A difference between them and us

“MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday watched Russia's biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far eastern region in a show of the nation's resurgent military might.

“Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov assured foreign military attaches Monday that the exercise was part of regular combat training and wasn't directed against any particular nation, though some analysts believe the show of force was aimed at China and Japan.” – Associated Press


If this had been in the US:

“Although Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the exercise was part of regular combat training, representatives of several groups said they were offended by what one called ‘a blatant example of American force intruding into peaceful nations’ right to live without threat of invasion.’

“The nation’s largest LGBT group – We’re Here and There Ain’t S—t You Can Do to Stop Us – issued a statement condemning the exercises, saying, ‘Not only is the commander not L or G or B or T, he is a known Right-Wing Evangelical Christian-Zionist, and those have no place in this secular country.’”

Ta-Da.