[VIDEO] Putin warns Americans: You're being distracted!

Russia Inessa S You Tube Account ^

[Talisker]

Putin warns Americans: You're being distracted!

[Daniel Ramsey]

Yaauup, i would say he is right on, its jusy a theatrical play to divert attention, Putin has a very good intel about both Trump and Hillary.

[TigersEye]

One thing you didn’t hear from him in that presser was hyperbole or veiled threats. He said nothing to inflame the situation. Nor did he give the slightest impression that he is worried or intimidated by it.

[ETL]

.Putin’s a counter puncher

Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful idiot"
supporters on Free Republic?

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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

[caww]

Knock it off.

[ETL]

"For 16 years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.

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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

[ETL]

From a 2007 article titled "Putin's Russia"...

" KGB influence 'soars under Putin,' " blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline echoed a similarly alarming story at the website of Der Spiegel, one of Germany's largest news magazines: "Putin's Russia: Kremlin Riddled with Former KGB Agents."

In the opening sentences of Der Spiegel's article, readers are informed that: "Four out of five members of Russia's political and business elite have a KGB past, according to a new study by the prestigious [Russian] Academy of Sciences. The influence of ex-Soviet spies has ballooned under President Vladimir Putin."

The study, which looked at 1,061 top Kremlin, regional, and corporate jobs, found that "78 percent of the Russian elite" are what are known in Russia as "siloviki," which is to say, former members of the KGB or its domestic successor, the FSB. The author of the study, Olga Kryshtanovskaya, expressed shock at her own findings. "I was very shocked when I looked at the boards of major companies and realized there were lots of people who had completely unknown names, people who were not public but who were definitely, obvious siloviki," she told Reuters.

Other supposed experts - in Russia and the West - have also expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police. After all, for the past decade and a half these same experts have been pointing to the alleged demise of the KGB as the primary evidence supporting their claim that communism is dead.

From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the "sword and shield" of the communist world revolution.

"We stand for organized terror," declared Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chief of the Cheka for Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin. In 1918, Dzerzhinsky launched the campaign of arrests and executions known as the Red Terror. Krasnaya Gazeta, the Bolshevik newspaper, expressed the Chekist credo when it reported approvingly in 1918 of the terror campaign: "We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood."

Unflinching cruelty and merciless, bloody terror have been the trademark of the communist secret police, from the Cheka to the KGB. Obviously, the demise of such an organization would be cause for much rejoicing. Hence, when the KGB was ordered dissolved and its chairman, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, was arrested in 1991 after attempting to overthrow "liberal reformer" Mikhail Gorbachev in the failed "August Coup," many people in the West were only too willing to pop the champagne corks and start celebrating our supposed victory over the Evil Empire.

But, as Mikhail Leontiyev, commentator for Russia's state-controlled Channel One television, recently noted, repeating a phrase popular among the siloviki: "Americans got so drunk at the USSR's funeral that they're still hung over." And stumbling around in their post-inebriation haze, many of these Americans have only recently begun noticing that they had prematurely written the KGB's epitaph, even as it was arising vampire-like from the coffin.

However, there is really no excuse for Olga Kryshtanovskaya or any of her American counterparts to be stunned by the current siloviki dominance in Putin's Russia. For nearly a decade, even before he became Russia's "president," THE NEW AMERICAN has been reporting on Putin's KGB pedigree and his steady implementation of a long-range Soviet deception strategy, including the public rehabilitation and refortifying of the KGB-FSB. ..."

(continues at link)

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8420-putins-russia

[ETL]

From Sept *2016*!

Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 19 September 2016 • 3:39PM | Marc Bennetts

Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.

A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.

Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin. The Kremlin has not commented. …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

[Pelham]

Interesting video.

Putin comes across as believing that Hillary’s hostile focus on Russia is nothing more than an attempt to distract the American public.

Putin seems ambivalent when asked which candidate he would prefer to see elected.

He doesn’t think that Hillary trying to make Russia the big enemy is a wise idea, but he also doesn’t seem angry about anything that is transpiring between the USA and Russia.

A far cry from Khrushchev banging his shoe on the podium.

[caww]

[fuzzylogic]

...throw in there an Internet DoS attack to take the net down - throwing us into chaos, the conspiracy will be that Obama did it too...ANARCHY!!!

