The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier 164
Lasrick writes: Nick Gillard from Project Alpha points out that for more than 3 decades, Iran has purchased goods for its nuclear program largely from the shadows. With the Framework Agreement, that will almost certainly change: "According to the US State Department, one of the agreement's provisions creates a dedicated procurement channel for Iran's nuclear program. This channel will monitor and approve, on a case-by-case basis, the supply, sale, or transfer to Iran of certain nuclear-related and dual-use materials and technology." That is terrific news for US companies, because Iran is known to covet US-made parts required for their program, most of which are "dual-use."
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What could go wrong? The US could again refuse to supply fuel for the Iranian nuclear program, that the US began with the Atoms for Peace program, and additionally coerce other countries from supplying Iran, thereby leading Iran again to develop their own ability to produce their own fuel.
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What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Their shiny new centrifuge bearings seize up, ruining a few hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment, and they end up waiting 20 minutes for help from a Manila call center?
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What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
I dunno, maybe they'll get nukes and the warmongers will have to find another country to bomb?
Or, who knows, maybe we could get attacked by Saudi-sponsored terrorists again?
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Rubbish.
Nukes are a thoroughly shit offensive weapon. If you throw a nuke at anyone you will get stomped out of existence. Even if Iran had ICBMs and nukes on a scale of the US or Russia they would not attack anyone with them. That is the whole concept of M.A.D. If Iran nuked Israel the nukes from the US, UK, France and the distributed nukes of Israel would completely destroy Iran within days. Nukes, chemical weapons, biological weapons, they are all weapons that change the status quo too far. If you deploy any of them against an external party it is game over. As a result they are useless for offence.
Defensively though they are brilliant. The make your borders essentially inviolate to other state actors. Yes you can have rebel or guerilla actions (think Pakistan) but you are safe from someone like the US or Russia. And given the US and Russia have a history of invading countries in that region it seems like a fair incentive to want them.
For Iran to start WW3 after obtaining nuclear weapons would require them to have the drive and the motivation to fight against major obstacles to get them combined with a desire to eradicate themselves from existence. Not normally the sort of thing you get in the one person.
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There is no guarantee that we'll nuke Iran just because they nuked Israel. In fact, it's very likely that we wouldn't do so. Iran's government knows that as well as anyone.
Besides, their "defensive" capability is merely cover for them to increase their regional presence in terms of more overt support of groups in other countries. They don't really want to nuke Israel. They just want to increase their influence in Iraq or Syria or Lebanon. If Israel is likely to have a problem, that will come about due
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>The reality is that we're not just trying to keep nukes out of the hands of the Iranians, we're trying to make sure that the rest of the ME doesn't enter an arms race which puts nukes in the hands of other countries.
And who exactly appointed you to do that ? Americans elect an American government to govern America. It has no jurisdiction anywhere else and "protecting your interests" should have been unconstitutional. Unless somebody actively asks for your help, stay the hell out of everybody else's business and America would be a lot less hated.
Do I like the government of Iran ? Hell no, I live in a free country and I despise autocracies, but I also don't believe I have a right to interfere in Iran's business unless Iranian people ask my help.
Seriously - the US should watch a lot of Star Trek and simply replace their ENTIRE foreign relations doctrine with the prime directive and not only would the rest of the world be a lot happier, the US would be too.
You fear chaos ? I am quite confident that there will be a lot less suffering around the world for which you are (rightfully) blamed, and thus a lot less people who want to kill you. If you believe the Iranian style theocratic autocracy is primitive, fine, believe that, but stop interfering in their natural development - they won't thank you for it, nobody has EVER thanked you for it.
America has more than enough problems to solve at home - like when you're going to do SOMETHING about Puerto Rico - either give them statehood or given them back their independence but right now you're conquering overlords there - no better than Iran's government.
Let me put it very simply: because I have no power to vote for or against American politicians, they should have NO power to influence my life.
