Are we facing a new cold war with Russia?

George O Well · #11 (**permalink**) 10-08-2006, 11:38 AM

"fortunately the country is controlled by the Russian Marfia, and they just wanna make money."

>>>Why don't we just say it - Russia is controlled by the Jewish Russian Mafia.

Kix · #12 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by George O Well

>>>Why don't we just say it - Russia is controlled by the Jewish Russian Mafia.

ken.e · #13 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 01:14 AM

I dont think Russia is any psition to start an arms race, check out the Sunday LA times, while Moscow and St. Petersburg are doing well, The rest of the country is in shambles no money and no food, no wonder all the Russian Jews are moving to Israel

Areyouforreal · #14 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by George O Well

"fortunately the country is controlled by the Russian Marfia, and they just wanna make money."

>>>Why don't we just say it - Russia is controlled by the Jewish Russian Mafia.

George has Jewaphobia.

Qurmudjin · #15 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Moggy

Thats no suprise, after all Putin is exKGB, fortunately the country is controlled by the Russian Mafia, and they just wanna make money.

And they just wanna make money by stealing your identity/credit card info and selling you bootlegged movies & CD's. Whether it's Putin, the oligarchy or mafia, I don't think we have a "live & let live" situation here...
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Qurmudjin · #16 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by veryvegan

I think we might be [facing a new cold war with Russia]. Russia is getting more and more aggressive and more and more anti-West ... <snip> ... Is this something provoked by hostility to Bush? Hatred of U.S. policies?

Posturing, posturing, posturing. It has nothing to do with Bush. Remember, Bush and Putin locked eyes and became soulmates...

I agree with LibertarianForever's point:

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... They want regional influence, and mainly they're concerned about keeping their own country from falling apart.

The Soviets had re-entrenched themselves into the local bureaucracies, where the "rubber meets the road," and have been effectively blocking many reforms coming down from above. The oligarchs are battering the hell out of the government, and the people are willing to bring back a "strong hand" to deal with them, even if it means evryone else gets a little bruised in the process.
These are all pains in the ass that require our attention and involvement, but I don't think there is any centralized effort to restart the Cold War.

Russia is our ally now, and we'd better work hard to keep it so, as we will need them in the coming decades as our battles with Islam and the remnants of Communism shift eastward.
If there is another Cold War with Russia, let us not be the ones who start it.

Moggy · #17 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Qurmudjin

And they just wanna make money by stealing your identity/credit card info and selling you bootlegged movies & CD's. Whether it's Putin, the oligarchy or mafia, I don't think we have a "live & let live" situation here...
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And dont forget the Russian brides, had a mate a couple of years ago, got caught up with this Russian bird, ended up, she was in bussiness for the Russian marfia, poor barstard, broke his heart and his wallet. She got shipped back to the Urkraine by the government in the end. Russia is pretty much a country of confusion anyway, their a spent force globally, more incline to fund regimes that oppose "ze capitialists zystem", than fight it.