Well, when I last heard, they seem to be still alive and kicking. So maybe you are exaggerating a little? :unsure:
We were speaking of Russia? But the United States, like many European countries were on their expansion - but that was not last century! Russia's expansion ended 20 years ago.
Well of course it's going to take for the Russians to understand that they can't grasp everything they see, but they got a real shock in 1991 when The USSR fell and several Eastern European and Central Asian countries became independent.
I was referring to the fighting.
And of course, any fighting will affect someone. But i'm honestly surprised the Bolshies could secure and control anything outside Moscow, just after the revolution. They were very unpopular.
Shows you how unpredictable the Russians are. Putin may present a "together picture" to the rest of the world, but I don't think this country could ever be underestimated for its military surprises. It history speaks for itself.
Maybe it was because they did it by force, and things had been so chaotic before the October Revolution that most of Russia capitulated. Except of course the non-ethnic parts of the Russian Empire like the Ukraine and Estonia who resisted and went independent.
I said that's going to take a long time. The Russian power sickness is a never ending story to date, but hopefully someone in the future will stop them forever. It's going to be difficult, and electing Putin ten years ago was most definitely not the step in the right direction!
Exactly! Russia is probably the most unpredictable country I can mention at the moment, and through history. They're cold and smart, and they never want to realize a loss.
And the failed revolution to soften 'em up.
But they did have quite a bit of opposition from the social democrats and the Black Guard.
I guess the Black Guard must be your favourite seeing that they were anarchists? This is a photo of Nestor Makhno, who commanded the Black Army, an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers.
Source: Wikipedia
Absolutely! I think Russians love to be underestimated, so they can show themselves from their worst side.
The stimulus did quite a bit actually. Come '14, FL will be a great place to vacation/do business.
Why? Because stimulus money has allowed us to rebuild our infrastructure and to even improve it, to attract travel agencies to our tourism attractions and to encourage high-tech industry to move here.The same can be said for most other states as well. As for the 'pointless' spending, let's look at spending to track the salmon population. It will help increase harvest yield, maintain satiability of the fishery and help maintain and grow a multi-million dollar industry, not so pointless.
The stimulus did quite a bit... Unless the gov't doing something right is bad for your political agenda.
With no where near the efficiency in growth that the private sector would have done it is had it been able to keep that money. Besides, how many people are really planning big vacations during a time of recession? The Broken Window fallacy applies here too.The stimulus did quite a bit actually. Come '14, FL will be a great place to vacation/do business.
If it is so beneficial for those salmon companies, they would have thought of and done it themselves. The government and the people's money is not needed for something that the fish companies could have done themselves if they saw it as a good investment.
It also added billions to the debt, increased regulation in certain areas, fueled growth in weak areas that were not necessary, fueled a lot of waste, and increased the bureaucracy. There is an argument on both sides and the argument that it did more bad than good is not a crazy one (unless of course it's bad for your political agenda
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An empire in its death throes trying to regain lost glory. The birth rates, alcoholism rates and other social problems have rotted the culture out from the core.
They may be able to temporarily hold western europe hostage with their gas and oil deposits but the more they try to leverage the more europe will follow France's example and rely on nuclear for their electricity. As populations decline the porous asian borders will suffer from pressures in China. Whether the state of China plays a role or of Russian welcomes peoples fleeing China to build a buffer is yet to be determined but the long term prognosis is very poor.
The stimulus did quite a bit actually. Come '14, FL will be a great place to vacation/do business.
The same can be said for most other states as well. As for the 'pointless' spending, let's look at spending to track the salmon population. It will help increase harvest yield, maintain satiability of the fishery and help maintain and grow a multi-million dollar industry, not so pointless.
The stimulus did quite a bit... Unless the gov't doing something right is bad for your political agenda.
hmmm... I thought it was going to keep unemployment at or below 8%?
but, what it did was create some, as yet unrealized, economic opportunities in Florida?
For $800,000,000,000.00 think of all the hookers and blow we could have had. Clearly a failed policy.
And you believed that?
You really need to learn to tell the difference between promises that are real and politicking to make you vote for them.Getting us out of recession was a real promise. Getting unemployment under 8% was to get the "The economy sucks!" vote that nobody with the slightest understanding of economics actually expected to happen, at least not right away.
