Goldrush said:
Lot of naive posters here rambling on about how good Russia is and kicking America in the guts.
If you think Russia is such a fantastic country I suggest you pack up and move over there for awhile to give yourselves a reality check. Than you will realize how naive you were to shoot from the hip and make such wild statements from the comfort of your 1st world country which actually has a rule of law and allows you a lot more freedoms than you will find in Mother Russia.
Russia is basically a mafia run state now and there is very little protection from the law. If you make enemies of the wrong people you will either end up dead or broken and imprisoned with little chance of escape. Most Russians who have the means are looking for an escape into Western Europe or another country which actually allows human rights. If they thought Russia was so good why would they be now leaving??
I have nothing against the Russian people, they are like most people throughout the world, just wanting to live out their lives in peace and security. It's the leadership which is the problem(this is true for a lot countries).
As far a military forces go America has the most combat efficient force the world has ever seen bar none. Does this ensure victory every time, of course not. But if I'm a betting man I would back America and her Allies in any conventional warfare. For those of you who want to bring up Afghanistan and Iraq, well I will just say that they aren't conventional wars. Operation Desert Storm was a conventional battle which America and her allies made an absolute mockery of the Iraqi forces. So was the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Saddam was ousted from power within 21 days of the the war beginning. It was only after the conventional warfare had finished that it turned into Guerrilla warfare.
Guerrilla war's are notoriously difficult, and almost always impossible for the invading force to succeed 100% in controlling the country unless the local population willingly roll over. Look at the German occupied area's during WW2, the Germans were constantly battling insurgents throughout the occupation. We can even go back and look at the Roman army which was regarded as the most advanced at the time, they never completely dominated all the areas they conquered and were continually battling insurgents within the occupied regions. Anyways war is really just an extension of economic warfare and you only have to look at the collapse of the USSR to see that in it's full glory.
Every country has it's issues and none are perfect, but I know where I would prefer to live and have voted with my feet(so to speak).
It's not the 1990's anymore, it's not a gangland with people shooting each other in Russia. Your more likely to get shot in America by some psychopath. To say there are no human rights in Russia is a false statement.
The US eavesdrops on all communications. They can go into anyone's home at any time and arrest anyone under false pretences of them being a terrorist and lock them away in an orange jumpsuit in the middle of nowhere forever without any evidence at all.
Have you ever been to Russia?
What about all of the people who are falsely enslaved in the US? The US imprisons more people per capita than any other country.
Russians have more freedom than Americans who believe they are free. "There are none more hopelessly inslaved by those who falsely believe they are free" and the reason the US hate Russia so much is because if it wasn't for Russia the US would have taken over the world a long time ago, all the US wants to do is control everything and everyone.
And what about all of the people who were killed by America in cold blood by capital punishment. And who of those were completely innocent.
I know which country I would prefer to live in.
