Posted on 09/19/2013 1:22:18 AM PDT by cunning_fish
US Senator John McCain penned a blistering column for a Russian news website on Thursday, telling the Russian people that their President Vladimir Putin is a dissent-quashing tyrant who "doesn't believe in you."
The senior US lawmaker and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee accosted Putin and his associates for rigging elections, imprisoning and murdering opponents, fostering corruption and "destroying" Russia's reputation on the world stage.
"I am not anti-Russian," McCain wrote in the piece for Pravda.ru website. "I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today."
McCain last week said he intended to write an op-ed piece for Russian media after Putin had his own column published in The New York Times.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Russian News Service radio that the president would read the piece, but is unlikely to respond.
"McCain is not known as a fan of Putin. To engage in polemics -- I doubt it, his is the point of view of a person who lives across the ocean," Peskov said.
The website Pravda.Ru is not known as a serious news source and has nothing to do with the newspaper Pravda published by the Communist party, which was the country's most important paper in the Soviet era but which has now fallen into obscurity.
Some observers have said that the publishing company Pravda.ru is bankrolled by the Kremlin, as it also runs websites that are staunchly pro-Putin and full of stories smearing his opposition.
McCain's piece was sent to both Pravda publications, his office said.
Putin in his widely quoted New York Times piece criticised Obama's plan to bomb Russia's ally Syria, demanded that Moscow's plan to secure Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles be given time to work, and slammed Washington for "relying solely on brute force" to conduct its international affairs.
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At the same time, starting WW3 isn’t a fantastic option either. Not saying it would go nuclear but it could. In such a situation, threatening a position that Russia must secure is the best option- Syria for example. It may be a good time to place the missile defense system in Poland too, or at least talk about it. Cold war is over my ass.
just remote-controlled car detonators?
He’s as good once as he ever was...
We have refugees and criminals streaming across our own border with Mexico because of the narcoterrorists, mass graves, beheadings, kidnappings, forced prostitution, and chemical warfare with the narcotics.
Is McCain a senator from Arizona or a senator for Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood?
What do you find on the Russian border?
Russian soldiers.
Russia does not have gay pride marches in their army.
a legend in his own mind
who here doesn’t thinks McQueeg doesn’t hear voices in his head?
Why didn’t McCain say these exact words about Obama? Who cares what Putin is doing when the left along with traitors like McCain are taking our country down the tubes? I despise McCain and his good buddy Obama.
Hmmm, sounds a lot like someone else we know except for murdering opponents and the jury is still out on that.
...and a Arizona crowd murmurs...
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“WOW, I wasn’t going to vote for him again now I will”
“Yeah he’s the guy for me, he wasn’t before now he is”
“I didn’t think he was a conservative anymore, he really changed my mind, you’re the man John”
“I don’t care anymore what he’s done before, he’s a hero to me now”
Yeah its been awhile...I lurk mostly now. Take care my friend
Yeah its been awhile...I lurk mostly now. Take care my friend
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