Do you know if Hot Topic Canada has any sales on Pops for Black Friday ? <| sep |> Geez kid you must be under 14 . now fuck off you reprobate <| sep |> 1 st point Here is one example of Trump literally believing Russian propaganda . Thats your point ? So because he quoted the wrong person that means he believes in Russian propaganda ? Either way Benghazi was preventable and I could start a whole separate conversation on why I believe , so I dont know what issue you have that you have to link me this article . Either way from what the article claims How did this happen ? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin ? So basically you are blaming Trump because someone in his campaign told him this is a fact and to go say it ? So If I wrote you a speech and deliberately sabotaged it with something like this who would be to blame ? Me for lying or you for simply reading whats on your paper ? Second point of your articleThe hacking and release of Democratic National Committee emails has been blamed on Moscow , according to the US director of national intelligence James Clapper . If Russia leaked those emails they go up 100 points in my book . How can you claim the email releases were bad ? Do you believe the people didnt have a right to know about all the scandal going on , such as how Clinton stole the election from Sanders ? Whoever released them is a hero in my book . Would you really want someone like her as president ? Whatever you THINK Trump will do cant be worse than what Clinton HAS done . 2 nd point Peacekeepers do not carve out bits of a country from other sovereign countries in the way they see fit . You ' re right Russias methods might not have been the most friendly , but in times of war things like this happen . Look at how Colonial empires left Africa , or the whole middle east mess , IsraelPalestine , etc . Look im no expert in this conflict but what I do know was that the Georgian government was or at least trying to commit genocide , Russia being the only major power in the region did at least something to try to prevent an even bigger bloodbath . I mean life is life but during the 5 day war only 1000 soldiers and civilians died so thats something considering there was about 100 K soldiers on both sides . 3 rd point If this is what you genuinely believe , you are crazy . It doesn ' t matter how many people voted to join another country . Unless that region legally succeeds from the original country , it has no individual right of self determination . Your Quebec example is laughable . Well we didnt legally succeed from Great Britain did we ? If millions of people in an area hate their government and want a change what are they supposed to do ? Relocate their families to a new land away from friends and family ? Countries now are so huge and diverse that its hard to keep things calm , hence why places like Scotland , Quebec , and Catalonia tried andor trying for independence . Again , not an expert but from what I can tell Quebec was pissed how it as a French minority was being mistreated by the English government , and narrowly avoided being independent by 1 %. 4 th point We can argue the merits of a nofly zone until next Tuesday , but , a nofly zone is not the same thing as a provocation to war , and to argue that it was is simply a matter of opinion . No its not a provocation , but when you have Russia lunching operations in the region most of which are doing us a favor by weakening ISIS , and you suddenly institute a no fly zone you are increasing tensions in the region . If Russia suddenly declared a no fly zone how would you react ? Would you consider it an act of war ? I don ' t see how the correct response to this emboldening is to tell our allies pull your weight or else . Actually thats the best response you can give . NATO countries are supposed to spend 2 % or more of their GDP on defense . Of 28 NATO countries only 5 US , Greece , UK , Estonia , and Poland spend 2 % or more , with US spending the most at 3 . 5 % and Estonia the least at 2 %. The rest of the countries spend far less . Luxembourg spends the least at . 5 % and wealthy countries like Germany pay 1 . 3 % and Canada only 1 % These countries have their free healthcare and other benefits because WE foot the bill for NATO while they spend pennies and kick back on their benefits . How is it fair that they are getting all these free things at our expense ? Trumps being very reasonable by saying they need to pay their fair share liberals seem to love that word unless when it comes to NATO . Here is the c a l l s f o r r i s e i n d e f e n c e s p e ndingbyalliancememberstel in case you are curious . Edit Forgot to add that Trump might say or else but do you honestly believe Trump would say no if a country such as Russia or China attack a NATO country , even one that didnt pull its weight ? The people and congress would crucify him . However I do believe that there should be some type of punishment for NATO countries who refuse to pay that 2 % such as exclusion from training exercises .