Putin/Cronies Operate Aggressive, Criminal State-w/in-a-State Void of Philosophy, Principle or Shame

Reaganite Republican ^ | 29 August 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

With the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine -just like Sarah Palin (and I) warned you about over five years ago- Vladimir Putin and his tight, sinister inner circle have betrayed themselves for what they really are- a (rogue) state within a state. More specifically, the Putin regime is a criminal organization that enjoys the protection of the state in which it resides... 

Obsessively consumed by self interests and corrupt by nature, they can't stop what they have started... these are men who lie even when the truth would do them far better service. Alas, one major defeat, step-down, or admission of error could bring the whole thing crashing-down.

What they are doing in Ukraine right now -for only the vaguest of military/historical 'reasons'- has created a still-escalating cycle of violence, with resulting costs of lives lost/in disarray/loved ones gone forever. 

Is anybody asking these vicious thugs in the Kremlin WHY?

This is the face of evil with no cause: yet today's self-absorbed West is slow to face reality, even slower to act. These ex-KGB types are masters of exploiting our weaknesses and good-faith mentality that doesn't apply to their mafia-esque maneuvering, incremental underground warfare, and serial deceit. They can see America's thorough war-weariness offers them an ideal window of opportunity for conquest. And they are KICKING ALL OUR ASSES.

The post-1992 multilateral world order is no more: the West won't even sufficiently support actual NATO plans, nor NATO members on the front line, i.e. Poland, never mind Ukraine. Our desperate eastern 'allies'
are now scampering to form their own local defensive alliances.

We live in momentous times, when history is now repeating itself -and we are again at a point in time like (Munich) 1938, when the aggressor who pines for lost 'greatness' and empire has lost ALL respect for his opponents- thus, all deterrence. And we all know how that one ended.

Stalin -who Putin still clearly adores-  was once seen as a god in the eyes of millions in the USSR, but as soon as the truth came surfaced, they realized what an evil monster was- actually worse than a Hitler. 

The current Russian Hitler enjoys record popularity at home, yet has no philosophy to spread, other than the idea that all the poor idiots on Russian borders need the Ruskies to come in and blow-up their houses/install a Kremlin puppet- because they're SO lost without them. The Russians will likely keep taking territory for the next 2+ years... until they get beaten on the battlefield, Putin gets overthrown, or President Cruz gets sworn-in.

As for Obama, he's shown no concern whatsoever for all these old Christian white people being blown-up every day in Ukraine... a situation far more disturbing than the self-destructive Gazans he's so damn worried about. 

In fact, Dear Leader finds most all foreign policy an unwelcome diversion from this 8-year program of domestic socio-economic annihilation...
he quite literally couldn't care less.

I pray for the people of Ukraine... while we here will continue to beg Obama to send these poor bastards a couple loads of helmets and vests, even.

Perhaps wiser minds will prevail at the upcoming NATO summit.

[zzwhale]

SO DO OBAMA HOLDER AND SOROS

[armydawg505]

Adolph Putin vs Neville Obama. History repeats itself when it is ignored or unlearned.

[SES1066]

Putin; You can take the thug out of the KGB but he remains a THUG, just one with a very large military!

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[Reaganite Republican]

Well, you gotta point there...

[Reaganite Republican]

A recently upgraded and re trained military...

[Phlap]

My thought exactly.

[slowhandluke]

"Putin/Cronies Operate Aggressive, Criminal State-w/in-a-State Void of Philosophy, Principle or Shame"

A rather vacuous argument. Shame has never had a place in the geopolitical world, except the shame of losing. Putin definitely has principles, just not any principle that a European or American politician would publicly claim, no matter how much they hold to some of them in private. Putin likes power, wants to hold power, wants to expand the Russian State, is a Russian nationalist.

As to philosophy, I'm not sure how to distinguish that from principles, as one supports the other. To say that someone with that much focused drive doesn't have a philosophy is simply silly. Even if it's a simple as "Winning is Everything", he's got a philosophy driving him.

Putin knows what he wants, and is reasonably clear about it. He's just a better political chess player than anybody on the USA team.