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Romantic Heretic  Aug 27, 2015 • 4:22:05pm

So, they have no memory of The Great Patriotic War and the misery inflicted on their country by it.

Sad.

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KGxvi  Aug 27, 2015 • 4:32:50pm

“Such a strange game, it appears the only way to win is not to play”

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Aug 27, 2015 • 5:05:38pm

just shows the ability of propaganda to galvanize a population sharing certain specific demographics and cultural fears. Just as Fox News and the rest of the right wing paranoia machine here in the USA spews anti-world venom, the Russian media under Putin freely spews vile paranoid vitriol aimed at keeping a population under control rather than informing valuable real world facts.

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Paul Canning  Aug 27, 2015 • 5:13:03pm

re: #3 Rocky-in-Connecticut

It is not the same. Russian TV is controlled by the Kremlin. US has alternatives to Fox.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 27, 2015 • 5:14:24pm

We will have to close the mine-shaft gap.

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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 27, 2015 • 6:04:07pm

A country ruled by conspiracy theorists.

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Boondocksaint  Aug 28, 2015 • 6:02:44am

We have thousands of ICBMs ready to go. Russia has the same. Nobody would win. It would be horrific. Its not a fucking basketball game with winners and losers.

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WhatEVs  Aug 28, 2015 • 6:52:24am

re: #4 Paul Canning

It is not the same. Russian TV is controlled by the Kremlin. US has alternatives to Fox.

It may not be the same but it is an apt comparison.

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steve_davis  Aug 28, 2015 • 5:30:52pm

re: #7 Boondocksaint

We have thousands of ICBMs ready to go. Russia has the same. Nobody would win. It would be horrific. Its not a fucking basketball game with winners and losers.

As an undergrad poli sci major, I was told the French had smartly put their nuclear warheads in locations where the prevailing winds would blow fallout back to Moscow in the event that they took a preliminary strike. I always loved that. I hope it’s true.

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CriticalDragon1177  Aug 28, 2015 • 8:15:56pm

Paul Canning,

Thankfully I don’t think they’ll be a nuclear war between America and Russia anytime soon.

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CriticalDragon1177  Aug 28, 2015 • 8:21:27pm

re: #1 Romantic Heretic

So, they have no memory of The Great Patriotic War and the misery inflicted on their country by it.

Sad.

Russia has been authoritarian if not totalitarian for almost all of its history and was only slightly liberal recently for a short period of time. It wouldn’t be surprising to me if it turns out that most of what the common Russia knows about either of the two world wars, is propaganda designed to glorify the state. They may not realize just how brutal those wars were for them.

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Dark_Falcon  Aug 29, 2015 • 4:28:12am

re: #7 Boondocksaint

We have thousands of ICBMs ready to go. Russia has the same. Nobody would win. It would be horrific. Its not a fucking basketball game with winners and losers.

It’s less then 500 each nowadays, in terms of ICBMs, but the logic still holds. But its not Americans who need to get that fact, because not even Fox News promotes the idea that a war where both sides used nukes (as opposed to the US nuking a nation that could reply in kind) would be anything other than a disaster.


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