Why is the Eurasian Union being underreported?

[Domen]

What about Offensive spending ???

 

[Formaldehyde]

Good point. According to the reactionaries, it is all supposedly "offensive" merely because it doesn't agree with their own preconceived notions while living in the past.

 

[Gen.Mannerheim]

I am convinced that somewhere deep within the bowels of the Kremlin, Russian officials and Army officers gather around the head of ole Halford Mackinder chanting the introduction to "The Geographical Pivot of History" and trying to contact the spirit of Tamurlane on a ouija board.

Its the only way to explain the absolute devotion to the Heartland Theory which the Russians seem to have and the almost complete lack of an original foreign policy idea since Peter the Great...

 

[Mouthwash]

Only if you wish to use nonsensical hyperbole instead of facts. And that graph shows military spending, not in proportion to the GDP.

Russia is no more a global threat than the UK or France is. There is only one country which now has the potential to meet that description. See the above graph for details.

Neither China or Russia are global threats. I think there will be another, smaller scale Cold War between Russia and the US. But I don't think Russia will last another fifty years.

 

[Verbose]

But I don't think Russia will last another fifty years.

I'm VERY sure Russia will last a lot longer — just not in its current political form.

 

[Kyriakos]

^If anything (for worse or better) it is the US which seems unlikely to last (united) for a lot more.
Which is sad, cause it could have been a massive force for democracy, and ended up being a massive oligarchy for pseudo-equality and inner-group powerplays.

 

[Verbose]

There isn't much in the media about this because nothing has really happened.

This.

It's some kind of plan. Too irreal so far to be reportable. Kremlin occasionally talking about it as something down the line doesn't make it real quite yet.

The European Union and the European Commission both already exist, and THEY still have something of an air of irreality about them. The Eurasian Union and the Eurasian Commission are so far merely proposals.

Might not be a bad idea, but who knows, really?

 

[Mouthwash]

I'm VERY sure Russia will last a lot longer — just not in its current political form.

By morphing into a liberal marketfest, right?

If anything (for worse or better) it is the US will seems unlikely to last (united) for a lot more.
Which is sad, cause it could have been a massive force for democracy, and ended up being a massive oligarchy for pseudo-equality and inner-group powerplays.

Have you fallen victim to BS Texas secessionism story?

 

[Kyriakos]

Have you fallen victim to BS Texas secessionism story?

I am not really alluding to those polls, but to the general climate of class/racial/falseideology war which is by now (if one judges by the media stories from the main sites like AP and Reuters) infinitely more pronounced in the US than what was going on just 15 years ago (2001 being a very clear turning point).

It does not look good, and i already said that i am sad about it, cause the US could have been helping the rest become better, but instead got infested by its own oligarchs, and the end result is likely to be horrible for the regular millions of people there.

 

[Mouthwash]

I am not really alluding to those polls, but to the general climate of class/racial/falseideology war which is by now (if one judges by the media stories from the main sites like AP and Reuters) infinitely more pronounced in the US than what was going on just 15 years ago (2001 being a very clear turning point).

Except that the vast majority of the American public is totally indifferent to all of it. The class war (occupy movement, etc) is an overreported joke, the George Zimmerman case is nothing compared to the race riots of the sixties, and the polarization of American politics is due to the minority voters which politicians count on to get into office. They certainly don't represent the public opinion.

If one recalls, one of the main issues of the nineties was environmental collapse. So it's fair to say that it was basically a period of confusion about their place in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I really don't think that anything we're experiencing now is comparable to the sixties.

And what do you mean by "polls?"

It does not look good, and i already said that i am sad about it, cause the US could have been helping the rest become better, but instead got infested by its own oligarchs, and the end result is likely to be horrible for the regular millions of people there.

This is ridiculous projectionism. Sure, income inequality is a major problem in the US, but are you Russian or something?

 

[Kyriakos]

Uh, i am not Russian. I am Byzantine.


[as for the polls, i mean the various white house petitions with the close to a million signatures iirc for some states having a vote on this issue (breaking away from the union), and other galups being run less centrally].

 

[Mouthwash]

Uh, i am not Russian. I am Byzantine.

Does that mean Turkish or Greek?

[as for the polls, i mean the various white house petitions with the close to a million signatures iirc for some states having a vote on this issue (breaking away from the union), and other galups being run less centrally].

I'd like a few links.

 

[Kyriakos]

^This is a grave insult

So look for those links yourself.

ps: Palestine should return to the Byzantine Empire too You can keep reading your holy book through the Ptolemaic translation, as you used to

 

[Verbose]

By morphing into a liberal marketfest, right?

I wouldn't presume to be prescient about it. Beyond finding the probabilities of the long-term survivability of Putin's current creation not too good.

 

[red_elk]

Uh, i am not Russian. I am Byzantine.

No difference.
I am Byzantine too, just of Slavic origin.

 

[Mouthwash]

^This is a grave insult

I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the local racialist traditions.

I wouldn't presume to be prescient about it. Beyond finding the probabilities of the long-term survivability of Putin's current creation not too good.

Russia is far too stretched out to remain coherent as a liberal democracy, imo. At the very least, some "Russian core" from Moscow to St. Petersburg may remain intact. But I think the country as it is on the map will have disintegrated by century's end.

 

[Kyriakos]

No difference.
I am Byzantine too, just of Slavic origin.

+867

The Christianization of Kievan Rus'[1] took place in several stages. In early 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople announced to other Orthodox patriarchs that the Rus', baptised by his bishop, took to Christianity with particular enthusiasm. Photius's attempts at Christianizing the country seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic sources describe the tenth-century Rus' as firmly entrenched in paganism. The definitive Christianisation of Kiev dates from the late 980s (the year is disputed[2]), when Vladimir the Great was baptized at Chersonesos, proceeding to baptize his family and people in Kiev. The place of Vladimir's baptism is marked by St. Vladimir's Cathedral.

 

[LamaGT]

Neither China or Russia are global threats. I think there will be another, smaller scale Cold War between Russia and the US. But I don't think Russia will last another fifty years.

And what would it do, sink in the ocean?

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

Russia will...

...of course!

Does that mean Turkish or Greek?

Btw, is it that hard to look into the location entry?.. Some people put actual staff there

 

[Mouthwash]

Btw, is it that hard to look into the location entry?.. Some people put actual staff there

There are Turks in Greece, aren't there? I thought that Greeks pronounced it "Thessaloniki," and so assumed "Thessalonike" was the Turkish pronunciation.

Anyway, he looks Turkish.