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How’s Russia working out for us and for the Russian people these days? Or Belarus, or Poland?
by jonathanyc 7y ago
How’s Russia working out for us and for the Russian people these days? Or Belarus, or Poland?
- chroem- 7y agoAt least they're not getting rolled over by tanks.
- YeahSureWhyNot 7y agodid you know russian army drove tanks at people in multiple cities when soviet union fell apart? google january 20th tragedy, warning: its graphic
- free652 7y agoLike this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_pogrom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_pogrom
- YeahSureWhyNot 7y agowhile thats a different tragedy resulted from incompetence of soviet assigned government, no, I am referring to what they did in 3 different countries. 1-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January 2-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy 3-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)
- adventured 7y agoIt's working out fine for 'us,' mostly. Putin has exhausted his only card though, the energy card, which was used to give Russia's economy a jump; now there's no follow-up maneuver. The Russian people have of course started to take notice of that fact. Russia is an increasingly inconsequential regional power, with a relatively weak and small economy (now smaller than Canada; about to be smaller than Australia). Generally they pose zero threat to the US and Western Europe in their present form; at least so long as NATO remains intact. Their military is weak and broken, they can't afford to maintain it properly - much less upgrade it - so they've shifted to magic scary super weapon propaganda and PR desperation. It's Belarus and Ukraine primarily at issue, not Poland. Poland is doing great overall, they've almost entirely left Russia's orbit in terms of overt influence. Their economic output per capita is beginning to embarrass Russia, it's now 50% higher than Russia's figure (that gap will increase). Poland is starting to push into the upper tier of the middle income nations, with a real shot at leaving that group and moving into the upper economic tier in the next two decades, along with the Baltic states. Russia can't do much to countries like Poland, the Baltics or eg Romania. They know that of course. They can and will persistently, aggressively mess with Belarus (forced union) and Ukraine (constantly seek to destabilize & split it) however. In Russia's ideal world, they keep those two nations impoverished beneath Russia's economic level, so that Russia can perpetually lord over them; then given enough time figure out a way to de facto annex all or a lot of their territory. The people running Russia - including Putin - believe that is all really Russian territory.
- fggvgg 7y agoPoland’s economy is highly subsidized by the German, French and Italian taxpayers, the only significant payers to the EU budget.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoThe countries you mentioned contribute to the EU budget, not Poland's economy.
- FrojoS 7y agoMost of the EU budget is subsidies. A substantial amount goes to new EU members.
- chewz 7y agoHalf of EU budget is CAP which goes to farmers all over EU. https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/cap-glance_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policie...
- netsharc 7y agoIsn't that a matter of semantics.. if a Polish highway being built has a sign next to it that says it is 20% sponsored by the EU, doesn't that mean 1 out of every 5 Zloty the roadbuilder is earning comes from the EU?