(03-01-2024 08:37 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-29-2024 11:59 PM)Todor Wrote:  But perhaps the most important way Putin has improved Russia (and the one that infuriates the West the most) are the upgrades to Russias defensive infrastructure.

Here is American media covering some of it-just look at how they cover it- they say Russia is militarizing the Arctic lol. Also known as building defensive bases on their own border, not even near another country, just on their arctic coast.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/europe/ru...index.html

Another reason the West ks so keen to demonize Russia-we want them to weak to defend themselves, or simply not smart enough to defend their own borders like us.

They cant tell you why they hate putin. I tried that experiment.

Never wise to “converse” with your sock puppet…

(03-02-2024 10:17 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 10:00 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 09:53 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 09:41 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 09:21 PM)Todor Wrote:  For those keeping track, the thread is over 50 posts, almost 1000 views, multitudes of excuses, numerous attempts to change the subject, but no attempts to actually address the topic of the thread yet.

You started the thread, please list all his great accomplishments so we can all learn.

I would imagine all the soldiers fighting and dying in a senseless war would say their lives are worse off.

So you can’t name anything either… I’m shocked.

Nope, I don't know crap about Russia. Please enlighten me, I'm genuinely interested in learning.

I would suggest cracking a book instead lurking around threads that aren't focused on your enlightenment. I tried to make the title of the thread self explanatory.

With the above said, perhaps if you bothered the read the thread, you would see that I gave example after example after example after example and you didn’t comment on any of those things. Now you say I should “enlighten” you?

Perhaps if you brought forth a little more aptitude and a little less attitude, you might become a little more enlightenment without any further assistance required from me? I can only do so much.

Very similar writing style to another poster on this forum…

(03-03-2024 09:00 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 10:17 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 10:00 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 09:53 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-02-2024 09:41 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  You started the thread, please list all his great accomplishments so we can all learn.

I would imagine all the soldiers fighting and dying in a senseless war would say their lives are worse off.

So you can’t name anything either… I’m shocked.

Nope, I don't know crap about Russia. Please enlighten me, I'm genuinely interested in learning.

I would suggest cracking a book instead lurking around threads that aren't focused on your enlightenment. I tried to make the title of the thread self explanatory.

With the above said, perhaps if you bothered the read the thread, you would see that I gave example after example after example after example and you didn’t comment on any of those things. Now you say I should “enlighten” you?

Perhaps if you brought forth a little more aptitude and a little less attitude, you might become a little more enlightenment without any further assistance required from me? I can only do so much.

Very similar writing style to another poster on this forum…

I wouldn’t try to answer the question I asked either lol. Talk about a fools errand… Nobody has even been stupid enough to try yet because we all know the answer.

People keep coming to this thread, but they are desperate to talk about ANYTHING except the topic.

Todor is so desperate for everyone to agree that Putin has made Russia a wonderland.
He is a tyrant. Enriching himself by absurd billions. Invading his neighbors with no concern for life. Unfortunately for those we have nothing in common with, no help came when they were brutalized.

I recall there was another leader who brought his country from an economic disaster to wealth. He to wanted to extend his borders just as Putin. 20,000,000 souls lost their lives for that tyrant. This one has only taken a little short of a million so far. How many more is anyone’s guess.

Mods-

Tell theses dopes im not Todor

Thanks

(03-03-2024 09:57 AM)shere khan Wrote:  Mods-

Tell theses dopes im not Todor

Thanks

We know you aren’t Todor. He spells correctly in his posts.

When Putin came into office, the pensions the American advisors had Yeltsin paying were often under $20 a month.

Pop quiz-

Do people think Putin raised them significantly or lowered them?

If he raised them, do you think that made people mad? Or happy?

Pop quiz what are the odds the two people that post the most threads....

one mainly about Russia
One 90% from Redstate

are both New Mexico State fans

One other thing....

how many wait till there are at least 10 or more post to any topic started by either before clicking on it.

Under Putin the size of the Russian "underseas" fleet has increased dramatically, particularly in the Black Sea.

On the other hand building code compliance and enforcement has declined, as evidenced by the drastic up tick in the number of people falling out of buildings.

(03-03-2024 02:06 PM)miamiredskinsmitty Wrote:  Under Putin the size of the Russian "underseas" fleet has increased dramatically, particularly in the Black Sea.

On the other hand building code compliance and enforcement has declined, as evidenced by the drastic up tick in the number of people falling out of buildings.

From the first post in the thread-

“You can name all the SMO related things you want btw, but I know, you know, and everybody else knows that’s a cop out because you likely can’t name anything else”

And do you know when thousands and thousands more people were falling out of buildings, being executed in the street and being car bombed? Before Putin.

New roads, new bridges, new expressways. New infrastructure in the most needed places.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2...in%202024.

“This was our dream. We used to have trouble getting food deliveries in off-season; now we eat fresh bread every day,” he said. “Life is definitely better.”

