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How big of a threat is Russia to the United States?

Thoughts?

  • They are an existential threat.

    Votes: 9 14.5%

  • They are an extremely large threat.

    Votes: 17 27.4%

  • They are somewhat of a threat.

    Votes: 17 27.4%

  • They are a very small threat.

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • The Cold War is over. Russia is not a threat.

    Votes: 8 12.9%
  • Total voters
    62
dex4974 said:
And you think they're going to fire on us?
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Our annual National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is based capability, not on the odds of something occurring.
 
chuckiechan said:
Russia and China hate Trump and want Biden. There is no daylight between your shared goals.
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Both Russia and China want Trump to win another term. Putin finds it very easy to manipulate Trump.

Xi views Trump as destroying US alliances faster than he is amending the trade imbalance.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Both Russia and China want Trump to win another term. Putin finds it very easy to manipulate Trump.

Xi views Trump as destroying US alliances faster than he is amending the trade imbalance.
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I would never expect a traitor to point finger at his bosses. Your buddy Xi, had never met a president he could not control until Trump. BTW, “Xi views..” Does he call you to discuss strategy?
 
HumblePi said:
No sir, you haven't been paying attention to what Putin has done. I hope you will pay a little more attention now that it appears he has paid Taliban to kill your fellow American soldiers.
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Stop it. Russia turned the tide in Syria when it looked bleak with ISIS ready to add that area to their new
caliphate. The worst possibility was be to push Russia into much closer ties with China & that's what
the BO administration was attempting to do.
 
chuckiechan said:
Russia and China hate Trump and want Biden. There is no daylight between your shared goals.
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I can't believe that.

Trump is an incompetent. You can work with an incompetent, manipulate him and get him to do what you want. Stroke Trump's ego a little and he's like butter in your hands.

Biden will at least hire competent people, moreover, he will let them do their jobs. He won't fire them out of envy, like Trump does.
 
swing_voter said:
I can't believe that.

Trump is an incompetent. You can work with an incompetent, manipulate him and get him to do what you want. Stroke Trump's ego a little and he's like butter in your hands.

Biden will at least hire competent people, moreover, he will let them do their jobs. He won't fire them out of envy, like Trump does.
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Biden the body will be there, but Biden’s mind will not be. That is the problem. Why do you think he feels he doesn’t have to come out into the world with a plan for America? He doesn’t feel he needs one since his plan is to get elected and step aside.

The simple calculation is he’s convinced America will go that route.
 
dex4974 said:
I doubt destruction is even mutually assured anymore. We would very likely come out on top in a nuclear exchange. Our military is so much more powerful and complex than theirs it's actually kind of comical.
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The Russian nuclear arsenal is still fully capable of killing millions of Americans. We might come out "on top", but in reality we would just be losing slightly less than them.
 
dex4974 said:
What I've said is the truth whether you'll accept it or not. Be ignorant or don't; it makes no difference to me.
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Whether you want to acknowledge Russia's danger to us is irrelevant. Stop confusing your opinion with reality.
 
dex4974 said:
And you think they're going to fire on us?
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That you would even suggest this proves that you have no clue how arms races work.

Maybe you want us to get infiltrated with Russian propaganda.

Sigh. I miss the good old days when we told Russian spies to have a seat:

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Phys251 said:
Whether you want to acknowledge Russia's danger to us is irrelevant. Stop confusing your opinion with reality.
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The fact that the Crimean people wanted to secede to Russia is reality and not my opinion.
 
Phys251 said:
That you would even suggest this proves that you have no clue how arms races work.

Maybe you want us to get infiltrated with Russian propaganda.

Sigh. I miss the good old days when we told Russian spies to have a seat:

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I report directly to Putin because matters involving debatepolitics.com are considered top priority to the Kremlin.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
The Russian nuclear arsenal is still fully capable of killing millions of Americans. We might come out "on top", but in reality we would just be losing slightly less than them.
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I'm just making the point that they'd lose badly and would not destroy us. The Russians aren't stupid. They don't want to lose what power they have left.
 
dex4974 said:
Is that report even confirmed yet? Also I was talking about nukes.
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One doesn't need nukes to attack the US.

Russia's GRU and FSB attacked the 2016 election on Trump's behalf.
 
Rogue Valley said:
One doesn't need nukes to attack the US.

Russia's GRU and FSB attacked the 2016 election on Trump's behalf.
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Are you one of those people that thinks Trump wouldn't have won without Putin in his corner? Russia is even less of a threat if you take nukes out of the discussion. Don't forget to check under your bed for Russians tonight.
 
Russia is not an existential threat, nor are they in any danger of conquering western Europe. But it wants to maintain its sphere of influence and that clashes with America's regional ambitions so they will continue to be at loggerheads. There's also the ideological differences - like China, Russia is authoritarian - but it's more about the contest for influence, resources and power.
 
uptower said:
Russia is not an existential threat, nor are they in any danger of conquering western Europe. But it wants to maintain its sphere of influence and that clashes with America's regional ambitions so they will continue to be at loggerheads. There's also the ideological differences - like China, Russia is authoritarian - but it's more about the contest for influence, resources and power.
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FINALLY! AT LAST! A VOICE OF REASON!

-Collapses as if gasping for water after traversing a desert of stupidity to find an oasis of sanity-

The question we should be asking is "how big of a threat are the P5 Security Councilors to the ****ing planet".

WAKE THE GODDAMN **** UP PEOPLE!
 
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dex4974 said:
Keep in mind that a handful of years ago their yearly GDP was smaller than the city of Tokyo.
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I have given this question some serious thought and ponder as I may, I just can't decide if Russia or the DEMONRATS are the bigger threat to this nation.
 
dex4974 said:
I'm just making the point that they'd lose badly and would not destroy us. The Russians aren't stupid. They don't want to lose what power they have left.
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You're right, they aren't stupid. The Russians are smart, and what's what makes them dangerous. They've been able to play a weak hand very well over the past several years.
 
dex4974 said:
Is that report even confirmed yet?
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Yes. It's also not surprising; we sent weapons to people to kill Russians, and then bragged about it so much we even made a movie about how we pwned them.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
You're right, they aren't stupid. The Russians are smart, and what's what makes them dangerous. They've been able to play a weak hand very well over the past several years.
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It's still a weak hand though.
 
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