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Worse Than The Cold War: 81% Of Russians Now View The US Negatively
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End Of The American Dream blog,
Russians view the United States much more unfavorably today than they did during the end of the Cold War era. As you will read about below, an astounding 81 percent of all Russians now view the United States negatively, and only 13 percent have a positive opinion of this country. In all of the years when Russians have been surveyed on their attitudes toward the U.S., they have never been this negative. But of course Americans generally do not view the Russian people unfavorably.
So why is this happening? Well, it all comes down to the actions of the Obama administration. The Russian people are convinced that U.S. organizations organized, funded and armed the rebels that violently overthrew the democratically-elected Ukrainian government. And once it was overthrown, the Obama administration immediately recognized the rebels as the legitimate government of Ukraine. And now most Russians are convinced that the U.S. government is trying to promote a similar revolution inside Russia. In recent years, the Russian people have become increasingly nationalistic, and at this point they view U.S. meddling in their affairs as a direct threat to their way of life. Even while most Americans are extremely apathetic about what is going on over in Russia, an increasingly large chunk of the Russian population is angry enough to go to war.
Anti-American sentiment inside Russia has grown so strong that even the mainstream media is starting to report on it. For example, the following quote comes from a recent article in the Washington Post…
Thought the Soviet Union was anti-American? Try today’s Russia.
After a year in which furious rhetoric has been pumped across Russian airwaves, anger toward the United States is at its worst since opinion polls began tracking it. From ordinary street vendors all the way up to the Kremlin, a wave of anti-U.S. bile has swept the country, surpassing any time since the Stalin era, observers say.
For the recent survey that I mentioned above, Russians were asked this question: “What is your general attitude toward the United States?”
81 percent of Russians responded negatively, and only 13 percent had a positive response.
That is the most negative that Russians have been toward the U.S. since polling began back in 1988.
And this could potentially be just the beginning.
For a moment, I want you to imagine a scenario. I want you to imagine how the U.S. government and the U.S. population would respond if the Russians organized, funded and armed rebels that overthrew the Canadian government. And then imagine how the U.S. government and the U.S. population would respond if the Russians started shipping heavy military vehicles and sophisticated military equipment to those rebels after they had established a new pro-Russian government.
I can just see it now – people everywhere would be screaming “Red Dawn” and warning of imminent war with Russia.
Well, the truth is that Ukraine is Russia’s most important neighbor, and the two nations have ties that go back for thousands of years.
When we meddled in Ukraine, we poked Russia right in the eye, and now we have a very angry Russian bear to deal with.
For much more on how angry Russians are at this moment, please see my previous article entitled “This Is How Much Russians Hate America“.
And if Barack Obama decides to start sending heavy military vehicles and equipment to the government in Kiev, that is going to escalate things to a completely new level.
If you do not think that could happen, you should consider what the Washington Post is reporting…
President Obama said Monday that he is considering providing Ukraine with lethal weapons to defend the country against Russian aggression if diplomatic options fail.
Of course it is not just Obama that is thinking this way. In fact, there is lots of pressure on Obama from both sides of the aisle to arm the Ukrainians…
The pressure on Obama from the Republicans, but also from his own political camp, is intense. Should the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine not hold, it will likely be difficult to continue refusing Kiev’s requests for shipments of so-called “defensive weapons.” And that would represent a dramatic escalation of the crisis. Moscow has already begun issuing threats in anticipation of such deliveries. “Any weapons deliveries to Kiev will escalate the tensions and would unhinge European security,” Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s national security council, told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on Wednesday.
In the end, I believe that this is going to happen. And when it does, all hell is likely to break loose.
If you believe that cooler heads will somehow prevail, you should consider what is already happening. At this point, U.S. tanks and military vehicles have already rolled into Latvia…
Latvia has confirmed more than 120 armored units, including tanks, have been delivered by the US. According to the Latvian Ministry of Defense, these include M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2A3 Bradley armored vehicles.
The move to deploy yet more tanks and armored vehicles was welcomed by Latvian Minister of Defense Raymond Vejonis.“The presence of our allies (US and NATO) in Latvia is a confirmation of solidarity and security in the region,” Vejonis said in a statement on Twitter.
How would we feel if Russian tanks were rolling into northern Mexico?
And many in Europe seem to be quite hawkish these days as well. For instance, the president of the European commission says that an EU army is needed to deal with the potential Russian threat…
The European Union needs its own army to help address the problem that it is not “taken entirely seriously” as an international force, the president of the European commission has said.
