Thousands Flood The Streets In Germany As Fury Over Refugee Sex Assaults Reaches Boiling Point

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Update: the water cannons are out as is the tear gas:

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Over the last several days, more information has come to light with regard to the wave of sexual assaults that occurred across Europe on New Year’s Eve.

What some observers initially assumed was an set of isolated attacks in Cologne’s city center now appears to have been a bloc-wide phenomenon as women from Austria, to Switzerland, to Finland come forward to report being accosted by what some police say were gangs of drunken Mid-East asylum seekers.

“In Sweden, police said at least 15 young women reported being groped by groups of men on New Year's Eve in the city of Kalmar,” AP reports, adding that “in Finland, police said they received tipoffs on New Year's Eve that about 1,000 predominantly Iraqi asylum seekers were intending to gather near the main railway station in Helsinki and harass passing women.” 

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“Women with or without accompaniment went through a literally 'gauntlet' by the heavily intoxicated men masses, as one can not describe it," a clumsy translation of a report by the German Federal Police reads. Some have suggested that the string of attacks was initially played down by the media and by German authorities in an effort to avoid triggering an anti-migrant backlash. Indeed, the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, got herself in a bit of hot water for comments which seemed to suggest it is German women’s responsibility to keep would-be attackers at “arm’s length” and to not send the wrong message to “people from other cultures” by acting too “jolly and frisky.”

Meanwhile, Angela Merkel is attempting to salvage the “yes we can” narrative vis-a-vis Berlin’s refugee open-door policy while simultaneously condemning the attacks.

On Friday, Cologne’s police chief Wolfgang Albers was dismissed in connection with his department’s mishandling of the ordeal.

According to a draft document seen by Reuters, Germany may now change its policy with regard to the deportation of refugees. "The paper says refugees and asylum seekers who have been sentenced to prison or probation should be barred from eligibility for asylum,' Reuters writes. "Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel asked. "The threat of having to spend time behind bars in their home country is far more of a deterrent than a prison sentence in Germany." 

("Respect us! We are not fair game even when naked!" a sign held by Swiss artist Milo Moire reads)

"Women's groups and many politicians have long been arguing that Germany's sexual assault law is archaic, with loopholes that mean groping and surprise attacks are not necessarily prosecutable unless the woman tries to fight off the attack - which police often advise against," Deutsche Welle notes. "There have been very many cases that you and I would probably unequivocally describe as rape or sexual assault that haven't come to a conviction, because the women allegedly didn't defend themselves enough," Elke Ferner of the Social Democratic Party's women's group told the broadcaster.

That law is about to be changed thanks in part to the attention the New Year's attacks have brought to the issue. 

And speaking of drawing attention to the attacks, protesters are once again massing in Cologne where "thousands" of demonstrators took the streets on Saturday. "The protesters included the Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party" USA Today says.

More than 1,500 police officers were deployed across the city in anticipation of the rallies. Here's more from DPA

Cologne police are gearing up for a day of highly charged demonstrations, with 1000 far-right protesters expected to hit the streets in response to the mass sex assaults and thefts targeting women on New Year's Eve.

 

Hundred-strong teams of police were deployed on Saturday to locations across the western German city, totalling 1700 officers, a spokesman said.

 

The Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party were to stage a rally on the square in front of the main train station, where about 1000 intoxicated men are thought to have robbed, sexually assaulted and, in some cases, raped women during turn-of-the-year celebrations.

 

Of the 32 suspects identified by police in Cologne, 22 are asylum seekers, the German Interior Ministry said.

 

One suspect was carrying a document with Arabic-German translations of sexist phrases and threats, which mass-circulation tabloid Bild published on Saturday.

 

Several pro-migration counter-protests have also been planned for Saturday, underscoring the division in German society over the government's open-door migration policy, which allowed more than one million people to enter the country last year.

And from Reuters:

Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, toughening her tone as crowds gathered in Cologne angered by mass assaults on women on New Year's Eve.

 

Nearly two dozen asylum seekers were among those suspected of carrying out the attacks, police said this week, heightening tensions over immigration and fuelling criticism of Merkel's refusal to place a limit on the numbers of migrants entering the country.

