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Putin’s vengeful plan to take back the old Russian empire (13 countries under threat)
New York Post ^ | May 3, 2014 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 05/04/2014 4:07:25 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

... Putin has become a Great-Russian nationalist, a bigoted throwback to the days before the Bolsheviks arrived. His intent is to regain all the lands that once belonged to the czars....

And make no mistake, Putin truly believes he’s entitled to reclaim Ukraine and a great deal more. In his view, independent capitals from Warsaw (yes, Warsaw) to Bishkek are integral and natural parts of the Russian imperium. He regards them as property stolen from its rightful owner: Moscow.

The Putin Doctrine gives Moscow the right, in his view, to intervene wherever ethnic Russians or merely Russian speakers are “threatened.”...

Even in the three easternmost provinces [of Ukraine] currently under contention, ethnic Russians are not in the majority. But Putin is re-teaching the world the old lesson — which we’ve done our best to forget — that the fate of nations often isn’t decided by majorities, but by a determined handful of men with guns....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: invasion; nazitactics; putitler; russia
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To: ansel12

Reagan?I loved the man....also really respected Mrs Thatcher. Look around not one here I trust with Americas military. zer0 is not to be trusted with our military...thus not with foreign entanglements.


21 posted on 05/04/2014 10:20:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

You have made it more than clear that you don’t respect Reagan or America, you respect Putin and his control of our military and our foreign policy.

I will tell you that China is also moving against us globally, as your advice for passivity and weakness is followed by Obama.

You are getting the passivity that you are constantly preaching.


22 posted on 05/04/2014 10:24:26 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: ansel12
You have made it more than clear that you don’t respect Reagan or America,

Hey efff u.

lying sack...

wake up and smell the communism in Washington....jackwagon.

I'm preaching action...here.....at home... if anyone is a freaking coward it smells of you....

btw China is zer0s buttbuddy....what do you think zer0’s going to do....you are such a numbnut.

23 posted on 05/04/2014 11:14:27 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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