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Let me put it very simply: because I have no power to vote for or against American politicians, they should have NO power to influence my life.
So, should China have had any power to influence the lives of people in Japan when Japan started its whole Pacific Rim debacle some decades ago? Should the people of Eastern Europe have considered it just too rude to think about modifying the capabilities or behavior of their friendly neighbors, the Ottomans, as those neighbors gathered up a head of steam and sought to spread their friendly culture westward?
Do you live in a country that begins its legislative sessions with group chants about the destruc
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America has more than enough problems to solve at home - like when you're going to do SOMETHING about Puerto Rico - either give them statehood or given them back their independence but right now you're conquering overlords there - no better than Iran's government.
The people of Puerto Rico have been given the choice to choose independence or statehood MANY times. The people of Puerto Rico would prefer to stay the way they are, and I don't blame them. They may not have the same legal rights as a state, but they receive all the other advantages of being US Citizens without having to pay federal income tax, in most cases [wikipedia.org]:
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Seriously - the US should watch a lot of Star Trek and simply replace their ENTIRE foreign relations doctrine with the prime directive
Ah yes, the "I seen it on the teevee box" school of foreign diplomacy.
Let me put it very simply: because I have no power to vote for or against American politicians, they should have NO power to influence my life.
That's a dumb thing to say in every way.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the idea that a bunch of corrupt bastards shouldn't be trying to rule the world, but that is the argument you should be using, because your other ones are hilarious at best. Sophomoric is too generous a description.
We all share this mudball together, so we affect one another. Some of the people living on it are inconvenient for other people, and they need to be re
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It has been the nuclear stockpiles of the US, China, and Russia along with the MAD doctrine which has basically neutralized the threat of a large scale nuclear attack. The premise has always been if one side or the other were to execute a nuclear strike there would be an immediate retaliatory strike within minutes. The problem with Iran having nuclear weapons is that their foreign policy doctrine has consistently, and quite openly, revolved around supporting non-state actors like Hezbollah, Hamas, and all t
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There are two problems with this idea. The first is that EMPs, like other EM phenomena, disperse via an inverse square law. Anything high enough to be line-of-site to the ground in most of the USA would need to have an enormous explosive yield (even by nuclear weapon standards). There are some designs that try to channel more energy into the EMP than normal, but they're very complex to build (a good 10-20 years more R&D beyond the Fat Man / Little Boy style bombs).
The second problem is the delivery. Iran does not have a significant ballistic missile capability. Getting something into space above the USA would require launching something in a suborbital trajectory. A very high suborbital trajectory if it were intended to explode that high up. The size of such a rocket would be such that it would be pretty hard to miss on satellite observation. The time in the air would give the US a very long time to formulate a response and destroying it would be relatively easy (remember, the problem with strategic defence shields in the cold war was not shooting down a missile, it was shooting down the large number of real and decoy rockets that the Soviet Union was capable of launching).
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I suppose you could disguise it as a real space launch, substitute a real satellite with the evil "payload" at the last moments possible before launch. Then pretend your launch is going wrong, or give it a sensible orbit but have the payload maneuver to deorbit above the US. If you can detect a US launch and have your bomb asplode just before the US rocket hits it, the better.
But not only this is a ridiculous evil plan, you will mostly succeed at destroying or ruining many satellites that belong to many na
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You do realize that Shia doctrine is that Armageddon needs to be started and the Shias driven to near annihilation for the Hidden Iman to reappear? This is why people are scared of Iran getting nukes... They *want* to be annihilated.
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The people in power don't care what Shia or any other doctrine is. Religion is a tool used to control the mob. It always has been.
