They're already doing a USA economically, projecting power throughout the world via funding and outright purchasing. As the undisputed superpower, they would have the extra cash to drop on whatever they wanted. Maybe they'd decide that they can do enough with money that they don't need any more missiles than they already have, but I think it would tempt them far too much.
Oh absolutely. But never underestimate how good it is to be king, even if it's king of a much diminished world economy. The US came out of WW2 king over a shattered world, and look how that went for them.
Grossly naive in many, many, ways. There wasn't a 'world police' before the collapse of the USSR, that's what Yalta was all about. Earlier empires were generally interested in specific territories, not in starting world wars. That didn't change until the twentieth century, where there were a couple of attempts to do so. And small countries weren't 'much much worse off' during the cold war, they had the ability to play the big blocs against each other, to extract a slightly better deal. It didn't always work, obviously, but quite a few places (Africa & S America especially) took advantage to break away from their colonialist powers.
They are working quite hard on that.....See Solomon Islands see Sri Lanka see belt and road + Chinese overseas police stations see artificial islands in disputed territories see military bases on other side of rivers that form natural boundaries + 5 aircraft carriers by 2030 and some challenging ideas about what is 'so called' foreign or even what is 'so called' peaceful. Also managed to deliver a load of knock off S300 SAMs to Serbia using their military logistics.
yeh aircraft carriers - so 20th century. Submarines Will Reign in a War with China
This is what fascism looks like
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
Vladimir Kara-Murza says the harsh sentence shows he is "doing everything right".www.bbc.co.uk
This is what fascism looks like
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
Vladimir Kara-Murza says the harsh sentence shows he is "doing everything right".www.bbc.co.uk
This site would cease to exist under Putin. I'd already be in jail.
I really don’t think you have a clue as to what fascism looks like.This is what fascism looks like
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
Vladimir Kara-Murza says the harsh sentence shows he is "doing everything right".www.bbc.co.uk
For your pro NATO, pro US, pro EU views?
I mean... It's more akin than not.
It's you who doesn't understand how fascist regimes take control of the press and silence and punish critical voices.
www.dw.com
I've no idea what point you're trying to make here, but do you really think that a site like this would be allowed to exist if it was based in Russia?
For the record, I wasn't saying it was a fascist state - that's another argument- but I was referring to the way they treat the free press, which certainly is like many fascist states before it. A quarter century in jail for criticising the government and a parent prosecuted for their small children's drawings, FFS.
not to mention attitude to drugs and homosexuality
the free press. there is no free press, not above blogs and the like.
I doubt that it would be allowed in Russia. But also not allowed in many counties regarded as partners of the US and UK. Shall we attack Saudi Arabia next?
Ukraine has done maybe a half-dozen covert operations inside Russia (that we've heard of), but other than that no-one has attacked Russia.
I'm having to run to keep up with your goal post shifting. We're talking about how a UK-based site like this would fare under Putin's fascistic clampdown on the free press.
www.nbcnews.com
