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1/2/2014 2:29:12 PM
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Why do people still consider Russia a superpower and enemy to the US?
They are a democracy now but people still seem to have this fear of Russia and the media often portrays them as the bad guys. They are also not even in the top 5 economies and though their military may be pretty advanced there are many other countries with better armies.
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2 RepliesWe just simply hate russia. [i]All[/i] of us. Hell, Russia hated russia!
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because russia sucks
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1 ReplyBecaushe paranoia laddie. The Yoo Esh Ay ish sho shcared of loshing it's grip on the world that any other large country seems like an Enemy. Russhia is a nische plasche, and Putin is a much better (And funnier) world leader than the wet towel Cameron and Mishter Obama. If he didn't passh the gaybashing law then I'd have no quarrel with him at all.
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They banned gays and stuff
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2 RepliesAmerica and Russia should just go ahead and make out already.
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Because people are retards
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Because have been the enemy in every book and movie and video game for the past 40 years. Why stop now?
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Because anyone who doesn't follow America lockstep is an enemy.
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1 Reply>putin musical chairs >democracy >lololol
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Their head of state is ex-KGB. From a time when deterrence was the only thing stopping nuclear war. A man who valued his reputation over the lives of a submarine crew. A man who controls the worlds biggest and most resourceful country.
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There aren't many countries with stronger army than Russia. And they are still controlling territories they occupied in WWII.
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1 ReplyEnemy? Who still considers them an enemy? Competitor or rival, maybe. But not enemy. And they still have enough power to be considered a super power.
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2 RepliesThe real threat russia has to offer is drivers more terrible than all asians combined.
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1 ReplyGood point, but they make such great bad guys though!
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4 RepliesThis is why I was glad that Battlefield 4 finally decided to do away with using Russia as the enemy, with more emphasis on China...
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Because cold war
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All their nukes i think they have more or at least had more than anyone during the cold war
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Edited by PeiperSpinsMeat: 1/2/2014 4:39:12 PMProbably because Russia has recently taken a more defiant stand to the US foreign policy and their economic/political positions are rising. And for its economic size, Russia has very ambitious goals for their foreign policy. They're even trying to form a customs union which many see as a revival of a Russian-dominated USSR.
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While I would never call Russia a democracy as long as Putin is in charge, the reason why people regard Russia as some enemy is due to Cold War nostalgia and the fact that US and Russian foreign policy still tends to bump heads with one another.
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Old habits die hard, and it's not like we're exactly friends.
