"My amendment is going to lose overwhelmingly when it is put up for a vote," said Gaetz. "But the American people will see who wants to represent them, and who wants to represent Crimea."
Thanks Matt, now we know who the Russian assets are in the House.
Economic systems exist beyond socialism and capitalism. The GQP want a dictatorship. Bend the knee or we'll use state power to punish you. If it was as simple as capitalism, Disney would still have their weird pseudo-government thing.
There was a time the GOP would have fought tooth and nail against the Soviet Union. Now that it's called Russia, it funnels money to the GOP. They act as useful idiots to the Soviet Union 2.0.
And I can't figure out how people still support them. US citizens have a high tolerance for idiots.
I blame Ronald Reagan. People think when he implored Gorbachev to “tear down that wall” that the US had penetrated the Soviet Union. We didn’t it fell apart and oligarchs seized power like warlords do. Now we have an autocratic regime that vehemently and violently crushes diversions to its goal of unlimited power. The same goal that the Republicans have.
You know, there's a difference between modern Russia and soviet Russia, soviet Russia posed an actual ideological threat to America whereas modern Russia is just kinda irritating and is threatening to hurt our economic dominance. There's a reason that Russia is a partisan squabble now and back then it was pitched as a nonpartisan fight of good versus evil.
arguably the modern russia is worse. destabilizing our politics and our economy is worse than any proxy war we've been in. Putin is the dictator the US was worried about for a long time but for some reason the conservatives want to kow tow to him.
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I understand correctly that the main thing is the well-being of America and Europe, and the Russians should die because they create problems.....
Russia is the largest country on the planet, with boundless natural resources. All they need to do is learn how to keep their armies within those massive borders, and they would be everyone's favorite trading partner. Instead, they do ... this. They don't need to die. They just need to go home.