“I believe Mel Brooks said it best...
“...it’s good to be tsar.”
[cue Roger Daltrey “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”]
Posted on 12/18/2013 7:25:42 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Sounds more like Obama than Putin.
Putin is Clinton with Machismo and the common sense to not leave dangling DNA threads about.
Aw, they’re just jealous.
Her writing fits the National Enquirer style of complaining expat Putin hater, probably because he has the job that was hers by birth and socialist ascendancy.
Nina is far more a Communist than Putin.
How many here would rather have Putin than Odingleberry?
hands?
Ok what if he was NOT a socialist?
“Putin I mean”
Hands?
>>>Sounds more like Obama than Putin.<<<
They are certainly reflexing about their idol Obamao there.
Putin’s latest act of welfare state socialism is his massive handout to Ukraine. Putin tosses the Russian taxpayer’s money away to non-Russian foreigners by the billions in a doomed lunatic quest to rebuild the EVIL EMPIRE.
Obama only wishes he could be as tyrannical and autocratic as Putin.
The Russian authorities just passed a prison amnesty, proposed and endorsed by Putin, that can be applied to Pussy Riot hooligans and Greenpeace pirates.
Looks like he is a benevolent and forgiving tyrannical autocrat.
(Removing tongue from cheek while waiting for Obama to amnesty Zimmerman.)
Point made.
>>>due to the dependence of a majority of Russians on state handouts<<<
LOL. Go try live off a state handouts in Russia:)
I don’t think it is ever possible to collect over $300 monthly in welfare there.
Putin’s Russian billions are not for Russians, they are for Ukrainians, Belarusians, Chechens and Ossetians.
Well, at least he encourages his people to work hard, enjoy benefits of their work and keeps them out of socialist plantation most of the time.
“I believe Mel Brooks said it best...
“...it’s good to be tsar.”
[cue Roger Daltrey “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”]
I cannot say that is bad for Russia, and Russia is making slow improvements in economy and production, while starting from an extremely weak position.
As a counterpoint, out West, Obama is acting like a Socialist, if you include the EPA, Agriculture, Education, Endangered Species and Obamacare, he is acting like an outright Communist, and doing the worst job in history as President of the US damaging the economy immensely, while starting from the strongest economy the world has ever known.
Let them keep Putin if they want him. That’s the point.
Putin is good for Russia but it doesn’t mean he is good for America.
As history shows Saddam was good or Iraq, Q-duffy was good for Libya etc.
Middle East is a much worse place wthout these guys nowadays.
It doesn’t mean any of them makes any good POTUS.
Putin is moving Russia back towards Communist totalitarianism. Russia is less free and less capitalist since Putin came to power. Furthermore, he is bringing Communism back to former Soviet states by undermining their sovereignty and independence. Putin is a Neo-Soviet revanchist. If Obama is Marx then Putin is Lenin. Obama is a ivory tower Harvard educated democratic socialist dilettante but Putin is a bloodthirsty mass-murdering Chekist thug.
In 1999 as he took office, a few families could afford a chicken dinner at least once a week there. A 19-th century mansion in a suburb of Moscow was priced at $20,000, a huge truck factory in Urals was priced at $100,000. There were a civil war in the South of the country and gang wars in cities claiming dozens of lives daily.
Today they have an average annual income closer to Alabama than Mexico, Russian car market is one of the largest in Europe with average price about $30,000 per unit and it is probably impossible to buy a home under $100,000 near any major population center. There is no civil war and you can safely walk most downtowns at night.
If you were an average Russian, what may be your problem with your president? “Free Pussy Riot!” and gay rights aren’t that much an issue for people who has survived through 1990s in Russia.
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