Putin: West wants to defang, declaw Russian bear

AP ^ | December 18, 2014 | LAURA MILLS and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sternly warning the West it cannot defang the metaphorical Russian bear, a confident-looking President Vladimir Putin promised Thursday to shore up the plummeting ruble and revive the economy within two years.

While he issued a litany of sharp rebukes against the West, Putin struck a conciliatory note on Ukraine, saying that the rebellious east should remain part of the country, backing a quick exchange of war prisoners and praising his Ukrainian counterpart.

The mixture of blistering anti-Western rhetoric and constructive signals appeared to indicate that Putin is eager to negotiate a face-saving solution to the Ukrainian crisis, but has no intention of conceding defeat in his standoff with the West.

In his first public appearance since the crash of the ruble's value this week, Putin accepted responsibility for the economic crisis.

[Berlin_Freeper]

LoL! sorry

LoL!

[Berlin_Freeper]

"Sometimes I think maybe it would be better for our bear to sit quietly, rather than chasing around the forest after piglets. To sit eating berries and honey instead. Maybe they will leave it in peace," Putin said.

"They will not. Because they will always try to put him on a chain, and as soon as they succeed in doing so, they tear out his fangs and his claws."

..."Once they've taken out his claws and his fangs, then the bear ... (will) become a stuffed animal," he said. "The issue is not Crimea. The issue is that we are protecting our sovereignty and our right to exist."

[Berlin_Freeper]

three-hour news conference - offered no remedy for a deepening financial crisis.

[Berlin_Freeper]

More bad news for Putin: Russia’s banks need to be bailed out now

[gleeaikin]

They said it was shorter than some of his other 4 and 5 hour conferences.

[PieterCasparzen]

It’s quite amazing how the financial elites are messing with the markets to achieve their Ukraine goal, pushing the price of oil so low.

And now these articles on “how badly” the Russian economy is doing.

Meanwhile, we’re in - ourselves - this massive ponzi/debt/house of cards economy.

Also... all engineered by the same financial elites !

My, do those elites love to trash the sheeple.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Obama signs Russia sanctions bill

Russia sanctions to stay, Merkel says

EU Leaders Prepared for Long-Lasting Confrontation

[grania]

“We’re just pawns in their game”

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Kremlin has known, ever since the oil boom took off 10 years ago, that a political system was being built on the basis of the one thing in Russia that Vladimir Putin could not control - the price of oil.

[DesertRhino]

Shhh,, you aren’t supposed to notice that, engage in critical thinking, or opine that the west is creating financial instability to solidify the coup. And you sure aren’t allowed to think that the instability games could possibly have bad consequences for everyone eventually.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“There is a risk that the economy will come to a sudden stop, along with the banks and the overall financial system. Hence, we may have underestimated the level of financial risk in the event of a full-fledged panic. A bank run could be in the cards.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

A CNBC.com analysis of money flows monitored by the Russian Central Bank shows that large cash hoards have already left the country. Nations in the ex-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have been disproportionate recipients of those funds. Ukraine is also a major destination for Russian cash.

[Berlin_Freeper]

No Repeat Of 1998: Russia Capital Flight Good For Dollar And Stocks
To this point, the turmoil in Russia has meant capital flows out of Russia and into Europe and the U.S. This has created downward pressure on yields, particularly in the U.S., which gives the Fed more flexibility in their plans to begin raising rates. That puts the Fed in the sweet spot. They’ve ended QE, and haven’t had to deal with the policy demands that would come from rising market interest rates. Rates remain very low and very tame. And since the ECB has, in recent months, adopted a more aggressive easing stance, the falling value of the euro has resulted in more Russian capital flowing toward the U.S.

So the Fed is in a sweet spot, and so is the U.S. dollar. The capital flows from Europe and Japan, resulting from their weak currency policies, favor the dollar, as do the flows from Russia and China, both related to trouble in their respective economies.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Shhh,, you aren’t supposed to notice that, engage in critical thinking, or opine that the west is creating financial instability to solidify the coup.

What you demonstrate is the very opposite of critical thinking. Case in point: Your "coup" has a democratically elected President and parliament while your "not a coup" is made up of Neo-Nazis, Stalinists and Russian agents in East Ukraine who rule with murder, beatings, kidnappings and torture.

By the way, Pieter. Can you keep your breathless "The Financial Elites [Jews] are controlling everything and making oil go down! Not Texas fracking or the Saudi Arabians!!!"

You two confirm your own stupidity when you think Russia actually has an economy to be hurt by sanctions. It's the oil, you retards, the price of oil!

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Mikhail Lesin has turned in a request to remove him from the post of Gazprom-Media chairman citing family issues.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Russian government ready to revise budget if needed — deputy PM

Russian Defense Ministry to get several hundred T-72B3 tanks

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[PieterCasparzen]

Rockefellers are not Jews, please stop implicitly accusing me of being anti-Semitic.

It’s not my fault if a few powerful and wealthy Rothschilds hate Jews and Gentiles alike and use them both as tools and sheeple.

As far as the US oil industry, please, think for a moment. Rockefeller interests control the US oil industry, Wall Street and the US government, yes, and the puppet regimes of the middle east.

Just imagine it’s 1938, you’re part of the ruling family of Saudi Arabia, and some Rockefeller representatives have come to meet with you regarding setting up a long-term oil deal with you.

Make no mistake, at that point, Rockefeller interests basically completely run America.

(look up Ivy Lee, for example, the Rockefeller PR guy).

Rockefeller was financed by Rothschild interests going back into the 1800’s so he could using predatory pricing to establish his monopoly.

Rockefeller had his foundations going, had been very tied in with British elites espionage operations - in fact, when the OSS was established, they cleared a floor of Rockefeller Center in NYC to run the operation right there.

Now what would the Rockefeller men be saying to those Saudi Princes...

Hmmm...

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

As far as the US oil industry, please, think for a moment. Rockefeller interests control the US oil industry, Wall Street and the US government, yes, and the puppet regimes of the middle east.

That's nice, can you keep your crap on Prison Planet or the Daily Paul and off perfectly good threads? Maybe call in to Coasttocoastam. I'm sick of reading about how Rockefellers and Rothschilds secretly control the entire world.

And what's the most obnoxious part of this is that in East Ukraine right now, Russkies are chopping off people's heads, chopping off fingers, torturing people with fire, and your idiot-self keeps blaming Bankers for going after innocent Russia every chance you get.

[PieterCasparzen]

Really ?

I hear that a group of soldiers attacked a radio station at the border.

Isn’t that cause for war ? /sarc

[Savage Beast]

Well...the West is defanging and declawing itself. Why not the Russian bear as well?