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lol, dude, set aside the religious tone (Beside it's all wrong, simply because Soviet oppression of Jews cannot even be compare to the holocaust in WW2, that's why most Jewish population escape to Israel or the US were from Soviet Union)

The act that Russia annex Crimea is simply dump.

Black sea have not change anything as long as the Turks still holding on the exit to Aegean Sea and what Sevastopol can give Russia have already been done by Port of Novorossiysk already, plus don't forget, Sevastopol was already rented to Russian Navy before the maiden and before the annex, the only thing changes from annexing Crimea in Black Seas for Russia is that they don't need to pay the rent on the Naval Base anymore.

What changed in Ukraine, however, is a hundred time worse for Russia to imagine. Effectively, Russia lose the buffer of the whole country to the west, before annexation, Russia was buffered by Finland in the North, Belarus on North West, and Ukraine to the South West. Effective, by annexing Crimea, Russia have established a Land border with NATO with Ukraine swinging onto the NATO side. And Finland eyeing this annexation as an aggression and now shredding its neutrality now Not to mention they have lost a major Gas and Oil customer and also have to back up yet another province and fighting with sanction.

I don't know how you see things, but just by annexing Crimea, basically Russia lost a diplomatic relationship to the whole country, without any major defence or geopolitical gain. How much does Sevastopol worth in actual defence value? Did they worth as much as the buffer offered by Ukraine? Pretty sure any sane leader would have waited out for the Maiden to die down first, then they would have elected another pro-Russia leader again. Better that then move to annex Crimea and get drag into one of the nastiest fighting with their neighbour and former friends, Ukraine. If this is not dumb, then I don't know what is.

Chanting Novo-Russia tone does not mean they have gain anything but hot air in real world. unless a country can live on pride that "eventually some former Russian have came home"

The USSR was created by Gog and Magog. Granted that many Jews were oppressed in the USSR but it was infighting between different factions. The USSR was also insturmental in soldifying and strengthing Israel, hence the second lanaguage of Israel being Russian.

It is not annexation. It is re-incoporation with the will of the Crimeans. There is a difference.
If Crimea was not re-incoporated, Russia would have been kicked out of the port that they rented out, eventually. Now she is the LandLady there, not a tenant. The next step is Constantinople. If Russia lost Crimea for good, she could never even dream about Constantinople.
 
The USSR was created by Gog and Magog. Granted that many Jews were oppressed in the USSR but it was infighting between different factions. The USSR was also insturmental in soldifying and strengthing Israel, hence the second lanaguage of Israel being Russian.

It is not annexation. It is re-incoporation with the will of the Crimeans. There is a difference.
If Crimea was not re-incoporated, Russia would have been kicked out of the port that they rented out, eventually. Now she is the LandLady there, not a tenant. The next step is Constantinople. If Russia lost Crimea for good, she could never even dream about Constantinople.

lol..........are you serious?

Soviet Union is the result of Communism, there are no "infighting" in between communism, Communism is based on a common grass root level movement that can be date back to 380BC when the first communis was established in ancient Greece.

The term Communist does not relate to any sort or form of religion, instead the idea behind communism are based on the level of class, more precisely the equality of class. Lenin may have had Jewish background, but no one, including himself consider once. Even if he is indeed Jewish, what does that have to do with the State of USSR? Just because he was founded by a person with Jewish Heritage and suddenly they are a Jewish State like Israel? Do you know many Arab descendant have Jewish Heritage too? Hell, even Putin the man himself have Jewish background, and he support and remain popular with the Russian Jewish Community. So, can I say Russia is also a Jewish State?

The reason why Israel was strengthen by Russia is simple, THE RUSKIES FORCE MANY JEWISH POPULATION OUT INTO ISRAEL. Or you honestly think USSR actually help Israel and Egypt during the struggle between 40s to 70s?

Not to mention your silly notion of "re-incorporation" and the dream about Constantinople. Unless you are blind and retarded in some way (Which I increasingly believe you are either or both) The people of Crimea does not went to Russia and ask for in-corporation, the Russian send troop to forcefully retake the city, a fact that even Russia concur. There may have a large population of pro-Russia resident in Crimea, but there are not enough to call for a "re-incorporation" as you put it.

And dream about Constantinople? LOL Are you insane? The current city of Constantinople is Istanbul, which is controlled by Turkey, and in case you don't know or realise, it was a part of NATO. And do you remember what is the last time the bigger and stronger USSR go against NATO during the 50s to 90s? USSR broke apart. Russia could take Istanbul, if their goal is to further break down into city states.

