Posted on 05/09/2007 2:15:37 PM PDT by vahet pole
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.
Putin did not specifically name the United States or NATO but used phrasing similar to that which he has used previously to criticize American foreign policy while making an analogy to Nazi Germany.
The comments marked the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the foreign policy of the Untied States - on Iraq, missile defense, NATO expansion and, broadly, the accusation that the United States has striven to single-handedly dominate world affairs.
Some political analysts see the new tone as a return to Cold War-style rhetoric by a country emboldened by petroleum wealth. But Russians say the sharper edge is a reflection of frustration that Russia's views, particularly its opposition to NATO expansion, have been ignored in the West.
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No wonder he has his panties in a bunch over that Estonian statue . . . he thinks he’s surrounded by Nazis.
That’s ok. I think Putin is lined up right behind the rest of the Marx(ist) brothers.
Last time I checked, we didn’t have our intelligence agents running wild across the globe bumping off our critics and political rivals. And we haven’t invaded Poland or France yet...
But the Cold war is over. Nothing to see here. Move along. /sarcasm
Did not see a quote.
Bush a Nazi?? Sorry, Vladmir, that line is so last year.
Or killed or poisoned anyone who spoke out against us.
I invoke Godwin on the presumptive Maximum Leader and Polemarch of All the Russias.
The Nazis wanted to conquer Europe starting with the Sudetenland. We are conquering anything.
Let’s check back in a couple of years and see which leader held on to executive power in violation of his country’s Constitution.
"We do not have the right to forget the causes of any war, which must be sought in the mistakes and errors of peacetime," Putin said."Moreover, in our time, these threats are not diminishing," he said as he delved into what one expert said was clearly an allusion to U.S. foreign policy. "They are only transforming, changing their appearance. In these new threats - as during the time of the Third Reich - are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world."
Wonder what Putin did as a KGB officer.
That certainly won't stop the Russians from signing a non-aggression pact with us.
Putin has in fact presided over the Nazification of his own country, instituting fascist corporatism and organizing gangs of “Nashi” brownshirts to start brawls in the streets with his political opponents.
Of course! Because I remember all those free elections that were held after France, the Netherlands, Poland, etc. fell to Hitler.
Putin, you are soooo last week. But what do you expect from a ferret in a cheap suit?
Projection .... The Shanghai Cooperation Org and their Islamonazi vassal states, not the US, are the Fourth Reich.
Putin’s second language is German and he has orchestrated an anti-Polish alliance with Germany in a repeat of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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