[Paladin2]

International Socialism is a real anchor.

[NRx]

[Sergio]

bkmk

[dirtymac]

Let me see
Both are physically large
Both have an abundance of natural resources
Both have an educated population (?)
Maybe the difference is capitalism vs. communism
Capitalism has millions of people pushing to improve their livelihood. Communism has hundreds of people planning out economic policy that may benefits others.
Maybe Putin can learn something from the US.

[BenLurkin]

The same reason Democrat elites are anti-American?

[A_perfect_lady]

You know, Envy is Russia’s middle name. All through the 1800s and 1900s, they tried to copy Europe, feeling like a poor country cousin. They were fascinated with European literature, language, and music. Many of the upper class studied French and spoke it in front of their Russian servants when they were discussing something private. Their writers, like Tolstoy, looked admiringly over at the Victorian writers, and was keenly aware of the French. They copied European dress, titles, everything. They’re like a hungry, neglected child, staring intensely through the window, really. And I feel for them, but that’s one scary child and I don’t like being alone with it.

[McGruff]

Looking at the author’s Twitter account:

Maria Snegovaya
@MSnegovaya

Great news! “Trump’s approval rating dipped this week to its lowest level since March, according to Rasmussen — a polling firm that has published more favorable approval ratings for the...

7:33 AM - 19 Jul 2018

Maria Snegovaya

GOP seeks separation from Trump on Russia
7:27 AM - 19 Jul 2018 from Washington, DC

Apparently she’s not a big Trump fan.

[Verginius Rufus]

It was the Kaiser's government which let Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 to cause trouble, resulting in the Bolshevik takeover. The US made an unsuccessful attempt to assist the White Army, the enemy of Lenin's Reds.

I don't think Hitler's decisions vis-à-vis the USSR in the period from 1933 to 1941 took the US into account at all. We were neutral and wanted to stay that way. When Hitler invaded Russia in 1941, many prominent Americans were OK with the idea of them fighting it out without the US taking sides.

[x]

In the view of many contemporary Russian leaders, the United States occupies a space on the world stage that rightly belongs to Russia—based on its possession of nuclear weapons, its history and culture, having the largest national territory, and other factors. Yet Russia’s apparent inability to compete with the United States on the world stage has resulted, for some leaders in Moscow, in mixed feelings of resentment, envy, and admiration.

That seems pretty obvious.

Yet the West is hardly to blame for renewed tensions.

Probably not very much, but when a writer has to come out and say something like that, you might wonder why and whether there's not more going on than she admits.

Leonid Reshetnikov, a head of Russia’s Kremlin-linked Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), in a recent interview made several bold historical claims, including that “the United States first attempted to destroy Russia in 1917 by assisting the Bolsheviks, that Washington tried it again by hounding Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in late 1930s, and yet again by destroying the Soviet Union in 1991.

Guy needs a history lesson. He must have spent half his life blaming us for intervening against the Bolsheviks, and now he thinks we forced them on Russia. Not to mention -- in the thirties we weren't a major power on the European scene. Whatever Britain and France, Germany and Russia got up to, we weren't involved.

[sergeantdave]

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[joshua c]

Canada has a huge amount of territory too but like Russia most of it is uninhabitable.