Putin's first job was teaching the East German secret police how to become more efficient torturers and snoops.
He was always evil.
The man whose main hobby was murdering Ukrainians who didn't want to be collectivized is blaming his own victims for starting the cold war.
This article is nauseating from start to finish.
The Ukrainians killed 30,000 Russians, and in 1933 the Russians murdered millions of Ukrainians by state-sponsored starvation. Putin’s beloved communist party did that. And in those days the Guardian and the New York Times were cheering for the Soviets. So it continues.
Vladimir Putin isn’t evil - he is just acting in what he perceives to be Russia’s national interests. No other Russian leader would act any differently.
Russia is our adversary because its interests don’t always coincide with ours. So we’re going to find ourselves talking - and acting past each other.
This has nothing to do with leaders’ personal chemistry, trust or whatever. It has to do with what they see as right for their country at a given time - and at such a time all other considerations are of a purely secondary nature.
For Putin - Crimea is of such great importance that it overrides friendly ties with the West.
The "How..." story?
I'm seeing a lot of articles lately that use this structure. It leaves the reader with the impression that the topic is already past the tipping point, a fait accompli, and that now it's time to tell the story of how it came to be.
It's just the latest form of push journalism that tries to make public opinion instead of report on public opinion, by making other think that something is settled when, in fact, it is not.
-PJ
Putin is evil because he refuse to play ball with Obama and embarrassing him
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.
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
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.
Like everyone else he was born that way.
effing Russia killed 5 million Ukrainians by starving them and taking all their grain.
Ukrainians despise Russia
Putin became hated by the left when he took a strong stand against homosexuality. -Tom
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