Seeing they can't even capture a portion of East Ukraine which was defended by a rag tag Ukrainian Army, how do you suppose for them to take Istanbul?

As I said, DUMB MOVE BY THE RUSSIAN. Yeah, they took Crimea, that's ABOUT IT, and while doing so, they lost the whole Ukraine with it.
 
US military's pathetic performance against ISIS is enough proof of US capabilities and performance of Russian military against ISIS and AL-Qaeda debunked the notion of a weak Russia as paraded by Western propagandists.
 
The USSR was created by Gog and Magog. Granted that many Jews were oppressed in the USSR but it was infighting between different factions. The USSR was also insturmental in soldifying and strengthing Israel, hence the second lanaguage of Israel being Russian.

It is not annexation. It is re-incoporation with the will of the Crimeans. There is a difference.
If Crimea was not re-incoporated, Russia would have been kicked out of the port that they rented out, eventually. Now she is the LandLady there, not a tenant. The next step is Constantinople. If Russia lost Crimea for good, she could never even dream about Constantinople.
lol..........are you serious?

Soviet Union is the result of Communism, there are no "infighting" in between communism, Communism is based on a common grass root level movement that can be date back to 380BC when the first communis was established in ancient Greece.

The term Communist does not relate to any sort or form of religion, instead the idea behind communism are based on the level of class, more precisely the equality of class. Lenin may have had Jewish background, but no one, including himself consider once. Even if he is indeed Jewish, what does that have to do with the State of USSR? Just because he was founded by a person with Jewish Heritage and suddenly they are a Jewish State like Israel? Do you know many Arab descendant have Jewish Heritage too? Hell, even Putin the man himself have Jewish background, and he support and remain popular with the Russian Jewish Community. So, can I say Russia is also a Jewish State?

The reason why Israel was strengthen by Russia is simple, THE RUSKIES FORCE MANY JEWISH POPULATION OUT INTO ISRAEL. Or you honestly think USSR actually help Israel and Egypt during the struggle between 40s to 70s?

Not to mention your silly notion of "re-incorporation" and the dream about Constantinople. Unless you are blind and retarded in some way (Which I increasingly believe you are either or both) The people of Crimea does not went to Russia and ask for in-corporation, the Russian send troop to forcefully retake the city, a fact that even Russia concur. There may have a large population of pro-Russia resident in Crimea, but there are not enough to call for a "re-incorporation" as you put it.

And dream about Constantinople? LOL Are you insane? The current city of Constantinople is Istanbul, which is controlled by Turkey, and in case you don't know or realise, it was a part of NATO. And do you remember what is the last time the bigger and stronger USSR go against NATO during the 50s to 90s? USSR broke apart. Russia could take Istanbul, if their goal is to further break down into city states.

Seeing they can't even capture a portion of East Ukraine which was defended by a rag tag Ukrainian Army, how do you suppose for them to take Istanbul?

As I said, DUMB MOVE BY THE RUSSIAN. Yeah, they took Crimea, that's ABOUT IT, and while doing so, they lost the whole Ukraine with it.

This is a case of two kinds of crazy running headfirst into each other. Let me sort it out for both of you.

TMA is parroting an Islamic superstition that the Ashkenazi Jews are "the tribe of Gog and Magog", and as such are agents of supreme cosmic evil. "Gog and Magog" originated from texts written by Jews during the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE. The original meaning is unclear but probably referred to various nations aligned with the Persian/Babylonian empires. Islam has historically regarded Judaism both as a culture and as a nation with deep jealousy and has sought to usurp Jewish religious concepts and dogmas whenever possible. Trying to claim that the Jews are the supreme antagonists of their own religious texts is par for the course.

TMA is also apparently influenced by a claim historically made by Nazis and other Western antisemites that the establishment of the USSR was part of a Jewish plot to take over the entire world. Of course, world domination is quite a ways away from trying to maintain control of a country half the size of Taiwan. But then again, these ideas come from the same Islamists who think they are capable of taking over the entire world even though they can't even conquer that same tiny country of seven million people. So I suppose you could say they're projecting their own warped sense of proportion.

