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So, the UN Security Council has shut down the Iraq WMD inspections unit, and in the vote about the shut-down Russia abstained, with a statement from the Russian representative that said that there was still "no clear answer to the existence of weapons of mass destruction".

I thought this one was resolved a very, very long time ago. Hussein didn't have a concerted WMD program when the US invaded, or for any substantial amount of time prior to the invasion. Why 'o why are you so weird Russia?

Living under an absolutist, absurdist State for 80-odd years does funny things to a country.

Living under an absolutist, absurdist State for 80-odd years does funny things to a country.You mean ~ 400 years...

You mean ~ 400 years...
:p

Yeah, I suppose Catherine the Great or Putin aren't any less absurd.

You mean ~ 400 years...

With rare, quasi-exceptions (the Republic of Novgorod kind of, the Black Army (anarchists), the Mensheviks), it's more like 4000. Russia's history is mostly one absolutist government after another.

With rare, quasi-exceptions (the Republic of Novgorod kind of, the Black Army (anarchists), the Mensheviks), it's more like 4000. Russia's history is mostly one absolutist government after another.Remember, it doesn't just have to be absolutist, but also absurdist - hence limiting it to the czars and onwards (Admittedly, there were exceptions, but hey).

With rare, quasi-exceptions (the Republic of Novgorod kind of, the Black Army (anarchists), the Mensheviks), it's more like 4000. Russia's history is mostly one absolutist government after another.

With some really freakin' cold weather thrown into the mix...and an abject hatred of Germans.

With some really freakin' cold weather thrown into the mix...and an abject hatred of Germans.That didn't really come about until after we started to kill roughly twenty or so million of them, though... Before 1941, relations tended to be reasonably cordial, most of the time. If mostly because both sides were busy oppressing Poles. Ahem.

Living under an absolutist, absurdist State for 80-odd years does funny things to a country.

True, although the soviet union wasn't the only time russia had an absurd government.

Remember, it doesn't just have to be absolutist, but also absurdist - hence limiting it to the czars and onwards (Admittedly, there were exceptions, but hey).

Hey, the Dukes of Moskva weren't always sane either. When they defeated the Republic of Novgorod, they leveled the city. And the Golden Horde? We're talking a Mongol successor state - it doesn't get much more absurd than Mongols.

Before them, we've got the Huns, the Sarmatians... Russia's not a very sane place.

In Absurdist Russia, Saddam has WMD's and all your North Pole are belong to us.

Here, you discus Russian government.

In Soviet Russia, Russian government discusses you!

In Soviet Russia, Russian government discusses you!

That line will never get old. Unless it does. But it won't.

That line will never get old. Unless it does. But it won't.

In Soviet Russia, old never gets that line ? :confused:

ok...that doesn't make any sense..:p

Here, you discus Russian government.

In Soviet Russia, Russian government discusses you!The scary bit? In this case, it's true.

The scary bit? In this case, it's true.

In Soviet Russia, the truth is the scary bit!

That didn't really come about until after we started to kill roughly twenty or so million of them, though... Before 1941, relations tended to be reasonably cordial, most of the time. If mostly because both sides were busy oppressing Poles. Ahem.

Yeah, no one outdoes the Poles for hatred of Germans. Maybe Greek-Turkish hate or Arab-Jew hate in terms of raw vitriol, but not directed toward the Germans. :p