Chuck Schumer: Vladimir Putin Is Behaving Like A 'Schoolyard Bully' - Polidicks

[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Charles_Schumer_official_portrait.jpg/220px-Charles_Schumer_official_portrait.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] A senior Democratic senator said on Sunday that the U.S.-Russia relationship had become "poisonous" and urged President Barack Obama to consider moving next month's Group of 20 summit away from the Russian city of St. Petersburg. Charles Schumer, the U.S. Senate's third ranking Democrat and a close Obama ally, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to antagonize the United States by granting American fugitive Edward Snowden asylum for one year. "President Putin is behaving like a schoolyard bully," Schumer said on the CBS television talk show "Face the Nation." "In my experience, I've learned unless you stand up to that bully, they ask for more and more and more." He said Obama should cancel plans to meet Putin in Moscow for a bilateral summit next month that was expected take place during the U.S. president's trip to Russia for the G20 gathering.[/QUOTE] Link:[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/04/chuck-schumer-vladimir-putin_n_3704371.html"]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/04/chuck-schumer-vladimir-putin_n_3704371.html[/URL]

Might want to check the tree lying in your yard instead of the stick in your neighbor's.

It's as if Russia is the tall older student who is teasing them by holding their lunch money out of reach. And I like it that way.

Yes, of course, spread propaganda that Russia is evil and the USA is an angel.

Boo hoo, America. In this situation they're far less of a dick that you, and that shouldn't even be possible considering their track record.

the comments make me laugh, X isn't as worse than Y still isn't a legitimate response.

They're both shit The governments

I love how none of the people critizing the US are actually from the US

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;41717456]I love how none of the people critizing the US are actually from the US[/QUOTE] fuck america. Happy?

It's like those dumb US senators want another Cold War.

Yeah Russia stop bullying America. [editline]5th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;41717511]It's like those dumb US senators want another Cold War.[/QUOTE] I can smell the communismo from here..

[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;41717511]It's like those dumb US senators want another Cold War.[/QUOTE] Cold War never really ended

The way I see it, Russia is like the mob, if you fuck with them you'll get shot in the face. The US will just launch a hellfire missle from miles away and blow up you and anyone unlucky enough to be within 100 feet of you. At least with Russia you see it coming.

[QUOTE=SlyManx;41718391]The way I see it, Russia is like the mob, if you fuck with them you'll get shot in the face. The US will just launch a hellfire missle from miles away and blow up you and anyone unlucky enough to be within 100 feet of you. At least with Russia you see it coming.[/QUOTE] and your a canadian idiot.... look the u.s. for the most part (excluding the irrisponsible CIA of the 1960s) is just trying to help out and prevent countries like china and russia from taking advantage of these countries. In africa, china and russia are practicing thinly veiled colonialism by going into countries there, building roads in exchange for mineral and resource rights to whatever they want, they rip out what they want, do what damage they want, and leave, leaving the enviroment destroyed and the locals poorer for it. the russian federation is trying to turn into another soviet union, and while the oligarcs buy their way out of trouble, they are arresting and jailing people they find offensive. china has a nobel-peace-prize winner who has spent the last 20 years under house arrest, before that, under a life sentence for speaking out against the goverment. does the u.s. do this? no, the drone war is a terrible thing and needs to be stopped, but don't look at one facet of the u.s.'s policy and say we're worse than the rest of the world

[QUOTE=Sableye;41721470]and your a canadian idiot.... look the u.s. for the most part (excluding the irrisponsible CIA of the 1960s) is just trying to help out and prevent countries like china and russia from taking advantage of these countries. In africa, china and russia are practicing thinly veiled colonialism by going into countries there, building roads in exchange for mineral and resource rights to whatever they want, they rip out what they want, do what damage they want, and leave, leaving the enviroment destroyed and the locals poorer for it.[/QUOTE] Got any sources to back this up? If not, than there is no point bringing it up.

[QUOTE=doommarine23;41721495]Got any sources to back this up? If not, than there is no point bringing it up.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bdlive.co.za/africa/africanbusiness/2013/07/17/gigaba-urges-caution-on-china-in-africa[/url] [url]http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2013/china-heart-africa[/url] [url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/06/china-zambia-resources-imperialism.html[/url] also just because i don't lead with links doesn't mean my argument is invalid

Nah but I can't help but feel your argument is as good as horseshit. Your sources just state the obvious : china and russia are trying to expand their grip on the world. It just happens the US is for now the biggest playa' in da hood. Not a single war recently fought by the US hasn't been somewhat related to their interests. They literally fucked the Middle East up and exploit Africa just as much as China and Russia are. The only differences being the massive scale of it all on the US side and the fact the western world backs them up.

