Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

no... my argument as someone who speaks fluent russian and has lived and done business in russia through the transition and for a decade and made more money there than you would see in 10 lifetimes and as someone who has been a featured story in network news is that they are totally full of shit and the media is used solely for propaganda and journalists are whores... and the very point of releasing these types of articles is to draw attention away from their own crumbling financial system and economy that has ONLY done well in the last 10 years because of rising oil prices which are now completely tanking and compounding their financial problems in a way the US will never see or know.

regardless of what problems the US has (and incidentally, the entire developed world has) those facts remain unchanged.

fucking retard.