To: Alberta's Child
[the only reason Russia is still considered an “adversary” by the political class in this country is that it’s predominantly white — which makes it an acceptable political target. ]
Russia has the most powerful military in Europe. And it just acquired a sizeable chunk of real estate in Ukraine. The area occupied isn’t massive - the size of the Netherlands. But it was aiming for all of Ukraine, which is the size of France.
13 posted on
06/30/2020 4:38:14 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
NATO has added 12 new member states since Germany was re-unified. It’s remarkable that anyone here would still consider Russia a major threat — especially when we’ve been using their rockets and the former Soviet launch facilities in Kazakhstan to get our astronauts into space for years.
19 posted on
06/30/2020 5:16:27 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
To: Zhang Fei
Russia has the most powerful military in Europe.No, America does thanks to our continued propping up of NATO (hey, where did that peace dividend go when the wall came down?). Stop sounding like Max Boot, and more like a critical thinking American.
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