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2016 Postmortem

2016-06-03T16:24:26+00:00

Hillary Clinton made a strong case for why handing the nuclear codes over to a President Donald Trump would be a scary idea, but there may be equal or even greater reason to fear turning them over to her. In perhaps the most likely area where nuclear war could break out along Russias borders Clinton comes across as the more belligerent of the two. In Clintons world view, President Vladimir Putin, who has been elected multiple times and has approval ratings around 80 percent, is nothing more than a dictator who is engaged in aggression that threatens NATO following the U.S.-backed regime change in Ukraine. Moscow has taken aggressive military action in Ukraine, right on NATOs doorstep, she declared. But stop for a second and think about what Clinton said: she sees Russia responding to an unconstitutional coup in Ukraine which installed a virulently anti-Russian regime on Russias border as Moscow acting aggressively on NATOs doorstep. Thats the same NATO, whose job it was to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union, that following the Soviet Unions collapse added country after country right up to Russias border. In other words, NATO muscled its way into Russias face and has announced plans to incorporate Ukraine as well, but when Russia reacts, its the one doing the provoking. Clintons neoconservative interpretation of whats happening in Eastern Europe is so upside-down and inside-out that it could ultimately become the flashpoint for a nuclear war between Russia and the West. -----> https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/02/the-bigger-nuclear-risk-trump-or-clinton/

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People who like Putin will generally prefer Trump to Hillary. geek tragedy Jun 2016 #1

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1. People who like Putin will generally prefer Trump to Hillary.

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Fri Jun 3, 2016, 01:21 PM

Jun 2016

For obvious reasons, none of them good.