Posted on 06/14/2007 7:04:56 AM PDT by IrishMike
Russian President Vladimir Putin discusses the missile dispute with the United States, the risks of cooperating with Western companies in the production of Russian natural gas and what he describes as democratic deficiencies in the United States and Europe. ....................................................
QUESTION: Mr. President, it looks as though Russia has lost its fondness for the West. Your relations with Germany have deteriorated, and those with the United States even more so. Are we moving towards another Cold War?
Putin: In international affairs and relations between the states, one can hardly be using any terminology which would be appropriate in the relations between people -- especially during the honeymoon or just before a man and a woman plan on going to church to register their marriage. In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.
The largest complexity today is that some of the participants in the international dialogue believe that their ideas are the ultimate truth. This does not facilitate the creation of an atmosphere of trust. We should not be dramatizing the situation. If we are expressing our position in an open and fair way, it doesn't mean we are looking for a confrontation.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
He says that like it’s a good thing.
“I am ‘Mr. Greenjeans.’” -Rex
Makes about as much sense.
The man has very high opinions of himself. Below question / answer mentions Gerhard Schroder who went on to run the Russians oil/gas ‘business’
Excerpt from article
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QUESTION: Mr. Putin, are you the “flawless democrat” that former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder once described you to be?
Putin: Of course I am an absolutely true democrat. The tragedy is that I am alone. There are no such other democrats in the world. The Americans torture at Guantanamo, and in Europe the police use gas against protestors. Sometimes protesters are killed in the streets. We have, incidentally, a moratorium on the death penalty, which is often enforced in other G-8 countries.
What’s his DU screen name?
Of course he thinks he's a Democrat!
He says that like it’s a good thing
Yeah, so do Pelosi, Reid, Schummer, Kennedy, Durbin, Boxer, oh, OK, most of the leftist Dems in the US.
Yeah Democrats radiate their enemies......and shoot journalists with their arms full of groceries....
PeaceMan
Vlad is a Communist who once ran the secret police, is on the take, and murders his opponents if he believes he can get away with it.
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The Clintons also got away with.
He must have been reading Hillary’s new “co-operative society” agenda when he came to this epiphany.
“and in Europe the police use gas against protestors”
and we “teh” civilised Ruskies use Polonium...
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