Russia: Re-Elect Obama, or It's World War III

American Thinker ^ | January 19, 2012 | Kim Zigfeld

[neverdem]

Last week, Americans learned that they are, or soon may be, at war with Vladimir Putin's Russia. That is, of course, unless they do just exactly what the Kremlin asks, which is pretty simple, really, and consists largely of re-electing Barack H. Obama, the best friend the Kremlin ever had, as president of the United States.

The word came down from two of Russia's highest-ranking politicians, Nikolai Patrushev (head of Russia's National Security Council) and Dmitri Rogozin (formerly Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, recently elevated to deputy prime minister). Both chose to use Iran as the focal point of their remarks.

Rogozin declared:

Iran is our neighbor. And if Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security. We are definitely interested in the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have what it needs to feel comfortable, including Iran.

The words sounded uncomfortably like the words used by President John Kennedy in his October 1962 address to the nation regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Then Patrushev chimed in:

There is a likelihood of military escalation of the conflict, towards which Israel is pushing the Americans. It cannot be ruled out that the Iranians will be able to carry out their threat to shut exports of Saudi oil through the Strait of Hormuz if faced with military actions against them. Talk about Iran creating an atomic bomb by next week we have heard for many years.

Patrushev accused the United States of attempting to topple Iran's government and subjugate its population "by all available means" and implied that Russia would help Iran to shut down oil supplies to the United States through the Persian Gulf if the U.S...

[bikerman]

HEY PUTIN, Bite me.

[Carry_Okie]

It cannot be ruled out that the Iranians will be able to carry out their threat to shut exports of Saudi oil through the Strait of Hormuz if faced with military actions against them. Talk about Iran creating an atomic bomb by next week we have heard for many years.

Gosh, um, well, duh, if the Iranians close the Straits of Hormuz, who will be selling oil at a premium price?

[Steve Van Doorn]

Agreed. I don’t see how the American thinker pulled out “VOTE FOR HIM OR DIE!!!!” out of those quotes

[Engedi]

Does anyone remember Obama’s first trip to Russia and he was in a greeting line of Russians and how he extended his hand and they wouldn’t shake his hand? I think there is a video out there somewhere....It was an OMG embarrassing moment for the One....one of many, like with the Queen....

[Brad from Tennessee]

It's not in their interest to commit national suicide.

[tet68]

Talk about Iran creating an atomic bomb by next week we have heard for many years.

Oh, we heard that about Pakistan too, maybe someday
they’ll have the bomb.../s

[lentulusgracchus]

Worrying about what the Kremlin wants shouldn't concern anyone. They have problems of their own, especially good ol' Pooty Poot.

Problem is, the whole top of the Russian Government is ex-KGB mouthbreathers now. (By the way, the Sovs always took care to prevent senior KGB rankers from reaching the top of the Politburo, going so far as to murder Lavrenti Beria while Stalin was still cooling in his coffin. They failed, when Yuri Andropov reached the General Secretary's chair.)

They could hive off Putin into a cushy retirement as an emeritus member of "the club" and bring on some other guy nobody's ever heard of, and it'd be same old b.s. different day after that.

[lentulusgracchus]

It was an OMG embarrassing moment for the One....

The Russians had probably read all the down-low on Man's Country and didn't want to shake his paw, knowing where it had been.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Source article]

So the Kremlin will be actively engaged in two different election campaigns this year. First in March, it will be struggling to reinsert Vladimir Putin into office as president for life, and then in November it will be struggling even harder to make sure that Putin's patsy, Barack Obama, gets to remain in the White House. Its [principal] strategy will be to threaten Americans with World War III unless they choose Obama.

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This is all characterization or projection forward by the author. None of the named parties actually said anything like this. Of course they would prefer to deal with Obozo, but they didn't make the overt threat encapsulated in the article's headline.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

Nikolai Patrushev (head of Russia's National Security Council) and Dmitri Rogozin (formerly Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, recently elevated to deputy prime minister)

It's long past due that Russia be removed from its permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

[RedMDer]

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[baddog 219]

[GeronL]

Obama has been the best thing ever for our enemies

[Terry Mross]

The GOP would never run an ad like that. Hell, they won’t even say his middle name.

[redgolum]

Putin would make a great Bond villian. That being said, let’s have the EU take care of this one. We don’t need to fight any more wars for the house of Saud.