We Need to Take a Tougher Line With Putin

Newsweek ^ | November 1, 2015 | William Courtney and Donald Jensen

[Navy Patriot]

Reagan also won the Cold War without firing a shot and enabled Russia to move away from Communism, while Carter created the prototype for Fascist Islamic terrorism ISIS, and the World Caliphate.

Yeah, let's go with Carter!

[JudyinCanada]

Our dashing new Prime Minister is going to “look Putin in the eye”. The world’s worries are over. You’re welcome.

[1rudeboy]

NEOKHANNN!

[donozark]

Will he see Putin’s soul?

[MortMan]

First, we need to take a tougher line with Obama.

[greene66]

Why fight Putin? At least he’s standing up to the Islamic crazies, the global-warming nuts, and the depraved promoters of the homosexual agenda. Unlike the craven and sicko leaders here in the West, who embrace their own cultural suicide.

[Cicero]

You beat me to it. We need to take a tougher line with that evil Muslim traitor, Obama, who always favors the wrong side.

[mac_truck]

Yeah, we better stop Russia before its too late...

[GoldenPup]

Get tougher with Putin. Right. Instead of throwing marchmellows at him, we will now throw cupcakes!

[DesertRhino]

“In responding to Russian thrusts in Ukraine and Syria...”

“Thrusts” responding to an EU run Nazi putsch in the first case, and to a sunni jihadi genocide that literally mimicks Nazi Germany in the second case.

I think we should have an alliance rather than a response. Our country supports the most depraved actors around the world now. This is not the 1980s where we were the good guys.

[Bon mots]

Who?

[Navy Patriot]

Our dashing new Prime Minister is going to "look Putin in the eye". The world's worries are over. You're welcome.

He better have quite a stare, Russia has opened the Northern Passage, modernized it's Northern bases, and Icebreaker Fleet, and claimed the Arctic as Russian territory.

[isthisnickcool]

Putin is killing the right folks. We need to send him more ammo.

[Navy Patriot]

Alert to the Homofascista Islamonazi Maiden shill pinglist.

Newsweek needs help!

[Navy Patriot]

I looked for one named “Hussein” but didn’t find him.

[Leaning Right]

I think we should have an alliance rather than a response.

That will go down in history as a significant lost opportunity: A U.S.-Russian alliance against radical islam (and maybe against China, as well).

And that alliance probably could have been done when Yeltsin was the Russian president. But the U.S. decided to embark upon a program of petty bullying and lecturing instead.

But Putin as an ally? What do you do when your "ally" decides he wants to occupy Estonia (something Yeltsin had no interest in)?

As of now, I say just leave Putin alone. Don't get in his way, and maybe even give him a little help, in regards to Syria.

[Navy Patriot]

Putin is killing the right folks. We need to send him more ammo

We do, his guys just pick it up where the Syrian "rebels" dropped it when they ran away to Germany.

[MNJohnnie]

The Cold War is over. Pity so many in the political class cannot grasp that.

[jpsb]

I think Canada still has a destroyer so Russia better watch out. I double checked that and yes Canada does indeed still have a destroyer, the HMCS Iroquois. However she is to be decommission sometime this year.

Hmmm, Russia has an aircraft carrier, 6 cruisers and 16 destroyers.

Maybe Canada better rethink that getting tuff with Russia thing.

[jpsb]

"And that alliance probably could have been done when Yeltsin was the Russian president. But the U.S. decided to embark upon a program of petty bullying and lecturing instead."

Exactly correct and Bush 1 is to blame for that. Clinton made things even worse by siding with the Muslims in Kosovo. Recovering from those two huge mistakes will not be easy to do.