Thread: Russia now rolling into Georgian city with ground forces.
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Old 08-12-2008 | 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Unfortunately, there are parallels with the intial nazi expansions.

The good news is that comparison breaks down when you look at certain details...

The nazi's leveraged German military tradition, technical ingenuity, industrial base, and societal unrest to produce what was the finest military force in the west, and probably in the world.

Putin and russia can't afford to do that economically...and russian culture doesn't make it easy either...
I agree with most of what you say however you are underestimating the new wealth Russia has found in the form of oil and gas. In fact, Russia is on its way to become a society without a national debt and all the branches of their military are feverishly placing orders on new and very sophisticated weapons.

Medvedev recently said that the Russian Rouble should become one of the world's hard currencies on par with the US dollar and the Japanese Yen. Frankly if we don't manage to lower oil and gas prices significantly there's no telling what Russia will do with their new and enormous wealth, they've already surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil production and have been the largest natural gas producer in the world for quite some time. From previous experiences it won't go toward building up their society but rather to build up their enormous military complex.

As far as the Russian culture, I’m not sure what you meant by that…
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