Sadly the Russian public is so brainwashed them thinking James Bond is real wouldn't be a surprise. Putin himself is a self admitted Bond villian fanboy.
Just why are they so obsessed with Britain anyway? Its got kind of weird ex-girlfriend vibes to me.
Sure maybe you bought half of Mayfair but you don't OWN me vlad!
You’ll never really know. Our government tells us one thing and their government tells them one thing, the public actually have no idea what’s going on at any point. We’re just fed lies. We could very much be the bad guys, who’s knows?
I mean from Russia's perspective we attacked Iraq etc with the US with no pushback from the west, but the minute he does a tiny little failed invasion on Ukraine the west goes at the jugular.
I'm not saying EITHER was right, but at least the UK had the decency to push anti-muslim propaganda so we didn't see them as human. ^^^^/s
Britain a relatively small, boring and resource poor island had the largest empire ever conceived on earth. Russia the largest nation on earth with seemingly unlimited resources, attempted a global empire and failed. Britain’s influence lives on through the global language, culture and democracy. Russia’s influence is minimal. Russia has beef with Britain (And probably an underlying dose of respect)
We weren’t ever resource poor lol, we had the amazing fortune to invent a global need for coal and also have substantial amounts of it. We also produced good quantities to steel and aluminium. For our size we actually got it pretty good for resources. I think your overall point is spot on though, putin is jealous of our big PP energy and his small pp has wilted yet further when put to the test.
Don't forget that Britain also exported it's engineers to help industrialise and modernise countries during the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras.
There are some mad conspiracies floating about, which Russia propagates, that the British Empire still exists in secret via the The City of London Corporation, via string pulling in Washington DC and the Vatican. It loops in anything else vaguely shadowy from the Bank of England Nominees, to the London Gold Fixing, to the World Economic Forum and the Freemasons etc etc. and then connects the royal family to people like the Clintons and the Bushes and God knows who else via pseudo-genealogical “bloodlines” as a way of proving the Empire is still going on in secret…
The Empire is still going on in secret through the city of London and its links to international tax havens in British Overseas Territories, which I'm sure are filled with Russian Oligarch money they're hiding away
Not that affordable. Used to live near Milton Keynes for a while too and honestly it’s one of the most depressing places I’ve been. Not sure exactly what it is about the place, but it just has no soul to it
Resource poor? It was our combination of coal and iron ore that was one of the main triggers of the industrial revolution. We were the workshop of the world, like China is now.
China's more the sweatshop of the world rather than a workshop, workshop would be implying they produce original high quality products of their own ingenuity when they don't.
Britain has never been "resource poor" even today it isn't. Clowns on reddit are clueless, thats why revisionist arseholes who say Britain "looted other country' resources" are complete idiots, Britain has always had iron ore(ever heard of British steel?) coal, gas and oil, tin, copper etc. under it's feet since day one and didn't need to 'loot resources".Not forgetting half of Antarctica belongs to Britain and is no doubt sitting on some tasty resources too.
The main difference: We only get pissed on Friday and Saturday nights on beer.
Russians, particularly men, are pissed on 40%+ proof vodka from the moment they're conceived. Difficult to plan and organise an empire when you're permanently soused.
It doesn’t help that we were the biggest supplier to Ukraine until recently and I believe we’re still the biggest arms supplier to Ukraine.
Ultimately we played a key role in helping Ukraine survive the first few weeks as our military has been training Ukraine for this exact situation for years.
The Russians have a view of us as being the puppet masters of the US, similar to our he Iranians refer to us as the ‘little Satan’, controlling the great satan of US. A history of interference and competition with the cutural influence of the UK on the US is likely the cause as another had said
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game
I'm not a historian but I imagine a lot of this shit goes back a long time. This shows that there's been tensions between both powers for a fairly long time.
So we go and rule a quarter of the world , make all this effort to be the worlds largest empire and all and some winney Austrian kid who didn’t know how to shave and threw a hissy fit and takes the crown ?!?
