[wetphoenix]

Yep, bad economy, poverty, occupy Moscow and communists getting back to Kremlin on waves of public unrests.
What not to dream about?

[wolf78]

Aslund writes: “One month ago, the Western discussion on possible sanctions against Russia focused on whether they could be effective. During the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington April 12 to 13, the question was turned around: Do we really want to destroy Russia that fast?”

Yes. The time has come.

[elhombrelibre]

"Russia came under withering economic fire last week as it geared up for a broader war of aggression in Ukraine. Its stock market lost over 5% of its value, crashing through the 1300 barrier on the MICEX exchange, and the U.S. treasury secretary boldly stated that the U.S. would target Vladimir Putin’s personal assets if he launched an attack."

That's what I'm for. Take every penny that punk has that he's stolen from the Russian people. Put him on bread and water!

[elhombrelibre]

"Writing in leading Russian newspaper Vedemosti, economist Yevsey Gurevich points out that in its desperate bid to vie with the West, Russia is spending nearly five times more on its military as a share of GPD than does the average NATO member, and is planning even more dramatic increases. What this means is that just as in Soviet times, Russians are shouldering a far greater burden in the guns-or-butter tradeoff than those nations they are competing against. Gurevich warns: “[O]nly a highly developed country can act as a super power without harm to itself.” Russia isn’t a highly developed country, but rather one that relies on exports of raw materials to such countries in order to sustain itself."

I guess the Putinista cheerleaders never thought of that.

[logi_cal869]

I honestly don’t understand the conservative take on undermining Russia.

GW (no conservative) squandered 2 terms’ worth of opportunity to reengage the Russians.

The Puppet is on track to repeat that, spearheaded by the Shrillary ‘Reset’ debacle.

Everyone can agree that China is the greatest threat on many levels, yet our government continues to encourage doing business there, shipping jobs/manufacturing (not to mention secrets...thanks Bill and, by consequence, GW, for not securing our network) and, worst of all, ignoring the most basic precept of all in regards to strategic thinking...

I’m not going to state what should be obvious. IMHO, bone up on Sun Tsu.

And insofar as all the hysteria about Russia’s actions on its borders and its own security & economic interests...eh, I’m just not going to address the hypocrisy. I have better things to do.

Creating a new Cold War just because the government wants it is, frankly, just plain stupid. We should be so lucky that when the day comes that it’s time to invade Mexico that Russia ‘winks & smiles’...

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