“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia could have a right to go to war with NATO.

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    Mate, you can’t even win against a non-NATO country, that happens to be the poorest in Europe.

    But sure, you have the right to have a war with everyone. Even if we all know you can’t.

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    Maxim Katz has explained that these kinds of deranged declarations are not directed at us. They are a kind of symbolic self-humiliation of Medvedev to prove to Putin that he is still loyal. It’s “look I am willing to appear so wretched and ridiculous to the foreigners, I could not possibly be a threat to you, I am not some kind of alternative that could replace you, I am such a silly man, please don’t throw me out of a window”.

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      Speculation runs that Dimi has been told by the Tsar that if he acts like the tough guy he isn’t with enough bravado, he’ll be allowed to sit in the big boys’ chair and pretend to be president again.

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    Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you

    Because we all know the Soviet Union and Russia are exactly the same thing and the Russian military is definitely as powerful and as capable as the Soviet Union, no doubt. Please pay no attention to the complete lack of victory in Ukraine.

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    They can’t even fight a small country like Ukraine and they want to test the might of a fully armed and optional Battlestaion NATO alliance? Do they believe that anyone really believes them?

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        Lol what?

        Ukraine is tiny. It’s roughly the same size as Texas and has roughly the same population as California. Alaska is larger than Ukraine.

        Its the functional equivalent of Russia trying to invade Texas and failing. It’s a massive embarrassment for a former super power that likely can’t ever be recovered from.

        I’m going to guess you are European, as I’ve found most Europeans don’t understand the size of countries outside of Europe.

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          Ukraine is tiny. It’s roughly the same size as Texas.

          TIL that Texas is tiny.

          Listen buddy, you seem to think that if we say that Ukraine is not a small country, that somehow gives Russia glory or something. That’s silly.

          PS. I’m Canadian, if that means anything in this context.

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            Texas IS tiny when you compare it against the size of a country that isn’t in Europe.

            As to the rest of your message… I have no idea what you are even trying to say