I don't know whether to laugh or cry ...

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.... Putin's people are trying to pull a 'Chinese" (CPC). The 'West' made me do it. As everything Communist, there is a seed of truth/fact. Stalin's proposal in 1933 for a European Accord to stop Hitler had, as his terms, soviet troops stationed west. in Poland. Hardly what Britain and France were prepared to do.
 
To laugh or cry... But this is a reality.
Kremlin, after some deliberations and flirting with the anti-communist school of thought, has adopted a clear pro-Soviet stance several years ago. There are certain novelties as, for example, naming all USSR as "Russia", which was not politically correct 40 years ago.
But the core is the same.
Russia/USSR was a Knight in shining armor who came to the rescue of the Western Dame in distress. The Dame was corrupted and ungrateful. But time will come when the Dame will call for the Knight's help again (refugees! terrorists! Chinese! viruses!). If she does not call, the Knight will arrive anyway and this time the Dame will pay dearly for her sins.
 
Snautzer01 said:
I think the Knight must remember his armour nor his sword are as big and powerful as it once was.
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7 years ago I'd call the Knight delusional. But 2014 has shown new capabilities other than traditional sword fighting.
And then NotPetya has stricken in 2017. It was probably the worst attack on international shipping since WWII. Shipping was probably "collateral damage" but the aggressor took note, definitely.
 
"The Knight's " GDP is roughly equal to that of Italy. Short of nukes, and MAD, not much there to back up the bluster.
 
SaparotRob said:
And I thought I was a B.S. artist.
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And then the west sligthly tickled the russian stock markets. That made the czars friends not happy. Opening up us oil on the flooded market was another. The powers in russia are no longer self sufficiant. It needs, as does the west, profit.
 
That Russian Twitter account IS strictly for comedy...right?

For anyone who doesn't know already, Time Ghost ( timeghost.tv ) has an excellent weekly YouTube series on WWII called "World War II In Real Time." They just started covering Operation Barbarossa in June, and they have a great deal of FACTUAL information about events and attitudes in the weeks leading up to the invasion. I highly recommend it. I would recommend it to the folks in Russia who put out that Twitter nonsense, but I'm sure they wouldn't believe it. Anyway, here's the channel.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ

If you start catching up now, you don't have quite two years worth of videos to watch. Hey, it beats binge-watching most other stuff I can think of.



-Irish
 
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