Posted on 05/31/2008 8:56:34 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged France to distance itself from America, comparing the US to a 'frightening monster'.
"How can one be such a shining example of democracy at home and a frightening monster abroad?'' Putin said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde in Paris released on Saturday.
"France, I hope, will continue to conduct an independent foreign policy,'' said Putin.
He said the US was creating a new Berlin Wall in Europe by pushing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to expand into ex-Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.
The former Russian President also voiced concern over the fact that the West's "military infrastructure is coming closer to our borders,'' and denounced the US for seeking a "monopoly in world affairs.''
Under Putin's eight-year presidency, Russia clashed with the US and the European Union over matters such as NATO expansion and a plan to station a US missile-defense system in Eastern Europe.
Boo!
What a lying, sniveling POS.
Russia is one of the world’s major criminal enterprises along with the Islamofascist world.
We may look back at Putin at some point and say “Wasn’t anyone listening to this guy?”
I don’t think that theatrical “boo” was completely justified.
This from the man who dissolved Elections for Governors of the provinces of the CIS?
And as I understand it, the effort to build the missile shield is supposed to be collabrative with the Russians, meaning it is not designed as threat to them or meant to destabilize the Nuclear Status Quo.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan
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Regarding that picture of Pukin in the SUV with Pres. Bush:
Pukin could do a great impression of a cobra -— if only the SOB’s smile had more warmth.
I am sure that once we have defeated the Islamo-Fascists, we will be taking on Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela, too, if necessary.
Take heart Putin, if bambi wins the Presidency the U.S. will no longer be a monster superpower, and you will probably be invited to the big surrender party.
No kidding. It’s depressing how backwards and stupid so much of the world is.
distance itself from America, comparing the US to a ‘frightening monster’.
since democrats control our congress, I can believe he would think that.
A Russian and a KGB officer-
0% chance he’s speaking the truth.
Hey Putin, you and your KGB buddies should work on reforms at home and stop trying to reform the USSR.
I hope we really are a frightening monster.
I would feel safer.
***comparing the US to a ‘frightening monster’. ***
And DON’T you forget it!
Just another example of hypocrisy one again as Russia is one of those countries which holds a record on being a frightening monster -a frightening monster Putin has often wished to restore in some fashion.
Don't you mean "We may look back at Putin at some point and say 'Why was anyone listening to this guy?'”
Makes more sense that way.
The USA is your worst nightmare, Pooty-poot!
Yeah, right, "Polonium Boy".
Looks like Putin is trying to out-dumb even Jimmy Carter. What a retarded thing for Tootin Pootin to say, as the original Berlin Wall was erected by the Russians to keep their people from leaving East Germany. Of course, considering the sorry state of our public education system, there may many uneducated idiots walking around who believe that it was the U.S. that built the Berlin Wall...
It is always best to listen to your enemy, and the ex-KGB thug is one of those. You don’t have to talk, but you should always keep your ears open.
Just my opinion.
And I'm saying it's time to put the screws to the Russian Bear. NATO should either be disbanded entirely or extended right up to the borders of Mother Russia.
Either we're serious about containing these thugs or we're not.
End of story.
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Putin is right. The Gulag Archipelago was actually in Marin County, Kalifornia.
In short: you are a liar and a hypocrite.
I sure don’t know the correct form of action, but I do see him as a dangerous person.
He is a Soviet in a Politburo mold.
Oh, come on. He could’ve done better than that.
More propaganda from Russia’s best known KGB agent.
More nonsensical babbling from Tsar Putin.
Good thing he stepped aside so the Sovi, errr *Russia* could have a new President, that guy Medvedev, right?
Oops.
Stupid bastard Pukin needs to look in a mirror to see a “Frightening Monster”...
...but nothing a .45cal round to the forehead wouldn’t fix.
Aw, Pooty-poo’s afraid of big bad America?
TOUGH!
RE PUTIN...Amazon reviewer of the book, Comrade J:
On the very next page, Tretyakov is quoted. “As a people, you (Americans) are very naïve about Russia and its intentions. You believe because the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia now is your friend. It isn’t, and I can show how the SVR is trying to destroy the U.S. even today and even more than the KGB did during the Cold War.” That is the Gospel according to Saint Tretyakov, and you can assuredly take it to the bank.
Tretyakov goes on to give up the SVR, the old KGB, family jewels about a number of UN officials who were in Russia’s pocket, and some who still are. He names a few Canadians who were regular sources of Comrade J, and who’ve never been outed. He clears up some anomalies that U.S. intelligence has wondered about, but were never able to pin down. He was a double agent for several years before he defected, turning over thousands of SVR Top Secret cables, the highest classification possible, and hundreds of SVR reports, also Top Secret. He relates how and when a Russian spy inside the UN siphoned off as much as a half-billion dollars meant for starving Iraqi women and children before Saddam’s fall, and was given an award for it by Vladimir Putin, because he lined quite a few pockets, including possibly Putin’s, in the process.
“”How can one be such a shining example of democracy at home”
Why, Vladimir! What a lovely compliment! Thank you.
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