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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:07:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ask the Indians how their Russian investments are doing. 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:07:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Those traits are because of the 900 year history of being overrun by every invading horde in history. WWII being the last and worst of them all. You cannot meet a Russian who did not lose close family members in WWII. Now they have the poser to stop it and they act accordingly. Any threat to the homeland triggers them. They are no friends of the Chinese and their current game of appearing to get closer to them is a response to Trump. He is the first president since Reagan that they cannot bully or pay off. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:08:04 PM EDT
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Quote History[b]Originally Posted By LittlePony]
It is never going to happen, just like the mainland Chinese are never going to change, just like India is never going to change, like the Mideast is never going to change. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:09:52 PM EDT
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They WERE the invading horde in 1939 and 1940. Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland... All those states were Russian territory until World War 1 Shenanigans happened |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:10:27 PM EDT
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In the wake of the Soviet collapse, money flooded in from the West to buy up Russian assets dirt cheap. People sold their shares of the factory for pennies. Thus rose the Russian oligarchs (whose money really belongs to someone else).
Russia still is f*cked up and it's the mindset created from years of living under communism. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:11:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: India passed France and will soon pass UK as the 5th largest economy. They’re probably going to pass Japan in next 5 years. Until the Industrial Revolution really started getting traction China was the world's biggest leading economy for over three thousand years Of course India is probably going to be in third place economic wise eventually, sheer Manpower can do amazing things |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:12:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Technically you can consider it reconquest All those states were Russian territory until World War 1 Shenanigans happened |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:12:12 PM EDT
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Because Russia is basically the country sized equivalent of a trailer park with a meth lab.  
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:13:33 PM EDT
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When pilots flew MIG 25's they would report icing conditions. After landing they would remove the alcohol from the deicer and drink it. That is why the MIG 25 is called the flying restaurant. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:14:07 PM EDT
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They WERE the invading horde in 1939 and 1940. Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Those traits are because of the 900 year history of being overrun by every invading horde in history. WWII being the last and worst of them all. You cannot meet a Russian who did not lose close family members in WWII. Now they have the poser to stop it and they act accordingly. Any threat to the homeland triggers them. They are no friends of the Chinese and their current game of appearing to get closer to them is a response to Trump. He is the first president since Reagan that they cannot bully or pay off. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:17:11 PM EDT
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They're the biggest geopolitical failure of the century. They're witnessing Putin turn their country into a commodity market instead of letting them produce anything with their resources, because Russian oligarchs are terrified of the population being a little self reliant. Since Trump has become POTUS, we've installed Patriot missile batteries in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Latvia. We've also strengthened our ties from Estonia to Romania and we're reeling Ukraine back in. This is a border wall of countries that isn't going away and a very large reminder that no one wants to be aligned with people as stupid as the Russians, except the dirty Chinese and Iranians who also exploit and kill their own people with secret police forces. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, nobody who has ever lived under that BS wants to go back. Everyone calls the Chinese communist, but they're actually socialist as per their constitution, nobody wants that garbage. The Iranians are also all about their revolutionary BS too, with a very similar message as the other two heaps of trash. Everything the Russians touch is shit, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela etc. 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:17:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: India passed France and will soon pass UK as the 5th largest economy. They’re probably going to pass Japan in next 5 years. 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:20:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And what does that mean? Until the Industrial Revolution really started getting traction China was the world's biggest leading economy for over three thousand years Of course India is probably going to be in third place economic wise eventually, sheer Manpower can do amazing things Karl Marx was wrong about many things but right about one thing: the revolutionary way capitalism attacks and destroys feudalism. As I explain in a new study, in India, the rise of capitalism since the economic reforms of 1991 has also attacked and eroded casteism, a social hierarchy that placed four castes on top with a fifth caste—dalits—like dirt beneath the feet of others. Dalits, once called untouchables, were traditionally denied any livelihood save virtual serfdom to landowners and the filthiest, most disease-ridden tasks, such as cleaning toilets and handling dead humans and animals. Remarkably, the opening up of the Indian economy has enabled dalits to break out of their traditional low occupations and start businesses. The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) now boasts over 3,000 millionaire members. This revolution is still in its early stages, but is now unstoppable. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:21:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually, the "cold warriors" here in the US continued fighting the war after the fall, and that meant Russia never had a chance on the world market. We threw insane amounts of business and investments at China instead (look where that got us) while freezing out eastern europe. We had a chance to create an ally, but the military-industrial complex still needed the enemy. Russia needed to survive, and they did what they had to. Just look at how hard it is to get people to seriously think of China as an enemy, while we treat a country with an economy slightly smaller than that of Texas as the boogeyman. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:22:26 PM EDT
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Russia, china, India, the middle east are all third world countries that have one or two things that keep them treading water.
