Putin worked as a KGB thug in East Germany with Stasi to torture defectors .
Now he has invaded his second neighboring country and he is building military installations a hundred miles from our border and you want tom
discredit those facts.
Buzz off troll.
And what are we doing about our national security?
We have no right to tell the Russians what to do in their backyard when we sure as heck aren’t policing ours.
Slow down there. I am a friend, and the DU turns my stomach.
Troll? You misread me.
No I was serious. Many Russians have, including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claimed Alaska was only “leased” for 99 years, or not legally bought when the US acquired it from Russia. Putin wants the USSR territories back, but he also longs for those great expansionist years of soviet past.
I may sound a little out there, but my statement was sincere. And if ever there were an opportunity for Russia to get Alaska back, it would be now with someone as weak as Obama in power, and they would then control two thirds plus of the arctic along with all its resources.
I have no doubt Russia has plans on expanding its base network. And I personally fear any treaty with them, given the Soviets never failed to break them. Especially when it involves reducing our nuclear deterrent in any way.
Obama is starting to experience the reality of this world is that there is no substitute for raw military power. I don’t put much faith in him learning the lessons of that though.