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Motyl: Putin, Just Evil Enough
cnn ^ | July 25, 2014 | Alexander Motyl

Posted on 07/25/2014 7:11:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Vice President Joe Biden recently confided a sensational bit of news to the New Yorker magazine: In a 2011 meeting with Vladimir Putin, he had actually told Russia's then-prime minister that he had no "soul." Even more remarkable was Putin's response. "And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, 'We understand one another.' "

Many people -- in Ukraine, Europe, America and even Russia -- probably share Biden and Putin's estimation of the Russian president's spiritual condition. In saying Putin has no soul, it means he seems to lack both the capacity to feel emotions and to show empathy.

Russia's leader certainly has a long record of inhumanity. He was an agent of the Soviet secret police, a criminal institution with a record that goes back to the purges of Stalin, a record more bloody than that of the Nazi SS.

John Dunlop of Stanford's Hoover Institution wrote in "The Moscow Bombings" that there is strong evidence to suggest that Putin was in on the plot to bomb two apartment buildings in Moscow in September 1999, in which 300 Russian citizens were killed and several hundred others were wounded. He says the bombings were blamed on Chechen rebels as a pretext to invade Chechnya.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: evil; putin; russia; ukraine

1 posted on 07/25/2014 7:11:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
If Mr. Biden said that to Mr. Putin, I'm a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. I wouldn't believe Messrs. Obama or Biden if they told me that the sky was blue.
2 posted on 07/25/2014 7:17:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

Putin is a serious person. Obama and Biden are not.


3 posted on 07/25/2014 7:22:27 PM PDT by aardwolf46
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To: dforest

Agreed. Biden himself is a disgrace to the human race.


5 posted on 07/25/2014 7:31:52 PM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: nickcarraway

KGB Putin is an evil psychotic terrorist who threatens the entire world. Western civilization must fight Putin’s genocidal regime and defeat it, as Ronald Reagan, with God’s help defeated the EVIL EMPIRE Putin loyally served.


6 posted on 07/25/2014 8:05:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: nickcarraway

Does everyone know that Biden’s son is doing a big business deal in the eastern part of the Ukriane? As usual, follow the money. The Obama administration has been doing underhanded deals with the Ukraine government.


7 posted on 07/25/2014 9:47:21 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: nickcarraway

Biden never said that.

The rest of the article is spot on.


8 posted on 07/25/2014 9:50:11 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: wildandcrazyrussian

And someone smack that stupid smirk off his face.


9 posted on 07/25/2014 10:23:39 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t believe the story. Joe is a congenital liar.

And, as a supporter of the shredding of babies, he’s personally, directly responsible for many thousands of times more murders than Putin ever will be.


10 posted on 07/26/2014 1:09:27 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Pining_4_TX

That is just Russian propaganda. The company his son is a board member in is called Burisma and it has only 3% share of Ukraine’s gas production. Russians lie it into something big. There are many Russian spin doctors working 24/7 to create new lies. If you take a stance that you’ll buy any bridge if the seller says Obama does not want you to have it then you’ll be making it that much easier for Russian propaganda department.


11 posted on 07/26/2014 3:06:08 AM PDT by Krosan
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