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Has Russia Gone Rogue?
The American Thinker ^ | 1 Jun 14 | Kim Zigfeld

Posted on 06/01/2014 7:13:11 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

Has Russia gone rogue?

Information revealed last week indicates that it has, and that because of the reckless weakness of Barack Obama, America now faces a neo-Soviet Russian bear primed for aggression, just as in the era of the USSR.

Last week, the spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, announced that Russia is now a vigilante nation. He stated: “And if not a single state in the world is capable of admitting the evident facts that Ukrainian authorities have been acting as criminals, Russia’s Investigative Committee will shoulder this responsibility by opening a criminal case.”

o in other words, Russia will act alone to arrest and punish leaders of foreign governments whom it declares guilty of “crimes,” no matter what the rest of the world may think about it. This from a nation that routinely demands that the U.S. bow to international organizations in places like Syria.

In the Wall Street Journal, seasoned Russia expert Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute took a crack at analyzing this new brand of neo-Soviet Russian exceptionalism. He highlighted how Putin has disturbingly offered comments tending to imply the superiority of the Russian race, comments he’s been offering the world for years now. Aron feels that Putin’s “recent rhetoric harks back to Russia's two most reactionary rulers: the 19th-century czars Nicholas I and his grandson, Alexander III.”

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: ignorance; militaryignorance; stupidauthor
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To: elhombrelibre
The key phrase in this article is the first line of the 4th paragraph:

"Russia expert Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute"

The man is a NeoCon and AEI is a NeoCon think tank.

Which NeoCon should we listen to, John McCain or Leon Aron? They are all the same.

The NeoCons have never been right about anything and the mess they got us in during the Bush years disqualifies anything the NeoCons think or say.

21 posted on 06/01/2014 8:10:19 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: I am Richard Brandon

Best post of the thread.


22 posted on 06/01/2014 8:13:24 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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FReepathon day 62, Month #3.
Don't let the Left win!


Woo hoo!! Less than $4.7k to go!! Time to put this baby to bed!!
Thank you all very much!

23 posted on 06/01/2014 8:13:24 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Hugin
If by “going rogue” you mean not kowtowing to the Western globalist elites, yes they are.

Eurovision 2014 winner Conchita Wurst is the poster child of Globalism and the sodomite EU.

No wonder Russia has gone rogue.

24 posted on 06/01/2014 8:16:48 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Treason either way. The EU is just as bent on global control as the Soviets were.


25 posted on 06/01/2014 8:16:51 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
"The NeoCons have never been right about anything and the mess they got us in during the Bush years disqualifies anything the NeoCons think or say.

Bump!

26 posted on 06/01/2014 8:47:37 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Ben Ficklin

“The NeoCons have never been right about anything and the mess they got us in during the Bush years disqualifies anything the NeoCons think or say. “

Peace through Strength is the only deterrence to international tyrants.

In reality it is the isolationists that think they can ignore the reality of evil, that get a hundred million people killed during WWII.


27 posted on 06/01/2014 8:59:46 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: elhombrelibre

Russian Orthodoxy has been referred to as “Christianity’s dark side”.

State religions & dictatorships often partner together well. The religion justifies the despot’s rule, the despot protects the religion’s monopoly.


28 posted on 06/01/2014 9:29:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: MuttTheHoople
Ironically, it appears that Russia is now the Defender of Christianity in the world

Utter nonsense.

29 posted on 06/01/2014 9:41:38 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: I am Richard Brandon
Has THE US PRESIDENT Gone Rogue? FIXED

With this sham of a prisoner exchange, absolutely.

30 posted on 06/01/2014 9:44:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BobL

We are members of NATO, and not because we see Europe as Russia’s “back yard” as you do.


31 posted on 06/01/2014 9:44:13 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: elhombrelibre

All because the US overthrew the government in Ukraine. We should keep our noses out of other countries affairs.


32 posted on 06/01/2014 9:46:19 AM PDT by McGruff (What if I told you your leaders were lying to you?)
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To: elhombrelibre
OK Fusspot!

Have Russia and THE US PRESIDENT Gone Rogue? FIXED AND FIXED AGAIN!

33 posted on 06/01/2014 9:47:59 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: ansel12

“We are members of NATO, and not because we see Europe as Russia’s “back yard” as you do.”

It’s either their “back yard” or it’s World War 3, at least with Putin. Given that, they can have what’s rightfully theirs.


34 posted on 06/01/2014 9:56:06 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL
Given that, they can have what’s rightfully theirs.

If using the word "rightfully" makes you feel better, then use it. Just remember that others know what the word actually means.

35 posted on 06/01/2014 10:07:04 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: BobL

So you are merely expressing fear and a desire to surrender to strong men.


36 posted on 06/01/2014 10:24:11 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: elhombrelibre
Arrest Obama, Hillary and Holder for starters.
Putin's enemies are not necessarily mine.


37 posted on 06/01/2014 12:06:08 PM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
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To: McGruff

“All because the US overthrew the government in Ukraine.”

You’re living in a fantasy world, not unlike nutjobs AlexJones and RonPaul.


38 posted on 06/01/2014 1:13:39 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: ansel12

“So you are merely expressing fear and a desire to surrender to strong men.”

...as opposed to starting WW3 in support of a bunch of people that are basically terrorists - then yes.


39 posted on 06/01/2014 1:37:54 PM PDT by BobL
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To: rbmillerjr
You're the one who's either uninformed or in denial.

John McCain tells Ukraine protesters: 'We are here to support your just cause' Dec 2013

Just like Libya and Syria.

40 posted on 06/01/2014 1:44:55 PM PDT by McGruff (What if I told you your leaders were lying to you?)
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