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2018-02-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin, power and poison: Russia's elite FSB spy club

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-03 03:06|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Begs the question regarding the greater danger; "shaping public opinion abroad" or shaping public opinion domestically ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-03 03:21|| 2018-02-03 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like Booz Allen.

Posted by DooDahMan 2018-02-03 04:24|| 2018-02-03 04:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like the FBIs wet dream.

Posted by AlanC 2018-02-03 07:02|| 2018-02-03 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 But... but... I thought the communists were just nationalists at heart, like Our Founding Fathers. Big admirers of Thomas Jefferson etc.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-02-03 11:04|| 2018-02-03 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, and the Nazi's were National Socialists...oh, wait

Posted by Frank G 2018-02-03 12:42|| 2018-02-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 There was never any equivalent of the Nuremburg trials (which themselves didn't fully accomplish the job of cleaning up post Nazi Germany) for the former USSR.

And so, here we are.

Of course, the next time the Dems take over and "Muh Russia!" ceases to be useful, all this discussion will be memory holed and America will once again be "flexible" towards Vlad/his successors.

Posted by charger 2018-02-03 13:16|| 2018-02-03 13:16|| Front Page Top

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