User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Common Misconceptions of History Part 2: Great Empires/@comment-3528888-20140318221634

1.The Americans never beat russia in a war, and the cold war just sort of...ended...arguably in 1989 before the fall of the USSR

2. WIth turks, french, and brittish I hope you are refering to the crimean war, in which the Brits and the french wanted to stop russian expansion at the expense of the ottomans, who, if not for their interference in tryinbg to balance russia with the ottomans, would have broken apart way before 1917, when they went to war with russia and lost big time. The Crimea war had massive casualties on both sides before russia agreed to a peace treaty...which they subsequently decided not to follow...therafter winning a war against the ottomans trying to enforce it without brittish or french help...

3. Scandinavians managed to beat russia back when it was barely an empire...and in the great norhtern war russia came back with a bang and effectively ended the Swedish Empire for good...not such a good example once you think about it...

4. The Japanese in 1905 beat russia's weakest fleet and then russia succame to internal unrest...forcing them to conced in a border dispute...and loose a vassal...russia weighted their risks and decided that continued war in Japan would increase their likelyhood of being killed by revolution.

5. in WWI Russia was royaly destroying the Austrio-Hungarians, which ultimately led to their downfall...it's not untill Papa germany came to the rescue that they started gaining ground...and then russian soldiers started to refuse to fight and REVOLUTION...if russia would have just waited 6 months they would have been signatories to the Versailles treaty...however revolution happened and the revolutionaries really meant it when they said "peace at all costs". in any case, Germany spent the majority of its resources fighting off the russians.

6.Taking advantage of the interregnum in russia during the "time of torubles" does not count...as russia was effectively at that time a failed state...

If you are going back to the foundation of rus, then I may add that russia defeated the Byzantines, the Mongols(after being conquered), other russians, Ended the Scandinavian Empire, Conquered Berlin in the 7-years war, just to give it back after the Empress died and his son realy liked the Prussian King so he decided to withdraw all troops, beat poland...multiple times, almost singlehandedly ended 2 of the most powerful empires that stirved for world domination(who could have won if not for russia, where they lost most of their resources...(im talking about 90% of Napoleon's army and 80-% of Nazi resources going to fight Russia...since only large land front at the time(france already conquered, north africa just tanks))