Russia's enemy. He said government control of the media steers public perceptions.
"Russian ideology is anti-American right now and nothing can change until Putin is out of power," he said.
Putin is up for re-election in 2008. Right now, he is enjoying a 70 percent approval rating at home.
"I think Mr. Bush could only dream about the level of this popularity," Grigoryev said.
Blame to Go Around
Putin's success has come in part from a general disillusionment from and disgust with the Russian leap into a free-market democracy 15 years ago, analysts say.
"In 1991, Russia was as pro-American as you could imagine," said Ed Lozansky, president of the American University in Moscow. "There were huge expectations."
Billions of dollars in investment and foreign aid flowed unchecked into Russia .. and into the pockets of future crime bosses and greedy businessmen, many with American ties. Much of the cash did not reach the general public. Poverty, unemployment and crime skyrocketed and is still a problem today.
"The economy was devastated," said Lozansky. "I don't want to say everything that went wrong was because of the United States. But people felt that Americans did not come to help but to simply take advantage of the ruins of the Soviet Union."
Right or wrong, this sentiment was felt so strongly that when Putin .. then-prime minister to former President Boris Yeltsin .. was thrust into power after Yeltsin's resignation, he was embraced as the man who could bring back Russia's old glory, said Zlobin.
"Russia is the only country that lost everything at the end of the Cold War," including international status, influence and confidence, Zlobin said. "Putin and Putin's government became a symbol of what Russia was trying to get back."
Bergman said in those early post-Yeltsin years, Putin began steering Russia back to its roots, particularly at a time when Russians needed it the most.
"My sense is what we are seeing now in Russia is a resurgence in what I would call the Russian national culture," Bergman said, describing it as paternalistic, politically reflexive and not at all what the West had in mind after the fall of the "Iron Curtain" in the 1980s.
As Putin began to consolidate power, the economy began to grow and confidence did too, the specialists said. Today, oil production is up and tax revenues are flowing into government coffers. On the other hand, statistics show unemployment, crime and poverty are still major problems.
"Russia became more powerful; it's trying to become as influential as the Soviet Union was," said Grigoryev.
As for Litvinenko, the former Russian spy turned Putin critic, he died on Nov. 23 from exposure to the radioactive isotope polonium 210. He was reportedly poisoned while meeting a source in London about the October murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Politkovskaya had been working on an article alleging torture in Chechnya under Kremlin-appointed Chechnya Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. British police are still investigating Litvinenko's poisoning and Russian authorities have yet to finger Politkovskaya's murderers.
A New Cold War?
U.S.-Russian relations started out the millennium well, with President Bush and Putin on friendly terms. In June 2001 after meeting in Slovenia, Bush said he looked into Putin's soul and saw a good man and an ally.
In retrospect, many critics are wondering exactly what Bush saw. Reports persist that Soviet nuclear technology is getting into the hands of state sponsors of terrorism and the Russians are openly helping the Iranians with their nuclear energy program. Moscow has also reached out to China as a strategic partner.
Since Putin's power grab, economic and cultural partnerships between the United States and Russia, even the much-heralded arms control negotiations, have slowed to a slight trickle, said James Goldgeier, a Russian expert with the Council on Foreign Relations.
"Over time, disillusionment has set in on both sides," he said. "On the Russian side, they got tired of us lecturing them how to handle their domestic affairs. And they got disillusioned with what it meant to be part of these western institutions.'
"And, as they went, especially under Putin, on a more non-democratic path, the United States became more disillusioned about having Russia as a partner," Goldgeier said.
Lozansky suggested that the U.S and Russia need to recognize they have a common enemy in terrorism and may want to work together to bring about more cooperation among power players in Central Asia and the Middle East.
"Every time the Russians and the United States were on the same side, we got great results," he said. "When we start making problems for each other, we both lose."
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