Originally Posted by
muldoon
Seriously? You have blinders on.
For starters - we have 100x the reach they do. 100x the reach = 1000's of targets (many times more soft targets)
They're in a perpetual state of terror with neighbors like Chechnya. They only report SOME of the incidents now (Nord-Ost siege wasn't a 1 time thing...170 people dead in a movie theater) - since it was deemed detrimental to the state and media outlets have to check first - we only hear about some of them.
Ironic because when Bush or Obama went the executive order route because congress was dragging it's ass, people scream "Dictator!". Yet when they see the actions of an actual dictator, many of the same people wax glowingly how he's able to kick ass or get things done.
Russia's economy is on the verge of collapse. It's so bad people in large numbers wish for the old brutal days of the Soviet Union.
They have nukes. That's all that keeps them at the table.