russia

1) Take monuments to old Soviet red pinko commie bastards.
2) Turn them into American superheroes.
3) 'Murica.

They've slipped a bit since then...

From the New York Times:

A Russian beverage company said on Thursday that it was acquiring the Pabst Brewing Company, which makes the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer popular with barflies and hipsters alike and other brands like Colt 45 and Old Milwaukee.

The company did not disclose terms of the transaction, but people briefed on the matter said the price was more than $700 million in cash.

The buyer is Oasis Beverages, a Russian brewer and beverages distributor. Backing Oasis is TSG Consumer Partners, an American private equity firm focused on consumer goods, which will take a minority stake.

The video is in Russian, so hit the CC button on the Youtube player to enable English subtitles.

And evil Capitalism and its Great Depression took away one of my cars!

When President Obama was asked on Sunday why America was contributing the overwhelming majority of military coalition resources against ISIS, he had this to say:

"When trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don't call Beijing, they don't call Moscow. They call us. That's the deal. That's always the case. America leads. We are the indispensable nation. We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world."

What followed, we can only presume, was the biggest mic drop in the history of ever.