From where I sit America is bat shit religious as well. And there is nothing that makes me think a Christian based religion is any less violent or intolerant then an Islamic equivalent. But I don't believe that the US will do anything too stupid because the people in power are nothing if not pragmatic. They will lose their benefits and the comforts in their lives if they des
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What you're missing though is that unlike Iran, no one leading the US or Russia gets up on TV talking about countries who have "no right to exist" and should be "wiped off the map". These are not rational people. If you're not part of Islam you are of the great satan and need to die. If they kill you their reward is in heaven. This is their perspective. Would you really like to see these people holding nuclear weapons?
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MAD only works when dealing with rational actors. The Russians were rational enough. Iran? Not so much.
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Nukes are a thoroughly shit offensive weapon. If you throw a nuke at anyone you will get stomped out of existence.
completely misunderstanding the problem. the fear is that if iran gets nukes, they'll supply smaller groups that can't be retaliated against without massive collateral damage (not that you can ever avoid collateral damage with nukes).
e.g., a nuke is launch from the mountains around the pakistan / afghan border. what do you do? nuke pakistan?
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That would require them to be totally irrational and for them to act in ways they currently haven't with their advanced conventional weapons. Iran already has the capability to build advanced weaponry that can cause headaches even for US forces. Those are never seen in the hands of Hamas or others.
Despite all the US propaganda Iran has acted rationally throughout this whole process. They see the US as a threat, and the only way to stop that threat is to be nuclear capable. The US has responded with crip
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lemme guess, American public school student?
It's rich since the government in the region of Iran hasn't attacked another country since the 1820's but jingoistic Americans insist that they need to be attacked before they strike again. The irony is laid on thicker than the blood of the millions of victims of American imperialism. Or the women in Iran who have been repressed and murdered since the US overthrew the Shah there and installed theocratic thugs 40 years ago.
Even the CIA admits that all the imperia
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It's rich since the government in the region of Iran hasn't attacked another country since the 1820
Right. It's too much trouble. That's why they send material and support to others to do it for them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... [wikipedia.org]
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Re:I'll be your huckleberry. (Score:5, Interesting)
We kept the Shah in power for our own interests
s/kept/put/
In 1953 they had a democratically elected, very westernized government. The US and UK staged a coup when that government wasn't generous enough with "our" oil.
Worked out about as well as all our other efforts to tell the rest of the world how to run their countries.
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Which was not the first time, by the way.
UK and USSR have occupied Iran together during WW2 and that was the first time they've put that particular Shah to power.
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>Our efforts to tell certain countries like Germany and Japan how to run their countries worked out reasonably well, actually.
I wonder what we may learn from this ? Mmm, wait a moment, the people who wrote their constitutions were Rooseveldt's cabinet... they implemented in those constitutions the second bill of Rights that Rooseveldt had championed in the USA but had died before he could do anything about it.
Seems to have worked out pretty well for Japan and Germany though...
The most liberal president y
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FDR and his cabinet were nut cases, and that anything they wrote for other countries worked at all was sheer random luck (actually, more likely the successes in Germany and Japan were due to an elective government being put in place over a productive culture.)
Roosevelt's "second bill of rights" had nothing to do with rights, but were instead fantastical claims on the labor and property of others. (For instance, the "right to a job" - provided by whom, at what cost?)
As as as "The most liberal president you e
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As for the whole "our oil" thing, let's not be naive. Oil is the resource that makes the world go round.
Hahaha. Let's not be naive, while parroting that old tired bullshit. We've been able to make oil out of algae since forever. We just don't do it because of the entrenched oil interests. If they let other people become rich, they won't be able to be the richest any more, and they're already rich so they don't need new revenue sources which is the answer to the beyond-childish assertion that oil companies would just exploit new energy sources themselves. Well no, obviously not, because the current energy sour
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Same reason we're not making oil from algae, it costs more than pulling it out of the ground.
Right, as long as you make the whole world pay for what it actually costs to get it out of the ground, you make out like a bandit.
Capitalism.... (Score:2)
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"peace and commerce with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
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As Marx pointed out, a capitalist will sell the rope used to hang him.
