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To: Flag_This
So the feelings of the russian people about the U.S. are utterly irrelevant.

Not entirely; at least not to me. And they were not an enemy, but an ally, during World War II. Allegiances shift, and as America goes more and more Communist and Fascist, so they should.

45 posted on 09/10/2014 6:12:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Lazamataz
"Not entirely; at least not to me. And they were not an enemy, but an ally, during World War II."

I guess I would answer that by saying if someone is pointing a gun (or an ICBM) at me, I don't concern myself too much with their back story. As far as WWII goes, Stalin collaborated with Hitler on the invasion of Poland and thus launched the War. Prior to WWII, German troops sometimes trained in Russian territory to avoid restrictions placed on Germany under the Versailles Treaty.

Our entire society got skewed up by 50 years of Cold War. How many Americans were killed or wounded by munitions designed and/or manufactured by the Russians? Soviet pilots flew Russian MIGs in Korea and Vietnam and shot down American pilots. How many American POWs were dragged off to die in the Soviet Union in those conflicts? And just a few days ago, Russian nuclear-capable aircraft were playing games with our air defenses. I'm very sorry, I just can't consider Russians to be our friends in any meaningful way.

53 posted on 09/10/2014 6:39:44 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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