"Putin lashed out defiantly on Thursday, accusing the West of trying to “chain the Russian” bear and tear out its claws. “The issue is not Crimea. We are protecting our sovereignty and our right to exist,” he says.
It was vintage Putin, a three-hour tirade, with a strong hint that the oil price crash is due to a plot by the US and Saudi Arabia to cripple Russia. It contained a warning to his enemies at home that there is no safe line between opposition and “Fifth Columnists”."
To: elhombrelibre
2 posted on
12/22/2014 4:59:25 AM PST by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: elhombrelibre
It’s good to see that Ambrose is still going strong. He is a good friend of the USA.
7 posted on
12/22/2014 5:13:58 AM PST by
billhilly
(First eligible to vote in 1958)
To: expat_panama
Lite reading and amusing. Wonder who all is invested in Russia?
8 posted on
12/22/2014 5:15:43 AM PST by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: elhombrelibre
A cornered bear is still dangerous.
Especially ones with nukes.
11 posted on
12/22/2014 5:35:16 AM PST by
Bon mots
(American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
To: elhombrelibre
If Russia is in a tight spot, Obama will ride to the rescue.
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