snoopdog
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Putin said that it would be a catastrophe, so there you go
haase said:So if something does start, which I believe that Iran is hoping for, who would Russia back? Are they really that stupid? Or maybe there as desperate as Iran?
haase said:So if something does start, which I believe that Iran is hoping for, who would Russia back? Are they really that stupid? Or maybe there as desperate as Iran?
Russia is at war with the world, and the world has been slow to catch on. This article is a couple years old already, but it does a good job of outlining what Russia has done to Ukraine and the groundwork they're laying in other countries, including the US.Silver said:haase said:So if something does start, which I believe that Iran is hoping for, who would Russia back? Are they really that stupid? Or maybe there as desperate as Iran?
There is nothing stupid about Putin, he is scary smart I think. Not a "stable genius", but the real deal. One can only hope that the Pentagon will do what it normally does so well and not get distracted by grandstanding from the oval office.
haase said:Guess that's the difference in politics and the real world, General Patton wanted to eliminate Russia back in WW2 and it wouldn't have been much of a problem at all, but political correctness played a bigger part, and look at it now, we still have to deal with that scurvy country.
greybeard said:Russia doesn't need the money any more than any other country does, and especially not compared to our own country. They have very little debt .. about 25% of their GDP compared to US having over 100% of our own GDP in debt.
Our total external debt (what we owe other nations) is way higher too.
United States $19,765,887 million
Russia owes other countries only $468 million
Their big export is natural gas and their biggest buyer is Europe which is one of the reasons they wanted ukraine back in the fold. The big pipeline from Russia to EU runs thru Ukraine. EU is over 60% dependent on Russia for nat gas and no easy way out of it. Russia produces more nat gas than any other nation..#2 is (you guessed it) Iran.
Under Putin, they have positioned themselves pretty good on the world economic stage. Gasoline prices at the pump are cheaper in Moscow than they are in Houston Tx.