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Mission Accomplished? Putin's Approval Rating Hits 2-Year Highs
Obama did it by offering hope, change, and class warfare... Abe did it by printing inordinate amounts of money, pumping stocks up, and speaking in increasingly militaristic tones... and now Vladimir Putin has managed to get his approval rating to near-record highs - by invading Ukraine?
The approval rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin remains at the highest level during the last two years for two consecutive weeks - 67.8 percent, a survey conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) said.
Sociologists noted that Putin's rating has been growing against the backdrop of the worsening political situation in Ukraine and the Crimea, successful completion of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and preparations to the opening of Paralympic Games.
VTsIOM stressed that over the past two years, Russian citizens have expressed approval of the work of the head of state on the level above 60 percent.
Previously, the maximum value of this index was reported in May 2012 (68.8 percent), immediately after Putin's inauguration as president.
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If Putin is a Centaur, does that mean that Kerry is his ass? http://5.media.tumblr.com/QZPdZQnsbqqqoxjadvAgqezKo1_500.jpg
People like a strong leader and Putin projects strength. Obama is a pussy and projects faggotry
Sorry i meant to + but was laughing too hard
Yeah but Valerie & Moochelle be our leeders, no?
Them hoes be STRONG!
And I ain't even mentioned Oprah!
Hows that class warfare working out for ya now??
Not your down, but ironically I'd rather live in a world where people didn't vote for or accept politicians who advertise machismo as their main selling point. In a free society, politicians are supposed to do the bidding of the People in an accountant or janitorial kind of way. Give me a fag janitor being paid by me, asking my permission for new laws any day over a muscle flexing man's man. Let the muscle flexing man's man work in the private sector and build a big business that employs people. I don't want a King or a ruler.
Don't disagree, only saying that people like their leaders to project strength. That's how you explain Reagan's popularity too. Obama comes off as a very weak dude, kind of a lecturing pedantic prick
To me, it all comes down the fact that the large majority of people want a King. There's a reason that model has worked since humans existed. Guys like us who want something else are fucked.
To me, the fact obama is bragging about 90 minute and 60 minute phone calls show weakness. A real leader would make that a 5 minute call that goes like this "Look Vlad, you need to get your ass out of Ukraine or you are going to suffer severe consequences" End of discussion.
Obama probably drones on pleading and telling putin about 21st century behavior...blah blah blah. As if Putin broke some club rule at the country club. I'm sure Putin sees the weakness in this bullshit talk.
I do love it so when these tyrants have these little tiffs between each other.
Makes em almost seem, human ;-)
He stuck it to America, and now he reaps the benefits. Bastard.
I'm willing to bet that Putin's approval ratings have skyrocketed in the West too.
After preventing the US from starting another bloody, messy war in the Middle East on the basis of a staged chemical attack by extremist jihadists, in cooperation with the CIA, and now intervening in the Western-backed coup in Ukraine by violent anti-democratic extremists, he certainly has gained my respect.
And many people I know, many of whom could initially hardly be described as great fans of Russia or Putin, think exactly the same.
Exactly... He (Putin) is standing up to the NWO...
They are subhumans no matter what.
those who deny the humanity of their enemies are pray of the most base of human (tribal) instincts
Well, drones are Obama's weapon of choice.
I don't want a **cking king. I want Ron Paul and would take Rand Paul if he were more like his dad.
Ron Paul sounds like what most thoughtful Americans ***USED*** to sound like.
Putin - he sticks up for his people and country. He does not start all this shit that the Zio-Mic RINO NWO CFR criminals start with attacking countries and murdering their people.
I respect Putin. He came to the aid of Syria when the criminals and real terrorists were destroying Syria.
Ron Paul would be a great choice but you'd better send him a boatload of help in the Senate and House because puppets that cut their strings end up dead.
it is very hard to invade any country that you are not superior to, thats why russians are sitting on their asses at home
I sympathize with you LTER, I want panarchism where people can assemble into whatever government they want, or not.
That is the only truly civilized way because people aren't gods and beliefs aren't reality.
Problem is that someone is always there that thinks they deserve to be king...
Isn't it a logical impossibility to have a government which is subordinate to the electorate?
Well Reagan was also not a prick when he dealt with Gorbachev. He was tough and stubborn but not nasty and petty. There appeared to be a mutual respect there. No one with a brain has any respect for Obama. Putin knows he is a joke. Ditto Kerry, Clinton, scum McCain and the rest. The NWO-CFR Bushes are vermin too but Putin had some respect for GW.
