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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  LUHE: Since you haven't read about Putin your claim that Russia today vs. Cold war is different in relevant ways insofar policy is concerned is a bit hollow. If you have relevant literature on the subject I would like to see it, but quite frankly I find this "you read A, now I say B, try to disprove me" is a bit tedious.

  Would they have stopped Putin from annexing Crimea, had they been in place?

  If you have an iPhone, you can ask Siri.

  This is a complex question but irrelevant: What matters is which policy will discourage the current behavior from the Putin regime. One where his behavior has clear, tangible consequences or one where he gets a slap on the hand and sanctions are then lifted.

  You argued that what the US should do with Russia is lift sanctions and pursue common goals in Syria. This is something I have only seen warnings about and which I don't understand what means since Russias goal in Syria is an alliance with the Assad regime and further destabilization of EU. Terror in the EU by Muslims is a feature not a bug from Putins perspective, if not, you have to explain to me why a stream of refugees in EU in any way should be bad from a Russian perspective.

  I think you mean when the USSR was a superpower? I think we should be careful not to conflate the Russia of today and the USSR of the 80s.

  In which way are Russia and USSR relevantly different?
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  What did President Trump say about Sweden?

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  this you will never see on the mainstream media.

  before you comment watch the whole video.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.

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  Qcmbr: That is a bloody awful experience. Do you know why the UK got so many Pakistanis?

  littlerockguy: Instead of youtube videos, can't we try to have a serious discussion about numbers? I tried fact-checking that guy once and the experience wasn't great.
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  LUHE: Easy. Repeat the 80s.

  • Recognize that Russia is acting as an enemy and adjust
  • Make CLEAR AND CREDIBLE threats
  • Declare sanctions can't be lifted without serious Russian concessions

  This worked when Russia was a superpower and it has not been how the US/EU has been dealing with Russia under Obama.
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  "The Russian federation is not attacking Donbass. Terrorists in collaboration with the corrupt Ukraine government is attacking civilians in the Russian region of Crimea as well as terrorising the large native Russian population in Donbass. We call for the UN to condemn these acts of terrorism and fairly mediate peace between Russia and the Ukraine regime".

  We can then continue where we left off: Russia knows the west will quickly back down on sanctions because this is what happened the last time. Asides, is any of this proven? What if Russia can influence an EU country to veto the sanctions?
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  LUHE: "well, in a bid to stop or water down Russia's aggressive foreign policy in Europe, how about the US (or a team of US/EU/NATO) offer Putin business deals, trade, international cooperation in places like Syria, plus possibly other sweeteners?"

  "The Russian federation happily accepts normalization of trade relations between Russia and the rest of the world."

  (2 months later, shelling of Donbass resumes)

  What then?
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  What did President Trump say about Sweden?

  by kpop in

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  this you will never see on the mainstream media.

  before you comment watch the whole video.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.

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  kpop: I wonder if you have anything to say regarding the allegation contained in your OP that Sweeden is censoring foreign internet sites which I think I provided evidence was wrong?
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  Concretely, what do you propose doing with Putin? - I think it's a difficult issue, and even more difficult for me, given my ignorance.

  Couldn't America offer Putin some kind of incentives to back off the Ukraine and Baltics and quit interfering in EU countries?

  Well, you are proposing a departure from the current strategy (which I think is to weak by the way) which involves being more friendly to Russia since, as you wrote, the cold war was 25 years ago. I am curious what that strategy would be. What incentive should the US offer Russia to back of EU countries, something Russia denies doing?

  I am Russia. The following is based pro-kremlin pundits and in some cases Kremlin spokespeople:

  "The Obama administration was run by ignorant losers. They blame the failure of US diplomacy and their foreign involvement on Russia. The so-called hacking scandal was made up as an excuse for why Hillary Clinton, a politician nobody likes, lost and is yet another example of how the Obama administration blames its failure on Russia. We are happy the American people are tired of politicians who blame Russia to deflect from the many, credible reports their elections are rigged and their foreign policy is a mess.".
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  What did President Trump say about Sweden?

  by kpop in

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  2. current

  this you will never see on the mainstream media.

  before you comment watch the whole video.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.

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  Simon: If you look at e.g. Denmark or Norway the path to citizenship is very long and hard and the idea is to send the refugees back again when things stabilize (refugee politics in Scandinavia has changed a lot the past years, except Sweden).

  We need to clarify the argument: There is both the (immediate) concern about letting refugees in as it relates to safety (terrorism, crime and unrest) and there is the long-term concern (25 years).

  Our discussion last week was mostly centered on the immediate concern (safety), which is where e.g. the experience of Denmark & Norway is immediately relevant IMO. What do you think?

  Then there is the long-term question. This is a much more complicated question, but again I think it is useful to use European experience, but noting that refugee policy has changed to become much stricter over the past 10 years (and rightly so). I agree that Mohlenbeck or the suburbs of Paris should not be imitated, but the immigration that is currently happening in the US is minuscule relative to what lead to those and there are (likely) difference in the refugee populations.

  I think a better example is the experience of Scandinavia with Turks in the 70s. There was a fairly large immigration, however Turks are not insofar as I am aware very disproportionally represented in the criminal statistics today.
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  LUHE: Kasparov is fairly well read and the book is accessible; he warned about what Putin would become early on and what he initially said came true. I thought he was overreacting but then Crimea happened. In terms of political bias he is a Reaganite.

  Concretely, what do you propose doing with Putin?

  Make him promise not to do the things he says he haven't done against lifting sanctions against him?

  Play it out. What do you think Putin would learn from that experience?

  Spoletta: Damn right. If Hillary tried to pull this crap, I would be the first to call her out and the media/GOP would be all over her as they
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  Simon: I think we use language differently and our background gives us different expectation about what terms like "the left" and "the right" means. I think it is more accurate insofar this site is concerned that I say I am part of "the center" (aka the cowards) rather than redefine "the left".