Skip to comments.
4 Reasons Putin Is Already Losing in Ukraine (Oh, brother)
Time Magazine ^
| March 3, 2014
| Simon Shuster in Simferopol
Posted on 03/04/2014 2:07:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
Remind me if Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Tojo or Mussolini gave a rat's rear-end about polls.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe Obama can scare Putin with his pen and phone..lol
I just wonder how far Putin would have to go to get a serious response from our wimpy leader.
2
posted on
03/04/2014 2:21:47 AM PST
by
Bobalu
(Happiness is a fast ISR)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Audacity is 90 percent of the battle."
Karl Marx"We dare not tempt them with weakness."
John Kennedy
3
posted on
03/04/2014 2:31:45 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These foreign policy morons clearly have forgotten Mao’s dictum that Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and that the Russians have lots of them and other big toys too that go BOOM!
4
posted on
03/04/2014 2:35:07 AM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These liberal intellectuals live in a cotton candy world where war is done by clever words. Obungu demagoguery and buzzwords fool the lo-info intellectuals and hypnotize the sheeple....
However Vlad Putin is immune and works in the world of military force when he wants to
5
posted on
03/04/2014 2:41:00 AM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Timber Rattler; 2ndDivisionVet
6
posted on
03/04/2014 2:45:22 AM PST
by
JPX2011
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Bobalu
These butt suckers are coming out of the woodwork fantasizing about all sorts of things Obama could do, what Putin can’t do, why Obama doesn’t need to worry, why Obama’s acumen and intelligence will whup Putin, and on and on and on and on.
They are playing word games. Polls and ‘feelings’, worthless threats of “we’re not gonna go to Russia” or “we’ll boycott G8 or G20 or the International Tulip Fesitval - whatever”.
It is really childishly pathetic - just like what we have to call President here.
8
posted on
03/04/2014 2:51:01 AM PST
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
9
posted on
03/04/2014 3:01:42 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Every night has it's dawn.)
To: McGruff
Not to break the subject but has anything serious happened yet up there? I served in Cambodia with a man that was from Winchester. I haven’t been able to talk to him lately. WE were door gunners on the same medevac.
10
posted on
03/04/2014 3:13:42 AM PST
by
progunner
(no compromise)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What’s next? “Obama Tricks Putin Into Invading Ukraine.”
11
posted on
03/04/2014 4:06:34 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: gusopol3
Or Poland? Alaska? France? Detroit?
12
posted on
03/04/2014 4:13:08 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Remind me if Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Tojo or Mussolini gave a rat's rear-end about polls.
I think there are two sides to this coin. Is Putin's Russia dangerous? Absolutely.
But many here on FR make the mistake of interpreting Putin's actions as sign of strength (because it makes for a nice juxtapposition: Strong Putin, weak Obama). Yet I believe there is some truth to the TIME article. In many ways Russia is weak.
Putin was so very afraid of a simply trade agreement between the EU and Ukraine, so very afraid of western market economies that he is willing to kill and go to war over it.
If it wasn't blatantly obvious before, it should be now: Putinism is morally bankrupt. Who would want to ally oneself with such a pathetic system? Didn't someone say with regard to Ukraine: "I'd boycott Russian goods if I could think of a single thing they made besides the rest of the world depressed."?
I'm not saying that Russian military isn't to be feared. It is. But at the same time the ruble is going down the toilet. I'm just saying that one should probably see Russia as it really is: morally weak and technologically outdated.
P.S.: Even the Russian government prefers foreign cars over Ladas:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1977004-in-russia-earning-an-olympic-medal-at-sochi-means-a-mercedes-and-pile-of-cash
13
posted on
03/04/2014 4:14:54 AM PST
by
wolf78
(Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow...betcha Putin is really concerned about polling...
I know for a fact all the former dictators in Russia watched the polling every week to adhere to the peoples will.../S
It’s hard to believe these “journ’O’lists are so stupid...to believe their own pablum..
14
posted on
03/04/2014 4:15:37 AM PST
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: wolf78
![](http://www.mbca.org/sites/default/files/7001859_Helga.JPG)
Here's what $100 bought ten years ago for me.
15
posted on
03/04/2014 4:22:24 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: wolf78
Russia under Putin:weak; Obama under America: weaker.
16
posted on
03/04/2014 4:32:10 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: gusopol3
The Russian republic cannot exist without the Ukraine. If mother Russia allows the Ukraine to move into the European Union it will spell the end of the Russian republic. That is precisely what is at stake for Putin and all Russian nationalists. Putin’s actions are about the survival of Russia as a world power.
17
posted on
03/04/2014 4:54:48 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
State-sponsored commie media Time trying to spin a victory for Obuma and Kerry.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But...... possession is 0.9 of the law
Vlad has now once again secured the port and the dream of Peter the Great
19
posted on
03/04/2014 5:00:26 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: wolf78
I don’t have the sense that many believe Putin is strong, rather that he is taking advantage of a world with a weak America. Putin is motivated and decisive in the face of a Coward president.
20
posted on
03/04/2014 5:07:47 AM PST
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson