not content to try and scare folks on security....

[callmeslick]

...I note that Trump, today, tries to downplay the rise in the stock market. Now, anyone can state that stocks may or not be overvalued, but, not content to do so, the Orange Baboon tried to imply that investment in stocks was a bad thing, overall. Essentially, stock ownership is the underpinning of our entire variety of capitalism. Especially ironic, as anyone analyzing matters has said that a blind dump into a stock index at the time of daddy's inheritance would have made Trump a REAL billionaire, not some windbag wannabe with nowhere near a billion in actual value.

[sigma]

So what? What will he do with these easy billions of dollars? He will invest in the arms industry, most likely. And somewhere else, I just don't want to speak about it, but all know. The good old American tradition without any clearance in the clouds at reforming the long-standing really actual system problems for Americans and for the whole world.
Russia has weapons and an army of no less than US, but why we did not attack anyone? Russia only helps all countries, unlike the USA.

[woodchip]

Like Crimea and eastern Ukraine?

[sigma]

Like Crimea and eastern Ukraine?

Especially for stupid (woodchip, you must excuse me, but on another it is impossible to say). If you still do not understand, Russia thus prevent the extermination by Ukrainian fascists hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the Crimea, the further military expansion of NATO to the East, in the end, if you look a little further, Russia has prevented a WWIII at this stage.
Though why I explain it to people who have in a head СNN, I do not even know...

[callmeslick]

quick, Woody, sign him up with the Drumpf campaign!!! He has a far more cogent explanation of the Orange Baboon's demand that the party tone down rhetoric on Ukraine. Really, he does.

[sigma]

quick, Woody, sign him up with the Drumpf campaign!!! He has a far more cogent explanation of the Orange Baboon's demand that the party tone down rhetoric on Ukraine. Really, he does.

Where are you, where are Tpump and where Ukraine, clown? What do in fact you know about the relationship between Russians and Ukrainians? Do you even know how to translate and what does the word Ukraine? If briefly say, crowd will tear American at every opportunity much faster than Ukrainian in Russia or Russian in Ukraine, to help you understand how things really are.

[callmeslick]

ummm, American is not a language option. We speak English, and many of us speak other languages as well. The fact that Russia and Ukraine border one another doesn't mean they share some common cultlure which overrides national sovereignity.

[sigma]

callmeslick, you really do not know what thou thinkest American standards or are you fooling around? Hmm.. It seems, I do not really know how to explain it to a person who has never lived in Russia. OK. A simple example to guide you in the right direction. BRICS it's a little more, it is not only these countries, it is a different mentality, my life is not enough to explain it to you.

[callmeslick]

pretty major translation fail there, I think, Sigma......can't even get real gist of your thoughts. On the other hand, god love this place! We go from a domestic economic statement by a US candidate, and zoom! we're off to Mother Russia!

[sigma]

I know )
I just wanted to tell you that we have a different way of thinking, we think in different ways. Look, I'm Russian, I live here since birth, I have been in different regions, I am familiar with different people of different nationalities and religions, I know a lot about this country, but the more I know, the more I realize that I know nothing really. In short, it is impossible to explain what Russia is, it does not fit under any standard. I hope you at least a little understood what I wanted to say..

Let's continue about Trump or whoever you have

[callmeslick]

understand that completely, Sigma. I'm sure that both sides here in the forum(and likely beyond) express our inherent perceptions in ways that the other side views as confronting them. This is made far worse by translation software. You should see Norwegian to English on Facebook. My flytying buddies up that way are better off blundering in English than having me translate, although it is comical to read at times.

[callmeslick]

oh, and the idea that Russia is a complex entity to easily categorize is completely understood by most Americans. We see our nation in exactly the same way.