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Y Ddraig Goch In The Crowd 09 Oct 15 10.03am | |
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Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 9.46am
Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
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Kermit8 Hevon 09 Oct 15 10.30am | |
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Quote Y Ddraig Goch at 09 Oct 2015 10.03am
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Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
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jamiemartin721 Reading 09 Oct 15 11.03am | |
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Quote Y Ddraig Goch at 09 Oct 2015 10.03am
Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 9.46am
Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
It depends on the technologies really, in some areas it could be a little as a few years, but in others it can be as much as 20 years. The Soviet was always technologically behind the West militarily, but was quite capable of compensating with pragmatic solutions. The best way to compare the west and soviet/Russian technological difference, is the old adage where the US space program developed a pen that could write in space, where as the Soviet space program just used pencils and crayon. The Russians have always been sneaky like that.
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leggedstruggle Croydon 09 Oct 15 11.13am | |
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Obviously I was talking about his foreign policy which is weak and ineffectual. Do you ever read things in context? You saying I am blinkered is like the Hunchback of Notre Dame saying I have rounded shoulders.
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Hoof Hearted 09 Oct 15 11.21am | |
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Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
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jamiemartin721 Reading 09 Oct 15 1.09pm | |
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Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
I have a strange visual now, of local youth gangs in your area in full Napoleonic dress, with sawn off muskets doing a drive by in a horse and cart.
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palace_in_frogland In a broken dream 09 Oct 15 1.32pm | |
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Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 1.09pm
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Quote Y Ddraig Goch at 09 Oct 2015 10.03am
Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 9.46am
Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
I have a strange visual now, of local youth gangs in your area in full Napoleonic dress, with sawn off muskets doing a drive by in a horse and cart.
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sydtheeagle England 09 Oct 15 1.42pm | |
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To predict another Cold War simply misunderstands what the Cold War was. Communism was essentially a commodity that Russia wanted to export (and for a long time believed would simply be adopted globally de facto) and that's what drove the philosophical division between eastern and western Europe. Today's Russia may be aggressive and/or imperialist in terms of seeking regional dominance, but its motivation is largely economic rather than philosophical. For instance, its alliances in the Middle East aren't really based on the likelihood that Syria will turn to some Russian political dogma; only that an economic alliance will be enhanced by propping up a friendly dictator. Russia now is more miscreant and irritant than overt threat. That being said, there will be battles rather than a lengthy war because relations with Russia will ebb and rise when and where they are motivated by a specific interest, rather than through an ongoing and permanent difference in philosophies. Russia is a problem, yes. But a new Cold War? No.
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Stuk Top half 09 Oct 15 2.29pm | |
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Consequences for Chelsea, yeah right. They're about to pay the FA a fortune to rent Wembley while they expand/rebuild.
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Hrolf The Ganger 09 Oct 15 3.36pm | |
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Everyone is assuming that the Americans aren't complicit in this. America can claim a small victory with Assad going and does not have to send troops into the region. Russia maintain their influence in the Syria. Everybody saves face.
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jamiemartin721 Reading 09 Oct 15 3.37pm | |
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Quote Stuk at 09 Oct 2015 2.29pm
Consequences for Chelsea, yeah right. They're about to pay the FA a fortune to rent Wembley while they expand/rebuild. A lot of Millhouse Capital stock of Russian oil, gas and aluminum, were sold off (at the same time as a number of Russian Ogliarch's who weren't selling were arrested, committed 'suicide' or were murdered). He still has interests in Russia, not to mention the ear of Putin (who he 'recommended' to Yeltsin as his successor), but his financial power isn't as dependent on Russia as it was over a decade ago.
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Hoof Hearted 09 Oct 15 4.19pm | |
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Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 1.09pm
Quote Hoof Hearted at 09 Oct 2015 11.21am
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Quote Y Ddraig Goch at 09 Oct 2015 10.03am
Quote jamiemartin721 at 09 Oct 2015 9.46am
Quote leggedstruggle at 09 Oct 2015 8.01am
Probably, but I don't really see the US doing any 'good in the world' militarily either, just trying to clean up their own mess.
I have a strange visual now, of local youth gangs in your area in full Napoleonic dress, with sawn off muskets doing a drive by in a horse and cart.
Local women singing "I dreamed a dream" in basque style outfits whilst the local yoofs batter each other with the muskets and Swords...... LOL
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