The USSR has Europe by the balls with them supplying a lot of energy
Has the USSR reformed? just because one small state full of Russians in the Ukraine want to be part of Russian doesn't mean 13 more countries will follow and start up the USSR part 2.
And Russian oil is overrated and can be replaced with ease.
Has the USSR reformed? just because one small state full of Russians in the Ukraine want to be part of Russian doesn't mean 13 more countries will follow and start up the USSR part 2.
And Russian oil is overrated and can be replaced with ease.
I don't care if the soviet jerks don't like what they're bein called. I feel for the Russian people, but their crappy soviet government is another story.
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It would be bad if a country as unstable, as Ukraine, that went through two revolutions in last 10 years and where a street mob can grab the power had nukes.
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I don't care if the soviet jerks don't like what they're bein called. I feel for the Russian people, but their crappy soviet government is another story.
Are you drunk tonight buddy?
Soviets have been toast since around 1990 (edit 1991) or are you thinking Putin wants to reform the USSR because this little rouge state wanted to be part of Russia?
You don't think Putin has pushed Russia more towards its past as a soviet state in all but economic policy?
Media silenced, opposition party leadership arrested, a new mini Warsaw pact, re-establishing it's "buffer zone".
I am only 1981 year of birth, so I only spent childhood in USSR, but still modern Russia is very very far from what USSR was, both ideologicaly and economicaly.
I am only 1981 year of birth, so I only spent childhood in USSR, but still modern Russia is very very far from what USSR was, both ideologicaly and economicaly.
I'm typically far from a Hawk, but maybe they need a good conventional ass whipping in a short scuffle. They obviously have lost perspective on what they are.
Hopefully it pancakes their economy and he gets tossed out. Too many Russians seem to fall for his shirtless horseback riding though, so probably not.
It might not be good thing to hope for that. Anything that pancakes the economy of the largest nation in the world has the potential to send shockwaves across the entire world.
It might not be good thing to hope for that. Anything that pancakes the economy of the largest nation in the world has the potential to send shockwaves across the entire world.
largest country, but far from the largest economy. Their GDP is barely bigger than ours.
Maybe some of the posters with more military expertise than me can weigh in on this, but couldn't the U.S. just send him some UAVs and attack some of the more obvious Russian assets that are in Crimea at the moment, or would there an issue with precision?
I'm typically far from a Hawk, but maybe they need a good conventional ass whipping in a short scuffle. They obviously have lost perspective on what they are.
/easy for me to say.
I'm convinced that if Nato and America went to war in a conventional sense that right now, they'd probably at worst lose, at best fight a bloody several year long stalemate.
largest country, but far from the largest economy. Their GDP is barely bigger than ours.
True, but they do export a ton of oil (2nd largest exporter I believe). Prepare for insane oil/gas price hikes if and when they impose sanctions on their petroleum economy.
I'm convinced that if Nato and America went to war in a conventional sense that right now, they'd probably at worst lose, at best fight a bloody several year long stalemate.
I think the Bundeswehr, the French and the Americans could beat the Russians badly enough to push them back across their line, and as long as they don't push into Russia, that's where the stalemate would lie.
