Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Russia and Nato's Baltic war games: the Latvians caught on Europe's frontline" video.

  1. Maybe if Russia didn't keep invading it's neighbours and annexing their territory little Latvia wouldn't feel the need to call in NATO.
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  2. NATO would wipe the floor with them.
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  3. During the Russian occupation, in order to stamp out Latvian cultural identity Latvians were the victims of large scale ethnic cleansing. Whole populations were simply deported en mass to gulag concentration camps in Siberia never to be seen again. Today, those Russian's who were brought into Latvia following occupation are given full citizenship if they agree to carry out the Latvian language and culture citizenship test. Latvia is quite within its rights to insist that schools teach in Latvian. Just like any other country has a right to insist their state schools teach in their national languages. By expecting Latvia to be any different, you simply play along with Putin's game. And that is to deny the right for Latvia to exist as an independent nation and undermine its national sovereignty.
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  4. After decades of Russian occupation, and the attempted eradication of Latvian national identity by Moscow, its understandable that the Latvians wish to safeguard their independence. Russian speakers who arrived in Latvia after the Russian invasion are given citizenship if they are prepared to carry out the Latvian language and culture citizenship test. Just like every other non-Latvian living in Latvia.
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  5. No he didn't. That was never in any agreement. Besides, the Russians were in no position to makes demands. Their occupation of Europe was at an end. They should've fucked right off and been glad Europe left it at that.
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  6. And Russia has a habit of invading its neighbours.
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  7. There was no genocide in Ukraine or Georgia. That is simply kremlin lies to excuse Putin's support for terrorism and war against Russia's neighbours.  
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  8. I'm guessing the Ukrainians were told the same. And the Georgians before that. Putin is a war mongering dictator. The Latvians are right not to trust him.
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  9. Fuck off back to your third-world dump of a country.
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  10. Putin is a lying bastard. A warmonger. And a war criminal.
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  11. Uros L Well, clearly Russia did invade. Putin even admitted it! We also know the exact Russian unit responsible for shooting down MH17.
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  12. The Zeitgeist Verbal agreements between individuals count for nothing. Its why they are put into writing. And signed. And as no such agreement was formally made, Russia has no argument. NATO, and more importantly those Eastern European countries who later joined NATO, were under no obligation to honour any such agreement, verbal or otherwise, with Russia. The Russians had occupied half of Europe since the end of the war. They were in no position to make demands of sovereign independent democratic nations. Those formally occupied countries were within their rights to make whatever alliances they wished. It would be as if someone had stolen your property, then handed it back to you on the proviso that you should only do what they want you to do with it.     
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  13. They love invading them too!
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  14. +antcumontoast Just higher standards of living, democracy, free speech, human rights. ...You know, all the things Russia hates.
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  15. You wish you did. Rather than the third world wasteland you call a 'country'.
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  16. Tatiana Donbassgirl Maybe that might have something to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its massive troop build up in Kaliningrad?
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  17. You dumb fuckin chump. Take a look at a Russian map! Russia has got a bit bigger and Ukraine smaller. You think people are as dumb as the Russians not to notice that?
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  18. The Zeitgeist A moral obligation? To an occupying foreign force? Why should the occupied have a moral obligation to their former occupiers? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Where is Russia's obligation to respect the sovereignty and independence of countries they oppressed for so long?  
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  19. Recently? Russia started the war against Ukraine. It also started a war against Georgia not so long ago. In both cases it annexed territory. And before that it was Chechnya. And Russia has been holding war games on the borders of the Baltic states. NATO's wargames are simply a response.   
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  20. Wow! I'm guessing that's quite some achievement back in the dark ages!  
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  21. I don't live in Russia. So I have no idea what it must be like living in the dark ages.
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  22. Russia allied itself to nazi Germany. And the two genocidal regimes split Poland between them. Then they carved up the rest of Europe. Check the details of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Its all there! While the Brits and French were fighting Hitler, Russia was supplying the nazi war machine! Ultimately tho, there was no difference between Stalinist Russia and nazi Germany. Except Stalinist Russia killed more people.
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  23. The Russian's were so brutal in their occupation of the Baltics, that many Latvians fought on the side of the Germans. They did so out of necessity. Unlike Russia, who willingly allied with nazi Germany in order to invade and carve up Poland. Russia is in no position to be pointing the finger at Latvia over what it did during world war 2. Russia was as guilty as Germany. Stalin was as bad as Hitler.
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  24. Tatiana Donbassgirl  Stalin can most certainly be compared to Hitler. In fact, on a genocidal scale, Stalin was worse. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact included a secret clause that divided Europe between nazi Germany and soviet Russia. Both countries agreed to carve Poland up between them. And just as in the Baltics, the Russians were so brutal that even the gestapo was shocked! Russians often excuse the Hitler/Stalin alliance as simply a reaction to Britain and France's refusal to join an anti-fascist pact. But Stalin's brutal regime was seen as just as much of a threat as nazi Germany. And, as Russia's invasion of the Baltics and Poland later proved, that view was very much justified. But even if that were not the case, why would the refusal of Britain and France to join an alliance justify Russia's alliance with nazi Germany?  Russia likes to think itself a victim in world war 2. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Like Germany, Russia was an aggressor.
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  25. Uros L Idk, does it? That desperate to keep people from leaving, eh?  
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  26. Good thing too. Anything that stopped the spread of Russia's brutal communist empire has got to be applauded!
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  27. Its hilarious how Russians can only think as far back as 'Operation Barbarossa'. If you go a little further back Janith Dasunpriya, you'll find that Russia allied itself with nazi Germany. And invaded Poland. You'll also find that without even bothering to issue a declaration of war, Russia simply invaded and annexed the Baltic nations. Then came the mass deportations. Hundreds of thousands of Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians sent off to the Siberian gulag concentration camps never to be seen again. That is why the Baltic nations do not trust the Russians when they play their wargames near their borders. They see Russia's invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory, and, quite rightly, they don't want to take any chances.  Let the Russians fantasise about 'empires' and 'famous secrets' and other conspiracies. Meanwhile they live under a warmongering war criminal KGB dictator. But if they attack one NATO member, they attack them all. And NATO would wipe the fuckin floor with them!  =P
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  28. ***** 36 hours. Then the inevitable response would cripple Russia for a generation.
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  29. Just a quick correction. The OSCE and UN most certainly did not monitor the 'referendum'. That was left to a handful of neo-nazis Putin invited in from Holland.
