Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war
Source: Reuters
Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S. Republican candidate. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington.
By contrast, Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three, said Zhirinovsky, who received a top state award from Putin after his pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia's parliamentary election last month.
Many Russians regard Zhirinovsky as a clownish figure who makes outspoken statements to grab attention but he is also widely viewed as a faithful servant of Kremlin policy, sometimes used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.
"Relations between Russia and the United States can't get any worse. The only way they can get worse is if a war starts," said Zhirinovsky, speaking in his huge office on the 10th floor of Russia's State Duma, or lower house of parliament. "Americans voting for a president on Nov. 8 must realize that they are voting for peace on Planet Earth if they vote for Trump. But if they vote for Hillary it's war. It will be a short movie. There will be Hiroshimas and Nagasakis everywhere."
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-russian-trump-idUSKCN12C28Q
Idiots all over the world are campaigning for Trump.
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)All of them assholes, of course.
What this jackass Zhirinovsky looks like.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Relative? Someone Photoshop Trump's hairball on him so we can see the resemblance more clearly.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)I read that this is a sign that the lower brain (amygdala?) is doing the driving, rather than the higher centers of logic and reason. Small children do it a lot.
mahina
(17,655 posts)Amazing, and it makes perfect sense.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)We ALL have lower brains, after all. The important thing is not to let them dominate our thinking.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)The amygdala (Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is an almond-shape set of neurons located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe.
Shown to play a key role in the processsing of emotions, the amygdala forms part of the limbic system.
In humans and other animals, this subcortical brain structure is linked to both fear responses and pleasure.
Its size is positively correlated with aggressive behavior across species.
In humans, it is the most sexually-dimorphic brain structure, and shrinks by more than 30% in males upon castration.
Conditions such as anxiety, autism, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias are suspected of being linked to abnormal functioning of the amygdala, owing to damage, developmental problems, or neurotransmitter imbalance.
Frankly, I'm not sure I understand the reference I've just located on google, but they do suggest some connection between amygdala and jaw.
Van Daele DJ1, Fazan VP, Agassandian K, Cassell MD.
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As the central nucleus (CE) is the only amygdaloid nucleus to send axons to the pons and medulla, it is thought to be involved in the expression of conditioned responses by accessing hindbrain circuitry generating stereotypic responses to aversive stimuli. Responses to aversive oral stimuli include gaping and tongue protrusion generated by central pattern generators and other premotor neurons in the ponto-medullary reticular formation. We investigated central nucleus connections with the reticular formation by identifying premotor reticular formation neurons through the retrograde trans-synaptic transport of pseudorabies virus (PRV) inoculated into masseter, genioglossus, thyroarytenoid or inferior constrictor muscles in combination with anterograde labeling of CE axons with biotinylated dextran amine. Three dimensional mapping of PRV infected premotor neurons revealed specific clusters of these neurons associated with different oro-laryngo-pharyngeal muscles, particularly in the parvicellular reticular formation. CE axon terminals were concentrated in certain parvicellular clusters but overall putative contacts were identified with premotor neurons associated with all four oro-laryngo-pharyngeal muscles investigated. We also mapped the retrograde trans-synaptic spread of PRV through the various nuclei of the amygdaloid complex. Medial CE was the first amygdala structure infected (4 days post-inoculation) with trans-synaptic spread to the lateral CE and the caudomedial parvicellular basolateral nucleus by day 5 post-inoculation. Infected neurons were only very rarely found in the lateral capsular CE and the lateral nucleus and then at only the latest time points. The data demonstrate that the CE is directly connected with clusters of reticular premotor neurons that may represent complex pattern generators and/or switching elements for the generation of stereotypic oral and laryngo-pharyngeal movements during aversive oral stimulation. Serial connections through the amygdaloid complex linked with the oro-laryngo-pharyngeal musculature appear quite distinct from those believed to sub-serve fear responses, suggesting there are distinct "channels" for the acquisition and expression of particular conditioned behaviors.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Hummmmmm....
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mahina
(17,655 posts)anamandujano
(7,004 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)anamandujano
(7,004 posts)Send your mind to the gutter before guessing.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)They could discuss the fate of the world during pillow talk.
yesphan
(1,587 posts)Want's to take back Alaska.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Russia will probably invade some NATO allies if Trump is President, assuming that he'll do nothing about it.
Trump will eventually react after being pressured, but not in a well-thought manner.
Next thing you know...
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Why do the Ruski-Republicans hate America?
mdbl
(4,973 posts)that's all i have to say about him.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)For example:
Oh, and this hilarious case of mistaken identity:
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Similar only in grasp of reality.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Пошел на хуй!
(don't know if it's correct. Got it from Google Translate)
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)If the Russians think Trump won't back stab them the very minute he gets into office, they've got another thing coming. The man is disloyalty personified.
A Trump administration (whither the thought) would moreover be stacked with all the usual PNAC/neocon suspects - just as ANY Rethug administration would be in modern times.
If Moscow doesn't get that, they might as well give it all up by now.
JuniorPlankton
(1,318 posts)Just so you could appreciate what kind of person Zhirinovsky is. I remember when he came to power in the 90s, trying to reconstruct the glory of the Soviet Union.
A part of his platform included setting up huge fans on the border with the Baltic States (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia ) and blowing radioactive Dustin their direction to bring them back into the fold.
I moved to the US shortly after and I remember thinking that next to these guys Democrats and Republicans are virtually the same. How wrong I was...
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)ansible
(1,718 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Enough said.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)How can one man make every attempt to bring down a great country????
I'm sick. I pray, and I don't pray often, that good prevails over evil.
mitch96
(13,904 posts)Like others said, he cannot control her like he can dRumph... OMG a free thinking woman!!
What a novel idea...
On another note I think all this hacking of emails and of servers is probing our defenses..We do it to them and they do it to us.. They KNOW what we can do (ie stuxnet). Putin is afraid.
Our problem is we are more "connected" then them.. They are basic but alot of it...More tanks, more planes more bodies.. Like his beloved WW2 heroes. Overwhelm them with numbers. Shit I still think they are using tubes instead of transistors in their aircraft...
Make 'em cheap and make alot of them...
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Cheviteau
(383 posts)...Trump as my president or nuclear war. I'll have to think about that for a while.
pampango
(24,692 posts)that he had anticipated?
Now it is time for a bit of an "October Surprise" - the threat of nuclear war if Donald is not elected. If that doesn't rescue Donald, what does VP do next?
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...should be concerned. Trump is the Manchurian candidate campaigning as the Manchurian candidate.
bellmartin
(218 posts)"...I'm thinking! I'm thinking!"