Posted on 07/20/2014 12:05:57 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
On a busy street in central Moscow, a well-dressed man stands yelling at the crowd: "Don't you understand? There will be a war!"
All around him, people walk by, wholly uninterested. It's a hot summer's day, they're enjoying the sun.
Save for a couple of tourists taking pictures, no-one pays much attention at all.
The friend of a friend who saw this, posted the news on Facebook.
Someone responded with a cartoon of Homer Simpson holding a sign that says "The End is Near".
There are people here who are genuinely concerned about the direction Russia is heading under Vladimir Putin, but they are very much in the minority.
Anyone watching Russian state TV (from which, according to a Levada Centre poll, an estimated 94% of population get their news) would have little idea of the weight of the international outrage building against their leader and the threat of serious sanctions to come.
Instead, they will be treated to a rundown of the "10 questions Ukraine's government must answer", and clips of Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, insisting that any accusation of Russian involvement is "unfounded" and that he "hasn't heard anything truthful from Kiev for months".
This will not surprise viewers who have spent those months listening to condemnation of the "junta" in Kiev, which they have regularly been told is controlled by fascists.
The morning after the crash, some Russian newspapers didn't even cover it.
The official state newspaper, Rossiskaya Gazeta, decided the loss of 298 lives was not its top story, leading instead with an "exclusive investigation" into what Russians eat and drink, the fate of flight MH17 relegated to the bottom of the page.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Yeah, NATO, which includes the American military.
Your side isn’t as strong as you like to pretend, Reagan defeated you guys when you were at your peak, and you are a long, long, long, way from those days.
Your man has seen how well we deal with Russian weapons and tactics on the battlefield and he has no desire to face that.
It sure is, and today it includes past enslaved nations and territory and populations of young men, and technological know how that the Russians depended, on as a part of their military might.
“Also NATO is the most powerful military force the world has ever seen...NATO spends more on it’s military than the rest of the world put together, over ten times as much as Russia.”
Sure be nice if we got the same bang for the buck...looks pretty close to me.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/United-States/Military
Let’s see how self sufficient they are without access to the international banking system.
Now compare Russia to the whole 28 nation NATO alliance.
“Let’s see how self sufficient they are without access to the international banking system.”
Let’s see how self sufficient Europe is without access to Russian oil. Checkmate.
Do you know what NATO is?
You linked to a comparison between Russia and a single NATO country, one in which that NATO country massively outclassed Russia.
What is your deal about Russia?
“Now compare Russia to the whole 28 nation NATO alliance.”
TOO FUNNY!!!!
Europe couldn’t even hold a candle to Yugoslavia and was forced to come BEGGING to us to bomb the Christians into submission...and that was just after the Cold War ended.
You aren’t serious, you are just trolling and posting whatever nonsense you think of to keep your game going.
Anyone familiar with NATO these days realizes that there is only a SINGLE military power in NATO, and I linked to it. The other countries, particularly Britain, France, and to a lesser extent West Germany had some reasonable military capability during the Cold War, but they disarmed as fast as they could afterwards.
Their militaries are nothing more than glorified Peace Corps now.
“What is your deal about Russia?”
I follow their military advancements. You might want to read up on their SA-400 before running off and starting World War 3.
Slobodan Milosevic a Christian? No, he was a genocidal mass murdering socialist dictator, and we squashed him like a bug.
“You aren’t serious, you are just trolling and posting whatever nonsense you think of to keep your game going.”
Like I say, if it helps you sleep at night...
“Slobodan Milosevic a Christian? No, he was a genocidal mass murdering socialist dictator, and we squashed him like a bug.”
True, and if I only read what the US media fed me, I’d agree.
You are no different than any other bootlicking Putinista scum.
If you love Russia so much, go there. Stop stinking America up comrade.
Your pro-Russian nonsense and loyalties are just that, nonsense.
Russia is no match for the NATO, you may want to look at reality before you try to convince us all that Putin is willing to start WWIII for,,,,,what reason was that again?
What is it that you think Putin wants to start WWIII for?
Because their military aggression runs into resistance and world condemnation?
To: Tailgunner Joe
Russia is basically self-sufficient in resources and can blow any country (including ours) off the map if they need to.
They’ll be fine. They’ll wait out the little temper tantrum from the West and things will return to normal.
4 posted on 07/20/2014 12:14:00 PM PDT by BobL
He isn’t serious, this is just his troll game.
“What is it that you think Putin wants to start WWIII for?”
Where the HELL are you getting that from?
I simply said that Putin will sit back and wait for Obama (and you guys) to get over your tantrum about the plane being downed and things will get back to normal.
Do you REALLY think the outcome will be different?
“He isn’t serious, this is just his troll game.”
I think that I backed up my points...do you just call everyone a troll when they disagree with you?
That is, if obama doesn't decide to go on another "apology tour".
In light of the recent Malaysia Airlines tragedies (one missing, one brought down by the Russians) I completed a project I began some time ago to remind us of an earlier Russian involved murder of hundreds of innocents. Will someone please remind obozo that it’s still a jungle out there!
(It’s a short 8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgCIrUeuh0&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
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