What is going on with Russia?

12-17-09 | txted

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What is going on with Russia?

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What is going on with Russia? There was a time when things were pretty good. We knew who we were and we knew who our enemies were. Then our enemies (the Soviet Union) went bankrupt trying to keep up with us on military spending. For a period of time, it looked like the former ideological enemies would form a mutual admiration society and work together to improve worldwide conditions for everyone. Russia, as the largest member of the former Soviet Union; then seemed to take another left turn and form a mafia style democracy. Putin claims their formal government structure is a democracy, but it is their style of democracy. Now they seem intent on assisting any nation or group who wants to promote conflict in the middle east. At the end of the cold war, Russia had vast deposits of fossil fuels but they had not been able to efficiently develop or use those resources. At the same time, the middle east or opec countries were beginning to tighten the crude oil noose around the necks of the western nations. Today Russia has a well developed fossil fuel industry which has created a similar energy noose around the neck of Western Europe. Is Russia’s intention today to create conflicts in the middle east which will eventually allow them to somehow control the world’s energy? I don’t believe they have an ideological agenda today, but a profit motive works as well. I remember that Adolph Hitler started World War II in order to correct wrongs inflicted on Germany by the armistice ending World War I. Is it possible that Putin of Russia is trying to finish today what Putin, the KBG agent of the Soviet Union; was unable to finish?

[Incorrigible]

Meow!

[Perdogg]

Russia will always be Russia. Autocratic. It was once said that you could have no war with germany and no peace without Russia.

[dfwgator]

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”
-Winston Churchill

[GQuagmire]

Here kitty, kitty.......

[Incorrigible]

 

 

[BlueDragon]

Meow!

i'm in....

[stefanbatory]

IBTZ?

[flash2368]

Well after the cold war we had our head firmly planted up our backside as regards Russia, and we are paying for it today.

Unfortunately we had too many people who had their head so rooted in the cold war and many who longed for the good ‘ol days of getting paid for building weapon systems we would never use that an opportunity handed to us on a silver platter by Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev got ignored.

IDIOTS..in foggy bottom and everywhere else U.S. policy toward the FSU was made.

[dfwgator]

IDIOTS..in foggy bottom and everywhere else U.S. policy toward the FSU was made.

They must have been UF Grads? ;)

[Responsibility2nd]

No zot. If he was gonna get the zot, it woulda been here....

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What is Russia’s national interest?

[Rockingham]

(1) Mideast turmoil runs up the price of oil and benefits Russian earnings from oil exports.

(2) Russia’s political elite has a deeply held animosity to the US and wants to cause trouble.

(3) Russian arms sales benefit from political and military tensions.

[dfwgator]

That’s the key. Their economy is dependant on oil revenues.

[DogBarkTree]

Welcome to FR. We’ll try to be gentile. It only hurts the first time.

[Responsibility2nd]

Gentile?

Our Jewish FReepers might disagree.

[Incorrigible]

LOL! Some newbies take longer than others I guess.

[txted]

Thank You! Glad to be here. Bring it on.

Ted

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Are they not aware that the crude oil, natural gas, refined product, pipelines which pass through the former Soviet satellite countries to reach western Europe; are extremely vulnerable? If you kill the pipelines, you kill Russia’s economy.

[DogBarkTree]

LOL. I could have said genital.