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re: Russia has a little over 145 million people, despite having the most land.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 4:53 pm to skewbs
Posted on 1/29/23 at 4:53 pm to skewbs
There not that smart. They stole the atomic bomb from us. They also stole our space shuttle technology. They are smart at stealing. Can’t name one thing they invented that the whole world uses
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Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:06 pm to Pauldingtiger
Besides the PC, semiconductor, and laser, me either.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:13 pm to Slippy
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Somebody explain why they think they are such a badass who can make other countries bend to their will. And don’t say nukes. NATO has more, and Russia’s not using one anyway.
Russia has never challenged a United Europe, the US, or NATO.
They take on smaller nations not in NATO. Nations who are vulnerable. This goes back to post WW I.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:13 pm to philter
Not a troll, just really curious. With what seems to be millions of males in the country to "draft", why is their army forced to negotiate contracts to get men in the army, hardened convicts as well? And those in the service seem to be incredibly untrained, just going by media reports of untrained recruits being rushed to the front & becoming cannon fodder?
Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:14 pm to Pauldingtiger
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Can’t name one thing they invented that the whole world uses
It is somewhat of a joke that Russians claim to have invented everything (many jokes to that effect on the original Star Trek series through Chekov). However, a Russian inventor came up with a petrol cracking process "Shukhov process" that is still used today for diesel. Also, the modern electrical transformer can trace back to a Russian inventor (Yablochkov).
(ETA: And Sikorsky, of course, but he did most of his best work after coming to America.)
This post was edited on 1/29/23 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:24 pm to doubleb
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They take on smaller nations not in NATO. Nations who are vulnerable. This goes back to post WW I.
When is the last time Russia won an offensive war? I've been posting that since before the Ukraine excursion
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:12 pm to Ace Midnight
The guy who invented the Transformer was Austrian- Hungarian not Russian. His name was
Károly Zipernowsky.
Károly Zipernowsky.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:43 pm to Slippy
Russia is a dying country. It’s a shithole. They either have to try and expand or they will collapse.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:50 pm to Slippy
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Somebody explain why they think they are such a badass who can make other countries bend to their will. And don’t say nukes. NATO has more, and Russia’s not using one anyway.
Russia have us marxism/ communism. Something the left, today, idolizes and glorifies. This the current shittyvstate of this country and the woke morons. They’ve won.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:00 pm to Pauldingtiger
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Can’t name one thing they invented that the whole world uses
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:01 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Proud owner of a blacked out AK 
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:07 pm to Slippy
A lot of it is crappy land.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:12 pm to jeffsdad
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What is surprising to me is the nation with the third highest population total. First - China, Second - india, third..............USA.
China has been lying about their population. Willing to be India has more people than China
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:13 pm to Pauldingtiger
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There not that smart
Being able to at least write in your native tongue would probably lend more of an argument to your point even if the rest is questionable or inaccurate too.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 9:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Not to be overly pedantic but calling the AK an invention is like calling the 747 or the Corvette an invention. It was innovative, sure, but it's a rifle.quote:
Can’t name one thing they invented that the whole world uses
At least IMO.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 9:51 pm to northshorebamaman
AK is the literal antithesis of a Corvette 
Posted on 1/29/23 at 9:52 pm to mjthe
It wasn't meant as a direct comparison. I just picked a car model at random, feel free to substitute any one you like.
This post was edited on 1/29/23 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 1/29/23 at 10:01 pm to philter
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Because they are smart hard working people
Posted on 1/29/23 at 10:03 pm to Keltic Tiger
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Not a troll, just really curious. With what seems to be millions of males in the country to "draft", why is their army forced to negotiate contracts to get men in the army, hardened convicts as well? And those in the service seem to be incredibly untrained, just going by media reports of untrained recruits being rushed to the front & becoming cannon fodder?
Conscripts by law cannot be deployed outside the borders of Russia. That's one reason Russia annexed the occupied Ukrainian territories, although they've chosen not to deploy conscripts there yet AFAIK. Doing so would be a very big deal. Putin could change the law by getting the Duma to rubberstanp a bill for him to sign, but that would be an even bigger deal. Putin is a dictator, but he's no Stalin or even Brezhnev. He still needs the public's approval, or at least its apathy. In the Russian mind, a contract soldier getting killed is his own fault for doing something stupid like signing up. If a bunch of teenage conscripts start getting killed, that's another thing altogether. The mobilized men are a kind of gray area and the Russian masses haven't quite figured out whether they deserve sympathy for being in harm's way or derision for not figuring out how to evade being called up.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 10:11 pm to DCtiger1
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The Soviet Union 40 years ago? just stop
They were better then than they are now...
Comparing the US military to any other military in the world is just folly. There isn't a single military in the world that can come close to the US military's capabilities. It would take basically a coalition of the rest of the world to meet it head to head on the battlefield and walk away with a W.
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