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He stands against common decency and general civil behavior towards others, sure no one likes to walk on egg shells but it doesn't mean the other extreme of being as blatantly offensive as possible at all times is any better.

There are some disturbing similarities, as far as how he's so good at getting everyone riled up.

He is hardly the least idiotic.

Words are meaningless, this is the language that we all speak so why do treat politics as if its this solemn thing? Trump has treated a lot people the way they deserved to be treated, him making Jeb Bush almost cry is something I will laugh at for years. John McCain, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, I seriously can't get enough of him taking these losers down a peg. Personally I think actions are more important than words; common decency and general civil behavior to me entails things like not imprisoning millions of of non-violent victimless offenders, invading other countries, or ignoring the Bill of Rights but I guess just having a smiling face and friendly tone while doing it all makes it all okay.

Jacoby,

Putin thinks he is a modern Czar of Russia

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/20 ... t-not.html

I think he wants to be Joseph Stalin.

Meaning what exactly? EuroMaidan was a farce, an illegal coup orchestrated by western-backed NGOs and literal Nazi street thugs. We spent billions in Ukraine since 1991 building "democracy", our feigned outrage had a purpose. Ukraine was given an ultimatum to either abandoned its Russian ally for Europe or be forever shut out, Yanakuvych picked the better deal and the one his voters would of wanted him to choose but obviously this was unacceptable to the West as it sees Ukraine as a vital piece in their "grand chessboard" for world domination as Zbigniew Brzezinski laid out almost 20 years ago.



I see no reason to consider Putin an enemy to the United States, I think we can accomplish far more together than apart with our shared interests and common enemies. I remain unconvinced, I do not watch my nightly CNN propaganda however.

To me, the really funny thing about Trump is that no one can really say what he'd do if elected; I mean I'd assume he'd be pretty business friendly, but beyond that, I couldn't hazard a guess.

TOUCHDOWN!! !! !

Jacoby,
He is an enemy of the United States and the West.He has been making modernizing the nuclear triad his number one priority. The only reason why the EU is scared of him because he can cut off the flow of natural gas that they need to heat their homes and as a fuel for transportation. The way he has been acting since leading Russia he sees himself as a mixture of Joseph Stalin and a Czar. He minus well cancel all elections and crown himself as a Czar. He has the entire nation scared by using the FSB.Today's agency draws a direct line of inheritance from the Cheka, set up by Vladimir Lenin in the months after the Bolshevik revolution, to the NKVD, notorious for the purges of the 1930s in which hundreds of thousands were executed, and then the KGB. As the Soviet Union disbanded, the KGB was dismembered into separate agencies, and humiliated. The security services were forced into a new era of openness and researchers were allowed into the archives for the first time to investigate the crimes of the Stalin period.

Why? What has he done to the United States or the West as a whole? He modernized their nuclear weapons, isn't that something we should be doing too? The EU doesn't have anything to be fearful of Russia for, they're more annoyed at the US poking the bear because they're the ones that feel it economically but they're essentially a vassal state of the US and do what they're told more times than not. We have no moral high ground with Putin, repeating czar over and over again isn't convincing. Perhaps nuclear reduction could of been achieved if you we didn't threaten to put a nuclear missile "shield" over eastern Europe and try to claim it definitely was not directed at Russia, they've reacted rationally in the face of relentless American imperialism.

Anyone who sends missiles, technicians and armaments to North Korea,China,Syria and Iran is not a friend of the United States. Maybe we have a missile shield up already.We certainly have 100 anti ballistic missiles ready at Fort Greely Alaska and Vandenberg AFB as part of SDI. Leaving the 1972 ABM treaty was the best thing to happen the defense of this country.The Russians were always cheating on the treaty. The Europeans want the SM-2 missile shield.

While the Russian tactical nuclear arsenal is not as large as what Soviet Union once maintained, the country is believed to have at least 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons deployed, but it could have as many as 5,000 such warheads when non-deployed weapons are taken into account. The Soviet Union was believed to have between 15,000 and 25,000 tactical nukes.

Russia uses these tactical nuclear weapons to offset the relative weakness of its conventional forces—but it is not clear exactly how many of these types of weapons they have. It should be noted that tactical nuclear weapons are not covered by the START treaties.

There are a number of ways Russia can deliver tactical nuclear warheads to their targets—one such method would be the 9K720 Iskander short-range ballistic missile. That weapon could be deployed to places like the Kaliningrad Oblast on the Baltic coast to attack U.S. ballistic missile defense sites in Poland, for example.

Anyone that sends missiles and armament to terrorists is not a friend of America, this is what our own government has done. We're the largest arms producer in the world and we have no bigger customers than Saudi Arabia and Turkey who support ISIS. The US has also sold a ton of military equipment to Iran, they didn't let our hostages go for free and we needed a round about way to fund the Contras down in Nicaragua. This isn't Red Dawn or Rocky IV, lets be real. Nuclear war means mutually assured destruction and nobody wants that, not during the Cold War and not now

Words are not meaningless, they are how things are expressed...also I could care less about politicians ripping on each other but they shouldn't be making racial slurs, mocking disabled people, fear mongering and scapegoating certain groups of people. How people express themselves is part of behavior.

Even if someone tried to be more subtle and cherry coat their real opinions, that still wouldn't make those things you listed any better. I am not saying he should be censored, better if people can hear just what he thinks...but I don't think he has any business holding political office. Also any nationalistic rhetoric that attempts to scapegoat certain groups and negatively blanket generalize certain segments of the population is dangerous, history shows that.

Jacoby,

There are laws on books concerning arms exports by American companies.The Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (Title II of Pub.L. 94–329, 90 Stat. 729, enacted June 30, 1976, codified at 22 U.S.C. ch. 39) gives the President of the United States the authority to control the import and export of defense articles and defense services. The H.R. 13680 legislation was passed by the 94th Congressional session and enacted into law by the 38th President of the United States Gerald R. Ford on June 30, 1976. The Act also places certain restrictions on American arms traders and manufacturers, prohibiting them from the sale of certain sensitive technologies to certain parties and requiring thorough documentation of such trades to trusted parties.When the President is aware of the possibility of violations of the AECA, the law requires a report to Congress on the potential violations.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducts an industry outreach program called the Project Shield America to prevent foreign adversaries, terrorists, and criminal networks from obtaining U.S. munitions and strategic technology