Posted on 05/01/2022 11:16:26 AM PDT by dennisw
Former US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin briefly bonded in 2001. They held a summit in a rural Texas town of 705 people where Bush owns a nearby ranch.
Putin and his wife stayed at the ranch, and later, the two presidents took questions from local students.
Two months after the September 11 attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin joined former US President George W. Bush in a rural Texan town of 700 people, where Bush owns the nearby Prairie Chapel ranch. The two leaders also spoke at a high school, after winding down at the ranch, according to NPR.
The now-unimaginable meeting took place in Crawford, Texas, on November 15, 2001, and was billed as the Crawford Summit, with both presidents less than a year into their first terms in office.
It was an era when Putin admired Bush and Russia was trying to normalize relationships with the West after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The meeting reflected a positive moment in American and Russian relations — and a glimpse of Putin early in his rise to power in Russia.
"We had a great dinner last night; we had a little Texas barbecue, pecan pie, a little Texas music. And I think the President really enjoyed himself," Bush told the students, according to the George W. Bush White House archives. "I told him he was welcome to come back next August to get a true taste of Crawford. He said, fine, and maybe you'd like to go to Siberia in the winter."
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I looked into his eye and saw his soul.
It was a country music love song written in the Western White House.
...even then it was OBVIOUS that China was the country to watch, with 10% annual growth and nothing stopping them. Could have been a good alliance, Russia/NATO vs. China - but that was a lost opportunity, so now it’s NATO versus Russia/China. And good luck with that, with NATO countries in the process of committing cultural and economic suicide, and that was long before Ukraine.
Interesting perspective.
The context of the times is important and makes Bush’s comments on Putin more understandable.
Thanks for posting
Putin has been with every leader and both parties, with or without reset buttons. Man gets around.
Yeah
Too many of our politicians were bought off by China.
“Too many of our politicians were bought off by China.”
Agree, and I admit supporting them, back then, simply to break the unions (and it did work). Even so, one has to do it VERY CAREFULLY. In 1991 a drugged guy that my friend knew said to me that China has 100M people living at Western standards...it haunted me, so I opened up my World Alamanac, it said China GNP was $231B, so not possible (they were dead broke). 1992 came around, same $231B, so wiped the sweat off again.
Then 1993...updated number - $1.7T. And yes, at $1.7T they could support 100M people living at western standards. Overnight they were 3rd in the world as far as number of people living at Western standards. Now they’re first (disregarding their insane lockdowns).
...and until a few years ago, no one even noticed China.
China gets a foot hold militarily in this continent we are done.
They take an area and start bringing in 400 million people..how many does that leave them in China?
Comments made by dictators and tyrants and communists, can never be given any kind of credibility. Their comments are meant to appease the particular audience that they’re addressing at the moment.
Trust but verify comes to mind, but, never trust and always verify is more applicable to people like Putin and Xi and Castro and Saddam Hussein. Heck, Biden and Obama and Schumer and Pelosi and Schiff, are the same kind of people.
Thanks! This photo tells a story!
There’s that famous pic of Pooty posing as a journalist when Reagan was visiting Red Square.
Yup, he’s got those black soulless dead eyes even back then.
I looked into his eye and saw his soul and I realized that Islam is a religion of peace.
Some of our RAT politicians have those soulless eyes too.
Bush the Biden voting traitor.
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