Posted on 05/10/2007 10:09:06 PM PDT by SolidWood
MOSCOW, May 9 — President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The comments were the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States — on Iraq, missile defense, NATO expansion and, more broadly, United States unilateralism in foreign affairs.
Many Russians say the sharper edge reflects a frustration that Russia’s views, in particular opposition to NATO expansion, have been ignored in the West. Outside of Russia, however, many detected in the new tone a return to cold-war-style antagonism, emboldened by petroleum wealth.
Mr. Putin’s analogy was a small part of a larger speech, otherwise unambiguously congratulating Russian veterans of World War II, known here as the Great Patriotic War. Mr. Putin spoke from a podium in front of Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square before troops mustered for a military parade.
Mr. Putin called Victory Day a holiday of “huge moral importance and unifying power” for Russia, and went on to enumerate the lessons of that conflict for the world today.
“We do not have the right to forget the causes of any war, which must be sought in the mistakes and errors of peacetime,” Mr. Putin said.
“Moreover, in our time, these threats are not diminishing,” he said. “They are only transforming, changing their appearance. In these new threats, as during the time of the Third Reich, are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world.”
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Tripe trips blithely off the tongues of assassins...
When Harry Reid drops over from poisoning, then he may have a point. Until then...SHUT UP PUTIN...JJ61 (Sarcasm)
Puty ain’t getting enough pootie......
--George Duh-bya Bush, May 10th, 2007
Russia(Stalin) made Adolph look like a candy stripper in the murder and genocide department..
And Roosevelt literal GAVE all of eastern Europe to Stalin..
Who was the master(Stalin) of Hiss and Chambers.. many many more Americans..
Putin is a toxin of world class proportions..
We don’t kill our journalists nor poison our detractors with poison MR. KGB Putin like you do. Hitler would be proud of your methods.
Putin is an asshole. There, I said it.
That’s the NY Slimes talking, not Putin.
Let’s just call them what they are...the Soviets.
“Putin is an asshole. There, I said it.”
And a useless sack of shit that will hopefully have a rendevous with his Papa Satan very soon.
One can only hope. He is a midget Stalin who needs to be taken down.
I remember the old May Day parades in Moscow where every year the US President was depicted as Hitler. Pootie is just being true to his KGB roots.
“President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.”
I think it’s time for someone to write an article comparing Putin statements to quotes from the NY Times editorial page. Maybe even in the form of a game where you try to identify the author.
This coming from a Communist and ex KGB agent. Need I say more???
Putin is screwing up Russia royally. The world better watch him very closely, Putin’s a nutjob.
He speaks English too well.. and needs some stainless teeth..
He don't sound Russian enough..
OMG, what is doing to that little kid? It looks like he’s trying to tongue his navel. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww...he’s batty.
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