i said nothing negative things about him, but the reality is, that only 5-7 ppl are reading this topics...

I meant the topic not him xD

Uh.. ye that's the truth, around 5-7 people read these I'm not going to argue there. lol.

I am not American but America is the basis of the economy everywhere, somebody is always buying something from US, more then anywhere else. Even if you live in Antartica the US affects you. Even if you live somewhere where no ones that you exist the US affects you. To read American news is recommended because most times it affects your country as well

You should read British and Israeli news. Their economic status effects you fellow Americans than your own news.

Personally i dont think that the British economy effects me, at least in a way that i can remember. Israeli i would be interested in cause i find it interesting as i used to read it ALOT

Whatever has happened in the US in the field of economic status, has had happened to the British side before it got to you.

tbh, i always thought that US was the basis of the economy based on what i have read or by what effects me but maybe ill start reading Britain news. One day i hope to go there for like a year and chill

Don't come to Britain, It's a shithole full of corporate scum now. Canada is the spot to be in at the moment. I'll shut up now before this goes offtopic

I appreciate the support Flippy, but for now I will stay quiet. If Martial Law IS enacted within the next 2-3 weeks it won't matter because I will be gone.

Dunno 'bout the others. But im damn proud to be one of the few that reads this. Knowledge is power, my friend.

i have enough knowledge, dont worry about that :P i could tell you things about the ww2, which you never heard of

because our virus had fight too, he is a vet from ww2

ofc :P
no, ww2 is my favourite topic (and my grandgranddad was in the the wehrmacht)

[quote="Hunter"]Russia flexed its muscles in America’s backyard yesterday as it sent one of its largest warships to join military exercises in the Caribbean. The nuclear-powered flagship Peter the Great set off for Venezuela with the submarine destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels in the first Russian naval mission in Latin America since the end of the Cold War.

“The St Andrew flag, the flag of the Russian Navy, is confidently returning to the world oceans,” Igor Dygalo, a spokesman for the Russian Navy, said. He declined to comment on Russian newspaper reports that nuclear submarines were also part of the expedition.

The voyage to join the Venezuelan Navy for manoeuvres came only days after Russian strategic nuclear bombers made their first visit to the country. Hugo Chávez, the President, said then that the arrival of the strike force was a warning to the US. The vehemently antiAmerican Venezuelan leader is due to visit Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian President, in Moscow this week as part of a tour that includes visits to Cuba and China.

Peter the Great is armed with 20 nuclear cruise missiles and up to 500 surface-to-air missiles, making it one of the most formidable warships in the world. The Kremlin has courted Venezuela and Cuba as tensions with the West soared over the proposed US missile shield in Eastern Europe and the Russian invasion of Georgia last month. Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, said recently that Russia should “restore its position in Cuba” – the nation where deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in 1962 brought Russia and the United States to the brink of nuclear war.
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Igor Sechin, the Deputy Prime Minister, made clear that Russia would challenge the US for influence in Latin America after visits to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba last week. He said: “It would be wrong to talk about one nation having exclusive rights to this zone.”

Moscow was infuriated when Washington sent US warships into the Black Sea to deliver aid to Georgia after the war. Analysts said that the Kremlin was engaging in gunboat diplomacy over the encroachment of Nato into the former Soviet satellites of Georgia and Ukraine.

Pavel Felgengauer, a leading Russian defence expert, told The Times: “It’s to show the flag and the finger to the United States. They are offering a sort of gangland deal – if you get into our territory, then we will get into yours. You leave Georgia and Ukraine to us and we won’t go into the Caribbean, OK?” He described the visit as “first and foremost a propaganda deployment”, pointing out that one of the support vessels was a tug in case either of the warships broke down.

Latin America was one of the arenas of the Cold War in which the US and the Soviet Union battled for ideological dominance. Russia has agreed to sell more than $4 billion (£2 billion) worth of armaments to Venezuela since 2005 and disclosed last week that Mr Chávez wanted new antiaircraft systems and more fighter jets.

Mr Dygalo denied any link with Georgia and said that Mr Chávez and Mr Medvedev had agreed on the exercises in July.


This is a touchy one, but, Russia had no business declaring war on Georgia. If NATO actually had the balls to stand up to Russia (Russia is a permanet member of the Security Council and has to give its vote to enter into a conflict, feel free to correct me on this one...), then this whole conflict would have never occured.

I believe that NATO is inherently flawed, like its predecessor, The League of Nations. As far as weapon capabilities go, the russian submarine may have 50-100 nukes on board, but they are probably nukes from WWII area, making them less potent than todays nukes.

I do agree with Senator McCain when he stated in the debate yesterday (09-26-08) that he can spell the Russian government with three letters..K-G-B.

PS. Hunter, the president WILL NOT declare martial law.