Topic: Will Russia Emerge As The Next Dominant Superpower - page 5. (Read 8917 times)

It is a common curse for countries which are rich in natural resources, such as Russia, Nigeria, Angola, and Congo. In most of these countries they have the authoritarian style regimes and they plunder the natural wealth for their own benefit. And the vast majority of the people live in poverty without any access to the riches that are derived from these resources. Russia is a little better when compared to countries such as Nigeria, but a regime that is sympathetic to the common people could actually transform it to one of the economic superpowers in the world.

Unfortunately, recently (after February 24 and September 21) a very large number of young and educated people left Russia for neighboring countries. 

Yes, Russia has very large natural resources, but Russia has very unprofessional managers.  There is a feeling that the country has gone mad.  The most popular politician in Russia is Tsar Ivan the Terrible.  Real "guardsmen" appeared in the country.  The guardsmen are the most faithful servants of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who terrorized the local population, and their symbols were dog heads (to gnaw at the enemy) and brooms (to cover treason).  For example, the actor Ivan Okhlobystin, right on Red Square, shouts "Goida" (this is such a cry of the guardsmen), brothers and sisters!  Live the Holy War!"

It is clear that such a psychological atmosphere does not contribute to the technological development of the country and its transformation into a superpower.

Japan is a classic example where the politicians are out of touch with the civilians. Japanese public is mostly indifferent to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and want to secure their energy supplies. The government on the other hand has gone overboard, by banning Russian fuel. And the Russians returned the favor by kicking Japanese companies out of Russia. And that makes Japan as the country which has incurred maximum losses as a result of counter-sanctions by Russia (more intelligent ones such as France managed to protect their investments in Russia).

Calm down your mentoring tone and stop clowning around.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is on a short leash with the United States. I think it's an exotic island variation of Stockholm Syndrome, licking the boot that kicked you.

Any country with at least one US military base is a US vassal. Moreover, there are no US military bases in Ukraine, but Ukraine is also a US vassal, its pet monkey.

So I already wrote about your problem above - you simply know the word, but don’t understand its meaning It happens, but it’s fixable - knowledge, training, rejection of stupid propaganda - and you will adequately perceive the meanings of words

Let me try to explain to you how to explain to children in kindergarten .. Not in pictures, really, but in extremely simple words? It's easy for me, and I love doing good things! Yes, I immediately warn you - you can not thank, I'm a generous person

So - a vassal state, this is a state that, in very simple words, depends on and / or SUBJECTS to another state! Those. does not have the right to make any significant decisions, does not have its own representation in international structures. Any step must be coordinated and carried out under the control of the "ruler". In fact, it is some kind of slavery. Here, by the way, is a wonderful example of a vassal state - the Moscow kingdom (read Russia). The Muscovite kingdom (Russia is a invented and "far-fetched" word that has nothing to do with Muscovy) was a country-slave of the Khaganate. They obeyed, they paid tribute, they carried out all orders, and in the world they themselves did not make decisions until they asked permission from their Owner
And now think again, and tell what signs of a vassal state, of the above, Japan has, and give examples.
PS So far, there is little hope that the first time you will be able to train, but I believe in success!

The number of people killed by United States after World War II directly or indirectly using its proxies is placed at approximately 30 million. What's more surprising is that the more I research the more I keep seeing Ukraine's footprints in each of them!

I don't quite understand what more proof you need. In Japan, about 50,000 US military personnel are permanently deployed, stationed in dozens of military bases, the maintenance of which is paid by Japan itself. Japan is also forced to keep on its balance sheet the largest package of US Treasury bonds in the amount of more than a trillion dollars, although its own debt burden exceeds 250% of GDP. Even these two circumstances alone make Japan a US vassal, a non-independent state in matters of foreign policy.

No, no, you don’t need to prove it to me ... I know that for Russians and the "Russian world" in the event that they find themselves in an uncomfortable position due to their stupid statements / actions, the next hag is a stupid, primitive, undisguised denial of reality. Or vice versa - a stupid statement that the white ball is a green cucumber, because only such an option will confirm your "correctness". You do it in the same primitive and stupid way
Take my description, break it down into components and write opposite each individual item - In Japan, this is exactly the case, and here is the proof. And write in there something from reality, in Japan. Of course it will be funny, because. you will obviously write against any point "in Japan exactly like this, everyone knows this, but if you want proof, look for them yourself"!
But. Your behavior once again proves that I'm right, and you, apart from nonsense and fantasies, have no arguments.
I will wait from you for other "pearls" about "reality"

