Donald's Blog
July 22, 2014 The criminal regime in Russia The criminal Russian regime steals its own people blind and ships the money out of the country, buying penthouses in Manhattan, football teams, yachts, whatever; we know which banks are laundering the money, but we do nothing about it. The criminal Russian regime bombs Grozny flat, creating a generation of hopeless young people who think nothing of bombing a marathon in Boston, but we do nothing about it. The regime murders its perceived enemies, businessmen, journalists, whistle-blowers and so on, and even murders them on foreign soil, and we do nothing about it. The regime enables thugs and hoodlums to destabilize other sovereign nations, and we do nothing about it. Now they have shot down a civilian airliner, murdering 298 innocent people, and we do nothing about it. Many Russians evidently believe what they are told by their tightly-controlled television; there are independent voices in Russia, to say nothing of the Internet, but like most people, Russians believe whatever they see on a screen. Russia is half in and half out of the modern western world; the criminal regime depends on its oil and gas to keep it afloat, but that isn't going to last forever; Russia wants to do business with the West, and it would be easy to put the pinch on them and make them behave without a single boot on the ground, but we continue to cooperate with a criminal regime. I saw President Obama on TV, and remembered why I voted for him. Twice. He speaks well. But I am now remembering the words of Milton in his Areopagitica:
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