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Category Archives: Russia
Poll: More Than Half of Russians Want the Soviet Union Back
From DefenseOne.com:
The US polling company Pew Research Center has just released a survey of Russian and Ukrainian attitudes to what’s going on in eastern Ukraine, and one fact caught our eye: 55% of Russian adults think it’s a “great misfortune” that the Soviet Union no longer exists.
One very interesting and salient point from the article, however:
Of Russians under 30—who would have been at most seven years old in 1991—some 40% lamented the USSR’s demise, Pew found. Again, looking at the population data, which show some 27 million people born between 1984 and 1996, that means about 10 million Russian adults long for the restoration of a country and political system of which they have no meaningful personal memory.
Vladimir Putin is more than happy to attempt to comply with that Russian wish.
BZ
WW III stemming from Ukraine?
From the UKDailyMail.com:
EDWARD LUCAS: I hope I’m wrong but historians may look back and say this was the start of World War III
by Edward Lucas
Deep in the flat and featureless landscape of eastern Ukraine, it is all too possible that the outline of World War III is taking shape.
Whipped up by the Kremlin propaganda machine and led by Russian military intelligence, armed men are erecting road blocks, storming police stations and ripping down the country’s flag.
They are demolishing not just their own country — bankrupt, ill-run and beleaguered — but also the post-war order that has kept most of Europe and us, here in Britain, safe and free for decades.
Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West.
His target is our inability to work with allies in defence against common threats. The profoundly depressing fact is that the events of the past few months, as Russia has annexed the Crimea and suppressed opposition in Ukraine, have shown the West to be divided, humiliated and powerless in the face of these land grabs.
We are soon to face a bleak choice. We can chose to surrender any responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states — almost certainly Putin’s next target — from further Russian incursion. Or we can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its imperial ambitions.
Russia invaded, per Obama, “because of weakness”
Obama just got mugged, and he claims his mugger did so because of weakness.
Putin is weak, and Mr Obama is so incredibly strong.
And Mr Obama is nothing more than a naked, bald liar once again:
(The first full minute on the above video can be ignored and is not on topic. – BZ)
Obama said that he sees Russian President Vladimir Putin acting “out of weakness, not out of strength” in attempting to take control of Crimea. Putin, the president said, is “not comfortable” with former members of the Soviet Union making moves to align themselves with the West.
Right. Because, again, as an example, the Muslims who blew up the Twin Towers on 9/11 did so out of weakness and not out of strength.
Yes. Precisely. That is how terribly ignorant the bulk of America is at this point in our history. As in: America elected Barack Hussein Obama.
Sometimes I lack the words to further quantify brain-glazing stupidity and the stultifying ignorance of many Americans. This is one of those times.
BZ
All you need to know about Russia in three minutes:
Epic rap battles: Rasputin vs Stalin. (Caution; some adult language.)
BZ