If you were wondering why the Russians love Putin, here is your answer.
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December 26, 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A lot has happened in this time, but according to a survey by Levada-Center, the majority of Russians still lament the USSR’s collapse. When asked last December what their attitude toward the dissolution was, of 1,600 Russians, 63 percent said they felt negatively about it.
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Not hard to see why. Imagine if New Hampshire,Vermont and Maine left the US and joined Canada which itself applied to join the EU. California, Oregon and Washington also declared themselves to be independent nations.
The rump USA was left with just half its pre breakup population but the responsibility, as the successor government, for all the Federal debt and pension obligations it had incurred as the former USA!
Consider. As these various “Blue” (Democrat-dominated) Pacific coast states would have effected political and economic independence, could their legislatures prevent the secession of their own eastern and northernmost counties, the way West Virginia left the tidewater Virginia rump in 1861?
The metropolitan populations of those several particular states might well be fragmented horrendously, especially as the western counties of California would be utterly dependent upon the water provided by both the transmontane rump of the United States and the inland sections of the Golden State who have told the Sacramento legislature to go to hell.
What could we expect, having agreed to the Soviet Union’s willing to collapse, leaving Berlin and the rest of Eastern Europe, and drawing the troops back to Russia, and then see the breaking of a verbal agreement that promised to keep a neutral buffer between Western Europe and Russia? Rather than being brought into a market that would otherwise been available, they saw NATO troops at their borders, and prosperity was thus denied, replaced by their own needed military complex. The result is a vigorous attempt at dictatorship in the United States.
It could have been much better, but the Globalist power driven elements of the world are hindering a good life.
Let me put my spin on it and see if this sounds right.
I’ll start with column 3 (light red 31%). These folks had make-work jobs but depended upon a large government subsidy for the necessities.
Column 4 (dark red 32%). This column represents the FSA and they depend entirely on government subsidies for food, clothing, housing, healthcare such as it is, and toilet paper.
Column 5 (gray 23%). This group no doubt had government jobs that did not disappear after the collapse and therefore did not affect their bennies.
Columns 1 and 2 (Light pink/ dark pink 15%). These are the poor souls that had to support the other 85%+ through hard labor and weren’t able to enjoy the fruits thereof.
Just a guess.
We recently sent more troops to Poland. We just don’t stop rubbing their fucking nose in it – “it” being the dissolution of the USSR. If Russians thought more about it, they’d probably conclude that they’re not interested in running Uzbekistan, but being repeatedly humiliated by the West will bring about resentment. We should show a little respect to a country with thousands of nukes aimed at us – one that’s not obsessed with bathrooms for trannies and one that we need to pay to launch our satellites.
There was a time when the question was,”Who lost China?”
Today,you could replace China with Russia,except nobody asks the question.
Bush,Sr. is not popular here but I have to believe that he would have done what was needed to do to keep Russia from sinking into the abyss it eventually slid into.