Enough. Enough. Enough enough FUCKING ENOUGH.

[Demeter]

49. Putin wouldn't do that--unlike American hacks, Russians learn their history

They had Afghanistan; we had Vietnam.

Since then, Russia wins if it fights, and it fights to defend itself only. Russia gave up Empire-building. Russia would let the Afghans sit in their misogynistic self-imprisonment, drug themselves to death on opium, and die of drought. There's no desire to save the world from itself in Russian culture...and no great desire to loot and pillage, either. Russia has enough untapped resources to happily ignore the rest of the world. Russia is where the US was, after the Civil War, on the verge of great things.

The US is still fighting wars of aggression, for the resources its corporations can steal from 3rd world nations...and it's losing every single one of them. We never learn (at least, our 1% puppet-masters never learn. They just scoop out the public till while supplying the war machines, and loot whatever they can, whenever they can).