Marla wrote on Mar 22
nd, 2022 at 1:34am:
REALLY? an ex-KGB/anti-American agent was going to be a leader the West would approve of? You're either gullible, ignorant or just plain stupid. Or some combination of the three.
Maybe naive. "Ignorant", perhaps. It is not like Russia is a constant notable topic for Australians, except in the last 2 months. But, I am not gullible enough to Russia as a weak military threat to the USA. The world needs to put sanctions on Russia for a while. Russia's weakness is their economy. Heck, I bet our resource sectors could do with a boost from exporting what Russia is not allowed to export anymore.
Quote:They've been able to do that since the 1950's. So what is your point there, Boris? Oh, and don't think Putin will turn Sydney or Melbourne into a Radioactive smoldering shitholes in a heartbeat.
Australia is not a factor in Moscow's thinking in dealing military operations against the Ukraine. And the Soviets were not powerful enough until the 1980s to launch an attack against the USA. Not that they ever will. They are not dumb enough to risk retaliatory attacks from the USA. Then again, Americans are not dumb enough to launch an attack against Russia. Americans only fight those that cannot fight back.
Quote:Yeaaaah, right. So good in fact it recruits from other countries. And it's not a low population thing, either, the Australian military is week, ill-trained and has relied on free American military protection for decades.
We do not go around pissing off other countries to actually need a larger military. Actually, we are kind of armed to the teeth for a middle-power country. And our military seems a bit too overwhelmingly caucasian to be recruiting from other countries.
As it stands, Marla-Rae, Australia has come to the assistance of the United States more times than the United States has assisted Australia. So far, the United States has treated Australia as an outpost to spy on the Middle East.
Quote:You are a Putin and his stupid war sympathizer.
Settle down, Joe McCarthy. I am not a fan of Putin or his war. I find the whole situation in the Ukraine disgusting. And I wish that the war was over before it begun.