Ivan has nukes, china has nukes and a billion slaves, india has nukes and millions of slaves and the middle east has oil. Take those items, mainly the nukes out of play and they are third world cesspools. The middle east will revert back to medieval times when the oil runs dry or is replaced. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:22:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.cato.org/blog/how-capitalism-undermining-indian-caste-system Karl Marx was wrong about many things but right about one thing: the revolutionary way capitalism attacks and destroys feudalism. As I explain in a new study, in India, the rise of capitalism since the economic reforms of 1991 has also attacked and eroded casteism, a social hierarchy that placed four castes on top with a fifth caste—dalits—like dirt beneath the feet of others. Dalits, once called untouchables, were traditionally denied any livelihood save virtual serfdom to landowners and the filthiest, most disease-ridden tasks, such as cleaning toilets and handling dead humans and animals. Remarkably, the opening up of the Indian economy has enabled dalits to break out of their traditional low occupations and start businesses. The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) now boasts over 3,000 millionaire members. This revolution is still in its early stages, but is now unstoppable. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:23:36 PM EDT
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Because they show up drunk to everything....
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:24:50 PM EDT
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They're a country full of highly intelligent people who would dominate the world stage They may have been ok if 1913 Russia wasn't iq raped by 80 years of gulags or the wars. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:24:59 PM EDT
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You're damn right we did, and we did that because they thought they were going to still have a sphere of influence, that's not allowed. As you can see they're right back to being stupid and still exporting leftist BS, they never stopped, and they're going to keep paying until they get it. Look at how long it took the countries around them to abandon socialism, most of them still have strong socialist parties. There's also the danger of separatist movements forming when you've fucked up the populations around you. Russians need to keep eating shit until they get it and do away with their oligarchs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Actually, the "cold warriors" here in the US continued fighting the war after the fall, and that meant Russia never had a chance on the world market. We threw insane amounts of business and investments at China instead (look where that got us) while freezing out eastern europe. We had a chance to create an ally, but the military-industrial complex still needed the enemy. Russia needed to survive, and they did what they had to. Just look at how hard it is to get people to seriously think of China as an enemy, while we treat a country with an economy slightly smaller than that of Texas as the boogeyman. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:33:46 PM EDT
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I suspect that losing almost 25% of your population has an impact on a nation's psyche https://imgpond.novarata.net/uploads/2020/01/WWII Deaths.jpg People always seem to forget that the USSR started WW2, with the Nazis as their partners. They made the situation that led to all those deaths. ETA: And counting all the Russians casualties as Allied, despite the Russians killing many of them themselves, is pretty misleading. Russia should be its own category since they started the war as part of the Axis forces and only when their stupidity got them betrayed (in the most foreseeable betrayal in history, in which Stalin killed all the people telling him it was happening as the Germans were invading Russia) did they suddenly become the good guys. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:37:06 PM EDT
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That is Russian normal? Haven’t you been paying attention?