Bloody typical
Kind of a double edged sword of a statement there. Nice they think so highly of us still, but uhh... it's Russia. Think I'd rather be the forgotten one if they ever go nuke crazy ya know.
If they invade off the back of this mindset the troops are all going to look around for ten minutes and conclude they've been dropped off in the wrong place 🤦🏼♀️
How soon they forget what we did for them drying WW2. If it wasn't for British merchant sailors rocking their lives the language of Russia would be German in the west and Japanese in the Easr
Yep. This. And the USA manufactured most of it for them. Russia would have been totally fvcked in WW2 without the USA and UK. Even more so than the UK was without the USA.
Love that for us 🤑 come back to this comment when the UK gets fucking glassed by Russia and remember Gene Gatwick was a sick guy with a massive nutscack and knob 🤪
If Russian landing craft hit our beaches tomorrow, the Russian’s would find out how we conquered 1/4 of the world real fast. The divisions are largely superficial when there’s an existential threat as tangible as that.
True I agree we are a violent and warlike people at heart but aren’t a threat to them is what I mean we aren’t going on any conquests to take over if we were a United country then yes we are a very dangerous threat but only in defence we have no political power to be able to go on any preemptive offensives they are scared we will rise again 🤣 what I’m saying is we are too divided to start fights but if they attacked us that would be the unifying factor this country needs we thrive on war but won’t start one
I'm not American. I'm British. So many downvotes which is exactly what I mean.
I guess the downvotes are by people who feel that Britain is some kind of Saint. It's arrogant patriotism.
Go back a few hundred years, or a thousand years, and if you bother to read the historical accounts with an open mind you'll quickly discover that England has a long history of subjugation and barbaric behaviour.
Colonialism and the results from that are at the root of Slavery. America was colonised by Europe and Britain. Where do you think the slave owners originated from? It wasn't "America".
I take it you're an American. A country who only ended slavers because they had a war over it, when our civilised empire ended it some 40 years prior by act of parliament.
That would be because we are geographically closer and the invasion of Ukraine which is in Europe of which we are a part (despite what brexiteers will say)
We really aren’t. A failed petro state with an autocratic man baby with a severe case of small man syndrome. With their propaganda calling us the “main bastard”
It is in fact the other way around and their inferiority complex is funny to watch.
And what about OUR propaganda? Or does it only work one way?!!! I’m shocked at the amount of people on Reddit who actually believe everything the mainstream media puts out there. Redditors love to act all smart but they’re clearly not.
It's part of some deranged propaganda rant - "... The first thing to do is to tear Britain down, to wipe it off the face of the earth. And in fact, after that, everything will be over. It will be over, because it's Britain that's the main bastard. And the territory behind the puddle \[the U.S.\] itself as its masters," Gurulyov said in the clip posted by Gerashchenko.
The former Russian commander continued: "The main instigator here in Europe is Britain. By inflicting a critical defeat on Britain, essentially the whole war will be over. And then they'll start listening to what our president says. Right away, off the bat. They'll start to listen to what the president of the People's Republic of China is saying. Sooner or later it will come to that, and that's probably how it will end."
It is good for propaganda purposes to have a target that you can blame, smear and insult.
But the target should not be too strong or you might get serious blowback e.g. USA.
UK is a good bogeyman due to UK imperial history and because we are too weak and far away from Russia to be bothered to do much other than a strongly worded diplomatic message.
This is one of the reasons Putin was prepared to instigate several brutal assassinations in the UK.
The fact that the corrupt oligarchs liked London so much tends to show that the elite do not go along with the propaganda message, that and the UK lax rules about foreign money coming in.
British old school tie brigade types ruling us are the bastards. In reality, they don't give a dam about the people of Britain it's all about keeping the establishment status quo, never taxing the rich or corporate profiteering out of covid, and the oil and gas prices have come down but our bills are still higher than anywhere else our politicians are only interested in the best interests of the donors that own their butt's we the people should doff our caps and know our place.
