Bm Ruby A12|
by BitmapMania

ADD TO

ADD NEW PINBOARD

X
Assaults on freedom of association and expression have been among the serious human rights abuses in Russia.
carl gershman
Bm Ruby A12
It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho "cowboy diplomacy" that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: "Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights." Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
ann coulter
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Bm Ruby A12

featuring 1 font
America is tired of being America, so Russia is being Russia again... Russia is energized by the prospect of filling the vacuum and thus once again playing a major role on the world stage... Russia can do whatever it wants... Russia is not Belgium, and it is not Canada. It was one of only two superpowers until the Soviet Union imploded under the weight of its own belligerent imbecility, and it has been wallowing in a post-imperial funk... Being one of many is not how Russia rolls... Russia's history and geography. Look at a map. Russia is an enormous, sprawling monstrosity of a nation even without its former Soviet satellites. It spans 11 times zones, nearly halfway around the planet, and overwhelms almost all of Eurasia. In the early 16th century, Russia was just a vertical sliver in Europe next to Finland and Poland. It hadn't even reached the Black Sea yet. Before its centuries-long expansion into Siberia and to the Pacific coast, with no mountains or water as natural boundaries, the Russians were extremely vulnerable to invasion from every direction. They had no warm-water port and lived precariously on the cold steppe and in the snowy taiga. They'd only recently recovered from the near-apocalyptic Mongol invasion in the 13th century, which reduced their previous civilization, Kievan Rus, to ashes. After Russians threw off the Asian yoke, they knew they had to expand their territory as far as possible from the population core in Eastern Europe if they were to survive. So Russia expanded, all the way to the other side of the world, not just 11 time zones, but 12. Let's not forget that even Alaska once belonged to Moscow. But Russia was still vulnerable on its European flank and nearly fell to Napoleonic France in 1812 and, after that, to Nazi Germany in 1941. So Russia then expanded westward as much as possible and reached all the way to the center of Europe, in East Germany, at the end of World War II. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia still maintained as many vassal states as it could along its border. Belarus, reluctant Ukraine, Armenia, and most of the Central Asian 'Stans', to serve as protective buffers.
michael totten
The quick brown fox
Jumps over the lazy dog
supported charset
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890%#!?.,:;{[()]}&''...-_\/|@^~+<=>*
HEX: #2C2036
RGB: 44 32 54
HEX: #3D2630
RGB: 61 38 48
HEX: #CC9C20
RGB: 204 156 32
HEX: #7B7577
RGB: 123 117 119
HEX: #BBB895
RGB: 187 184 149
Russia has long been a paranoid land power. It's huge, mostly flat, and wide open to invasion. Just to name a few examples, it was invaded by the Mongols in the 13th century, Napoleon in the 19th, Nazi Germany in the 20th, and has been recently squeezed by NATO expansion in the former Soviet bloc. These events seared themselves into the Russian psyche. They breathe better with buffer states.
michael totten
display bitmap outline pixel splat 1980s dotmatrix lcd videogame arcade computer pixelated lowres digital retrogame ruby bitmapmania
typeface supports one languages
English