Reply With QuoteIsn't the answer obvious?
Sorry for asking, but how do US Intel Community exactly know what Putin ordered his agencies?
Thank you.
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To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
Isn't the answer obvious?
So, why the fuss if the others do the same? It's your failure (if this really happened), and instead of focusing how to prevent this from repeating, we get this pointing of fingers. Leaders don't blame others for the mistakes.Originally Posted by citanon
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
The question everybody should be asking is had Hillary won, would Obama be frothing at the mouth like this.
Judging by his past reaction to other numerous hacks, I highly doubt it.
I'll say the same thing that I've said for the last 8 years when people defend Obama that way:
If your best defense of Obama is a comparison to George W Bush, then you've proven my point.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Nope, he wouldn't be. If the Russians had hacked the GOP and Trump, then Obama would've been clucking his tongue in admonishment of their poor cyber security.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no such thing as a former KGB man" VVP.
Putin Invaded Georgia and NATO didn't respond because it Georgia isn't NATO.
No, Russia shot down an airliner. The considerable Resistance to sanctions by enough European countries, buckled - and that is with Obama, Mekel and Hollande in power. No - what brought about sanctions reluctantly was the absurd situation that France was in the process of selling amphibious assualt ships beforehand (and continued the process) until it became politically untenable and diplomatic pressure from the Dutch to avenge the murdered especially with French military gear showing up in Russian Tanks the French sold to Moscow became too much. Bluntly - things will work for Russia if Europe trades with it.
There isn't one geopolitical foe of the Obama administration that believes the price they will pay will exceed the 'norms' it breaks. This one won't either. Heck if you guys wanted to stick it to the Russians, increase funding to the Ukraine. But that won't happen. That would actually be realpolitik.
Last edited by Chunder; 07 Jan 17, at 02:32.
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joe,
the very next line states that is not my point. the diffuse nature of cyber operations along with the lack of real options to properly inflict proportionate costs on Russia means that Russia has a high incentive to continue these type of operations no matter whom is President. and that was one of the findings in the intelligence report.If your best defense of Obama is a comparison to George W Bush, then you've proven my point.
this would be true even if the next President was the reincarnation of Reagan. remember, the Soviets tested Reagan repeatedly as well.
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Chunder,
not really?Heck if you guys wanted to stick it to the Russians, increase funding to the Ukraine. But that won't happen. That would actually be realpolitik.
what costs would doing that impose on Russia? it's no longer Russian boys doing the dying out there; it's their puppets whom they could give a crap about.
and if push comes to shove, it so happens that Russia has demonstrated that they are willing to put tank divisions in the Ukraine. NATO is not. there is an asymmetrical balance in terms of willingness to use force.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
did putin sabotage sander campaign? or was it hillary? i'm kind of confused. how exactly did he win?
obama did state lots of things wrt national security, none of it make any sense. "red line" 'jv team" duhhh?
uh are you making an argument about what i stated or are you just vomiting a few words you heard on fox?
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
wait, so obama didnt say anything about "red line" in syria or isis "jv team"? all fake news?
i honestly have no clue what you're trying to get at.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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