North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydrogen Bomb

Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydroge... by nikolay on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:23PM (#10852389)

Well, the Russians are a convenient threat, but they are compatible with us (in terms of views), reasonable, and educated people. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey are the real enemies of the Western civilization and I can't believe we allow them to be our allies! I personally don't know much abut North Korea, and although it's definitely a threat, I feel that all this is just a show.

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Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydroge... by noselfrighteous on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:31PM (#10853941)

Ish. How much do you know about the Russian cultural psyche?

I'm not disagreeing that the paranoia around American<->Russian relations isn't massively overblown, but I think you underestimate the aspirations of the Russian ruling class, and the degree to which the working class would bend to those aspirations if called upon (forced to).

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Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydroge... by nikolay on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:31AM (#10863312)

I'm Bulgarian, I know a lot of Russians, I've been raised with the Russian culture during communism, and I've been living 16 years in California. Russia is a powerful country, but I think China is a much bigger threat to the US than Russia!

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Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydroge... by cpursley on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:38PM (#10853055)

I agree. The Anti-Russia rhetoric is silly.

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Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydroge... by nikolay on Friday January 08, 2016 @06:31PM (#10869111)

Not just silly - it's criminal! It's pushed by cliques that benefit from increasing aggression!

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