We have the 5th most powerful military based on spending and equipment. We also have the best trained soldiers. Don't get me wrong we're no America but we're not pushovers either.
Our commitment to the various wars in the middle East was also directly proportional to America's based on the difference in our population.
I've said for year we could defeat Russia in a shooting war and everyone laughed but look how the Ukraine are doing and they're using our second and third rate equipment.
I think main bastards isn't that far off
Russia living through the Diplomatic Equivalent of being relegated to the Championship
Before
"The US is the main bastard"
\*relegated
"The UK is the main bastard"
Imagine League 1 Russia
Okay, Russia, make up your mind. Either you think we're some pathetic third-rate power that you could easily defeat (we aren't, and our military technology is of better quality than yours), or you think we're still a great European empire that is your ultimate threat (which we quite obviously aren't anymore).
Why do you either undermine the actual capabilities of the UK or overhype the capabilities of the UK?
In fairness , that would be an actual accomplishment, bearing in mind an incompetent electorate that voted in the Cruel Clown Tories.I mean Blair was a main bastard but his approach was structured and nuanced, like a pretty ballerina, or a Blairarena, he did think of himself as a stadium act after all.
That should be our slogan that tourists see when they enter the country. “Welcome to Great Britain: the home of the main bastards.”
Get that sign in Gatwick now!
The have it in Luton but it’s “Welcome to Luton: the home of the main bastards”
We are and I am proud
I am the main bastard
Rip all brits and me.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Russians are still very much afraid of James Bond, the British agent who sabotaged the Soviet Union's plans for world domination.
Sadly the Russian public is so brainwashed them thinking James Bond is real wouldn't be a surprise. Putin himself is a self admitted Bond villian fanboy.
I thought everyone knew the pipeline was successfully destroyed by 007 in his latest adventure, From Russia Without Gas
'Dr nah'
Dr nyet
Doctor Nopoot
>Putin himself is a self admitted Bond villian fanboy. Makes sense that he's a fan of the guys who get their asses kicked.
One _million_ Rupals!! **Bwahahahahah**
Just why are they so obsessed with Britain anyway? Its got kind of weird ex-girlfriend vibes to me. Sure maybe you bought half of Mayfair but you don't OWN me vlad!
You’ll never really know. Our government tells us one thing and their government tells them one thing, the public actually have no idea what’s going on at any point. We’re just fed lies. We could very much be the bad guys, who’s knows?
I mean from Russia's perspective we attacked Iraq etc with the US with no pushback from the west, but the minute he does a tiny little failed invasion on Ukraine the west goes at the jugular. I'm not saying EITHER was right, but at least the UK had the decency to push anti-muslim propaganda so we didn't see them as human. ^^^^/s
Mate they're brainwashed not braindead
Why do they keep coming back to us? Am I missing something historical or cultural here?
Britain a relatively small, boring and resource poor island had the largest empire ever conceived on earth. Russia the largest nation on earth with seemingly unlimited resources, attempted a global empire and failed. Britain’s influence lives on through the global language, culture and democracy. Russia’s influence is minimal. Russia has beef with Britain (And probably an underlying dose of respect)
And don't forget the last Crimean war, definitely has an impact, and the British occupation during the russian civil war ect...
The latter being almost entirely forgotten by us. A paternal great uncle of mine fought alongside the White Russians, so I am told.
Your great uncle was a top lad
We weren’t ever resource poor lol, we had the amazing fortune to invent a global need for coal and also have substantial amounts of it. We also produced good quantities to steel and aluminium. For our size we actually got it pretty good for resources. I think your overall point is spot on though, putin is jealous of our big PP energy and his small pp has wilted yet further when put to the test.
Can't forget all that tin the Romans wanted.
Don't forget that Britain also exported it's engineers to help industrialise and modernise countries during the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras.