I agree with Roubini's opinion that the third world war has already begun. There is a slight chance that when (if) the Republicans come to power in the United States, the focus of the United States will shift from foreign policy and fomenting conflicts around the world to the direct solution of accumulated domestic economic problems. But I try to look at things realistically and understand perfectly well that the current US course is also a kind of method for solving domestic economic problems, just not direct, but indirect (but no less, and maybe more effective). The problem is that a full-scale third world war is beneficial for the US (provided, of course, that the armed conflict takes place on the other side of the ocean, without affecting US territory itself). Wars that are not beneficial to anyone do not last long and fade quickly. The conflict in Ukraine will continue for a long time and it may spread to the territory of the Baltic States and Poland. With a decrease in the number of combat-ready population of Ukraine, the number of volunteers and mercenaries from Europe and from all over the world will grow, ready to defend "democratic Western values" with weapons in their hands for generous pay. And Russia will have to methodically kill them all, it could take years.

Sorry, but it's actually "IF", not "WHEN". That's the purpose of NATO. As long as NATO exists, and its member-states don't change their alliances with Russia/China, truly "conquering" Ukraine will be a big problem. I believe there wouldn't be money, or time to build bridges and water pipelines simply because of "rebels" making Russia busier in dealing with disruptions.

Plus I want to hear your opinion about Nouriel Roubini/Dr. Doom's interview, saying that World War III has "effectively begun".

And you could not, not be habitually unfounded, but bring evidence and facts, destruction in Iraq, by the forces of the United States, and let it be Ukraine (let's leave it for later, I will lead you another "liquidation of historical illiteracy", and I will tell you what the real mission was limited contingent from Ukraine).
Interested in the facts of the destruction of the Civil infrastructure:
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Shopping centers
- Sleeping areas / peaceful areas (where there were no militants, warehouses, etc.)
- Elements of a civil type system - water pipelines and water treatment plants, power plants, thermal power plants, etc.


... we will keep silent about Syria for now, about carpet bombing of purely civilian cities, and the deliberate destruction of infrastructure ... Like in Ukraine a couple of years later ... By the same terrorists - RUSSIANS!

PS and a control question about Afghanistan: how many civilians in Afghanistan were destroyed by the United States and how many "philanthropic USSR"?
A hint - my father served there ... I am very ashamed and disgusting for this. But on the other hand, I have a real picture of what the USSR was doing there.


UPD ....expected answers are not present and will not be. Well, at most a link to Russian fake media, or some kind of fake Twitter account, with a photo, it’s not clear what

How a terrorist country built in the sewers of the DPR / LPR )) Ask the residents of Donetsk, which is not shelled, except by their Russian terrorists, how often they have water in their homes. Don't ask about the hot one - they will send you somewhere further away. How often do stores have normal products. How good are they with heating? What services are running? In 2014, in Ukraine, many "paper" services have already been replaced by digital, online services. We ordered and paid for utility bills, certificates, payment for services, food delivery, and much more from a mobile phone. Including Donetsk, and Lugansk. Now the Russian world has come there - read "Stone Age". Since I worked for a company with roots in Donetsk for some time, I still have many acquaintances there. Most of them left when the brown plague of the Russian world came. Some were forced to stay. And the last ones have been writing to me for many years how tired they are of living in the Stone Age, when paying for a communal apartment is a queue, in one window, where you have to stand for a single hour, so that they look at your payroll, give you a paper form for payment, after which you go to a new queue to pay, and then... again first of all a second time to show that you paid. Ask how the suburbs live - Gorlovka, Yenakiyevo, Yasinovataya, Makeevka - there is generally game and the Middle Ages ... Well, more precisely, like in 95% of the territory of Russia

PS and about the country, a terrorist will capture Ukraine - this is mega funny 
Look, those who in February March "captured the whole of Ukraine in 2-3 weeks" have been feeding worms and rats in the fields of free Ukraine for half a year already

Yes, I know that the United States not only does not stop military and advisory support to Ukraine, but will continue and increase its volume. For which many thanks to the people of the United States for supporting our fight against the world terrorist!

Regarding the Russian "sharp mind" and "know no mercy" - you are very, VERY very mistaken.
It's very easy to prove
From the point of view of tactics, the army of the country of the terrorist uses approaches ... of the second world war. Now, in addition to stupid terror and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, there are only attempts to shower our army with their "meat in boots." Primitive, untrained, cowardly outcasts - this is today's real Russian army. Yes, there are many. But we have enough ammo and shells to turn them into fertilizer
Regarding "they know no mercy" - believe me - heroism in Russian is when you are armed, there are many of you, and you attack an unarmed grandmother, girl, old man. Russia DOES NOT KNOW how to fight against a commensurate enemy. It is enough to honor the history of the Russian army, and you will be surprised - over the past 120 years, Russia has lost a huge number of wars, and was successful only against a guaranteed, many times weaker enemy. You will not find other examples. That is why Ukraine defeated the Russian strike force in 4 months, has already liberated 50% of the territories seized by Russian terrorists after February 2022. That is why the last 2 months Sergey Lavrov has been whining and begging for negotiations with Ukraine, they are well aware that the war is lost, and very soon "loving the people of Russia" will tear both Putin and Lavrov on Red Square

When Russia conquers Ukraine, it will immediately build bridges and water pipelines there. And restore electricity to bring progress and civilization.

