Agree . # 4 and most of these , in fact are huge in getting wouldbe nonvoters voting . <| sep |> I guess I ' ll catch the highlights on the national anthem halftime report . <| sep |> they are trying to belittle what the United StatesThey should be belittled . All of their foreign politics in the ME have hurt the entire world . investigative journalism . Yes . For the moment all we see is european journalists copy pasting american articles and translating them . Modern journalism is a joke and that is not because of russians , chinese or IS . I fully agree with this . As for Russia , maybe if I were Eastern European I ' d too be as concerned as many on this sub from there genuinely seem to be . The main way Russia enters the news here is with the complaints from the local farmers who are no longer exporting there because of the sanctions . Imo the only reasons Russia is still relevant today are that they control the European natural gas supply and they retain the old Soviet knowhow in the space , nuclear and military sectors . The former gives them bargaining power but is going away because solar energy will be cheaper two decades from now the latter is dwindling because of turnover and brain drain . Otherwise , they are poor , in decline and surrounded by NATO bases .