More precisely, additional factors are in place here
The intellectual caliber of the current administration is so minuscule that there's no realization that their policies are literally suicidal.
Keeps the Russians out (Score:1)
That is the idea, isn't it?
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The EU could drop the US, pick up other like minded countries around the world and create a more capable union, creating a more effective third pole to global politics. It should be obvious to everyone by now that the US doesn't want allies it just demands vassal states that will obey corporate edicts coming out of the US. Russia went though it's own self destructive imperialistic stage and isn't much of a threat at the moment. Asia is really much more diverse than being defined by generalised appearance c
The new definition of Diplomacy (Score:5, Insightful)
Diplomacy, old definition:
"The art of saying 'Nice Doggy' until you can find a rock". - Will Rodgers
New definition:
"The art of handing rocks over to the doggy until it can bury you, while hoping that it is nice".
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If we attack Iran militarily, they will race and have nukes in a few months. The idea that we can prevent that with a military strike is naive or maliciously dishonest.
We were told toppling Saddam would lead to dancing in the streets of Baghdad and mature democracy and peace in Iraq. Hasn't exactly worked out that way. Now we have lies and foolishness about striking Iran. Iran could pursue nukes in the center of a number of mountain bunkers and we could not capture or find all off them in time before a bomb was created and *used* in Israel or Europe or the USA.
Yes, *used*.
If we invaded Iran, our threat to the regime would be existential. Nations build nukes precisely for deterrence against existential threats.
Therefore, by invading, we will hand Iran a perfectly legitimate reason for using a nuke, on a silver platter. If someone was toppling our government in Washington DC militarily, you can be certain nukes would be flying out of bunkers in North Dakota. You think the same standard for using nukes doesn't apply to Iran?
And all you need is an anonymous lead lined shipping container out of tens of thousands delivered to a port. No need for a stinking ICBM.
Are some of you braindead chickenhawks sobering up yet?
Do some of you morons think invading Iran will be a breeze? Fucking pathetic Afghanistan wasn't even a breeze. The blowback from Iraq and letting Saddam's entire Baathist military establishment walk away is still going on in the form of ISIS. You chickenhawk morons just don't fucking learn do you you pathetic assholes? How many trillions in national treasure and thousands of young vital lives do you want to waste now? While you complain about taxes and welfare recipients from the other side of your ignorant mouths? There are some seriously stupid assholes in this world isn't there, you chickenhawk assholes gung ho for war are exhibit A.
Iran is not Iraq, wide open flat desert, it is mountain fortresses. We played hide and seek in the mountains of Afghanistan for years with scruffy pushovers who continue to mount destabilizing attacks. The Revolutionary Guards of Iran are not pimply teenagers promised religious lies from Al Qaeda and Taliban stooges, they are a serious and professional fighting force, fighting on their land, for their country. Remember Vietnam you moronic chickenhawk douchebags? Is someone going to tell us our intelligence on Iranian nuclear sites is ironclad, we know all of them? Really, you're certain of that? You want to bet an Iranian nuclear strike on that conviction you arrogant smarmy pricks?
So we will pursue a deal. Not because it will work with certainty. But because all other options are clearly worse.
Diplomacy simply serves our national interest. A deal is better than no deal. Pragmatism. Shrewd intelligence. Not that you warmongering assholes know what those words mean. You don't have to trust the Iranians, you stupid fucks, no one trusts them. Verification is in the deal.
All the assholes with hard ons to invade Iran are genuinely ignorant or maliciously cavalier about the severe blow back we would experience. Fuck the irresponsible braindead chickenhawk assholes: the crappiest deal is still 1,000% better than the best case military scenario.
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The obvious solution then is to nuke Iran now, before we know they have their own. Because when Iran has what they consider a sufficient number of warheads, they will start WWIII. So either way we will have to nuke Iran; may as well do it before they can kill us too.
