POLL: Is Russia a threat to the US?

[R.C. Christian]

Only Obama could have turned a country at peace worldwide into an international threat.

I am all in favor of blaming Obama for everything he does wrong. I'm not sure this is one of them.

Russia, is Russia. They demand respect, demand favor, and are willing to use force to get it. They are a hard country to deal with. That's just how it is.

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Rights have nothing to do with it. Countries don not conduct foreign policy because they're right. They do it because they believe it's in their best interest to do so and they have the political, military and economic power to make it happen. Just saying.

 

[Brain357]

Greatest threats in order (in my opinion):
1) Obama Administration
2) Federal Reserve
3) China
4) Unchecked illegal immigration
5) North Korea
6) ACLU
7) Russia

Our political parties should probably be on there too.

 

[DriftingSand]

Only Obama could have turned a country at peace worldwide into an international threat.

I am all in favor of blaming Obama for everything he does wrong. I'm not sure this is one of them.

Russia, is Russia. They demand respect, demand favor, and are willing to use force to get it. They are a hard country to deal with. That's just how it is.

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Whether Russia is right or wrong doesn't negate the fact that America plays "international policeman" at every opportunity. I find it disgusting that Obama would point his scrawny finger at Russia ignoring the fact that he has three pointing back. He's a two-faced hypocrite.

 

[DriftingSand]

Greatest threats in order (in my opinion):
1) Obama Administration
2) Federal Reserve
3) China
4) Unchecked illegal immigration
5) North Korea
6) ACLU
7) Russia

Our political parties should probably be on there too.

I thought about that a few minutes after I posted.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

I am all in favor of blaming Obama for everything he does wrong. I'm not sure this is one of them.

Russia, is Russia. They demand respect, demand favor, and are willing to use force to get it. They are a hard country to deal with. That's just how it is.

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Rights have nothing to do with it. Countries don not conduct foreign policy because they're right. They do it because they believe it's in their best interest to do so and they have the political, military and economic power to make it happen. Just saying.

I was using the word "right" in a morale sense and not a political or legal sense.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

I am all in favor of blaming Obama for everything he does wrong. I'm not sure this is one of them.

Russia, is Russia. They demand respect, demand favor, and are willing to use force to get it. They are a hard country to deal with. That's just how it is.

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Whether Russia is right or wrong doesn't negate the fact that America plays "international policeman" at every opportunity. I find it disgusting that Obama would point his scrawny finger at Russia ignoring the fact that he has three pointing back. He's a two-faced hypocrite.

We should think twice before we do that with Russia and China.

 

[DriftingSand]

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Whether Russia is right or wrong doesn't negate the fact that America plays "international policeman" at every opportunity. I find it disgusting that Obama would point his scrawny finger at Russia ignoring the fact that he has three pointing back. He's a two-faced hypocrite.

We should think twice before we do that with Russia and China.

We wouldn't dare! We only pick on the weak, backward nations. We assassinate their leaders when they try to divorce themselves from the US Dollar and claim we do it in the name of "justice and freedom." Then we turn around and borrow money from Communist China and turn a blind eye to their lack of "justice and freedom." Our leaders are hypocrites of the worst stripe.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Whether Russia is right or wrong doesn't negate the fact that America plays "international policeman" at every opportunity. I find it disgusting that Obama would point his scrawny finger at Russia ignoring the fact that he has three pointing back. He's a two-faced hypocrite.

We should think twice before we do that with Russia and China.

We wouldn't dare! We only pick on the weak, backward nations. We assassinate their leaders when they try to divorce themselves from the US Dollar and claim we do it in the name of "justice and freedom." Then we turn around and borrow money from Communist China and turn a blind eye to their lack of "justice and freedom." Our leaders are hypocrites of the worst stripe.

We would not dare, of course, but we did! Why else would a homegrown marvel like Putin need to turn around 360°?

 

[R.C. Christian]

Does that give us the right to stick our noses into it and antagonize them?

Rights have nothing to do with it. Countries don not conduct foreign policy because they're right. They do it because they believe it's in their best interest to do so and they have the political, military and economic power to make it happen. Just saying.

I was using the word "right" in a morale sense and not a political or legal sense.

Fair enough and it's the same really. They don't put much moral value in those decisions insofar as I can ascertain. What they want for this country is just more of the same which is untenable IMO.

 

[JoeB131]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

I can't agree.

Putin seems like a guy who is sort of a nationalist, and he's the reflection of a country trying to regain it's lost pride.

Kind of like when the British re-elected Churchill in the 1950's after they lost half their empire, or when the US elected that senile fool Reagan.

The post Soviet world is going to take some time to sort itself out, but this really isn't our problem.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

Everyone? How so? They haven't harmed a hair on anyone's head for decades outside a few of their neighboring countries, unlike the U.S. who gives the world a bad hair day on a regular basis.

 

[AntiParty]

I'm always skeptical of the polls by the establishment, so I wanted to double check how the people here feel. And if you think it's a threat, how so?

CNN Poll: Most see Russia as a threat to U.S.

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Posted by
CNN Political Unit

Washington (CNN) - As the crisis in the Ukraine continues, a new national poll indicates that for the first time in more than a decade, more than half of Americans
see Russia as a serious threat to the U.S.

