Well, yes. RT is Russian state sponsored, just like the good old days of the cold war but this time they broadcast globally. RT's words are Putins words watered down for the world to swallow.
The US took on the roll of the police of the world because no other country could, and lets be honest if there were not there we would either be speaking Russian or German now if they had not.
The USA does have a huge army to police its borders and interfere in world events that they see as a threat, no matter how small..... this is true, but history also shows Russia only grows a large army when it wants to expand it's boarders.
Funding collapsed because Ragan's policy to bankrupt the USSR, and win the cold war through advancement and economic power. The Russians learned this lesson and have now built there economy so that this will not happen in the future.
The "rusting army" has mostly been sold to China and other counties, for scrap, conversion and or partial redeployment.
Europe have updated and upgraded for FOR GOOD REASON FFS!
USSR has invaded Poland twice in the last 100 Years! and occupied it for a lot longer. There is a good reason why Sweden have built such a high tech navy.
This is the point you are missing, Russia & Putin want the USSR back.
They are funding Yanukovitch's Ukraine, and will hold Ukraine to ransom with Natural gas prices like the last time Ukraine has a pro EU government.
They have still not withdrawn from Kaliningrad after the second world war!
They have still not give Vyborg and other Finnish lands back after the second world war!
Out of the 14 counties they have shared a land border with in the last 100 years they have invaded or occupied 11 of those.
I will say it again. Russia has a history of invasions and full efforts at assimilation, It invaded Poland twice in the last 100 years and invaded Ukraine and has exercised genocide in both counties. Do you really think that the people of Ukraine and Poland think of Russian the way you do?
1 Million people have marched on the Capitol. Ukraine only got independence in 1991 and now, the Russians want it back.
I was here in June... and trust me the barricades were not there when the people though they will be moving closer to the EU. People are very scarred of Russia. for good reason.
Ohh dear.
As I stated before, these are words from Putin (the un democratically elected ) self proclaimed leader of Russia. RT (Russia Today) Is Russian propaganda, and their words, are to build the worlds best and most advanced war machine, and a state that will make homosexuality illegal. (that's the start)
If these signals are not ringing alarm bells yet, then give it a few years, when gay people are being locked up or worse, then review your statement.
We have a comparable situation in Russia as what there was in Germany after the first world war.
A humiliated country that capitulated and gave up it's aggression, followed by period of economic decline, followed by recovery, booming economy, then a slow erosion of democracy, and the encroachment on human rights.
Russia is a wolf, waiting with it's old allies, ready to pounce when it sees fit, a weak EU and US.
some people will see Russia's right to flex it's muscles, after all who can stop her? In a few years, when China and Russia shake hands again, we will again adopt a policy of appmeasement rather than aggression, followed by Russia invading again.
UKRAINE matters, and what is happening now, is the prelude to a global war.
We are only 40 odd years away from the planned Invasion of Manchester
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