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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by gruez on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:42PM (#11802495)
>given that Trump and Putin are on friendly terms with each other

which im sure is because putin doesn't think trump is going to win, and he likes trump stirring things up. if trump actually wins, i bet he's going to have a change of heart.

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by Jerry2 on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:00PM (#11802553)
No, he likes him because they're both nationalists. Trump's view of the world is similar to his and Putin believes they can cooperate better. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, wants war with Russia.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/9/hillary-clint...

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by TryAgainMaybe on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:04PM (#11802570)
Hilary does not want war with Russia.

I mean, really. Sigh. This website.

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by Jerry2 on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:31PM (#11802683)
Try again. Hillary Clinton is the most pro-war, anti-Russia candidate on the Democrat side. She is more hawkish than even Ted Cruz was on the Republican side.

Here's an article by Jeffrey Sachs, director of Earth Institute at Columbia University, on The Huffington Post (a left leaning site) saying the same thing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-c...

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by gaius on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:14PM (#11802607)
You're half right. She wants war and doesn't care who with.
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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by vetinari on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#11802712)
Even worse. She thinks that she can win.
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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by qrendel on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:34PM (#11802701)
Clinton is easily one of the most pro-war (meaning an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy) candidates since the end of Vietnam. Many sources on that but I'll link just two.[1][2] Her focus is primarily on Russia, as she openly stated during one of the Democratic debates (given a choice between Iran, Russia, and North Korea, she picked them as "the greatest threat"). The entire Syria thing is largely a proxy war with Russia.[3] She was the main voice that argued against the Pentagon and convinced Obama to get involved in Libya. Whether you want to call it neoconservativism, neoliberalism, neocolonialism, or just liberal internationalism, she is the leading champion for U.S. invasions and war across the world these days.[4][5]

[1] http://www.cato.org/blog/2016-presidential-candidate-interve...

[2] http://johnpilger.com/articles/silencing-america-as-it-prepa...

[3] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-mil...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons...

[5] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/clintons-haw...

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by qaq on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:20PM (#11802641)
Trump has some eastern european partners (Onyshenko) sharing interest in owning beauty pageants with all the fun side activities. Phil Ruffin is married to Nikolaenko who also shares biz interests with Onyshenko. Onyshenko is pro russian ukrainian oligarch and given life style and joint partying has likely enough dirt on Trump passed on to Putin for Putin to feel he has decent leverage over Trump.
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