TMA is also ignoring the fact that the USSR supplied the Arabs every tank, jet, gun, bullet and pair of binoculars during their wars of extermination against Israel, and that if they had not done so, the Arabs would have had to fight Israel with sticks and stones. Stalin was grossly antisemitic and persecuted and killed many Jews. The grain of truth in his claims is that many Russian Jews supported the Communist revolution because they believed in its utopian ideals, which didn't pan out.

TMA's bit about "Constantinople" refers to an old Russian national myth to the effect that Moscow is "the Third Rome" and that it is the manifest destiny of Russia to reconquer Constantinople from Islam. This myth has been considered obsolete since the demise of the Tsars and has no place in modern Russian political discourse. In reality, the reason Russia is bent on controlling the Crimea is to challenge the American petrodollar system and deny the EU alternative sources of petroleum.

Jhungary, on the other hand, is repeating Maoist cliches about Communist internationalism that have no basis in reality other than contemporary political dogma intended for no larger audience than the Chinese people, who in fact have strong reasons to be internally disunited and jaded with their corrupt and ineffectual government. In reality, China and the USSR had a big falling-out in the early sixties and came very close to fighting a major war. This is the main reason Nixon visited China and that China invaded Vietnam after the US left.

Modern Communism has no relation to anything from Hellenistic antiquity, which is a world filled with concepts utterly alien to Chinese people. Some would claim that it was Hellenistic antiquity itself that laid down the basic contrasts between Western and Eastern civilization. To this day, Easterners cannot easily understand the cultural concepts associated with the ancient Hellenistic world.

Communism is in practice effectively a religion, with a clergy, saints, holy books, dogmas, eschatology, even an esoteric cosmology. Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Maoists waving the Little Red Book or memorizing it like Islamic surahs, or making pilgrimages to the preserved corpse of Lenin or asking Lenin's body whether they should get married knows that Communism, like many other political ideologies, is effectively a religious cult. The fact it is officially atheistic is irrelevant - the ideology nonetheless functions according to the practice of a religion.

Lenin was half Ashkenazi Jewish of German extraction, half Uighur Mongol. Jhungary is correct that he, like Trotsky and Marx, did not consider himself Jewish, but that people of Jewish descent were drawn to the movement (along with a much larger number of Gentiles) and tended to rise to prominence because of the Jews' status as a persecuted minority in most countries and their traditions of literacy and education.

Bottom line, none of these weird ideological ideas or Islamic superstitions have anything to do with what's going on in the Crimea. Plain and simple, what's going on there is a power play between Western interests backing the petrodollar and Russia's desire to be a great power again.
 
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lol..........are you serious?

Soviet Union is the result of Communism, there are no "infighting" in between communism, Communism is based on a common grass root level movement that can be date back to 380BC when the first communis was established in ancient Greece.

The term Communist does not relate to any sort or form of religion, instead the idea behind communism are based on the level of class, more precisely the equality of class. Lenin may have had Jewish background, but no one, including himself consider once. Even if he is indeed Jewish, what does that have to do with the State of USSR? Just because he was founded by a person with Jewish Heritage and suddenly they are a Jewish State like Israel? Do you know many Arab descendant have Jewish Heritage too? Hell, even Putin the man himself have Jewish background, and he support and remain popular with the Russian Jewish Community. So, can I say Russia is also a Jewish State?

The reason why Israel was strengthen by Russia is simple, THE RUSKIES FORCE MANY JEWISH POPULATION OUT INTO ISRAEL. Or you honestly think USSR actually help Israel and Egypt during the struggle between 40s to 70s?

Not to mention your silly notion of "re-incorporation" and the dream about Constantinople. Unless you are blind and retarded in some way (Which I increasingly believe you are either or both) The people of Crimea does not went to Russia and ask for in-corporation, the Russian send troop to forcefully retake the city, a fact that even Russia concur. There may have a large population of pro-Russia resident in Crimea, but there are not enough to call for a "re-incorporation" as you put it.

And dream about Constantinople? LOL Are you insane? The current city of Constantinople is Istanbul, which is controlled by Turkey, and in case you don't know or realise, it was a part of NATO. And do you remember what is the last time the bigger and stronger USSR go against NATO during the 50s to 90s? USSR broke apart. Russia could take Istanbul, if their goal is to further break down into city states.

Seeing they can't even capture a portion of East Ukraine which was defended by a rag tag Ukrainian Army, how do you suppose for them to take Istanbul?