Jean-Claude Juncker said such a move would help the EU to persuade Russia that it was serious about defending its values in the face of the threat posed by Moscow.
All of this posturing could ultimately lead to something far worse than the Cold War.
If we keep pushing Russia, we could someday end up with a real war on our hands.
But don’t just take my word for it. Just consider the following excerpt from a recent article by Stephen Lendman…
Ukraine is ground zero. Ongoing conflict risks the unthinkable – direct US confrontation with Russia risking nuclear war.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Ukraine’s conflict could “unavoidably lead to a nuclear war..”
Nuclear arms expert Steven Starr warned about things headed recklessly toward this possibility.
Nuclear expert Helen Caldicott believes US/Russian confrontation risks nuclear war. Things today are more dangerous than any previous time in the post-WW II period.
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark said “(n)othing is more dangerous than the aggressive US/NATO troop movements right on the borders of Russia.”
To most Americans, the threat of nuclear war with Russia is a joke. Most people in this country believe that it could never possibly happen.
But an increasing number of experts are starting to wake up and realize that if we stay on this road that it could be a very real possibility. For example, author Daniel Estulin had some very interesting things to say during one recent interview…
The United States and its European allies are seeking to overthrow the Russian government by escalating the confrontation with Moscow up to the “threshold of a thermonuclear war,” an author in Madrid says.
US President Barack Obama is orchestrating a regime change to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.
The US and Britain have “reactivated a policy of threatening tactical nuclear warfare against Russia and China to force them to submit to the crumbling transatlantic financial empire,” Estulin said during a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
“That submission will not happen, however, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly made clear,” he added.
For much more on a potential war with Russia, please see my previous article entitled “While Obama Guts The U.S. Military, Russia Prepares For War“.
But before a shooting war happens, Russia will attempt to use other means at their disposal to hurt us if we start shipping military equipment to the government in Ukraine.
So let us hope that does not happen.
If the Obama administration backs off, things may have a chance to cool down.
However, if the Obama administration publicly announces that we will be arming the new Ukrainian government, that will be an absolutely critical moment for U.S.-Russian relations. Once that happens, there will be no turning back.
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Oh geez. And those Levi's?
This is the "reset" the 0bambya regime was talking about.
You mean "Overcharge" LMFAO!
Neg away sodomites. Neg away...
Condoleeza Rice - she's a Russian language expert - helped jigger and calibrate the word to get it just right.
The Great Satan.
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people.
People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over. - Paul Craig Roberts
81% Russians don't like the USA.
85% US Citizens who don't like USA.
We're being set up for WWIII. Both Russia/China and the USA. We are being subjected to the most horrible eugenics/ mass culling in human history. Billions of souls lost. What a waste. Satan laughing spreads his his wings.
"...Satan laughing spreads his his wings..."
He was crying. Word has it that he's off to the Guyana highlands - he doesn't want to be anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere when the nukes start flying. He can take the heat, but he can't stand radiation. He doesn't even use any nuclear stuff in hell - too dangerous.
By definition all souls will persist, regardless. But atheistic people, like most Russians and Chinese, who dont believe in such things as souls will be more rational and predictable than the Islam infected who fervently do, matching with very specific prescriptions how to get the best suite in paradise.
I think there are more believing Christians in Russia than in the U.S., and Putin is to Obama as Nebuchadneezer was to Jehoiakim...The hand of vengance...
Vladimir Putin himself was behind the rebirth of the Russian Christian Orthodox Church. In fact, if you go to many east coast towns in the US you will find Russian Orthodox Churches that were set up by the Russians before the 1917 revolution. Christianity is more popular and more defended in Russia today then you apparently know. Buy a plane ticket. Get out more.
81% of the whole World is worried they may have been told a few lies. The othe 19% buy apple products
the top 1% buy apple stawks
Another Russian survey revealed that 82% of all Russians are drunk all the time.
Makes any other survey, including this one, quite suspect.
99% of the US population are on drugs - Ziocaine, MSM and/or TV
you forgot porn
The people have chosen a false sense of security over the responsibility of liberty. The promise of something for nothing.
Just wondering, do "Dreamers" get to register for the draft, like selfish racist native born Mericans.
Of course, we're all "Americans" , right?
So we see the new flood of illegals were actually a stroke of military genius, dying to do the jobs that merican won't do. Todays Armed Forces, A Farce for Global Goods.
Obama has sought regime change in virtually every country, especially those who might be allies. The world is finding America to be a very dangerous "friend". It is simply ridiculous that Obama would run claiming to improve our relations with the rest of the world and has done the opposite, while the sycophant press says nothing. We are destabilizing the world into a nuclear maelstrom.
Another foreign policy success by the fudgepacker.... the bad news is azzhoes like the fudgepacker never get cancer.
Cold War 2.0: Russians fear a nuclear war!
Not as much as they fear being declared a 'friend' of the U.S. - that always ends up far worse for the 'friended' country than the potential harm from a nuclear war.
Bammer enjoys the bust of Stalin they gave him. As to what any other people think, well, narcissist gonna narcisse.
You actually have a point there. In the NuSpeak of global propaganda, "friend" and "ally" mean "people we will happily fuck over" and "enemy" means "people we will support, but pretend to hate".
Ukraine is the USA's "friend", and they robbed them blind, stole all their gold, fucked up their infrastructure, bankrupted them and sold them off piecemeal to their oligarchs.
ISIS is the USA's "existential enemy", and they've been air dropping them food, weapons, ammunition, and B52 target coordinators.
So, in light of that context, just what the hell is going on with Russia? What did Obama mean when he told Medvedev to "wait until after the election" when he'd "have more wiggle room"?
Medvedev told he didn't understand what hell it was about...
seriously
Seriously? Who cares what the Russians think. I care what the Americans think!
Are Americans thinking? where?
Yes, they are thinking. Thinking they can get a Big Mac and Super Size Fries on sale all week. Plus a 50lb bag of Cheetos is on sale at WallMart for $5.00.
Naaaa, this is one of the few times you are wrong, JB. Even McDonalds's fake "food" is too expensive for the average American nowdays. McDonalds has been posting negative economic news for months now. The masses of poor people in USA can't afford to shell out ~7+ dollrs for a big mack, fries and a soda no more.
More like twelve bucks if you supersize (which most do).
The only thing I get at McRonalds is a sausage biscuit. Sausage has always been a blend of leftovers so I know I'm eating shit right up front. And it's still a dollar (so there's still something left for a dollar on the 'Dollar Menu').
As one that has made a lot of sausage personally from home grown hogs I can say there is actual trust in the old adage "There's two processes it's best not to observe: Politics and Sausage"
OP, come on. Don't go eat the global slave goo. Don't support that mess. You/we can start our own general strike, one baby step at a time.The best thing you can do about food is grow your own.
And when that call comes in at 4am in the morning, do you want Hillary to answer that (or have it transcribed to her personal email account at her home in NY)?
I'm hoping praying with little faith that I have left that there will be anti-war riots all over the country. Never mind the Selma bullshit and rising tide of misogny, this shit could get real very quickly.
Putin is an expert. O is a community organizer with no foreign affairs experience, Hillary turns everything she touches into shit.
We don't stand a chance.
Never mind the Selma bullshit and rising tide of misogny, this shit could get real very quickly.
Putin is an expert. O is a community organizer with no foreign affairs experience, Hillary turns everything she touches into shit.
Very well stated.
What a pathetic bunch of "leaders" we have.
Surely you meant misandry, no?
I went to several anti-war protests in Dallas and Crawford right before the Iraq invasion. Probably 5,000 in downtown dallas, 1000 in Crawford when Tony Blair visited Bush, and several other smaller gatherings, including camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford. There is a nucleus of good people who understand what is going on -but not nearly enough to be effective and make real change. I'm not optimistic -but still hopeful that more people will wake up -
Me, I care about what Janet Yellen is thinking!
She's thinking what a stupid sychophant fucking goy you are and how those nicely those tire marks match your eye color.
Americans don't think.
Americans dont have critical thinking skills as a society - they are imbeciles and vassals nothing more - they have elected:
Obama
Clinton
Bush
Christie
Reagan
ALL Lyin Liars who Lie for a Living and Americans elected each........ twice to rape them!
The Russians are smart educated people with more PHD's per Capita in hard sciences than the USA will ever have - Russians should Trust No One - especially Americans - it is a country of marketing and promotion not Science - give up nothing !
If we consider that Americans give Congress about a 10% approval rating, yet re-elect their own congressmen 98% of the time, you would have to consider Americans to be imbeciles.
It could be that most people do not even know WHO thier congress person is, and when they get the voting booth, and see the choices, paper or plastic, they may tend to choose the one that might sound familiar due to advertisments, etc.
Also, there really is no telling how accurate voting actually is thanks to Diebold anyway.
Refer to Homer Simpson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWJkrlptNs
Your comment is based on the assumption that voting actually affects the outcome. A swing and a miss...
Jack Burton: "If we consider that Americans give Congress about a 10% approval rating, yet re-elect their own congressmen 98% of the time, you would have to consider Americans to be imbeciles."
I beg to differ. It's not about imbeciles. The American Voter is usually very approving of his district's congressman
the whole knot here is that the American Voter has only two choices for his district, and one of them "takes it all". it's all about an antiquated voting system
face it, the American Consumer would revolt if he'd have only two choices of brands in the supermarket. but when it comes to political parties... it's fine
I, for my part, as an european, dont give a F...ck what americans think... just stay there on your continent at leave us alone. We dont want your f....ing help. Think the way you see fit about yourseleves and the others , masturbate yourseLves with your national pride as long has you wish, but GET LOST FROM EUROPE !!!!!!!! WE'RE FED UP WITH YOU BASTAR...S !!!!!! take your Breedloves back to the american zoo where they belong, and make yourselves invisible, you rats !
This article is wrong! Impossible! All lies!
Obama sent Hillary over there with a RESET button!
Smart Diplomacy in action!
The Russians love us!
sure, we love, dead men don't talk to much
never underestimate the power of a smart pantsuit (primary colors ofcourse)
For a moment, I want you to imagine a scenario. I want you to imagine how the U.S. government and the U.S. population would respond if the Russians organized, funded and armed rebels that overthrew the Canadian government. And then imagine how the U.S. government and the U.S. population would respond if the Russians started shipping heavy military vehicles and sophisticated military equipment to those rebels after they had established a new pro-Russian government.
I don't think we'd be all that worried. The relative military strength of the US and Canada means that no amount of Canadian skullduggery is likely to threaten us. Same for Ukraine vis-a-vis Russia.
We certainly wouldn't start roping off British Columbia and Newfoundland and swearing that they now belonged to us.
Besides, we put up with anti-American governments on our borders all the time. Goes with the territory of being numero uno.
How soon we forget Cuba.
As soon as we start giving nukes to Ukraine, the analogy would become apt.
Nukes ended up in Cuba because the USA put some in Turkey. The "cuban missile crisis" is a US-centric misnomer. It was really the Turkish missile crisis.
correct also, fact is Kruschev was actually much more level headed than JFK according to witness, who also told
Bobby worse and dangerous if had been president, he pushed JFK and wanted war..
tarabel: We certainly wouldn't start roping off British Columbia and Newfoundland and swearing that they now belonged to us.
Asshat, Crimea has been part of Russia for like 250 years, ok?
Prior to them GIVING IT to Ukraine, sure.
Can you make the same argument for the other territories being stripped away?
is it important to you?
you know anyone in Crimea?
Crimeans chose and do what they want.
Crimea is still celebrating.
USSR had no right to give it to Ukraine in the first place unless it reflected the Will of the People. The right to self-determination is inalienable. Czechoslovakia splitting up didn't threaten the existence of life on earth. Yugoslavia broke up, the Soviet Union broke up. Kosovo was ripped out of Serbia by force. What's this nonsense about borders can't change. They do change. Mainly to correct mistakes by arrogant politicians. Ukraine should split along the Dnieper River. It's really two countries that are only together by odd circumstances. Why are we defending the borders that were forced by a bloody dictator?
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Asshat, actually Newfoundland was first settled by French Fisherm who made babies with the local natives. Then the Brits arrived, the party ended, and Newfoundland became a Colony of Britian. Then it became a dominion of GB. Then, this little cocksucker Canadian politician named Joey Smallwood convinced everyone to turn in their Union Jacks for the Mapleleaf and he promised everyone they would be in the land of Milk and Honey. Needless to say a lot of poverty and high taxes and fuck all followed for about 50 years after that. Thank Christ for the offshore oil. Fast forward today and most Newfoundlanders consider themselves Newfoundlanders first, then (depending on their ancestors) either French Leaning or British Leaning and then Canadian.
I swear, some of you guys need to get out of your parent's basement more often and see the world before Obama the Antichrist irradiates it.
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As to the NSA and your huge salary...it's the morality and Constitutionalism of your operations. Your agency is so far out of bounds that it is rogue and must be destroyed by any means necessary...as is our current, war criminal, government that you are a part of.
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81% of Russians view Americans negatively.
