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  • #796
    Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...n-isis/530844/

    So we shot down another Iranian drone in Syria. This is going to help things with Russia.
    Only a drone, thank god.

    This would be a very good time for the State Department and the МИД to go over Trump and Putin's heads and back-channel an agreement to prevent, you know...
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    • #797
      Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Only a drone, thank god.

      This would be a very good time for the State Department and the МИД to go over Trump and Putin's heads and back-channel an agreement to prevent, you know...
      Why would they do that? Russia needs stuff like this to get money flowing again and half the State Department has no issue with another Cold War no matter their feelings on Trump.
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      • #798
        Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

        Originally posted by Handyman View Post
        Why would they do that? Russia needs stuff like this to get money flowing again and half the State Department has no issue with another Cold War no matter their feelings on Trump.
        Fair point. It's good for jobs. My job, in fact.

        Carry on.
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        • #799
          Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Fair point. It's good for jobs. My job, in fact.

          Carry on.
          Or, you could take one for the team.
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          • #800
            Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

            The monkeys are at it again.
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            • #801
              Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

              The Saudis have their own Kushner.
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              • #802
                Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                The Saudis have their own Kushner.
                The Saudi monarch, who holds near absolute powers, quickly awarded his son expansive powers to the surprise of many within the royal family who are more senior and more experienced than Mohammed bin Salman, also known by his initials MBS.
                In my world, MBS = Mortgage Backed Securities; these are the investments that led to the widespread pain felt during the 2007 mortgage/housing collapse.
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                • #803
                  Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  The monkeys are at it again.
                  Do you think he was "keeping up foreign relations" like Goose and Maverick in Top Gun
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                  • #804
                    Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                    Look, 50 thousand people who are about to fall out of windows.
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                    • #805
                      Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Look, 50 thousand people who are about to fall out of windows.
                      That takes balls. Erdogan does not take kindly to such things, and he keeps getting more and more power do just about anything he wants.

                      And God that must be a miserable march.

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                      • #806
                        Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                        Originally posted by burd View Post
                        That takes balls. Erdogan does not take kindly to such things, and he keeps getting more and more power do just about anything he wants.

                        And God that must be a miserable march.
                        Interesting though that the pro-government people along the route are echoing Erdogen's talking points, just like the pro-Trump people here do.

                        They're the same people, they just were born there rather than here. There is an authoritarian personality type that is a (fairly large, apparently) subset of conservatism, and it craves an iron hand.

                        Parents, they argued, bring about authoritarianism by frequently and seriously punishing and shaming their children for even minor offences. This makes them hostile to adults and all authority figures in power. The child does not consciously acknowledge this aggression because it simply lead to more punishment. Also they are dependent on their parents whom they are supposed to love, which can cause great tension.

                        Thus, so the theory goes, those exposed to authoritarian, rather than authoritative, parenting have their repressed antagonism displaced and projected onto weaker members of society.

                        Authoritarians are nearly always ethnocentric in that they have a certain, simple and unshakable belief in the superiority of their own racial, cultural and ethnic group with a powerful disclaim for all those in other groups. This can easily lead to brutality, aggression and naked open prejudice.
                        Last edited by Kepler; 07-05-2017, 01:28 PM.
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                        • #807
                          Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Interesting though that the pro-government people along the route are echoing Erdogen's talking points, just like the pro-Trump people here do.

                          They're the same people, they just were born there rather than here. There is an authoritarian personality type that is a (fairly large, apparently) subset of conservatism, and it craves an iron hand.
                          It's true, we've seen it in Russia for centuries - probably 75-80% of their population prefers a strongman. They just change names and regimes every so often, depending on how much starving the proles have been doing lately.

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                          • #808
                            Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                            It's true, we've seen it in Russia for centuries - probably 75-80% of their population prefers a strongman. They just change names and regimes every so often, depending on how much starving the proles have been doing lately.
                            Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.

                            Republicanism works here. Democracy works in other places. Authoritarianism works for others.
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                            • #809
                              Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                              Originally posted by joecct View Post
                              Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.
                              I'd say that is true of most.

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                              • #810
                                Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.

                                Republicanism works here. Democracy works in other places. Authoritarianism works for others.
                                I do not know whether a majority of Americans would choose to fight for democratic government if an authoritarian regime assured them 3 hots, a cot, and superior treatment to some convenient Out group they could then lord it over.

                                Arguably the white South made that bargain a century ago and has never looked back.
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