I wonder if Putin is aiming to become Czar Vladimir the Great?
Supposedly he's our ally in the War on Terror, but he's a wimp IMO because he did NOTHING to defend Russia after the Beslan horror.
"Supposedly he's our ally in the War on Terror..."
The best of Putin - December 2004:
"Putin denounced the U.S. “dictatorship” in international relations, accused the West of acting like a “kind but strict uncle in a pith helmet” lecturing Russia and ridiculed Bush’s plans for elections in Iraq next month."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300014/posts
"I have strong doubts that it's possible to create conditions for democratic elections (in Iraq) when its entire territory is occupied by foreign troops," he said.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307186/posts
"Today according to our estimates there are nine cities in Iraq where there are hostilities but they still want to carry out elections," he said, condemning European elections monitors' plans to observe the poll from Jordan as a "farce".
"We do not understand how there can be an election in a country under conditions of total occupation... It's absurd. It's a farce. Everything is upside down."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307427/posts
Russia has every reason to criticize the United States, President Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin press conference.
“We’re also not too happy about what’s going on in the United States,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying. “Do you think that the electoral system in the United States is without problems? Is it necessary to recall how the elections went this time and the previous time?”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308004/posts
In 2004, Putin declared the collapse of the USSR a "national tragedy on an enormous scale."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
What else could he do, since he was already occupying Chechnya ?
Yep key word here is supposedly. He has never done anything to combat either AL Quaida or the goons that commited the Beslan murder. I hate the way the MSM and even our own government portrays Russia and China as allies in the War on Terror. China is arming terrorist nations with nuclear weapons and supports North Korea while Russia has done nothing at all to combat terrorism.