Posted on 09/06/2015 12:54:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the migrant crisis in Europe on the United States for imposing its own standards on countries in the Middle East and Africa while failing to understand their culture and traditions.
In the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, Putin told the media that it was an “absolutely expected crisis.”
“We in Russia, and your humble servant, said several years ago that there would be massive problems if our so-called Western partners carry out what I have always called an ‘incorrect’ foreign policy, especially in the regions of the Muslim world, in the Middle East and north Africa, which continues to this day,” he said.
Putin said that he was “surprised” to see the media in the US criticize Europe’s “cruel” treatment of migrants when the country is not affected by the crisis. He continued to say that Europe is “blindly following American instructions,” and suffering badly, according to reports in Russian state media. …
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Everyone on Planet Earth blames the US for everything bad that happens, anyway.
So join the club.
NO!.. End of story.
I think Putin has a point in this case. I think the OBungler-Clintoon team made things worse int he middle east than they otherwise would have been. He should have stayed out of Libya, Syria and the whole “Arab Spring” clusterfark.
Thanks.
Can someone prove Putin’s statement incorrect?
obama is responsible for the situation in libya/syria
Russia has a lot of responsibility as well in this, they have backed the regime in Syria since the 1970s; Assad is a lot of the problem. The Assads probably also played a role in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
Whats next.
Putin just waiting.
He’s hoping for the downfall of the west.
He wants that number one spot.
In the sense that leaving Iraq created a vacuum, USA did mess up but that would only apply to Iraq who doesn’t have as many refugees. There are a lot of refugees from countries we did not meddle with. Syria, Nigeria, Iran, yes, there are refugees from Iran too, Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on.
With Libya, it seems that action opened up more illegal immigration from Africa. Why would people be traveling across Libya if it were so dangerous?
Libya is Clinton’s war (and I suppose McCain’s etc.). I don’t like Clinton but I get mixed signals on how it is over there, maps say Jihadists control a lot now but I heard one Libyan claim it isn’t so bad now.
Has he bent over yet?
Has he offered the Russians an American retreat from the world with maps?
Has he decided to RESET the RESET button and cut our Defense budget by 80%?
I agree, Rush was talking about this the other day.
:This is what happens when the United States abdicates its role as leader of the free world. This is what happens when a bunch of leftist idealists and theorists get in power and think the United States is the problem in the world, the United States is the focus of evil in the world and its military. The United States has run roughshod over the rest of the world, and the United States needs to be cut down to size. So we’re gonna get the United States out of the world. We have no business being there. It’s none of our business. What’s over there is not ours. We have no right to it, and we’re gonna clear out, and we have. We pulled out of Iraq without stabilizing it. Obama inherited a stable Iraq. He pulled out. Ditto Afghanistan.
Now there’s ISIS. There was no ISIS before Obama, and there was not an ISIS for the first year or two of Obama. Now we’ve got a civil war in Syria. When Bush was in office the left used to run around bleating about Darfur and the Sudan and demanding that we do something about it. How dare we look at these horrible pictures of suffering people and not do anything about it. Well, now that we have abandoned all of these areas, where are the George Clooneys of the world all of a sudden demanding we do something when his president is the one essentially responsible for this because we are pulling out of these places. We’re leaving these unstable places more unstable and dangerous. They’re an economic disaster area.
Look at what we did in supporting the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Middle East is on fire now, civil war in Syria, Benghazi, we even got touched by it. Libya is an absolute hellhole and a mess. Egypt is on the way. And you cannot discuss this without bringing into it the European Union. I don’t know how many of you have traveled to Europe. It used to be that you needed a passport. If you went from France to Great Britain, you needed a passport when you entered a new country. Every country you entered you had to show your passport.
You don’t anymore. The European Union, trying to emulate the United States of America in this giant coalition of European nations under one government, which is also a disaster. Hello, Greece. There aren’t any borders as such in that regard. So if you fly into Paris you can go anywhere after that in Europe without a passport. Well, this is made to order for refugees. All they have to do is storm one border, one outlying border on the perimeter, such as Italy or Greece, which is what they are doing. All they’ve gotta do is get past one border and there’s no stopping them.”
Rush got the EU “emulating the United States” wrong. They are emulating the USSR in their form of government in Brussels.
Global destabilization, and the first instances of Christians being persecuted on US soil.
That’s true. I think many people in the EU are like Americans, they don’t like what their leaders are doing, but they can’t stop it.
I can.
Putin is correct ! ALL of this refugee ‘crisis ‘ is the direct result of Obama’s and Clinton’s meddling and instigating for the last 6 years in the Middle East . They either planned for this outcome , or it blew up in their face , but THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE and THEY should be held 100% accountable .
Obama and Clinton have committed vast crimes against humanity. They should be arrested and charged .
None of this “ who me? “ BS ....
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