[Stryke 9]

You'd vote for me anyway, peon, or I would crush you in my iron fist of doom in the new world order I would establish.


Well, it wouldn't be a new world order so much as a modern version of the Mongol hordes, but it's all about the same in the end. Either way you don't want to **** with it, just mine has the entire population of Minnesota riding tanks over the Canadian plain.

[mikhael]

Did I say Stryke? I meant Vadar, or the guy that does the landscaping in my apartment complex. Hell, I'd pretty much vote for anyone who would promise me that the US would stop sucking the oil tit.

[Stryke 9]

No oil here. My armies would run on the blood of the foreign dogs, not oil!


Hee hee, I'm liking this idea more and more. Maybe I should rethink ignoring power as a goal in life...

[Knight Templar]

You should have been in the recall...

[Sandwich]

[q]The White House McDonald's, whose customers include many White House staffers, though no president since Bill Clinton, is an economic indicator of its own.[/q]

No president since Bill Clinton, eh? Wow, what a lineup.

And regardless of the "debate" concerning whether McD dude are manufacturing burgers or not, I think the parallel is hilarious. They're about as healthy and as tasty as something that came out of a manufacturing plant.

(In all fairness, McD's isn't all that bad - their burgers are just so completely impersonal and, well, assembly-lined, that one has to wonder...)

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Gank

Its unlikely that Russia would have continued the war past Germanys borders, the warsaw pact sattelite states were only created as a buffer zone to prevent another attack. 20 million dead will make you slightly paranoid about stuff like that. Besides Stalin had more than enough to deal with in Russia itself without having to worry about the rest of Europe.

Then again, there is evidence that in the 1950ies, just prior to Stalin's death, he was already planning another war against the United States.

Frankly, Stalin didn't give **** about numerical casualties. Heck, his own "cropsaving" strategy caused the death of 10 million. The only reason why the won WWII was due to sheer numerical superiority. We're talking about the country who put their airfields near the border of the USSR at the beginning of the war, and ordered them not to retaliate. We're talking about the country whose one of the highest generals Zhukov, was known for his strategy to send men directly assaulting a heavy tank group. And if he failed, he'd just bring more men, and do it again.

No, Stalin was already pushing for another war.

[Gank]

First of all we're talking about a what-if scenario, where the US didnt enter the war in europe, so Stalin couldnt have been planning a war against them, because they werent anywhere he could reach.

Stalin had good reason to plan for a war against the US in the fifties, the US at the time was violently anti-communist with the McCarthney purges in full swing and the Korean war fought in the start of the decade. I seriously doubt he actually intended  to start one though, whatever else about him he wasnt stupid and considering the US came through ww2 relativly unscathed while Russia was devestated it would have been a particularly stupid thing to do.

Stalin didnt give a **** how many Russians he killed, he did give a **** about how many somebody else killed. And they werent just numerical casualties, 20 million dead, the majority of them young men was a sizable percentage of Russias workforce.

Zhukov is widely regarded as one of the best generals of ww2, the above mentioned operation bagration achieved complete strategic surprise on the germans. No mean feat seeing as nearly 2 million Soviet troops took part in the offensive. Earlier in the war poorly equipped and trained infantry were sent against superior forces not because of poor leadership, because there was nothing else to send. Russia suffered staggering losses in both trained men and equipment during the german advance and needed time to build more tanks and planes and train men to use them. It was done out of neccessity rather than a disregard for human life (though there wasnt much of that on the eastern front) and bought the russians enough time to turn the tide in their favour.