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I guess Kaspersky is rumoured to be to the Russian government what Apple / Google / Microsoft / Facebook are proven to be to the US government.

Secret FISA courts rule away all of your basic privacy rights? Fear not. Russia is the enemy.




Correct. Russia IS the enemy.

Secret warrants by a secret court is also the enemy.

One is just more important and dangerous than the other (look out of the window).

Perfect example of whataboutism BTW.


Russia is the enemy of the state, not your enemy. The state also thinks of you as an enemy. You really shouldn't be afraid of a foreign state, your state is the only real threat to you here.


But Russia can and would turn against you if they thought you could be useful to them. You should be afraid of both.


Except Russia doesn't give a rat's ass about little you. The NSA on the other hand...


>One is just more important and dangerous than the other

Not if you're not American. The American government has shown it doesn't care at all or stop at anything to promote its self interest through American made software outside the US.


I wrote on this before.

Somebody is going to be on top.

Would you rather have US, Russia or China be the superpower?


How about none of them? Your premise is wrong.


> Russia IS the enemy

In what sense?


In a very direct sense.

It's a de facto totalitarian dictatorship. Its proliferation harms human rights, poses real danger to Ukraine, claims lives. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Ukrainian_cr... , corruption also claims lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eO8ZHfV4fk )


You could say a lot worse about many US allies. Saudi Arabia anyone? Human rights are irrelevant when the US government decides who is an enemy and who is an ally.


But you could say much of the same about the US.


Much of the same?

Do you refer to military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, ...?

Do you dispute that these countries/areas are/were different from Ukraine?


No you couldn't. This is from the point of view of the US state. The US is not a direct enemy of the US.


You are right. It's not so black and white.

One fact you can't argue with is Russian government is telling their people US is the enemy.

Follow @JuliaDavisNews . She posts gists of Russian state-controlled TV.

If it's not US, it's EU/NATO/gays/"democracy" (I'm not kidding you about democracy)


When has the Russian government ever said the US was the enemy? The only saber rattling sound is coming from Washington.




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