Posted on 03/18/2014 6:34:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Vladimir Putin likes to take his kit off in public. But Tuesday's exhibition of naked power by Russia's president at a joint parliamentary session in Moscow was delivered fully clothed before a conservatively suited audience of officials and adoring, applauding fans dressed up as MPs.
Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back. The US and friends could like it or lump it. But as the Ukraine crisis showed, Russia would no longer take it lying down.
Putin spoke primarily about Crimea, whose cause was "sacred" and whose return to the Russian fold was justified, democratic and legal. But his broader theme was that Russia was finally standing up for its rights nearly a quarter of a century after the Soviet collapse.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Instructive film on Netflix called “Putin’s Kiss.”
While they still have a long way to go, Russia IS coming back and we’d better be ready!
Cute. But your quote is pure Hollyland fantasy. Don’t you realize that?
Putin will do what he wants because he knows Obama is a patsy and an impotent leader. Sadly Syria, Iran and North Korea are seeing Obama the same way and will also take advantage of US weakness. While Obama is dismantling our military the world has gotten to be a far more dangerous place
LOL! I hope you're intentionally laughable.
Russia is back! No, America is gone!
Not to worry, John Kerry is in Uganda telling them that Sodomy is perfectly okiley-dokiley.
Yes...shame on Truman.
Back?
Can they manufacture aspirin? Ibuprofen? vise grips?
Russia is back, but Reagan is not.
Yeah, right. Living in Russia is no picnic, as I understand it.
They do, however, manufacture pretty good rocket engines. From the article: Currently RD-180 engines are used for the first-stage of the US Atlas V launch vehicle.
Back in the USSR....you don’t know how luck you are.
I just quoted you, that's all. You will just have to figure out just how naïve you are.
Looks like it's "unintentionally" after all. Oh, well.
The Russian Thug is back and the USA elected the gay whimp who can cry well and line up community protests. Zero’s once mentor Bill Ayers wanted to destroy the USA and give it to China, N.Korea and USSR. He has his butt boy in the white hut doing his dastardly deeds.
In the 1992 Presidential debates H.W. Bush commented that the collapse of the USSR was not the time to stop worrying about foreign policy - as Clinton suggested, but time to concentrate more. He made the case that how we handled the collapse moving forward would be crucial to the future. Irrespective of what you think of the Bush’s, he was absolutely right about this. We squandered the opportunity that Reagan’s efforts, and the sacrifices of all during the Cold War, handed us. Now we are paying the price.
Putin will kick his ass.
Yep, because Clinton wanted his legacy, and we got the cluster-you-know-what known as “Kosovo”, or as Tony Blair called it, “The First Progressives’ War.”
Kerry will like that. Make him feel like he's at home with Wifey.
While Obama is dismantling our military the world has gotten to be a far more dangerous place .................................... Yeah, but we have free abortions, gay marriage and lots of jobless people trying to make ends meet,and then we reduce the armed forces to create even more jobless people, lets see them beat that!! Damn is it not a time for a change? No more OJT Presidents, and please no ex president’s wives, we don’t need an Evita, we need a Joan of Ark.
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