[TomGuy]

Ooooo!

TW

George says Obama spent “a tense 90 minutes on the phone with Putin” yesterday.

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[Russia basically told The One to take a hike, that Russia is doing what is in Russia’s best interest.]

[Obama’s response: I’m gonna tell Valerie and then you will be in deep sh*t.]

[Paine in the Neck]

Obama spent “a tense 90 minutes on the phone with Putin” yesterday.

How much do you want to bet he spent that whole time with his finger holding down the receiver?

[Alas Babylon!]

Series of events so far:

Vlad, PLEASE do not invade the Ukraine!

Umm... Nyet!

I'm gonna cry!

(Pyut: Oh, Geesh...) Hugs?
Barry: Sniff, sniff...
Pyut: I'm still going in!

MEANWHILE...

(Cackle, cackle, cackle!) Hey Barry, too bad you don't have one of THESE!

Hillary? Hillary? Can I get me one of them buttons here?

Oh John F'n, what difference does it make?

Russian response:

Hey Russians, see the size of my mighty military?

Hmmmm... Must get notes to party leader! "Dear leader, about that thorn in our side called Taiwan...."

[PaleoBob]

Russia basically told The One to take a hike, that Russia is doing what is in Russia’s best interest

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As we are in a period of intense focus on Russia, Putin, etc., we really need an effort on our side to better study that nation in the context of the collapsed communist states of the 20th century.

Russia is the biggest flop among them, and we should better understand why Poland or the Czech Republic or the Baltics have prospered post-communism and Russia has drifted back toward expansionism and police state tactics and such.

And why should be better study this?

Because in 1991 there was a great victory for the forces of Freedom in Soviet Russia.—for which there has been little or no return for the people.

Just so, in 2010 there was a great victory for the forces of Freedom in the USA and almost nothing returned to us for it since.

How much do we understand squandered political victories? How deeply did so-called allies of the freedom movements later undercut them? What is contemporary Russia’s RINO-equivalent?

How do you lose so badly in the aftermath of victory? Are we going to “win” again in 2014 only to be crushed by Obama with a big assist from John McCain?

Can a people be so dispirited time and time again and yet find some way to keep up the fight? Have the Russians who sought freedom thrown in the towel? Have we?