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  30. Uros L Yanukovych's impeachment is fact. He was and is a traitor. While Russia invades and occupies Ukrainian territory, Yanukovych hides out in Russia. I suggest you stop getting your news from the kremlin. Its the same Pravda they were selling during the cold war. And just as worthless.
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  31. Russians don't even think Ukraine or Latvia is a country. Putin does exactly what Hitler did to Czechoslovakia.
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  32. So Russia hasn't invaded Ukraine? Take a fuckin look at a Russian map, peasant.
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  33. I bet Russia does. I bet Russia wishes it could get it's grubby syphilitic hands on them again.   
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  34. Yeah, because I'm sure NATO intends to invade Russia with an army of 4,000 men. I mean, I know the Russian military is shit, but at around 800,000 front line troops and 2.5 million reserves, I would've thought even they could deal with an invasion force of that strength!
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  35. gantulga ganhuyag The Russians left over from the Russian occupation of Latvia can speak Russian all they like. They can also take Latvian citizenship. If they are prepared to learn the language. And, of course, they are free to leave anytime they like.
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  36. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania all have a higher GDP per capita than Russia. So I guess that makes Russia an even bigger shithole.
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  37. You sound just like those who wanted to appease Hitler!
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  38. Uros L Yeah, there was some Russian newspaper a decade or so ago that made the same claim. Don't remember millions of Brits scrambling off to Russia tho. I'm guessing they wouldn't much like the drop in living standards anyhow.
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  39. Uros L The Ukrainian parliament's impeachment of Yanukovych was in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution. Yanukovych is a traitor. After all, what kind of president would support the invasion and annexation of his own countries territory?  
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  40. Uros L There was no fighting in Ukraine until the Russians invaded. And there was no vote in the Ukrainian parliament to authorise foreign military intervention. Yanukovych not only acted illegally, he was also committing treason against his own country.   
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  41. Uros L It would be like Germany having an ex-gestapo officer as chancellor. Hell, I'm Russian, so I'd know!   
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  42. Uros L And the reason why you can't argue is because you are simply peddling kremlin lies. I wonder why a Canadian would want to be doing that?
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  43. Uros L 'UN journalists'?!! The UN general assembly voted Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory an illegal act.
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  44. Fuck the KGB war criminal Putin.
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  45. Aaron Paul And yet Putin (KGB secret policeman) annexes yet another territory. What will be your excuse when he tries it in Latvia?
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  46. Nah. All the people must protest the warmongering war criminal in the kremlin.
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  47. Daniel Van Mook Only Europe doesn't seem to believe you. Which is why Russia is once again isolated from the west.
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  48. +Родерик Рандом Why is it that Russians still pretend like they haven't invaded Ukraine? Everybody knows they did. They know they did. We know that they know that we know they did. But they still continue to lie! Are they clowns? I bet if the Ukrainians threatened to shoot captured Russian solders the kremlin would suddenly start claiming they were prisoners of war. And the Ukrainians capture enough of them! I think the prisoner exchange rate is 2 Russians for every one Ukrainian. Altho it seems the Ukrainians are selling themselves pretty cheaply there imo. I would say one Ukrainian is worth at least 3 Russians!
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  49. Putin is a war criminal.
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  50. ''...aimed to neutralize Russian nuclear potential'' Fucking good job too! I hardly think Russia is innocent when it comes to being a 'threat to global security', Putin is on his forth major war already! And Russia's days of empire are over. It can't even influence its closest neighbours without going to war with them. So I hardly think the kremlin is lightly to make a military alliance with Mexico and Canada anytime soon! XD 
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  51. ***** Someone should tell that to Smeagol in the kremlin. He seems to like the whole Hitler annexation thing.  
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  52. bipola telly Fuck off back to Russia if you don't like free speech.   
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  53. If I knew what that meant I might be able to answer it.
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  54. Lots of Russian trolls stinking up the place! XD
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  55. What doesn't chime with you? The fact that the Ukrainian parliament voted 328–0 in favour of the impeachment of Yanukovych? That no one, not even Yanukovych's own party, voted against? Or do you deny that in 2014 Poroshenko was voted into government by the Ukrainian electorate? Perhaps you believe KGB colonel Putin, when he says the Ukrainian parliament is illegitimate? That would be a joke tho, right? Coming from Putin! After all, as you say, we all know the saying about glasshouses!    
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  56. Richard Taylor Russians love to talk as if Ukraine has been taken over by neo-nazis. They think it lends credibility to their invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory. But the far right in Ukraine actually polled less in the last election than they did under Russia's puppet Yanukovych. In fact, if anyone can be considered a far right nationalist, it is Putin himself. As he has done to Ukraine exactly what Hitler did to Czechoslovakia in the Sudetenland. NATO and the EU are not to blame for the actions of Russia. Putin is. He doesn't like the idea of his neighbours having successful stable democratic governments. Because then the Russian people might start asking why they can't have the same. If Latvia was not a member of NATO, Putin would have done the same there as he did in Georgia and Ukraine. 
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  57. ***** You mean local ethnic Russians like the Russian artillery officer Igor Strelkov? (ex-minister of the 'Donetsk People's Republic'-Russian citizen). Or Arsen Sergeyevich Pavlov? (another Russian citizen commanding separatist forces in the east of Ukraine) Or Alexander Borodai? (Russian citizen-first deputy prime minister of the 'Donetsk people's republic'). And how about all those Russian soldiers the Ukrainians keep capturing? Did they just lose their way? Or are they terrorists? Either you know fuck all about what you're talking about, or you're just parroting kremlin lies. Even Russian's know Putin is lying when he says there are no Russian troops in Ukraine!  
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  58. The real fascist is the KGB gremlin in the kremlin.
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  59. The Zeitgeist If, as you claim, eastern Europe was occupied by the 'soviet union' and not Russia, and the soviet union no longer exists, then by what right has Russia to demand anything from the territories the soviet union formally occupied? You have already claimed that it was not Russia who occupied those countries. And that Russia was just part of the soviet union like any other part. If that is the case, then it it's just a question of one half of the soviet union wishing to join NATO. While the other half doesn't. And where does punishment come into it? Eastern European countries simply wish to make their own alliances and pursue their own self interest. Just as Russia continues to do. Does Poland demand that Russia consult Warsaw before Putin makes alliances with the Chinese? Do the Lithuanians claim the right to dictate Russian foreign policy with Iran? After all, they were as much part of the USSR, yes? In 1991, when Boris Yeltsin raised the question of Russia entering NATO, did Belarus invade Moscow? When Putin said in March 2000 that ''...We believe we can talk about a more profound integration with NATO'' and said he couldn't see any reason why Russia should not join NATO, did Ukraine invade southern Russia? Why not? After all, someone in the US had given a verbal promise not to expand NATO, right? And Russia was, after all, just a part of the USSR like any other country. Your problem is that you care nothing for the rights and freedoms of eastern European countries. You are just desperate to appease Putin because he threatens war.  
