[lavaroise]

I dunno, I think we are not hating Russians here, unless you are not reading correctly. And Xenophobia was quite well set up after the defeat of Russia to Japan in soccer.

The point is that former Soviets are participating in a system that is simply unaccountable, internaly and externaly. Whether it is breaking treaties abroad or promises at home, the system there is geared toward confinement. The rulers keep being in position of prosecuting their people when it should be the people prosecuting them. Where is the hatred of the Russians in there? Quite the contrary, there is none.

and mind you, those criticizuing Russia on these threads have criticized the Clinton administration and their own liberals here too. So this is not xenophobia, this is genuine assessment of where the prosecution tools lay, whose hands they lay in and how reasonable these people are.

Russia does need a central government to manage nuclear responsibility, but why claim to stop the cold war yet keep the nukes pointed? That's socialist hypocrisy.

[Stavka2]

First of all, what do you know about the conditions in Russia? You have never been there. You have no idea, except what you get from your conspiracy crap mags and other wack job sites. You need someone to hate. Putin has installed things that you could only wish Bush had. Problem is, you need a focus to your existance, to keep it meaningful, so instead of the Islamics, you elevate your self image by thinking you see plots behind plots, which don't exist. Now, having said all this, I am done talking to wall paper...that's the lot of you. Don't bump me or post to me, I have better things to do with my brain cells then waste them on vegetables.