I repeat, I would be very happy if NO nation had a nuke. Be it the Brits, Russians, Chinese, Israelis, French, N Koreans, Pakistanis, Indians or Americans (who am I missing?). I cannot turn back the clock, neither I nor you had any say in this invention. An invention that even most of the inventors feared.
But everything is changing. And if we are building new world, there can be the new set of leaders, like permanent members of UN SC (something like world's government), who posses nukes and control other countries on more or less agreeable terms. I'd said that those countries should be Russia, China, India, Brazil, Southern Africa and, may be, United States, if you agree with peaceful transition to this world. But, of course it's still just raw discussion.
All of the other positions you take are a bit rich coming from a Russian. Do you know how many brilliant Russians have been destroyed?
Diamonds are born only under high pressure, and brilliants need careful cutting. Most of it goes to garbage, of course, but garbage is also suitable for Americans.
Russia was a peer with the Americans in regards to ingenuity and intellectual advancement in the hard sciences.
And we are still at least a peer with Americans, may be, even slightly ahead. We just don't demonstrate it without reason.
They destroyed their own citizens, often by the state. Jealousy, insecurity, cowardice? Whatever the reason, they destroyed their own talent. Canada does the same.
C'est la vie. Nous sommes condamnés à nous détruire les uns les autres dans cette lutte sans fin. Dans la guerre de tous countre tous, chaque homme devient l'ennemi l'autre. Pour survivre, nous devons parfois briser ceux qui sont à nos côtés.
Excuse-moi pour mon français, but I think, it better fits the expression of philosophical acceptance of our poor fate in the world with limited resources, especially in Russia.
You have a history of culture and social ideas but these ideas are always considered dangerous to Russians while Americans generally enjoy challenging the norms.
Oh, my sweet summer child. Do you still believe in American intellectual freedom?
Whatever a nation is going to do to its own citizens I expect they will do far worse to the rest of us. Thus, I do not want them to succeed or have a nuke.
It depends. In the foreign affairs Mama Russia prefers reciprocity and, basically, we don't want to rule the world. If Russia conquer the world there are two possibilities:
1) Russia, specifically Moscow, accept everyone on the common terms for the common Russian Imperial space. In that case, everyone will come in Moscow, there will be only 7% of ethnic Russians there, and the most popular language in this Babylon will be English. Russian nationalists don't like even "open/close" signs on the doors.
2) Russia change itself and becomes a typical western colonial system with racism, nationalism and different sorts of citizens. And it might be even worse. If anyone thinks that Russian Orthodox Christianity somehow better or worse for people than American Protestantism - think one more time.
So, the best, and, de facto, the only practical way, is to defeat enemies and then leave them alone as independent as they can be without attacking Russia.
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