In Soviet Russia... (Score 1)

They are a third world nation with first world aspirations, but they can't seem to get it right. How long before we get back to the old USSR? I'd guess sooner rather than later. Problem this time is, the US and Europe aren't going to let Russia roll their tanks into every Eastern European nation bulldozing their people into submission. Fool us once...

I been born in Moscow and leaved half of my live in USSR (not Russia, - the USSR), the other half of my life I leaved in New York USA and in my opinion those 2 the USA and the USSR were were so close to each other in the cense of "what they did and why did they do that"... I mean I almost see them as an identical countries. Of course USSR was monarchy ruled by the communist party, while USA was showing off as a "true democracy capitalism". but those are about ALL the differences there were in those 2 countries. USSR was very furious about controlling their people, as a tool to accomplish control they used fear along with killing or sending away those who protested, while they did it ONLY to their own people (the ones under Molotov Pact). During the 70+ years of USSR the only major war is Afghanistan. US has found a different way to control their people, since US is "democratic" they could not use force as a first strike instrument against people, instead US has achieved the same (or even better) results with a united media used as a direct propaganda tool. - US has started a major war/incident with almost every precedent US had (some of the precedents have even achieved to start more than 1 major war during his precrdancy) dislocating and killing as many people as USSR. The only BIG difference was the Stalin who managed to kill more Soviet People than Hitler during his whole WWII !! (And that is according to soviet sources! so the actual numbers can be much higher!) - Most aggressive Stalin repressions were reported during 1937 - 1939 - US seem to LOVE stalin at that time (Time Magazine made him man of the year in 1940! http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19400101,00.html ) - Does that look ironic to you? or do you want to say that US and europe did not know that Stalin killed millions of people in 1939 alone?? At that time the West did not think that it was any bad to kill those people, and silenced about the whole thing!!! This is just one of the examples where after 50 or so years we can clearly see that there was no difference between the US and USSR intentions toward "peace and democracy". - The end result is the same, call it democracy or what ever else the intention is to conquer and rule one way or another. Perhaps Baltic states think they will be better off with US... Perhaps they dont see that US is building a "human shield" employing those Baltic states against a "Possible attack from Russia" Perhaps Baltic states dont see that US and Russia are simply competing against each other because they both want essentially the same thing? Perhaps Baltic states dont realize that IF SUTCH AN ATTACK will ever happen they will be among the first ones to suffer with most casualties anyway since they are on the "border of conflicting parties". Perhaps they think that it is better to inflame the aggression between Russia and US - will that make them any safer? Perhaps those states should learn a thing or two from Finland who managed to stay in the balance between the 2 opposing powers! Just my opinion of course...