Topic: Could someone provide evidence that the majority of Russians aren't insane? (Read 10589 times)

It's better to be sovereign state without sporadic attempts to implement CETA/TTIP/... trash.

Russia is not going to join the EU anytime in observable future because it's senseless. Unless some future leadership will be crazy enough to do so.

1) Joining the EU means becoming a colony of Brussels, why share the power without getting anything in return?
2) Joining the EU is economically senseless, it will lead to losses of budget incomings from trade. Other side effect will be destruction of agriculture sector as well as military industrial complex.
3) Joining the EU is dangerous due to constant terrorism threat. The EU authorities are incompetent and unable to develop some common screening measures. Even worse, they're forbidding national authorities from proper screening of incoming "refugees" under guise of protecting human hights. In fact, the EU authorities are doing nothing to counter the islamic extremism, they're busy importing millions of migrants instead.

It's better to be sovereign state without sporadic attempts to implement CETA/TTIP/... trash.

completely pointless with them if russia joins the EU, EU becomes main force in the west and UK/USA become underdogs.

The strength of the EU lies in Germany. Nazi's didn't die. They went underground. Then they came back as the EU.

when russia joins uk and usa go bankrupt, as EU becomes ressource independent.

plus also eu will be able to arm itself

there is actually huge pressure in europe to join the EU, as if you are in the EU you are geographically corporating europeans,

if you are not in the EU, you are a nazi.

uk, france and russia basically created the EU by constantly attacking nazism, germany created a model (based on usa and udssr) for living together which is now backfirering on them (nazi macron, nazi russia, etc.)

^^^ The UK left the EU because they don't want to fall with the EU when Russia joins.

Russia is failed state

Does this fit?

Also, the biggest difference between the intents is that USA invades to try to make the countries democratic and capitalist, while Russia invades to try to make the countries totalitarian and socialist/communist.

Then he called to me, "Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit rest in the land of the north."

Keeping in mind I'm well-aware more than half the Russians on here are probably Thieves, I'm seriously interested in trying to understand Russians' surprisingly widespread support of Putin/Medvedev while the Russian government continues restricting basic human rights.

First and biggest -- Russians seemed to truly HATE Yeltsin. Chechnya was/is a disaster, the economy crashed terribly, he nearly started a full-blown civil war initiated by parliament and his vice president only ~20 years ago (after attempting to unconstitutionally dissolve parliament, presumably because Yeltsin was hammered and belligerent that day), repeatedly came out as a disreputable liar on the International scene with regards to POW statuses and human rights violations (made odd because it was Yeltsin who admitted it), and then hand-picked Putin (who later hand-picked Medvedev). Yeltsin went out with a 2-10% approval rating, but Putin's numbers are considered "low" when they go in the high 60s (lately, it flicks around between 80-90%).

Putin continues imperialist policy in Chechnya while trying to take a high moral ground in Ukraine, a long-standing policy which led to the Beslan school tragedy. In response to that tragedy, Putin waged a war against human rights and privacy, blaming everything but his anti-Chechen policies and introducing what was called the Russian PATRIOT Act. Putin has continued cracking down on journalism, freedom of speech, and privacy rights, with Russia having a tragically high amount of unresolved murders of journalists and recently forcing what any normal person would call a small blog to adhere to repeating Russian fairy tales without deviation or face prosecution.

Putin and Medvedev are "anti-corruption" publicly, but in a Snowden cable which has oddly been ignored by all media (including Western), the Russian Mafia branches were alleged by credible source to operate (and likely still do, though the Moscow mayor Luzhkov, a co-founder of Russia's ruling party, was fired) not only with a FSB/KGB wink and nudge, but armed protection.

Are Russians anti-Russian or just blindly pro-KGB? -Or maybe Russians are just so pleased with the modest post-Yeltsin economic recovery, non-economic quality of life decline is able to be ignored.

It was possible to restore pre-1993 constitution before formation of new state bodies  (i.e. between 1994 and 1995) but now it's too late. Now it's required to develop a new constitution which will be equal to pre-1993 constitution in terms of power distribution without losing compatibility with current system of state bodies.

Yep, just white slave trade. Many of them from west of Russia. And now apparently from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan nationals.

Nationalism run strong for the country.

I do not think majority of them considered themselves thief. Just taking back what belong to them in the first place before western companies bought good asset on the penny on the dollar.

Russia was never involved in the black slave trade.

Indeed. Because it's easy to say something like "I can provide evidence that american, irish and british people ARE insane. Whisky. Most of them have mistaken that nasty smellin' eau de cologne for a drink."