Look at this stupid American girl demonstrating to support Russian thugs who would hang her thrice for being 1) American 2) black 3) homo.
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.
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Now they have come full circle and run the country. Putin's regime does not have "close ties" to the Russian mafia. They ARE the Russian Mafia, and always have been.
In before the equivalency to Obama! (Who is a mere amateur).
When the facade of the USSR fell, the former KGB officers simply threw away the blue shoulder boards, but kept operating as they always had, as “Russia’s Mafia.”
Now they have come full circle and run the country. Putin’s regime does not have “close ties” to the Russian mafia. They ARE the Russian Mafia, and always have been.
Exactly The KGB are everything in Russia. State, Corporate and even the church in Russia. I was stunned to learn the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is a billionaire. As goody for their loyalty Putin gave the ROC the duty free cigarette racket. You can’t get any more mafia than a deal like that.
Most troubling is the willingness of Putinists to commit wanton mass murder to achieve political goals. This latest outbreak of Russian chauvinism won’t end well if there is not a will to confront them. That’s why our Putinist fifth column is so insidious. This isn’t a parlor game. This is real life. Thousands has been killed by this regime and more die every day. Putin must be stopped.
This is, BTW, a return to the pre-commie days.
The Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, operated exactly this way. Except I don’t think the Tsar himself was usually cut in on the deals.
In before the equivalency to Obama! (Who is a mere amateur).
LOL. What’s sad is moral equivalence is a favorite tool of the left. Yet our poor deluded “conservative” Putinists constantly try equate Nuland’s cookies given out at Maidan with batteries of Russian rocket artillery raining death on a city of 500,000. Really, really sad.
You are so right. I've been saying for some time that international relations is a serious game played for keeps by determined adults.
The rest of the world laughs at 0bama, Clinton and now Kerry as our representatives in this most serious and deadliest of games. I study history, quite a bit. And I can say that I cannot think of a major power ever having been led by a less competent group of people than our current regime.
It’s clear Obama isn’t just incompetent, but malevolent. Even our space program has been obliterated with billions of dollars thrown into the trash bin reducing us to a future where we will likely become a third rate countrywith regards to space.
Obama is the best thing to happen to Putin and the Chicoms.
I always will suspect that his grooming was at the hands or orders of the KGB.
How does a lowlife low scoring student like zero become President of the USA? With all the help its enemies can provide.
I’ve said it many times here, that Russia never accepted the fall of the Soviet Union, and are still fighting the cold war using psyops.
The liberal movement really kicked into high gear after the fall of the USSR. What better way to defeat your rival country then to turn its own people against it? America won’t ever fall from an outside force. It has always had to come from within. I suspect the KGB have lit that fire.
Bulgaria, I hear, operates the same. Domestically if it has a control over an industry, you are their slave. But if you come from abroad, you are a welcome tourist.
Look at this stupid American girl demonstrating to support Russian thugs who would hang her thrice for being 1) American 2) black 3) homo.
RE “...It’s clear Obama isn’t just incompetent, but malevolent. ..”
Unfortunately, its difficult to convince most people of the malevolence part. But... if he was merely incompetent, logic would dictate that he’d get something thing right occassionally.
So yes... you’d be correct.
Wondering why FRussians like McGruff never post these kinds of articles...wait what?
Wondering why FRussians like McGruff never post these kinds of articles...wait what?
They neither post nor comment on anything anti-Putin. Apparently their only interest in this subject is to disparage Ukraine for daring to resist Russian invasion and marvel at Putin’s pecs.
You think I should ping them? At least 6-8 of them are here. They just refuse to comment when the factual truth of Russia’s malignancy smacks them upside the head. It’s much more fun to post Kremlin propaganda and have a good Putinist club meeting, I guess.
This is, BTW, a return to the pre-commie days.
Good point. What we see here is nothing new. An ugly vein of Russian chauvinism and history shows itself again. Fact is, the average Russian considers all of the former Soviet Union part of “Russia”. This won’t end well when a nuclear armed aggressor has such an attitude.
Almost all of the former USSR was part of the Russian Empire before WWI.
Russia was heading in the right direction in the decade before WWI, but it has never really had rule of law. The law in Russia has in practice always meant whatever the men in power wanted it to mean.
I’m all for poking fun at Putin trolls/drones. What I don’t get, is their fawning love for Putin is 180 degrees off of what this Forum is all about. I see lots of zottings taking place, but never on a Putin troll. What’s up with that?
Almost all of the former USSR was part of the Russian Empire before WWI.
Yep. Some of this “it’s all part of Russia” attitude is natural. Ethnically mixed families, etc.
Most troubling to me is these are Russians who are not revolted at their nation destroying hundreds of miles of international border and then randomly carpet bombing cities with rocket artillery. This is craven mass murder. And Russians really don’t seem to care it is done in their name.
In the end I think that is because Russians can be highly paternalistic to their smaller neighbors. I remember being at a McDonald’s in Lithuania when a Russian turned to me and unprovoked said in English: “Lithuania is just a big village”. Those were the first words out of his mouth. LOL.
Like Iraq, Russia may be a country inherently incapable of a representative democracy, the rule of law, and free social institutions. The 70 years of Communism and 300 preceding years of absolute monarchy have made any idea of a market economy and free institutions coming any time soon unrealistic. In comparison, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic eliminated Communist influence within a few years of the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Unlike Germany or Japan, nations that had a viable middle class and an organized, orderly society, with a relatively short period of tyranny (12 years in Germany’s case), Russia does not have the human infrastructure to establish what has never existed there.
I’m all for poking fun at Putin trolls/drones. What I don’t get, is their fawning love for Putin is 180 degrees off of what this Forum is all about. I see lots of zottings taking place, but never on a Putin troll. What’s up with that?
It’s mostly the old enemy of my enemy is my friend. Then a few are deluded into thinking Putin actually cares to improve Russia. No patriot would rob his people of billions as Putin has done to Mother Russia. He’s old school mafia and undeserving of conservative support.
A couple one topic Russian trolls were banned and Russia Today was blocked. Those who posted those RT lies have never apologized and retracted. In fact, they continue to sneak their Pravda Kremlin propaganda on to FR by posting links to Russian propaganda news services on youtube, etc. It really sad and not befitting of a conservative website like FR.
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