Posted on 06/07/2013 9:06:58 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, have announced that they have separated and their marriage is over.
The 60-year-old and his 55-year-old wife broke the news of the end of the 29-year marriage in an obviously staged TV interview after a night at the ballet that made no mention of Putin's alleged mistress, former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, 30.
Asked on Rossiya-24 television about longstanding rumours that the Putins no longer lived together, the 60-year-old Putin said: 'That is true.'
But neither clarified whether they were legally divorced and Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said he did not know.
The obviously staged interview made no mention of Alina Kabayeva, a 30-year-old former gymnast who is rumoured to have been Putin's mistress for years.
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I don't know about that. The Russian Army has Orthodox priests as chaplains. He seems to understand the nature of Mohammedanism. And he seems hostile to the homosexual radicals.
“I don’t know about that. The Russian Army has Orthodox priests as chaplains. He seems to understand the nature of Mohammedanism. And he seems hostile to the homosexual radicals.”
True. My post was primarily directed to his stifling of internal dissent and the “monitoring” of his people. As for the things you listed above, I’m not sure how much these are cherished personal beliefs, or merely recognition that they are threats to the power and interests of the state and therefore are to be opposed. Which goes to show that he promotes the interests of Russia by keeping the rot out.
They eyes are focus on . . . .
Obviously you arent a man like Vlad.
Putin is trying to make Russia as powerful as possible, and himself the leader of the resulting powerful nation. He is doing so because he himself wants to rulke and wield the power. As such, he is defintely making Russia stronger so that he can do those things. He would love to see a eventual return to a "Union" of a large number of nations similar in scope and power to the Soviet Union, though he will call it something different now.
Obama. on the other hand, is gutting America because he feels America needs to be punished, and I believe sees himself presiding over that, while maintaing enough force at home to control all of us, and enough military force to credibly deter others, and helps those nations he feels more alinged with. That's where he is taking it. And that does not allow for making the US a leader amongst free nations, and particularly not for ideas like our Constitutional Republic and citizens who have been given unalienable rights by God as enumerated in our current Constitution.
I remember Henry Kissinger said “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”.
Very well could be. I have a hard time getting a handle on him. At least he doesn't seem to be a doctrinaire commie like ours.
“That does not mean that Clinton did not take abject advantage of a younger, more naive person for his own gratification”
Alas, I hold that she was not in the least reluctant to engage in sex with Clinton. I have always believed Clinto should have been hanged for the Lewinski affair. Not for having sex with a younger efamle, or a subordinate, but the following reason.
When a practiced bedhopper who happens to be the most powerful man on earth chooses a chubby, slutty JAP, a case can be made that such poor taste (not to mention poor judgment) rises to the level of a hang offense. Hang him for bad taste.
Bill Clinton was no Kennedy when it came to taste in women.
I think of him as more fascist than communist. Kind of in the Franco mold.
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