As I said, DUMB MOVE BY THE RUSSIAN. Yeah, they took Crimea, that's ABOUT IT, and while doing so, they lost the whole Ukraine with it.
don't agree with the OP, the Russians are still second place to the US army with their tech but as a US general recently noted on FOX news, they're still the only country on earth capable of destroying the United States

Crimea was taken without so much as a shot being fired because of their overwhelming force, for the rest of Ukraine, we've seen what they were capable of in Debaltseve and Donetsk airport ops when they stormed the so called "cyborgs", Putin has showed great restraint in Donbass otherwise, Ukies will be finished in a few days in they go all in.
 
Russia’s military far more advanced than US's: Analyst

Russians have "far superior" military technologies than the Americans, and the US military’s latest missile test was a “bluff” to make people think otherwise, says an American counter-terrorism analyst.
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WHAT IN THE HEAVEN'S NAME ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?????!!!!!!!
 
Jhungary, on the other hand, is repeating Maoist cliches about Communist internationalism that have no basis in reality other than contemporary political dogma intended for no larger audience than the Chinese people, who in fact have strong reasons to be internally disunited and jaded with their corrupt and ineffectual government. In reality, China and the USSR had a big falling-out in the early sixties and came very close to fighting a major war. This is the main reason Nixon visited China and that China invaded Vietnam after the US left.

Modern Communism has no relation to anything from Hellenistic antiquity, which is a world filled with concepts utterly alien to Chinese people. Some would claim that it was Hellenistic antiquity itself that laid down the basic contrasts between Western and Eastern civilization. To this day, Easterners cannot easily understand the cultural concepts associated with the ancient Hellenistic world.

Communism is in practice effectively a religion, with a clergy, saints, holy books, dogmas, eschatology, even an esoteric cosmology. Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Maoists waving the Little Red Book or memorizing it like Islamic surahs, or making pilgrimages to the preserved corpse of Lenin or asking Lenin's body whether they should get married knows that Communism, like many other political ideologies, is effectively a religious cult. The fact it is officially atheistic is irrelevant - the ideology nonetheless functions according to the practice of a religion.

Lenin was half Ashkenazi Jewish of German extraction, half Uighur Mongol. Jhungary is correct that he, like Trotsky and Marx, did not consider himself Jewish, but that people of Jewish descent were drawn to the movement (along with a much larger number of Gentiles) and tended to rise to prominence because of the Jews' status as a persecuted minority in most countries and their traditions of literacy and education.

Bottom line, none of these weird ideological ideas or Islamic superstitions have anything to do with what's going on in the Crimea. Plain and simple, what's going on there is a power play between Western interests backing the petrodollar and Russia's desire to be a great power again.

It would work a lot better for you to read other's post properly before you trying to be a smartarse about it. Cause you explained nothing but simply put word onto my mouth.

Jhungary, on the other hand, is repeating Maoist cliches about Communist internationalism that have no basis in reality other than contemporary political dogma intended for no larger audience than the Chinese people, who in fact have strong reasons to be internally disunited and jaded with their corrupt and ineffectual government. In reality, China and the USSR had a big falling-out in the early sixties and came very close to fighting a major war. This is the main reason Nixon visited China and that China invaded Vietnam after the US left.

First of all, I did not use Maos internationalism to propagate the Communist believe, in fact, I never even mention Maos and Chinese Communist. I merely suggest that the state of Soviet Union is form by a person with Jewish Heritage, that does not mean automatically escalated them into a Jewish States as someone else's suggest.

It may be amaze to know actually different country have a different takes on Communism, and thus, communism is basically not united. Soviet Union have its own set and definition of communism, which focus on central power (the Duma) while the Chinese, especially under Mao's focus on Mao himself, if you are a student of Political Science at all, you would notice that some scholar do actually dispute the Maoist is any sort or form of Communism, basically Maoist put Mao on top of them all, and that's including the ideology.

What I said there would not be any infighting within communism is that within the same system (eg, within Russia, or With China) this is due to the centralised power of any form. it would not allow any opposition within the same system. The fact that China almost went to war with USSR and did went to war with Vietnam Communist not due to an "In-fighting" but a clash of Idea within 2 systems.

Modern Communism has no relation to anything from Hellenistic antiquity, which is a world filled with concepts utterly alien to Chinese people. Some would claim that it was Hellenistic antiquity itself that laid down the basic contrasts between Western and Eastern civilization. To this day, Easterners cannot easily understand the cultural concepts associated with the ancient Hellenistic world.