 

"The right to asylum can be lost if someone is convicted on probation or jailed," Merkel said after a meeting of the leadership of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party.

 

"Serial offenders who repeatedly rob or repeatedly affront women must feel the full force of the law," Merkel told journalists in Mainz, promising a reduction over the longer term in the flow of migrants to Germany.

 

Under German law, asylum seekers are typically only deported if they have been sentenced to at least three years in prison, and providing their lives are not at risk at home.

 

About 1,700 police officers were on the streets of Cologne as protesters, including members of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement, waited for official permission to march through the city.

 

At a separate left-wing protest, more than 2,000 mostly women gathered close to the train station where many of the attacks, including muggings and sexual assaults, happened.

So once again, we see a deeply divided society, with right-wing demonstrators staging a kind of "we told you so" rally and pro-refugee Germans staging counter protests even as they decry the wave of assaults. 

Meanwhile, the flow of asylum seekers continues unabated. "We had an average influx of 3,200 refugees per day arriving in Germany, and the numbers are not declining in the last days," Ole Schroeder, the deputy German minister, told a briefing in Brussels. "Our problem at the moment in Europe is that we do not have a functioning border control system, especially at the Greece-Turkey border," he added.

Where things from here is an open question but it appears many Germans are at their breaking point. How TIME's person of the year responds may ultimately determine how the world remembers one of the most indelible and revered politicians in European history.

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Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:01 | 7022187 Polymarkos
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Communists (they are NOT 'liberals'...there's nothing liberating or libertarian about them, but all of them are totalitarian monsters) are so stupid that even AFTER they're bitten in the ass, they don't learn. How many times have you seen some communist feminist yowling about being raped, but apologizing for her rapist? "I know I was raped by a black man, but he only did it cuz he is a victim of the white male patriarchy!"

 

You cannot teach anyone that stupid. Better to put them down, like an animal too sick to recover.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:10 | 7021927 gcjohns1971
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Nowhere near the breaking point.

And like boiling frogs unlikely to spring into action until far too late.

Such numbers for a few more years, and it will take civil war to dislodge them.

By then European women will be Arab mothers, just like their sisters under ISIS today, sex slaves.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:10 | 7021929 Luther van Theses
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The news of a wave of sexual assaults in one city, Cologne, Germany, and in one place has caused international hysteria.

 

On Feb. 27, 1933 the Reichstag, the German Parliament Building, burned down. The Nazis had taken power barely a month earlier. They blamed it on the Communists. The Nazis carried out severe repressions in the aftermath against anyone they considered political opponents, especially Communists.

The way was cleared for the Nazis to do a lot of things that were Really Not Good.

It was later proved to be a provocation carried out by the Nazis themselves.

 

On the reported sexual assaults:

 

One-city focus - Cologne, Germany

Earliest report: on Google News: Reuters, HuffPo, Jan. 5

HuffPo

"Germans Shaken By Mass Attacks On Women In Cologne At New Year"

BERLIN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne's cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said on Tuesday, in events they have described as 'a new dimension in crime'.

What took so long?

NyTimes, Jan. 6: "Reports of Attacks on Women in Germany Heighten Tension Over Migrants"

The assaults initially were not highlighted by the police and were largely ignored by the German news media in the days afterward.

This level of sexual harassment is in fact not unusual:

VICE: Immigrants Aren't Responsible for Rape Culture in Germany

An average of ten reported rapes take place each year at Oktoberfest. The estimated number of unreported cases is 200.

 

People: this is another Reichstag Fire.  Don't be played again.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:22 | 7021992 Lorca's Novena
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Surely, you cant be serious?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:12 | 7022228 joego1
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He's afraid of bacon.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:24 | 7022504 El Vaquero
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Whereas I regularly infuse myself with bacon.  It is the candy of meats. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:23 | 7021993 Strelnikov
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You strike me as an ahistorical idiot.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:33 | 7022317 RagnarRedux
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The Reichstag Fire Was Set By Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe

"Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe (with some probable accomplices) started the fire. Van der Lubbe (shown above) was caught on the premises. Though he confessed, he refused to name any co-conspirators."

http://www.tomatobubble.com/id472.html

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p177_Wainwright.html

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:40 | 7022343 shovelhead
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It's the Lesbians.

