Russia shows military power in Soviet-style parade

AFP ^ | 05/08/09 | Stuart Williams

[Thunder90]

Many of these personnel are land lubbing paper pushers. You don’t need them. A lesson the US learned during Vietnam, and the Russians and Chinese are learning now.

Better to save the money and build more weapons.

[ASOC]

Given the horid state of mfg of “spanky new toys” *folks sending back their FLankers as ‘junk’ the Russians need something.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Nice brake down of Russian history:
I would like to just comment on these points:
”A key to understanding the mentality of Russians is the idea of being invaded… you are hard pressed to find a Russian who wants communists back in charge ”

EXACTLY! That is why we might have a window of opportunity right now that hasn’t come our way since the time of Reagan.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I think you got that mixed up Lenin led the Bolsheviks also called the red army.
We were on the side of the ‘white army’

[Tailgunner Joe]

We were on the side of the White RUSSIANS fighting the communist Bolsheviks led by Lenin who was smuggled into Russia to destroy it by the GERMAN EMPIRE!

[Steve Van Doorn]

yeap the Germans have sure screwed up the world over the years.