Since when did I say Modern Communism are related to Hellenistic Antiquity? You do know that democracy also happened during Athenian Classical Antiquity time, but if you compare Athenian Democracy to modern day contemporary democracy, you would find the two system is actually quite different, where Athenian Democracy is more aligned to modern day communism belief.

By the way, in case you still don't know, I was using the historical background to try a make a point on my reply.

Communism is in practice effectively a religion, with a clergy, saints, holy books, dogmas, eschatology, even an esoteric cosmology. Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Maoists waving the Little Red Book or memorizing it like Islamic surahs, or making pilgrimages to the preserved corpse of Lenin or asking Lenin's body whether they should get married knows that Communism, like many other political ideologies, is effectively a religious cult. The fact it is officially atheistic is irrelevant - the ideology nonetheless functions according to the practice of a religion.

Indeed most political belief can be seen as at least equal to Religious belief, but then I did not claim anything about Communist and atheistic belief is relevant. In fact, Communism allow some degree of Religious freedom. Most Russian retain the Orthodox Christianity belief during the USSR period. And a break down of religion distribution of people living under USSR rules you will see the statistic suggested the same pattern of religion diversity than any other country.

While Chinese Communist era would see majority of resident dove into Buddhism belief, with a fraction of Taoist, Christianity and Islamic belief.

And as I said, Mao would not be a good example for playing the religion side of Communism, again, Mao is a narcissistic person who believe nothing but himself and while he is in charge, he force others to believe his philosophy too.

Lenin was half Ashkenazi Jewish of German extraction, half Uighur Mongol. Jhungary is correct that he, like Trotsky and Marx, did not consider himself Jewish, but that people of Jewish descent were drawn to the movement (along with a much larger number of Gentiles) and tended to rise to prominence because of the Jews' status as a persecuted minority in most countries and their traditions of literacy and education.

Well, I do not tend to dapple into yet another issue regarding Judaism. (By the way, you should not use the word "Jews"). But I just want to add a single point, the funny thing is, Jewish Population in Soviet Union are also persecuted because of their tradition, status, education and literacy.

Bottom line, none of these weird ideological ideas or Islamic superstitions have anything to do with what's going on in the Crimea. Plain and simple, what's going on there is a power play between Western interests backing the petrodollar and Russia's desire to be a great power again.

Bottom line is, that was not even my point, my point is it's quite dumb for Russia to make the Crimea a political play.

It lost more ground and advantage on Ukraine then the gaining of Crimea.

don't agree with the OP, the Russians are still second place to the US army with their tech but as a US general recently noted on FOX news, they're still the only country on earth capable of destroying the United States

Crimea was taken without so much as a shot being fired because of their overwhelming force, for the rest of Ukraine, we've seen what they were capable of in Debaltseve and Donetsk airport ops when they stormed the so called "cyborgs", Putin has showed great restraint in Donbass otherwise, Ukies will be finished in a few days in they go all in.

the problem of Russia in Ukraine is not based on Ukraine and its troop, but the overall situation. As I said many time before, the Russia could have involve themselves directly like they were doing in Crimea, yet, even with all the under the table assistance and all the western sanction, Russia still have not "officially" acknowledge their involvement in Eastern Ukraine.

And no. Basically any country with Nuclear delivery capability can destroy the US, that make India, China, Pakistan French and the Brits on the list....
 
Obviously yes. The only difference is the USA has more money. Once Russia starts to earn a lot of money then it can give USA a hard run.
Russia lags behind US in availability of beneficial human resource, R&D capability and economy. US outguns Russia in productivity due to these factors.
 
Russia’s military far more advanced than US's: Analyst'

:o:o_O :rofl: :angel: :omghaha::no::nono:!!!! Wow, Seriously!!!??? The ONLY advanced regiment they had (what they consider as "advance"), with new targeting PODS, etc, they sent it to Syria. What's left outside of it to protect Russia? a couple of hundred SU-27's, a hundred of so SU-30, a hundred or so Junk-29 (Mig-29) and majority of them old, without upgrades, and in bad shape. That's WAY to go, to power project across the globe with less than 500 capable aircraft!!

Yea, it makes a delicious Soup of Power. Not a Super Power!!
 
Cause you explained nothing but simply put word onto my mouth. First of all, I did not use Maos internationalism to propagate the Communist believe, in fact, I never even mention Maos and Chinese Communist.

