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Now do Trump. What do you think he would do in this situation?

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.Drill, less oil and gas revenue for Russia. Also less money for Iran, and they won't have as much 5capacity to develop drones for Russia.
He inflicted on Russia it's biggest losses since World War 2(until the last few years in Ukraine). This is when Mattis called up and asked about troops in Syria and his counterpart said they were mercenaries and had nothing to do with them. Mattis hung up and killed them within the hour., having already launched forces from a base in Africa before he even made the call.

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Anonymous wrote:Wonder what Biden will do, given his remarks in 2001.

In other words nothing will happen.

Trump would probably congratulate Putin for being a strong man who puts down his enemies. He’s probably cheering and taking notes.

A lot of people would be cheering if Trump were treated like Navalny.

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Now do Trump. What do you think he would do in this situation?

Biden is president.
He was the one who made the comment. Then said, "That was 3 years ago."
Which leaves us to assume that he will do nothing despite the tough talk. Typical.

And Trump is running for president and may be again in less than a year. So what should he do?

Well, Tucker Carlson said to Putin that sometimes you have to have people killed.

How have Americans stooped to listening to people like this?

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Anonymous wrote:HBO did a great documentary a year or so on him, I highly recommend it. I didn’t know much about him, and I do get the controversy around him but he was definitely poisoned by Putin’s agent on that airplane.

His wife was able to get him transferred to Germany and this is sort of where the documentary starts. He has 2 children. I couldn’t understand why he insisted on going back to Russia when he could have stayed in Germany. He gets on a plane, with press and his wife and as soon as they land in Russia he’s arrested and he was in custody ever since.

I don’t agree at all with Putin or Russian politics. But when you have children, to me it was crazy that he left them again. You just knew he would die. And now he has. It’s very sad. probably won’t change anything re how the world deals with Putin.

In Russia, having a job that opposes Putin's views carries a risk equivalent to what it would be here in the US — in the army, police, or fire department. Navalny chose the path of an (honest) politician in Russia. He didn't want to become one in safe exile and tell his people how to fight Putin. Instead, he returned to his people, believing in them. To understand more about the consequences of opposing Putin, look up names like Politkovskaya or Nemtsov. Currently, there are two opposition politicians in Russian prisons — Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, also true heroes.

Karamurza is a British national.

Anonymous wrote:Biden is so bad at spin. He should have just said we are looking into this.
He’s right that over the past three years we’ve basically already pulled out all the stops with Russia and it’s not really working. Can we swing India over to the boycott? Can we do more with frozen assets? Can we use cyber attacks to undermine them? I assume we are looking into both of those things. But the obvious steps have all already been taken.

+1 Thiessen of course omits that Biden went on to say that there’s not much to do that’s not already being done.

Anonymous wrote:You think we aren’t cyberattacking Russia?

NP. Candidly, our hackers aren’t as good as Russia’s. The characteristics that used to lead to the creation of adult hackers aren’t prioritized any more in education. We are far behind.

Biden is so incredibly weak. All the bad guys know they have free rein.

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I agree that there is a good chance that his family never gets the body back.

So that they can't do a toxicology analysis to learn that he was poisoned. Not giving the body back is part of the cover-up. But we all know Putin had him murdered.

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Now do Trump. What do you think he would do in this situation?

Biden is president.
He was the one who made the comment. Then said, "That was 3 years ago."
Which leaves us to assume that he will do nothing despite the tough talk. Typical.

I agree that there is a good chance that his family never gets the body back.

Lenin flee Tsarist Russia from 1907 to 1917. He returned a month after the Tsar was toppled. Navalny potentially could have done the same. When Putin dies perhaps there would be a power vacuum and Navalny’s time would have come. Now he will fade into obscurity just like:

Litveneko died of polonium-210 poisoning in London in 2006

Prigozhin former Wagner leader who supposedly negotiate a truce with Putin. His plane exploded

Nemstov, former opposition leader with ties to Yeltsin, shot four times in the back by an unknown assailant within view of the Kremlin

Anna Politkovskaya- journalist and critic of Putin shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006.

Plenty of others who allegedly have committed suicide or fallen out of tall buildings.

Navalny shouldn’t have returned. Good chance his body is never released or found because Putin wouldn’t want his gravesite to become a symbol of resistance.

You think we aren’t cyberattacking Russia?

Biden is so bad at spin. He should have just said we are looking into this.
He’s right that over the past three years we’ve basically already pulled out all the stops with Russia and it’s not really working. Can we swing India over to the boycott? Can we do more with frozen assets? Can we use cyber attacks to undermine them? I assume we are looking into both of those things. But the obvious steps have all already been taken.

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Now do Trump. What do you think he would do in this situation?