Attackers seize Russian school

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Originally posted by Velociryx
They got no FOOD, and sooner or later, they're gonna get hungry.

but they have children

Also, it may cause canibalism, and guess who'd be the victims

I thought of it first :P

[Nubclear]

I'm really happy to see such support for the Russian people during these times of tragedy. Yet more proof that the West is Russias friend

[Heresson]

Hey, who said we don't support You?

[:) Smiley]

What if You do not have superior tech?

Then don't start a fight, simple as that. Would you go around pissing off people twice your size packing heat?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I'm really happy to see such support for the Russian people during these times of tragedy. Yet more proof that the West is Russias friend

Who exactly here didn't support you?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Smiley

Then don't start a fight, simple as that. Would you go around pissing off people twice your size packing heat?

If I were pissing them off by not allowing them to murder me, rape my wife, rob my neighbours or so on, perhaps, perhaps

[Ned]

Originally posted by Solver

I guess this isn't the thread for it, and of course the US isn't going to become involved unless in something discrete (like providing the gas to knock these people out or whatever), but you don't actually believe that do you?

And you believe there is a significant difference? Yes, the American army has better equipment and technology, generally. There also seem to be less stupid problems. However, in terms of raw firepower, there's no real difference, and that's not counting nukes (if you count them, both USA and Russia can obliterate each other or anyone else).

If there was a conventional conflict between Russia and USA with full raw power of both countries, it would result in near-total annihilation of both, though America would win.

And to your edit, Russian biggest problem is of course that they are a conscript army, indeed. But don't underestimate the power of Russian infantrymen with AK-47s. They wouldn't be easy target practice for US Marines with M16s.

If there was a war between Russia and the US, France would be destroyed because that is where the battle would be joined as the US would once again have to stage in Britain to retake a lost continent.

[Ned]

I was hearing that the major US media were not reporting that these kidnappers were Muslim terrorists.

Why?

Could it be that the press wants to portray the Russians as bad guys and the terrorists as oppressed freedom fighters?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Who exactly here didn't support you?

I'm not going to start a flamewar (not to mention that Ming might ban me) so I'll say this: Some of the comments in the various Russia-terrorism threads range from slightly inappropriate to extremly inappropriate

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Ned
If there was a war between Russia and the US, France would be destroyed because that is where the battle would be joined as the US would once again have to stage in Britain to retake a lost continent.

In a conventional war involving Russia, the US and Europeand NATO, the battlefield would most probably happen eastern of that, since the European armies were precisely designed with the aim of stalling the Societ advance. The German army would probably hold the Soviets long enough for all the allied firepower to assemble there. The battlefield might even be more eastward, in Poland (the Polish army was designed with the aim of stalling NATO advance in mind )

[Lincoln]

Originally posted by Ned
I was hearing that the major US media were not reporting that these kidnappers were Muslim terrorists.

Why?

Could it be that the press wants to portray the Russians as bad guys and the terrorists as oppressed freedom fighters?

Bingo! We have to pretend that there really is not an enemy that are mostly fanatical Muslim terrorists. If the media really emphasized this fact then Bush might gain a few points and we certainly cannot have that.

Anyway, troll aside, this should be the top story all over the world. It is absolutely appaling that this scum of the earth would use these kids like this. But I guess Coby Briant's trial is more important right now...

[Serb]

Originally posted by Hurricane
Again, the situation in Chechnya can not be won by military power, no matter how much effort is put into it. This is because of the simple fact that most Chechens aren't involved in this war at all anymore, except as civilians caought in the crossfire. Most of the terrorists are imported fanatics from abroad, who have drafted desperate young Chechens with nothing else to do. Al Quaeda had no influence in Chechnya before the war, and as the russians wreak havoc on the civilians, the terrorists will find more and more volunteers for revenge actions.

And as I said before, the simple solution is to restore law and order. This, however, requires that the russian army stops playing its own game down there and instead start to do what they are supposed to do. But there is little indication that this will happen.

But Russian army already withdrawn from Chechnya. IIRC there staitioned less than 25 000 regular Russian troops. It's less than two divisions. For a region with population over one million, it's not a something unusual, if you ask me. I believe in my region (with population over 1,5 million) located in the middle of Siberia staitioned more regular troops than in Chechnya. In Chechnya oder maintains by local police forces made of local population. Ironically most of them fought against Russians in first Chechen war.
But the problem is that foreign supporters of terrorist s would never betray their brothers in arms from Chechnya. There is no way in hell that Osama interested in peacefull Caucasus and will withdraw from there. So without extermination of their forign brothers and sponsors we would never defeat them. And I think that Russia should cooperate with foreign countries to fight terrorism more actively. We can't, and no one can win this fight alone.

[Heresson]

First the Russian army would have to go to Poland. Through Ukraine? no way. Through Byelorus? More likely, but Lukaszenko is unpredictable. though Baltic states perhaps.
And Finland would surely got attacked. Kaliningrad is a problem, a lot of srmy stationing there, cutting off Poland and Lithuania wouldn't be hard I guess, but in the time main Russian forces came, Europeans can move their army over Polish border.

[Serb]

ers.


Russians could kick anyone arses on this planet and destroy the planet itself after evaquation of its hevy industry and population on Mars.

[Serb]

Stop the spam, give world a chance.
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This thread is not about dicks length comparison.