policy of pursuing global military hegemony. I think those are both good ideas, even if they are being spoken by somebody in the Russian government.

What do they call covertly supporting extreme right wing politics in Europe and Donald Trump in the U.S., for the purpose of destabilizing?

However that does not make the criticism false.

but coming from Russia, it sounds like criticism of Trump from repubs who still support his policies.

Their only true concern is distancing themselves from Trump's toxicity to moderate voters, while still benefiting from his rubber stamp.

Russia has serious balls to point a finger at us for destabilising after throwing a monkey wrench in our election, and bringing so many worldwide so much misery.

well suffice it to say, i shouldnt have to read it here

Nobody here, for example me, is claiming that Russia is not a problem. Russia misbehaves. So do we. We are currently blowing people up on just about every continent. The scale of our military operations dwarfs anything anyone else is doing.

It seems we have just erased from memory the long and sorry history of our post ww-2 military misadventures, big and small, including both vietnam and iraq, and are now, in the Trump era, viewing everything through some neo-coldwar "ruskies vs usa" faux patriotic prism. Much as we did in the late 70s, we've once again forgotten the lessons learned from colossal failures like Iraq and have moved on to simplistic nationalistic posturing.

I want them gone. Disappeared like the non-entities they are.

and gave us Donald Trump with their right hand.

They have destabilised and subverted very effectively.

The chutzpah of his remarks is vomit worthy. Everyone in the entire world knows they fucked with elections (not just ours), so this is just salt in the wound.

BTW: Wasn't it Lavrovatory and the gleeful fat man Kislyuck who met with the orange menace in the oval office where only RT reporters were allowed?

any global power.
For the record the US and Russia are not the only sovereign states on our planet. Most of the word hates the idea of one superpower.

His royal orange flatulence wanted to show off his nukes before he was even elected, and he continues to taunt Kim. He has no clue that power can (and should) mean something other than how many nukes a country has. I mean, whatever "power" we had is being ceded to other nations through his own stupidity. But as long as he has a button...

Do you think he would understand economic power if he were shown colorful diagrams of the GDPs of several countries? Or maybe growth in technology? Or would he shake his head and shout "COAL"?

Con

I think we are done, I think I know who is to blame also

I hope our leaders won’t be motivated by hatred of other countries.

Reagan joked about “banning” Russia with bombs. I think things would have gone better had Mondale won in 1984.

We are just too screwed up as a country.

There is a long list.

Together they have a big chunk of the world's population.
China has also been cultivating Africa for some time now.

The GOP really set us up to fail.
But they are rich and don't care.

Housing values and investment accounts.
The Iraqi War cost trillions of dollars.
Education and health care are way too expensive.
And it will continue.

And then blame the Dems while they dump the mess on a Dem president to fix.
Once the piggy bank is full the GOP loots and scoots again.

So frustrating.

They are not to aware of what's happening. Makes me shake my head

They live in their own reality.
Yes a form of insanity.

India and Pakistan loathe each other, and China has a number of longstanding disputes with both India and Russia.

Corrupt leadership.
Leadership unable to govern.
Non secured voting system.
Apathetic citizens prone to believing propaganda.
GOP drive to create division, anger, hatred.
Racism.
Lower standard of living compared to other industrialized countries.
(Lack of health care, education)
Poverty.

I could go on, but you get the drift.

Putin did it because it was so easy.

They deliberately weakened America for their own profit, money and power.
They could care less what happens to the country.

Meanwhile, they’re busy snuggling up to Putin and the oligarchs.

They’ve sold us ALL out. It’s insane.

Not Team (((SOROS))).

Catch my drift?

Joining forces with the “Lie-beral” MSM, they have led the deep state to...to do... to do whatever it is that they do.

Even though the far-right now owns the entire Republican Party, and controls all three branches of the fed. gov’t., and has a 24/7 dedicated “state news”outlet, and has thrown out regulations that kept things in check, sold public lands, stole a SCOTUS seat, are hostile to the free press, and are hand-in-glove with Russian oligarchs...

It’s the Deep State that’s killing America! Soros! Obama! Hillary! The Clinton Foundation! The country is a mere whisper away from suffering a leftist takeover! Don’t any good Americans remember Jade Helm, when Obama invaded Texas? Or the Bowling Green Massacre?

We knew we had a full-blown massacre on our hands. Gutterballs so thick people started scoring them as strikes. The front desk gave up spraying...the...shoes...

I can’t talk about it, I mustn’t talk about it...I was *told* to not talk about...

For some, the memories never cease.

If at all possible.

And of course their orange pied piper.

we had every tool in the world, access to information, press, etc. but you just can’t heal stupid. US has lost its standing in the world after it launched the war in Iraq which Gemrany, France and Russia strongly opposed. This was the beginning of the end of US global respect and dominance. We regained some of it back when Obama came to power but it only lasted until his senseess Bush like decision - Lybia. As much as we can all hate putin, he is the smart one here playing a long game. It’s evil genius against stable genius. We all agree that it was illiegal for Russia to invade Ukraine but US should have stayed silent on this - because they violated the wolrd order under Bush W. and no longer had standing. In this respect, Russia’s claim to Crimea seemed more valid than US claim to Iraq which it doesn’t even share border with.

With this in mind, I think that it would be nice for a change for our country to implement a non-intervention Switzerland like global policy.

Would we have been better off if we had never invaded Vietman, Korea, Iraq, Lybia, etc.?

...democracies and alliances. Putin supported Brexit to hurt the EU. Now there is one less nation in that powerful alliance, and Britain must negotiate terms alone. He supported Calexit, too -- maybe as a joke, maybe not. But just imagine how much fun he'll have if my fellow Californians actually put this measure on the ballot this year.

Putin supported Trump, and it sure as hell isn't because he wants the US to be powerful and have a lot of allies.

Fuck the Chinese, too. Bunch of god damned kleptocrats.