Posted on 04/17/2010 10:19:37 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Jeez, this guy is good.
A few years back, I wrote that Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the most impressive major leader on today's world stage. Since then, he's gotten better.
Back then, he was eating President George W. Bush for breakfast. Now he's snacking on President Obama as sushi -- eating him raw, in happy little bites.
Putin's ruthless, unforgiving and murderous. He also has a clear vision of what he wants, the strength of will to get it -- and a stunning ability to spot the weaknesses in his foreign counterparts.
Putin's the Evil Empire's belated answer to President Ronald Reagan. Where the Gipper focused uncompromisingly on bringing down the Soviet imperium, Putin focuses uncompromisingly on restoring imperial Russia.
And he's making progress, as US leaders and their advisers bumble and stumble along with neither a clear strategic vision nor a rational sense of foreign-policy priorities.
Putin doesn't seem like a man much given to hilarity, but he must be laughing his butt off at our incompetence. Consider his strategic achievements...:
* He cunningly let Obama bamboozle himself into a gotta-have-it-now Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that damages US conventional capabilities while Russia gives up only old junk it needed to dump anyway.
* He cut another arms deal with Hugo Chavez, selling the unstable Venezuelan 5 billion more bucks' worth of weapons -- on top of 4 billion already contracted. It's an unprecedented armament program for South America, supporting Chavez's bellicose "Bolivarian" goal of "re-uniting" Venezuela and Colombia.
* Putin finally got his pawn into power in Ukraine,...
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* Last week, Putin supported the overthrow of the US-backed government of Kyrgyzstan, tightening his chokehold on our northern supply route into Afghanistan. The Obama administration was utterly blindsided ("Where's Kyrgyzstan?").
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I don’t think Russia can build empires anymore. Tsar Vladimir’s petro-state is in terminal decline, and Russians are too if they keep pinning their hopes on people like him.
You are probably correct, but Putin is going to do a LOT of damage on the way, and zero won’t have a clue what’s going on or what to do about it besides appease appease appease.
I wouldn’t say Putin ate W for breakfast. W definitely knew what kind of person he was dealing with in regards to Putin. And considering the blunders 0bama has willfully made in dealing with Putin, there’s simply no comparison with anything W screwed up.
“Putin’s ruthless, unforgiving and murderous. He also has a clear vision of what he wants, the strength of will to get it — and a stunning ability to spot the weaknesses in his foreign counterparts”
Which is what we need in our leadership.
Great idea. I suggest Bogota as the capital of the combined republic and Uribe as its first president.
Putin is pure evil, but I respect him a lot more than I respect our clueless President Zero.
More proof of just how stupid and dangerous Obama&Co. are.
Putin will build his empire but it will not be the empire of old—it will be more like sphere of influence. He knows how things work and doesn’t give a fig for international opinion. He can and will use military force to achieve his ends but he would rather use diplomacy (its less expensive). Look to see him involved more in South America—the battleground of the future.
“Putin will build his empire but it will not be the empire of old—it will be more like sphere of influence”
Exactly, not territory, but standing and face. I don’t think our government realizes that.
I agree. Putin had to factor in that Bush was strong on his principles and had some very astute advisors. A chip off the Bush 41 block, when he gave a deadline, the enemy knew it was a deadline. As Saddam Hussein found out from both father and son.
Now Barry- a weak vain naive pompous idiot. Surrounded by marxist/maoist wannabe advisors. Putin must not believe his good fortune to have such an excellent cat toy for a US leader. And I am convinced the Russian intelligence people know exactly whose DNA made up Barry and where he was born and raised. Just in case Barry ever needs a little coercion to play ball
Obozo saved us from being attacked by Canada!
He cares about himself. If he cared about his country he would be pushing free markets and creating jobs. He’s in it for himself. The more power he creates for himself the better. If a group in Russia complains and protest the corruption they are called terrorist. You know kinda like here in our country..
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