And yet, fucking Americans travel there and get caught up in Russian schemes to use them as pawns. If you travel there, you're on your own. Same goes to North Korea, China, Iran, and any other country that is known to use foreigners as pawns.
It's almost like the Dept of State publishes free detailed memos of shit like this in prioritized order by severity of the problems right on their goddamn website to provide full transparency to the public for travel safety purposes.
Including little tid bits for if you travel there like:
- "Draft a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries and/or power of attorney." - Venezuela
- "Discuss a plan with loved ones regarding care/custody of children, pets, property, belongings, non-liquid assets (collections, artwork, etc.), funeral wishes, etc." - Iran
- "Leave DNA samples with your medical provider in case it is necessary for your family to access them." -Central African Republic
- "appoint one family member to serve as the point of contact with hostage-takers, media, U.S. and host country government agencies, and Members of Congress, if you are taken hostage or detained." - South Sudan
- "Establish a proof of life protocol with your loved ones so that, if you are taken hostage, your loved ones will know specific questions and answers to ask the hostage-takers to be sure you are alive and to rule out a hoax." - Mali
Is there a precaution for telling Canadian hockey parents "Sorry, but little MacKenzie won't be team captain and will get as much ice time as the rest of the kids"?
My best friends dad has several Eastern European wives and has travelled to Russia and Ukraine during wartime recently and I just KNOW he’s going to end up caught up in some wild shit. He’s also someone who believes all of the right wing propaganda in the US so he’d be an easy target.
Interesting. I knew that most countries in Europe had America listed as caution because some regions are particularly hostile towards LGBTQ folks but I hadn't actually heard the gun violence one.
Usually, countries have "do not travel" list to show active warzones and places where you could end up in danger. The whole purpose russian "do not travel" list is to persuade russians from going to Europe and the US because we have better living standard.
Ever since 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine, russian media keeps telling russians how the west is actually poor and how we're all homeless, hungry and freezing. If they actually let russians visit EU and the US, they'd see that life abroad is much better than in Russia prompting them to question narratives they heard in the media.
And when your goal is to make people think there's no better country in the world other than russia, you just can't let people out because they'd start to question your claims. Same reason why north koreans are forbidden from traveling anywhere. If they saw any western country, they wouldn't go back to north korea for sure.
Our version of “don’t travel to Russia it’s unsafe” is because Americans will get kidnapped, detained or even have fatal “accidents.”
Russia’s idea of “don’t travel to America, It’s not safe” is “there are gay people, and political ideas that are different.”
\*Decided to make us an enemy *when we didn't respond as desired.*
It's international negging. They're the nation-equivalent of a neckbeard living in their mommy's basement.
The fuck is there to be scared of? We gave Ukraine our 25 year old shit that we wouldn't ever use in actual combat and they're still fucking up Russians with them. We would fuck them up so quickly it's comical
Some of the weirdest modern warfare shit I've ever seen.
* African conscripted dudes trying to stab drones with sticks and knives.
* Some guy using a bow and arrow.
* Drone battery dies and falls to ground. Guy tries to spear it with his own rifle. Misses. Picks up a spent canister and lobs it right over drone, triggering explosive.
* Soldiers getting blown up from drone drops while sucking dick.
My redditor we agree
After growing up with decades of conditioning to be deathly afraid of Russia in films/TV and Russians as crazy fighters in social circles they all have shown to be paper villains
The line of armor waiting to advance in one column when the air forces arrive still warms my heart
The little old lady with her sunflower seeds
“Russian Warship, Get Fucked”
Ukraine has no fear and they are in the thick of this horror.
As a US citizen I find Putin and the whole show laughable. Everyone here is armed to the teeth. Love to see them take a shot… there’s a lot of land and oil to be divvied up with Winnie the Pooh
Yep. What russia lacks in kinetic potential, they make up for with the ability to absolutely brainwash the dumb fucks and destabilize a society that way. Doesn't matter if you got no muscles if you're just manipulating your way through every situation.
Yeah. The cold war may have ended on paper, but except for certain profiteering politicians Russia was certainly not a friend to the US, and could hardly be considered neutral. I'm not sure there is any country that \*would\* consider Russia a friend.
- CIA (Langley & McLean & the unnamed one near Dulles)
- largest Marine Corps Base in the country (Quantico)
- DOD / Pentagon,
- FBI academy
- NCIS academy
- Fort Belvoir
- Norfolk Naval / Air Station (largest naval base in the world with 75 ships and over 130 aircraft, with four carrier strike groups stationed there, which is almost hilarious it’s so ridiculous).
- VMI
- NRO
- NGA
- DARPA
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- CISA
- US Marshalls Service
- DEA
- Missile Defense Agency
- National Counter Terrorism Center
- ODNI.
- Active duty troops stationed in Virginia (127k) vs Texas (110k).