Israel certainly has nuclear weapons, but compared to Russia and the United States, they are few. 

At one time, the leader of Israel said something like this - "No, we do not have nuclear weapons. But if there is a serious threat to our state, then we will use it."  It looked like some kind of trolling. 

In my opinion, it is not nuclear weapons that make a country a superpower.  The Roman Empire was a superpower not because it constantly waged wars, but because it built bridges and water pipelines in the conquered countries. 

A superpower is a state that is the bearer and conductor of progress and civilization.

It doesn't matter simply because it is an illegitimate regime that is currently struggling for survival and to keep what they've occupied instead of being able to expand like the original plans (to overtake entire Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey and at least half of Saudi Arabia). In which case it would have mattered to have nukes.

Right now the area the occupiers have managed to still hold on to after 74 years is very tiny so it has no "strategic depth" which means for example a single missile with a non-nuclear warhead hitting their nukes depot would wipe the entire Zionist population out whether it is a single nuke stored there or a lot.

Russia might have more nukes than other nations, but it would have to do more than just that in order to be dominant superpower. Although I won't deny that their advancement is attributed to their independence and unquenchable hunger for upgrading or developing war machines or technologies since the fall of USSR.
What NATO and the rest of the world is doing right now, is ensuring that they don't overstep the boundaries of the  ongoing war between themselves and Ukraine. 

The point is not only and not so much in the number of nuclear charges. After the victory in the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, the United States pretty relaxed. So much so that in the 1990s they were left without their own uranium enrichment facilities (the United States is still forced to buy enriched uranium for nuclear power plants from Russia and this industry is not under sanctions). Also, the United States has very little progress in the field of delivery vehicles - in fact, therefore, NATO is forced to expand eastward in order to offset its weakness in military rocket science. In Russia, however, work to improve the means of delivery did not stop even in the most difficult years. As a result, now Russia is already armed with hypersonic missiles, and the United States is only conducting tests in this area, lagging behind even China.

In addition, Russia has a lot of hidden aces up its sleeve, which is not customary to talk about out loud. In particular, Rosatom produces several hundred kilograms of cobalt-60 every year (when the rest of the world produces about 2.5 kg per year), mainly for disinfection and medical purposes. But it's a typical dual-use product, if you know what I mean. One ton of the radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is enough to, for example, make the entire US uninhabitable for about 200 years, without visible changes in the natural landscape. In the field of nuclear weapons, Russia has many asymmetric strong advantages even over countries from the nuclear club.

I am just coming across this thread, honestly speaking, Russia is indeed a powerful nation, but i dont think they can become a world power anytime soon, this is if it is even possible for them to ever ascend that throne, their economy might be one of the best, they might have the highest weapon for war and all that, but i dont think USA will ever allow them ascend the throne of becoming world power.

How about Israel? Many, including myself believe, or used to believe that Israel is the nation with the highest number of nukes in the world. does this mean ive been wrong all this years?

In modern Russia, there have never been 140 million people. The last census, which was noticeably falsified, about which there are many facts, was carried out in ... 2010! About 143 million people were indicated there. Well, everything seems to be fine. But there is a small problem... Arithmetic
In order to understand that the figure of 143 million people is false, it is enough to take, from open sources, for example, the population for 1998, take the annual population growth (natural increase and migration increase), take the natural population decline. And try to reach 143 million Oh, and one more thing. In order not to be deceived - we will also impose a third schedule - pension payments, which are directly proportional to the number of pensioners by age, and should be correlated with population indicators, growth and mortality. They can’t just take and appear or disappear a huge number of pensioners, right?
Well, and most importantly, the next census was held in .. 2022. Do you know how? Almost completely REMOTE. And how many people did they get? 146 million
Despite the fact that :
- since 2011, officially natural growth is positive, and migration also
- since 2014, the temporarily occupied Crimea was also counted as residents of the Russian Federation, and this added 2.3 million people.
At the same time, the death rate from covid-19, officially, in Russia amounted to 380 thousand people.

In a word - if you read Russian numbers:
- if they praise and show the successes of Russia - it is necessary to divide by 2-5 to get closer to reality
- if they talk about some losses, then you need to multiply by 2-5 to get closer to the real level

Judging by tax deductions, pensions and other things (and some of these indicators were classified for some reason in March-April 2022), the real population of Russia may be approximately 80-95 million people.