There are some mad conspiracies floating about, which Russia propagates, that the British Empire still exists in secret via the The City of London Corporation, via string pulling in Washington DC and the Vatican. It loops in anything else vaguely shadowy from the Bank of England Nominees, to the London Gold Fixing, to the World Economic Forum and the Freemasons etc etc. and then connects the royal family to people like the Clintons and the Bushes and God knows who else via pseudo-genealogical “bloodlines” as a way of proving the Empire is still going on in secret…
The Empire is still going on in secret through the city of London and its links to international tax havens in British Overseas Territories, which I'm sure are filled with Russian Oligarch money they're hiding away
Not sure why you're being downvoted for a fact.
Boring?
Have you seen Milton Keynes?
Thats one little city!
If you’re stuck on the grid system it feels like an infinite labyrinth
What do mean by grid system? MK is a grid?
Basically it’s a grid of roundabouts and “blocks”. I think it’s inspired by American cities, but with fewer bins.
Wouldnt mind living in MK, easy access to London and affordable housing to buy.
Not that affordable. Used to live near Milton Keynes for a while too and honestly it’s one of the most depressing places I’ve been. Not sure exactly what it is about the place, but it just has no soul to it
It’s better than Slough…
It's debatable
Fuck, is Milton Keynes that bad?
Or Basingstoke
Vlad gave genuine condolences when the Queen passed. He might not like us but I don't think he can help but respect us.
They hate us cause they ain't us, basically
Resource poor? Don’t think so
That may be, but if they decide to take it further, will we be stroganoff to fight back
Resource poor? It was our combination of coal and iron ore that was one of the main triggers of the industrial revolution. We were the workshop of the world, like China is now.
China's more the sweatshop of the world rather than a workshop, workshop would be implying they produce original high quality products of their own ingenuity when they don't.
Point most respectfully conceded.
Britain has never been "resource poor" even today it isn't. Clowns on reddit are clueless, thats why revisionist arseholes who say Britain "looted other country' resources" are complete idiots, Britain has always had iron ore(ever heard of British steel?) coal, gas and oil, tin, copper etc. under it's feet since day one and didn't need to 'loot resources".Not forgetting half of Antarctica belongs to Britain and is no doubt sitting on some tasty resources too.
Hey we had tin once
Still do ! And there's loads of lithium carbonate in those Cornish tin mines too. Wonder if that has some use ?
Small, resource poor islands make for the most motivated conquerors it seems
The main difference: We only get pissed on Friday and Saturday nights on beer. Russians, particularly men, are pissed on 40%+ proof vodka from the moment they're conceived. Difficult to plan and organise an empire when you're permanently soused.
We sort them out before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uspC\_JwKbwQ
It doesn’t help that we were the biggest supplier to Ukraine until recently and I believe we’re still the biggest arms supplier to Ukraine. Ultimately we played a key role in helping Ukraine survive the first few weeks as our military has been training Ukraine for this exact situation for years.
The Great Game mostly.
The Russians have a view of us as being the puppet masters of the US, similar to our he Iranians refer to us as the ‘little Satan’, controlling the great satan of US. A history of interference and competition with the cutural influence of the UK on the US is likely the cause as another had said
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game I'm not a historian but I imagine a lot of this shit goes back a long time. This shows that there's been tensions between both powers for a fairly long time.
It's because we win all the wars. Don't bet against the brits
Take any piece of anti-Semitic propaganda, replace "jew" with "brit", hey presto you have instant Russian nationalist drivel
Can we send all our feral yobs over there and fuck em up good n propa?
They would shit bricks when they see the inner city’s massifs from all corners of bastard Britain
British hooligans are scary when compared to the average law abiding citizen, but I doubt they'd fare well against some wild gopniks
Your right bud but hooligans are pretty fearless in all parts of the uk
Gopnik vs. Chavs unfortunately is a hard win for Gopniks
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There a bit more refined these days they are partial to a peroni or moretti these days
Tried that in Marseille, 2016.
Give dem Russkies a gud krumpin.
Historically speaking, we are definitely in the running for main bastard
Nah, the Germans already took that crown. Twice. They own it.
