Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
I believe you. Does that reinforce or undermine the argument that Russia felt it had nothing to lose by flexing its muscles in the run up to Putin's re-coronation or have I missed your point?
No its simply feels it has to make some noise or be noticed via fear on the world stage ,it cant do the USA or China economy squeeze thing , as it has a self inflicted stunted economy ,it would build weapons before looking after it people and allowing free social justices and freedoms of speech ,so the next best thing is flex its muscle in the world of conflict , just like North Korea and others before them fear and deviance hides its inner weaknesses ,its history its potted with this sort of behavior its not new .

Its not a nice country , the trouble is people with left thinking dislike the west so much they cannot bring themselves to criticises Russia as it feels its a natural bedfellow ,"up the revolution" and all that ,with the Russian trapper hats with the old soviet badge evoking some fake romantic visions of the struggle of 1950's togetherness .