Do you want to be on friendly terms with Russia?

HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Muthsera
Florida Fan
Member since Jun 2017
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turdhead
Member since Apr 2017
272 posts

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You guys could be twins, if not outright alters.

No. They don't contribute shyt to U.S. economy, they're corrupt as hell + attacking our elections. Sanction the hell out of them.

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U.S. goods exports to Russia totaled just $11 billion in 2013, equivalent to less than 0.1% of U.S. GDP. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $27 billion, just under 0.2% of U.S. GDP.

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Y'all will defend Trump no matter what he does.

ComeOn Friends with Russia?

How about we be more flexible. It is after the election

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But one of the problems with Russia now is that they are a corrupt state system that throws huge amounts of cash around to buy influence to get people to act against the interests of their own nations. We must act in our own self interest. Russia acts only in its own self interest.

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You just described 99% of Congress. The U.S. Congress is the biggest organized crime operation in the history of the world, and they operate 'legally'.

You're laughable.

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they are a corrupt state system that throws huge amounts of cash around to buy influence to get people to act against the interests of their own nations.

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Sounds extremely familiar!

It couldn't hurt to be on friendly terms with Russia

Demhawks want war.

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If you want to be adversarial towards Russia, what's your thinking?

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It has nothing to do with being adversarial for adversarial's sake.

I think that is a weird way to frame it. I don't know anyone that wants conflict for conflicts sake.

Russia operates in a way that is counter to our national and domestic self interest on a number of fronts. They have a vested belief that in order to improve their larger lot in life, it requires a depreciation of ours and a number of our allies. So they seek things like a dismantling of the international order that is largely led by us, that has provided America the backbone of our hegemonic power. They seek a greater level of economic control on the world stage to benefit their government of cronies at everyone else's expense(including their citizenry). Why should America sacrifice that en masse to a country that has aims against our long-term self interest to gain a much smaller level of temporary cooperation in some other area? it makes no sense.

If we share a common ground like on terrorism, by all means, cooperate. But if you are then going to tell me it requires America putting Russia's interests above ours, like some BS that Russia is responsible enough to carry an increased role of power over a number of our allies. That will diminish our power to counter any future and likely aggression, and harm our long-term trustworthiness amongst remaining allies? Allies that are much more economically valuable in the aggregate. Then frick no.