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To: Longbow1969

One King Hussein is out of office and before this war with Islam is over, Russia will be our ally again.


166 posted on 11/24/2015 5:19:16 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

No they won’t. Russia will keep trying to reassemble it’s empire - at least as long as ex KGB agent Putin remains in charge (which will probably be a very long time whether he is technically President or not).

The problem is what Bush, Obama and a lot of Putinistas here don’t seem to understand is that Putin is never going to play the role people in the West wish he would. He is always going to see NATO as a threat and seek to destroy it, he is always going to try to weaken the United States in order to prevent us from being the sole super power, he is always going to look for weakness and a power vacuum and try to fill it, he is always going to believe the destruction of the Soviet Union was the single greatest disaster in the 20th century, etc, etc. Putin is not our friend. At best he will always be a global competitor, but more often than not he will be a geopolitical foe.

You do realize that Russia is perfectly happy to arm Iran and seems uninterested in stopping them from getting nukes. Iran is as much our enemy as Daesh - in the long run, perhaps even a far bigger enemy and Russia is very cozy with them.

There is zero evidence that with Obama gone Putin will be some great ally. Absolutely nothing in Putin’s record suggests that would be the case. Bush found this out the hard way himself.


170 posted on 11/24/2015 5:44:18 PM PST by Longbow1969
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