Putin issues sharp warning to US, vows to counter 'imperialism'

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 5/31/07 | AFP

[RusIvan]

Vlad Putin is just another Russian commie trying to look like a hero to the other commies.==

Heh heh:) If he is a commie then he is commie billioneer first ever. Putin is busy to get rich not to proclaim a revolution.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, “Without our intervention and support in the European theater, are you both of the belief that an unfettered Germany would have eventually been defeated by the Soviet regime and European forces?”

You’re talking alternate universe stuff here. I’m simply saying we didn’t ‘save the bacon’ of the Russians during WWII. The expression you employed doesn’t sum up the reality of the situation very well. It isn’t that cut-and-dried—unlike, say, the case of the French or the Belgians or the Dutch—whose bacon, brisket, ribs and hocks we did save, outright, directly, without dispute.

The US and the USSR were allies during WWII. The entire premise of a wartime alliance is to hang together rather than hang separately. So again, no, we didn’t save the Russians. We saved each other, quid pro quo.

[NormsRevenge]

It isn’t that cut-and-dried—unlike, say, the case of the French or the Belgians or the Dutch—whose bacon, brisket, ribs and hocks we did save, outright, directly, without dispute.

The US and the USSR were allies during WWII. The entire premise of a wartime alliance is to hang together rather than hang separately. So again, no, we didn’t save the Russians. We saved each other, quid pro quo.

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Cut and dried, No, perhaps not. Sadly, it appears we may have only saved each other from each other, for now, it seems.

If we had just done our thing and fought the war in the Pacific and then stayed out of the European affair ( I am not an isolationist, btw), the Soviets might still have won, albeit over a longer time period and with likely significant more losses.

Thanks for the reply.

[nativeRussian]

Paul Ross; Alberta’s Child;

Or why many of these same folks were among the few so-called Republicans who openly supported Bill Clinton’s military campaign in the Balkans in 1999 — ostensibly to help what has turned out to be a radical Islamic element in Kosovo?

May I give you my 2 cents, guys?
Thanks for your replies I’ve laughed until one cries
Perhaps American media forgot to inform nation about main drug-truffic (from Afghanistan to Europe) pass through Kosovo… also Albanians (living in Kosovo) have main incom from drug-activity in Europe.
Many Russians know that Bill Clinton gave support to Albanian drug-dealers from Kosovo…. do you think is was free of charge? - of course, sure!!!!!!

[M. Espinola]

"Heh heh:) If he is a commie then he is commie billioneer first ever. Putin is busy to get rich not to proclaim a revolution."

Was Putin a commie all the years he was in the KGB? Was KGB Col Putin a commie when he requested to be stationed in the communist hell hole of East Germany?

Commies require millions& billions to finance subversion in the West & build new Russian ICBM systems pointing at Western nations. Putin's terrorist allies are doing the Kremlin's dirty work.

Putin's dictatorship has already launched various forms of attacks against Estonia & Georgia, free nations who refuse bow down to Vlad's Neo-Soviet energy dictatorship.

Russia: racing down a destructive dead end