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  60. The Zeitgeist I agree with your last point. Other countries must take into account their own interests when it comes to the expansion of NATO. As Poland, and the Baltics did indeed do. Their interests are not superseded by the interests of Russia. No matter how much Russia threatens. In fact, Russia's threats simply prove the need for NATO membership. If Russia see's NATO as a hostile military alliance, that is more down to Russia's own actions in regards to its hostility towards its neighbours. And if Russia truly saw NATO as hostile, why did Putin wish to join the alliance back in 2000?  And so now Russia was the essential 'core' of the USSR, rather than just another member of the 'soviet union'? But once again, that brings back up the question of buy what right does it demand anything of the nations it formally occupied? Are the former parts of Russia's soviet empire independent nations or not? If they are, then they have the right to make alliances just as Russia does. If not, then their desire to join NATO is understandable, yes?  
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  61. The Zeitgeist Only its not just CNN and the BBC that is reporting the truth of what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Its the entire western world along with pretty much the rest of the worlds media (excepting countries like North Korea, Iran, and other important Russian allies).
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  62. The Zeitgeist None have more of a reputation for lying than Russia. Especially Putin. But clearly you prefer to believe the word of a KGB secret policeman. And its all just some giant conspiracy to blame poor innocent freedom-loving Russia for something it hasn't done! Do you believe the earth is flat also?
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  63. Nah. Putin's to blame. If he didn't keep annexing bits of other countries there wouldn't be a problem.
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  64. Uros L Like I said, stop getting your news from the KGB man in the kremlin.
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  65. Uros L Poroshenko was elected into power by the Ukrainian electorate. Russia is not a democracy. It has an ex-KGB secret police colonel as a president. That was never going to end well. And unlike Putin, McCain has never declared war on any country. As for US news media, it very much depends on who you watch. CNN, Fox, ABC, they all have their own particular political slant. But they all have no fear of criticizing the government.
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  66. antzontoast Russia allied itself to Hitler. Russia even helped support the nazi war machine while the Brits and French were fighting it. I brought Hitler into the equation because you sound exactly like a member of the nazi party. And its well know that Putin funds and supports far right groups in Europe.
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  67. Uros L You are just making a fool of yourself. The whole world knows Russia invaded Ukraine. They annexed part of the country and continue to lie about it to this day.
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  68. Why is it that all Russian trolls claim to be from Canada? Are any of your sock accounts also ex-military? Because if you really lived in the west you would know that the media criticise the government all the time.
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  69. Anyone can take Latvian citizenship. And countries wouldn't feel the need to join NATO if Russia didn't keep invading its near neighbours and annexing their territory.
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  70. Just as with any other country, there are requirements for taking Latvian citizenship. One of those requirements is to learn Latvian. What is wrong with that? And despite its promises, Russia never completely withdrew from eastern Europe after the collapse of its soviet empire. It still occupies Moldova to this day. Many eastern European countries that had suffered under Russian occupation considered it in their best interests to join NATO. And Russia's interests do not supersede theirs. Besides, there were no NATO bases in the Baltics or Poland until Russia invaded Ukraine. So clearly they were very wise to have joined NATO when they did.
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  71. +Aaron Paul After the breakup of the soviet empire there were many Russians who found themselves in newly independent countries. Unwilling to return to Russia (after all, as you said many had been born where they lived), they were also unwilling to give up their Russian identity. After the collapse of the Third Reich many Germans found themselves in the same position. Nazi Germany had encouraged German colonisation of eastern Europe in an attempt to snuff out occupied eastern European culture. And as I'm sure you know, they were ejected with the fall of Hitler's Germany.  The two examples are not exactly the same. German families were literally given the choice of whichever house they wanted. And the owners were then forcefully 'removed'. I haven't heard that the same happened with Russian 'colonisers' of the Baltics. But it is a fact that Russia worked hard to stamp out the cultures of those it occupied. And like much of eastern Europe, Latvia suffered terribly under Russian occupation. So while the two situations are not entirely the same, the results are that there are many Russians still living in eastern Europe who do not consider themselves citizens of the country they live in. And just as the kremlin did in Transnistria in the early 90's, Putin is more than willing to use those Russian minorities to cause trouble (as he did in Ukraine). The situation requires a fine balance of fairness, and understanding of Latvia's recent history and a recognition that Latvia and the other Baltic nations have a right to exist. And to make their own policies on Latvian citizenship. As for NATO enlargement, there never was any agreement on not to expand eastwards. It was not mentioned in any treaty or document. As Russia had no right to demand anything from the countries they had occupied for so long. And besides, Putin himself at one time brought up the possibility of Russia joining NATO sometime in the future. He didn't feel the need to ask permission from Belarus or China, so why should the Baltics have worried about getting permission from Russia before joining NATO?
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  72. Aaron Paul The Russians had no legal right whatsoever to be in eastern Europe. As for having a legal right to be in east Germany, I'm guessing the Germans would've said much the same thing about being in Moscow had they won the war.
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  73. Aaron Paul. So even tho morally, the Russians shouldn't have stayed as longs as they did in Germany, it was ok because legally they had the right? So in that case, even tho you yourself think it was morally wrong, NATO also had the legal right to expand. As there was no binding agreement for it not to do so. In other words, Russia isn't the only one able to get technical over legality.
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  74. Aaron Paul Russian military aggression has been aimed at non-NATO countries. Moldova has been occupied by the Russians since the break up of the soviet empire. Georgia has been invaded and its territory annexed. And Ukraine has been invaded and its territory annexed. None of these countries are in NATO.
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  75. Aaron Paul The kremlin uses nationalist Russian minorities in other countries to incite separatism and acts of terrorism. Then, when the government reacts, Russia invades. Claiming it is coming to the aid of the Russian minority. The kremlin then occupies and effectively annexes the enclave to the Russian federation (as it did with its fake referendum in Crimea). Hitler did much the same to Czechoslovakia with the Sudetenland.   Russia did it in Moldova. It did it in Georgia. And it is presently doing it in Ukraine. That is why it is important that the Baltic nations are members of NATO.    
