Posted on 05/07/2010 3:11:16 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
I would be thrilled if Russia would send the button back.
OMG that scary photos LOL!
Putin may be an authoritarian, but he is most definitely not a communist. When you examine his actions, in light of Russian history, much of what he is doing becomes clear, as well as his motives.
To start with, he realizes that the morale of the Russian people is in the dumpster. They aren’t having enough children, their military is top heavy and generally decrepit, and the typical Russian on the street is pretty disgusted with things.
He also knows that Russians tend to vacillate from being Europhile to being pan-Slavic Asiatic and xenophobic.
He quickly realized that America is still dangerous as the only superpower, and could fall into the hands of some foolish radical like Obama, who has no appreciation for history or economics, or anything other than his idealistic religion of socialism. Idiots like Obama create world wars through their incompetence.
Were I in Putin’s shoes, and with his resources, and understanding of Russia, I would probably be even more authoritarian, and more distrustful of the US. Much like Alexander Hamilton would have been, had he become president.
Like most leaders in the rest of the world, they look askance at the US for trying to “improve” other nations. Instead, they just accept them for what they are, be they democracies, tyrannies, smart or foolish. Instead their interests lie in their own nations. If they can bribe some dictator to give them preferential access to resources or trade, why not?
All being said and done, I respect Putin far more than I respect Obama, first and foremost, because Putin truly cares for his nation, and wants it to be strong and self-reliant. Obama only cares for his fantasies.
Republicans could take a leaf from Putin’s book and grow a pair.
The list, ping
“This is a big f***n’ deal!”
http://blog.kievukraine.info/2005/08/obama-part-of-group-locked-up-at.html
Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect plane
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times Washington Bureau chi
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.
The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times “it ended up not being a very big deal.”
The senators had their passports seized by local officials at an airport in Perm. Obama said the officials demanded, unsuccessfully, to inspect the DC-9 military aircraft being used by the congressional delegation for the trip.
(snip)
Although he was on a first-time diplomatic mission, Obama has traveled extensively, spending part of his youth in Indonesia and visiting Kenya, where his father was born. He noted that as a back- packing college student he had “a lot less leverage than this time.”
Obama , a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lugar, its chairman, left Wednesday for a trip to inspect sites where nuclear and biological weapons are slated to be destroyed in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. On Sunday, the U.S. group was scheduled to fly from Perm to Kiev, Ukraine. But border guards wanted proof that the group’s aircraft — which Obama said looked like a “mini-Air Force One” — was really an official U.S. government plane, which would be exempt from an inspection.
Robert Gibbs, Obama ‘s spokesman traveling with him, said in an e-mail that “the border guards took our passports and demanded to inspect our aircraft, which we refused. We were moved to a room to wait.”
“At one point they were demanding to inspect virtually everything, including the gifts their representatives at the missile facility had given us.” The border guard said “they were acting on the authority of the FSB,” the Russian intelligence agency.
(snip)
I’d have invited him were I Putin, given him a prime speaking slot, let him make a fool of America. Heck, invite Obama if he leaves teleprompter1 at home.
Obama is such a whimpering ^%&$#. What’s he gonna do about it. Nothing...and everyone knows it.
well to paraphrase ol Bill Clinton....”Obama fetch me some coffee...hurry up now”
I don’t trust Putin but after he pulled this I would love to buy him a cold beer, slap him on the back and thank him for keeping plugs from attending. How funny!
Not exactly. One commie and one commie front. Obomination is an empty suit and Biden is an empty head.
So will Obama drag Putin to the White House, hand him a list of demands, order Putin to have a reply once he finishes having dinner with his children, then praise Chechen rebels when Putin does not bow down?
No. Putin would slap 0bama and then tell him what he >will< do.
Putin to Obama & Biden: “What now, b*tches?!”
Putin is pissed that Obama ISN’T coming.
He was though, at least in name as he came up under the commie regime. I think it could be argued that none of the USSR leadership was really communist, just authoritarian.
I respect Putin more than Obama too, but that is not saying much.
If the Czars stil ruled Russia, Putin would have served the Czar. It’s not about ideology with Putin, only power.
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