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19 February 2015, 01:48 PM

lozgti1

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Russia

Getting a bit cocky?

They have been quiet for umpteen years but seems like they are flexing their muscles at the moment....

Be nice if they simply obliterated ISIS to start,but hey ho...

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19 February 2015, 02:49 PM

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its a pure trying to save face, the country is in serous financial trouble. Has he already said 'its the wests fault' russia is going broke?

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20 February 2015, 09:52 AM

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Yeah...like we allowed all those thiev...sorry, oligarchs, to suddenly "own" what had been, until then, nationalised industries.

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20 February 2015, 08:59 PM

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It has been a massive failure by NATO and the Americans

A mix of post Cold War triumphalism by NATO and total failure to understand the Russian, post soviet mentality by the west