Re: we are one step closer to the fall of Russia and its evil empire, again, let this time be the la
I don't really see much difference in what the US does and what Russia does, maybe Russia just don't give a f*** what the rest of the World thinks but that's all. The aim of the game is the same for both, more money and more power to them at the expense of other countries. The US ensures that other Nations have regimes which are favourable to them while the Russians just invade and take over. The end product's the same though.
the end product, hmm, don't really believe thats the same for tyrants like Putin and the rest of us
and maybe its just my own personal experience of living in countries subject to American pressures on the one hand and others that actually have been invaded by the Russians, one fairly recently*
or the one I am in now, which must place millions of troops on their border with Russia, just to keep the Russians in line
but yeah, I don't see 16th century "Realpolitik" as practiced still by Russia as really being analogous to what is practiced by the State Department in the 21st century
but hey were going around in circles, as people always do here, reminding me, I've better things to do then argue with apologists for the likes of Putin
*=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War**
**=thought it was pretty cool that when I typed into "google search"
Russian invasion of b4 I could type
Georgia it volunteered an almost endless list of names of countries invaded by Russia in recent memory
ps:I honestly believe that if not for so badly tarnishing American prestige with a trumped case for war against Iraq
that the US would have the political capital to do something tangible about what is going on in places like the Ukraine, Syria, etc, etc
chalk that up to another casualty of that frakkin war
pps: but on another note, its always funny to me that no matter what country I go to in the world, almost no one ever attributes to me that I am supportive of the foreign policy of the US government, there seems to be an almost*** worldwide consciousness that their is within the USA, a large and vocal opposition to many of the policies of the US government at any given time, this is one of our freedoms
sadly, this is lacking in much of the world, especially Russia
***=after re-reading this thread
beginning to think perhaps this consciousness does not extend to our closest ally
(always running into the burning building after us or helping us set fire to it as the case may be) the UK