Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Is Russia about to NATIONALIZE Foreign Aircraft?! | Mentour NOW!" video.

@stevencooke6451 The Cold War is back. There are some new rules. We'll all get used to them - for those of us who lived during the Cold War, it will be deja vu; for those of us who were born after the Cold War, it will be something new.
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@CorgiDudeReacts Just the bit between 1945 and 1991.
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@ajjukevicius4710 Good point. It won't be long before Russian industry produces reverse-engineered parts.
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@Foolish188 They're not that unimportant. As the largest and most influential SSR in the former USSR, they managed to help shape world history between 1917 and 1991. Can the West get along without Russia? Yes, it has done so before and it will do so again. Can the West ignore Russia? No, not unless it wants to invite trouble. None of that means the West should bow to Russia's demands, but it cannot simply ignore Russia's place in the world.
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@Foolish188 Which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia?
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@DavidM2002 That's a good example of why I think this proposed scarcity of parts for Western aircraft won't happen.
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@Foolish188 You appear to be confusing two entities: the USSR and the "SovBloc". The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) consisted of a number of Soviet Socialist Republics, of which Russia was just one, and albeit the largest geographically. I contend that Russia was the most influential of the SSRs - you've stated otherwise, and I have asked you which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia. I am still waiting for your answer. The SovBloc consisted of Warsaw Pact countries such as the USSR (of which Russia was still just one SSR, in case you missed it earlier), Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
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@Foolish188 Well I am no adherent of communism in any of the realised forms, but like many I was an involuntary observer during the Cold War. You say the Soviet Union was an empire, but it was not influenced by a SSR called Russia. So I will re-ask my original question: if Russia wasn't the most influential SSR in the Soviet Union, then which SSR was? Who was really calling the shots if it wasn't the Russian SSR? Or do you have trouble with the idea that the Soviet Union was a Union of SSRs because you call it an empire? It's interesting that the Soviet Union never referred to itself as an empire, just as the United States Of America (a union of states) doesn't refer to itself as an empire. Many people around the world think the USSR acted - and the still USA acts - like an empire: the only difference between the two is one has already disappeared due to decay from within, while the other is still decaying from within.
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