Unfortunately, 91% of Russians would move here if given the chance.
Give it a decade of importing welfare-sucking spidermonkeys and then retake your poll.
and that's because the Visa students get unemployment.
Russians move anywhere they want, however only about 10,000 people move to the US in 2010-2013 mostly to study and work for the large corporations. Russians don't even come to the US as tourists. Russian speaking people in the Us are mostly Jews, Ukrainians, and others from the former soviet republics. I bet you won't meet an actual ethnic Russian in Fl, or NY. Maybe in CA they work as programmers.
I've met a few Russians in Dallas -other than Russian jews, they like and support Putin.
Nice to read the truth from time to time.
100% of ugly zionist bastards dream about kidnapping siberian blondes
and many of those like little siberian blonde boys
blonde = female
"anti-US bile..."
Take a bow, Mr Nobel Prize Winner for spreading sweetness and light in this world. And for creating eight failed states in this world - Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ukraine. Luckily your coup in Venezuela in February failed. And thanks for supporting democracy and freedom and privacy in this world with your infinite spying. And for droning all those women and child terrorists in medieval countries. We feel so much safer.
gee, I wonder why?
Has Russia rinfenced CONUS with over 100 military bases?
Has Russia parked missiles aimed at us in our back yard?
Has Ruaais broken treaties with us?
I really can't figure this out.
They hate us for our freedoms. Someone had to say it.
what freedoms?)
Ok, then they envy our police state. The KGB is missed by millions of Russians.
Shit I'm a US citizen who views the US negatively.
Love your country.
Hate your government.
Very true. But many of the morons in this country empower the government.
I'd prefer to have as many secession movements as possible. We're probably 10 to 15 years before the States are mericfully broken apart.
Just move the capital of US to Wichita, Kansas. Once surrounded, they would have no other choice but behave.
Good work Hillary cliteron. Worthless bag of shit. They should have shoved that reset button up her ass. How in the fuck do these people have power. Fucking low life grifters- fugly and annoying as shit to boot.
she has power because the US is a crimanocracy -billionaire Oligarch criminal gangsters -far worse and far more powerful than Al Capone -rule this country -own Wall Street, own the media, own Congress and the presidency and Supreme Court and largely control higher education.
"The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century was the breakup of the Soviet Union." - Vladimir Putin
Vlad's doing his damndest to restore the 'greatness' of the former SU, one small acquisition at a time.
that's why we think that americans are stupid. You will tell jokes at the most important time.
Troll or not, get it, this guys in Washington will send you and your kids to die for their money.
Yea, he's invading all of those kuntrys and kiling pepol, eting babis and rapping womonz and kidz cus my teevee told me he wus. thay sayd ift i joynz the armi they wilz gets me a new toof brush for my new teef to. pootin iz the debil. kilz pootin and the wurld wil liv in peese.
yeah!...and he plays rap music!
"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." Vladimir Putin.
The second part applies to you and your doppelgangers, as you appear to fetishize over the USSR.
Thousands of Russians emigrate to the United States every year.
A couple of Americans emigrate to Russia every year.
Are people voting with their feet more compelling than Zeroes voting against America from the comfort of America?
People used to immigrate to America for opportunity, now only entitlements.
2.2 Million Ukrainians fled to Russia in the last 12 months. 1.2 million are draft age males. 5 million Ukrainian citizens live and work inside the Russian Federation as guest workers as well.
and a whole lot of turk's
Russia needs able bodies -no over population problem there. Better to import Russian refugees than Muslims like Europe has done - and I'm not anti-Muslim. Every country should be able and willing to preserve their national character and identity - amazing that such opinions are now considered rascit by Zio-controlled governments.
Those couple of Americans? They're the smart ones.
Many of the Russians leaving now are liberals and fifth-columnists who take the banksters' bullshit about Putin being the antichrist seriously. Few were in want in Russia. If they really think playing the Yankee piano at a "European" deli in a New York suburb beats living in a free country, their loss is Russia's gain.
It is now official Russian policy that they will be forced to fight a war by the west sometime in the coming decade. They hope for 10 years, but fear Washington is driving for war this summer.
Washington knows something that us citizens do not, and that Russian do not. Our leaders are now nearly all Zionists and Israelis. We can only wonder what use they plan to make of Americans armed forces.
The Zionist financial world may be eneding, and a war on Russia could divert America and give reason for martial law at home.
Ask the Zionists. They know more than Putin, me or you!