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:49:49 PM EDT
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Statistically they come out a point or two below the United States in IQ. And we have some low-q groups. Poster from California who admires the Russians and complains about beta males - get off fb and move to the south or Texas or Idaho and report back in six months, you're welcome. That also goes for the people that keep seeing Putin as someone who means what he says and delivers on his promises, despite decades of... not doing that at all. Putin gets by on bluffing and PR, but is almost completely ineffectual at getting things done. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:53:18 PM EDT
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You young ARFCOMMERS need to read - then RE-READ - this post. Heavymetal762 is right on the money here. We fucked up BIGTIME in supporting the Chinese over the Russians. We should have welcomed them with open arms. They share many more values with us than the Chinese, whose culture is so remarkably different than our own to be nearly alien. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Actually, the "cold warriors" here in the US continued fighting the war after the fall, and that meant Russia never had a chance on the world market. We threw insane amounts of business and investments at China instead (look where that got us) while freezing out eastern europe. We had a chance to create an ally, but the military-industrial complex still needed the enemy. Russia needed to survive, and they did what they had to. Just look at how hard it is to get people to seriously think of China as an enemy, while we treat a country with an economy slightly smaller than that of Texas as the boogeyman. Heavymetal762 is right on the money here. We fucked up BIGTIME in supporting the Chinese over the Russians. We should have welcomed them with open arms. They share many more values with us than the Chinese, whose culture is so remarkably different than our own to be nearly alien. ETA: Russian governmental/business values have more in common with China than the US. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:54:06 PM EDT
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Russia was taken over by organized crime when the Soviet Union fell.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:55:39 PM EDT
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All those years of eating shoe polish sandwiches and drinking brake fluid have an effect... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/102941/2020-01-04_20-23-27_jpg-1221676.JPG Years later , working with Russian Engineers that had served in the Red Army they confirmed the lecture and spoke about how good the Shoe Polish was.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:02:11 PM EDT
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Quote History @DK-Prof
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:13:20 PM EDT
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Awesome analogy Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Because Russia is basically the country sized equivalent of a trailer park with a meth lab.  Failed To Load Title Cletus Crookedtooth is dangerous enough with a surplus Mosin Nagant and a Tokarev. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:29:42 PM EDT
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Imperial and Soviet Russia always suffered from "short man syndrome", it's ingrained in them and there is no reason to think that that has changed at this date with the Russian Federation. One only has to look at how the Tsar thought it would be a fine idea to sail their Baltic Fleet around the world (Voyage of the Damned) to get at the Japanese and were slaughtered in The Battle of Tsushima.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:43:46 PM EDT
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And their taste in music absolutely sucks |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:46:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Which music, exactly?
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:48:37 PM EDT
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Russianism is just another example of how rampant corruption, hardship, and privation can twist an entire culture for generations. It's common in Latin America, too. Parts of Asia, too. There's a reason why the civilized world is called "first world", and everything else is not.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:52:59 PM EDT
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I will give the Russians credit for one thing. They have some awesome slapping contests.
[youtube]5t19lTh9SlY?t=6[/youtube] |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:11:08 PM EDT
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Taken from "Inside the Soviet Army in Afghanistan": https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a213733.pdf |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:12:34 PM EDT
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That was an insightful read. Thank you for posting that. @Ryan_Ruck Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Taken from "Inside the Soviet Army in Afghanistan": https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a213733.pdf 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:12:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are so politically blind that you missed what actually happened. American businesses had an opportunity to support a country that had just thrown off communism in order to support an actual communist country (China). What do you think would have happened with Europe without a Marshall Plan? Without support, a power vacuum existed which was filled by opportunists. Even the old-style communists tried to stage a coup. We're actually lucky Russia ended up as good as it has, since we failed to deal with the mess we made when we won the cold war. The mess we made? You truly are , we don't owe anyone shit after we win a war. War means exactly that, the negotiating is over. Europe can go back to being non stop war fare, like they've enjoyed since the very first Greek city states up until the end of their empires. It's not our job, or responsibility to keep them at peace, or prosperous. We have this thing called sovereignty, they can decide what they want for themselves, especially since they've failed to live up to their responsibilities. They're sovereign enough to vote against us at the UN, then they can certainly be sovereign enough to deal with their own problems. The smart European countries will continue to enjoy our security, the dumb ones can live with the results of being dumb.American business couldn't just move into Russia after the cold war for the exact reason I told you in my first post, the Russians didn't give up their BS, but there are plenty of American companies in Russia, over 3000 like Boeing and McDonalds. There would probably be many more if Russia could actually be trusted. I'm not politically blind, you're just ignorant and have the nerve to get ass hurt when I tried to help you out. One day you'll grow up and figure out that the world is a giant competition, and then things will start making sense, like Russia continually wanting to be a regional power, and why we can never let that happen. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:14:34 PM EDT
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they're redneck, methbillies of Europe... unfortunately they were the highschool QB back in the day so they gotta chip on their shoulder about how awesome the are...were.. whatever..