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i know you're joking, but there are people in the world who really believe that
sobering
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Yes, Nuclear bomb owning Pakistan would love a country being nuked upwind from them. The prevailing winds in the altitudes above 3km would give them all that precious nuclear fallout.
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Except not only do we know they don't have any, the CIA and Mossad have confirmed that they aren't working on any either.
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All we have to do is nothing. The sanctions are working, it's greatly slowing progress they are making to obtaining nuclear weapons.
If we lift the sanctions, we CANNOT restore them (the Iranians have said repeatedly it's absurd to think we could). They will absolutely have a nuclear weapon inside a year, probably much sooner.
The real assholes are the people like you willing to put the world to the torch because of your imaginary fears of invading Iran, which no-one wants to do. It makes no sense because what do you invade? The people are generally friendly to the U.S., it's only the rulers that are not - and they will use the entire populace as a human shield (that is also incidentally why they rightfully think they can use nuclear weapons against enemies without similar reprisals).
If the sanctions are lifted and millions die I hope you have the decency to at least feel a tiny bit guilty.... but then people like you so often rationalize all repercussions of your mistakes away.
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Just out of curiousity... why exactly should Iran NOT have a nuclear weapon ?
You got them... you have THOUSANDS of them and your track-record with them is atrocious, you've accidentally dropped some on your own people at least 50 times, you've left them unguarded and forgotten on civilian runways more than once. On at least one occasion they were discovered by the damn catering staff.
You have not been very responsible with yours. Yet you maintain you have the right to have them. If you do... so does Iran. Either EVERY country has that right, or NO country has that right.
You can't make selective laws for countries anymore than you can for people.
Now take that as a fundamental premise and rethink your entire view of hte world. You'll find you come up with one that doesn't make the rest of the world hate Americans. One that produces a world where Al Queda could never have existed. One where your nation is not seen as a bunch of arrogant imperialists comparable to Elizabethan and Victorian England.
Take it as a basic premise that your country can ONLY do what it allows EVERYBODY ELSE to do as well - if something is truly to scary for North Korea to do - you can't do it either. Give COUNTRIES equal rights.
Then maybe we can negotiate in good faith. Then maybe the world can know some peace and stability. Then you'll have gained some philosophical soundness in your arguments. Go on. Think about it. I'll wait.
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You got them... you have THOUSANDS of them and your track-record with them is atrocious,
70 years and thousands of nuclear weapons in the possession of the United States, and exactly zero people harmed by one since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Including a period of time post-WWII when NO ONE ELSE had any, when much of the world was in ruins. When the world was truly helpless to resist the power of a United States fully mobilized for conventional war, with a monopoly on nuclear weapons, with a proven willingness to use them. If the United States had the desire and will to employ that power, no one
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And the facts prove that luck was mostly good luck. There was no anger in my post your defensiveness is clouding your judgement .
My own country was a nuclear power. We gave it up voluntarily (we still generate electricity with it though). Dismantled our bombs.
I didn't ask more give a crap about whether the us is a good steward or not. I said countries should have equal rights. I said it's impossible for you or anybody else to ever have moral authority when you prohibit other countries from actions you st
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More that they are all equally evil. The winners just get to write the propaganda.
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So give every other country some too. Ace neutered.
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Just out of curiousity... why exactly should Iran NOT have a nuclear weapon ?
Because of their frequently asserted world view and actions.
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How many countries has Iran invaded since the revolution in '79?
How many has the USA in that same time period?
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How many countries has Iran invaded since the revolution in '79?
Iran, or their armed and funded proxies?
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I enjoyed your well reasoned and thorough argument, which I imagine was delivered in an even and temperate tone, with it's occasional turrets style invectives. I want to believe you use the same style when talking with your spouse, attending formal functions, at work, and at the PTA.