They want all the women for themselves.

They can't fool me.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:12 | 7021934 edifice
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Lots of Commies, with GDR flags, there. I don't think they would want a return to those days...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:23 | 7021969 Jorgen
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"Lots of Commies, with GDR flags, there. I don't think they would want a return to those days..."

I think that in the current circumstances, their showing of the GDR flag may have a different intended (Prussian) meaning rather than simply supporting communism. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:48 | 7022126 Global Hunter
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I have come across a few Germans from the East who lament the loss of the way of life in the East.  The theme is something like "we had jobs, vacations, health care, education, life wasn't bad, now we're in debt and stressed and there is high unemployment."

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:56 | 7022165 Polymarkos
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Proof positive that communists are ALWAYS idiots.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:53 | 7022604 Buckaroo Banzai
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It's an inescapable fact of human nature that we tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. I'm sure communism didn't seem so great at the time, but no one ever bothers to remember the bad parts, because why would you?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 15:35 | 7022728 Graph
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Talking from personal experience or self appointed rep of East Germans ?

US is flooded with immigrants from former Socialist / Communist Countries who never looked back or complained. But on daily basis they have to read or  listen to amerigos complain and bitch about the system that they had never experienced personaly.

How many illegals from South America's (Capitalist countries) would have given arm or leg that the'd lost on desperate train ride to reach US to have lived in East Germany?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:52 | 7023811 RiverRoad
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Who knew life would get immeasurably worse?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:18 | 7021947 cwsuisse
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"Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel asked.

A truly silly question. The answer, which a politician like Mr. Gabriel should know: According to the rules people go to jail where the crime is committed. In case Mr. Gabriel should not have such basic knowledge he should resort to using some logic: Why would Syria, Iracq, Lybia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Eritrea jail people for doings that seem largely irrelevant to the issues plaguing these countries. They need their jails otherwise. But likely Gabriel is aware of that and he is only trying to soothe the nerves of the electorate: "Our society will not pay for the criminals among the refugees, our society will only benefit from the ones that are willing to integrate themselves" he is obviously trying to say. What kind of stupid rubbish is this?

 

The major problem seems to be that the brains of our citizens have been washed by the mass media to a point that you can tell people everything and it is believed. It seems we are seeing a revival of the 1930ies in our country. 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:20 | 7021980 Strelnikov
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"The protesters included the Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party" USA Today says.

 

Standard MSM description of anyone not on the extreme, and acceptable, Left.

Also, good to see the German police can mobilize when presented with a group they consider to be the true enemy.  Muslims raping women?  That's a social problem.


Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:21 | 7021984 bigrooster
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Unlike the disarmed sheep in Germany we in America will kill these refugee trash when they do this here.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:23 | 7021986 Raul44
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You dont need more proof than this that German politicians must be killed if you Germans want your life back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3p7m7-4gOw

It really became you or them.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:25 | 7022008 Fuku Ben
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Anyone on here from Germany go to these protests? All layers of government failed to protect these females. Undoubtedly on purpose. Was the gnadige Frau flashing any more gang signs at photo ops while she apologized?

I would again recommend learn how to use a gun and then buy one to defend yourselves. Not only from rapists from the Middle East & North Africa but from the upcoming rape that will be used to attempt to destroy your culture and society.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:25 | 7022009 Joe Sixpack
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Maybe they wrote angry anti-immigrant slogans on the backside of their "Welcome Immigrant" signs.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:27 | 7022022 jm
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Looks like some savages are going to get curb-stomped next time.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:52 | 7022142 Polymarkos
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Romper Stomper style curb stomped. That is EXACTLY what needs to happen.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:28 | 7022032 Dorothea Binz
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And yet, the left is attempting to shame Americans into accepting into the US, large numbers of immigrants from countries where a large body of the population hates us with a murderous passion, while at the same time disarming us too.  if this isn't the definition of insanity, its clearly a coordinated attempt to alter the US landscape forevermore. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:03 | 7022350 RiverRoad
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TPTB are putting out the bait for these animals......women as prey....Hunger Games.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:30 | 7022526 El Vaquero
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Gun control is dead in the water.  I say, let the refugees in.  If I'm wrong about them, no big loss.  If I'm right about them, the progressives who want them here are the same ones who will be unable to defend themselves.  It will be a hard lesson when they learn that the world is not full of fluffy rainbow shitting unicorns. It'll also be a lesson to those who keep a Glock in their nightstand, but don't carry it everywhere.  It does them no good in their nightstand if they're not at home. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:37 | 7022071 InsanityIsWinning
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As the saying goes, give a squirrel a donut and it wants a glass of milk.  Point being, give these thugs a place to live, be nice and tolerant and they'll own you.  This will continue until something really bad happens, then a far right response will be exercised and guess what . . . they'll get the message.   

