Posted on 06/09/2015 12:58:51 PM PDT by lodi90
When Russia annexed Crimea, the Kremlin installed a reputed gangster known as "the Goblin" to run the peninsula. When Moscow's agents abducted Estonian law enforcement officer Eston Kohver, they used a mafia-run smuggling ring to set him up.
And of course, organized crime groups have played a prominent role in the Moscow-instigated conflicts in Transdniester, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Donbas.
It has become something of a cliche to call Vladimir Putin's Russia a "mafia state." But cliche or not, the term actually fits. Not just because the Kremlin and organized crime groups are closely linked. And not just because Moscow uses gangsters as instruments of policy.
The term is most apt because the Putin regime actually operates like a crime syndicate. It uses threats, intimidation, and extrajudicial violence to achieve its goals. It has teams of enforcers to harass, harm, and -- if necessary -- kill its enemies.
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
After fleeing to Russia in August 2014 together with other terrorist leaders of the self-proclaimed “republics,” Igor Girkin has given a series of interviews contradicting the official Russian version of events in Donbas. He has slammed the leadership of the self-proclaimed “republics” in Donbas, declared that the Crimean referendum is a farce, admitted to starting the war in Donbas, stated that Putin might end up in the Hague.
>>They ARE the Russian Mafia, and always have been.
The Oprichni secret police may change the letters on the shingle from time to time, but the nature of their state-establishment remains the same.
“There is no god but the Tzar”
Excellent find!
Trevor Loudon (you can google for his website) has a lot of research connecting Obama with radical communists (Glen Beck used a lot of it back when he was doing his show on Fox). Considering how deeply involved the KGB was with the far left in the U.S., it is not a stretch that Obama may have been groomed.
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