We need to be friends with Russia. It’s time, in fact 25 years in the making.
He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus.
Yeah, but his Gumby impression is nowhere near as good as Hussein’s!
Putin thumbs his nose at obummer and his administration the same way that the ayatollah thumbed his nose at jimmah carter.
This will change in Jan 2017 as it did when Reagan was elected in 80.
We don’t “underestimate” him. We just don’t stand up to him.
When I was a kid in the ‘60’s I read in the newspaper that a highly placed Administration official said the Chinese would never develop a nuclear weapon because it wasn’t in their interests to do so? I remember being startled by the idiocy of the statement. (Just weeks later, they exploded their first nuke.)
People underestimate Putin because they are hopelessly blinded by their bias about what such a person “should” do. Well, what we think somebody should do is almost never going to be what they think is in their best interest.
We shouldn’t think about what a person should do but think instead what they might do if they could. Nobody was ready for what Hitler did, even though he telegraphed every move in a book years before he did the actual deed. I think Putin has been open and honest in his desire to reestablish Russia and the Soviet empire. We should take him at his word and predict what he can do next.
There's one thing wrong with that clause. Can you spot it?
Amen-
However 1980 was a different time, when people were more clear headed, moral, strong, patriotic, rational, and less self loathing.
Mr. Reagan’s resolve and direction was greatly complimented by the adults who served him and fellow countrymen who wanted America to thrive.
He was even more right of center than Ted Cruz, IMHO.
People, the media, academia and Democrats are so E’ffed up, he’d be marginalized with little chance of gaining office.
These are such bizarre deceitful times we live in.
Who is “we” kimosabi”?
It’s his competition that makes him look good. Putin against Obama is like the Harlem Globetrotters against the Washington Capitols.
Soviet Russia gave itself to Satan and Satan fed her his poison. She's dead, Jim.
God revived Russia, same as with Lazarus, and today's Russia enjoys His favor.
Or so I've read...these days I'm watching to see if those Russian prophecies I've read have come or are coming true.
So far, so good...and way better than I can say for US, which is probably one of the reasons why our GuvCo oligarchs and the rest misunderestimates the Russians now.
We are busy looking in the history books for our former glory, while at the same time we and the leaders we vote for are following a similar path to the place where Satan killed Soviet Russia.
Confused much? Yes, much!
"But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed."
Seems to me it’s leftist pussies who are doing the underestimating. Guess they don’t have any real men on the left to help them figure it all out.
He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin’s administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging,[3] and was reelected in 2004.”
“On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin head of the FSB (one of the successor agencies to the KGB), the position Putin occupied until August 1999. He became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on 1 October 1998 and its Secretary on 29 March 1999.”