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Igel

(36,138 posts)
13. Yes.
Sun Oct 2, 2016, 09:07 AM
Oct 2016

And anti-Russianism will finally be dead when Russia has devolved complete independence to all non-Russian ethnicities and the territories they traditionally held--this includes the Crimea, Russophone parts of Belous', and everything from the Urals east.

And pays reparations for that and for what it did to Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine, and Central Asia. And the Jews.

And fixes the Aral Sea.

And let's not forget it needs to dispose of the Bolshevik nationalists Limonov and his ilk have formed (sort of like a hybrid vampire x werewolve) and dump the atavistic quasi-fascist thinking that produced the Great Putin who sits on the 7 hills, to produce a fairly free and non-oppressive press and society.

As soon as they do that, I know we'll all be happy to welcome Russia into the fold of civilized nations and it can take the position that it's economy, military, and resources make it worthy to hold.

Of course, at that point it'll be just another largish European country, dependent on others for energy and resources and racked by the economic devastation that decoupling itself from the rather large remains of the tsarist empire would inevitably produce, but it'll still have nuclear weapons. (One must remember that Russia really is mostly empire, one in which paranoia and forced assimilation is on-going.)

Same sort of conditions for Israel: Do something that will render you weak and possibly all dead, and, sure, we'll think of you as okay. Gotta remember who the best nation is and be subordinate to them ...

Yair Rosenberg has the best Tweet on this insanity from Gideon Levy oberliner Oct 2016 #1
I was going to post something madaboutharry Oct 2016 #2
So Israel's international status in no way connected to the treatment of the Palestinians? Little Tich Oct 2016 #5
The headline says the funeral "Proved that Anti-Semitism is Dead" oberliner Oct 2016 #10
Levy refers to the killing of the imaginary spectre of the Zionist right-wing. Little Tich Oct 2016 #11
Do you think that the funeral proved that anti-semitism is dead? oberliner Oct 2016 #12
I suppose that the most obvious interpretation of the OP is unavailable to someone who assumes that Little Tich Oct 2016 #16
Levy is not insane oberliner Oct 2016 #17
It's a catchy headline - "World leaders refute a Zionist lie" isn't as catchy, I suppose. n/t Little Tich Oct 2016 #19
It's not catchy - it's insane/moronic oberliner Oct 2016 #20
I dare say that your POW is dominating this thread. Little Tich Oct 2016 #21
There are still some diehard members of the Persian ulema who want to -- and this is a quote -- MADem Oct 2016 #3
bullshit. Anti-semitism is alive and well still_one Oct 2016 #4
It's a complex issue. Little Tich Oct 2016 #6
Yes. Igel Oct 2016 #13
I don't believe in the all or nothing approach to a problem. Little Tich Oct 2016 #18
K&R Israeli Oct 2016 #7
Tthe title if this OP leftynyc Oct 2016 #8
Levy fails logic 6chars Oct 2016 #9
Denying antisemitism is like denying the Holocaust. aranthus Oct 2016 #14
Idiocy from a vile racist Gideon Levy who incites & justifies terror vs. Jews. shira Oct 2016 #15
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