(03-03-2024 12:02 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  Pop quiz what are the odds the two people that post the most threads....

one mainly about Russia
One 90% from Redstate

are both New Mexico State fans

One other thing....

how many wait till there are at least 10 or more post to any topic started by either before clicking on it.

Likely the 10 are them responding to their own post.

(03-03-2024 11:20 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-03-2024 02:06 PM)miamiredskinsmitty Wrote:  Under Putin the size of the Russian "underseas" fleet has increased dramatically, particularly in the Black Sea.

On the other hand building code compliance and enforcement has declined, as evidenced by the drastic up tick in the number of people falling out of buildings.

From the first post in the thread-

“You can name all the SMO related things you want btw, but I know, you know, and everybody else knows that’s a cop out because you likely can’t name anything else”

And do you know when thousands and thousands more people were falling out of buildings, being executed in the street and being car bombed? Before Putin.

How many SMO have there been? What countries or territories? Putin is a tyrant. And a small little one at that.

(03-03-2024 11:37 PM)Todor Wrote:  New roads, new bridges, new expressways. New infrastructure in the most needed places.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2...in%202024.

“This was our dream. We used to have trouble getting food deliveries in off-season; now we eat fresh bread every day,” he said. “Life is definitely better.”

Hitler did quite well too. Autobons. Volkswagens. Panzers.

(03-03-2024 11:48 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(03-03-2024 11:37 PM)Todor Wrote:  New roads, new bridges, new expressways. New infrastructure in the most needed places.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2...in%202024.

“This was our dream. We used to have trouble getting food deliveries in off-season; now we eat fresh bread every day,” he said. “Life is definitely better.”

Hitler did quite well too. Autobons. Volkswagens. Panzers.

Why don’t we have first world infrastructure? We borrowed $35 trillion to build it. So where is it?

“Don’t question where the money went, oh look over there, Putin bad”

As long as there is all this chicanery going on in the US, we’ll always invent an outside distraction to keep the peoples’ minds occupied.

Hate to tell people, but first world infrastructure is not a “feature” of what makes a leader bad like they’ve sold us on. All of the first world has it. Well, except us. We are told we can’t afford nice things, even though we borrow the money to pay for it, on top of already being the richest country in the world.

Hmmm.

(03-03-2024 02:06 PM)miamiredskinsmitty Wrote:  Under Putin the size of the Russian "underseas" fleet has increased dramatically, particularly in the Black Sea.

On the other hand building code compliance and enforcement has declined, as evidenced by the drastic up tick in the number of people falling out of buildings.

From the first post in the thread-

“You can name all the SMO related things you want btw, but I know, you know, and everybody else knows that’s a cop out because you likely can’t name anything else”

And do you know when thousands and thousands more people were falling out of buildings, being executed in the street a s being car bombed? Before Putin.

Sounds like Hitler. He had Germany going full speed ahead until.......

Putin making lemonade out of NATO’s expansion plans.

"The pressure of the war in Ukraine has forced the Kremlin to push through a raft of long overdue reforms as its struggles to raise more revenues for the budget, increase the efficiency of the economy and keep the people happy.

Despite Russia’s reputation for crony capitalism and greedy oligarchs, since about 2014 when sanctions were first imposed on Russia after the annexation of the Crimea, the Kremlin has been trying to revamp the economy with some success.”

“After two years of fighting, the economy is doing well and grew by 3.6% in 2023, making Russia the fastest growing of any of the G8 wealthy nations.”

“ The clash with the West and the extreme sanctions on Russia has had the unintended consequence of focusing the Kremlin on pushing through more effective reforms. After two years of reengineering the economy for war, the Kremlin has now turned its mind back to making sure the population is happy and has the leeway to return to the topic of the national projects.”

“ The 2016 budget crisis coupled with the threat of more sanctions was a wakeup call that spurred the Kremlin into action. The reform process began with the so-called May decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin in May 2012 that imposed a heavy social spending plan on Russia's regions to improve the lives of the average Russian.”

It’s all part of “The Fiscal Fortress” plan that Putin put into place.

https://www.intellinews.com/moscow-blog-...dy-208909/

“Much of the narrative surrounding the “Russia problem” assumes that Putin is actively trying to undermine Western democracies or rebuild the Soviet Union, when if you look at what he has actually done is assume that Russia will be attacked and he has tried, as far as is possible, to isolate Russia from that attack so that the country won’t be forced to do anything it doesn't want to.”

Maybe once we run out of credit and can’t try to borrow our way out of every issue, we might come up with a strategy too? Probably, but only after it’s too late.

Planning- another thing that is better under Putin than before.

What was that I just heard? Another SU34 initiating a (very) hard landing on Ukrainian soil? Maybe another T90 turret being launched into orbit.

(03-04-2024 11:21 AM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  What was that I just heard? Another SU34 initiating a (very) hard landing on Ukrainian soil? Maybe another T90 turret being launched into orbit.

Just like I said in the first post-

You can name all the SMO related things you want btw, but I know, you know, and everybody else knows that’s a cop out because you likely can’t name anything else.