A regime change in Kremlin is what they are after. But the ultimate goal is to checkmate China once they chose off China’s energy import land route from Russia.
plausible key.
Fortunately there will be a regime change in Washington soon, unfortunately the new regime will look just like the old one.
Oh please.
now you gonna get on the Jews are ruining the world schtick.
Now Swedes would never betray anyone
ask a Norwegian
We are not fighting a race of people.
LOL!
Onward Vikings of Peace!
Best vikings arrived and stayed in Russia early..
Novgorod
That's why I support Putin - I want the liberation of America - something that could happen in a month if the sheeple pulled their heads out of their asses - but they won't soon -it;s almost as if the smell of shit and methane is like a cocaine high. Stupid fucking sheeple in this country.
what the hell
Obama a Zionist?
you smoking crack
Him and Netanyahu are really tite right?
Obama is a Muslim
You will never see him call a Muslim a terrorist
even if it obvious to the most rudimentry mind
"It is now official Russian policy that they will be forced to fight a war by the west sometime in the coming decade. They hope for 10 years, but fear Washington is driving for war this summer."
There will be no war. If there could be, it would be launched by now, as the crumbling Empire is desperate. America is only trying to get other countries to wage proxy wars with Russia, but it never will directly confront her. Why? Simple. The Russians have nukes that could bomb America back to the stone age. That's a risk no American, even the looniest, will take. In all their history, the USA have never been known to confront an enemy that could defend itself. They won't start now. Too chancy.
So, expect more "regime change", "color revolutions", proxy wars, murderous merc armies, etc, but no direct confrontation with Russia. Nor China.
I don't blame them. An honest enemy is far far preferable than a thieving scoundrel trying to befriend you just long enough to drive the dagger between your shoulder blades.
Even Americans start hating themselves.
the junior senator from chicago?
what a joke!
1st) pulls us troops out of iraq leaving a political vacuum,... a no-brainer for a half-wit diplomat, knowing quite well it's a disaster de`jour recipe for chaos. (always voted present, when hope and change were, just that-- meaningless words!)
2nd) takes troops from iraq and places them in afpak for the duration of the vietnam war timeline, knowing its unwinnable...-- something the british, soviets found out the hard way. a war that will never end-- the graveyard of empires!
3rd) causes a vacuum in egypt, libya, and now a proxy war in syria! oh, don't forget droning yemen, now a,'soon-to-be-failed-state'! why? btw... did i mention lebanon on the precipice of getting sucked into syrian conflict if not already?!?
4th) raises the debt almost 150% to how-many $trillion$,... and has put the world on nuclear-alert in just six short years...
wow!
?talk about hope and change?
jmo
Well, yes , 'hope and change', hope you don't get nuked and change to your lifestyle, mission accomplished.
As long as US is ruled by dual-citizens do not expect things will change in favor of the real American people.
Prostiyeye Americanski loudi. Oni ney panamayut. Vash Vrag Obama.
Unlike team Obama, when this garbage started, I bothered to try and learn the language rather than wallow in ignorance and stupidity. And when you get their side of the story, you realize they won't back down because they know they are right.
And Putin is not going to commit Russian military formations to a protracted war. He is a chess master. He knows how to win a war. You either don't fight at all, or you win in one battle that you stacked. Whatever team Obama thinks is going to happen, sending formations piecemeal into the Ukraine battle, is not not going to happen. If the war must happen, the war will be here. It will end in one day. It will be decisive.
Never allow hate to control your thinking. The stupidity of the US actions is that they expect the Russians to act out of emotion. Obama and the neo-cons both believe in their personal superiority. Narcissism is their emotion and their weakness. Do not what is expected, but what is unexpected.
"Do not what is expected, but what is unexpected." --Reaper
You sound somewhere between Sun Tzu and Yoda. "Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. Make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots..." Perhaps Obama could conduct war more artfully by sending a B-2 mission over Interalpen Hotel-Tyrol on or around June 11th, no-fly zone be damned. I bet the Bilderbergers wouldn't expect that.
"Tanks rolling into Latvia..."
Nice. Yet another country that most Americans will be unable to find on a map but say that it needs to be defended because the TV and radio told them so.
Hate to admit it, but turning to CIA FactBook to look up Latvia (and to see what resources they have).
Had to use it when I got a job offer as Controller for a Gold Mine in Seriname...didn't know it was in South America.
Haha, I guess I'll give you a pass on that one since Baltic state are a little tricky. I just know that Estonia is the northernmost of the three since Estonians consider themselves more aligned with the Nordic countries and Lithuania shares a border with Poland. Which leaves Latvia in the center.