How can a real leader and a honorable man have any respect for someone who sells out their own people?
Putin feared Cheney...
And if he did indeed fear W. it was becasue W. projected an evangelical inspired lunacy that disregards the here and now...
The most dangerous people are those that think they have a seat in the VIP section for the second coming...
Who the fuck is downvoting you for that?!
I didn't, but a free society wouldn't have government.
A government society like exists now does, where people take turns enslaving each other while our lords and masters are laughing all the way to the Fed.
"WAR BY OTHER MEANS"
WOW LTR, you really aren't part of the real world
Politicians ONLY exist so that NORMAL people don't get blood on their hands,
Politicans do our killing and everybody feels good, this is the way its always been.
It's why we have politicians,
The DEFNITION of "POLITICS" is "WAR BY OTHER MEANS"
Politicians allow us to SANITIZE ourselves from bloodshed.
The Crimea is almost autonomous and therefore has it's own government and can decide a lot freely.
The treaty between Ukraine and Russia allows Russia to place up to 25.000 soldiers in the Crimea. Whoever is talking about invasion is repeating the absurd Zionist warmonger lies.
Since 1991 NATO has broken all promises. Putin and the Russian governments were so "aggressive", that Russia has been encircled and now already it's vital life interests at the Crimea and Black Sea are directly threatened.
I would like to know, what US media and bloggers would write, if Russia would have expanded it's troops around the US borders and if it was about to place rockets at it's borders, that would render US ICBMs useless. This arrogance and hypocrisy of the NATO (North Atlantic Terror Organization) is incredible!
The rocket defense system NATO is placing at Russian borders is an offensive system. It's aim is to deny Russia the possibility to use ICBMs, while it can be threatened at will. Cold war was so secure, only because each side knew, that attacking the other side was suicidal. The RDS at Russias borders is an EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE act and when someone looks, how AIPAC and the Zionists have used the USA to lead wars for Israel, with only negative effects for the US, therefore without any consideration how devastating this alien grip was for the reputation of the USA, then one can only pray, that USrael will NEVER be able to have an effective system, placing it at the Russian borders and giving it first strike capabilities.
One should also not forget, that Russia is the last European power, that restricts somehow the NWO. With Russia being eliminated and becoming a ZOG again, the world would sink even faster and deeper into Zionist tyranny.
Do not fall victim to the Zionist propaganda. Russia is the encircled victim and Putin has NOT been the strong man everyone is portraying him. So far he NEVER gained initiative and he always only REACTED to THREATS. He reacted very clever but at some point, there is no more place to move any further back.
The most peaceful man cannot live in peace, if his neighbour doesn't want that.
Spit coffee out my nose! Guess Putin dosn' appreciate mom jeans. Sometimes the truth hurts. lol There will be articles printed for years about what levers were pulled in which order that got this disgrace of a leader (Obama) in office. What a total perversion of our system.
<--Putin's nipples are his "shield of steel"
<--Obama's nipples are two of three
@LetthemEatsh*t
No it means obama is the ass
Ukraine crisis: Does Russia have a case?
Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the US, Russia, Ukraine and the UK agreed not to threaten or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine. They also pledged never to use economic coercion to subordinate Ukraine to their own interest.
You are correct.
I hate to keep banging on this but..."laws", treaties and consensual memorandums are only as good as the force that will back them up.
I up voted you by the way and "I hold in my hand a piece of paper, signed by..." ;-)
With obama that can change by the hour (if you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance). Constitutional Scholar never heard anything so funny in all my life.
And we're supposed to get "up in arms" over two socialist oligarchs going at each other...lol.
Kabuki indeed ;-)
What will upset me is if taxpayers end up paying for another War and we lose more lives...
Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalryThe Nuland phonecall is the PROOVE that USrael has broken the treaty.
So Russia is not bound to it anyway. Nevertheless, the treaty between Ukraine and Russia allows Russia to place up to 25.000 soldiers at the Crimea. So do not talk nonsense. Russia is acting according to international laws, while the Peace Nobel laureate is commanding terrorist groups and has committed a coup against the souvereign Ukraine and it's legitimate government.
+1 million.
I'm sorry to go OT here but this is funny as shit.
In the afternoon, the silver-haired, bespectacled Nakamoto stepped outside, dressed in gray sport coat and green striped shirt, with a pen tucked in his shirt pocket. He was mobbed by reporters and told them he was looking for someone who understood Japanese to buy him a free lunch.