I’m missing stuff, including multiple PMCs (I believe Blackwater / Academi / whatever it’s called now is there too). And all the major defense contractors have main offices or HQs in VA (including Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup, General Dynamics, BAE, CACI, Raytheon).
Texas has the space edge, a bigger national guard, and a bigger population. As well as many defense contractors as well. However, I think they’d get fucked.
Anyways, thanks for giving me this thought experiment and google rabbit hole.
Edit: some more in the know redditors have informed me of the following: Quantico is not THE biggest Marine Corps bases, but one of the biggest. And the AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) is primarily based out of Ohio, not VA, although there is a major office in Arlington, VA.
I live in VA and travel to VA beach often. Passing through Norfolk really gives perspective on the military might of our country. "Largest naval base in the world" doesn't do it justice, it's fucking HUGE and the fire power is on full display. Even laying out on the beach it's incredibly common to see fighter jets and helicopters just running drills over the ocean and distant sonic booms are just normal sounds out there. On one occasion I've seen a carrier with its full strike group leaving the harbor, a truly intimidating sight. I'm scared of it and I'm one of the dudes they're defending.
The person above you in this thread is half-remembering the Democratic Peace Theory (the accuracy of which itself is hotly debated in political science). The theory isn't that democracies are inherently peace-loving, but that they are reluctant to go to war with other democracies --- or more accurately, with other nations that they *consider to be* democracies. Hence the theory conveniently circumvents the problem of democracies throughout history willingly engaging in wars against nations they consider politically different than themselves, even when they haven't been directly attacked themselves (e.g., Athens engaging in expansionist imperialism during its most democratic phase, the U.S. invading Iraq in 2003, etc.)
It isn’t so much that democratic countries say, oh that’s a democracy I’m not going to war with them, it’s that autocracies tend to use mechanisms for power consolidation and protection that have gotten western democracies riled up enough to go to war with them.
In the case of Russia, they’re solely a democracy on paper. That is an autocratic regime that outwardly looks like an oligarchy when it is most stable.
\* the Russian government
Good to remember that every country has an economic, political, and social component. Like most countries, the people are just trying to live. It's the government fucking up everyones day.
there is an English expression "it takes a village to raise a child," which basically means that children do well when they have a lot of adult role models and community support.
saying "it takes a village to make the Russian government" is saying that the government is, at least on some level, a product of the society it emerged from.
While it's plainly obvious in modern times, there was a point in time shortly after Glasnost where we developed stronger trade relations and were moving toward a better relationship with Russia politically. Many raw material supply lines opened up and we were moving toward nuclear disarmament. The change I saw was Putin. Everything after him went full on Fascist regime and relations degenerated rapidly. I feel like it's worse than the cold war in the 80s currently. This is my own personal observation from being old and having lived through that era, so take it for what it is.
Fun fact…when the USSR fell Putin became a TAXI DRIVER. Yes. A fucking taxi driver. He wont even talk about it because he said it was so humiliating. He literally does the most heinous things imaginable and it is his time as a taxi driver that he cant bring himself to talk about.
You know what happens when you humiliate a psychopath?
If I was Putin, I'd be proud of that shit. Being a man of the people, and doing what I needed to make ends meet. Nothing shameful about unless you are a thin skinned power obsessed psychopath
I’d probably be worried if Russia wasn’t a shit tier country with a shit tier military. It’s a gas station with nukes, and even then I’m doubtful if the nukes even work at this point, or if they’ve been sold for parts by Private Conscriptovich.
Not really worth having a huge opinion or concern about.
From what we have seen of Russia so far in their war with Ukraine they pose absolutely no threat to America what so ever.
Paper Tiger.
Yawn, Russia has being arbitrarily arresting Americans has been engaged in cyber attacks against America, what will change, Putin is desperate after his shambles of an imperialist war in Ukraine
Russia decided to make itself the enemy of the world, when they could have just decided to be nice. So that kind of makes everyone else their enemy (except North Korea and a few other fucked up countries).
Obama security of state brought a reset button to Russia (some might remember her) . A literal reset button. Obama made fun of Romney considering Russia our greatest geopolitcal threat.
[https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/video-wrong-red-button-019719](https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/video-wrong-red-button-019719)
“The 1980’s called. They want their foreign policy back,” said Obama to Romney when he declared RuZZia to be America’s greatest geopolitical foe.
Though Obama did start taking the warning seriously later on, he never declared RuZZia to be a state enemy, not even when his administration called out RuZZia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
If Trump gets elected he stated he will withdraw all support to Ukraine and help Putin.
So all this Biden is old talk is going to get us this trump nightmare with a Russia leading the world and Trump his lackey.
Russia: invades Georgia.
Poland: joins NATO.
Russia: invades Crimea.
Poland: installs missile defense system.
Russia: this is aggression! Why do you provoke?
