[Zhang Fei]

I'd say you and Obama are just about on equal footing with Putin for hating America, hating our founding principles, hating our constitution, hating our Judeo-Christian heritage and hating our traditional America way of life.

I'd say Putin doesn't dislike us for all of that stuff - he dislikes us because we're responsible for the collapse of Russian empire (i.e. the loss of the Ukraine, the various stans, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Baltic states and the Warsaw Pact, which might eventually have been annexed to Russia), and we've continued to knock down traditional Russian client regimes like so many dominoes, with the most recent victim being Gaddafi. At the time of Bush I's Chicken Kiev speech in 1991, I thought it was timid. In retrospect, I understand why he was cautious. The problem is that when you're dealing with the rulers of an empire armed with 20K nukes, you also have to factor in the possibility of them pulling down the temple over all of our heads.

[varmintman]

If Putin dislikes us, it's because neocons tried to destroy Russia AFTER the fall of the CCCP, and because SlicKKK KKKlintler bombed a totally innocent Slavic Orthodox Christian nation for eighty days and nights including Easter Sunday for the benefit of narco-terrorists and savages and to take that Juanita Broaddrick story off our own front pages, and there's another motive as well which involves George Soro and the international banking cartel and the sort of stunt which Soros and Obunga pulled in Libya two years ago.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD14Ak02.html

The term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) means the block of countries which are outside of the US/British/European money and banking system (IMF, BIS etc. Derivatives-R-US etc.) and might actually survive when that system finally collapses, which it will unless something radical happens.