Posted on 09/30/2014 9:20:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Arguably the world's best chess player ever, Garry Kasparov is on a new mission. He hopes to convince the world that the biggest threat to global unrest is not the Islamic State, al-Qaida or North Korea. Instead it is Vladimir Putin, Russia's president from 2000 to 2008 and then again from 2012 to today.
In an interview with Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga, Kasparov outlined his reasons for believing that Putin should be what keeps the world up at night. He chided President Barack Obama for being too late in addressing Putin's aggression in Ukraine — ultimately annexing Crimea. And while he views the president's speech at the United Nations — calling Russia's invasion into Ukraine and ideology of "might makes right" backward —he still believes that actions speak louder than words. Kasparov has extremely harsh words for what he views as European indifference to Putin's actions, and he compares the world's complacency with the lead-up to World War II....
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Just saying.
China has the second-largest military budget in the world now.
And a whole lot more people than Russia has. Maybe we should not be importing everything from there.
Just saying.
I’m in another forum and yes, there are Putin fanboys. I don’t mind a lot of things Putin says, I heavily object to Russia becoming imperial and threatening and being an aggressor against other nations. This is unacceptable since we know many of those countries were behind the Iron Curtain and did not have freedom.
We’re also getting more “imperial” by the day. Pray that a conservative takes office in 2017.
Yeah, I’m more worried about Islamic terrorism than Russia invading an American peninsula.
There is still time for Putin to change course, but if he doesn’t he will and can be our greatest threat. What’s unfortunate about my first sentence is that it’s not Russian law or the Russian people who cause Putin to change course. It’s his personal whim.
RUS is just a piker compared to ISOM (Islamic State Of Mind). Witness history.
Assad’s a scoundrel, USSR supported the Father before, that Assad was an iron fisted dictator. Russia has supported Assad. In my lay opinion, there’s enough blame for the rise of ISIS to go around and that includes how the Assad regime killed protesters, pretty severe, this gave way to the climate that helped grow ISIS. Assad and his Russian-backers have some responsibility for this trouble as well imho. Putin distanced himself from Assad in the past year or two, one can find news articles stating such. They aren’t totally buddy-buddy now but are probably still well supplied from Russia.
It may be #2, but it is far behind ours. They probably get more “bang for the buck” on weapons systems and don’t pay their conscripts very much, but it seems their stuff isn’t as capable as ours.
It probably won’t happen, demographic changes are overrated but if you google “Russia Muslim Majority Military 2015”, I guarantee you, you’ll find some articles on it. So people shouldn’t be so sure, there’s Putin and his nationalism and Russia’s going to lead the way to the future, they have their own problems.
~There is still time for Putin to change course, but if he doesn’t he will and can be our greatest threat. What’s unfortunate about my first sentence is that it’s not Russian law or the Russian people who cause Putin to change course. It’s his personal whim.~
Putin is a populist. If you are to observe more carefully, you’ll see that he has no agenda at all. But he is learning public opinion very carefully and adopts his ways following his own observations. It is exactly how he’s got his approval rating. That easily explains some extremes in Russia’s actions but please...
American foreign policy totally ignores this little fact.
True, Soviet Union was a major exporter of all sorts of malicious ideas poisoning gullible brains since 1920s. What is Russian exports in this department these days? Nada, unless you are counting anti-gay and pro-life agenda as such.
But you should certainly question US government, making gay, feminist and muslim outreach a centerline of foreign policy.
How many governments Russia has overthrown since 1990?
Now look at Arab Spring. Certain US officials are acting Soviet way, like Russia did in 1940s and then 1970s. The only difference is there are Islamists not Marxists used to undermine civilization this time. And the West is using Marxists and Nazis too, in Russia itself and Eastern Europe, the way Islamists are used in ME.
A trade mark of great leaders.
Where the world has gone 'politically correct ' mad, pushing same sex marriage, anti family agendas, praising and encouraging homosexuality, Putin almost alone is promotes western civilization and its' Conservative identity.
Putins' Russia is the complete opposite of the Islamic State. We, with our administration, are not.
Cowardly idiots.
Putin’s people aren’t raping you @ the airport.
Muslims aren’t shooting your dogs and breaking down your doors.
Illegal immigrants aren’t stealing 30% of what you earn.
Go on and be afraid of those big SCARY threats ...
As for Putin's putative and phony conservatism, I'm sure he was just as dedicated to communism and the KGB when it suited his personal purposes. He'd be just as content to rule Russia today as a commie as he is as a "conservative."
~don’t pay their conscripts very much~
Average weekly pay in Russian military is about 16,500 rubles ‘clean’ - after all taxes, pension cuts and medical insurance. It made about $24,000 annual ‘clean’ income in January this year, or about 20% less in October, 2014 US dollars.
On the other hand a 20% ruble slide haven’t yet contributed to a similar price surge. I can see some positive aspects, there are more products of domestic brands selling each day as far as imports are now more expensive.
That may well be, but I was talking about the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Go back and look.
His approval ratings are high because Russians put Russian chauvinism before liberty. It’s no mystery. And if Putin were anti-abortion, there would be few abortions in Russia. Russia’s population is about the same as Bangladesh. It’s GDP is less than Brazil’s. It’s export is mainly nuclear technology to Iran and weapons to people like Assad. Russia has had a chance to become a decent country. Instead it prefers to be ruled by Ukase and to be a mischief maker.
Oh, sorry. But from that I learnt about China they are growing middle class too. Industrial workers are paid up to $900 monthly which translates into more than $30,000 when the cost of living is compared to US. And military is quite a prestige and well-paid occupation there.
~His approval ratings are high because Russians put Russian chauvinism before liberty. ~
True, there are some people like that. They probably grew in number from 10 to 15 percent in a recent years. Is it too much?
Russian chauvinism is too much if you’ve the bad fortune to be a country that neighbor them, or if you’re in a country that doesn’t want Russia giving nuclear technology to the ayatollahs. Of course, maybe all of Russia’s neighbors should have nuclear weapons to keep Russia from making them into slave states beholden to Putin and his personal whims.
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