Putin is the drama queen, running around with his shirt off, like a later day Mussolini. He’s a dangerous nut who has helped the Iranians develop nuclear weapons, and he’s a danger to all of his neighbors. He’s a fool and a screwball.
“He’s a fool and a screwball.”
Well, compared to what we have... no, I best not go there...lol
Amen, remember when he strode from the sea with a cleaned off ancient Greek urn he “discovered”
what a fraud
“He’s a dangerous nut “
Agree. And a bunch of people here have made posts in the past admiring him.
He is a KGB commie thug; not one to admire.
“He’s a dangerous nut”
Actually, you have it completely reversed. Obama is the complete nut.
Putin is the calm LEADER using all of the tricks of the trade to garner the support of his people. Read Machiavelli’s “the Prince”.
You don’t have to like it, but that is the way of things.
Russia’s financial system punished Vladimir Putin far more swiftly than western diplomacy on Monday, as the Moscow stock market suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in recent years and the rouble tumbled sharply in a first nervous reaction to the Kremlin’s gambit in Crimea.
Some £34bn was wiped off the value of companies on the Moscow stock exchange on Monday and the central bank burned through an estimated £10bn of its reserves propping up its currency as investors took fright at the most serious standoff between Russia and Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The bank was also forced to raise its main interest rate from 5.5% to 7% – the largest hike since financial crisis ruined Russia in 1998.
Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, said: “It goes without saying that the extent to which [central bank moves are] successful will depend largely on political rather than economic developments.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-russian-stock-market-falls