Duckwarrior wrote:QUOTE (Duckwarrior @ Nov 18 2017, 05:50 AM) The trouble is Russia were nowhere on the world stage other than their nuclear and world class mis-information abilities. The overarching Power Players are the Chinese, the US and the EU . All Russia could do was prop up hideous regimes militarily, and use their Security Services to troll the feeble minded and easily influenced, to have any international influence.
Look where they are now though, a bought and paid for POTUS governing seemingly on the recommendations of RT & Fox , elected. One of the military and economic players in the EU leaving the club. The Middle East in turmoil because all of the attention in the region is focused on Syria. Then we come to China. China, who the Russians wouldn't dare $#@! with directly as they are just as ruthless, probably already their military equals and certainly their economic daddies, being identified as the enemy and threatened financially by the U.S. Forget the recent visit of the serial dimwit to China, where he wouldn't have dared say what he meant.
Russia are Twitter and Facebook tenth dan Grand Masters. And they are taking over the world. Our best hope is for a tsunami up the Thames which takes out the parliamentary offices of the British Conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn and the next generation of devices capable of running Twitter and FB to have buttons that need people with big or at least ordinarily sized hands to operate.
Then we can return to the Kremlin controlling just their own people with propoganda (possibly also Globey) while the rest of us get back to trying to make the world a better place.
exactly, duck
for all the people going on about how the russians are the top dogs please bear in mind that Putin has overseen a collapse in Russian power that is unprecedented in peacetime, with ukraine gone (and the removal of crimea and the bits of the donbass they hold guarantee that the rest of it will remain hostile), georgia gone and the rest held by the sort of leader that will always be vulnerable to the sort of uprising that removes leaders. the russian border is closer to Moscow than it has ever been in living memory.
they only appear such titans because our own leaders are crap, and also because we have a news media that requires things to be hyped up or no-one will watch them
