Hirohito

I look forward to working out the issues of the last 48 hours. I hope your alliance will benefit from a more professional and productive leadership.

http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4865-why-socialism-is-better-then-capitalism/#entry72851 Your cooperation is appreciated. Your surrender is accepted amiably.

As another great man said recently: Go in peace.

Still waiting on that essay...

Russia does not respond to terrorists. Russia destroys them. That is all.

Dispatch from Field Marshal Yuri Dolgorukiy, Commander of Western Forces - America - Amb. At Large of Socialist International All Russian forces remain at high alert after initial victories.

He just made the mistake of attacking the Socialist International as well. All because he did not like that I reciprocated his embargo.

Indeed. His attempt to launch a surprise attack was foiled moments ago when he declared war on me, right after I reciprocated his embargo. Naturally when the notice came in, I attacked preemptively - and won.

Russian ports are now closed to American goods and services.

Old Gods are better, but hey. Welcome to Orbis.

Hopefully our friends at TBK will take care of him...

Quite possibly the best terms. Ever.

Considering you're taunting me about it, I'd say so.

There is a large portion of the population in the US that uses rifles that utilize the .223 cartridge for both sport and hunting. Does this make them an assault rifle as well?

A strong, sensible approach to handling white color bonuses. I support this 100%, and wish nothing but the best of luck in the White Sphere.

I feel an uncontrollable urge to bump it...

Brat a has been around since the Tsars. It's never going to go away. Corruption just isn't institutionalized as it used to be under the Bolsheviks.

You realize that RPing the Russian Federation, and using that metagaming back story Is practically breaking rule #1 of RP, right?

I thought he was purged from party membership... O/ All power to the Soviets, or something!

Fox Fire, I think you're operating in the 90's still. The growth of a middle class has increased since Yeltsin and Putin's purge of most of the oligarchs in Russian business.

I'm sorry, but our secretaries cannot find your backwater embassy. Perhaps you could use Bing! Maps to direct us there? In any event, which nation do you rule?

Espionage isn't a time proven method of warfare? *gasp*

Define an assault rifle please.

Much of that is fallacy. The Ruble is dying recently due to sanctions, but as a whole, Russia faired no worse than say the US in 2008 when the market collapsed. It's hardly indicative of a poor economy by Russia. The Russian military vanguard that rolled into Ukraine has been seen to have advanced command and control, logistics, weapons and armor. Much of the body armor the troops were wearing has been estimated to stop any conventional small arms round NATO has, and do so more effectively than NATO armor counterparts. Also, the S300 and S400(I think?) is capable of downing most low RCS and low infrared "stealth" aircraft. The F22 is the only piece of hardware NATO has that can "trounce" any of Russia's aircraft, and only for a bit longer with the advent of Russia's PAK 5th Gen Fighter Platform. The M1 is aging, and the T90 (not the export model) is comparative, and the myth of the Abrams' invincibility was shattered by a $20 RPG in the hands of an insurgent in Iraq. It's nice to see GDP numbers. Let's talk about food, overall consumer goods and anything not tied to heavy industry. I suggest that the picture there tells a more stark indication of the real lives of Russian citizens. There's also the famine in Ukraine, the general pollution levels of Russia, and the poor standards of living for most soviets in the mid to late 40's, after the Germans had left the country. You are also leaving out the fact that much of the country was under a brutal repression for most of the life of the Soviet Union. Arguably there have only been three real periods of freedom and democracy in Russia since 1917. First, under the provisional government lead by Kerensky. Second, under Lenin with the New Economic Policy, which increased the foodstuff production and health of the economy to pre-war levels. And under Gorby, with Glasnost and Perestroika.

So, I've heard Fox Fire say that the Soviet system was much more beneficial to average Russians than the current capitalist version of Russia. I'd like to hear some examples of how this is so. We can even exclude Stalin. Don't need him for this to prove how crazy that notion is