Putin has joined the "Axis of Evil"

California Republic ^ | 10/10/06 | Joel Rosenberg

[GSlob]

Communist party was not a political organization even then. It was a mafia, open, triumphant mafia. And what is now is a mafia, too. The mafia control remains, and a party control it has never been. The label changes are cosmetic, and as such are not worth serious discussion. "Multi-party system". It makes sense if, and only if, such parties become so significant and influential that the major powers that be have to pay them more than a lip service and seriously take them into account. Otherwise they are purely ornamental. One could speak of an effective multi-party system in Russia only if and when putin and putinoids would be facing serious and meaningful political opposition. As long as they manage to tame and co-opt it, there is no real multi-party system. How significant in the general scheme of things is the existence of minor political parties in the United States? How influential are they? There still might exist a residual trotskyite or a communist party, for example.

[murphE]

You're welocme. Pass it on.

[spanalot]

"A Tupin."

HA!!

[FlyVet]

The irony of that is that, last I knew, Lenin is still on display, all these years later. Not a form of idol-worship? Seems like it is to me. Goes along with the heroic-looking statues and the murals everywhere.

[GodGunsGuts]

They still have Lenin on display because the Leninists are still in charge IMO.

[FlyVet]

It appears that is so, more with each passing day.

[M. Espinola]

Comrade, you planing on putting the Putin Public relations spin on this thread - too? You're a little out numbered pilgrim :)

[M. Espinola]

Hats off to Rush Limbaugh for shedding some much required light on Col Putin and his Axis of Russian armed Evil.

[Thunder90]

In most of Russia (Except Moscow and St. Petersburg) the Military wears Soviet insigna and most of the Oblasts fly flags from Soviet times.

And the "Our Russia" party is a continuation of the CPSU, with a bunch of Soviet Communists running it. The Communist Party Russian Federation is a bunch of Stalinists, and even that party is controlled by Putin and Co.

[G8 Diplomat]

Putin has joined the "Axis of Evil"

Only this recently? I thought he did that a while ago

[diesel00]

Russia, Iran and China will move against Israel and our forces in the Middle East, and North Korea, China and Russia will move against Japan and Taiwan. They will fail.

China is pretty friendly with Israel. If not for US disapproval, Israel would probably go buddy-buddy with China. During WWII, China was the only nation on Earth to accept unconditionally Jewish refugees from Europe. A lot of those Jewish descendents remember that. In the last 2000 years of history, China has never moved against Japan, it has always been the opposite. Every country has its own tendencies that are difficult to change. For instance, China and Russia still mistrust each other a lot more than they each mistrust the US. A marriage of convenience is not a long-lasting alliance. What you predict above just simply doesn't have any historical precedence, and is quite unlikely to manifest. Even if it develops, it would be a flimsy and short-lived alliance, of no real consequence.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I hate to be the one to say it, but Russia never left the Axis of Evil. It's true that Communism with its socialist economy collapsed. That was inevitable. Nothing else changed in Russia except that Mikhail Gorbachev moved to America and became a capitalist.

[chilepepper]

get a life...

you really, really don't know what you are talking about.

[Clemenza]

I do.

Unlike certain folks on this site, however, my mind hasn't been manipulated by some mail order tart, nor Putin's propaganda.