Posted on 12/20/2013 5:17:22 AM PST by IbJensen
Spare us the KGB propaganda.
2013 will be remembered as the year that
Egypt and Russia showed more FREEDOM and sanity
than the entire US Congress and its pRes_ _ent.
Whether or not Putin is playing geopolitics I’m glad someone is saying this.
we’re living in the bizarro-verse
When Obama engages Putin in a battle of wits he does it unarmed.
Putin is a tyrant...who looks out for the strategic interests of his nation. And he’s pretty good at it.
0bama wants to be a tyrant, and doesn’t give a damn about the strategic interests of his nation.
Putin uses 0bama as his international monkey-boy.
It's a paradox I agree.
Bump to your comment.
Very very well put.
Obama is fighting in large part, what he should be defending and protecting.
Putin for whatever are his faults, appears to be genuinely working for his own country.
I sure with Obama were.
(wish)
Sheesh. Sorry for my typing.
The New American nuts defending radical Islam, perversion and the commie Obuma all in one article. Guess I’ve seen it all now.
Traditionally, Americans have believed that the more powerful their executive is, the weaker America is as a nation.
Putin's hunger for power is therefore seen as positive for Russia, while Obama's hunger for power is bad for America.
Read the first sentence over again, Sarge.
The Russians are an odd lot. They crave “order” because they fear “chaos.” And given a lack of strong leadership, Russians tend to be rather chaotic, which is perhaps their “state of nature.” So yes, the tradition of a strong leader is alive and well in Russia.
The American tradition is changing. We once shunned a strong executive, as that meant a strong government. Now, the people seem to want a strong government that will “take care of them.” The fact that it necessarily leads to a strong executive seems to have become an acceptable consequence to many Americans.
Putin is such a prude .... I bet he even thinks NAMBLA is a bad idea. /s
Read the entire article, Ib.
NEVER trust a commie.
NEVER!
I don’t recall who said it, but I remember in the 70s someone stating the USA and the USSR would pass each other (politically and culturally) going in opposite directions. Looks like he/she was right.
Say what you want about Putin, but a Commie he is not.
And Putin is more than your garden variety Communist.
He was not just a generic party member in the Soviet Union (and only a minority of Russians were party members - you had work to get that membership card).
He was a KGB man.
And not only was he a KGB man, he was the one who was tasked with "coordinating" KGB activities with the East German Stasi.
In other words, he was the puppet master of the most fanatical and intrusive secret police force on earth.
One of the projects he was likely working on before the Wall feel was the plan by the Stasi to place their own operatives as leaders of "responsible" pro-democracy factions in order to maintain control even if the regime was forced to concede power.
That plan failed in Berlin.
But it has worked in Moscow.
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