Quote from: Masha Sha on April 07, 2017, 01:50:26 PM

Quote from: Forester618 on April 07, 2017, 01:25:20 PM

Quote from: Masha Sha on April 07, 2017, 12:55:17 PM

Quote from: Forester618 on April 07, 2017, 12:51:06 PM

I think that the events in Syria is just the beginning. While Trump will be engaged in restoring order in Syria, the Russians will open a second front in Libya. Then I think they will destabilize the situation around Iran. Russians do not want peace in the middle East. They will do everything to support the war and not allow middle East countries to trade freely with oil.

This is it: Putinists don't want peace.

However russians aren't putinists, they just saw the worst of the west combined with the worst of the soviet fall... like in the movie avatar, financial raiders meet corrupt kgb thugs under drunken president yeltsin (not drunk by alcohol but by the immensity of the looting operations).

So yes russians want peace but not as slaves of a few greedy oligarchs.

So please distinguish between the putinists and the russians...

This is a fairly common mistake. In fact, the majority of Russian support the aggressive policy of Putin. You can justify all you want, but it they vote for Putin. That they voluntarily go to fight in Ukraine and Syria. They believe themselves above the nation which is afraid of the world.

LoL it's just that they can't get civilians descent jobs, it's all the foreign workers who get them. And no, don't believe they go voluntarly in syria... there is nothing more foreign to russians than that. It's just the putin/gazprom gang and those who didn't find better option.

Let ukraine on the side it's really a russia story. But syria... this is the leader fanstasm of putin, assad the great, putin the great... little worms fightin over mud while birds fly by.

Furthermore putin doesn't let any native opposition arise. First the loots and new stream would be at risk and the paranoia of the return of the western raiders.

You have no idea how the west lost a great opportunity with russia rebirth in the 90's but when the potus is banging his assistant... what could you expect.

The spoils of war problem... very hard to manage after final collapse of soviet union (with all western effort it couldn't be maintain any longer) and what is the strength of the west (the raiders and others financial operators) was just totally gone berzek in russia. Free for all and in the middle the unexpecting docile soviet people who got humiliated like never before. First everything they were taught was pullverized in a few days, their so called leaders became the muppets they really were and worst, all their dignity was gone. They become beggars.

So yes some russians try to play hard, but those will be the first to fold. Why? Because they know that there they see the hidden sight of the west... raiders not for money but for safety... they know how violent it was only for profits...

You deny reports of the deaths of Russian soldiers in Syria? You believe Putin who says that in Syria no Russian? And in Ukraine too, no? The Russians only seem friendly. In fact, they blindly believe in Putin and support his policies.