Russia Today took over C-SPAN for 10 minutes

[Person Man]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Disgusting new low, even for you.

Sure, after all, arming the Mujaheddins worked out splendidly in long run.

     This is American foreign policy in a nutshell: when you fail, just do the exact same thing in a different country.

It works as long as we don't have direct interest.

[Comrade Funk]

Funny how "defending Western civilization" means supporting fascism. Western civilization helped kill fascism in 1945. Putin's Russia stands against the ideals of the Enlightenment (which is what I assume Western civilization means, although the people who use that phrase probably mean White Christian civilization).

Say what you want about Western hypocrisy, but Putinist Russia happily disregards freedom of the press, democracy, transparency, and political opposition. There is a reason that sh**thole of a government funds the far-right. This is like the Chilean people thinking Kissinger is a defender of Enlightenment ideals even though he helped topple Chile's democracy in 1973.

[ag]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

[Santander]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

Some, I assume, are good people.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

Some, I assume, are good people.

-THIS. :-)

[nicholas.slaydon]

Let's not pretend Putin isn't a war criminal. Review of wars wherein Russia has invaded another country:

Chechnya - 50,000 to 250,000 dead
Georgia - ~400 dead, 190,000 displaced
Ukraine - 10,000 dead, 1.4 million displaced
Syria - 312,000 to 470,000 dead at the hands of his friend Assad, 5 million refugees

Not counting the airline he shot down, the people he's had poisoned, etc.

You can scream 'Iraq!' 'Iraq!' 'Iraq!' all day long but the fact is, Bush isn't president anymore. Putin is.

Let's not pretend Obama isn't a war criminal. Review of wars wherein America has invaded another country:

Iraq: 1,533,000 dead, 3.5-5 million displaced
Afghanistan: 220,000 dead (could be many more), millions displaced.
Pakistan: 61,000 dead, 1.4 million displaced.
Yemen: 1,724 dead, 10.3 Million in "Dire Need" of assistance or they will die.
Libya: 15,000 dead, 1.5 Million Displaced.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Do you know the effective way of hitting Putin? Sanctions.

Of course some would say something like "meh, sanctions, how weak, why would he care?", but Russia is vulnerable. My favorite example: they soon won't have a working electronics for many of their ICBMs. They don't produce one. Why bother if you could buy from someone else? But it ended after Crimea and subsequent sanctions. Also, sanctions targeting oligarchs would be most dangerous to Putin.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Do you know the effective way of hitting Putin? Sanctions.

Of course some would say something like "meh, sanctions, how weak, why would he care?", but Russia is vulnerable. My favorite example: they soon won't have a working electronics for many of their ICBMs. They don't produce one. Why bother if you could buy from someone else? But it ended after Crimea and subsequent sanctions. Also, sanctions targeting oligarchs would be most dangerous to Putin.

-China doesn't produce electronics? And no, sanctions are a vastly overrated and highly ineffective means of "hitting Putin".

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Do you know the effective way of hitting Putin? Sanctions.

Of course some would say something like "meh, sanctions, how weak, why would he care?", but Russia is vulnerable. My favorite example: they soon won't have a working electronics for many of their ICBMs. They don't produce one. Why bother if you could buy from someone else? But it ended after Crimea and subsequent sanctions. Also, sanctions targeting oligarchs would be most dangerous to Putin.

-China doesn't produce electronics? And no, sanctions are a vastly overrated and highly ineffective means of "hitting Putin".

As far as I remember China doesn't produce this. Kind of like the U.S. not producing own drugs for executions.

Targeting the oligarchs who are having a lot of money located in the west would be painful, since Putin must maintain their loyalty.

[ag]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

Some, I assume, are good people.

Well, I guess there are also some good people among your acquaintances, though none, surely, ever appear when you look into a mirror.

[ag]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

I really hope that this was some type of irony or other joke.

You seem to be less conerned with some other non-ironic comments around here.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

Some, I assume, are good people.

Well, I guess there are also some good people among your acquaintances, though none, surely, ever appear when you look into a mirror.

-How are you even a moderator?

[ag]

Time for the US to start arming the Chechens and other Russian rebels.

Are you insane? The Chechens are monsters.

Hm.

You mean, all Chechens?

Some, I assume, are good people.

Well, I guess there are also some good people among your acquaintances, though none, surely, ever appear when you look into a mirror.

-How are you even a moderator?

Old song. You happen to object to a particular moderatorial decision of mine?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Ok you do NOT mess with Brian Lamb and my bae Susan Swain. Unleash the nukes, Trump!

[Crumpets]

Lol. The Kremlin (or some stooge thereof) thinks Americans watch/care about CSPAN.

[OneJ]

This is what happens when you normalize fascism.