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:48 | 7022125 I Write Code
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Got any more sayings?  LOL

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:12 | 7022229 Omega_Man
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LOL is so gay

 

 

 

LOLROLLINGONTHEFUCKNGFLOOR :)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:30 | 7022298 R19
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Saying of the year (We'll do the year on a rolling basis).

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:39 | 7022081 rejected
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Any male out there not think there's an agenda here?

If so, get you a sign like the Femme in the pic and demonstrate naked like her. See if those police will just stand there like they are with her.

You'd be arrested and in jail as a nutjob.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:56 | 7022162 smacker
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"You'd be arrested and in jail as a nutjob"

...if not for exposing a stiffy in public which is unlawful in the UK.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:49 | 7022375 shovelhead
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Somebody better tell George Michael...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:58 | 7022169 headless blogger
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I agree. The extreme femminist camp, which really doesn't even represent women, is a product of the extreme left wing. The Naked stunts look like women trying to get attention while they ignore real crime victims such as the German women. Men and women need to flat out ignore these women.

And btw, I think a lot of women would find an agenda with this naked idiot as well. I know my wife thinks they're disgusting and do not help women at all.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:45 | 7022102 silverer
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Once again, a government that alleges to represent its people has turned its water cannons on the wrong targets.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:48 | 7022122 WorkingClassMan
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Until the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Union, The Left, The Greens and others are replaced and destroyed utterly...

 

Until the National Democratic Party of Germany has power...this will continue.

 

When the Germans get sense and go full national, and when the NPD gains power--this will cease and the foreigners WILL be expelled completely.  From American soldiers to foreign invaders.  A break, a clean break.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:44 | 7022103 WorkingClassMan
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Wake up Germany.  Kick out the foreigners.  More than that though, kick out the political whores (and I insult whores with the comparison).  Kick them out, put them on trial, and then execute them all.

 

NPD was right.  AGAIN.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:45 | 7022104 headless blogger
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GO AFTER THE LEADERS behind the allowing of these people (large percent military age males) to flood your nations.

Either the right wing or left wing camps are allowed a voice on these matters, but not any views that encompass the larger picture. Just keep your views tunnel focused and you fit in, but don't ever bring up the larger picture and the need to look at decades of policies surrounding the Middle East. NOTHING is being said about WHO has allowed it and WHY.

So the Right wing protests only serve those who have orchestrated the nation-flooding of some of the most anti-European minded individuals possible.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:48 | 7022121 Dark Daze
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How do you stop the fucking Islamists when the #1 hoodlum in the world, the US supports Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE? And not only supports them but acts as their air force, their intelligence service, their diplomatic service and on and on. You Americans who are on here screaming about justice better get your fucking priorities straight.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:49 | 7022132 Polymarkos
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There's a difference between the People of the United States and the Gubbamint of the United States.

 

Gubbamint of US = Thug. People of US = NOT Thug.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:16 | 7022242 Dark Daze
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Oh really? Then who were the people, exactly, who fought in the Civil War. Were they all 'government thugs'? Who were the solidiers who massacred 500 nations of native people, starved them to death and put them on reservations. Where they 'government thugs'? Who were the people who invaded Mexico? Were they government thugs too?

If so, then it seems to me that you've had this problem with 'government thugs' for nearly 200 years now. Doesn't say much for your basic level of intelligence now does it.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:36 | 7022322 Polymarkos
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You have NO grasp of history.

 

You are an idiot, with not one iota of historical perspective. You are too stupid to be allowed.

