Posted on 01/18/2023 2:02:53 PM PST by BusterDog
America is not powerful enough to stand up to China and Russia, according to Vladimir Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
During a rambling press conference in which he praised joint military drills between Moscow and Beijing, Lavrov compared the US to Adolf Hitler and Napoleon, who he said mobilised European countries against the Russian empire.
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said the guy almost a whole year into UKR...
DC Neocons: here, hold my beer!
Bullshit! We dwarf both of them together. Of course the Chinese own our government.
I like how they forget how they started WW2 with Hitler when they start whining about being attacked by Hitler, who somehow also represents “the west,” implicitly forgetting that the west allied with Russia against Hitler.
We don’t have to take on both of them.
Destroy one and the other will think long and hard.
Also, I’m gettin tired of being called a nazi.
Pathetic Russia.. Babies.
You are so right, why fight when they can buy off US government officials.
That Lavrov is one strange fellow. He might be channeling Goebbels, because they strike up the same kind of rhetoric.
Y’know, I have no doubt but that Ole Serge reaaly, honestly believes that.
That’s the danger of a great power (US) appearing to be weak.
It invites “adventure,” and a loss of lunch money.
Russians have never been known to make a lot of sense. And they fail to see irony when it stares them in the face.
“Also, I’m gettin tired of being called a nazi.”
It has become a meaningless term, as it has been overused against opponents by people who have weak or faulty arguments.
It’s just a loser’s default mode.
Currently, to question diversity training, rather than combat training, or that gay women are questionable assets in the combat arms is a fast track out of the service. How many more were purged over refusing the Jab?
Remember, it is Up or Out in the ranks, and gays tend to protect their bed mates, to the nth degree.
All this has insured that the only war that the US military might win is a civil war.
He’s right.
Certainly not with Joe Biden and his bunch in charge.
You write: That Lavrov is one strange fellow. He might be channeling Goebbels, because they strike up the same kind of rhetoric.
My thinking entirely.
Russia can’t even take down a neighbor who was suppose to fall in three days.
China imports about 85% of its oil, and about 80% of that comes from the Middle East. Unless the entire US Navy is incapable of bottling up huge, slow-moving, oil tankers at the Straits of Hormuz or the Straits of Molucca (however that’s spelled), then China gets all of those imports shut down starting about 1 hour after a conflict with the US starts. Let’s see how long they last without oil. Oh, and that’s before we start bombing their oil tank farms in their ports, their refineries and any pipelines that they use - these are stationary targets, and our 1950s USAF and USN could have destroyed them very quickly, let alone our present force.
Russia? How are they going to take on all of NATO, especially on NATO soil, when they are making (at best) only very slow progress against Ukraine? Ukraine, for all the arms that they received, doesn’t have anywhere near the full panopoly of NATO weaponry, nor the depth of supply, nor the degree of training in its armed forces. Russia is TOAST in a conventional conflict with NATO.
Both Russia and China are in rapid demographic decline, and both are extremely vulnerable to the West tightening the economic screws. These are declining powers...all that we have to do is wait, and they grow weaker by the year.
As for the BRICS nations coming up with an alternate currency, that is simple nonsense. first, Russia and China are, as mentioned earlier, declining powers. Neither of their currencies have any credibility outside of their borders, and no one trusts them. Brazil? Puhleeeeeze, it is always at the top of those nations with “potential,” but they never seem to reach it (and likely never will). India is an up and coming power, but 90% of its population is dirt poor - they’re in no position to impose anything economic on the US. South Africa? What a joke!
We have our problems, to be sure, but everyone else is in far worse shape. The dollar, and the US as the sole superpower, are here to stay for several more decades.
Lavrov’s on some serious drugs it seems.
Lavrov sounds desperate with his over-the-top rhetoric. The Kremlin must be seeing domestic support of the war waning.
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