Quote: (10-01-2015 12:44 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:
Quote: (09-30-2015 04:10 PM)Akula Wrote:
What am I missing here?
All the baby boomers and 70-year-olds who watch Fox News and have zero skin in the game want us to get in a war with Russia over this just so they have something new to watch. The neocohens who tell them what to think are extremely upset that Putin wants to bring stability to the country rather than let the endless bloodshed go on indefinitely for the benefit of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The Israel lobby will and always will hate Russia with a passion. The hate is not rational but a grudge for a number of historical reasons.
A lot of powerful Jews in the U.S. are actually Russian Jews.
They remember the time when their families were persecuted by Stalin and other unfortunate incidents during the cold war. They've held a grudge against the entire Russian people since then.
This long standing grudge fuels a lot of anti-Russian policies and agitation that the U.S. has taken on since the wall came down. There's no real reason why Russia should be at odds with the U.S. these days if cooler and more logical heads prevailed without Israeli interference at all levels of U.S. politics.