[QUOTE=bubbagamer;41721718]Nah but I can't help but feel your argument is as good as horseshit. Your sources just state the obvious : china and russia are trying to expand their grip on the world. It just happens the US is for now the biggest playa' in da hood. Not a single war recently fought by the US hasn't been somewhat related to their interests. They literally fucked the Middle East up and exploit Africa just as much as China and Russia are. The only differences being the massive scale of it all on the US side and the fact the western world backs them up.[/QUOTE] middle east has been fucked up for the greater part of a century, don't pin that on the U.S. alone also without u.s. medicine aid and relief organisations, aids would have depopulated the entire continent of africa a decade ago

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;41717456]I love how none of the people critizing the US are actually from the US[/QUOTE] This is the most retarded logic. Do I have to be from North Korea to criticize North Korea?

Every country has this kind of skeleton in the closet. It's just that Russia and USA get alot of press coverage. I could say USA suck for the whole prism/whatever thing, but my country who's supposed to be neutral exports fuckton of weapons...

U.S. reminds me of Deviant Art users. It ignores criticism because it thinks it is already amazing, and starts whining when they don't get their way.

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;41717456]I love how none of the people critizing the US are actually from the US[/QUOTE] I love how none of the people critizing Russia are actually from Russia

[QUOTE=Sableye;41721470]and your a canadian idiot.... look the u.s. for the most part (excluding the irrisponsible CIA of the 1960s) is just trying to help out and prevent countries like china and russia from taking advantage of these countries. In africa, china and russia are practicing thinly veiled colonialism by going into countries there, building roads in exchange for mineral and resource rights to whatever they want, they rip out what they want, do what damage they want, and leave, leaving the enviroment destroyed and the locals poorer for it. the russian federation is trying to turn into another soviet union, and while the oligarcs buy their way out of trouble, they are arresting and jailing people they find offensive. china has a nobel-peace-prize winner who has spent the last 20 years under house arrest, before that, under a life sentence for speaking out against the goverment. does the u.s. do this? no, the drone war is a terrible thing and needs to be stopped, but don't look at one facet of the u.s.'s policy and say we're worse than the rest of the world[/QUOTE] Not Canadian, I'm from New Jersey I have no idea why it says I am. And I was joking. God damn.

[QUOTE=Sableye;41721470]and your a canadian idiot....[/QUOTE] Oh the irony.

[QUOTE=Sableye;41721470]and your a canadian idiot.... look the u.s. for the most part (excluding the irrisponsible CIA of the 1960s) is just trying to help out and prevent countries like china and russia from taking advantage of these countries. In africa, china and russia are practicing thinly veiled colonialism by going into countries there, building roads in exchange for mineral and resource rights to whatever they want, they rip out what they want, do what damage they want, and leave, leaving the enviroment destroyed and the locals poorer for it. the russian federation is trying to turn into another soviet union, and while the oligarcs buy their way out of trouble, they are arresting and jailing people they find offensive. china has a nobel-peace-prize winner who has spent the last 20 years under house arrest, before that, under a life sentence for speaking out against the goverment. does the u.s. do this? no, the drone war is a terrible thing and needs to be stopped, but don't look at one facet of the u.s.'s policy and say we're worse than the rest of the world[/QUOTE] How is Russia turning into the Soviet Union? Afaik time doesn't go backwards. The Soviet Union doesn't exist and Russia is definitely not communist.

[QUOTE=Sableye;41721470]and your a canadian idiot.... look the u.s. for the most part ([B]excluding the irrisponsible CIA of the 1960s[/B]) is just trying to help out and prevent countries like china and russia from taking advantage of these countries. In africa, china and russia are practicing thinly veiled colonialism by going into countries there, building roads in exchange for mineral and resource rights to whatever they want, they rip out what they want, do what damage they want, and leave, leaving the enviroment destroyed and the locals poorer for it. the russian federation is trying to turn into another soviet union, and while the oligarcs buy their way out of trouble, they are arresting and jailing people they find offensive. china has a nobel-peace-prize winner who has spent the last 20 years under house arrest, before that, under a life sentence for speaking out against the goverment. does the u.s. do this? no, the drone war is a terrible thing and needs to be stopped, but don't look at one facet of the u.s.'s policy and say we're worse than the rest of the world[/QUOTE] And the 70s. And the 80s. I'm not going to argue that the U.S. hasn't done a lot of good in the world, they have. But the U.S. has been just as guilty of involving themselves in the affairs of other countries to promote their interests, and they've been doing it for a hell of a long time (The Banana Wars, UFC and the Guatemalan Civil War, support for various foreign organizations during the Cold War.) I'd certainly agree that general American policy, as it stands now, is probably far more agreeable than Chinese and Russian policies, but America certainly has no qualms about involving itself where it sees fit, and it can do it just as well as Russia and China.

Both countries are being pretty damn shitty.