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LOL ;-)
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As I posted there:
I underestimated just how greedy the bastards really are. They will sell anything, including the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, to a country who's foreign policy goals include getting the US out of the Middle East, the end of the State of Israel, and replacing
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if a crazy person wants to shoot you, and you make a deal with him to not shoot you as long as you feed him gun parts...
then when the time comes and he pulls out an assembled gun and fires at you... do you really think that gun is going to work?
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and shall we proceed down the slope of retarded alterations to a throwaway analogy and miss the demonstration of the simple point?
the USA is stupid in many ways, but it's not THAT stupid, maybe you are.
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...says fat low iq loser on the internats, so it must be true
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how do you tell the difference between a troll and someone who believes some of this ignorant shit?
we have a comment in this thread that wants to preemptively nuke iran, and it is modded up
so either slashdot is nothing but a pointless trollfest nowadays and everyone serious should leave, or i'm correcting the ignorant
either way, there are indeed a lot of fucking retards in this thread
So the middle east is a radiation poisoned (Score:2)
graveyard, it will have been American parts that put it there.
Yay?
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It's like this: (Score:2)
Iran: "Oh, this is an excellent idea!" *buys healthy food from FLOTUS, then sugar and trans-fats from usual suppliers*
There Goes The Neighborhood (Score:2)
We all know how effective the US's monitor and control systems worked in Iran.
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We all know how effective the US's monitor and control systems worked in Iraq.
FTFY
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Whoops this was me.
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Although US export laws forbid its sale, I'm sure Iran has already downloaded pirate copies of Duke Nukem.
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russia is imploding. thugging on ukraine while its economy shrivels is not the definition of resurgent. it's called a distraction, appealing to ultranationalist douchebaggery while it makes grave enemies of neighbors and previous slavic brothers, who used to be part of the USSR with russia not that long ago. russia is on a long decline that started in the 1980s. this is just the latest evolution of that decay. by the end of this decade china will be taking back outer manchuria and NATO will be seizing kalin
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while it makes grave enemies of neighbors and previous slavic brothers,
You're out of your mind, or have a negative IQ with regard to the region, perhaps both.
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ukrainians and russians are not slavs?
ukrainians and russians were not fighting on the same side, under the same government, for centuries?
ok then, i must have negative iq
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The Ukraine didn't experience genocide under Stalin ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... [wikipedia.org]
You really get to loving a country when they kill off 5 million of your neighbors.
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Have you actually read the text you are linking?
Russia had famines every
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here you go
http://www.historyplace.com/wo... [historyplace.com]
It's one thing to have a famine, it's another when someone uses it to eliminate people they don't like.
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And yes you do have a negative IQ.
Learn a little about the region before you beclown yourself.
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The Ukrainians and the Russians are both slavs who lived under the same empire for centuries, fighting on the same side of many wars.
You throw insults about stupidity when you are the clear ignorant on this topic.
There has always been yearnings for Ukrainian nationalism and independence, but there has also always been love, affection and respect between the Ukrainian and Russian people. Even now. Both Russians and Ukrainians understand this recent split is driven by politics and economics. But the split is
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Give it a rest already. I've been hearing this kind of speeches for decades, as long as I can remember. Hasn't happened then and won't happen now either. Food riots in Kaliningrad, very funny. That was kinda sorta believable in 1993.
Besides, this "making enemies of neighbors and previous Slavic brothers" is, in case of Ukraine, absolutely mutual. It is like there has been a contest of which country's politician can be the greater dick, and that contest has been ongoing for over 20 years. Don't think that ex
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Hello Russian propaganda retard.
Your country's economy is going down the toilet while Russia makes enemies with close by regions that used to be friends, even part of the same country once. Over the long term, since the 1980s, it is nothing but a slow downhill that will only continue. And its all the creation of the lying blindness and ultranationalism on display in your comment. Your country is politically moronic: it holds all rule to the sole right of one ex KGB mafia thug, cult of personality bullshit l
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Buddy, either grow up or at least acquire some manners. And stop calling people "retards" when they don't subscribe to your opinions. Because that is what your statements are - opinions. Which are notably absent of actual facts.
