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Posted: 1/5/2020 2:58:54 AM EDT
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Because they show up drunk to everything....
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Posted: 1/5/2020 2:59:54 AM EDT
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Because it's basically Slavic Mexico.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:00:12 AM EDT
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And their taste in music absolutely sucks
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:00:19 AM EDT
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One thing with Putin he always does what he says he is going to do. Kinda like Trump. Does exactly what he states he is going to do if you do stupid shit.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:01:11 AM EDT
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900 years of paranoia, starvation, poverty and hopelessness.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:04:16 AM EDT
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Corruption is a way of life, they play the strength over weakness game in every endeavor.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:05:11 AM EDT
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What exactly is it about the Russian psyche and style of leadership that leads to them consistently and repeatedly refusing to "play nice" on the world stage? When the USSR collapsed, Russia had their chance to fully shed themselves of communism by joining in the world market. They were handed that leaf and refused to take it, instead choosing to continue to bolster their economy by large-scale arms trades and shady alliances with the gangsters of the world. They're a country full of highly intelligent people who would dominate the world stage - and avoid a lot of other trouble - if they would stop acting like your uncle who shows up drunk to every family gathering. LoL, |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:08:48 AM EDT
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Because of history
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:10:53 AM EDT
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All those years of eating shoe polish sandwiches and drinking brake fluid have an effect...
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:11:36 AM EDT
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Como se dice....vodka?
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:13:54 AM EDT
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That first post thing again
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:16:18 AM EDT
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900 years of paranoia, starvation, poverty and hopelessness. When one of the worst insults in your culture is “uncultured”, and the Mayors of Moscow keep or loose their job based on rumors about their relationship with the Bolshoi...there’s a ton of complicated things going on. I have some Russian-born friends (a Soviet-era fighter pilot brought here post USSR breakup by the US government and his wife). You sit down and talk with them...and things get complicated quickly. Medicine, psychology, government, news, driving in his neighborhood...complicated. Great people. But knowing them helped me understand that Russia is not a simple place to understand. Good food. Nice people. Fun guns. Wouldn’t really want to live there. Maybe vacation if we get on better terms. Bit cold in the winter. And complicated. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:16:43 AM EDT
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Go to YouTube and search for Russian car crash videos.
Get back to us on your intelligent people idea. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:20:26 AM EDT
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What exactly is it about the Russian psyche and style of leadership that leads to them consistently and repeatedly refusing to "play nice" on the world stage? When the USSR collapsed, Russia had their chance to fully shed themselves of communism by joining in the world market. They were handed that leaf and refused to take it, instead choosing to continue to bolster their economy by large-scale arms trades and shady alliances with the gangsters of the world. They're a country full of highly intelligent people who would dominate the world stage - and avoid a lot of other trouble - if they would stop acting like your uncle who shows up drunk to every family gathering. 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 3:22:57 AM EDT
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Who are we to judge? It's not exactly like we're "normal" on the world stage either. We just are who we are, deal with it.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:26:49 AM EDT
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Because it's basically Slavic Mexico. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:26:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
900 years of paranoia, starvation, poverty and hopelessness. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:30:30 AM EDT
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They're a country full of highly intelligent people who would dominate the world stage. Russia is Mexico with snow. Don’t be a rube that repeats this worn out BS online. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:39:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Who are we to judge? It's not exactly like we're "normal" on the world stage either. We just are who we are, deal with it. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:44:09 AM EDT
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Had some Russian friends in college. Post-collapse and rich parents.
They were some odd folks. Fun, but odd. It was like that kid that grew up with methed out parents in the trailer park that started a tech company. Accidentally rich, mind still in the trailer park. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:57:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 3:57:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:02:43 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:05:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:07:30 AM 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 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:31:20 AM 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 4:39:12 AM EDT
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Corruption is a way of life, they play the strength over weakness game in every endeavor. 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:44:15 AM EDT
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We will always be in a geopolitical struggle for resources with Eurasia.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 4:44:47 AM 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 5:06:23 AM EDT
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I suspect that losing almost 25% of your population has an impact on a nation's psyche
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:31:10 AM 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 |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 5:57:08 AM EDT
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And their taste in music absolutely sucks |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 6:10:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Because they show up drunk to everything.... 
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:28:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Because they show up drunk to everything.... |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:33:41 AM 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 8:39:34 AM 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 8:44:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Because they show up drunk to everything.... |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:49:25 AM EDT
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
You can’t change them.....Ever. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:55:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
900 years of paranoia, starvation, poverty and hopelessness. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:56:38 AM 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 Russia has always been backward, and they know it -read a bio of Peter the Great to see how far back this goes. Many of the best Russians leave. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 8:58:56 AM EDT
[#41]
Vodka
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:02:18 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:02:20 AM EDT
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They're tbe Florida of EurAsia.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:10:00 AM EDT
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As the saying goes, "All politics is personal".
When it comes down to what kind of government people support (tolerate or vote for), they ALWAYS support the one that they think will do the most for them personally. The same applies to the US, by the way . . . |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:10:02 AM EDT
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It's operated on the principals of coercive governing since forever. When the USSR collapsed, the people who assumed control of the new government were all of the same people running shit in the old government. The old bureaucracy just went into full on thuggery. They controlled the black markets. They sold off national assets. assumed all offices of authority and pretty much became a kleptocracy of the select few. There were plenty of political assassinations between competing factions of the old insitutions vying for control over the new Russian Federation. Allainces and cartels/ cabals were formed. And how you got a KGB agent as leader.
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:13:29 AM EDT
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Because they show up drunk to everything.... |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:16:50 AM 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 9:17:31 AM EDT
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Lots of alcohol poisoning to offset whatever very intelligent people there. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Because they show up drunk to everything.... |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:18:17 AM 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.  The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 9:19:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Russia was taken over by organized crime when the Soviet Union fell. |
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