Originally Posted by cykoe6

It is always amusing to hear Russians whose economy is in the midst of a catastrophic collapse running their mouths about how the US is going down the drain. Take a 20 minute drive outside of Moscow and see the villages with dirt roads and the millions of desperate people in crumbling Soviet housing blocks trying to get by on a few dollars a day and you will understand the real Russian economic situation.

I always wonder how these semi-literate, inbred Russian peasants manage to login to GFY in the first place. Likely they are in some crowded, dark internet cafe that smells of stale piss and warm vodka spending their last rubles so they can post about the coming demise of the American empire. You would be better off going to the corner kiosk and getting some more vodka so you can pass out peacefully in your cramped apartment you share with your mother, sister and grandmother (all your male family members having long since succumbed to alcoholism) so you can wake up tomorrow and continue your rantings against the evil Americans and their doomed empire.

My point was about the perception of weakness that the election of Obama gives to America's enemies and how it will encourage them to make more aggressive maneuvers. The Russian people may be pathetic alcoholic peasants but Tzar Putin is a strong and determined leader who will run circles around an inexperienced, platitude spouting, empty suit like Obama.