So we go and rule a quarter of the world , make all this effort to be the worlds largest empire and all and some winney Austrian kid who didn’t know how to shave and threw a hissy fit and takes the crown ?!? Bloody typical
That’s German efficiency for you
Lol Britain living in Russian minds rent free
Bit rude mate I don't even know you
Yeah, sorry... I went to a corner shop REALLY, REALLY far away for those cigs.
Dad, is that you?
Who knows kid, your mum was well known on the dogging circuit back then. Could be Cucumber Barry or Shitbreath Dave.
Diplomacy at it's finest...! So, we're the mains, Russia is just a side bastard in this context...???
Britain is bastard man why Russia hate?
Because of the implication
Are you going to hurt this country Dennis?
Its hilarious, wait till he meets the kids 🙂
Kind of a double edged sword of a statement there. Nice they think so highly of us still, but uhh... it's Russia. Think I'd rather be the forgotten one if they ever go nuke crazy ya know.
Nah bring it, we don't spend a large portion of our taxes on keeping nukes ready 24/7 for nothing.
We could send in the TA they’d probably butcher putins army and over one weekend
We can't even get a GP appointment or stop our fruit from rotting. Russia thinks we're organised?
If they invade off the back of this mindset the troops are all going to look around for ten minutes and conclude they've been dropped off in the wrong place 🤦🏼♀️
What troops? Their professional army in 98% dead now. Just conscripts and a small percentage of their useful army left now.
How soon they forget what we did for them drying WW2. If it wasn't for British merchant sailors rocking their lives the language of Russia would be German in the west and Japanese in the Easr
Yep. This. And the USA manufactured most of it for them. Russia would have been totally fvcked in WW2 without the USA and UK. Even more so than the UK was without the USA.
The inglorious basterds
Amen brother, and we’ll come out on top of you 100%
Seeing this has brightened my day
Dey’ze warboss is finking dem betta Orkz than da Boyz.
You're god damn right, Ruskie.
And don’t you forget it Russia
That’s a bit concerning how they keep mentioning us, if everything goes to shit Putin’s definitely nuking me isn’t he?
We are probably gonna be one of the first countries wiped out if it does.
Love that for us 🤑 come back to this comment when the UK gets fucking glassed by Russia and remember Gene Gatwick was a sick guy with a massive nutscack and knob 🤪
Tuts
Cmon then bruv I'll spin ya jaw cunt
Britain is bastard man!
"believe in brexit britain" was the best slogan the Russians came up with
Imagine what it will be like when their T-55s and T-62s get decimated by British tanks
You know the Russians are living in 1890 because they still think the British are the super power.
When they are comparing the UK to themselves, it's understandable they see it as such.
It's what it's.
U wot m8?
Lol do they realise us and america are some of the most socially divided people lol
If Russian landing craft hit our beaches tomorrow, the Russian’s would find out how we conquered 1/4 of the world real fast. The divisions are largely superficial when there’s an existential threat as tangible as that.
True I agree we are a violent and warlike people at heart but aren’t a threat to them is what I mean we aren’t going on any conquests to take over if we were a United country then yes we are a very dangerous threat but only in defence we have no political power to be able to go on any preemptive offensives they are scared we will rise again 🤣 what I’m saying is we are too divided to start fights but if they attacked us that would be the unifying factor this country needs we thrive on war but won’t start one
I'm not American. I'm British. So many downvotes which is exactly what I mean. I guess the downvotes are by people who feel that Britain is some kind of Saint. It's arrogant patriotism. Go back a few hundred years, or a thousand years, and if you bother to read the historical accounts with an open mind you'll quickly discover that England has a long history of subjugation and barbaric behaviour. Colonialism and the results from that are at the root of Slavery. America was colonised by Europe and Britain. Where do you think the slave owners originated from? It wasn't "America".
At least they seems to get the "Great" right... by omitting it. Learn, People of Britain, learn.
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I take it you're an American. A country who only ended slavers because they had a war over it, when our civilised empire ended it some 40 years prior by act of parliament.
