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How Vladimir Putin Became Evil
The Guardian ^ | Friday 28 March 2014

Posted on 03/29/2014 11:05:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 03/30/2014 7:56:57 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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Putin is evil because he refuse to play ball with Obama and embarrassing him


21 posted on 03/30/2014 1:24:04 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: CorporateStepsister

You are so so correct.


22 posted on 03/30/2014 1:59:05 AM PDT by NaturalBornC1t1zen (Communist, muslim & homosexual. Hey lofo voters... you hit the trifecta with bambi.)
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To: nickcarraway

We have a lame-duck President who is sucking money out of the most powerful military in the world. That money is involved in a redistribution scheme to buy the next election for the Communist Democrats. The zero infobot voters will vote for the government trough. People will give up freedom in favor of contentment if they have no idea what they are doing. I call Zer0 the Lame-Suck President. It kind of rings true with his sexual orientation.


23 posted on 03/30/2014 2:51:13 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: nickcarraway

Putin sees 0bama for what he is... weakness incarnate.
as a proper Russian, he loathes weakness and moves against it.
0bama’s response is to have various media outlets call him names.

thus proving Putin’s assessment to be accurate.

he would not have tried it with Reagan or Bush Jr, as both would not hesitate to act


24 posted on 03/30/2014 3:06:56 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: nickcarraway

*pssst*

it’s easy to trust what you understand as you know how he would react given a certain situation.

Putin moving to claim various strategic pieces when he perceives weakness was foreseeable and expected. this is not complicated.


25 posted on 03/30/2014 3:11:23 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: nickcarraway
The US and UK condemn him for Crimea but supported him over the war in Chechnya. Why? Because now he refuses to play ball.

The basic premise here is completely flawed. The U.S. did not -- and does not -- support Russia over the war in Chechnya. A little research into an organization called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya might be very enlightening.

26 posted on 03/30/2014 3:50:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: nickcarraway
How Vladimir Putin Became Evil

Like everyone else he was born that way.

27 posted on 03/30/2014 4:08:54 AM PDT by fso301
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To: nickcarraway
Isn't it weird that he is going crazy right after divorcing his long time wife. Maybe he is just going insane. He was always evil, but add it disgruntled ex-husband and you can have a volatile situation.
28 posted on 03/30/2014 4:26:38 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: wideawake

>> Putin’s first job was teaching the East German secret police how to become more efficient torturers and snoops. <<

Source?

From Wikipedia: Putin joined the KGB in 1975 upon graduation, and underwent a year’s training at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. He then went on to work briefly in the Second Chief Directorate (counter-intelligence) before he was transferred to the First Chief Directorate, where among his duties was the monitoring of foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad.[30][31]

From 1985 to 1990, the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany.[32] During that time, Putin was assigned to Directorate S, the illegal intelligence-gathering unit (the KGB’s classification for agents who used falsified identities) where he was given cover as a translator and interpreter.[33] One of Putin’s jobs was to coordinate efforts with the Stasi to track down and recruit foreigners in Dresden, usually those who were enrolled at the Dresden University of Technology, in the hopes of sending them undercover in the United States. Despite this, Putin biographer Masha Gessen disputes the “KGB Spymaster” image that has been built around him and instead says that Dresden was essentially a backwater job that Putin himself resented:

Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the mountains of useless information produced by the KGB. Former agents estimate they spent three-quarters of their time writing reports. Putin’s biggest success in his stay in Dresden appears to have been in...[contacting] a U.S. Army Sergeant, who sold them an unclassified Manual for 800 marks.[33]

Following the collapse of the communist East German government, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to Leningrad, where in June 1991 he assumed a position with the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov.[31] In his new position, Putin maintained surveillance on the student body and kept an eye out for recruits. It was during his stint at the university that Putin grew reacquainted with his former professor Anatoly Sobchak, then mayor of Leningrad.[34]

Putin resigned from the active state security services with the rank of lieutenant colonel on 20 August 1991 (with some attempts to resign made earlier),[34] on the second day of the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.[35] Putin later explained his decision: “As soon as the coup began, I immediately decided which side I was on”, though he also noted that the choice was hard because he had spent the best part of his life with “the organs”.


29 posted on 03/30/2014 5:04:27 AM PDT by dangus
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To: nickcarraway

effing Russia killed 5 million Ukrainians by starving them and taking all their grain.

Ukrainians despise Russia


30 posted on 03/30/2014 6:32:03 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t buy the quick karma from the Lord promise anymore. I see too many evil prospering long term


31 posted on 03/30/2014 6:41:12 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: 4rcane

Putin is evil because he is a KGB goon used to ordering tortures and killings to get his way no better than a Mexican drug lord


32 posted on 03/30/2014 6:42:22 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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How Vladimir Putin Became Evil

Putin became hated by the left when he took a strong stand against homosexuality. -Tom

33 posted on 03/30/2014 6:53:53 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: dangus
Both Kenya's Raila Odinga a long-time Marxist, was for all intents and purposes, installed as PM by Obama after losing an election, and Obama's half-sister, were trained in the DDR. Obama's sister is a Marxist author and writes in both German and English.

