This is the same Putin who calculated how it would attract RW support in America and with the churches in his country to hunt gays before the Olympics. Bush did the same for his election and to burnish support for invasion of Iraq by casting it as a Biblical action.

Try putting it all together, KoKo.

and I recommend your posts when I agree..but, I always read you.

I Hope that you do this for MY POSTS and VIEWS....also.

We've been here (both) for many years.

Agreeing to Disagree is where we want to go....forward?

And I made serious observations. If you see them as incorrect then correct me.

Did you watch it? Where did you fault it? I could do a bit on each of the panelists...but OVERALL...
thought it a VERY GOOD WATCH! I love "Free Discussion" of CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES!

For the old times....

I have a dissatisfaction with MSM and all the crap around, but I don't feel I need to fill it in with a television network that clearly has a strong pro-Russian bias.

And drawing a Kremlin paycheck.

That's what it's all about....Counterbalances...for cultures we don't have access to ...that we wonder about?

Could you see it that way?

there is the no shit Sherlock story of the decade.

Maybe our plan should be to start spreading 'roids in the Russian wildlife, so next time Putin decides to wrassle a bear or something with his shirt off, he gets more than he bargained for.

I hate Russ SO much! He took my lunch from the break room refrigerator once. He denies it, but I KNOW he did it.

The glories of USSR during WWII, good ole Stalin, what a fair and benevolent leader...NOT. Please. Take this claptrap down, it ain't good for DU.

There are plenty of communists on this site. Just look at the socialist-progressive group. Everyone has a philosophy that works for themselves. RT is a Russian propaganda site, funded by the Russian government. It's nothing more, and nothing less. When I see the RT logo, I tune out.

If this were a discussion about Cuba or North Korea, bringing up communism and socialism would be relevant. For Russia, no.

Putin considers the breakup of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe ever. He and his old school pals of the politburo long for the days of Russian power and influence. Their economic blueprint is communism as long as the privileged few get what they want. Couple that with extreme nationalism, and you've got a system that will keep Putin in power. Come to think of it, it's not unlike capitalism now. At any rate, they are just labels. The main point is that RT is a Russian mouthpiece. And, if you think that Putin is done with his land grabs, think again. He was just testing the waters to see how far he could go. Now he will be contrite and the west will cave. I'm not going to hold my breath until he gives back Crimea.

= Manichaeism

If you don't like the message you can demonize the messenger....There is a lot of truth in what the panel said regardless if it was from the Russian perspective....much of the world's population said the same thing - especially in its opposition to the Iraq War (2003) and ten years later the Syrian War. Most insightful observation was the US playing the contemporary role of former Cominform.

except their Onionesque aspects are supposed to be serious