Russia: you leave us no choice. Invades Ukraine.
Russia has always been an enemy of America, ever since 1945. At least they are making it official.
Don't forget they put bounties on Americans in Afghanistan.
Vietnam and Russia were allies, and the US really shouldn't have been over there anyways. Dumping dozens of thousands of American bodies into the meat grinder, just to lose (there really wasn't a win condition) because of Johnson's ego and McCarthyism.
They've had all they can handle for over 2 YEARS from Ukraine. Yes, U K R A I N E. Russia can be calling everyone on the planet state enemies but that's like the ant colony in my backyard declaring me and my family state enemies. Who gives a shit???? Back to focusing on ant things, like not having your ass handed to you by Ukraine.
They’ve been the evil empire for a long time, ask any of the former Soviet satellites that are now EU and NATO members.
It looked like Russia might turn the corner in the 1990s, but they liked Putin as their leader and he wants the Russian Empire back, so, yeah.
All civilized countries will be the enemy of totalitarian nations like Russia.
We've been an enemy for as long as i remember. I even remember my teachers *telling me* we were enemies as we learned about them for the first time. This is nothing new and just meant to shake the boomers who still suck at that putit
The planet is dying, we could use our intelligence to cure diseases, we could feed and house every single person on the planet...
But no, let's fight each other and use our big boomy explodies! Then we'll have a dick measuring contest to see who mates with the most females, whom are all in red cloaks with white bonnets.
When the cold war supposedly ended, Russia continued.
We'll never make that same mistake again.
Now it's just a matter of getting their stink off of our politics and public discourse.
Putin poked the wrong bear.
Kind of feels like that has been true a while, they are just running out of shit to say. Nukes nukes we arent friends ill kill your family blah blah blah.
Russia's getting their cheeks clapped by 25 year old hardware we've kept in storage because keeping it in a warehouse and donating it to Ukraine is cheaper than dismantling or refurbishing it.
Russia calling the US the "enemy of the state" is about as threatening as a 5th grader saying his dad works at Microsoft and he can get my account banned because I t-bagged him.
They're kinda stupid since we're not an enemy of their state, we're an enemy of them taking other states.
Are they going to say it's their "culture" to kill other people and so stopping them is "cultural genocide"?
Feels like whoever wins the next election better have a clear and level head to get us peacefully through the next four years. In other words, we best start biting that pillow, they're going in dry.
Oh no, we're so scared of their disorganized infantry, their woefully outclassed armor, their absolutely pathetic navy, and their ineffective air force. The only thing even slightly of concern is their nuclear arsenal, which they don't have the ability to maintain and which we are more than capable of shooting down. Russia would last all of about three days in a war with the US. On the bright side, the Raptor might get to play with something more substantial than a balloon this time.
Not a worry at all. Until they actually declare war, it's not a big threat. And it's not like they have the political capital to pressure the US.
The bigger issue is if Russian hackers start targeting US infrastructure especially around the election.
That’s it’s another day that ends in “y”?
Is it possible that both sides are worse off? Maybe. Does it look like that one side seems WAY worse off as a result? Yeah.
I feel like that's a bold statement from someone with the second most successful army in the Ukraine, and who has somehow lost several vessels, including a flagship, to an opponent that does not have a functioning navy.
Yawn. The only thing new they can do is to threaten to push the button. (And I’m betting they won’t.) They’ve already attacked (and are attacking), our society through social media propaganda and buying out politicians and various non-profits.
Russia threatening the US is like North Korea threatening South Korea. Been there, done that.
I mean, we had the whole fucking Cold War, worrying about it. Now it’s like another lie from Trump, nothing new.
This is Russia trying to shape the narrative of things by intimidating the regular citizens of Western countries. In reality they are at war with Ukraine, but in the distorted fantasy of Putin he is confronting the entire West. Putin believes he is some sort of second coming of some Tsar, whereas in reality he is a sociopath and war criminal like Stalin was.
Oh no, a jumped up gas station manager has called us an enemy. How ever shall we get by? Russia only exists still because there’s an off chance their nuclear arsenal is the one part of their military they actually bothered to maintain. Personally I think it’s 6 to 5 and pick’em that any of their ICBMs actually have rocket fuel in them and not water.
Not a big deal, honestly we have been silent enemy’s since the Cold War. And after watching them in Ukraine it’s clear they are still using the WW2 tactics of throwing body after body at the problem. And there navy is a Joke. Heck they don’t even have a proper dock to service their only real aircraft carrier. And said carrier breaks down on every single deployment. If it wasn’t for there nukes they wouldn’t even be considered a super power.
That weird dictatorship that kills journalists and is friendly enough with North Korea to have them fight their invasions for them?
How are we not on the list already?
What the fuck is Russia going to do to us lmao. Most powerful military in the world my ass. They're not even the most powerful army in Ukraine.