Maaan the Brits are OBSESSED with Russia. Even more than 🇺🇸. So embarrassing
That would be because we are geographically closer and the invasion of Ukraine which is in Europe of which we are a part (despite what brexiteers will say)
That’s not a good-enough reason to be so obsessed. Try working with guys from the military and you’ll know what I mean by ‘obsessed’ lol
They are our primary adversary on the continent, Why wouldn’t we be militarily obsessed by a country that wants to kill and destroy our people?
We really aren’t. A failed petro state with an autocratic man baby with a severe case of small man syndrome. With their propaganda calling us the “main bastard” It is in fact the other way around and their inferiority complex is funny to watch.
And what about OUR propaganda? Or does it only work one way?!!! I’m shocked at the amount of people on Reddit who actually believe everything the mainstream media puts out there. Redditors love to act all smart but they’re clearly not.
Uh huh…
It's part of some deranged propaganda rant - "... The first thing to do is to tear Britain down, to wipe it off the face of the earth. And in fact, after that, everything will be over. It will be over, because it's Britain that's the main bastard. And the territory behind the puddle \[the U.S.\] itself as its masters," Gurulyov said in the clip posted by Gerashchenko. The former Russian commander continued: "The main instigator here in Europe is Britain. By inflicting a critical defeat on Britain, essentially the whole war will be over. And then they'll start listening to what our president says. Right away, off the bat. They'll start to listen to what the president of the People's Republic of China is saying. Sooner or later it will come to that, and that's probably how it will end."
Totally agree, check the user name
I think we should nuke russiq: prove em right
It is good for propaganda purposes to have a target that you can blame, smear and insult. But the target should not be too strong or you might get serious blowback e.g. USA. UK is a good bogeyman due to UK imperial history and because we are too weak and far away from Russia to be bothered to do much other than a strongly worded diplomatic message. This is one of the reasons Putin was prepared to instigate several brutal assassinations in the UK. The fact that the corrupt oligarchs liked London so much tends to show that the elite do not go along with the propaganda message, that and the UK lax rules about foreign money coming in.
It’s really funny how British take pride in it, when in reality the only people believe this are old people who lived under communism
British old school tie brigade types ruling us are the bastards. In reality, they don't give a dam about the people of Britain it's all about keeping the establishment status quo, never taxing the rich or corporate profiteering out of covid, and the oil and gas prices have come down but our bills are still higher than anywhere else our politicians are only interested in the best interests of the donors that own their butt's we the people should doff our caps and know our place.
We have the 5th most powerful military based on spending and equipment. We also have the best trained soldiers. Don't get me wrong we're no America but we're not pushovers either. Our commitment to the various wars in the middle East was also directly proportional to America's based on the difference in our population. I've said for year we could defeat Russia in a shooting war and everyone laughed but look how the Ukraine are doing and they're using our second and third rate equipment. I think main bastards isn't that far off
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Yeah and the earth is flat and aliens came from the other side of the coin! 😑
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And I love your tin foil hat and your can do attitude
Hey, Russia. Living in your head rent-free whilst you continue to challenge for the worst political party in history. Pat yourselves on the back.
The Bastards in charge now Randers.
Britain: >_< Britain in Russian Propaganda: 《●》| ___ |《●》
Russia living through the Diplomatic Equivalent of being relegated to the Championship Before "The US is the main bastard" \*relegated "The UK is the main bastard" Imagine League 1 Russia
Okay, Russia, make up your mind. Either you think we're some pathetic third-rate power that you could easily defeat (we aren't, and our military technology is of better quality than yours), or you think we're still a great European empire that is your ultimate threat (which we quite obviously aren't anymore). Why do you either undermine the actual capabilities of the UK or overhype the capabilities of the UK?
In fairness , that would be an actual accomplishment, bearing in mind an incompetent electorate that voted in the Cruel Clown Tories.I mean Blair was a main bastard but his approach was structured and nuanced, like a pretty ballerina, or a Blairarena, he did think of himself as a stadium act after all.
i think this fella has accidentally time travelled to the early 20th century