Posted on 05/16/2015 7:50:09 AM PDT by darkwing104
The Telegraph reported from an independent pollster the Levada Center survey that nearly a third, 31 percent, of Russians fear an invasion by the United States. The Moscow Times citing the same survey reported that 59 percent of Russians believe that the United States and NATO pose a threat to the homeland. Amid the tensions arising from the Ukrainian crisis this is a 12 percent increase from a previous survey conducted in 2007. This poll is an indication of heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow that haven’t been seen since the Cold War.
The poll was conducted last April interviewing 1,600 adults across 46 regions of the country. Other poll results indicate that 48 % of Russians are concerned that the United States would interfere with any Russian efforts to modernize. Forty percent feared that America is trying to take control and destroy the Russian economy, hardly likely given the amount of time spent by Obama and his acolytes on the destruction of the American economy. Thirty six percent are wary of the forced imposition of U.S. values and ideals. It seems these people must be watching the exported version of Modern Family.
Probable cause
Russian State television constantly and deliberately frightens its viewers with the thought that the U.S. and NATO are intent upon destroying and occupying the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
To bad the Russian people don’t know who owns Obama.
Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs
February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com
A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.
The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:
Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[not win it -etl]
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert [they are NOT on "hair-trigger alert" now -etl], and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
Russians just have Russian mind. They can’t understand why the USA does not invade other countries given how strong it is. They see that if Russia was that strong it would invade all they could.
Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.
It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.
He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 — linchpin of our missile defense — might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.
Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.
The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology.
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China’s economy is growing by leaps and bounds, their population is preparing to enter a period of stagnation and decline. The Chinese challenge is to get rich before they get old. Forty years of restrictive population control policies has that effect.
Not that Russia has nothing to worry about from China- China has an extra 100 million men who can’t find a wife as a result of the heavy favoritism toward sons in Asian culture.
I’d fear more the ongoing financial war
They were recognize d as countries by the west to the detriment of Russia. What would we do if California and Texas seceded and asked for statehood and then became obnoxious to our well being?
The Russians have a point. But the craziness is in our inbred hatred of the Russians and resources greed of the EU.
“But the craziness is in our inbred hatred of the Russians and resources greed of the EU. “
Perhaps think it over. Do you really think that the whole world is wrong and only Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe (those were the only countries supporting Russian invasion) are right?
Just like global warming, and the growing acceptance of same sex marriage.
Another example , worldwide slaughter of thousands of Christians by members of the religion of peace, only to then focus on minuscule Russia.
I disagree with you. Russians are very similar to islamists and they are bringing their blight on other people. Eastern part of Ukraine is now a territory ruled by bandits and warlords. It really is a place where criminals from all over Russia flock to as they see it as gangsters paradise and hope for a big score. It will get worse very soon as Russia just had a massive amnesty of criminals last week and many of them will be in Ukraine.
I don’t really understand why you are defending this and attach a “non-people-who-don’t-matter” label to Ukrainians and Georgians who want to be free from Russian blight.
John McCain tells Ukraine protesters: 'We are here to support your just cause' .
Think if Russia did the same thing to Mexico or Canada.
I would partially agree....but only within the crowd that “joined” post 2005 or so. Older FReepers are significantly more intellectually stable and far and above in quality than the newer crowd.
Are Americans the moral equivalence of Russians in your hypothetical substitution exercise? You can’t just substitute one thing and ignore the wider context.
Here is an example of how it goes wrong - “Stauffenberg was a German officer who conspired to kill Hitler. How would you feel about an US officer conspiring to kill Reagan?”
The whole world including 96% of the Americans are supporting the sanctions against Russia. Only 4% of Americans advocate for more lenience while 54% want Obama to act tougher. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/11/americans-and-germans-differ-on-approach-to-russia/
The Soviets still remember how bad the Great Patriotic War was, and what Patton said didn’t help things either. The Soviet government used this fear for many years as an incentive for their military and civilians to produce and sacrifice. So, that has probably echoed down for generations. If they actually knew us, they would understand that the chances of that happening lie somewhere between none and zero. We can’t even repel, much less “invade”, Mexico.
True, but Russia has a real problem with a de facto invasion by Asian people including Chinese on their eastern side. There aren’t very many people there, and a lot of resources.
As I see it, non people, are recent country men, Ukraines, Georgians and Russians, are in an ethnic battle for the future. All wanting to escape the 'blight'.
In the process, in their hatred, Georgia wanted the oil and Ukraine wanted to destroy Russians' navy, and join Nato and put their troops on Russians borders.
All this can have a very bad ending, when our biggest problems are with Islamists and in the growth liberal trends.
Russia would be more of more help with these two problems, if we weren't so bent on their demise.
“Russia would be more of more help with these two problems”
Russia is fueling these problems. They do everything to hurt the USA. Terrorism in muslamic countries was started as a KGB operation to bring the oil price up. For a short time the transcripts showing KGB training terrorists were public.
Russians support whatever hurts the USA. If we come back to the topic - Russians see how much stronger the USA is and for many of these it does not make sense that the USA does not invade them because if Russia were as strong they would sure as hell invade the USA.
I am going to put my mental reproduction of a quote from John Schindler, a former counterintelligence officer, here. “Russians live inside heavy propaganda and the scary thing is that the decision makers there believe much of it. Yet they know that if there were a war between NATO and Russia then Russia would get their asses kicked in spectacular way. That is why they are concentrating on propaganda.”
The same John Schindler brought out how the KGB started a rumor that AIDS was created in US Government laboratories and the rumor still lives. They are waging a disinformation war and we have to step up here.
In such situations in history extra young male population went to fight for land and fortunes. This is dangerous for the China neighbors.
lol didn’t read. Why don’t you just die- Here is a song for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zluA60hjs
Well, because our life looks to be pissing you off - I think that it's a good enough reason.
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