Putin: USSR could have been reformed, there was no need to destroy it

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[DoughtyOne]

While what you address is true as far as it goes, I don’t consider a leader that can’t leave when his terms are up, to be a great man.

He is a little self-centered selfish man.

The guy has been in power for sixteen years, and he’s still looking for a legacy accomplishment.

His militaristic moves have proven that point.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not buying that version of Russia’s military power at all.

How many carriers does it have? What’s it’s sea worthiness overall?

Haven’t I read some articles here about his carrier in the Mediterranean? It wasn’t too flattering.

He’s rattling his sabre like a bully on a playground.

It’s downright childish.

He’s not a great leader. He’s a little dictator wanna be.

[Secret Agent Man]

sorry but that is a bs lie.

[riverdawg]

“... the cultural, social, and economic bonds that held the Soviet people together.”

I think you meant the threat of military force that held the Soviet people in bondage.

[nathanbedford]

Russia, along with China and aggressive Islam constitutes an existential threat to the United States not because of its conventional weapons but because it is a superpower possessed of nuclear weapons and is strategically situated to upset the world balance of power and America's strategic alliances.

We see Russia expanding its aggressions from Georgia to the Crimea to Eastern Ukraine into the Black Sea and along an Islamic crescent to Syria and a port on the Mediterranean. In the polar regions Russia is claiming sole rights to minerals, mimicking the Chinese in the South China Sea. In the polar regions and in Europe generally, the Russians are testing NATO out with provocative incidents in the air.

Russia is aiding and abetting Iran even more than Obama. In return, Russia gains participation in a new axis consisting of Iran, portions of Iraq, Syria and naval elements described above. This axis is already armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads owned by the Russians and soon to be duplicated by the Iranians. Thus, the entire balance of power in the Middle East will be altered, indeed already turned on its head in the critical oil-producing regions of the world.

Generally, Putin's game in the West is the same as Stalin's, to cut a deal with Germany as that mass murderer did in the Hitler/Stalin pact which precipitated World War II. He seeks to intimidate weak Western consumers of energy into positions of neutrality thus wrecking NATO and leaving the way open to exerting pressure individually against weak, unaligned but rich Western countries.

Looking eastward, Putin has striven to cut a deal with the Chinese who are already cooperating in some respects with the new axis in Syria but who, if combined with Russia, would constitute a terribly dangerous threat to the United States indeed.

In advancing all of these ploys, Putin has shown himself willing to murder and plunder his own country, he is a thug who has enriched himself even as he has empowered himself. He has murdered his way to power.

The United States of America has very much indeed to fear from present-day Russia. The reality does not change simply because someone without any hands-on experience who has yet to demonstrate any serious understanding of world affairs applauds Putin. When it comes to national security, genuflecting is not smart.

[Pelham]

Putin sees Russian history as one long continuity, he considers the Communist leaders as just another bunch of Czars. When he laments the demise of the USSR it’s because it made Russia smaller and weaker.

[GBA]

The Soviet Union was an evil abomination that had to die and then be officially declared dead.

Both Fatima and then Garabandal seem to speak to Russia and neither in a good way.

Mari Loli, one of the seers of Garabandal, was asked about the Warning and had this to say:

Mrs. [Christine] Bocabeille then asked Mari Loli: "If you are not allowed to tell me the exact year [of the Warning], perhaps you could tell me approximately when it will happen."
"Yes, it will be at that time when the world will most need it."
"When is that?"
"When Russia will unexpectedly and suddenly overrun and overwhelm a great part of the free world. God does not want this to happen so quickly. In any case the Warning will come when you will see that Holy Mass cannot be celebrated freely anymore; then it will be that the world will most need the intervention of God."

Don't know what that means exactly, but the part about Russia overwhelming a great part of the free world seems plausible enough.

[MeganC]

Russia isn’t smaller. Their empire of occupied and enslaved countries is smaller.

I don’t feel bad for Germany, Japan, Britain, France, or Spain in this regard.

[Pelham]

You left out the Dutch and the Belgians. They always get a free pass.