Ok..now I am mad!!

[Unit 5302]

I have no idea what engine went into the Ranger in 1990 that would have been a Mazda engine. I think there was a 2.3L I-4 (Ford), 2.9L V-6 (Ford), and a 4.0L (Ford)

I wasn't really talking about recent history, Mr 5 0. I was talking within the last few hundred years. Russia has been invaded, and threatened so many times I believe it's been built right into their society not to trust outsiders. I think it's even moreso with the US since the US is known to now be more powerful than they are.

My critisism of Putin may be unjust. I know one of the major things he dealt with right off the bat was the banking system over there making tremendous amounts of profit by playing the monetary system, and that took definate guts and commitment.

What Unit 5302 is talking about:
In case the rest of the readers are not familiar, Russian banks were using their currency (the rubel) to make money. Banks would purposely cause fluctuations in the value of the rubel and exchange it for the rock solid US dollar. When the rubel dropped in value to next to nothing, banks would exchange "buy" rubels with dollars, and when the strength of the rubel had returned, exchange "buy" dollars with rubels again. It was a continuing cycle that hurt average Russians right down to the purchase of food, and the banking system was making a killing off of it. In case you may have heard something about the tremendous fluctuation of value in the rubel, this was it.

It just seems as though he hasn't been public enough to the rest of the world. I feel as though he could do a better job marketing his country, but maybe I'm wrong. I wish Japan would have pulled their head out of their you know what to help Russia build some oil drilling equipment instead of squabbling over a meaningless island that is Russia's fair and square.