A CNN/ORC International survey released Friday also indicates that Russian President Vladimir Putin's unfavorable rating among Americans has soared over the past month. And the poll indicates that the vast majority of the public says Moscow's actions in neighboring Ukraine break international law, and half of those questioned say a new Cold War between the U.S. and Russia is likely. CNN Poll: Most see Russia as a threat to U.S. ? CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Russia alone? Nope, not that big of a threat.

The big question is, who would fight with them. Lot's of Countries have been mad at us for trying to get into their business.

 

[Contumacious]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

How so?

Ape Lincoln slaughtered 650,000 Americans in order to protect real state. Who is REALLY the threat?

.

 

[Londoner]

The Cold War was, like the War on Terrorism, less a physical threat, than a context to intervene across a variety of global regions to defend our geopolitical interests. This is not to say that there was/is no physical threat. Quite the contrary, there are very real threats. But the larger reality is about our role as a protectorate of the global market system.

In order to run a global market system we need to ensure that the maximum amount of global resources are available to our economy. Essentially, this means we don't want vital resource markets in important regions to follow the Soviet Model by nationalizing economies so that our investors are locked out. Remember: we need the Middle East to give us the lion's share of their energy resources because we have the most oil dependent economy in world history. We need Asia to give our corporations cheap labor and resources because our profit margins now depend on it (-do you know how much of our products are manufactured across unstable parts of the 3rd world?).

During the Cold War we used the Soviet threat to pull resource-rich parts of the Third World under our protective wing, that is, we used the Soviet threat to intervene in regions that contained resources upon which our burgeoning economy depended. We did the exact same thing with the war on terrorism, where we used the terrorist threat to intervene in Iraq in order to protect our energy interests.

The Hawks in the Defense Department were very angry with Reagan when he made peace with Gorby. They needed the Cold War to justify intervention in vital global regions, just as we now need the war on terrorism to intervene in regions to protect our interests.

So, I think the OP is asking the wrong question. The real question is: how does a new Soviet threat help us achieve our global interests? How will it allow us to intervene in important regions so that we can protect our interests?

The USA is involved in a global competition for resources. This means it often has to intervene across the globe to secure those resources. Since it can't simply steal what wants, there is a need to frame its intervention inside the protocols of self defense. This isn't a conspiracy. It's called survival. It's called the food chain. It's called history.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

How so?

Ape Lincoln slaughtered 650,000 Americans in order to protect real state. Who is REALLY the threat?

.

Forrest Gump.

 

[Katzndogz]

There is no danger from Russia. There is a danger of Russia. obama and his fellow stooge John Kerry are of the opinion that they can treat Vladimir Putin as if he was a Republican from Alabama. Putin is a better politician than obama and a better warrior than Kerry.

 

[Esmeralda]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

How so?

Some of Russia's allies and friends are: Syria, Iran, and China. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of both Western and Eastern Europe, the Ukraine/Crimea situation being a perfect example, which, therefore, makes them a threat to the US because of our links to those areas. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of the Middle East because of their support of Iran and Syria. Syria is seriously destablizing the ME at the moment, and Iran is a continuous threat to the peace and stability of the ME. The US has direct, hands on friendships and connections to stable Middle Eastern states. Putin is a brutal, ruthless dictator who absolutely cannot be trusted.

 

[Contumacious]

Essentially, Russia is a threat to everyone, at least as long as Putin is in charge.

How so?

Some of Russia's allies and friends are: Syria, Iran, and China. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of both Western and Eastern Europe, the Ukraine/Crimea situation being a perfect example, which, therefore, makes them a threat to the US because of our links to those areas. Russia is a threat to the peace and security of the Middle East because of their support of Iran and Syria. Syria is seriously destablizing the ME at the moment, and Iran is a continuous threat to the peace and stability of the ME. The US has direct, hands on friendships and connections to stable Middle Eastern states. Putin is a brutal, ruthless dictator who absolutely cannot be trusted.

BULLSHIT.

Is Russia a threat to the US of A?

I do not give a shit about Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Crimea.

Don't care, and irrelevant, that Syria, Iran, and China are allied with Russia .

.

 

[1776]

A lot of stupid people (17) to claim Russia isn't a threat.

They were threat as soon as Lenin took control of their country.

The collapse of the USSR duped many Americans that Russia was our friend.

They never quit pointing their nukes at us, supporting evil countries/dictators (Assad, Saddam, Chavez, Castros, Iran's mullahs, etc) and bothering their neighbors in the Baltics, Central Asian States and Balkans.

The invasion of Ukraine is because Putin believes Obama is a limp dick socialist willing to let Russia and China do what they like "overseas." Being weak in public and private with evil people leads to these situations.

 

[pvsi]

LOL I just checked the list of people who voted Russia is a threat to USA, and all the familiar faces

A lot of stupid people (17) to claim Russia isn't a threat.

They were threat as soon as Lenin took control of their country.

The collapse of the USSR duped many Americans that Russia was our friend.

They never quit pointing their nukes at us, supporting evil countries/dictators (Assad, Saddam, Chavez, Castros, Iran's mullahs, etc) and bothering their neighbors in the Baltics, Central Asian States and Balkans.

The invasion of Ukraine is because Putin believes Obama is a limp dick socialist willing to let Russia and China do what they like "overseas." Being weak in public and private with evil people leads to these situations.