[ETL]

Documents Show How Russia's Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013

Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.

Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece
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Russian Propaganda Is Taking Over Online Comment Boards

Pamela Engel
May 4, 2014

British newspaper The Guardian notes that recently, readers have been complaining of pro-Russia propaganda being posted in the comments section of articles about Russia and Ukraine.

One reader wrote to The Guardian:

"One need only pick a Ukraine article at random, pick any point in the comments at random, and they will find themselves in a sea of incredibly aggressive and hostile users (the most obvious have accounts created since February 2014 ... but there also exist those who registered with the Guardian before the high point of the crisis) who post the most biased, inciteful [sic] pro-Kremlin, anti-western propaganda that seems as if it's taken from a template, so repetitive are the statements. Furthermore, these comments are consistently capturing inordinate numbers of 'recommends', sometimes on the order of 10 to 12 times what pro-Ukrainian comments receive."

Guardian comment moderators believe this is an orchestrated campaign.

Russia has worked hard to make people believe that the country is supporting the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine and defending those people against some type of threat. These "comment mills" play into that strategy.

Last year, The Atlantic wrote about how the Russian government apparently pays people to "sit in a room, surf the Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the country's opposition and promote Kremlin-backed policymakers."

This practice isn't new, according to The Atlantic. But it can stifle open discussion about political issues in Russia, giving a louder voice to those who support the Kremlin.

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-paying-people-to-post-pro-russia-propaganda-in-comments-2014-5

[ETL]

Thank you, Comrade...

Check is on way!

[piasa]

He doesn’t love his country, he loves the empire it was and its power.

[Talisker]

He doesn’t think that Hillary trying to make Russia the big enemy is a wise idea, but he also doesn’t seem angry about anything that is transpiring between the USA and Russia.

Except he also just held a nationwide civil emergency exercise involving 40 million people, sent eight Russian warships through the English Channel in a show of force, threatened to shoot down anything that tried to stop Russian fighters flying in Syria and set up dozens of mobile nuke missiles on the border of Poland.

Other than that, he's cool.

[ETL]

Lol! That and a bunch of other things.

[Mariner]

I'm sure a man a erudite as yourself realizes that Grillo and Gertz are committed Neocons.

They are grinding the same axe as John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

While I appreciate their point of view, much of it valid, I also believe they have an agenda that is not reasonable.

They are advocates for military confrontation with Russia over things not in core US interests.

I cite Georgia and Ukraine, not to provoke you, but as examples of places few Americans care about.

Because we have no interest there.

[Stand W]

“This is a dangerous game Hillary is playing blaming Russia for everything.”

On a positive note, at least they’re past blaming Bush.

[poconopundit]

...Other experts in Russia and the West have expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police...

As I read your piece, I began to wonder if the KGB might need the services of a good PR firm.

Can the KGB's corruption, secrecy, and violence be any worse than that of the Clintons, the NSA, the Justice Department, and the FBI?

I imagine the KGB at least care for the rule of law. And as a rule, they probably don't tolerate or hide the crimes of thieves and the crooked.

In America, our secret police have been sleeping on the switch. We need more secret police to discover the secrets of our corrupt rulers and Congressmen drinking at the gravy train trough.

In America it seems that only Wikileaks, O'Keefe, and the Trump Train are opposing the criminals.

Bottom line, we desperately need men and women with KGB skills. We should expedite a few thousands H1B visas so we can hire a few of Putin's finest.

[ETL]

I imagine the KGB at least care for the rule of law.

You do, eh?

[poconopundit]

Say what you want about Putin, he's a cunning and clever adversary.

And he seems to stay out of trouble better than our own leaders have. If Russia takes out ISIS with Obama sitting on sidelines and opposing their every move, he will have done the American people a great favor.

And when he decided to force his military hand several years ago in Crimea, he took bold and quick action with a minimum of bloodshed. In a matter of a few days, he had won.

I believe Putin wants Trump very badly as our President, but he doesn't want to play into Hillary's hands by praising Trump.

Suffice it to say he would much rather see a strong and reasonable U.S. President and a leader he can respect than the loose cannon, clumsy, Muzzie-loving, emotionally unstable, and war mongering Hillary.