Newsweek estimates his wealth at $400 million.
“I’m not involved in Bitcoin. Wait a minute, I want my free lunch first. I’m going with this guy,” Nakamoto said, pointing at a reporter from AP.
“I’m not in Bitcoin, I don’t know anything about it,” the man said again while walking down the street with several cameras at his heels.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/06/i-did-not-create-bitcoin/
Banzai's got one up now and the original is on page two.
Sucks to have to work all day huh?
Me too ;-)
No bitcoin post lasts for long here, yesterdays was wiped clean as soon as they lost the PRO debate,
Now Banzai's is already gone, and yes the one about satoshi found has been already pushed to the bottom of page two, ... in other words, .. "I would prefer we not talk about BITCOIN, it hurts to much to bring it up".
Funny when they PUMPED the BITCH it was endless, but now the "We told you so" has started, they'll have none of that shit :(
And who's he ("Satoshi") work for now? I'll give you three guesses and your first two don't count.
He's retired on an NSA pension with a CASH Valued ANNUITY of $10 MILLION USD for life.
Under NSA/CIA/US-MIL contract if he talks, he loses that PENSION.
What else you want to know?
*
I remember the first contract I signed some 40 years ago it said "Should I release any information given to me to a foriegn power, I would spend the rest of my life in a small box", The contract was QUITE long, but that sentence always stuck in my head.
Pretty chilling shit,...
Good MONEY, and threat of hell over you ...
Carrot and Stick don't get any better in the SPOOK world, that's why I would surprise that ANYBODY that does talk, is doing so for MONEY, e.g. he's talking for disinformation purposes.
See, Francis, that's why I like you. You're fucking sharp. That's exactly the right answer. He's a goddamned government spook and probably was when he invented BitCoin.
I remember once an ex-navy seal sold/gave one of the under-water demolotion training books to Paladin Press for print, .. the entire Seal Team had him taken out.
It's not just one man that gets fucked in these situations your entire team is at risk if one man releases "TOP SECRET" shit.
You will want to read this
Did Newsweek Just Validate Bitcoin Conspiracy Theory?snip
Here is one piece of the Newsweek story that does fit into one of the more popular conspiracy theories: That Bitcoin was actually created by the NSA, or some other U.S. intelligence agency.
Maybe Putin is popular because he doesn't go around invading 'other' countries...
He can also speak well without a tele-prompter.
Our leader has sunk to new lows in public approval; perhaps it is due to him not being even remotely qualified to lead outside of the "community" level.
Everything we thought we knew about O. is probably bullshit. He's a fraud.
Putin is ex KGB and well trained, well spoken. It shows.
Doesn't mean he is a good leader. He is not Jason Bourne even when that's the vision some people have.
I agree completely, the man is a fraud. He spent millions making sure we don't know anything about his past.
Putin or Bareass? ;-)
Well played Nmewn...
It was a "gaping hole".
Sorry ;-)
There is no such thing as ex KGB.
Wrong. A dead KGB agent is an ex-KGB agent.
Well your girl is ex-Stasi and supposedly is a nasty piece of work. She took the refrig when she dumped her hubby in the DDR. Apparently, a refrig was the only thing of value in the old DDR.
But don't worry - Obam/NSA is spying on you Germans even better than the old Stasi.
I have listened to a few of his rountables on RT and other newsconferences. He can answer questions in a thoughtful manner and the reporters ask him almost anything. They even asked him about the separation with his wife.
By the way, hopefully there will not be a war because much of the MIC shit the American soldiers, Navy and pilots has is junk thanks to corrupt contractors at least one is AIPAC.
The F-35 and even the F-22 are junk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qdB1D0s9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0NqNnnK7F4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPqbN7OooRg
They would have to go up against the excellent Su-35 and Su-27s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOM6cxWwt7E
Sadly, the US(S)A is totally corrupt now.
And his Deutsch is damned good, too.
strange things are afoot outside the zio-media bubble...
It's AMAZING how the people will respond when their leader actually acts in their nation's interest...
And we are stuck with our full retard moron Jack errrr Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q
there is no competitive manufacturing there, except arms
there is amount of corruption unimaginable to you
there is very little wealth creation compared to size of country
there is quite a big credit bubble as well
there is almost everything based on natural resource plundering
Russia is actualy quite weak, but power is based on appearances: Snowden/RT/speaking truth about the west/fighting oligarchs/antiGay
Putin clearly is a skilled leader, but dont fool youtself with "acts in their nation's interest..." ......must laugh
You know, I was aquainted with some Jews who immigrated from Russia who talked just like you.
