re: 68% of Americans view Russia as an Enemy

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yes, and it looks like he wants to bring the old USSR back.

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Putin has no desire to bring back the USSR. If anything, he seems to favor a theocratic Czarist Russia that existed prior to the Bolshevik revolution.

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Putin has a legitimate grievance with the West in general, and the U.S. in particular.

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What might that be, and how does his invasion of Ukraine relate to this grievance?

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Putin has no desire to bring back the USSR. If anything, he seems to favor a theocratic Czarist Russia that existed prior to the Bolshevik revolution

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Well, I feel better now.

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Without the USA , the chinese economy would crash.

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But for how much longer? If Brasil and India's middle class keeps growing, cut they become autonomous of the USofA?


And I don't think it matters anyway. I know it isn't the best source, but after watching the Vice documentary on China's economy being propped up with it's GDP on empty infrastructure and also it's manipulating of currency, I don't think it's but a matter of time before the MASSIVE bubble burst and their economy crashes so bad that thousands of Chinese are likely to die of starvation :tinfoilhatstilldonned:

I grew up during the cold war, they have always been the enemy as far as I am concerned.

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I grew up during the cold war, they have always been the enemy as far as I am concerned.

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I believed that from the 1960's through the mid-1980's because I believed most of what I heard on the news. Sometime during the 80's, I started reading books... objective books by objective authors on matters relating to foreign relations and world affairs (from public libraries and universities). I realized I was wrong...very wrong.

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I realized I was wrong.

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How were you wrong?

How was the Soviet Union until its dissolution not a threat to the US interest? Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola, Namibia, Afghanistan, SEASia, Congo, .....

How were Poland, Romania, Hungry, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.... not captive nations,

What the shite were you reading?

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Our own dumbed-down ignorance is our enemy.

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IMO, the neocons have done more longterm harm to this country than Al-Qaeda, so one could argue that they're our #1 enemy.

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IMO, the neocons have done more longterm harm to this country than Al-Qaeda, so one could argue that they're our #1 enemy.

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This is true. But it's only a fraction of the problem. I do agree that it's a MAJOR problem.

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I realized I was wrong.

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How were you wrong?

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There's no doubt that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a mortal threat to the U.S., but now it seems that we were both caught up in a cycle of self-perpetuating fear. I believe our leaders back then genuinely believed in the domino theory, which is why we believed we had to be imperialists out of a sense of survival. Conversely, the Soviet Union also believed in the domino theory which is why they felt they had to be imperialist to survive. The more we expanded our sphere of influence, they more they felt they had to and vice versa.