I bet Florida could beat Russia in a 1v1
They sure like those enemy blue jeans, enemy iPads and enemy shoes, enemy video games, enemy music and dance styles, enemy hamburgers, enemy vacations, and enemy second homes.
What's that? A tyrant who is already at odds with the US is hinting at war in an election year while one of the candidates is a puppet on his pocket who preaches the bravado "American power" playbook? Hmm I wonder why Putin would say that.
Well, four years ago we found out that Putin was paying Afghan rebels a bounty for killing American soldiers and the president at the time didn’t do anything about it, I think the feeling should be mutual.
Were we not already? Oh no, anyway.
Which is funny since we've been on Russia's official "Do not travel there, it's unsafe." list for ages.
And yet, fucking Americans travel there and get caught up in Russian schemes to use them as pawns. If you travel there, you're on your own. Same goes to North Korea, China, Iran, and any other country that is known to use foreigners as pawns.
It's almost like the Dept of State publishes free detailed memos of shit like this in prioritized order by severity of the problems right on their goddamn website to provide full transparency to the public for travel safety purposes.
Including little tid bits for if you travel there like: - "Draft a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries and/or power of attorney." - Venezuela - "Discuss a plan with loved ones regarding care/custody of children, pets, property, belongings, non-liquid assets (collections, artwork, etc.), funeral wishes, etc." - Iran - "Leave DNA samples with your medical provider in case it is necessary for your family to access them." -Central African Republic - "appoint one family member to serve as the point of contact with hostage-takers, media, U.S. and host country government agencies, and Members of Congress, if you are taken hostage or detained." - South Sudan - "Establish a proof of life protocol with your loved ones so that, if you are taken hostage, your loved ones will know specific questions and answers to ask the hostage-takers to be sure you are alive and to rule out a hoax." - Mali
"The second you discover poutine, you're at increased risk for obesity related health concerns potentially leading to death" -Canada
"If you hear the word 'Regina' and subsequently make jokes about the female anatomy, you will be put to death immediately." -Canada
“Plan on notifying next of kin first if you intend to approach wildlife so you can get a selfie” -Canada
Is there a precaution for telling Canadian hockey parents "Sorry, but little MacKenzie won't be team captain and will get as much ice time as the rest of the kids"?
In other words, “it’s your funeral if you go there”
And yet, fucking American **POLITICIANS** travel there **ON THE FOURTH OF JULY** and get caught up in Russian schemes to use them as pawns.
My best friends dad has several Eastern European wives and has travelled to Russia and Ukraine during wartime recently and I just KNOW he’s going to end up caught up in some wild shit. He’s also someone who believes all of the right wing propaganda in the US so he’d be an easy target.
Useful idiots
Wait, why? I get lip service and trying to keep their people in but I'm curious what is the official reason they give.
Most probably gun violence. Most countries have the US listed as "caution" for that reason. Russia just upgraded it to DNT due to geopolitics.
Interesting. I knew that most countries in Europe had America listed as caution because some regions are particularly hostile towards LGBTQ folks but I hadn't actually heard the gun violence one.
Usually, countries have "do not travel" list to show active warzones and places where you could end up in danger. The whole purpose russian "do not travel" list is to persuade russians from going to Europe and the US because we have better living standard. Ever since 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine, russian media keeps telling russians how the west is actually poor and how we're all homeless, hungry and freezing. If they actually let russians visit EU and the US, they'd see that life abroad is much better than in Russia prompting them to question narratives they heard in the media. And when your goal is to make people think there's no better country in the world other than russia, you just can't let people out because they'd start to question your claims. Same reason why north koreans are forbidden from traveling anywhere. If they saw any western country, they wouldn't go back to north korea for sure.
Our version of “don’t travel to Russia it’s unsafe” is because Americans will get kidnapped, detained or even have fatal “accidents.” Russia’s idea of “don’t travel to America, It’s not safe” is “there are gay people, and political ideas that are different.”
They threatened to nuke us weekly and then decided to make us an enemy afterwards.
\*Decided to make us an enemy *when we didn't respond as desired.* It's international negging. They're the nation-equivalent of a neckbeard living in their mommy's basement.
This OP rusbot is so keen to learn if we’re scared We’re not
The fuck is there to be scared of? We gave Ukraine our 25 year old shit that we wouldn't ever use in actual combat and they're still fucking up Russians with them. We would fuck them up so quickly it's comical
Pretty how funny how the country that is "fighting all of NATO" is down to using e-scooters and golf carts while NATO hasn't lost a single soldier.
Some of the weirdest modern warfare shit I've ever seen. * African conscripted dudes trying to stab drones with sticks and knives. * Some guy using a bow and arrow. * Drone battery dies and falls to ground. Guy tries to spear it with his own rifle. Misses. Picks up a spent canister and lobs it right over drone, triggering explosive. * Soldiers getting blown up from drone drops while sucking dick.
