Posted on 10/01/2015 4:57:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The first thing to understand about Vladimir Putin is that hes not content just to win. He has to destroy his opponents, foreign or domestic.
His deeds may be despicable and his manners far too crude for the Upper West Side, but the guy is a force of nature, a man who by sheer strength of will has used a broken country and its rusting military to change the world. Meanwhile, our astonished president sulks like a high-school girl stood up by her boyfriend (But Vladimir . . . you promised!).
Now we have reached the point where a Russian general can barge into a US military office in the Middle East and order us to stop flying our aircraft over Syria. Oh, were still flying, for now but you can bet that our flights are restricted and careful to the point of paralysis.
You bet President Obamas afraid of Putin. Physically, tangibly, change-the-diaper afraid.
And as I wrote in these pages on Monday, the odds are good that Putin will order the shootdown of a US drone or even a manned aircraft, anyway. Why? Because he can.
And he enjoys it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Hassan Haj Ali, head of the Liwa Suqour al-Jabal rebel group (trained by the US and Saudi Arabia), said the camp in Idlib province was struck by around 20 missiles in two separate sorties. - AP
Obama is untouchable 400 days plus left.
Let Russia do some bombing.
You are right. However, kicking Obama’s teeth in is not Putin’s job, it’s ours. By kicking Obama’s teeth in, foreign countries kick in mine too, by association. And yours as well, by the way.
Not sure that is true, especially in light of the end of economic sanctions on Iran and the unfreezing of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Likewise Russia has a more self sufficent and diversified economy that its given credit for, and Western economic sanctions have only forced them to redouble those efforts.
That’s an “association” I no longer feel. When this country started persecuting Christian bakers and photographers, and became so degenerate as to legally equate two homo perverts as the same as a husband-and-wife, it became a different nation to me.
“Likewise Russia has a more self sufficent and diversified economy...”
Russia’s economy is heavily dependent on the exports of raw materials and thus oil and gas prices. Putin has not diversified Russia’s economy during his 15 year rule. Any attempts at diversifying the economy, making it less dependent with the current level of corruption, absence of real market economy and subservient legal system seem doomed to failure.
Russia under Putin is ascendant - the USA under Obama and the GOPe is descendent. It will be 50 years before equilibrium is restored and there may be great losses in our future.
Everything you are saying is true. But you sound so weary. I am sorry you feel that way. I have worked too hard towards my American citizenship and not ready to quit. There is nowhere else to go. We should make the last stand here or go down with the country. We still have God on our side.
Russia under Putin is ascendant
What makes you say so? Do you know the state the Russian economy is in and the way it’s trending?
I doubt God is on our side-—we threw Him out of our schools , off some of our monuments, passed laws against his Scriptural admonitions, you name it-—whose side would you be on if you were so treated?
You know, the worst part of all of this is that upwards of 47% of Americans (the same 47% that Romney was criticized for calling out) still support this administration and will vote for another liberal, no matter what.
I'm truly embarrassed!!!
ZIP
They threw Him out of our schools , off some of our monuments, passed laws against his Scriptural admonitions, you name it...
Not us. God is on OUR side. And HE does not like to be messed with.
OK, Obama is a weakling, if not worse. Difference is, Putin is not replaceable, we, on the other side, can and will replace Obama.
OK, Obama is a weakling, if not worse. Difference is, Putin is not replaceable, we, on the other side, can and will replace Obama.
Whatever - I addressed your question - satisfactorily, I presume
a nation in debt to the tune of 22 trillion dollars is likely descendent for quite a while, meanwhile Putin rounds up all the oil in the middle east and sells it to us at 700.00USD by the barrel - which we pay of course because this nation is too stupid and afraid of the green lobby to say GFY and become energy independent.
I beg to differ. If the nation faces such a situation, it will smarten up overnight. We have more resources than OPEC nations combined to sustain ourselves. The national debt is an outrage, so let us elect a responsible president who will solve the problem.
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