 

Go drink Drano, fool.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:35 | 7022541 El Vaquero
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Yes, because 150 years ago, I fought in the Civil War and killed a bunch of Injuns, jackass. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:58 | 7022167 joego1
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You are bitching on the wrong website, go say that on the huffington post and they will agree with you and maybe send you money as well. Otherwise fuck you it's not my goverment anymore the imigrants are running it.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:02 | 7022191 Tortuga
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It ain't Americans. It's the .001% with their mercenary protected islands that are hell bent on enslaving all those that are not them. Maybe the Donald will start selectively billing the scum of the earth for protection. It would be just. Hear me Canada-Mexico...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:29 | 7022231 Dark Daze
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No I don't. Can you be a little more specific. Are you suggesting that you have a 'right' to steal our money because you think you deserve it? Boy are you ever fucked up. You should get yourself to a hospital right away, before they gun you down.

And a small word of advice to you. You take one fucking step across the 49'th in an agressive mode, and half the world will be here before you can take your next shit.

Now that you, as a representative of 'the donald', have outed some of your more agressive intentions, perhaps we need to give Vlad a call and get a few hundred Iskanders sent over, along with a few dozen S-400's. That will keep you down on the farm.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:50 | 7022378 Praeda2
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Canada? You think people would help Canada? Oh my... against the US? Someone forgot to take their medication. Cute that you're up on  Russian propaganda. Drunk ass 18 year old Ivan and Boris with their super weapons. Too much internet for you boy.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 19:21 | 7023107 Dark Daze
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Uh, first of all, we happen to be in NATO, so yes I do. Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia, India, New Zealand and very likely Russia and China, if asked. A few years ago I was doing a defence contract with a group of Aussies, and one day out of the blue one said, 'you know, if you ever have any trouble with the Americans, we will be there in a flash'. It's you who doesn't know shit. We don't need your bullshit F-35's, they can't be used in the Canadian climate, they are useless anyhow and they are way overpriced. Your F-18's, even the super hornet version only has a 350 nm combat radius, that is useless in Canada. You're Abrams are far outclassed by the Armata and we make much better field artillery than you ever did. What we really need are Russian Sukoi SU-30's and SU-35's. They are superior in every way including combat radius and patrol distance. Their stand off air wepaons are twice as good as anything you have. Their airframes and engines are superior. And they are much cheaper. ANd compared to your pathetic 'patriot' missiles system, the Iskander and S-400's will eat you for lunch. With one torpedo, that the Russians can fire from 10,000 miles away, they can destroy your entire Atlantic fleet and half the east coast and you have no way of defending against it. The Topol-M ICBM comes in at 16,000 miles per hour while avoiding defensive missiles through a complex randomizing algoritm. If they ever fired those at you, you would have seconds to react. Those are the FACTS.

You fucking Americans think you rule the world, when you don't. You're weapons systems are phoney, they are easily defeated. You are phoney. We beat you back in 1812-14 when we had 1/8'th the number of fighters, most of them farmers. If it wasn't for the stupid British, America would be Canadian now and you wouldn't have all the problems you do. We took Paschendale, Vimy Ridge, Ortona, the Scheldt, Rotterdam when you couldn't and saved your glorious Patton and the entire invasion from defeat. One Canadian is worth 10 Americans in battle. Our snipers outclass yours by a country mile. That was always the case. The one thing that Americans appear to be 'good' at is wasting hundreds and thousands of lives taking ground of no value. Hamburger Hill, Gettysburg, Khe San, Iwo Jima. It isn't 'glorious' to die in battle following some lunatic commander who wants to make a name for himself, it is glorious to survive battle, and win. But you're too fucking ignorant and indoctrinated to know that and I just know you don't care anyhow.

If you knew anything of what you are talking about, like I do from having reasearched these things for months now, you would know that your battle plans are useless in today's world. You're own decorated Marine Brigadier General said you would be wiped out in a direct battle with the Russians in 10 days, with you entire Command Staff gone. Your Pentagon has atrophed right back into the same useless bunch of arsehole bureaucrats you had in it during the Civil War. 

These aren't illusions, these are facts, and I am no 18 year old Ivan drunk on Vodka, you consummate American cunt.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:31 | 7023742 DFCtomm
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Uh, first of all, we happen to be in NATO

 

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