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:19:32 PM EDT
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If he is dumb enough to look at demographics and recent history, and conclude that Russia has a better demographic future than we do, he should stay in CA with the rest of his kind. That also goes for the people that keep seeing Putin as someone who means what he says and delivers on his promises, despite decades of... not doing that at all. Putin gets by on bluffing and PR, but is almost completely ineffectual at getting things done. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Statistically they come out a point or two below the United States in IQ. And we have some low-q groups. Poster from California who admires the Russians and complains about beta males - get off fb and move to the south or Texas or Idaho and report back in six months, you're welcome. That also goes for the people that keep seeing Putin as someone who means what he says and delivers on his promises, despite decades of... not doing that at all. Putin gets by on bluffing and PR, but is almost completely ineffectual at getting things done. The idiots the think Russia is “fighting islam” seem to ignore Putin’s speech stating that the Russian Orthodox has more in common with Islam than any other religions and that the Russians have entire military units that are manned with muslims. Russia has figured out that duping retards on the American Right is as easy (if not easier) than duping the Left ever was. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:23:44 PM EDT
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I knew a handful of Russians in college. I doubt they represented the average Russian, the average Russian did not study at UT. The women they sent were probably all going into diplomatic roles - all but one was hotter than fuck. That all said, I don’t think any had any hints of Judeo/Christian morals. They grew up in a Country were the Government was God - but the Government was an oppressive God to be avoided not worshiped. As such they had absolutely no moral qualms with breaking laws - only cost/benefit analysis. The women would whore themselves to get whatever they wanted - and fully understood that they would continue to whore themselves throughout their career - either be being the concubines of the ruling class - or honey pots. The men just intended to live under as much outside the system as possible - or in it if it was profitable.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:30:48 PM EDT
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Dude, you live in LOUISIANA. You don't have room to criticize. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They're the biggest geopolitical failure of the century. They're witnessing Putin turn their country into a commodity market instead of letting them produce anything with their resources, because Russian oligarchs are terrified of the population being a little self reliant. Since Trump has become POTUS, we've installed Patriot missile batteries in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Latvia. We've also strengthened our ties from Estonia to Romania and we're reeling Ukraine back in. This is a border wall of countries that isn't going away and a very large reminder that no one wants to be aligned with people as stupid as the Russians, except the dirty Chinese and Iranians who also exploit and kill their own people with secret police forces. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, nobody who has ever lived under that BS wants to go back. Everyone calls the Chinese communist, but they're actually socialist as per their constitution, nobody wants that garbage. The Iranians are also all about their revolutionary BS too, with a very similar message as the other two heaps of trash. Everything the Russians touch is shit, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela etc.  Idiocracy - South Carlolina  Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:38:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:42:19 PM EDT
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Isn't the average IQ of the Russian population 88?
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Posted: 1/5/2020 7:45:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:00:16 PM EDT
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I will give the Russians credit for one thing. They have some awesome slapping contests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t19lTh9SlY?t=6 ???????? ?????? ???? ?? ????????? ?? The best slap contest in the world |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:09:01 PM EDT
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Good thing Russians are lily white.
If GD talked about any brown people like this...Brownells would just close ARFcom. 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:22:54 PM EDT
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Good thing Russians are lily white. If GD talked about any brown people like this...Brownells would just close ARFcom. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:29:25 PM EDT
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I wonder what first prize is?
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:34:34 PM EDT
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900 years of paranoia, starvation, poverty and hopelessness. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:45:37 PM EDT
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Overall, one thing GD can't deny is that Slavs aren't pussified like the west is these days. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Good thing Russians are lily white. If GD talked about any brown people like this...Brownells would just close ARFcom. They are worse, just don't have the cultural heights to fall from that make it as visible as here in the civilized world. And since the Russian military still functions on the basis of conscript boy-pussy exploitation, I'll continue thinking of them as pussies. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:00:58 PM EDT
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They're tbe Florida of EurAsia. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:18:52 PM EDT
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 Crazy russian tank driving istructor ENG SUBS |
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