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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.
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.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/12/article-0-195DD28E00000578-40_634x424.jpg
All you are saying is that Russia is doing it right. After all, they are advancing in Ukraine about 8 times better than Ukraine is holding them back. So, maybe all your talk about the way the Russians are doing it is showing us the way we ALL should be doing it if we want success.
Talk about zombies, you can't even see that all those Russian 'zombies' are whipping the a** off Ukraine. Keep up your talk about your own zombie life. Naw. You aren't a zombie. You're just plain scared. Zombies don't get scared. Russian success.