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Red vs. Blue (Cold war Style)
Red*Panda
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First I present this..
Russian bomber flies over a U.S. military base
Then this..
Russia Restores Bomber Patrols
and finally this..
Russia Claims the Artic and North Pole
I dont feel very good about all this, then again they are entitled to patrol there own borders and keep a strong military! its not like we can say much we invaded another country. (good or bad, thats what we did)
how do all of you feel about Putin and the moves he has been making lately?
Russian bomber flies over a U.S. military base
Then this..
Russia Restores Bomber Patrols
and finally this..
Russia Claims the Artic and North Pole
I dont feel very good about all this, then again they are entitled to patrol there own borders and keep a strong military! its not like we can say much we invaded another country. (good or bad, thats what we did)
how do all of you feel about Putin and the moves he has been making lately?
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yah, Fixed.. thanks
I can't make this shit up. Well, I guess I could.
Someone needs to kick Putin in the balls, but he's got quite a bit of Sambo training.
hahahahahahah NO
With concerns to the expansion stuff; It was my understanding that the arctic was to remain unclaimed by any country and Russia was just like: "tsh we claimin this shit what choo gonna do bout it".
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
toward the end of the cold war, the USSR was spending close to 25% of their GNP on their military, and ther economy was in the toliet. just because a country spends money on the military doesn't mean their economy is going to do well too
agreed.
what, really? because you just said that "militarization always without fail always stimulates the economy" and i just said that's incorrect.
unless you were being sarcastic and i didn't pick up on it
edit: also "I look at Putin and instantly notice that he is a charismatic leader that is doing good things for his country."
yeah, i'm pretty sure you were just being sarcastic and i'm just dumb.
...and right now the dollar is worth fuckall compared to the rest of the world. I
Nothing more then hahahah no? That's it? I mean I didn't really elaborate, but in times of conflict defense contracts do an awesome job of stimulating the economy and generating local revenue.
After the cold war ended and we started to close bases up here there was a noticeable decline in economic activity. I've often thought it would be a great scheme for two countries to intentionally have a cold war just to keep their economy running on a certain level.
it's a more nuanced than that, but yeah, the iraq war isn't helping our economy
like i said, it's a lot more nuanced than that. the economy doesn't just automatically respond because there's a war going on, and in the soviet union's case, the way they were running their economy meant that no amount of cold war defense spending was going to magically make their economy all better.
But Bush looked into Putin's soul and discovered he was a good man! Why would a good man act like a jackass?
Actually, that was Bush giving Putin cancer with his x-ray vision.
Our president can peer into people's souls now? Like wishmaster?
I remember an 80's movie with John Candy in it (Canadian Bacon), and it had almost that same plot. America wanted a new cold war so they got Russia to come down here and they said no and it eventually lead to a cold war with Canada. I know my description is kinda sketchy it been a while since I've seen it.
It was an Ok movie, it had a few funny parts. it was in 1995 though.
Canadian Bacon
my mistake.
Funny thing about that movie, is it was a Michael Moore movie, and I think, his best one. Is it wierd that I think his fictional comedy was more worthwhile than his "documentaries"?
At any rate, there were upsides and downsides to the cold war. I almost miss the days of proxy wars instead of civil wars.
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He's actually a really funny guy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2JHzj2j5Jw
Uhh. Fucking no. Holy lord no.
Military spending is fucking terrible. The Cold war for the U.S. was sustained by gains and debt from WWII. For the U.S.S.R. it was an unmitigated disaster.
But these gains from WWII only came because after the rest of the industrialized world had the shit blown out of it the U.S. had a huge comparative advantage in producing everything
I mean, if a bunch of people were fighting in your house, blew the shit out of it and then some other guy came in built you a house and on a contract for debt he would be able to buy a bunch of fancy stuff too.
In short, follow this axiom.
Military spending is only advantagious when when that spending is used to procure resources or keep resources from being producred from you. [which is in all ways a negative sum game compared to other spending]
During the cold war, we overproduced military needs to a ridiculous extent.
did he say "she attends funerals for fetal tissue"?
The most interesting article here is the claim of the extent of land protruding from the Lomonosov shelf. With the ten billion barrels of oil sitting there we can be sure to see more vodka induced hilarity.
Like this!
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Meh. Although, Europe will kick up a shit storm if he turns into the Siberian Chavez.
Besides, we can always claim the Moon. Then we can begin work on the "Alan Parsons Project".
Nah, I hear China going to be the next one up there to plant the old flag.
The governments or the people? Personally, I've got no problem with him offering cheap fuel to poor people and telling the IMF to eat a dick.
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