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Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool
The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2023 | Thomas L. Friedman

Posted on 05/12/2023 4:24:20 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

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To: null and void

Well they better start fighting back


21 posted on 05/12/2023 4:55:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Timber Rattler

You need to spell Joe Biden correctly. Biden makes Putin look like a Boy Scout.


22 posted on 05/12/2023 4:56:28 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The New York RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION Slimes is far more dangerous.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Putin is an eastern terrorist dictator like the rest.


24 posted on 05/12/2023 5:04:43 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Timber Rattler
Does discussing Putin arouse you Timber as much as it arouse Marcus Maximus?

Putin is such a fool that, despite sanctions that are screwing American and European citizens over by helping fuel a 40-year high in inflation, Russia has moved back into the top 10 in world GDP:

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230507/russia-returns-to-top-10-worlds-largest-economies-first-since-2014-1110160735.html

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has returned to the top ten largest economies and ranked the eighth for the first time since 2014 by producing $2.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2022, data from the World Bank and statistical services analyzed by Sputnik showed on Sunday. In 2014, Russia ranked the ninth in the list of the world's major economies by manufacturing $2.05 trillion worth of goods and services, while in 2021 the country was in the 11th place, the data said.

The world's biggest and most dangerous fool is Joe Biden, who started and losing the proxy war in Ukraine and who f-ups everything he touches.

25 posted on 05/12/2023 5:07:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

So says Sputnik Russian State media, eh?


26 posted on 05/12/2023 5:08:58 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“But we have the world’s stupidest fool.”

It would be hard to disagree with that.


27 posted on 05/12/2023 5:13:57 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: BenLurkin

Once Putin’s gone, things in the world will get MUCH worse.


28 posted on 05/12/2023 5:22:36 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of troublemakers )
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To: Timber Rattler

paywall = worthless
NYT = worthless
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Biden among others is far worse


29 posted on 05/12/2023 5:33:42 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Timber Rattler

Thomas Friedman, Double Bag Barf Alert!

NYT and the word FOOL?


30 posted on 05/12/2023 5:46:38 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: McGruff

It is a terrible book.


31 posted on 05/12/2023 5:49:10 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: sten

Reagan hated Russia. He’d be disgusted with the love around here.


32 posted on 05/12/2023 5:55:17 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Timber Rattler

The fact that Friedman picks Putin as the world’s most dangerous fool, shows that Friedman is himself a fool. Putin had solid strategic reasons to invade Ukraine (though I do think that he could’ve accomplished most of his goals without doing this). He definitely has been foolish in many regards. However, it is clear that the single most dangerous fool on the face of this planet resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Biden recklessly threw us into a war with the only other true nuclear super power, a nuclear superpower that believes it is in a war for its very existence. That’s not a wise move at all, quite the contrary. it is utterly reckless and supremely foolish.


33 posted on 05/12/2023 5:58:25 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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“Reagan hated Russia. He’d be disgusted with the love around here.”
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Wrong. Reagan hated Communism. I’m quite sure that he didn’t hate Russians. Instead, I think that he felt sorry for them, trapped as they were in the world’s largest open-air prison.


34 posted on 05/12/2023 6:01:56 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: napscoordinator

Meh...you have no idea what Reagan would say about the state of affairs in 2023. He didn’t “hate” Russia either.


35 posted on 05/12/2023 6:02:02 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: napscoordinator

When Reagan was President, Russia was a full blown communist threat

They are no longer communist


36 posted on 05/12/2023 6:23:24 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Timber Rattler
...from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head.
...Putin never had a Plan B.
...Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop.
...Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times
To everyone opposing US aid to Ukraine, ignoring who is right or wrong, what has Friedman said here that is not true?

Because no matter which side you are on, Putin made a incompetent, destructive mess of this.

37 posted on 05/12/2023 6:33:31 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: napscoordinator

Reagan did NOT hate Russia. He hated communism.


38 posted on 05/12/2023 6:45:07 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Biden retired that award.


39 posted on 05/12/2023 6:58:56 PM PDT by Lou Foxwell (It takes a deep level of stupidity to believe Trump is stupid.)
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To: Timber Rattler

When you’re mustering Thomas Friedman in defense of your position, I know you’ve hit rock bottom.


40 posted on 05/12/2023 7:19:35 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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