Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "The Grayzone" channel.

  1. I'm a Democrat and there is nothing more I would like to see than the end of the nightmare of Trump's tenure. I don't like having bad relations with Russia however. And while I have no illusions about Putin being a great guy, I do think he is good for Russia and I think he has lots of reasons, some of them quite understandable, for despising the United States. I'm also a veteran, and the idea of any country putting out a bounty on the heads of American soldiers makes my blood boil. If it turns out to be true, I feel quite strongly that this is something worth fighting over. I would love for this to be not true. I don't trust the NYT when it reports on countries that don't have liberal governments because I've seen them repeatedly go after Russia, China, Iran and others well beyond what responsible journalism should both dictate and limit. I know they don't like countries that don't give the press freedom to go wherever and say whatever they want, and to some extent I understand that, but I feel like it's led to some pretty shoddy journalism in the past, and in the present as well. That being said, this kind of allegation should not be dismissed out of hand any more than it should be totally accepted on their word. We need to find out if this really happened before saying categorically that it didn't. There needs to be a thorough investigation and it needs to have the full-throated support of Congress and the President. And if it is determined that this really happened, then there need to be real consequences—painful consequences.
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