Rising Anti-Americanism in Russia

US News ^ | January 22, 2008 | Alastair Gee

[Bushwacker777]

"MOSCOW— Vladimir Dobrovinsky, 33, a teacher at a design school in Moscow, says he's not interested in politics. But bring up America and the well-traveled, university-educated Dobrovinsky holds forth. He criticizes Washington's "crude interference" in world affairs. He complains that Russia is not treated as an important partner by the Bush administration. "A lot of Russians," he says, "are angry that America deals with us like we're Thailand."

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[Bushwacker777]

WEll, the Russians should realize that they have something in common with patriotic Americans as well -- judging from how low in the opinion polls both Bush and the US Congress are one could spin a story that anti-Americanism is just as high in the USA.

Truth is though, Americans are not anti-American, anti-Constitution or against our great heritage -- they just have little respect left for what passes as leadership in Washington, D.C.. I would hope that Russians, as well as others, would realize that there is a big difference between globalistic sell-outs in D.C. (as well as those who head multi-national coorprations that couldn't care a bit about the US worker) and the average American.

Oh, and has Hillary offered her apology yet to Vladimir Putin for her remarks about him having no soul? Idiots like her are waht is destroying our credibility worldwide.

[Slapshot68]

“He criticizes Washington’s “crude interference” in world affairs.”

Yes, because Russia has such a history of international non-involvement.

Is this guy on crack?

[Bushwacker777]

Russia, since communism fell, has mainly been concerned with what happens in countries near its borders. It has not extended itself all over the world or bombed a country in Europe to cover up a sex scandal (Operation Stained Dress).

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

And this has nothing to do with Putin’s censoring of the media. It’s us. We’re just evil.

[Steamburg]

He must have a subscription to the Times.

[DooDahhhh]

Probably does!

[G.Mason]

I just love the Ruski's.

A few more like these and we will be back to the '40's looking for a Patton and thinking about world domination again.

[Bushwacker777]

And the American press is fair and impartial?????

[RetiredArmy]

He criticizes Washington's "crude interference" in world affairs.

And your beloved Soviet Union didn't??? Thailand???? Because THEY are more important than you. I hear more good stuff out of there than your stupid country idiot, and THAT AIN'T SAYING VERY MUCH.

[Flintlock]

Pardon me.
I seem to have missed something.
Just exactly WHEN did those Russkis love us, anyway?
Musta blinked.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Russia is a toxic wasteland of xeniphobic serfs historically ruled by pre medieval gangsters.

[newnhdad]

In other words, a majority of the country is stuck in a peasant/plantation mentality looking for someone else to blame for the ills of their world that were brought on by their own failures of the past.
What worries me about the Soviets is the Putin Youth. That generation has been raised on pure hate and false idol worship.

[avacado]

You hijacked your own thread! Good show!

As for worldwide credibility? What kind do you want? The “they love us” kind? Or the “don’t fu%k with us” kind? I’ll take the latter, sweetie. Bush did us right!

[gogogodzilla]

The Russian people tended to fawn over anything western from the time of Gorbachev’s peristroika/glasnost... to Yelstin.

After the economy reforms were botched by Yelstin, as well as the west’s not-so-benign neglect, their attitudes changed.

Can’t really say I blame ‘em, losing an empire is painful. Heck, just look at the French. They lost the last remnants of their empire in the 1950’s, and just look at how obnoxious they are.

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Though, I suspect that Putin is playing us off against China and the EU; playing China off against the US and EU; and playing the EU off against the US and China; all to maximize his political and economic advantages.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes. Crude interference, like the Murmansk Run.

[Palladin]

This is news?

[RetiredArmy]

You must have blinked or got wax in your ears cause I did not say anything about the Soviets liking us. My comment was WHEN was the soviets NOT sticking their noses in world affairs not any of their business.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Russians have always been paranoid and suspicious, even when the hand of friendship was extended to them in WW II. After the US sent millions of dollars worth of food and war materiel, the Soviets responded by capturing and imprisoning downed American fliers in their Gulag system.
Most recently, Russia plans to set up an office in New York to scrutinize democracy in America. How many dead Kulaks, Boris ? How many starved Bolsheviks ?

[RetiredArmy]

Stalin killed more Russians than the Germans did. When you count the number of troops they lost through pure stupidity during WWII and before and after, Stalin murdered what, 50 million? In Stalingrad in WWII, they were shooting their own troops who tried to withdraw or retreat. They sent troops into battle without rifles, to pick up a rifle from a dead soldier on the battlefield after that soldier was killed. How many of the unarmed ones died before they got a weapon. When they charged the Germans, if they were getting chopped up, started to come back to their lines, the Communist Commissars machine gunned them down. Everyone wants communism and socialism. See what the Soviets did to their own. What will they do to us here when we start to question their rule? Right, mow us down if they have taken our arms away from us. America is destine to repeat history as history has already proven that socialism does not work. No matter, the Marxist Dimocrats and Socialist RINOcrats think their brand of socialism will work out.

[dfwgator]

"A lot of Russians," he says, "are angry that America deals with us like we're Thailand." "

Thailand?