General Patton noticed.
“The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.”
George S. Patton
Imagine a history teacher reading that in class today?!
it just seems to me that they are all stick and no carrot
Patton was right, Russia is more an Asian ethnicity than European. It contributes something to their national paranoia: they’ve been invaded so many times throughout the past thousand years that they cannot conceive of an existence where they are NOT braced for invasion again. To ingrained Russian thinking the Mongols and Turks are as much a threat today as they were centuries ago. They haven’t learned to relax a bit as a people. Nobody is poised to take their territory and kill their people like in days of yore. That’s the kind of thing that evil men such as Russian’s leadership know how to tap into and exploit. It may be another century or two before Russia is fully able to embrace and be embraced among the family of nations. Going to take some great instrospection by them as as people before that can happen.
Very insightful comment by Patton.
Although I think it’s too extreme to say Russians are full Asiatic. I think it’s more of a mixture, in that they appearances are European but they are at least 50% Asiatic in their thought.
What is your problem with Asians? I don’t care if Patton said it. It’s racist and doesn’t belong on this forum.