What all this is about? There was nothing in Russia behavior more aggressive than the behavior of the other political players of the time. Russian Empire expanded by two ways:
1. exploring and settling on the sparsely populated territories of the Urals and Siberia. Which is what British and Americans did on the territory of the modern USA and Canada. The only difference was that Russians did not kill local tribes and did not push them into reservations.
2. Making alliances with some nations and absorbing them into the Empire on the terms of providing them protection from other powerful pretenders on their territories. That was Ukraine, which had to choose between Russia and Poland, and Georgia, which was asking for Russian protection from Turkey and Persia.
3. Conquering some other nations, mostly by taking them from other conquerors, like Estonia and Latvia (taken from Sweden), or Armenia, Moldova, the Black Sea Western and Northern coastal areas (taken from Turkey). In the Middle Asia Russians were advancing towards the British, who were trying to expand their possessions in India and Afganistan to that area. So, there was nothing unusually aggressive or tyrannical. In fact Russian colonialism was softer and more humane and tolerant to the local population than the ones of the Western powers.
The Communist period was a rather aggressive one. But that aggressiveness was not “for centuries”, just about 40 years past WWII. The USSR was ideologically driven and tried to impose Communism on the other nations. Communism in Russian understanding would be a good system to make the whole mankind happy. So, they acted not from evil but from good intentions. Again, some things were dictated by the existing state of Cold War, which was yet a WAR. So, Russians from war-time strategic consideration could not yield Hungary in 1956 or Chzeckoslovakia in 1968 to the West. Like the Western powers would not allow Portugal to fall into Communist hands in the result of the Revolution there in 1974.
I do not see how Russians can be more aggressive than Americans, Britons or French.

But the number of Russian supporters of US values will significantly decrease after this incident with Georgia and one sided position of US. Personally, I will not back up, for I distinguish between the spirit of Freedom that guides US and the intellectual impotence of the current US administration.

Till the time of this crisis in Georgia I have been looking at Russians as uncivilized rude morons who are in bed with the evil like Iran and Syria. Yes, just like you, I too see the trends! But this Georgia war somehow has changes my stereotypes. It is a completely differet trend. This is the first time in about 108 years when Russians stand for the good at the time when the West stands for the evil (for the evil dictator S-u-c-k-ashvilli , I mean). It has been always the other way around till this time.

Russian had realized the fact that their ideology has sinful and evil nature in 1991 and they had voluntary demolished the empire of evil. They were looking for moral guidance to the West and they did trust to the west till now or perhaps till war in Kosovo or Iraq.

Now only they have realized that they can no longer outsource their moral thinking to the West, because the quality of the foreign product sucks . The present uprising against Western moral influence indicates that Russia is capable of making independent moral judgment, and stand at the site of the right and to defend the poor and needy, even if the kings of this world do not like that. (Thanks to Lord Jesus for this). It indicates that Russia is slowly becoming a Christian country, with true Christain values while US and EU slide towards corruption and abomination of the power greed of this material world. The West clearly shows signs of moral corruption and hypocrisy in its stance towards Russia and I know that God hates the corrupted ones.

However I like the Western mentality personally and however I dislike Russian mentality I can not go against my consciousness and say that Russia has done the wrong (by defending S. Ossetia from slaughter) and US has done the right by supporting a fascistic homicidal maniac who learned all his tricks from Putin and George Bush. I see that Russia is rising from the moral pit where it was while the West is descending to moral pit. I wish that West were on the right side, but unfortunately it is not. And God hates the transgressors.

I do not think that my responce is ad hominem . I criticized your point first, and based on that I compared you to the other lunatics from the left. Ad hominem would mean that I criticize you personally first and based on that I claim that your point is wrong (please see the wiki on definition of ad hominem).

May peace and love and wisdom of Lord Jesus be with you. May he guides your moral judgemets.

I just report the trends, folks. History really does teach us, if you care to read and learn. What I write is not always pretty, but it has a basis in historical fact and recently observed behaviors.

One of the hallmarks of the 20th century monsters of genocide was their contunued use of the Big Lie, repeated often enough that the weak minded and useful tools were able to believe it. The use of moral relativism is simply a recent refinement of that strategy, totally embraced by the resident culture of treason here in the United States.

The Russians have no such thing as even benign intent towards the west, especially not towards the United States. Forget that at your peril, because even their collaborators won’t flourish in the world they would like to make.

My guess is you should rethink your idea of lunacy. It’s clear that you aren’t able to itellectually encompass the entire depth of the concept.

The standard ad hominem response from a typically crippled intellect is what you folks are noted for, Why should you be any different from your fellows?

neoneo:
B Dubya, what do you feel when you read or hear something as follows : “you belong to evil American empire which has legacy of slavery, racism and genocide of native Indians. You did it earlier, you continue doing it in another form. You had instigated Vietnam war just only 40 years ago. We, all the civilized people will fight with evil American imperialism until it is completely destroyed. We will be marching through your cities with a slogan:
We will fight,
We will win!
Ho Chi Mingh!
Ho Chi Mingh! “

Does it sound fair to you? But, does this sound familiar to you Dubya? Yes, it is a piece of Left sentiments popular ammong US intelligenzia and European youth. But this mirrors what you say about Russia one to one, and it is as ethical and sober as what you say.

Well, before I started reading PM threads about Russia I had an opinion that moonbats and lunatics exist exclusively on the left. Now I see that I was wrong. I find that you and the left have the same moral compass and you both make me to feel sick.

“Oh yea, we Poles build the Auschwitz and murdered 5 milion Jews here.”

i said helped. vast majority of jews killed in asschwitz were rounded up by poles and passed to germans. they liked it so much, they continued to kill jews even after germans lost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom