Posted on 08/04/2021 3:13:11 PM PDT by elpadre
The remarks by United States President Joseph Biden at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week (July 27) made a strong but ambivalent impression in Moscow. His warning regarding Russian misinformation and interference in the 2022 mid-term elections in the US was countered with the usual denials (RIA Novosti, July 28). Instead, the most emotional protests came in response to Biden’s assertion that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was dangerous because he presides over a weak economy. Russia boasts “nuclear weapons and oil wells and nothing else,” he argued (Izvestia, July 28). This was certainly a deliberate oversimplification: the US president was addressing an expert audience that surely knew better, and so the offense to Moscow was most probably intended. Indeed, Putin’s troubles are far more complicated than overseeing shrinking petro-revenues and an aging nuclear arsenal. And that complexity of challenges to his autocratic regime is key to understanding what actually makes the Kremlin leader dangerous (Ezednevny Zhurnal, July 29).
Russia’s nuclear might is beyond doubt. The nuclear sphere has been prioritized in successive armament programs over the last ten years, with massive funding channeled into the modernization of its key elements. These colossal investments yield scant political dividends at home. But the newly established strategic stability talks with the US have granted Russia the desired status of an equal counterpart and boosted its self-confidence on the international stage (Izvestia, July 28). Russian officials confirm their readiness to discuss even such formerly non-negotiable matters as non-strategic nuclear warheads, and they suggest expanding the format to include France and the United Kingdom—though remaining conspicuously mum about China (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 28). (more at link)
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Sounds like the Democrats are already making excuses for 2022.
Last time I checked:
—Putin was trying to jab me in the arm with a dangerous drug
—Putin wasn’t making landlords pay their expenses while their tenants don’t have to pay them
—Putin wasn’t attacking patriotic Americans as dangerous right-wing extremists and racists
—Putin didn’t steal the US Presidency in the “selection” of 2020
etc etc etc...
Feel free to add to the list.
I know who my enemies are, and Putin is not one of them.
Dunno, guys. If Putin’s willing to defend kids against the gay agenda, I like him.
Weird comments coming from jao xiden’s handlers considering that they are colluding with Russia and Syria against our ally, Israel.
No neocon propaganda for me, thank you. I like Putin and Russia.
+1
Hey, Biden, you dumb clown, they've got the nested doll market cornered!
If ya want something to worry about, worry about these Communist rolling out the red carpet for millions more from who knows where, as they pour in unabated. Then buses take them to all points, seeding the country.
Remember back when the Russians were the bad guys because they were the power behind international communism? Well, now they are the bad guys because they won’t let homosexuals buy children out of their orphanages. Or Trump or something.
the American Oligarchy...sitting on a cauldron of Electoral Fraud...is the greatest danger to world peace and stability
With the EU being almost entirely in the globalist’s grip and the commonwealth countries even further enslaved, pitting what’s left of resisting peoples against one another has to be their biggest goal. If the US and Russia destroy one another, who will then stand in their way?
Same here.
Whites and Christians being persecuted and dehumanized across the globe should give pause to anyone seeking to cause conflict with any Country that could be a potential ally if the trend continues.
Putin has a good military recruitment ad - https://vimeo.com/334102304
They are getting maximum bang for their buck (literally)
Their strategy is to deploy low yield tactical nukes with destructive force below the threshold of a massive strategic response.
Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church are the only Christians who have supported and defended the Christians in Syria and other ME countries from terrorism.
#16, so true.
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