I never claimed you did. I am simply pointing out where your ideas come from.

It may be amaze to know actually different country have a different takes on Communism, and thus, communism is basically not united. Soviet Union have its own set and definition of communism, which focus on central power (the Duma) while the Chinese, especially under Mao's focus on Mao himself, if you are a student of Political Science at all, you would notice that some scholar do actually dispute the Maoist is any sort or form of Communism, basically Maoist put Mao on top of them all, and that's including the ideology.

Cult of personality was present in the USSR as well. Lenin had his statue everywhere. Stalin is still regarded as basically a god by many Russians.

Mao's beliefs as laid down in the Little Red Book are definitely Communist and nothing else. One of Mao's most prescient observations in the book was that the system he created, minus a putative classless unity with its people, would swiftly descend into fascism.

What I said there would not be any infighting within communism is that within the same system (eg, within Russia, or With China) this is due to the centralised power of any form. it would not allow any opposition within the same system. The fact that China almost went to war with USSR and did went to war with Vietnam Communist not due to an "In-fighting" but a clash of Idea within 2 systems.

These are the words of a Communist who does not understand Communism. Ideological and bureaucratic fratricide were hallmarks of Communism in both China and the USSR and reflected broader divisions in the ideology as a whole.

Since when did I say Modern Communism are related to Hellenistic Antiquity?

You said,

"Communism is based on a common grass root level movement that can be date back to 380BC when the first communis was established in ancient Greece."

You do know that democracy also happened during Athenian Classical Antiquity time, but if you compare Athenian Democracy to modern day contemporary democracy, you would find the two system is actually quite different, where Athenian Democracy is more aligned to modern day communism belief.

You are validating my observation that Hellenistic civilization is culturally alien to Easterners.

Athenian democracy was bourgeois, permissive and based on markets and civil law - basically a more primitive version of modern Western democracy. The modern Communist system is more similar to the Spartan system which was antithetical to the Athenian democracy.

Indeed most political belief can be seen as at least equal to Religious belief, but then I did not claim anything about Communist and atheistic belief is relevant. In fact, Communism allow some degree of Religious freedom. Most Russian retain the Orthodox Christianity belief during the USSR period. And a break down of religion distribution of people living under USSR rules you will see the statistic suggested the same pattern of religion diversity than any other country. While Chinese Communist era would see majority of resident dove into Buddhism belief, with a fraction of Taoist, Christianity and Islamic belief.

This is so, but the fact remains that all Communist regimes regard religious authority with deep suspicion because they see them as social alternatives. Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Communism is a religion as such.

Well, I do not tend to dapple into yet another issue regarding Judaism. (By the way, you should not use the word "Jews"). But I just want to add a single point, the funny thing is, Jewish Population in Soviet Union are also persecuted because of their tradition, status, education and literacy.

I am an American Jew of Russian descent. My ancestors were forced from Kiev in 1905 for just those reasons.

And no. Basically any country with Nuclear delivery capability can destroy the US, that make India, China, Pakistan French and the Brits on the list....

Delivery...that's the trick. Really, though, who cares?
 
US military's pathetic performance against ISIS is enough proof of US capabilities and performance of Russian military against ISIS and AL-Qaeda debunked the notion of a weak Russia as paraded by Western propagandists.
US is not interested in destroying ISIS movement.

ISIS movement is actually facilitating US interests in the Middle East; US is getting orders for its weapon systems from several countries in the Middle East (including Iraq).
 
Russia lags behind US in availability of beneficial human resource, R&D capability and economy. US outguns Russia in productivity due to these factors.

Wrong.

US Vs Russia

Economy - Surely yes.
Human Resource - No.
R&D - No.
 
Cult of personality was present in the USSR as well. Lenin had his statue everywhere. Stalin is still regarded as basically a god by many Russians.

Mao's beliefs as laid down in the Little Red Book are definitely Communist and nothing else. One of Mao's most prescient observations in the book was that the system he created, minus a putative classless unity with its people, would swiftly descend into fascism.

This is so, but the fact remains that all Communist regimes regard religious authority with deep suspicion because they see them as social alternatives. Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Communism is a religion as such.
Mmmm...Nope.

Idolatry is not a core philosophical component of Marxism. Idolatry is ingrained into human nature. The need to have a figurehead for the followers to rally behind is as natural as hunger and thirst. Take a look at the quasi divine status the Republicans associated to Ronald Reagan, for example.
 
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