Posted on 06/17/2021 6:39:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A 1998 photo of former President Ronald Reagan's visit to Moscow appears to show a young Vladimir Putin posing as a tourist, leading the photographer to speculate the former KGB agent was spying on the U.S. president.
The photo has been discussed for a few years, but White House photographer Pete Souza resurfaced it this week as President Joe Biden takes his first meeting with the Russian president.
Souza, who was the White House photographer during the Reagan and Obama administrations, posted the photo on Instagram on Wednesday:
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Editors? Who needs editors?
Collusion! IMPEACH 40!!
In pictures, the ones in the crowd who are laughing hysterically are the KGB (or whatever they’re called now) agents spying on Biden.
I don’t see the point.
This isn’t new, as the article says, this has been floating around for years.
It’s not verified.
Is there no actual news to print?
LOL, Putin doing his job in 1988 is exposed to Ronald Reagan, and twelve years later Putin abandons Communism and points Russia directly toward Capitalism exactly as Reagan did at every meeting with Soviet officials and bureaucrats.
Who do you think influenced who?
Putin is nothing more that a Russian nationalist at his core and rules Russia in the mode of an autocrat. Autocratic rule has been the political reality in Russia throughout recorded history and includes the communist era. What is more, the majority of Russians are comfortable with Putin and support him. When the West realizes and understands this reality, it will be better able to deal with Russia and stop making monumental miscalculations.
Putin laments that during the break up of the USSR, lands that once were firmly alligned and controlled by the Czar were allowed to slip away from political union with Russia. Putin, as a russian nationalist, has done whatever he can to restablish Russia’s historical domain.
Eventually Russia will not be in confrontation with the West. Its main concern will be China. China covets Russia’s underpopulated, rich Asian Pacific territories and the Siberian treasure house.
Excellent comment
I can prove that Reagan did not meet Putin in 1988.
Putin didn’t kill him.
Not to be glib but that’s what Putin was doing in 1988.
It doesn’t really look like Putin. It looks like Daniel Craig (James Bond). It all makes sense.
No, Bond would have the sense to wear a belt, although it was the 80's.
I think America's deep-state and globalist ideologues know this. Its just that they have had success first taking down the Soviet Union and then tearing bits off what you point has been Russia's historic sphere of control. Why stop now? Besides, a strong, nationalist, Christian Russia really ideologically threatens a leftist-globalist Europe. Can't have such a thing on one's doorstep.
USA assumes that our values are universal. No. That’s not true. So we need to stop acting like it.
“Spying”???
Reagan was walking around, shaking hands.
What sort of deep state secrets was anyone going to gather during this activity? Or any public activity of Reagan.
Now, if they had a picture of Putin under Reagan’s bed in his hotel room, THAT would be spying.
In 1988, Putin was clipping articles from western newspapers in that hotbed of the cold war, Dresden. He never was some kind of Mission Impossible assassin.
The weirdo mythology that has grown up around that guy is amazing.
Meanwhile GHW Bush was right in the middle of assassinating JFK.
OMG - does this mean intelligence people all over the world might not self-identify when working?
Makes me wonder if our CIA people have ever spied on Putin - while pretending to be common ordinary citizens...
/s
Hey, we never have spies watch the entourage of foreign leaders when they visit DC. We have values./s
Exactly, and if you are buying weed, all you have to do is ask if they’re a cop. They can’t lie, it’s against the rules or something.....
funny
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