Quote from: BADecker on June 25, 2025, 03:13:40 PM

Quote from: paxmao on June 25, 2025, 12:39:31 PM

Quote from: BADecker on June 24, 2025, 01:52:46 PM

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Was your uncle always blonde, or did he just grow that way after using his comb for a long time?

The sanctions against Russia are not sanctions as far as Russia is concerned. They are simply a long string of attacks, for more than a hundred years, where the West has been trying to conquer them. They're used to it, and are preparing as usual for more attacks.

Search on, "Who financed the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"The West" has tried to conquer Ruzzia? Really? No more than Europeans have tried to conquer each other. Napoleon, Hitler, Rome in the distant past... and, perhaps you do not know, but no more than tribes from the "east" came to conquer Europe such as the Huns, the Vandals, previously the Mongols...

So that is weak argument.

Again with the Bolsheviks... yes, they got money from "the west", everyone knows. Was Ruzzia "conquered"? Nope.

No argument; just operational and observational fact.

Russia has always been strong. They showed it thru the ways they survived WW2 and all the garbage Stalin did because he was so paranoid.

If Europe were really strong, they would join together as people rather than always letting their leaders try to suck the wealth out of the people.

The West couldn't do it in the past, and they can't do it now. However, with the world on the brink of nuclear war, now just might be the time that Jesus returns, and God settles the whole 'thing' down for us all.

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You are not "observing" well enough.

Oh, I forgot the Timurids (national heroes in Turkmenistan).

Surviving... well, depends on what you understand by surviving. Surviving as "there is still a country called Ruzzia" yes, that is true. My personal favourite of those is Egypt - more than 4000 years - THAT is survival.

However "survive" in the sense of being the same nation, not really. On WW I (around) the Tzars were disposed of. On WW II you had Stalin, but the purges under his rule are in the millions. Particularly known, the genocide of the Ukranian population known as holomodor (the great faemine). Then came other commies with a bit more of sense and less paranoia which also undertook radical changes and then you have Gorbi who basically pulled the cover of the car and discovered there were only cardboard boxes under.

And then I doubt very much that you can call "Ruzzia" what remained there.

The Yeltsin, which was demoted after the US intervention in former Yugoslavia and then you got this peculiar guy who said he would not cling to power... yet here he is (Putin).

Well, bottom line, Ruzzia which you claim is "strong" has a long long story of being "destroyed and rebuilt" from the inside. See, strenght is not about the army, it is about the implication of the citizens with a way of being and governing. Ruzzia only produces zombies in that sense and that is why does not hold.