[Slapshot68]

If the west stopped buying their oil, I bet he may change his tune.

[2banana]

Hmmm - can they feed their troops yet?

[RusIvan]

Ping

[Humvee]

The gross national product of Russia is today still about the same as the Netherlands. ‘nuff said?

[in hoc signo vinces]

The only thing Russia has been exporting since the Berlin wall fell is women looking for a Western Husband...

And, honestly, in a couple of years that will probably be exposed as a KGB plot.

Folks I am not kidding...there are Russian Brides, and former Russian Brides (once they’ve done their three years) all over Houston...

[goldstategop]

Russia has come into its own as a Great Power. The collapse of the Soviet Union eliminated a conventional superpower and Russia does not expect to replay the policies of Tsarist and Soviet times. It doesn't need to. But it does expect to be respected on the world stage as an advocate of Russian national interests, following its own beliefs, values and interests as other states do.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Just mythoughts]

Is there anything historical, longer ago than the past 400 years that causes Russia to be so envious of US? What exactly does the US owe them?

[M. Espinola]

Oh no, comrade...... not more Putin propaganda! I am getting a headache from the overload of Kremlin planted crapola.

It looks better then the 'old days'.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin’s legacy is a Russia that curries favor with jihadist Iran and sells them uranium to nuke jews with. Putin’s legacy is an army of conscripted slaves who are castrated and beaten and then the head of the army covers it up and calls it “hazing.” Putin’s legacy is a Russia that admires Djugashvili, Ulyanov, and Dzerzhinsky. Putin’s legacy is the return to Russia of state-run terror and the rebirth of the KGB, Russia’s gestapo. Putin’s legacy is a neo-nazi Nashi movement terrorizing the Russian people. Putin’s legacy is the nationalization of the energy sector, Hugo Chavez style, and the return to Soviet-era command economy. Putin’s legacy is the return of Soviet era foreign policy, supporting every jihadist and communist around the world. Putin’s legacy is Russia’s leadership of all the world’s communist and jihadist forces against the forces of civilization. Putin’s legacy is an inhuman, rabid, psychotic and self-destructive Russia, which will be majority muslim in a few decades.