It's called boots on the ground Nationalism, works a dime. Europe has been doing this sh*t for centuries.
Same old...same old
Till someone loses an eye
Bush 1 & 2 ***cough***
not by invading anything which he did not do,
by confronting nazis and fascists.
could it be?
or because Putin is a man of his words he does as he says contrary to known DC pussies
love of some people towards russian leaders is beyond my comprehension...
You should really go there and spend some time, I was there, 3 years ago, travelling by car through ukraine, further east through russia to Ural and back...constantly harrased a stopped by cops/Putins emploees, asking for bribes, we even spent 1 night in jail when we refused...
so fuck Putin and fuck dozens of oligarchs, completly owning productive assets and whole country, tens of thousands of small entrepreneurs are in jail due to tax evasion,it clearly says everything you have to know about Putin.
I clearly doubt russian army is capable of some reasonable action, they even have problems to suppress few thousands rebels in Chechnya or Afganistan
well to give them credit, they survived 70 years of comunism, survived yeltsin plundering....so maybe thats why they are now so satisfied.....things got a bit better and stable :)
I'm American, and I'd vote for Putin.
You voted Obama. So who gives a shit.
I voted Romney, but was outnumbered by the commie freeloaders.
What, you downticker actually thinks that having a seasoned executive in the Executive Mansion would be any worse than the carnival sideshow that's trashing it today?
In the absolute WORST case, we would be zero percent worse off.
I voted Ron Paul in the primaries and skipped the general election.
Commie freeloader!
;)
I'm sure you can move to Russia and vote for him all you want.
he wouldnt survive to the nearest election :)
I'm working on doing just that. I find the 12% flat tax and freedom very appealing.
Only 15% of Germans trust Russia anymore.
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/umfrage-jeder-dritte-deutsche-rechnet...
There you go. How relevant is this? I don't know. It will make the case for sanctions and possibly even war with Russia that much easier to sell. Not being subjective here, just stating the obvious.
Until Germany actually develops an energy "Plan B," what they do or don't think about Russia is kinda a moot point.
Necessity is a ruthless mother.
And to be clear, I mean "alternate supply pipelines," not wishful moonbeam fantasy energy -- which is what those silly gooses are trying right now (to no avail).
Hell, the FRENCH have a better energy policy than Germany. How sad is THAT?
(Okay, I'm done replying to myself now - honest. :) )
If Crimea goes to Russia, next will be Estonia (EU) and the smaller west side countries to Ukraine, Poland must be very concerned hence allowing Obama F-16s flying in...of course Germany must be get those post trauma Berlin wall flashbacks
At this point, the F-16 is the only decent fighter in the USSA's inventory. The F-15 is okay. The F-35 is total shit and the F-22 is not much better.
The Russian Su-27 and Su-35 can beat an F-16. My guess they will also take apart the EuroFighter. The Swedes Gripen is probably the closest to some of the Russian planes.
The Germans better wake the F up because they cannot expect that the USSA will be capable of protecting them anymore as Amerika is becoming a disaster thanks to their mulatto.
Freddie,
It's more about missile systems and avionics than the launch platform. US is in a class all by itself in those departments. Modern US missile systems can take out most enemy planes before the enemy planes even detect the presence of the US planes.
The Russians anti-aircraft, anti-ship and ICBMs are better than the USA. Pierre Sprey, who helped design the F-16 and A-10 plus thinks F-22 and F-35 are junk, said fire and forget air to air missiles are a fantasy. They can easily be defeat and he was not even getting into the moves the Su-27 and Su-35 can do.
You have been watching too much Top Gun. Keep talking MIC's book.
You may want to watch this to get over your air to air missile fantasy. This video is from someone who knows. The standoff and launch missles to take down other planes is BS. Go to 1:40 in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPqbN7OooRg
Wow. Thanks for the good link there Freddie. And that's coming from the designer of the A-10 too.
Nice avatar, but you are an idiot.
"war with Russia". You want to send the Russian army on another rape tour to Berlin?
I would think most Europeans would be happy if the Russians went to Brussels and strung up the commies in the EU like Baroso and Van Rompuy. I know I would f***ing cheer.
Freddie the great expert of european political opinion? oh wonder...
