What is Russia trying to prove??

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and Obama is no John F. Kennedy, the last young president the Russian Bear thought was weak.
 
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Don't fret--Bush saw into Putin's soul and told us that he is trustworthy.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Don't fret--Bush saw into Putin's soul and told us that he is trustworthy.
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McCain saw things more realistically...

we should start shipping Javelins to Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics ASAP.

The Soviet, er, Russian air force showed their ineptitude when the bullied around Georgia...their heavy divisions, however, are world class
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MG1968 said:
and Obama is no John F. Kennedy, the last young president the Russian Bear thought was weak.
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they were right. if JFK had survived he would have tried to impliment the same garbage social programs obama has done 40 years later.
 
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It's Obama's fault. We should all accept this as a sign of impending invasion due to Obama's weakness. Bush's ability to see soul's was obviously wrong.
 
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A foreign power violates our territorial rights as a nation-state, and people somehow morph the conversation into one of partisan politics. AMAZING.
 
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What is Russia trying to achieve here? I would like to hear some of your thoughts.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Don't fret--Bush saw into Putin's soul and told us that he is trustworthy.
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Bush said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw a soul.

But the Bush's didn't admire the soviets so much that they gave their daughters Russian names as Barry and Michelle Obama idd.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
McCain saw things more realistically...

we should start shipping Javelins to Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics ASAP.

The Soviet, er, Russian air force showed their ineptitude when the bullied around Georgia...their heavy divisions, however, are world class
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+1

:hi:
 
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So no one has answered my question, Russia obviously has an axe to grind or reasoning behind their recent endeavors, any care to give their opinion?

Do you think they are asking for another arms race, political warfare? What do you believe the Russian end game to be?
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Russia will again be a superpower IMO. They now have some of the makings we had as an early 20th century power in the making.
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Very well could be true. China is the one we should be most worried about right now though.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Russia will again be a superpower IMO. They now have some of the makings we had as an early 20th century power in the making.
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The only real concern is their shrinking population, in a country with the largest land area. There are only like 100 million of those Ruskies and falling.
 
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VolInMn said:
They're showboating. Trying to prove how bas-arse they still are.
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Never as simple as that, consider the people pulling the strings now. They were KGB and connected in the Kremlin, these people only act and negotiate from powers of strength and they are no fools. Their actions are serving a purpose or an end.
 
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MG1968 said:
Russia is trying to re-assert itself as a superpower.
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This is the obvious answer but there has to be more to it. I think they are testing us and their neighbors, Georgia was the first test, to see how their neighbors would react and they figured right when they decided they would not. Obama has some decisions to make with our military leaders, and no I'm not talking about warfare, more a game of cat and mouse.
 
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KB5252 said:
This is the obvious answer but there has to be more to it. I think they are testing us and their neighbors, Georgia was the first test, to see how their neighbors would react and they figured right when they decided they would not. Obama has some decisions to make with our military leaders, and no I'm not talking about warfare, more a game of cat and mouse.
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Obama has already played his hand with the Russians. In 2008, Candidate Obama said nothing as Russian tanks invaded Georgia. Last year, President Obama pulls the US out of a deal to place ABM systems in Eastern Europe, and last week he signals a willingness to completely disarm the US without a reciprocating agreement by the Russians to do the same.

Putin sees Obama as weak. Just like Khrushchev viewed JFK as weak. The difference now is that Obama doesn't have the stones to stand up to the Russians in the same manner as Kennedy.
 
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