I don't think anything about him personally....
and funnily enough, I didn't notice karlos addressing the points in this post....
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewt ... 875#111875
or this one....
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewt ... 068#112068
did you?
Criticising his points would be a start.
no - realising that the answers to most of his points were already in the posts I made above would be a start.
but let's take it from the top anyway....
karlos wrote:Whatever the truth of Russia's own false flags Russia did not attack or invade anywhere.
my original point was about double standards - because it really does puzzle me why people who hate everything that bush & co are doing give putin a free pass when he's guilty of all the same things that they hate bush for.
for example, based on what I've seen you post on this forum karlos, you seem to spend every waking moment of your life blaming the US/israel for absolutely anything bad that has ever happened in this world. But when Russia carries out false flag terror attacks that kill and maim hundreds of its own innocent civilians - and they're caught red-handed - it doesn't seem to matter to you.
and when this conveniently helps putin rise to power and is used as the excuse to launch the second chechen war, you don't seem to be bothered about that either.
and even though there are distinct parallels between September 1999 and september 2001 I get the impression that you'd rather ignore them and just worship uncle vlad.
to me that looks like a double standard. if I'm wrong, please point me to your posts about any of these issues which show you don't give putin a free pass for doing exactly the same things you hate bush for.
otherwise, please explain why - when you think bush has done something bad you go mad, but when putin does the same thing you make an excuse or ignore it.
karlos wrote:Instead now today the Russian economy is booming
well putin and his billionaire buddies are certainly raking it in - particularly now that the oil price just keeps on going up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/russia
but what makes these wealthy russian elites so much more appealing to you than their US equivalents who you clearly don't like?
please could you explain that as well?
and just because the economy is booming doesn't mean that ordinary russians get more than a few crumbs of comfort out of it. would you like to be living on an average russian salary right now? somehow I doubt it....
karlos wrote:and Russia has peace
debatable - but from your POV it's more a case of out of sight, out of mind.
karlos wrote:Contrast this with the USA.
Economy collapsing, several never ending wars being fought
yes it's bad, bad, bad - but nobody here is in denial about that.
btw - do you have any proof that the average person in collapsing america is worse off than the average person in booming russia? if so, please provide it.
karlos wrote:and widespread voter fraud
lol - sure there's vote fraud in he USA, we all know about it and it's been discussed extensively on this forum - but when russian elections are much more blatantly rigged I wonder why it doesn't seem to bother you and why there's zero discussion about it.
and imagine if bush could pre-select his successor and then appoint himself as prime minister - and imagine how feverishly you'd be jumping up and down complaining about it! - but when uncle vlad actually does that you don't seem to mind.
perhaps you could also explain this apparent doublethink on your part?
karlos wrote:and removal of civil liberties.
yeah of course - russia is the new land of the free!
karlos wrote:Life expentancy falling
needless to say that Russia's is worse....
karlos wrote:martial law on the very near horizon.
just like russia then!
karlos wrote:Most anti Russian propaganda against Russia is put out by the zionist controlled media and politicians who are still angry at Putin's imprisonment of oligarchs and the clawing back of their stolen assets.
Why not discuss this directly with the many Russians now living in the UK. All will happily agree that 911 was a Bush/Mossad inside job and that nobody has ever walked on the moon.
The Russian public is usually very highly educated and intelligent unlike the average American most of who make Jade Goody look like an academic.
sadly, these vapid generalisations say a lot more about you than about russians or americans. furthermore, being intelligent and being informed are two very different things.
for example, you might be pretty bright, but if you insist on getting all your info about the holocaust from a few holocaust-denial websites, you'll only see one side of the argument and could easily fill your head with agenda-driven * (that's a hint by the way)....
similarly, given that almost the entire russian media has been forcibly turned into a conduit for official propaganda, I doubt if the average russian gets to see or hear much about what's going on in this world that their rulers don't want them to see or hear. so I have to wonder if they're really any more informed than the rest of us.
but hey - I guess that from your POV it's ok as long as they don't like bush!
thanks for proving my point yet again - but how about explaining why you live in this world of doublethink?