"::::Yay! We won! And I've already been warned that someone will never forgive me for it! Ok, so I posted on the Russia talkpage, instead of wikiproject:Russia - I mean is that really such a huge mistake? The massive stage can be the most interesting. There are experts in each field and eventually you learn how to pick them out. For instance, Mike Davis does a stellar job showing the World the real Los Angeles in ""City of Quartz"".  

 ::::About the Daily Show - don't ever underestimate the value of humor. When Prima Kursk said that ""Luzhkov cannot kick out illegal immigrants cause then his wife would go bankrupt"" - I doubt people in Russia thought that just because it's a joke, it's not true. When someone makes a truly ridiculous arguments, like Fox News, the best way to counter-argue that is to make fun of it. I've seen arguments where, I kid you not, there was a complete idiot arguing that Putin and Medvedev (or Med as said idiot called Medvedev, because typing ""vedev"" is apparently very tough) are parting ways because Medvedev gave an interview to a journalist that Putin didn't approve of. How do you deal with people like that? You make fun of them. You use sarcasm. That's why, US or Russia or China, the best news sources are the comedy networks, and Americans know this just as well as Russians or Chinese.  

 ::::Ahh, I see you have been reading Mark Ames. Independent journalists are to be admired and paid well, but that's not the case, instead we get people like Cavuto who don't know jack shit. As for the average person, not everyone in the US watches Murdoch's bullshit, so if you were to talk to Texans that don't watch him, and most Texans actually don't - you'd find out that they would be totally ok with you being Russian. Even at a completely random bar.  

 ::::Hey, I've been called a nationalist. People have low IQs, nothing you can do about that. You are welcome to browse my talkpage and find an example of said IQ number, the section will pop out right at you. Separatism, that's the whole Imperialism concept, you make two groups fight and get the rewards for yourself. Chamberlain said it best ""I want Communism and Nazism to destroy each other"". Yeah screw all those millions of civillians that are innocent, the kids the elderly that are going to die, Chamberlain wants land and resources. Maybe you should tell the nationalists that you meet, that by dividing up Russia's population, they're doing exactly what Chamberlain and Hitler tried to do. It would be a nice ""Cold Shower"" for them.  

 ::::Sun Tzu's book isn't hard to understand. It's hard to implement. That's why Suvorov was so great, he not only implemented Sun Tzu, but implemented his addition to Sun Tzu's tactics, not just merely reading it. Also Sun Tzu's book applies to everything, not just war. It applies to your job. There lies the beauty of the book. Any fool can get the material, but only the wise can put it to proper use. So don't feel like most stuff passed you by, try implementing Sun Tzu to your daily life. For instance, start working out P  

 ::::I was talking about Suvorov. It's funny how neither Suvorov nor Sun Tzu are mentioned in the West, it's all about Alexander the Great and Patton here. And then you wonder how the US manages to get bogged down in two wars. Or keep on supporting Saakashvili. You don't study for a test, you fail it. You don't study for a war - you get bogged down. Everything is very basic, it's getting the basics that's hard to do. Russian military theorists, hmm you might try Rokossovsky or Frunze. Russia didn't have that many military theorists, she had great leaders, but not too many theorists. While I think of some, here's a decent read: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8366&IBLOCK;_ID=35 

 ::::We're not living in the age of colonialism, we are living in the age of Neo-colonialism, where instead of controlling the land, you control the resources through financial strangleholds. Here is an interview of another good guy demonized by the Western Media: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/exclusive-interview-congo_b_156374.html and from the interview I qoute: ""How can you fight for your own minerals? [Laughter] If this were about minerals, I would not be here. You see minerals are being exploited by China, by Belgium, by South Africa. Petrol is under French control, uranium under American control, copper under Belgium, diamonds under Jewish, and gold under South African control...Yes of course because we are going now into economic slavery. If we accept this Chinese contract it is the end for Congolese."" And the guy gets betrayed and jailed for a bribe, what a surprise. Neo-Colonialism at it's best. But the good news is that slowly but surely the information is coming out, and eventually Neo-Colonialism along with Imperialism will die. And then a new system will be in place, and people like us will be d