14 republics didnot contribute as much as Russians contributed.

Yea, yea – Russia uber alles. This contribution was mainly raw resources (like today) mined by all but not russians.

And that includes Russian living in republics. There are still 10 to 15 million people working from Central Asia working in Russia from Agriculture to construction and that gives Russia enormous influence if it chose to exert on those countries not mention well established Russian train and pipeline network.

Those people will find a job in another country, but what russians will do without 20-30% of workers resources? What a percentage of lets say weapons constructors are russians? 10 or 5%?
And “well established Russian train and pipeline network” is a joke, right?

Ukraine and Belrus will be the worst. They are facing demographic collapse.

Exactly as Russia.

Another Su-25 from there

Su-25 damaged in S. Ossetia

A Russian military helicopter flies over a main road connecting South Ossetia’s main city of Tskhinvali with the Georgian town of Gori on August 10, 2008.

Nobody right in this conflict. Georgia started a military operation after 15 years of Russian “peacekeeping” in the area – both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. All 15 years Russia took side of separatists and encouraged anti-Georgian hysteria at home. An independence referendum in South Ossetia took place after killing thousands Georgians and after tens of thousands of Georgians refugees flew from there. It is right that Soviets divided the Ossetian nation, but the reason was not political, but economical – there is a mountain ridge between North and South Ossetia, and nobody was against it till Georgia declared its independence. The declaration that South Ossetia region is historically Ossetian also wrong – in 1878 there was no Ossetians in Tshinvali, in 1920 – about 6% of the population. I’d like to avoid “genocide” terminology, but both Ossetians and Georgians killed enough people to hate each other. The only difference between them that Saakashvili was first and only politician that tried to reach peace, unfortunately Mr Putin personally don’t like him at all and peace had no chance there.

Don’t cowardly hide behind quotes of some Bulgakov guy.. Come out and tell it to my face..

That exactly what I did.

..you know nothing about me and about what do I know or not know about Israel.. provide arguments instead of cheap rant and name-calling..

I read you for two years – this is enough to make opinion. You post about Israel nothing but Al-Jazeera slogans.

Back to the topic. The biggest fun of Israel strike on Iran (and Lebanone btw) is US – they gain much with do nothing (almost). And not only hawks, even liberals over there want it – part of them already writes blaming articles.
So neither the flying over nor refuelling should not be a problem. The only problem of the strike is retaliation fear in Israel – thats why Israel starts to talk with Syria and her friends HAMAS (90 days truce) and Hezbolla (Sheba farms).

No.. I hate to see how a 7 million country constantly shows a middle finger to the remaining 6 billion. The level of protection from the side of the US is unreasonably high, it unfortunately made an once humble child grow out into a pretty arrogant prick..

Pff, could not care less about what the clown Ahmadinejad says. Even Israelis do not take him seriously, they just act as if they were concerned and whine around.. Helps getting free F-35s and even more political protection… Do you still buy these cheap pathetic tricks?

There were some quotes in the topic, so I’ll quote too a little:
Michail Bulgakov. The heart of a dog.

you allow yourself … to offer advice, with quite intolerable familiarity, on a cosmic scale and of quite cosmic stupidity

flex, as you proved many times here, you know nothing about Israel and/or it history, so dont shame yourself.

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