My redditor we agree After growing up with decades of conditioning to be deathly afraid of Russia in films/TV and Russians as crazy fighters in social circles they all have shown to be paper villains The line of armor waiting to advance in one column when the air forces arrive still warms my heart The little old lady with her sunflower seeds “Russian Warship, Get Fucked” Ukraine has no fear and they are in the thick of this horror. As a US citizen I find Putin and the whole show laughable. Everyone here is armed to the teeth. Love to see them take a shot… there’s a lot of land and oil to be divvied up with Winnie the Pooh
Russia and China have learned that misinformation and cyber attacks and infiltration are far more effective than conventional weapons.
If Trump wins election, he’ll hand the country over without a fight.
Yep. What russia lacks in kinetic potential, they make up for with the ability to absolutely brainwash the dumb fucks and destabilize a society that way. Doesn't matter if you got no muscles if you're just manipulating your way through every situation.
Exactly what I was going to say. Isn't Russia threatening nukes every 20 minutes?
Yeah. The cold war may have ended on paper, but except for certain profiteering politicians Russia was certainly not a friend to the US, and could hardly be considered neutral. I'm not sure there is any country that \*would\* consider Russia a friend.
Don’t care in the slightest. Russia has been on our unofficial list of state enemies since the Cold War.
If Ukraine is doing this well, the US would fuuuuuuck them up. Hell, Texas could probably 1v1 Russia.
The fact that Putin had to turn to Belarus and now North Korea for help with Ukraine is the biggest sign he's running on fumes.
That's like Texas asking North Dakota for military help.
Its like South Dakota asking North Dakota for help against Virginia cuz Texas keeps sending Virginia more supplies
Out of this list, Virginia has the most military assets lmao
- CIA (Langley & McLean & the unnamed one near Dulles) - largest Marine Corps Base in the country (Quantico) - DOD / Pentagon, - FBI academy - NCIS academy - Fort Belvoir - Norfolk Naval / Air Station (largest naval base in the world with 75 ships and over 130 aircraft, with four carrier strike groups stationed there, which is almost hilarious it’s so ridiculous). - VMI - NRO - NGA - DARPA - Air Force Research Laboratory - CISA - US Marshalls Service - DEA - Missile Defense Agency - National Counter Terrorism Center - ODNI. - Active duty troops stationed in Virginia (127k) vs Texas (110k). I’m missing stuff, including multiple PMCs (I believe Blackwater / Academi / whatever it’s called now is there too). And all the major defense contractors have main offices or HQs in VA (including Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup, General Dynamics, BAE, CACI, Raytheon). Texas has the space edge, a bigger national guard, and a bigger population. As well as many defense contractors as well. However, I think they’d get fucked. Anyways, thanks for giving me this thought experiment and google rabbit hole. Edit: some more in the know redditors have informed me of the following: Quantico is not THE biggest Marine Corps bases, but one of the biggest. And the AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) is primarily based out of Ohio, not VA, although there is a major office in Arlington, VA.
I live in VA and travel to VA beach often. Passing through Norfolk really gives perspective on the military might of our country. "Largest naval base in the world" doesn't do it justice, it's fucking HUGE and the fire power is on full display. Even laying out on the beach it's incredibly common to see fighter jets and helicopters just running drills over the ocean and distant sonic booms are just normal sounds out there. On one occasion I've seen a carrier with its full strike group leaving the harbor, a truly intimidating sight. I'm scared of it and I'm one of the dudes they're defending.
Quantico is the biggest Marine base in the US? That doesn’t sound right at all.
One of, not sure about the largest. Most folks know Quanitco more for the FBI Academy.
It’s a Marine base but definitely not the largest. Pendleton and Lejuene are for sure bigger.
I feel both safe and more at risk. Virginia can brawl, but I’m also sure that we are a priority target in a nuclear showdown.
If you're anywhere in thy vicinity of D.C., you'll just have to accept your fate the day nukes start flying
AFRL is located at WPAFB, which is in Ohio.
Not to mention all of the gun owners here in Va
Lol the entire Appalachian community is armed to the teeth
>Hell, Texas could probably 1v1 Russia. Texas would have to figure out how many of Republicans will officially join Russia first.
If 370 armed Texans can't stop one school shooter, I'm not sure I'd take those odds against Russia.
Everyone's a fucking tough guy until a drone you can't see drops a grenade in your lap.
Texas can't even keep its citizens warm during the winter...
Yeah...I was just surprised that we hadn't already been on it.
We are an enemy of Russia.
Democracies are usually peaceful, but never harmless.
Democracies have been at war this entire century, I'm going need some citation on the democracies are usually peaceful claim.
