Vladimir Putin is a thug and liar, says top British envoy

telegraph.co.uk ^ | July 28, 2014 | Ben Farmer

[Leo Carpathian]

[caveat emptor]

You got that right. And pretty soon western investigators will be discovering mass graves of thousands of murdered Ukrainian military officers, police officers, and intellectuals, harking back to the Soviets' massacres at the Katyn Forest. RT and various Putin supporters will blame it on fascists from Kiev.

[Beowulf9]

Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!

[lonestar]

So what?

So, what?

[Kozak]

[Kozak]

[Tau Food]

There are those who see him as some kind of genius for "taking Crimea."

The reality is that is has been his incompetence that has lost the Ukraine as a reliable buffer for Russia.

His domestic policy has been a failure (witness the Russian economy, if you want to call it an economy). Even with high oil prices, the Putin economy is a failure. His foreign policy has also been a failure. What you're seeing is his desperate effort to regain some of what his incompetence has lost.

And, now, somehow this genius has gotten himself tangled up with a bunch of drunken derelicts who are using his weapons to commit terrorist acts against commercial airliners. And, he's so proud of his genius that he can't tell the truth about any of it. The problem is that he's even incompetent at lying.

As Charlie Sheen used to stumble around and say, "Winning!"

Sheeeeesh! Putin's an awful joke.