GarryB: I guess we know each other’s opinion by now. I think that your points are that of a militaristic MiG-happy guy, but they are your points. You seem to think in outdated frames, comparing tanks and fighters and crying for every MiG that goes out of service because it might deliver the deciding bomb on the bl00dy Western society (and we all deserve it, don’t we?). Everybody wants to attack Russia, sure. China, the West, the US Navy and after all even the terrorists. So build more army, train more soldiers! Russia has to understand that keeping huge forces by itself is a provocation to its direct neighbors (not talking about USA).
If nobody minds I’m going to come to Garry’s defense for a sec here:
The reason his attitude seems so militaristic is that he’s fighting a backlog of anti-Russian propaganda as long as the trans-Siberian railway. Even to say something relatively objective (like that its in Russia’s interest to maintain a nuclear deterent or that the Russians are working hard to fix the problems their armed forces have had over the years) has everybody up in arms comparing him to Stalin and whatnot. The fact is that Garry tends to be anti-western only in the sense that he doesn’t shy away from pointing out the hypocracies of western (particularly US) foreign policy and all the bllcks that go with it. Also, he works quite hard to dispell some of the myths and propaganda that circulates around anything Russian. Fair play to him I say. To call him MiG-happy and militaristic because of that does go a little too far in my opinion.
(and we all deserve it, don’t we?).
Yes we bloody well do! :diablo:
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