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> Russia is just a straight up "adversary" now? Infuriating. ...in this context, when were they not an adversary?
by ivraatiems 10y ago
> Russia is just a straight up "adversary" now? Infuriating.
...in this context, when were they not an adversary?
- messick 10y agoIf the OP is in his/her mid 20's, then "during their entire lifetime". Not to be all "kids these days" about it, but millions of people read about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire in their World History class, instead of living through it. Just last week on HN I saw a comment to the effect of "I trust China over the US when it comes to political protest". That's the kind of thing people say when Tiananmen Square happened before they were born.
- ptaipale 10y ago> If the OP is in his/her mid 20's, then "during their entire lifetime". If they think so, then they haven't been following news too much. Russia has been invading its neighbouring countries (friendly to the USA) and organising unrest in some of them for a decade.
- nyolfen 10y agothere is no obvious reason for russia to be considered an "adversary" versus merely a competing regional power in the absence of the ideological conflict of the cold war
- angry_octet 10y agoTell that to the Ukranians, Georgians, Poles, Balts... Russia may have an economy the size of Italy's, but geopolitically they are still the bear, a gangster state that seeks to disrupt all order so that they can bully on a one-to-one basis.
- nyolfen 10y agotell that to the iraqis, libyans, afghanis... emphasis on regional power in my prior comment. my heart goes out to the ukrainian people but the actions of russia are not worth escalating over with a nuclear state on the part of the american people.
- angry_octet 10y agoIf you don't hang together you'll all hang separately.