It's simple really, sort them alphabetically and you have the right order.
so it reads 'ELL - how appropriate. Why the fsckin-ell did these Baltic statelets chose to dose up on Ziocaine?
"Russians view the United States much more unfavorably today... (and) it all comes down to the actions of the Obama administration." --Michael Snyder
Current Russian disapproval of the US is just a snapshot assessment of a much lengthier decline, and does not "all" come down to the latest president's reckless actions -- as the dubious graph above shows. Yeah, Obama's effed up the mess famously for sure, but he's just carrying out imperial orders no differently than Bush Jr, Clinton, or any of the rest. It's the cumulative effect of decades of frictive policymaking toward Russia -- administration after administration -- that has soured Russian attitudes toward America and its puppets.
Clearly, Russians weren't too bullish on America after Bush Jr pushed forward with the NATO missile "shield", negotiating deployment deals with Poland and the Czech Republic. Neither did they much like it when the Bush Administration went full-on in backing its Georgian puppet Saakashvili -- a man Russians had come to know as a ruthless dictator who committed atrocities in South Ossetia -- during the Russia-Georgia crisis... all while continuing American war crimes and hypocrisies in Iraq. But Snyder's minor acknowledgement of Republican complicity seems begrudging.
One could go on and on, decade by decade, describing the steady crescendo of western incursions on Russian sovereignty; to say that "all" of today's Russian resentment of the US is on Obama is to be lazy, incorrect, and a total conservative homer. That's right: Michael Snyder is a bible-banging fundamentalist Jesus-worshiper, so when it really comes down to it, the Republicans are under far less scrutiny over at the Economic Collapse blog. ZH sure seems to love the guy.
No. It is 100% this US administration that is the problem. The Russians think they can be civilized and outwait this moron Obama for another 2 years to make friends again. So they are not antagonizing. But if ethnic Russians start dying from NATO weapons, all bets are off. That will not be allowed to happen. Ukraine is in Russia's sphere of influence, whether Obama realizes that or not. What goes on in Ukraine is Russia's responsibility. It is full of Russians. It is has been Russian aligned territory for 100's of years. What Obama is doing there is unbelievable ignorance.
No doubt the Russians expected the 'reset' in '09 or '10. (As did we all.)
Not Obama's bullshit about '13
Obama is just showing his flexibility after he was re-elected.
think of it . what's more dangerous, an ignorant, blissful sheepulace or an aware , angry , proud and brave 81%?
Who's who?
The Russian ladies at http://www.myfreecams.com/#Homepage still seem pretty friendly towards Americans. Just saying!!!
I only found a ditzy american chick that was less interesting than a plastic bunch of grapes. What the hell is the attraction to this site?
none and was off topic
Actually it's on topic and you can learn a lot from them if you talk to them.
The US will eventually put heavy weapons into the Ukraine on the basis that it is a long way from the US and any fallout will be restricted to the Ukraine and Europe leaving not only the US untouched but turbo charging the US economy.
Russia will as a result of US/ NATO intervention in the Ukraine mobilize conventional forces, ultimately if this is unsuccessful Russia will resort to Battlefield nukes rather than surrender as surrender in the Ukraine would be seen as the end of Russia.
Hopefully at this point the insanity will end, otherwise nukes on the way to Washington will be next, Russia will never surrender when it see's itself as fighting for its very survival, US Politicians should study the history of Russia, this is not Iraq or Syria you are dealing with here.
You're more likely to see Russian tanks rolling down the streets of Detroit[1] than Kiev for the simple reason that if Russia gets dragged into a hot war in Ukraine they'll attack the cancer at its source: The USA.
[1]I say detroit because it's the only city that wouldn't be a glowing ruin.
as much as these guys throw money around
you would think they would try to buy them off,
you know, like N Korea.
Well, of course. These days they can find out for themselves that:
a) western banksters really did engineer the Soviet famine, hush it up until Stalin was no longer a useful pawn, then pin it on alleged Russian intolerance of Ukrainians and not their own sadistic social engineering experiment
b) bankroll Hitler's war machine, which came within a hair's breadth of exterminating Europe's Slavs as well as its Jews
c) and even now are plotting to conquer Russia, steal its natural resources and leave not only Russians but all mankind so destitute and so hungry they go back to killing their own children for meat, so a few thousand already unimaginably wealthy people can live like demigods above any human law---amusing themselves like Beria in the old days, no doubt, picking up pretty children of both sexes to rape, torture and murder just because they can.
