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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

In other words, Obama is merely the person who opens the door so that the Russians can waltz in and take over - enslaving us as they always wanted to do.


59 posted on 02/28/2013 9:26:10 PM PST by jongaltsr
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To: jongaltsr

Obama wants socialism, this is true, but Russia doesn’t particularly want to overrun us. In fact, while they would vie with us over resources, and definitely want their military power back, several times they have warned us against becoming socialist.

They now have a much smaller, professional military, and nowhere near the capability to “force project.” They can barely maintain their country, and are losing control over Siberia by default, which is almost half their country, but very Russian.

They have only 142m people, and their median age is 38 (35.5 for men, 42 for women, which is too old to be effectively militant. (To explain, the US median age is 37, but we have a lot of old people, and our average life expectancy is 78. The life expectancy of a Russian man is 60. So if you lop off a lot of their aged, as a population they are considerably older overall. Source: CIA Factbook)


95 posted on 03/01/2013 5:46:17 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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