Really? I thought I read somewhere that the majority of Russians think their country is going in the right direction. It is becoming more and more industrialized.
Haha, oh gosh no. Things right now are a lot worse majority of industry (over 51% left the nation) our economy is far too dependent on oil and gas, oligarchs control ridiculous amount of wealth and power, the ruble is at its weakest. The government decided to impose sanctions on itself (literally) the government banned western products, ironically these sanctions hurt Russia more than the west, Western sanctions have done just about nothing. All industry that has remained is making very little profit due to Russia's crazy good labour laws.
The Russian economy has been more or less dependent on oil and gas since the internal combustion engine was invented. It's why Hitler went after the oil fields instead of attacking Moscow (the Germans were literally actively attacking Moscow and he told them to pull out and attack sources of oil -- a move that probably cost him the war). I'm not saying you're incorrect, just stating that the Russian economy will likely be dominated by oil/gas for centuries.
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That's... still a very bad reason to conquer a sovereign country.
The Warsaw Pact is gone. Finished. Those countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. Their repressive, one-party regimes have been replaced with fair and free elections. If they chose to join NATO, have you considered that they may have had a reason?
Bush Senior had nothing to do with the 2003 invasion.
In 1991 following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Bush Senior was asked if he was going to push into Iraq to dippose of Saddam to prevent him from invading more countries. He said no, and he said that a civil war and mass instability would accur if he did. Bush junior did anyways. Imagine being an Iraqi and how that would scare you if you knew that America decided to just invade you.
I agree with Bush Sr. Bush Jr invaded Iraq thinking:
Iraq was helping terror groups responsible for attacking Americans
Iraq's dictatorship had to be removed
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
Ultimately, these reasons weren't that great. The war was a mistake, and the only good we got out of it was the removal of a dictator who was really bringing stability to the region.
However, I'll say that when the invasion happened, a lot of Iraqi civilians were happy to hear that Saddam would be removed. They, like Bush and like most people, didn't realize that removing Saddam would make things worse than they already were.
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That's... still a very bad reason to conquer a sovereign country.
The Warsaw Pact is gone. Finished. Those countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. Their repressive, one-party regimes have been replaced with fair and free elections. If they chose to join NATO, have you considered that they may have had a reason?
Bush Senior had nothing to do with the 2003 invasion.
Firstly, I have no hard feelings against the USA, I am not some hard line communist or anything. I consider myself rather moderate (Imo President Reagan was the best us president), the question is do you hold anything against Russia? You say its a bad reason to invade, (side note I hold nothing against those countries either. My best friends are polish and I know a lot of ukraineans), but lets say someone is pointing a gun right at your face and they are standing right next to you, and then say... 'I wont shoot that's why I have a gun next to your head" most people would probably try to take the gun before he could pull the trigger. Russians don't want per say all former soviet republics to reunite, they just want 2 things. So the massive military right next to russias border (which is very suspicious) moves back along with those US Nukes stationed in Romania. We also want to held neutral or positive relations with the countries bordering Russia. They don't have to be good, they just have to be positive or neutral.
That analogy just doesn't work. You've both been pointing guns at each other since 1945. Now imagine that Russia raises a second gun -- taking Crimea with what appears to be the intent of taking the rest of the East. That's scary.
As for militaries next to Russia's border: North Korea and South Korea have had armies at each other's border for decades and North Korea has not made any military action. Armies along the Russian border aren't to attack Russia: they're to defend against Russian invasion. My dad was stationed in Nuremberg for that very reason.
Also.. Romania has never in its history had access to nuclear weapons. In fact, they've signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, cementing that they intend never to have a nuclear weapon. There are no US nukes in Romania.
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Really? I thought I read somewhere that the majority of Russians think their country is going in the right direction. It is becoming more and more industrialized.
Haha, oh gosh no. Things right now are a lot worse majority of industry (over 51% left the nation) our economy is far too dependent on oil and gas, oligarchs control ridiculous amount of wealth and power, the ruble is at its weakest. The government decided to impose sanctions on itself (literally) the government banned western products, ironically these sanctions hurt Russia more than the west, Western sanctions have done just about nothing. All industry that has remained is making very little profit due to Russia's crazy good labour laws.
Hm, didn't know that. But hey, at least it's better than it was before 1991.
What I'm noticing is that this has less and less to do with history and more and more to do with politics
How much of this topic have you read?
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Haha, oh gosh no. Things right now are a lot worse majority of industry (over 51% left the nation) our economy is far too dependent on oil and gas, oligarchs control ridiculous amount of wealth and power, the ruble is at its weakest. The government decided to impose sanctions on itself (literally) the government banned western products, ironically these sanctions hurt Russia more than the west, Western sanctions have done just about nothing. All industry that has remained is making very little profit due to Russia's crazy good labour laws.
Hm, didn't know that. But hey, at least it's better than it was before 1991.
The purchasing power during the ussr is higher than now though. The average monthly salary is 600$. The 90s like sucked for Russia
His part of the bargain was to ensure democratic elections and freedom. Those didn't happen.
USA and Nato also promised not to expand into warsaw pact and ussr countries, but they did. If Nato hadn't expanded there would be no crisis in crimea or else where, because Russians would have fealt safer. Why do people support Putin, because they are scared of the 1000's of weapons and Nato's ridiculous budget. They are worried that if the usa wants to they will steam roll Russia, and take Moscow.
Exactly. Oh they didn't have elections but like The western countries had that much of a say.
From the page you linked, it seems like neither of them did.
Stalin kept his lands but the elections weren't put in, they were but they weren't because it was so fake. Churchill certainly didn't, all the sudden a iron curtain which he helped put in place
Okay maybe not are own, but that to is pretty large if you want to count the civil war to, plus the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam alone top more than that.
Barely over half a million casualties in the Civil War. Stalin got rid of eighty times that number.
Stalins evil, I don't want to make light of that but so's this freedom hub.
He also said the Old or Davidic Covenant had been replaced, he told us what to worship with, Instruments are best left out, this is surprising because I don't believe The Orthodox Church uses them.
... You mean the Mosaic covenant? The one with Moses, that never mentions instruments? Most Orthodox churches don't use instruments, but again I'm not seeing where Jesus banned music.
Jesus also didn't tell us about the Internet. In worship he does tell us what to use, what not to use is everything else that's gotten into churches, again its not a heresy but a error. But not use them than. Why don't orthodox use instruments?
you'll forgive me if I have trouble remembering his name 
