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What Would You Do As President of Russia?

Started by Queequeg, March 03, 2012, 12:04:45 PM

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DGuller

The better question is:  "What can you do?"  Russian politics are Byzantine, and your power depends on a lot of really horrible people.

The Brain

Quote from: DGuller on March 03, 2012, 04:14:28 PM
The better question is:  "What can you do?"  Russian politics are Byzantine, and your power depends on a lot of really horrible people.

:huh: Russia isn't a democracy.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Viking

Take Septimus Severus' advice to his sons with one exception, rather than enriching the army enrich the oprichniki.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Darth Wagtaros

Perhaps establish an alliance with the US to enforce peace, a codominion if you will, that will allow the human race to travel the stars.
PDH!

PDH

Quote from: Ed Anger on March 03, 2012, 03:15:53 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 03, 2012, 02:46:47 PM
I would party in vats of grapes with nubile women.

Then I would lead a cavalry charge and kill Poles.

Very Budenny.

The man was under-rated as a top-notch partyer.  It was not his fault he was born 150 years too late.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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The Brain

Quote from: PDH on March 03, 2012, 05:36:24 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 03, 2012, 03:15:53 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 03, 2012, 02:46:47 PM
I would party in vats of grapes with nubile women.

Then I would lead a cavalry charge and kill Poles.

Very Budenny.

The man was under-rated as a top-notch partyer.  It was not his fault he was born 150 years too late.

World record?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

DGuller

Quote from: PDH on March 03, 2012, 05:36:24 PM
The man was under-rated as a top-notch partyer.  It was not his fault he was born 150 years too late.
The man had his faults, but kill rate during the war was very exceptional.  If he were a German, he would be highly decorated.

PDH

Quote from: DGuller on March 03, 2012, 06:29:39 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 03, 2012, 05:36:24 PM
The man was under-rated as a top-notch partyer.  It was not his fault he was born 150 years too late.
The man had his faults, but kill rate during the war was very exceptional.  If he were a German, he would be highly decorated.

It wasn't just that war that made his reputation.  He was so busy with cavalry charges against that Poles he lost that war.  Come on, he could have won medals for that too.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Ed Anger

Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 03, 2012, 04:56:36 PM
Perhaps establish an alliance with the US to enforce peace, a codominion if you will, that will allow the human race to travel the stars.

I saw what you did there.

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Siege

Whatever happens to be the smart and sensible answer, the russians will do the exact opposite.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Ideologue

Two chicks at the same time.  And I think if I were the President of Russia, I could hook that up.
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Siege



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Scipio

I'd rewrite the Constitution and invite a puppet Romanoff to serve as a constitutional monarch.  Except all the one's I've met are total entitled cunts.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt

Razgovory

Quote from: Scipio on March 03, 2012, 09:48:54 PM
I'd rewrite the Constitution and invite a puppet Romanoff to serve as a constitutional monarch.  Except all the one's I've met are total entitled cunts.

That's a good idea actually.  A Monarchy on the British model means that there would be at least one person of influence and importance that Putin couldn't threaten or murder.  A new Czar could give some stability and legitimacy to government.  It would also give Russia a decent symbol of state.  The pageantry of government can be important to multi-ethnic state, it gives all the people something in common.  At least if it's done well.

And yes, I'm am developing monarchist tendencies.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Siege

Why do we want good things to happen to Russia?
I say the more 3rd world they are the better for the rest of the world.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"