Germans loved Obama too. They must spew heavy duty shit in the German newsmedia. I talked to some German people and their little village is now filled with Ethiopians and Somalis and crime is way up. This is what you get with the NWO-EU(SSR).
Putin protects his country and people. The EU(SSR) and USSA shit on their citizens...err their serfs/slaves.
People love military conflict and strong leaders. We are a tribal species. It's why we're all fucked.
and will continue to be until we've erased ourselves from the planet
Yup.
Just think of the alpha-male hunter-gatherer convincing the lower males (dupes) to go running over the hill to attack the neighboring tribe so they can grab some females for reproducing and foraging.
Of course the alpha will do most of the reproducing and eating and the dupes get a just a little bit more ass.
Not true ! We are fucked because we vote for m0r0ns instead of intelligent people with good values and principles.
Of course, that only happens because we got to a point where, as a society, we hold no real values.
Everything goes !
However, the "everything goes" types of society SUCK and, as a general rule, don't last very long either...
"It's why we're all fucked."
No, it is why our ancestors survived through the millenia to produce us, and the reason we will fail at that vital mission.
We are pale shadows of our ancestors.
If we're fucked it is because we are pussies blaming all our troubles on the federal reserve so we can avoid the real problem which is our tribal enemies who control the NWO and import massive numbers of low IQ dark aliens into our lands who hate us, use their voting power to loot us, and will ultimately displace and exterminate us.
All men are not created equal and those that manage to propagate their genes into the next generation are those who rally to group defense.
notwithstanding MSM histrionics,
apparently,
there has been NO "invasion" by Russian troops.
Russian troops (by treaty 25k allowed) are stationed at their Crimean base.
Putin has been authorized to send troops, but has not,
and he says he will not, unless ethnic Russians are attacked by Ukranian neo-fascists.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/propaganda-rules-the-news/5372022
also related on this topic:
one of the hoariest canards of the Ukraine crisis: that Russian would recapitulate its actions of 2008, when it invaded Georgia. This assertion has been made by Reuters, AP, and I think quite a few others.
The facts—internationally recognized facts, I should say—was that Georgia used the occasion of the Beijing Olympics to launch a carefully planned invasion to recapture the breakaway province of South Ossetia—which was at the time autonomous under a truce agreement negotiated by Russia, Georgia, and the Ossetians in Sochi in 1993. The Georgians massed 12,000+ troops against 1000 Russian peacekeepers and a few hundred Ossetian militia. Georgia had apparently not anticipated a Russian intervention, and its forces were completely routed when the Russians indeed counterattacked.
Hopefully, the Georgia parallel will stand up in one regard: that the Russians promptly withdrew from Georgian territory after their objectives were met. And they did not annex South Ossetia; they allowed it to declare independence instead.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/04/skullduggery-in-ukraine/
Da....and this...
http://www.alternet.org/story/112457/that_was_no_small_war_in_georgia_--...
"That Was No Small War in Georgia" Mark Ames Radar Magazine
Mikheil Saakashvili, who left Georgia in 2013 to live in the U.S., is now in Kiev acting as an advisor to Pravyi Sektor/Svoboda controlled 'government' in Kiev.
68% of Russians are degenerates that live in dark ages. They are willing to eat sh*t and live in sh*t (literally) as long as their Mother-Russia is again feared by the rest of the world.
They call that "greateness." But in reality it's fear because there's nothing great about modern russia other than the amount of consumed alcohol and the number of nuclear warheads.
There's no point in trying to reform it. We've tried from 1991 until recently. But they voluntarily went back to the rule of KGB. Their population is shrinking faster tahn in Japan. Within next 2 generations the alcoho, tobacco, drugs, dirty air/water, and now maybe war will do the work for us.
You posted that to improve your standing in the Douglas Feith Dumbest Fuck On Earth Contest.
You probably moved up but I don't think you are in the top ten yet.
Keep trying, you can do it.
You obviously have not been there, and have not seen some of the beauty in the out reaches. The US is now a Ziionsit controlled shyte hole politically and financially, and if i may speak for those in this country who would like it back, please move back to Israel!
" please move back to Israel!"
please eat shit and die!
FIFY
Russians are tops in dashcam videos: road rage, crashes. Yiutube is where I get all of my information on Russia.
The Russians make the most advanced fighter jets and missiles in the world. This causes the corrupt zio-Pentagon to lose sleep at night.
The Russians are some of the best scientists and computer programmers in the world. Although, there are many Americans who are just as good. I said Americans not H-1B Indians.
