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Ralph Peters: A Czar Is Born...
The New York Post ^
| August 14, 2008
| Ralph Peters
Posted on 08/14/2008 1:38:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Ouch!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Putin wouldn’t have the Obamalon for lunch.... heck, he’d not even consider it a snack.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:40:13 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What is it about the Bushes that makes them naive about their enemies, foreign and domestic?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Some of those lines are word-for-word identical to those in Michael Reagan’s article discussing Putin.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Peters is right. Putin’s ruthlessness and grand strategy have been first-class.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:42:16 PM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Peters is correct.
Putin ran circles around the west, including the USA.
If he decides to confront the US over the long term, it'll be a dangerous time for all of us.
"Evil Genius" is apt.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:45:50 PM PDT
by
Mariner
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I like Ralph Peters in general but ...
This piece is a bit like Chris Matthews saying Obama makes his leg tingle in its gushing admiration for Pootie-pute.
We weren’t going to fight a land war in Asia over a place whose name most Americans associate with peaches and a baseball team.
And sizing up the Georgian leader? Just what the hell was HE going to do when faced with the Russian tank columns?
Putin is ruthless and all the rest, but do we have to call him an “evil genius”? Can’t we just say he’s an opportunist and ruthless and leave it at that?
To: LoneStarGI
Reagan was following Peters' article.
As the always-perceptive Ralph Peters wrote in the New York Post, Putins latest venture not only sized up President Bush humiliatingly well, but precisely anticipated Europe's nonreaction -- while taking a perfect-fit measure of Georgia's mercurial president.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:46:54 PM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Watched him last night, among highly qualified others, on C-Span. I was mesmerized I listened. You can find the broadcast on cspan.org and scroll down to the show hosted by the American Enterprise Institute. It's worth a viewing for those of us who have lived in blissful hope that the world had changed. Boy! Was I a dope and, once again, my mother was right. Wish I could let her know that for all the joshing she took at our hands, she was a better analyst than 95% of those making a living at it.
When the Berlin wall came down and we had a new openness, she said “Don't buy it for a minute. This is the beginning of a new era of misery. They just let the dogs loose.”
To: Da Coyote
Putin would use Obama as a toothpick!
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:48:23 PM PDT
by
balls
de·ni·al Listen to the pronunciation of denial Pronunciation: \di-ˈnī(-ə)l, dē-\ 1: refusal to admit the truth or reality 6: a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality Been to a psychologist lately Obama? It's all fun and games, until the shit hits the fan. Yeah, we can give up our nukes, and maybe it will seem like it worked for a while...if we're lucky, but someday, history will come back around as it always does, and the gentle people of North America will be speaking Russian or Chinese for the next few hundred years.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:48:28 PM PDT
by
villagerjoel
(Unfortunately, Mr Worsley's crab will not be displayed in any museum. A friend has eaten it.)
To: Constitutions Grandchild
Very perceptive - others said this at the time, but not very many!
To: Mariner
We can economically cripple pootie and his thugs... all we need is the will to do so... therein lies the problem.
LLS
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:50:36 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
( REAGANISM not communism)
To: Daveinyork
I’ve often wondered this myself. Especially after Bush senior was betrayed so malignantly by his own domestic enemies.
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posted on
08/14/2008 1:53:23 PM PDT
by
jim35
("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
To: LibLieSlayer
You'll find that addressed in the broadcast I mentioned above. It was a panel of four men, one of whom was the Commander in charge of training the Georgian troops for their assistance in Iraq. He left a week before this broke out. Additionally, the strategists said Russia still can't hit the broad side of a barn with a cannon, but make up for it with overwhelming numbers. It really is worth a watch.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is painful, but true.
To: jim35
Bush junior never seem to get it that his enemies would go to any length to destroy him. He actually thought they would work with him.
To: eyespysomething
Putin ping, if you ever look here any more.
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posted on
08/14/2008 2:01:15 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Citing sources inside the president's administration, Belkovsky claims that after eight years in power Putin has secretly accumulated more than $40bn (£20bn). The sum would make him Russia's - and Europe's - richest man.
In an interview with the Guardian, Belkovsky repeated his claims that Putin owns vast holdings in three Russian oil and gas companies, concealed behind a “non-transparent network of offshore trusts”.
Putin “effectively” controls 37% of the shares of Surgutneftegaz, an oil exploration company and Russia's third biggest oil producer, worth $20bn, he says. He also owns 4.5% of Gazprom, and “at least 75%” of Gunvor, a mysterious Swiss-based oil trader, founded by Gennady Timchenko, a friend of the president's, Belkovsky alleges.
Asked how much Putin was worth, Belkovsky said: “At least $40bn. Maximum we cannot know. I suspect there are some businesses I know nothing about.” He added: “It may be more. It may be much more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/21/russia.topstories3
Even if he has 10 %, or 1 %, of the above it is serious money.
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posted on
08/14/2008 2:01:45 PM PDT
by
AdmSmith
To: Daveinyork
I think they are like alot of people, they assume that people are generally good. Or since it isn't in their nature to con and lie, it's not the first thing they think of when meeting others. I get suckered alot, but mostly because I can't believe someone would have to nerve to lie outrageously in my face. But they do and I just have to hope there is a such thing as karma.
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