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  76. Aaron Paul The reason why the OSCE didn't want anything to do with Putin's fake referendum is because it was illegal and vastly corrupt even by Russia's standards. Besides, if the OSCE had monitored the 'vote' there, what is to stop them doing it in, say, Kaliningrad after a German invasion? Anyone could pick apart Europe by annexing ethnic enclaves. You could pick apart Russia easily. Kosovo had to wait years for its independence. It followed a long and very bloody war. While Crimea wasn't getting independence. It was simply annexed by Russia. As to your possible alternate Ukrainian reality, you forgot the part when Yanukovych ordered Russian nationalists to gun down Ukrainians on the streets of their own capital city. You forgot the vast corruption (even by Ukrainian standards-Transparency International named President Yanukovych as the top example of corruption in the world). You forgot his breaking of the Ukrainian constitution. And you forgot the broken promise. And that promise was for Ukraine to seek an Association Agreement with the EU. Putin's big mistake was to offer an ultimatum. You can either trade with Europe. Or trade with Russia. You can't do both. In order the ratchet up the pressure, Putin changed Russia's customs regulations on imports from Ukraine. So that in August 2013, the Russian Custom Service stopped all goods coming in from Ukraine.  Ukrainian's were given the choice between the EU (with all its faults) and Putin's 'Customs Union' of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, Did they want to be another Estonia or Poland. Or a Belarus? Ukrainians chose the EU.  In any western democracy, if a president or prime minister used armed thugs bussed in from an ethic enclave to kidnap, beat, and shoot people down on the street, they would've lost power overnight. But that is exactly what Yanukovych did. Then when an agreement had been signed with opposition groups that would have allowed him to remain in power, Yanukovych lost his nerve and fled the country. Calling on Russia to send in troops to reinstate him to power. It was too late for Yanukovych's regime. But the Russians invaded anyway. They annexed Crimea outright. And crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, seized public buildings, and handed them over to far right nationalist Russian gangs. The evidence that the Russians were there is overwhelming. The so called government of the 'People's Republics' were even headed by ex-Russian military.    So now we have pretty much the same as what happened in Moldova and Georgia. Nationalist Russian separatists armed and financed by the kremlin. Another war. Relations between Russia and Ukraine ruined for a generation. Yet another enemy added to the Kremlin's long list. A reinvigorated NATO. And all because of Putin's zero sum foreign policy.  
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  77. Aaron Paul I bet Peter Hitchens is eating his words now! The OSCE could not have taken any part in the illegal occupation and annexation of Ukrainian territory. And no, the Crimean parliament had no authority to work alongside foreign occupiers in order to bring about annexation to an invading state. And Ukraine appointed officials to help run Crimea. So what? Putin abolished directly elected mayors some while ago and did the same. I guess we should invade Russia, yeah? And we all saw the 'occupy wall street' demonstrations in the west. How many hundreds were shot dead then? Of course, the violence wasn't one sided. But Yanukovych used nationalist Russian Berkut paramilitary thugs brought in from Russian ethnic enclaves to kidnap, beat, and murder demonstrators. And like Putin, he had a nasty habit of locking up and murdering his critics and political opponents.   
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  78. Aaron Paul No I'm not Ukrainian. Or Latvian. But I would say if Russians don't like living in Latvia, then they should fuck off back to Russia. Tho I'm guessing they won't. They know a good thing when they see it.
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  79. Aaron Paul Oh, so Russians are being occupied in Latvia now, are they?
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  80. Aaron Paul And apart from the need to learn Latvian before becoming a Latvian citizen, what other monumental injustice have these people suffered?
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  81. Aaron Paul Holy shit! You mean to say non Latvian citizens can't vote in Latvian elections or join the Latvian army! Let's be honest here, Russia's sham elections mean that most Russian's in Russia don't really get a vote either. And maybe you should be more concerned with poverty and lack of funding within Russia itself. Perhaps rather than spending nearly three times as much in GDP per capita as the Latvians on weapons of war, Putin could find other ways to spend his country's cash?
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  82. Aaron Paul We are talking Russians in Latvia. How would Russia itself not be relevant? Non Latvian citizens don't get to vote in Latvian elections? So what? Non Latvian citizens who don't speak Latvian don't get to work in the Latvian public sector. Again, so what? So some poorer areas of Latvia don't get as higher public spending as others. Welcome to planet earth!
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  83. Aaron Paul And the fact is that Latvian citizenship is open to all who agree to take the citizenship exam. Which includes being able to speak Latvian if you want to be a Latvian citizen. Russians in Latvia are no special case.  
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  84. And Germany isn't making war in Europe. It also doesn't have a gestapo officer as chancellor. While Russia does have a KGB officer as president.
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  85. Richard Taylor So let me get this right, Putin invades a sovereign nation, annexes its territory and brings war on its people. And it's the fault of NATO? Even tho NATO had fuck all to do with it? Now Putin turns his attention to the Baltics. Nothing has changed in the Baltics since they joined NATO. There were no NATO troops in Latvia until Russia invaded Ukraine and began wargames on Latvia's borders. And once again you say this is the fault of NATO. You seem desperate to appease Putin. He only has to point at the map, stomp his feet, talk up nuclear war, and you shit yourself!  Grow a pair ffs.   
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  86. Joss Fitzsimons All Russia's leaders have been war criminals. Putin is just the latest in a long inglorious list of mass murdering, war mongering Russian war-criminals.
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  87. Joss Fitzsimons ''...Russians don't start wars'' Learn a bit of history and you might not sound such a fuckin idiot.
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  88. I say we help the Russians rebuild their rusty ol' iron curtain. I know their economy is third world. But I've got half a sack of concrete in the garage. I've got next weekend off and I'm more than willing to help. I'm sure if we all pitch in it'll get done in no time. Then we can sit back with a bowl of popcorn and watch while they collapse into anarchy and chaos. Again.
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  89. Just to correct you, Latvia is a democracy.
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  90. Then the little warmongering gremlin in the kremlin better back off and leave Latvia alone.
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  91. gantulga ganhuyag That very well may be the case. But the facts remain that no one stops you speaking Russian in Latvia. You do not get arrested for speaking Russian in Latvia. And, like I said, Russian's are free to take Latvian citizenship just as anyone else is who lives in Latvia.
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  92. Srg720 Yeah, we know. Russia hates democracy and loves brutal dictatorship. Its always been that way. We expect nothing better.