The Russian middle class is growing, their life expectency since 2010 is increasing. Meanwhile, the European and American middle class is being destroyed and life expectency (before ObamaCare) is decreasing.
If you like your Islamic mulatto leader, you can keep your Islamic mulatto leader.
Most Russians scientists and computer programmers live abroad (after the end of Soviet era it was great oppurtunity for them to leave and it still is...). The ones I know hate Putin....
Russian Rich growing more than the middle class. The country is full of natural resource which from the common people hardly get any due to rampant corruption.
Sounds like an accurate description of the USSA to me.
I have question for you butt_thunder. Who is paying you? No human with enough intelligence to read and write could be as blatantly ignorant as you........so what is your agenda, or your employer's agenda I should say?
If you would just elect me Emperor of the World the first thing I would do is break up all the glued together nation states that only serve as engines of corruption into small autonomous or semi-autonomous units that make cultural and economic sense.
The second thing I would do is abolish the office of Emperor.
Can we give ole' Barry a Chinese ghost city to organize?....
Gee...
So what do our active duty professional men and women in uniform that are on there "10th going on 12th" tour of duty think of President Remus who just signed an executive order to tell those soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen that they are about to have the "best adventure with surprises" like they've never had in Afghanistan and Iraq just around the corner?
The American infantry have also been blocked from fighting back in Iraq and Afghan because of the mulatto's orders. He and zio also setup and murdered Seal Team 6.
President Remus and his Zionist handlers ran head first into the fan last September when those brave young lads with the posted signs in front of there face were sending "The Commander" a clear message that:
Not only are we not going to fight and die for Al Qaeda anymore as we have been for the last 12 years...
But also...
We're not going to take on a military that has two rather large and well equipped "proxies" waiting in the wings that is refreshed and ready to go the way we were 20 years ago before Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya...
Now the President with the full endorsement of those smelly piles of dung in that "white inverted toilet" on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue are beating drums to take on those "two proxies" up front and personal.
I think that about covers it.
Yes morale must be certainly very high going into this one!
The American people better raise hell. They did when they started talking about Tomahawks into Syria. It was almost instantenous and grass roots. All types of Americans.
there was no invasion of Ukraine. gave this article a 1 out of 5.
just continuing the propaganda by reiterating MSMs punchline -invaded/invading Ukraine-
Ithought USA and Israel united ( same country, as far as I can see) would find some mass destruction weapon in crimea, like in irak, you can go guys, send your kids dying for a shithole !!!
What does US-MIL THINK - Veterans TODAY
While the MSM lies, there are many people telling the truth, and the truth is the TROOPS are fucking PISSED.
Cult of Personility
Putin is becoming hugely popular in the West, too.
That's because he is doing what "we" would all dearly love to do ... he is defying our "homegrown tyrants".
Like a comic-book superhero, he is being the man that you ought/want to be.
I think Putin is so popular,
Americans wished Putin could be president of the USA.
The US is responsible for overthrowing another democratically elected government. In general, people don't like that.
Just because Obama doens't project strength don't even think he has more compassion for his electorate because of it. It will take years to undo the damage he and his cronies have done if it is even possible at all. When he was elected I said the net effect of his presidency will be that he spent trillions leaving office with the exact same problems he came in with. The will face the same economic farce that is our economy and the money to fix it has been spent. Give me a man (or woman) that projects strength and is willing to go eyeball to eyeball with Putin. Ultimately our security is dependent on strength. Everything else is bullshit.
Putin invaded part of Ukraine which used to be part of Russia until Krushov gave it to the Ukrainians when they were part of the USSR controlled by Moscow.
- So he has got this back
If it stops here its just a domestic - appreciate there is this international law thing we get upset about in thw West, unless its Iraq or Afganishan or what ever.
Real world is:
- We can't do anything about it
- We don't like Putin but he probably is a good leader for the Russians. Gerogia was bad but Putin does not rank on the
dictator list. So far, Ukraine is no Georgia.
- Ukraine is a mess either way
- Ukraine will still probably end up in the EU
- Long term is actually the goal should be to talk Russia around in to becoming the eastern part of the West, because of the emergence of China. Something in both our interests
- Putin won't last for ever, Russians clearly want democracy
- A strong Russia, if democratic is in our interests, a weak Russia is not.
- Putin gave Obama a bath in foreign policy over Syria
- US involvement in Europe re: Russia just makes things worse - please stay out and let the Europeans handle it.