Posted on 04/16/2014 9:08:34 PM PDT by dangus
Interesting article. It has been every Russian Tsars dream to control the Bosphorus and the Dardenelles I wonder if Erdogan in Turkey is a bit nervous. Will a RussiN atyets sing the mass in a restored Haigha Sophia?
bttt - thanks for posting.
bttt - thanks for posting.
“rebuilding his country”
Yeah, by annexing parts of another sovereign country, jailing opponents (if not killed outright), all while scooping in millions of rubles for himself.
Like someone said earlier, this Putin-love on FR has become revolting.
You lost confidence in the US? No one is preventing you from finding a place more suitable to your tastes.
Else, you’re just an old man yelling at clouds.
So it seems. I think some of it comes from the fact that he is such a nemesis for President Barack O'Stinkburger. Personally, I would like to see both of them locked up in the same room.
Yeah, but in this case “the enemy of your enemy” is still just your enemy.
The ironic thing is, during the Reagan years, we used to tell the Soviet loving Left to “love the US or leave it”. Now, I find myself saying that to so-called “conservatives”.
Useful idiots indeed.
Yeah because the Russian Empire Was such a great deal and beloved by all the ethnic minorities it enslaved. Why it was called the Prison of Nations LONG before it was Sovietized. No thanks. Non Russians want nothing to do with it.
Because Israel is smart enough not to antagonize Russia when it’s in aggressive mode, and the US is the worlds worst strategic partner right now. See my tag.
Amen Brother ......tell it like it is.
His job is to save Mother Russia. Salvation is hard work.
The job is even more difficult when the men are alcoholic and the women cease bearing kids and there is no manufacturing base besides arm to create jobs
Why shouldn’t he?
because Ukraine isn’t HIS country.
I know you Russians need Ukraine to survive, and I know you will make every effort to make it happen. But it is sure as hell a disgusting role you’ve carved out for yourself.
And now you morons are equating Putin with Reagan?
Holy crap.
All but a handful of Russians who ever committed any atrocities in the name of communism are dead. Kind of like blaming living Americans for slavery and witchcraft trials.
Nah, the Soviets, they’re all still there, and rebuilding.
Americans don’t go around advocating for slavery.
Russians are actively advocating another Soviet union.
“And now you morons are equating Putin with Reagan?”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL! OH, your reading comprehension is sooooo bad.
Exactly.
I find it ironic that the same people that applaud Reagan’s dismantling of the Soviet Union are the same people that don’t understand that Putin is rebuilding HIS country. Why shouldn’t he?
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Among the many ills that spring from malice, one is pettiness. There is a certain kind of person who relishes seeing others in a down position, and nothing makes them seethe like seeing those others get back up on their feet and carry on.
Your data is old.
The number of abortions has been cut in half again since 2008, while the number of live births is up 40%.
Russia has even prohibited abortion after 12 weeks.
That’s it: Change the topic.
No, I fact-checked myself before publishing. The Russian serfs were liberated in 1861. The Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863.
Erdogan has been acting very strangely. While the Islamicist-Communist Eurasianists aren’t in control in Russia, they have a surprising popularity in Turkey, which I cannot explain. And I can’t relate it to this surprising fact:
After Russia seized Crimea, Erdogan suggested that abuse of the Tatars (a largely Muslim ethnic group in Crimea that is related to Turks) could result in Turkey closing the straits of Bosphorus and the Dardenelles to Russia. The problem is that Russia long ago secured a guaranteed right-of-way through the straits, signed by virtually every world power. So doing so would justify Russian warships securing those rights.
As you probably realize, the Blue Mosque/ Hagia Sophia just out into the Straits on a tiny spit of land.
Do note the remarkable progress made on all of those fronts.
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