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Jeez dude,listening to you is like when I used used to sometimes listen to shortwave english-lang propaganda broadcasts from the USSR, way-back-when. (My dad  was stationed at a remote base in Morocco (NO TV!) where, nonetheless, dependants were still allowed to accompany. Dad said I would "get a kick" out of listening)

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On Sat, 6/4/16, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] semi-OT: uniform
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, June 4, 2016, 4:26 AM

 Phil,

 As usual I find myself in the
 unenviable situation where to not respond to you would
 suggst I agree, but to respond, would yet again elevate your
 blood pressure.

 Your
 minimalist approach to 'Russia', never mind
 Sociology, is quite astounding.

 So let me reframe the domain a little.

 You live in the United States
 of Capitalist America.
 It is rulled by a
 corporate-elected representatives of a two-party system,
 where both parties broadly represent the Capitalist
 Party.

 What exactly changes
 is the face in the White House, but the 'business'
 of the houses doesn't really change.
 Regardless of which of the two parties secures
 the presidency in a very unrepresentative elections, the
 actual broad policy base doesn't change very much, which
 is broadly to enrich the corporate sector in the USCA.
 One can always tell something about a society
 by how many internal security forces it requires to enforce
 the law.
 Here is data from Wikipedia, so it
 may be inaccurate

  China
 1,600,000[22]
 2007
 120

  India
 1,585,353[42]
 2013
 123

  United
 States
 1,220,545[101][102]
 2008
 379

  Russia
 782,001
 2013
 546

  Indonesia
 579,000[43]
 2012
 243

  Brazil
 424,162
 2014
 211[17]

  Turkey
 412,624[8]
 2012
 538

  Mexico
 393,084
 2009
 366[59]

  Pakistan
 354,221[74]
 2011
 207

  Nigeria
 350,000[68]
 2012
 205
 That last
 number is officer per 100,000 of the population. To be sure,
 RF is a less secure society, but it is also a changing
 society, where a generation ago the population took a
 conscious decision to follow leadership which sought a
 strategic social and economic change. And, yes, the Russian
 ethnicity led the way, as they did before. In fact Russians
 had taken the decision to change their society, and
 Americans did not, which is what ended the Cold War.

 So in a
 confrontation, who is the stronger? The one that huffs and
 puffs and swars and spitts, or the one that turns around and
 walks away fully knowing that he could wipe the floor with
 his opponent, but chooses not to use the strength?

 On 4 June 2016 at 01:41,
 Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
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 Well, if you're talking about the old USSR, which was
 thoroughly dominated by ethnic russians, it's the
 'Communist Empire' as the 'Party' was
 paramount over all else.

 Is it's the current RF then it's 'Putin's
 Empire' as his will is as supreme as Stalin's ever
 was.

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 On Fri, 6/3/16, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

  Subject: Re: [TML] semi-OT: uniform

  To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com"
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>

  Date: Friday, June 3, 2016, 2:51 AM

  The etymology of empire (n.) is early 14c.,

  from Old French empire "rule, authority,

  kingdom, imperial rule" (11c.), from Latin

  imperium "a rule, a command; authority,

  control, power; supreme power, sole dominion; military

  authority; a dominion, realm," from

  imperare "to command," from

  assimilated form of in- "in" (see in-

  (2)) + parare "to order, prepare"

  So in what way

  is the Russian Federation an 'empire'?

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