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  93. Dracula Nova He is a Russian troll. And they are about as deluded as anyone can possibly get.
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  94. +Владимир Воробьёв You mean when the western democracies appeased Hitler for fear of starting a war? Cos little Hitler just wanted a bit of Czechoslovakia, but not all. Then he decided to take even more! Not so far away from what Putin is doing in Ukraine, is it? Which really only makes the case for Latvia being part of NATO!
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  95. Srg720 NATO is made up of its member states. The fact that eastern European countries would see the need to join NATO says a lot about their views of Russia. Certainly Moldova continues to pay a heavy price for Russian occupation. And has done since long before NATO expanded east.   
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  96. ***** It's like looking back in time to some grey oppressive soviet shithole where everyone just parrots whatever they're told to think! The guy must come from the 1930's or something!
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  97. Looming menacingly over eastern Europe. That and livink on our knees is proud Russian way of doink things!
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  98. ...Then we die at ripe old age of 30.
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  99. ...In gulag.
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  100. ...We very grateful for that.
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  101. Its strange. He seems to think that Latvia, Europe, and the west in general shouldn't be alarmed when Putin instigates wars in Europe, threatens its eastern European neighbours, and holds large scale military manoeuvers on the borders of the Baltic nations. But that basing a few thousand NATO troops in Latvia and Poland is suddenly an unnecessary provocation.
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  102. Says everything you need to know about Putin.
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  103. Richard Taylor Entirely predictable that the ex-KGB secret policeman in the kremlin would go sniffing around for any ally against the democratic west. Its in his nature. He's a far right nationalist despot at heart. And like attracts like. You can tell a man by his friends. And his enemies.  
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  104. Putin caused the war in Ukraine.
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  105. No American troops killing Ukrainians in Ukraine. Only Russians.
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  106. ***** No. Let's stick to the subject. Your claim was that they are local ethnic Russian Ukrainians. I have just given you a list of Russian citizens and military that took top jobs in the 'People's Republics'. If you look for yourself you will find more. So even if you prefer to believe the lies told by the kremlin against pretty much the rest of the world, then here is proof of a Russian invasion. But let's be honest here, we both know that if the same thing were to happen in Latvia some time in the future, you would still claim that everyone else was lying and only Putin was telling the truth.  
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  107. The Zeitgeist No one has the right to join a military alliance? But every NATO member had to first agree to accepting Poland and the Baltic nations as members. And they all did. Are you suggesting that Russia should dictate western security policy? Take a look at what Putin has done to Ukraine and you will see why it was wise for eastern Europe to join NATO. And once again you bring up this whole 'reneging on our promise not to expand the alliance' thing. Where is this promise? Where is NATO's promise to Russia not to expand east? If there was such a promise, then Russia did not think it important enough to get in writing. Not only that, Russia itself did not keep to its end of the bargain. The Russian's still occupy Moldova as they have done since 1990. Then we have Ukraine. Ukraine is supposed to be a neutral state. But how can it be neutral if it had Russian military bases within its territory? Once again, they have been there since the break up of the soviet union. So if a verbal agreement was made, then it was Russia that is responsible for breaking it. Like I said, Russian troops have been in an independent Moldova since 1990. And they are still there. NATO expansion began in 1999. If you are a supporter of Putin and the kremlin, that's your right. But don't try to claim that Russian interests should supersede the interests of eastern Europe.
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  108. The Zeitgeist NATO expansion? That quick? Perhaps you could point to the NATO military bases that must have sprung up over night without anyone noticing? And the only way you can say that the democratically elected Ukrainian government was overthrown, is to claim that the parliament under Yanukovych was illegitimate. As it was that same parliament that voted to impeach Yanukovych and remove him from office. This was entirely in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution. The Ukrainian parliament voted 328–0 in favour of the impeachment of Yanukovych. No one, not even Yanukovych's own party, voted against. So was Ukraine's parliament under Yanukovych illegitimate? Or not?
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  109. But it was both in the west's interest and in the interests of eastern Europe that they join. As I have probably already said, we can see the proof of that with how Russia acts towards its non NATO neighbours. 
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  110. The Zeitgeist Stable government brings benefits. Not just to those who live in the country itself. But to its neighbours also. So it was most certainly in the wests interests that countries like Poland and other eastern European nations did not end up like Belarus. After decades of communist dictatorship, former eastern block countries looked west. We would have been foolish to have turned them away.  
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  111. The Zeitgeist Yes. I have heard the 'leaked' phone call. In the call, the Estonian foreign minister, Urmas Paet said he had been told snipers responsible for killing police and civilians in Kiev were protest movement provocateurs rather than supporters of then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Ashton responds: "I didn't know … Gosh." During the conversation, Paet quoted a woman named Olga – who the Russian media identified as Olga Bogomolets, a doctor – blaming snipers from the opposition shooting the protesters. However, Olga Bogomolets, the doctor, who allegedly claimed that protesters and Berkut troops came under fire from the same source, said she had not told Paet that policemen and protesters had been killed in the same manner, that she did not imply that the opposition was implicated in the killings, and that the government informed her that an investigation had been started The Estonian foreign ministry said: "Foreign minister Paet was giving an overview of what he had heard in Kiev and expressed concern over the situation on the ground. We reject the claim that Paet was giving an assessment of the opposition's involvement in the violence." Who knows what really went on? But it's certain that Russian special forces were on the ground there. Just as they were, and are, in eastern Ukraine. Moreover, we do know that police units had been given the order to kill protestors. We saw them. And I believe (altho I'd have to check), that Yanukovych's own security adviser at that time was Russian. So you would have to ask yourself why it would've been necessary for the 'opposition' to snipe at the demonstrators. When the police were already shooting them dead in full view of the worlds media?.
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  112. The Zeitgeist I don't know if they have refused to investigate it. But I don't see what that has to do with anyone but Ukraine. A bigger question would be why don't the Russians prosecute Russian citizens captured fighting in Ukraine? Or, how about the Russians investigate who supplied the Buk missile unit that Russian nationalist forces in the east used to shoot down MH17?   
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  113. The Zeitgeist Russia should concentrate on its own affairs. It has plenty of political assassinations going on within its own borders to worry about.   
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  114. The Zeitgeist If you say so. But then you believe whatever shit is fed to you by the kremlin.
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  115. The Zeitgeist Well, who is more credible? The UN, the US, the EU, NATO, the Ukrainians, and pretty much the entire world's media, or... Ex-KGB secret policeman Colonel Vladimir Putin and his kremlin stooges?  
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  116. Edijs Lohijs 👍
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  117. The warmongers are in Moscow. Any they hate democratic values. And go to war to prop up bloodthirsty mass murdering tyrants.
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  118. The Zeitgeist And yet it is the west that called for Assad to go. And Russia that is supporting him. But then Russia has not one single democratic ally.
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  119. The Zeitgeist When the Arab Spring kicked off in Tunisia, the Tunisians had the good fortune of having the west as an ally. This meant that western governments were not prepared to back the dictator Ben Ali against his people. Without support, he was forced to flee. Syria, on the other hand, has the misfortune to be allied with Russia. And Putin has no intention of seeing his puppet removed. So the war has continued on for over 5 years. Meanwhile, Moscow makes a literal killing in arms sales to a regime that is responsible for the deaths of over half a million people.  
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  120. The Zeitgeist Assad has always been Russia's puppet. Not the wests. Any willingness by the west to work with Assad was of course before Assad went to war against his own people. And certainly Saudi Arabia is no worse than Russia
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  121. The Zeitgeist If the west severed relations with all non-democratic dictatorships, it would have no contact at all with Russia.
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  122. The Zeitgeist yeah that just might have something to do with the warmongering war criminal in the kremlin, you think?
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  123. The Zeitgeist No. Putin's constant warmongering against his neighbours is the reason why Russia is seen as an enemy.  
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  124. The Zeitgeist No. I simply said that the terrible relations between the western world and Russia is down to Putin's constant threats and warmongering against his European neighbours.
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  125. Can't afford a dictionary?
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  126. Uros L ...Oh, dear. 'Counterpunch'. ...Really? And why would a Canadian be so interested in supporting Russia's invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory, I wonder? No doubt you'll be telling me you're ex-military next. XD
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  127. Uros L Name calling? I don't think so. Where? Maybe if you got your news from legit news sites, rather than 'Global Research' 'Counterpunch' and facebook, you might know what's going on XD But come on. Tell me why a Canadian would be so very desperate to support Vladimir Putin's invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory.  
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  128. Uros L So its all just some MASSIVE conspiracy by the entire western world against poor innocent Russia and its freedom-loving KGB president, is it? But hold up tho, I thought Russia had invaded and annexed Ukrainian territory, not the other way around? Why are you so interested in questioning the legitimacy of Ukraine's government? Why not the legitimacy of Russia's government? Let's talk about journalists in Russia. Or how about all those Russian opposition leaders who end up either fleeing the country, in jail, of assassinated? In the west, news media has no problem with attacking the government. Its their favourite sport. It does it all the time. But find me an article by Global Research attacking Putin. If you can. 
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  129. antzontoast Reminds me of what they said about Adolf Hitler. It certainly proves why Putin is so popular with the extreme far right!
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  130. Uros L Stalin was every bit as bad as Hitler. The war in the east was simply between two mass murdering genocidal dictatorships. So why should anyone care about those Russians who fought for Stalin? They were as bad as the Germans who fought for Hitler. The history of Russia's soviet empire is just one long list of misery, oppression, and genocide. I have sympathy for the millions of Russians who were victims of Stalin's murderous regime. Just as I have sympathy for the Germans who were victims of Hitler. But it was the western allies that brought freedom to Europe. Those unlucky enough to have been 'liberated' by the Russians continued to suffer until the final collapse of Russia's soviet empire. Stalin's alliance with Hitler served Russia well up until the German invasion. Stalin added more territories to his empire. Expanding his brutal regime into Finland, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and others. The Russians carried out mass deportations of whole ethnic groups and wiped out anyone who opposed them. The brutality of the Russian occupation was such that, when the Germans began their invasion of Russia, many Latvians, Estonians, and Lithuanians were only too happy to join the fight alongside Hitler. And the same can be said for many Ukrainians who fought for Germany. This is of course something that many Russian propagandists like to highlight. 'The Ukrainian's joined the nazis'. But they conveniently ignore the history behind it. Because like the Baltics, if you know Ukraine's history, and what Russia did there, you'd know why they joined Germany. For eastern Europe there was no liberation after the war. They remained part of Stalin's empire. When the Russians returned to the Baltics, they exacted a terrible revenge against the people there. The numbers of people who were exiled to gulag concentration camps in Siberia run into the hundreds of thousands. And remember, the Baltics have only ever had a small population.    But of course, if you already knew all of this, you would understand why the Baltics and eastern Europe in general don't want Russia back. And you would understand why they don't trust a KGB man in the kremlin. And as we can all see what Putin is doing in Ukraine and Syria, and what he did to Chechnya and Georgia, you would also understand why they are correct in thinking that.  
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  131. Uros L I would not want to live under either Hitler or Stalin. But, yes. For those who had suffered under the Russians, Germany was seen as an ally. That should tell you something about the brutality of the Stalinist regime.   I have already told you that Stalin did more than his fair share of genocide. The numbers are staggering. Estimates are around the 20 million mark. Altho like with neo nazi apologists in Germany, there are still Russians who will argue against that number. And your link is simply opinion. Ukraine has a right to decide its own future and to pursue its own interests. Anyone who thinks that it would be in the best interests of a democratic Ukraine to remain under the boot of Putin is an idiot. As for your ludicrous claim that Russia has tried to improve ties with the Baltics and Ukraine, what proof is there of that? Russia has increased its military forces in Kaliningrad, continuously holds military wargames on the borders of the Baltics, and has even kidnapped Estonian citizens. And Ukraine? Has Russia promised to withdraw its occupying forces from Ukrainian territory? Did Putin say he would pay compensation to Ukraine for Russia's invasion? Has the kremlin said it will prosecute Russian military personal captured in Ukraine by the Ukrainians?   What planet do you live on? Its not the Americans or the Brits that are busy killing Ukrainians. Its the Russians.
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  132. antzontoast Then I suggest you fuck off back behind your rusty iron curtain.
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  133. Duplicity Laugh all you want, dipshit. The kremlins version of what happened in Georgia is as worthless as its version of what happened in Ukraine.
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  134. Uros L Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine.
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  135. Uros L Just more kremlin lies to justify their invasion. There was no genocide in Ukraine. And Porochenko took office after the Russian invasion.
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  136. Uros L What happened in the east of Ukraine was that Russia invaded, then armed gangs of Russian nationalist thugs who terrorised, kidnapped, and murdered anyone who stood in their way.
