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To: NFHale

Agreed. The similarities with Reagan end at (his apparent) love of country.


62 posted on 03/18/2014 11:47:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

As I said earlier upthread - people out here see this guy and contrast him with what WE are currently temporarily employing.

It’s pathetic.

And yes, the use of the word “conservative” anywhere near Putin is absurd - but deliberate.


65 posted on 03/18/2014 11:52:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: skeeter

No, I don’t agree.

Reagan also had a bold, long-game approach to foreign policy, and did/said things about the Russians that he knew would be deliberately inflammatory (and caused the striped-pants set over at Foggy Bottom to have explosive cranial flatulence) as a way of judging how impotent the USSR had become.

Putin is doing the same thing now. He senses that the US leadership is impotent (as well as being beta-male fem-bots) and is now setting out to show the world just how empty any threats from Obama really are. Reagan did this time and again with ol’ Splotch-Top in the 80’s - to good effect. When the USSR finally fell, people who had been paying attention to Reagan’s foreign policy were not amazed that the Iron Curtain fell, they were astounded that it took so long.

Putin is clearly emulating Reagan’s PR moves here on the international stage, with a very Russian twist. Putin is deliberately humiliating Obama, and playing a very cool hand in doing so. In two more years of this, the US will be seen as a has-been international player.

The signs to look for now are our erstwhile allies in NATO hedging their bets and pumping up their military and domestic energy sector spending as they realize that the US under Obama is a sham of a strategic partner.


84 posted on 03/18/2014 1:51:55 PM PDT by NVDave
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