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The Russians Are Coming...Back
American Thinker ^ | October 18, 2016 | Brian E. Birdnow

Posted on 10/18/2016 11:57:03 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week a story appeared, tucked in the back pages of American newspapers that are concentrating almost entirely on our leap year election ritual. Vladimir Putin, the Frank Gorshin-lookalike, former KGB agent, and current Russian dictator, once again tried to grab headlines and to indirectly interpolate himself into the American foreign policy debate, along with the election itself. Mr. Putin proposed to reopen the long-shuttered Russian military bases in sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, and yes, in Cuba, thereby extending Russia’s global reach and turning up the dial in his personal Cold War against America and the West. Putin, who has never hidden his chagrin at the fall of the Soviet Union, and yearns to restore Russian power, self-satisfyingly argued that extending Russian military might to Southeast Asia and the Americas will have the salutary effect of curbing the hegemonic ambitions of the current superpower, the United States of America. Putin’s remarks drew more attention in Europe than in the USA, but he’ll gladly accept the publicity, regardless of the source.

Putin’s ambitions have, however, found their way into the current American political conversation. He has figured in the first two American presidential debates, and, in fact, he has inverted the decades-old paradigm, with the Democratic candidate accusing the Republican nominee of being “soft on Russia”, if not on communism. This takes the nation back to 1960, when GOP nominee Richard Nixon publicly jousted with his Democratic opponent, Senator John F. Kennedy, over who would more effectively contain the Soviet Union and their adventurous leader, Nikita Khrushchev.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhorussia; coldwar2; obamalegacy

1 posted on 10/18/2016 11:57:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Right now, we are under George Soros occupation. Maybe the Russians can help us liberate ourselves.


2 posted on 10/18/2016 12:01:30 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Get a bunch of Loyal Secret Service and Military people together, have them take Obama and Hillary to Moscow for a “peace conference”.

In the middle of the conference, they all walk out leaving Hillary and Obama in the conference room, they leave a not at the front desk, “they are your problem now, do with them as you will”.

And then fly away leaving them stranded in Moscow.

I am sure Putin can find them both a new job in Siberia...


3 posted on 10/18/2016 12:05:13 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Kaslin

Remember back 4 years ago when Romney was being ridiculed when he talked about Russia as an adversary? Democrats and MSM, of course, they never have to admit they were wrong about anything.


4 posted on 10/18/2016 12:05:33 PM PDT by Paradox ("Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy.")
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To: Kaslin

When a director wants to make a big budget film about Putin, I have just the actor for that role; Daniel Craig, the current 007. Craig would demand a very high salary.


5 posted on 10/18/2016 12:12:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kaslin

When Zer0 gives Guantanamo back to the Cubans, expect the Russkies to be the next tenants at the base.


6 posted on 10/18/2016 12:15:16 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Kaslin

Emergency, everyone to get from strit!


7 posted on 10/18/2016 12:18:08 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecc 10:2)
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To: Kaslin

That’s why all that poking at the bear to see if he’s sleeping and setting up mouse traps around him wasn’t a good move by the neocons.


8 posted on 10/18/2016 12:26:07 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: Kaslin

He looks nothing like Frank Gorshin


9 posted on 10/18/2016 12:30:15 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I don’t think the word “liberate” exists in the Russian lexicon. In case you haven’t noticed, they have a dictator-for-life running things over there.


10 posted on 10/18/2016 12:36:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin

Fu@k Ivan. I’m more worried about 0bama, and PIAPS getting elected.

Sorry.

5.56mm


11 posted on 10/18/2016 12:41:07 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin

Are ther still Christians who consider voting for Hillary?

Totally shameless.


12 posted on 10/18/2016 1:33:44 PM PDT by 353FMG (TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
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To: Paradox

“Remember back 4 years ago when Romney was being ridiculed when he talked about Russia as an adversary?”

The neocon nut Romney wants a war with Russia so he can don his magic underwear and ascend up to the flying saucer with Farrakhan and rule over Mingo City.


13 posted on 10/18/2016 4:48:37 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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Ukrainian bump


14 posted on 10/19/2016 4:40:39 AM PDT by foreverfree
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