Posted on 07/20/2014 1:10:29 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A lot of senseless huffing and puffing. Vlad will be more flexible after the next election over there.
Wow. Well-written article.
Well written, yes, but accurate? Only time will tell.
While it’s fashionable to demonize and even make fun of Putin, he remains a leader with great control, resources, and a vision for the future that people like this author and the rest of us can only guess at. That Putin is firing whatever shots he’s firing at the same time that the US is led by a feckless narcissist is no coincidence.
Of course he has disregard for Western powers.
He has a MASSIVE nuclear arsenal and the stones to actually USE it.
What do we have?
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-kremlin-panic-looks-like-2014-7
I suppose one could have said the same of Chavez.
Obama will give away the USA, if he can, but Putin is President for Life. Obama’s flirting with Putin should have doomed him with the American voters. The fact that Putin ended up with disillusioned Americans actually saying nice things about him only shows how deep their commitment to conservative values are.
25 million Russkies without a home? Send them all back.
Is there a part of the world that isn’t completely effed up? If there is don’t tell Obama. Thank you so much Democrats. Israel is doing wonderfully, Iraq is back in the hands of the psychos, Iran is building nukes like a hobby, Russia is blowing planes out of the sky, terrorists are being freed, the health care system is a complete disaster, we are $17 trillion dollars in debt, we are being invaded by foreign countrieS, veterans are dying while terrorists and illegals get healthcare, we have a traitor as secretary of state who is probably selling out the country every chance he can get, Hitlery and Fauxcahontas Warren are actually seriously being considered as potential POTUS candidate, Pelosi and Reid are not in jail, and Justin Bieber still has a career.
bflr
Okay, I am even more down in the dumps.
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. "I was able to get a sense of his soul."
Yup, in hindsight Bush was fooled too. So why are so many other still duped?
And your point is? Or are you simply interested in being yet another Obama apologist?
They had plenty of good reasons to lock those freaks up. From trespassing on church property to conducting orgies inside of them.
I am not at all convinced that Putin is put into a bad place by this event, no worse than before, anyway. Whose opinion about Putin or Russia is going to change dramatically because of the tragedy? We have been dealing with Russia, the same Russia on a fast track to starting a New Cold War. The same Russia that only last week had Castro of Cuba meet with Putin, while they discussed restarting the spy satelite system in Cuba. An electronic eavesdropping post is being reset to spy on the United States. Putin has agreed to forgive 90% of the 32 Billion Cuba owes Russia from expenses during the Cold War. If anything, this may even strengthen Putin’s hand and make his influence that much more ominous.
Putin is being given credit by association and denial by association as well. He does not ever have to tell us the full truth.
Just think of the character from the “Lord of the Rings” movie series who was obssesed with getting that “gold ring” named Gollum or Smeagol.
Orgies? Link?
No worry there. He’s well trained in lying.
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