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Hearing that coming from someone on the far-right got me wondering: is Russia doing good now or is it a glorified shithole?
You hear from shills that Russia is something like a great power with super advanced weaponry, a healthy economy, that Putin has turned around and increased their formerly declining birth rate among actual slavs, which before hand was collapsing like the rest of degenerate Europe. On the other hand, you hear that it is basically what Derbyshire mr. yellow fever said, that it has a wornout Cold War military, has no economy, is basically swirling the toilet, and that Putin is basically a crass gangster. Is there any reality to this? From watching Putin speak, it seems to me that he is more than a gangster, but rather a pretty serious statesman. How bad off is their military? It's not like the US military hasn't gotten out of the Cold War either, most of the stuff we use today comes directly from the Cold War. What is the real Russia?
What is the real state of Russia right now?
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When Russia has needed its military to meet objectives, by and large they seem to have been successful. They put down that whole ordeal in Georgia. They took Crimea and preserved their naval base at Sevastopol. They have repelled the regime change operations in Syria. Where you stand on the viability/veracity of their anti-ship missile claims will probably cement how you view their military capability.
Derbyshire can never "get" Russia because he's a bourgeois cuckold (like all western sinophiles). He actually can't get much of anything.
Also, Derbyshire is in no way "far right."
Russia is something like a great power with super advanced weaponry
Russia's biggest pro is that they are so awesome on social issues. We all know they're economy has been sluggish for a while. And as far as militaries go, China is a paper tiger and the EU military is more of a hypothetical, than a reality… Russia is the only nation on earth that can hold a candle to the US and given that Russia is wiser about using their military in quick wars with clear objectives (unless the US's defense of Israel by going into these complex multi-decade conflicts without a real winning scenario) they actually use their military more effectively than any nation on earth.
They're nothing to sneeze at, but obviously they aren't heaven on earth. Their main attraction is how much they stand up to the (((establishment))).
I used to live there.I is a Twilight Zone country. In other places the people would have rebelled by now but everyone seems content with the current state of shittynes across the board.
And regarding Putin - I measure the leaders by whether they made the lives of people under them overall better and whether the country is self sustainable enough. He failed at that besides making propaganda in the vein of "everything is fine, move along" types.
The part about third worlders flooding is not just a "problem." It's so significant that it's going to break the United States. Not only that, the reason third world shitskins flood the US isn't that the US is wonderful. It's because the places they come from in Latin America are such unbelievably shitty places in comparison, and the US government literally pays shitskins to have babies. The US is completely overrun in many areas. If the choice is live in, say, the Rio Grande Valley or parts of California and Arizona that are actually just Mexico, I'll take Russia any day.
Also, it should be very clear to everyone that not only is our government as corrupt as Russia's at this point, but it's probably worse. The amount of looting and theft is far greater now by American crony capitalist oligarchs and the politicians they pay who are looting themselves as fast as they can. We have Russia-level corruption but demographically are headed the way of Brazil. Third world corrupt banana republic latin/nigger kike-looted shithole. That's America.
By what measure? Russia has strong international politics, strong weapons and a shitload of domestic problems so
more or less yes.
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This is also some generation gap bullshit or something–"our blessed bounty." No, see, that's for boomers. They sucked all the jobs out of the US and imported labor for the rest to destroy our neighborhoods with shitskins, all while they massively indebted and lied to an entire generation that they'd have similar job prospects with a college degree or graduate degrees, but no such jobs were forthcoming because the boomers specifically profited off the elimination of those jobs. It is the height of looting and fucking all future generations and then claiming we are sooo prosperous. Literally only boomers and Donald Trump propaganda pushers tall like that (and I don't fault Trump for playing the necessary propaganda games). It is transparent bullshit and boomer to the core.