Apparently Putin was planning to go to Egypt, but obviously as a result of the severe unrest he didn't.
But a couple of good excerpts from the article I linked:
"For Putin, this will be his second trip to Cairo; his first took place in 2005 when Hosni Mubarak was president. He will play it to the hilt as a platform to show the world, and especially Arab Muslims, that he alone of the world's five leading powers is openly committed to fighting radical Islam and ready to assist any Arab leader sharing this commitment.
Putin hopes to come away from Cairo as champion of the war on radical Islam in two important Arab countries and the most reliable ally of forces for moderation."
One does need to pick sides and when one side is radical Islam, whatever the other side may be, it's the better one.
Putin is taking advantage of the Obama foolishness here.
He will not side with the Islamic extremists, and he sees a chance to pry Egypt back away from the US (because of the Obama foolishness), and then not only get them back into the Russian sphere, but also have unbelievable access to some of the latest US technology if he can.
Sadly, we have three more years of an Obama administration gutting our military, ruining our key alliances, and destroying our foreign policy before we get the opportunity to turn this disaster around. We can only pray that the Egyptians will hiold the line against the Islamic extremists (as they are doing) and to do so without giving into to what are sure to be beaucoup Russuan overtures.
But for Christians in particular, Russian is going to be an important language.
Another related article:
In Egypt Crisis, Russia Sees Opportunity
http://thediplomat.com/the-editor/2013/08/16/in-egypt-crisis-russia-sees-opportunity/
“On Thursday afternoon President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would be cancelling a joint military exercise with the Egyptian Army over its violent crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Shortly afterwards, Egypt Independent reported that Putin had called an extraordinary session in the Kremlin to put “all Russian military facilities ‘at the Egyptian military’s disposal.’” The report, which cited several sources without providing any further details about them, also said that “Putin will discuss Russian arrangements for joint-military exercises with the Egyptian army.”
Hours later Egypt Independent took down the report, although Google is still returning searches for it. A number of websites and forums had already republished the article in full before it was removed.”
Putin only cares about power. He is just trying to set a precedent in case he ever has to overthrow a Russian President or PM to stay in power.
The Chinese have also taken to fighting the Islamic radicals. They have been attacking Chinese interests in Africa.
He will play it to the hilt as a platform to show the world, and especially Arab Muslims, that he alone of the world's five leading powers is openly committed to fighting radical Islam and ready to assist any Arab leader sharing this commitment.
Putin hopes to come away from Cairo as champion of the war on radical Islam in two important Arab countries and the most reliable ally of forces for moderation."
Go Russia! Go Putin!!! Could we adopt you as our president as well?
And while you at it, would you kick 0dumbo's ass from one side of a room to the other side....and video tape it so we can all enjoy it?
FUBO you RAT bastard socialist fascist commie muzlim pig!
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This is a surprise. Why would Putin do that? Does he want the favor of the winner? Or doesn't he like terrorists?
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This is a surprise. Why would Putin do that? Does he want the favor of the winner? Or doesn't he like terrorists?
Putin is looker more and more like a hero while Obummer looks worse and worse.