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The Resurgance of Russia
Ranx
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After the USSR fell, Capitalist Russia became for all purposes a lapdog to the United States. Throughout the reign of Yeltsin, this feeling continued.
When Putin came into power around 2000, the feeling of subservience was still present. However, in the past few years, Russia has been guilty of saber-rattling. It is assumed that they had a part in the poisoning of the Ukrainian leadership candidate.
They poisoned a defected KGB agent. Putin has been slowly taking away the rights and liberties of people.
Putin has stated that he would like Russia to retake its former glory, sans communism.
Recently, Russia has developed missiles that could destroy US defense systems.
I'm personally worried about the resurgence or a powerful Russia, especially if the current administration does not take steps to prepare for it.
When Putin came into power around 2000, the feeling of subservience was still present. However, in the past few years, Russia has been guilty of saber-rattling. It is assumed that they had a part in the poisoning of the Ukrainian leadership candidate.
They poisoned a defected KGB agent. Putin has been slowly taking away the rights and liberties of people.
Putin has stated that he would like Russia to retake its former glory, sans communism.
Recently, Russia has developed missiles that could destroy US defense systems.
I'm personally worried about the resurgence or a powerful Russia, especially if the current administration does not take steps to prepare for it.
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It's sort of to be expected.
The good news?
They are as subtle as epileptic hippos.
One of my best friends just moved over there, and assures me that she'll be fine. If Russia's policies can begin to lift people out of poverty, I think a resurgent Russian state might not be all that bad, as with money and globalization comes liberalization. It will just take time. I'm concerned about the interim, but not too concerned.
Sigged.
Great, just great. The US sets up missile defence bases to protect itself from "Rogue States" or at least so it says and Russia starts targeting Europe. "Unhelpful and unwelcome" is a bit of an understatement really.
Agreed. The country with the second most powerful military on earth is no one's lapdog.
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From what I've seen the country seems to be a whipping boy for the American media. The articles make compelling arguments, at any rate.
Oh, proletariat. When will you ever win?
At this level of threatened violence, "Bitch, I will fuck your shit up!" actually sounds less scary.
Given how easily you could swap the words Russia and America here, Bush and Putin really should get on a lot better.
You beat those Germans hands down with their paltry 6 million. Well done comrade.
I demand you change your sig to rotating Yakov Smirnoff joke's!
Yes!
Son of a bitch, that wasn't him. It makes no sense for it to be him.
Also, would have thought the US could put this sort of thing down in EU territory without more of a fuss being kicked up about it (and not just by Russia).
Nah, it's still a bit issue between Canada and the US. The US keeps wanting other countries to put their missile defenses up at the cost of their Land and money in favor of diplomatic relations.
Gore didn't get elected. That was a Saturday Night Live intro sketch.
Hmm, I could have sworn I read somewhere that Putin had said something along those lines. I could be wrong though.
I'm personally very curious as to whether Putin will try to retain his power after his term ends.
EDIT: Never mind Rust, I thought you were talking about the sans communism thing.
That's practically a garuantee that the pentagon will fund it.
There has been. Just not among politicians.
You don't think Russia killed him? Why'd you say that?
Admittedly, it seems odd they'd bother, but it's fairly apparent they'd be willing if they felt they had cause, we might not know what that cause is
Who else would've cared that much? Someone wanting to make a martyr? MI6? Russia was only recently accusing MI6 of spying in their territory by the evil, evil NGOs who want anarchy, so any accusations from them are sort of dodgy
Simply enough, Russia could say to humanitarians "Forget you, we have the oil money."
I'd have thought Berezovsky would have been the more obvious target. Litvinenko was a harsh critic of Putin, but Berezovsky wants to be a competitor.
Either way, I agree that it's pretty naive to say, "They just wouldn't."
Oh, I'm going to feel like entropykid right here.
But, ah-HA!
Those are a few of the more salient quotes - I don't really have much experience with funneling links like this to the general populace. But the whole article's a good read nonetheless. It covers Litvinenko's career in fairly thorough detail as well as showing its relative irrelevance to the Putin regime, and points out a fewmore odd coincidences between the poisoning and Politkovskaya's murder - and not aluminum-foil coincidences either, but real eyebrow-raisers.
Saying that a major political figure like Putin would poison someone with radioactive polonium of all things, especially someone who didn't really warrant much attention in the first place, seems a little bit more naive than assuming otherwise. It'd be a complete Bond-villain move, idiotic as well as unnecessarily grandiose. I like getting my news from the eXile because they're across-the-board cynics, and of course guys like that enjoy trying to get to the truth because they think it'd be way more grisly than any other media's fabrications.
It is practically inarguable that Putin was behind it.
So you have to understand my country's reluctance.
You're not an easy country to be friends with US.
Hey, I take offense at that.
When our stuff fails, it at least fails spectacularly.
Fuck you too?
Being Jewish makes it more reprehensible.
Man, anti semite jokes and the challenger?
You guys want me to go to hell.
As an American I understand that we are really bad allies to have. Thats why Tony Blair is popular here, he actually respected Britain-US relations to go with us into a stupid, misguided war.
Why the fuck would you care that the US blows millions upon millions on a system that may knock down a rogue missile aimed at North America? That's like saying 'fuck the US military, they are incompetent and may fail we we need them most" If we are protecting your ass, what does it matter? If you really feel that way, lobby you're govt. for a missile shield, or better defenses, since the US will fuck it up anyway.
What do you think the relative chances of missles being aimed at Canada actually are compared to the US?
Seriously.