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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by qrendel on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:11PM (#11802598)
I'm not an expert on the history of Russian foreign policy, but there are a lot of credible voices outside of the MSM that tell a different story than the U.S. administration does. For example:

1. http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-world-war-has-begun-break-t...

2. http://www.alternet.org/world/exclusive-interview-seymour-he...

Those focus largely on other topics, but both touch on how the attitude towards Russia (and others) has been manipulated by U.S. media.

Given the U.S. administrations' track records for deceit in manipulating foreign affairs, I'm not inclined to dismiss the alternative narratives easily. Western governments do their fair share of astroturfing and media manipulation as well (can give many sources on that, if necessary).

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by woodandsteel on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:19PM (#11802630)
So Obama is a blood-thirsty imperialist who plans to conquer Russia and turn them into American colonies? Wow, you could have fooled me.

If he is pursuing such wildly aggressive foreign policy, then how come all the hawks in this country continually condemn him for being a wimpy surrender-monkey?

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by qrendel on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:44PM (#11802759)
The GOP criticizes Obama like he's the anti-christ for literally everything. They've opposed their own bills that they sponsored just because Obama later made public remarks about them being good bills.

If you're referring to stuff like the "red line" fiasco in Syria, Hersh explains that too. See: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin

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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by woodandsteel on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:49PM (#11803105)
So you do think that Obama is a blood-thirsty imperialist who spent his whole eight years as president planning to invade and conquer Russia? Including explaining to the American public why that would be a good idea?
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