A Putin ally tells us what Putin's like and why he's threatening war.
To: No One Special
It's all a scam to protect Putin's military industrial complex. Putin's worth $75 billion; he didn't get that money by faithful government service. He's also helping Iran get a nuclear weapon. I don't see what that has to do with oppressed “Russian speakers.”
2 posted on
04/02/2014 12:23:18 AM PDT by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom.)
To: No One Special
To: No One Special
He says Westerners are concerned about wealth and material comfort. Those things don’t concern the Russians - and they have far higher levels of tolerance for pain than Westerners do.
The West believes in nothing. I think that’s an accurate assessment.
6 posted on
04/02/2014 12:56:25 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: No One Special
Mr. Karaganov said Mr. Putin was pushed toward his nationalist new line by the West, which ignored Kremlin protests over the past two decades as NATO and the European Union expanded towards Russias borders and into Moscows historic sphere of influence.The man has got a point. We wouldn't have wanted Mexico as a member of the Warsaw Pact.
To: No One Special
Based on his philosophy all the Russian speakers in the “Little Odessa” section of New York need liberation too
11 posted on
04/02/2014 3:32:37 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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