Posted on 10/16/2007 10:44:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
IMO, the Russian populace mistakes Putins audacious leadership as standing up to the west, as if he were a real statesman. Russia has taken it’s lumps over the last few decades. I don’t mind Russia asserting some international opinions, but it would be nice if they were in Russia’s best interests. This dynamic, those folks don’t seem to understand.
Putin has developed some sort of complex, that’s for sure.
Thanks ...
I rather think Peter the Great is rolling over in his grave as we speak.
He moved heaven and earth to drag Russia out of the East and make her part of the West.
Vladdy Putin is undoing that Herculean task in a few short years.
Russia is the evil behind the global jihad. To kill the dragon, strike at its head.
Gee, what a powerful, influential country Russia is. It’s a shining city on a hill to lowlives and scum everywhere.
When was the last time a President used that term.
Bush likens 'war on terror' to WWIII
ABC News Online --- Saturday, May 6, 2006. 10:11am (AEST)
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US President George W Bush has referred to the "war on terror" as "World War III" during a television interview.
Mr Bush told the CNBC television network the revolt of passengers on the hijacked flight 93 on September 11, 2001, was the "first counter-attack to World War III".
He said he agreed with the description by David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month the act was "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war - World War III".
Mr Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.
"It was unbelievably heroic of those folks on the airplane to recognise the danger and save lives," Mr Bush said.
Did I miss something?
a warm water port bump to
comrade putin.
On the east coast, at least in New Jersey and PA we have a lot of LUKOIL gas stations. They are Russian franchises as far as I understand.
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