Ah yes. Mad magazine ping.
Posted on 09/20/2013 8:33:56 AM PDT by cunning_fish
Ow known as the “Rainbow Reef.” The first of Greenpiss’s submarine fleet.
Subtlety has never been Russia’s strong suit. You can dress a bear in a tutu but it doesn’t make her a ballerina.
...Putin will put a boot in...
Yes, they did behave bluntly, but it worked.
Americans have some bad habits this way, for example treating vicious barbarians as something other than what they are. Thinking that we can negotiate with terrorists, and foolish ideas like that.
But at the same time, Russians often have complementary tactics that should not be underestimated.
For example, you are aware of America’s so far ineffective approach to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But the Russians had a possibly better idea.
They said if Iran was nuclear *power*, that is fine. Power is good. But the waste product of power generation includes some plutonium. We don’t want them to have plutonium. So the Russians offered the Iranians a deal. Russia would provide all the nuclear fuel the Iranians needed for power generation, but on condition that Russia would get their plutonium containing nuclear waste.
It was a good tactic, even if the Iranians refused the deal.
It would have prevented Iran from developing its own enrichment capability, and kept weapons grade uranium and plutonium away from them; so everyone would know they didn’t have nuclear weapons.
As such, it was probably a better tactic than what the US has done with economic sanctions. Had the US not stamped its feet and demanded Iranian obedience, they might have (likely not), accepted the Russian proposal.
I hope they sink the Greenpeace ship
The Russians are the commies in this story?
Time to wake up is right.
Sink the ship & the crew.
Put a stop to this crap.
Yes, do that
Don’t get between Putin and his oil money. Those who tried are in prison or dead.
They can all sit around and sing songs and play the sitar (or whatever)...*LOL*
The word you want is “balalaika.”
Like you, I have been laughing inside since I first heard about this. I know libtards who support these prople. Once asked one of them “So you support piracy on the high seas?”
All I heard was stammering in response.
Ah yes. Mad magazine ping.
There, fixed!
Regards,
GtG
Russia gets my respect, again.
Thank you for that bit of information, I believe I had come across it previously. What I’d like to learn more about is this; Putin saying that Israel having nuclear weapons was THE cause of strife in the ME. What am I missing here?? Thanks
no ‘kinda’ about it.
I really have no explanation for that, other than Putin trying to sweeten up to Muslims. He has probably calculated that Israel is worth little or nothing to Russia compared to what he can get from the Muslim nations, and talk is cheap.
Russians have never liked Jews very much.
To which I say, GOOD.
Well, at least not THOSE saboteurs.... LOL
how do you say “You can’t sink a Rainbow in French” .
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