Both Odinga, and "cousin" Obama are Luo tribesmen. Odinga's platform was the installation of Sharia law, confiscation of Christian owned lands in Kenyan provinces that were to become newly autonomous Muslim areas, expulsion of missionaries, firing of Christian government employees, and the collectivization of agriculture. After Odinga lost his election, despite heavy contributions raised by Obama and his help on the ground in Kenya, along with Dick Morris, Odinga's followers massacred several thousand Christians.

Odinga was an honored guest at Obama's inauguration.

34 posted on 03/30/2014 7:08:26 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( The Republican Party is very sick . Hold all contributions until we see who picks up the patient..)
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To: nickcarraway; Fred Nerks; LucyT; TigersEye; Beckwith

So what if Putin is evil? We can do nothing about it.

Obama is the evil one that we can actually do something about.

Why should we? ( read on...treason)

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Ever since Obama’s “open-mic moment” when he told then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that “Vlad” needed to be patient with: “On all these issues, particularly on missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space” which was followed by his continuing with “this is my last election.

After my election I have more flexibility.” Many still continue to state—even well-known talk show hosts—that Obama meant only missile defense. But that’s not what he said. Instead, Obama stated “On ALL of these issues…” That means the deal between the two—Obama and Putin—involved a great deal more than Obama deleting the USA’s missile defense. I believe we are now deeply entrenched in Obama’s promised “flexibility“…to our great detriment.

There are ostensible conservatives in America who are singing the praises of Russia and Putin louder and louder each day, while deriding the USA and the EU. I must say that I agree with the disdain for the growing NAZI-like flavor of the EU and those who regularly read my column know my negative views about the US under Dictator-in-Chief Obama. However, via his recent and soon-to-be enacted takeover of all of Ukraine—and likely even more land grabs—Putin is not the “strong” leader purported by the suspect pro-Putin crowd. He is—instead—a despotic figure. Obama, Putin and the EU leadership are becoming more and more totalitarian as time passes.

Recently, Obama and Putin have had multiple phone conversations, ostensibly about Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea and his 100,000 troops poised on Ukraine’s border, in order to complete the takeover of the rest of that country. Despite his recent Stalinist behaviors, Putin’s American advocates continue to say that he is “merely a Russian nationalist” and “had the right to take back Crimea.”

After the infamous and aforementioned open-mic incident, I have been writing and saying that Obama and Putin had made a devil’s deal with each other that, ultimately, will involve the final destruction of the USA. Since the “Ukraine crisis” reared its ugly head, it has been reported that each time Obama has spoken with Putin it has been for at least an hour. The first time they spoke the Obama media said that the conversation lasted for an hour and a half. An hour and a half to tell “Vlad” to cease and desist in Ukraine? I think not. In my opinion, despite what we see on television when Obama and members of his criminal organization call Putin a “bully” (A bully? Really? Is that the best they can do?) and place sanctions on individuals in the Russian Oligarchy, Obama is working with—not against—Putin. And it’s long past time for the media—most of whom don’t seem to realize that they will die with the rest of us—to begin telling the truth; if for no other reason than their own survival.

Let me ask a question. If Obama is so angry with Putin and is “sanctioning” members of his government, why is the US supplying military equipment to Russia? Doesn’t make sense…does it? I suggest that we have—as prophesied—reentered the Days of Noah…when even the soil was corrupted.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/62054

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/03/u-s-gives-russia-free-military-equipment-used-by-army-marines/


35 posted on 03/30/2014 8:12:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: dangus

2nd Chief Directorate = Helping Stasi and other Eastern Bloc secret police find “traitors to Socialism.”


36 posted on 03/30/2014 9:08:32 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Yeah, I had a notion you didn’t know what the hell you were talking about.

1. That first job wasn’t in Germany.
2. The 2nd Chief Directorate was in charge of embassy and consular security to counter and recruit FOREIGNERS, not finding “traitors to Socialism.”
3. He taught after he went back to Leningrad. Who hires a newbie to teach?

That Masha Gessen who claims he was nothing but a glorified paper pusher, writing “research articles” and his sole big accomplishment was buying a non-classified document from a US army sergeant? She’s rabidly anti-Putin, not an apologist.


37 posted on 03/30/2014 9:24:03 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Candor7

Yep, it’s all a grand kabuki theater.


38 posted on 03/30/2014 1:25:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: yldstrk

It depends in part on how bad the evil was.

People are trying to justify doing something in the Lord’s name via situational ethics i.e. selfishness.

That’s courting a rebuke more than your ordinary everyday unbelieving evil.


39 posted on 03/30/2014 5:57:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TigersEye

What did grand kabuki theaters ever do to deserve the comparison? :-)


40 posted on 03/30/2014 5:59:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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