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  137. Uros L Anyone who thinks a vote in occupied Crimea proves anything needs to go see a head doctor. Besides, they don't even have free elections in Russia, so an illegal 'referendum' witnessed by a handful of neo nazi observers from Holland means fuck all.. 
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  138. Blah blah blah... nazis. The biggest nazi of them all is the gremlin in the kremlin.  
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  139. Dušan the Mighty ...Oh, dear. You bring up world war two again! Did you know that in Russia in 2008, Joseph Stalin came third in a poll of all time greatest Russians? The poll was carried out by the tv station Rossiya. Where more than 50 million Russians voted out of a list of 500 candidates. Can you imagine that tho? All those Russians still idolise one of the worst genocidal mass murderers in human history! ...Compared to that, a few Ukrainians waving flags for Bandera is nothing.  
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  140. Uros L Global Research again? Would that be the same Global Research that claimed North Korea was a land of human achievement love and joy? That said the 'evidence is now conclusive, two Ukrainian government fighter jets shot down Malaysian airlines MH17 -it was not a buk surface to air-missile'? No wonder you know fuck all about what's going on in Ukraine! XD
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  141. Uros L Only is was indeed a BUK missile. And we know pretty much exactly which Russian army unit fired it off.  
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  142. Uros L Global Research is neither independent nor trusted. And facebook is not a legit news site.
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  143. Uros L That sounds exactly like you.
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  144. Sputnik?! XD
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  145. Uros L Hate to burst your bubble, but RT isn't independent news. It's funded by the Russian government. Which makes it anything but independent and free. How do you not know this? And don't you find it strange that dictators always have such high approval ratings? Putin supposedly has an 81% approval rating. Assad has an 86% approval rating. Gaddafi had an 85% approval rating. And Kim Jong-un's approval rating is about 99.99%! But when you look at western leaders who have been in power for just a few years, they're lucky to get near 50%! How can this be? Did Gaddafi and Assad have some kind of secret to superior government that western leaders have never been able to discover? Hmm... Hey, maybe it has something to do with controlling the media? Or perhaps controlling the polls? After all, if you can assassinate your political opponents and gun down people on the streets, it should be pretty easy to manipulate a poll, right?
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  146. Uros L Saddam was a dictator. One of the worst. People often say that dictators bring stability. But they don't. Saddam didn't. Gaddafi didn't. And Assad didn't. Because eventually, if people can't get rid of a leader by legal means, they will take to the streets and do it by force. It happened in Russia several times. It happened recently in Syria, Tunisia, and Libya. If they're lucky, and they fight for it, they get something better in its place. Often they get something worse. Either way, they suffer decades of dictatorship. And the cost of having to remove it. That's the beauty of being able to elect your government. You can get rid of it peacefully and without cost to life. One of the ways to tell if you live in a dictatorship is whether or not the media can criticize those who hold power. In the west, that's normal. You can watch CNN, Fox, BBC, whatever, and they all freely criticize the government. No media in Iraq or Syria or Libya or North Korea would have ever dared to have done that.
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  147. You have no idea what you're talking about do you?
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  148. Uros L Clearly you know fuck all about the west.
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  149. Uros L You have proved it yourself. You just spew out one lot of lies after another. 
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  150. Uros L Obviously you don't.
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  151. Uros L U obviously don't, otherwise you wouldn't claim they say whatever the government tells them to say.
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  152. Uros L Right. So I'm supposed to google 'Operation Mockingbird' and that's gonna tell me that the media I see and read every day just says whatever the government tells it to say, am I? Even tho I can just turn on the tv, read a newspaper, or watch this guardian youtube channel and see that they have absolutely no problem criticising the powerful and do it all the time.
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  153. Rspsand07 Have you seen the size of Georgia? Do you know its population compared to Russia's? And you say an 'EU report' blamed Georgia for starting a war against Russia?
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  154. And Chechnya belongs to the Chechens.
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  155. Uros L I asked for two links. From RT and Sputnik. Where are they?
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  156. Uros L Scroll up and read. You can do that yes?
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  157. Uros L Find me an RT report that criticizes Putin for supporting a murderous bloodthirsty tyrant. Then find me a Sputnik report that exposes Russian troops fighting in eastern Ukraine
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  158. Uros L I think we both know who loses when nobody in Russia can speak the truth.
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  159. +Aaron Paul That's pretty much as I said it. The difference between the German colonisers of eastern Europe and those from Russia is that the Germans were ejected after the war. By the time the soviet empire collapsed Russians in eastern Europe had pretty much lived their entire lives there. And of course Russia had leverage when it came to German reunification. But the war had been over for decades. Russia's continued occupation had little moral justification in Germany. And certainly none in eastern Europe at all.
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  160. Why?
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  161. Russia does far worse. It constantly wars against it neighbours.
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  162. Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, Chechnya. These are all wars Putin has started. I could go further back in Russia's history if you like?
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  163. I'm guessing that joerahman1 will soon be telling us all that he is ex-British military. That's usually what they say XD  
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  164. joerahman1 You sure? Not gonna tell us how you're ex-SAS? And how much you hate fake western democracy and looooove KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin! XD
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  165. +Родерик Рандом You might want to first change your name to something a little less Russian-sounding before accusing others of being trolls! XD
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  166. Richard Taylor Your problem is that in order to appease (the warmongering war criminal) Vladimir Putin, you have to deny the right of Ukrainians to choose their own future. Apparently, Russia can remove its own unpopular leaders as many times as it likes. But the Ukrainians aren't allowed to elect their own government without being invaded by the KGB regime next door. if the Ukrainians wish to join the EU, that's a decision for the EU and Ukraine. If Ukraine wants join NATO. Its between them and NATO. If the Russians don't like it, tough shit! Putin's wars against his neighbours have not only made it inevitable that Ukraine will one day join NATO. But have also encouraged other non-NATO European countries to move toward membership also.
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  167. Russia's history of ethnic cleansing continues today in occupied Crimea.  
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  168. Joss Fitzsimons Typical trolly comment. But not very impressive. You can always tell when Putin is lying. His lips move.
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  169. ilinsky andrei The invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory. The Invasion and annexation of Georgian territory. Arming and supporting terrorists in both Ukraine and Georgia. War crimes in Chechnya. The shooting down of MH17. Indiscriminate bombing in Syria. Unlike the west in Iraqi, Russia goes to war in defence of a corrupt genocidal mass murdering tyrant. Although he seems to have a problem with democracies. Understandable I guess. Because Putin is nothing more than a murderous corrupt dictator himself.  
