Just so much talk about Russia these days, mostly conspiracy theories and anti-Russian propaganda. I'm just wondering how popular conspiracy theories about Russia really is...
Just so much talk about Russia these days, mostly conspiracy theories and anti-Russian propaganda. I'm just wondering how popular conspiracy theories about Russia really is...
Are there any statistically significant differences between wife beating in the US and Russia?
Just so much talk about Russia these days, mostly conspiracy theories and anti-Russian propaganda. I'm just wondering how popular conspiracy theories about Russia really is...
eh comrade?
That Putin is a thug and that the Kremlin comprises his flock of fellow thugs is not a conspiracy theory.
Hate to rain on your Putin parade
:lamobut most everything in this forum about Russia has source-citations.
You justify calling someone "comrad" just for recognizing the rampant and very visible anti-Russian propaganda in the media and among politicians?
Congratulations: You win the prize!
Are there any statistically significant differences between wife beating in the US and Russia?
Probably about as popular as wife-beating is in Russia.
Phys251:
Beware, I detect rampant Harpo-Marxism behind this question!
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
Not sure what you're getting at, but domestic violence is a serious problem in Russia.
troll, Muscovy is Nigeria with snow, do you really need a statistic ?
Phys251:
The joke is no longer politically correct
Hating Russia, now that is politically correct.
Do not 'hate' their country, just feel sorry that the Russians are still a long way from understanding what this 'democracy' thing is all about.
Do not 'hate' their country, just feel sorry that the Russians are still a long way from understanding what this 'democracy' thing is all about.
How about a little self-examination in countries where we claim to have democracy despite the people having no power or influence at all, yet we point fingers at others and say they are not democracies like us, before we lift up our chests and boast.
Your post is somewhat ironic in that regard.
Ironic, Byronic. With all its faults Sweden is way more democratic than Russia - and I think you know it.
Hating Russia, now that is politically correct.
Maximus Zeebra:
What constitutes "hate of Russia" to you. Russia has taken steps which has alarmed many states and peoples in and around its near abroad. That fear and those Russian actions alarm a world where at least the political and economic elites have a very strong vested interest in maintaining the preferential status quo which they have built for themselves over the years since the close of WW II. That fear and uncertainty about Russia's political and military trajectory under the direction of a very anti status quo Putin Regime leads to criticism. Some of that criticism is hyperbolic but a good deal is sound and needs to be aired, heard by Russian elites and acted upon if the growing divide between Russia and the West is to be bridged and repaired. The longer this divide remains open and festering, the greater the role of irrational and pathological hatred will blur the legitimate criticism of what Mr. Putin's Regime is doing to Russia domestically and with Russia internationally.
I'd expect some here to launch into a diatribe about American behaviour internationally as a counterpoint to what Russia has been doing since late 1999 but that is a separate (although related) problem which is outside of Russia's control for the most part. What Russia does have almost complete control over is its own behaviour and over the last generation that behaviour has been bad. There are better ways to gently topple a global hegemon from its primacy than trying to rebuild a neo-Russian empire by force of arms, hybrid warfare, destabilising neighbouring states and what today is fashionably called grey-zone operations. Russia has great potential to become far stronger and wealthier by less aggressive means but as long as it continues with its own belligerence this growth will be degraded and retarded by a more and more hostile bloc of de facto Russia-hating states. Russia needs to be smarter and far more careful about using force internationally and domestically if it wishes to defuse the anger of the West and to build the trust and mutual respect necessary to form a durable Eurasian bloc in order to counter US military, economic and political hegemony globally. If you play the game of empire you will lose. That game will entangle and bankrupt Russia as it is doing to an overly-indebted America. That is one of Mr. Putin's grave errors in Russian policy to date as empire is unsustainable today.
So, yes there is too much anti-Russian hate based on irrational fear and a legacy of Soviet Era imperialism. However there is also a great deal of anti-Russian criticism and fear rooted firmly and rationally in Russia's belligerent, headlong rush to neo-empire and the bully-boy tactics which Mr. Putin has elected to use both domestically and internationally to realise that false dream. I voted yes because of the irrational fear but that does not mean that the preponderance of the fear/hate is not rooted in substance.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
I agree, but I don't think either country is a democracy (rule of the people, by the people and for the people) or "folkestyre" in Swedish. But you are definitely right, Sweden is alot more democracy like than for example Russia, the US, the UK and France.
Hating Russia, now that is politically correct.
I haven't even mentioned Putin, but I'm guessing you're obsessed with him as you're told to be.
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