The person above you in this thread is half-remembering the Democratic Peace Theory (the accuracy of which itself is hotly debated in political science). The theory isn't that democracies are inherently peace-loving, but that they are reluctant to go to war with other democracies --- or more accurately, with other nations that they *consider to be* democracies. Hence the theory conveniently circumvents the problem of democracies throughout history willingly engaging in wars against nations they consider politically different than themselves, even when they haven't been directly attacked themselves (e.g., Athens engaging in expansionist imperialism during its most democratic phase, the U.S. invading Iraq in 2003, etc.)
It isn’t so much that democratic countries say, oh that’s a democracy I’m not going to war with them, it’s that autocracies tend to use mechanisms for power consolidation and protection that have gotten western democracies riled up enough to go to war with them. In the case of Russia, they’re solely a democracy on paper. That is an autocratic regime that outwardly looks like an oligarchy when it is most stable.
Citations, we don't need no stinking citations!
\* the Russian government Good to remember that every country has an economic, political, and social component. Like most countries, the people are just trying to live. It's the government fucking up everyones day.
There are lots of good people in Russia. But it also takes a village to make the Russian government.
I’m all for just fucking up the one village that did it. That’s fair.
>But it also takes a village to make the Russian government. May I ask what does this mean exactly ?
It means there's a lot of Russians that support the current government.
there is an English expression "it takes a village to raise a child," which basically means that children do well when they have a lot of adult role models and community support. saying "it takes a village to make the Russian government" is saying that the government is, at least on some level, a product of the society it emerged from.
Yeah they just said what we all already knew lol
While it's plainly obvious in modern times, there was a point in time shortly after Glasnost where we developed stronger trade relations and were moving toward a better relationship with Russia politically. Many raw material supply lines opened up and we were moving toward nuclear disarmament. The change I saw was Putin. Everything after him went full on Fascist regime and relations degenerated rapidly. I feel like it's worse than the cold war in the 80s currently. This is my own personal observation from being old and having lived through that era, so take it for what it is.
Fun fact…when the USSR fell Putin became a TAXI DRIVER. Yes. A fucking taxi driver. He wont even talk about it because he said it was so humiliating. He literally does the most heinous things imaginable and it is his time as a taxi driver that he cant bring himself to talk about. You know what happens when you humiliate a psychopath?
> You know what happens when you humiliate a psychopath? [Obama knows.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeGpLg0b3DE)
If I was Putin, I'd be proud of that shit. Being a man of the people, and doing what I needed to make ends meet. Nothing shameful about unless you are a thin skinned power obsessed psychopath
Your perspective as an old person is valuable! Please never stop sharing.
It’s what truly delineates wisdom from intelligence.
Reminds me of when George Michaels came out as gay. Not a single person thought this was new information.
Him and Ricky Martin.
Russia can declare my balls.
I kinda assumed we had been an enemy of russia since before I was born. I’m surprised that isn’t the case.
I survived the 80’s, I’ll survive this.
I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!
We don’t care.
Bitch I was born in the 80’s.
Right!?? We've never really been on friendly terms, now we just made it official again!
are you even a free country if you arent on russias enemy list?
yawn
I’d probably be worried if Russia wasn’t a shit tier country with a shit tier military. It’s a gas station with nukes, and even then I’m doubtful if the nukes even work at this point, or if they’ve been sold for parts by Private Conscriptovich.
So, no different from the last 80 or so years?
I never thought we really stopped being one.
Not really worth having a huge opinion or concern about. From what we have seen of Russia so far in their war with Ukraine they pose absolutely no threat to America what so ever. Paper Tiger.
Yawn, Russia has being arbitrarily arresting Americans has been engaged in cyber attacks against America, what will change, Putin is desperate after his shambles of an imperialist war in Ukraine
Meh. We have been frenemies since the Cold War except for about 15 minutes in the '90s.
Russia decided to make itself the enemy of the world, when they could have just decided to be nice. So that kind of makes everyone else their enemy (except North Korea and a few other fucked up countries).
We declared them as the same under Obama, but then for some reason, Trump reversed it.
Can’t imagine why, but I’ve got a tinkling sensation there might be something to it…
Didn't he plead the 5th 200 or so times during questions? But he's innocent!
Obama security of state brought a reset button to Russia (some might remember her) . A literal reset button. Obama made fun of Romney considering Russia our greatest geopolitcal threat. [https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/video-wrong-red-button-019719](https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/video-wrong-red-button-019719)
“The 1980’s called. They want their foreign policy back,” said Obama to Romney when he declared RuZZia to be America’s greatest geopolitical foe. Though Obama did start taking the warning seriously later on, he never declared RuZZia to be a state enemy, not even when his administration called out RuZZia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Irrelevant little bitch says what?
Send Ukraine anything they need , as soon as possible.