My country's economy is doing fine, by the way - it is currently the strongest in Europe. You also should check your numbers, only 80 millions live in Germany, not 140 millions.
Also I think, you might be somewhat delusional if you find anything nationalistic in what I have written. I
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you're not in germany. you are a *retarded* russian troll. no german would say that sentence
unless, highly unlikely, you are a mercenary or, even worse, some sort of sadistic conflict tourist
in which case you are indeed a greater *retarded* loser than a russian propaganda victim, and are utterly devoid of merit or worth in registering any opinion
go swallow a shotgun you lying demented fuck
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*facepalm*
There are other cities in Eastern Ukraine than Donetsk and Lugansk. Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk for example. There is no war there. Life there goes on as usual, the only exception is that there are soldiers now at the central railway stations, which was not the case three years ago. Also some right sector recruitment boots - unheard of previously. And yes, these cities were more pleasant than Kiev. Cleaner, better looked after, even though both are actually heavy on industry - for example Kharkiv i
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that's central ukraine you dumb fuck
why the fuck did you say " i went to eatern ukraine, hurrr durrr"
that's the warzone
you lack basic communication skills. you switch your story. you don't understand the topic
i'm so glad you went to ukraine you fat fuck. i skyped with ethnic russians in dnipropetrovsk every day for months, on a dev team i managed a few years ago. good guys. rocket city
now do i get to claim some special knowledge completely at odds with basic fucking reality like you do?
hear, have a greasy s
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*double facepalm*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... [wikipedia.org]
The territory is heavily urbanized and commonly associated with the Donbas. The three largest metropolitan cities form an industrial triangle within the region. Among the major cities are:
Kharkiv
Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk
Zaporizhia
Luhansk
Mariupol
Kryvyi Rih
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you said "eastern ukraine"
eastern ukraine is the war zone, yes?
so you meant "sort of towards the east but still far from the the warzone in eastern ukraine"
that's called basic communication skills
if i said "i went to fukushima," and i really meant "i kind of got around the outskirts of tokyo and saw a government vehicle on its way to the exclusion zone," i could be accused of lying and manipulating by creating a false impression, right?
understand the communication problem you made here you lying asshole?
did
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No, I said what I meant. Eastern Ukraine. Not the war zone, because it is just a part of Eastern Ukraine. If I wanted to say "war zone", I would have said so. My basic communication skills are good enough and you are the first person who has interpreted me like this. So it is your reading comprehension that is malfunctioning. Please don't project your own problems on me.
If you said "I went to Fukushima" then it would mean that you went to the Fukushima perfecture, or maybe to the city of Fukushima, which is
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i stopped reading there. my turn to face palm. you're a really dumb fuck you know that?
moronic thread over
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King George W Bush 2nd: Dumber then a box of rocks. Hand puppet for Cheney. Known to be comfortable holding hands with (male) Saudi royalty. Ignored warnings about 9/11 attack, then invaded the wrong country. Engineered the worst financial crash since the Great Depression. Will eventually go down as the worst president in the post WW1 era.
King Jeb Bush
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Lincoln had a secretary named Johnson, Johnson had a secretary named Lincoln
This is true is except that both are false.
But it as 100% relevant as your comment, which is to say not at all.
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Resurgent? You're like the bully that keeps asking, "why are you hitting yourself?
First that doesn't mean what you thought it meant. You really need to rework it a bit to make it an insult directed at me .
Second here you go
http://hir.harvard.edu/archive... [harvard.edu]
Maybe you should get together with the guy who thinks all slavs view each other as brothers (pro tip ask the Poles about that) and form a reading circle.
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ROFL NYET KULTURNI
There's I haven't known anyone who has left Russia who would want to return since members of my family fled the Czars. You delude yourself.
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So which group of imaginary friends are making your point ? The ones that won't go home or those that are ?