Putin Doesn't Care About the Rules Anymore

Atlantic Sentinel ^ | 30 July 2014 | Nick Ottens

[Thistooshallpass9]

The United States on Monday accused Russia of violating a Cold War arms treaty governing both powers’ use of intermediate range missiles. If true, it marks the latest in a series of Russian breaches of international norms since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in 2012.

Russia’s violation of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits both America and Russia from deploying ballistic and cruise missiles that are launched from the ground and have a range of between 500 and 5,000 kilometers, was first reported by The New York Times in January. An American government official confirmed the transgression this week, saying, “This is a very serious matter which we have attempted to address with Russia for some time now.”

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Putin Obama Doesn't Care About the Rules Anymore

Pot. Kettle.

[trisham]

Bad, bad Putin. Poor, helpless, innocent Obama. It’s not fair!

[bert]

The game is called TEGWAR....... the exciting game without any rules

As a mind addled lawyer, obama can’t comprehend such a game can even exist

[Scrambler Bob]

That has been my defn. of war for some time:

No More Rules.

(What are you going to do about it?)

[BobL]

If we had a version of the Topal-M I don’t think we’d need to care very much what other countries think of us either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2UTTKh_Topol-M

[RichInOC]

Oh, he’s playing by some kind of rules. Just not the ones the West is putting down.

[Tau Food]

I believe that Putin is becoming increasingly desperate. He has wrecked the Russian economy and his incompetence has cost Russia its alliance with the Ukraine. He and his terrorist cronies have committed a huge mistake by shooting down a commercial airliner. He has even bungled his lies about the incident.

He has miscalculated again and again. We shouldn't be surprised if he continues to commit acts of terrorism. He's behaving like a cornered rat.

[DaveA37]

“Putin Doesn’t Care About the Rules Anymore”......

Initially, I thought I had misread that to say “Obama Doesn’t Care About the Rules Anymore”.....

As a matter of fact, it could be either one of them that doesn’t care.

[slouper]

Why should he care about rules when barry doesn’t? In fact I’m sure putey has even personally encouraged barry in his lawlessness and now he’s just playing him, barry, like a fiddle.

Remember “ I’ll have more flexibility”?