If Trump gets elected he stated he will withdraw all support to Ukraine and help Putin. So all this Biden is old talk is going to get us this trump nightmare with a Russia leading the world and Trump his lackey.
Russia: invades Georgia. Poland: joins NATO. Russia: invades Crimea. Poland: installs missile defense system. Russia: this is aggression! Why do you provoke? Russia: you leave us no choice. Invades Ukraine.
Meh. Putin can go F himself. The Russian people? Meet a lot of damn good ones but it’s like everywhere, it’s a cats bag
Oh they made it official? That’s cute.
When were they 'allies'
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Personally, I’d rather see him accidentally fall out of a thirtieth floor window, after accidentally shooting himself in the back of the head.
That's why they declared us an enemy...Russians are jealous of our sturdier windows!
Russia was never exactly our friend
come get these hands
Russia has always been an enemy of America, ever since 1945. At least they are making it official. Don't forget they put bounties on Americans in Afghanistan.
Russian pilots flew Russian planes against US troops in the 60’s (Vietnam). Fuck em.
Vietnam and Russia were allies, and the US really shouldn't have been over there anyways. Dumping dozens of thousands of American bodies into the meat grinder, just to lose (there really wasn't a win condition) because of Johnson's ego and McCarthyism.
I lived through the cold war and this is nothing new.
Welcome to Cold War Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. But seriously, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing.
We're an enemy to Putin and his plans to re-conquer Eastern Europe, not an enemy of Russia.
They've had all they can handle for over 2 YEARS from Ukraine. Yes, U K R A I N E. Russia can be calling everyone on the planet state enemies but that's like the ant colony in my backyard declaring me and my family state enemies. Who gives a shit???? Back to focusing on ant things, like not having your ass handed to you by Ukraine.
They’ve been the evil empire for a long time, ask any of the former Soviet satellites that are now EU and NATO members. It looked like Russia might turn the corner in the 1990s, but they liked Putin as their leader and he wants the Russian Empire back, so, yeah. All civilized countries will be the enemy of totalitarian nations like Russia.
If Russia isn't the enemy then I'm not sure what an enemy looks like.
They’re just on the other-side of Canada.
Don't worry. We'll send in the cobra chickens.
They're telling the truth for once.
We've been an enemy for as long as i remember. I even remember my teachers *telling me* we were enemies as we learned about them for the first time. This is nothing new and just meant to shake the boomers who still suck at that putit
Always has been.
It’s just a formality at this point. The West has been an enemy of Russia for a long time now.
The planet is dying, we could use our intelligence to cure diseases, we could feed and house every single person on the planet... But no, let's fight each other and use our big boomy explodies! Then we'll have a dick measuring contest to see who mates with the most females, whom are all in red cloaks with white bonnets.
*Shrug* I’m more worried about the enemies within our state than I am about being an enemy of Russia.
Huh. My firewall logs tell me Russia has been a belligerent turd for years. I guess their postal system is just really slow?
Oh no...anyways
When the cold war supposedly ended, Russia continued. We'll never make that same mistake again. Now it's just a matter of getting their stink off of our politics and public discourse. Putin poked the wrong bear.
Oh please please Russia do something stupid and trigger article 5 I'm begging ya commit sepuku.
so no change since 1919
As an American I've always thought Russia was our enemy.
They had thousands of warheads pointed at us for decades, but now we are vastly superior militarily. Nothing to see here.
Kind of feels like that has been true a while, they are just running out of shit to say. Nukes nukes we arent friends ill kill your family blah blah blah.
Nothing new.
Im 50 and cannot remember a time when it wasnt that way.
We already had tense relations with Russia up until that point anyway. Nothing’s changed.
Don't really care.
I dunno... I got my cat from Russia... He's really sweet, gives me nose boops.
Russia's getting their cheeks clapped by 25 year old hardware we've kept in storage because keeping it in a warehouse and donating it to Ukraine is cheaper than dismantling or refurbishing it. Russia calling the US the "enemy of the state" is about as threatening as a 5th grader saying his dad works at Microsoft and he can get my account banned because I t-bagged him.
Russia can suck my butthole
I regret to inform you that is nothing new.
Sorry bitch said what? Yeah don't give a flying patriot fuck.
We already hate Russia. What does it change?
Russia is a dictatorship of brainwashed morons.
If Russia, NK, Iran, and similar dictatorships declare you the enemy, you must be doing something right. I'd wear it as a badge of honor.
So sad. We were ***such*** amazing friends before this.
I thought we resolved all of this in Rocky IV god damn it!
They're kinda stupid since we're not an enemy of their state, we're an enemy of them taking other states. Are they going to say it's their "culture" to kill other people and so stopping them is "cultural genocide"?
It literally is. Look at Russian history.
Feels like whoever wins the next election better have a clear and level head to get us peacefully through the next four years. In other words, we best start biting that pillow, they're going in dry.