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  170. Rob Alston Hahaha! You think anyone gives a shit about your threats? The Turks only had to shoot down one Russian jet and Putin shit himself! XD
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  171. ...Could be worse. I could be Russian! =P
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  172. I quite like them!
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  173. I can see why you're such a fan of Putin!
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  174. Branko Milicevic He huffed and puffed. And then did fuck all! XD
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  175. Rob Alston Your admiration of Putin tells us all we need to know about the Russian regime!
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  176. Checkingokop Russia has no right to demand anything from the nations it formally occupied. It's no longer an empire. Eastern Europe has left it far behind.  
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  177. Checkingokop Let's count them off, shall we? We've had Putin's war in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, and now Syria. Or didn't you notice? 
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  178. A few thousand. I mean, I know the Russians normally rely on at least a 2-1 numerical advantage when they send out their cannon fodder. But I think even they should be able to win against an invasion of that size! =P
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  179. I think that might have been the soviet invasion of Finland!
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  180. Who?
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  181. Why are they xenophobes?
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  182. Latvia is a democracy. They enjoy more rights and freedoms and a higher GDP per capita than Russia. I think they're doing well.
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  183. Jatischar The 4,000 NATO troops are simply there to send Putin a message. Undoubtedly they would be overrun by Russian forces if they launched an attack on Latvia. But that would be an attack on NATO. And Russia would have no chance against a combined NATO attack.
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  184. Srg720 If that was true, then what are the Russians bitching about?
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  185. Sounds to me like he has.
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  186. That's another country on Russia's ever growing hate list! XD
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  187. Srg720 Its true tho, isn't it. Russia seems to have no problem with the ayatollah in Iran, or that fat old dictator in Belarus, but it never seems to get on with western democracies. Why is that do you think?
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  188. Srg720 You mean like going to war with the brutal terrorist supporting dictatorships of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and the Taliban? Now compare that to Russia's wars. Chechnya was about installing a terrorist dictatorship. Syria is about propping up a mass murdering puppet tyrant. The Georgian war was about annexing territory from a neighbouring democracy. And Russia's invasion of Ukrainian is again about annexing more territory from a neighbouring democracy. Russia likes genocidal tyrants. It just has a problem with democracy. Always has.     
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  189. Srg720 Bottom line: Russia is a friend to tyrants. And an enemy of democracy. 
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  190. Srg720 Well, yeah. There are many people who said the west should never have supported Russia during the second world war. But just let it bleed itself out fighting the Germans. After all, Stalinist Russia was a fuckin horrendous tyrannical! 
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  191. The Brits fought a won the battle of Britain while Russia was still allied to Hitler.
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  192. Had Stalin truly wished for an alliance with the UK and France, he could've allied with them when they declared war on nazi Germany. But he didn't. He allied with Hitler in order to expand his genocidal terrorist state.   
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  193. Branko Milicevic The world knows it was not just a non-aggression pact. So why continue to lie? While the Brits and French were fighting the nazis, Russia was Hitler's willing bitch. And the nazis still attacked! Better keep kidding yourself tho, cos the truth kinda exposes the reality of Russia's grubby shameful past.   
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  194. +Владимир Воробьёв How the fuck should I know the mind of a genocidal mass murdering psychopath? Even by his own low standards, he was a complete failure!   
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  195. ***** The Latvians can park NATO tanks wherever they like in Latvia. And with Russia as a neighbour its always wise to be prepared!
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  196. Srg720 Certainly (KGB secret police colonel) Vladimir Putin seems to be shitting himself. He wouldn't be bitching about it otherwise.
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  197. Srg720 Make up your mind! Is Putin shitting himself over a few tanks in Latvia, or not? And if Latvia is such an 'insignificant shithole', why would (KGB secret police colonel) Vladimir Putin start a nuclear war that would destroy the whole of Russia over it? 
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  198. Srg720 NATO forces are in Latvia because Putin has a nasty habit of invading his neighbours and annexing their territory. Better to be on the safe side than to end up with another fake 'referendum'.
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  199. Srg720 Russia has held a number of large scale military exercises close to the borders of the Baltics in the past few years. They have also increased their military strength in the enclave of Kaliningrad. So like I say, best not take any chances where Putin is concerned.  
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  200. I bet the Georgians thought the same. And the Ukrainians. Best not take the risk. NATO in the way keeps Putin at bay! =P
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  201. Srg720 Yup they will. Only a matter of time!
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  202. Srg720 They will eventually. And when that happens Russia will be completely left out in the cold. With nobody but the ayatollah and Belarus =(
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  203. Srg720 Yup they will. And it will happen the next time Russia collapses into anarchy and chaos. Again.
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  204. Srg720 The west defeated Russian cold war imperialism without even firing a shot! And Russia is far weaker now than it was then. And the west far stronger. So I hope you still have a taste for watery turnip soup and tree bark. Because the way Russia is heading, you'll soon be eating a lot of it again! XD
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  205. Srg720 Yeah, obviously the crooks, gangsters, and secret policeman that run Russia are doing ok for themselves. Meanwhile, the average Russian has a lower standard of living than the average eastern European. Which is why these Russian's in Latvia don't want to leave! =P
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  206. Paranoid? Nobody does paranoia like the Russians! A few thousand NATO troops in the Baltics and Putin shits himself! The entire Russian country goes on high alert! People practicing air raid drill on the streets! But you know the funny thing? The west doesn't even notice! It barely makes the news! It's almost like looking back in history to some third-world soviet shithole with everyone going about talking of 'western invasion'! XD
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  207. On average, Russians die earlier than westerners. Living in the third-world does that to you.  
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  208. Srg720 Aww... Is that what worries you? Bless!
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  209. Srg720 Doesn't worry me, no. Are you afraid you might turn gay one day?
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  210. Srg720 Like I care.
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  211. Srg720 I didn't. Now go practice your air raid drill. NATO is about to annex the entire Russian Federation with 6,000 troops.
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  212. Srg720 Ask the gremlin in the kremlin. He loves bitching about NATO invasions.
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  213. Srg720 ...Boo-hoo! Go crimea river ='(
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  214. Srg720 Make sure to have at least a 3 to 1 superiority in numbers. Otherwise Russians tend to lose badly.
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  215. Srg720 Russia wouldn't have a hope!
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  216. +Son of my Father Awesome comment.
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  217. You edited this and it still doesn't make sense?
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