Russians think the US and EU are abominations ruled by monsters? So would Americans and Europeans, if their media printed news and not disinfo and recycled Wall Street press releases. Because it's the truth.
We don't need imagine the Russians. We have the NWO that took over Washington D.C. created the DHS and militarized the police in preparations of killing us.
Just because the folks, who have achieved the most success and gained the greatest power in America, would not risk for a moment their own blood, their own lives, or their own wealth in war, they cannot imagine that their counterparts in Russia would either.
This is a terrible miscalculation. Unless this is corrected, a war will come.
At some point in time, with as little warning as possible, the Russians will launch a series of attacks against the United States. I am sure that Russian "thinktanks" -or what passes for them- are evaluating comparable strengths and weaknesses, and are looking for a shift in military dispositions that would be most favorable to the Russians. I imagine that they would try to strike a crippling series of blows against America's conventional forces without resorting to nuclear weapons; and leave the United States with the dilemma of accepting strategic defeat or inititiating nuclear war. Europe will be the prize, which will fall into the arms of whichever side prevails.
Between 2020 and 2028, the United States navy and air force will be at their smallest since the beginning of World War II. The army is already there. The technocrats believe that a superiority in drones and naval airpower will be able to offset the inferior numbers of other military assets relative to the Russians. To make matters worse, the pseudo-tacticians and armchair commandos in Washington DC are ingesting all the "BS", that the kind of forces which prevail in big battles, will be hopelessly out-gunned and and out-maneuvered by "smart" bombs and SWAT teams in what is called "4-G warfare".
There is a false hope in the American "thinktanks" that lower oil prices and economic sanctions will weaken Russia politically and militarily. They are smug in their conviction that "soft power" will triumph over military hardware. That's because it appeared to have worked against the Soviet Union in the Reagan-Bush era. Somehow, I don't think that this strategy will this time. The Russians have the benefit of that experience, and are reacting differently.
I wish that America would give up on the "New World Order" scheme. I wish that it would recognize that we have peers among the community of nations; and that these peers have their own spheres of influence and vital interests, which we should respect.
Suppose the Chinese add themselves to that scenario (on Russia side), then what? NATO would have to add themselves to the US side, and not too aligned would get sucked in. Theatre nukes would be used in critical battles, then ICBM's, who knows how these things play out?
So the ignorant Russian population is buying into the propaganda?
only ignorant is you
Russians are best educated of world
54% with higher degree, more than any country
Look TopCoder rankings:
http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank
Russians top 3 and over 1/3 of top 50
US best 14th and 6 total that is with well over twice population of Russian Federation
China with 8 total coming much more. Two of these attended Russian schools
add mine to negative.
overthrow the US gov now!!!
Every morning I wake,,, I thank Russia for being patient. I remember some not so patient Russian leaders in the past that would not have taken near the crap the usa has thrown at them lately. We'd all be incinerated by now.
Yes Russia has done some really bad things but then so have others. The American Indians, Germany and Hitler, France and Napoleon, England and the colonies, the Turks,,,, you name it, somewhere something happened and things went bad.
I believe Russia really wanted/wants to be accepted as an equal partner but some just won't let her past go.
I'll tell you,,, those that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Anyhow, from this American... Thanks Russia.
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They should do a poll on what Mexicans and Canadians think of DC and its meddlin ways.
Most of the world sees the US populace as ignorant, selfish and arrogant creatures incapable of thinking without the guidance of their media. Russians survived the first wave of western “liberation” during Elsin’s era and lost most of their wealth and dignity to some obnoxious critters-blood-suckers who’re hiding now in the cracks of falling empire. This shit will not be experimented with ever again.
Summers, Schleifer, Zimmermann, Chubais, Berezhovsky, Khordokovsky, .........
All will be well after dumb black muslim leaves
Is it true they captured 100 Humvees in Debaltsewo ?
a bunch don't know if 100
As long as those people in Belarus stay out of it and keep taking my money to play World of Tanks....fuck em.
Maybe it's time for Russia to put some missiles on Cuba so the US feels what it's like because they still don't seem to understand it.
Russians believe what they are told to believe. BTW as a recent (2011) poll showed about 33% of Russians believe the Sun rotates around Earth. The poll was conducted by the major state-owned respected institute (if you can read in Russian - http://wciom.ru/index.php?id=268&uid=111345).