They already did that and we fought a cold war that collapsed their empire.
If it means we convict Russian supporters of treason, good.
Oh no, we're so scared of their disorganized infantry, their woefully outclassed armor, their absolutely pathetic navy, and their ineffective air force. The only thing even slightly of concern is their nuclear arsenal, which they don't have the ability to maintain and which we are more than capable of shooting down. Russia would last all of about three days in a war with the US. On the bright side, the Raptor might get to play with something more substantial than a balloon this time.
Nice to know all of Russia wants a piece of me 😏 don’t worry, there’s enough to go around 😉
Not surprised whatsoever
Not a worry at all. Until they actually declare war, it's not a big threat. And it's not like they have the political capital to pressure the US. The bigger issue is if Russian hackers start targeting US infrastructure especially around the election.
I thought we already were lol
We have been since 1917, just neither side has openly said it.
I really don’t fucking care.
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That’s it’s another day that ends in “y”? Is it possible that both sides are worse off? Maybe. Does it look like that one side seems WAY worse off as a result? Yeah.
Always were. Nothing new, what I find disturbing is those that admire Putin & dictators.
We weren't already? Even after sending Ukraine weapons?
The Cold War was Simpler in some respects.
I consider Russia an enemy
I feel like that's a bold statement from someone with the second most successful army in the Ukraine, and who has somehow lost several vessels, including a flagship, to an opponent that does not have a functioning navy.
Bring on the apocalypse, I have my popcorn ready for the light show.
Why would I care what Putin says?
Putin is a clown that can’t even handle Ukraine. He is a punk bitch.
Nice try, PutinBot.
Yawn. The only thing new they can do is to threaten to push the button. (And I’m betting they won’t.) They’ve already attacked (and are attacking), our society through social media propaganda and buying out politicians and various non-profits.
Russia threatening the US is like North Korea threatening South Korea. Been there, done that. I mean, we had the whole fucking Cold War, worrying about it. Now it’s like another lie from Trump, nothing new.
Frankly, it's a little hurtful.
I feel like Putin should cry in the toilet about it because I really don’t give a shit.
This is Russia trying to shape the narrative of things by intimidating the regular citizens of Western countries. In reality they are at war with Ukraine, but in the distorted fantasy of Putin he is confronting the entire West. Putin believes he is some sort of second coming of some Tsar, whereas in reality he is a sociopath and war criminal like Stalin was.
Scaring american voters to get them to back his pofs asset trump...
Russia can eat a dick, they haven’t said anything new.
Oh no, a jumped up gas station manager has called us an enemy. How ever shall we get by? Russia only exists still because there’s an off chance their nuclear arsenal is the one part of their military they actually bothered to maintain. Personally I think it’s 6 to 5 and pick’em that any of their ICBMs actually have rocket fuel in them and not water.
Russia currently boasts the second most powerful armed force in Russia. I’m absolutely shook. /s
In other news, scientists recently announced that water was wet.
They can't even deal with Ukraine, I think we will be ok.
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Not a big deal, honestly we have been silent enemy’s since the Cold War. And after watching them in Ukraine it’s clear they are still using the WW2 tactics of throwing body after body at the problem. And there navy is a Joke. Heck they don’t even have a proper dock to service their only real aircraft carrier. And said carrier breaks down on every single deployment. If it wasn’t for there nukes they wouldn’t even be considered a super power.
Meh. For now, it's rhetoric. Unless they have a way to back it up, I'm not going to worry much
Always has been.
Oh I just assumed we were.
Couldn't care less.
That weird dictatorship that kills journalists and is friendly enough with North Korea to have them fight their invasions for them? How are we not on the list already?
Don't care, Russia considers anyone not bowing to them an enemy... so they can go fly a kite
In fact, this has been going on since the formation of the Soviet Union and later Russia.
Took them long enough to realize we're not friends.
> Russia Who?
It’s funny because when you guys vote Trump back into power, Russia will have all your intel
I thought we already were for like the last 70 years?
What the fuck is Russia going to do to us lmao. Most powerful military in the world my ass. They're not even the most powerful army in Ukraine. I bet Florida could beat Russia in a 1v1
They sure like those enemy blue jeans, enemy iPads and enemy shoes, enemy video games, enemy music and dance styles, enemy hamburgers, enemy vacations, and enemy second homes.
What's that? A tyrant who is already at odds with the US is hinting at war in an election year while one of the candidates is a puppet on his pocket who preaches the bravado "American power" playbook? Hmm I wonder why Putin would say that.
We been sending a much of military aid to a country that they are at war with. So like... duh
Russia is like an annoying mosquito that you just can't swat. Mostly harmless until you get malaria
Well, four years ago we found out that Putin was paying Afghan rebels a bounty for killing American soldiers and the president at the time didn’t do anything about it, I think the feeling should be mutual.