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Putin Says Everything U.S. Touches Turns Out Like Libya Or Iraq
Having been quiet for a few days, comfortable sitting back and watching NATO, Europe, and the US escalate each other's talking points to a frenzy of populist revolt, Russia's Vladimir Putin has come out swinging this morning:
- *PUTIN: NO MATTER WHAT U.S. DOES, IT TURNS OUT LIKE LIBYA, IRAQ
- *PUTIN SAYS UN CAN'T BE FOREIGN POLICY TOOL FOR U.S., ALLIES
- *PUTIN: EUROPEAN LEADERS FAR FROM SHOWING INDEPENDENT THINKING
- *PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA IS COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T FEAR ANYTHING
In addition to discussions of The Bolsheviks, agreeing Stalin was a tyrant, and slamming liberal economic models for creating crises, Putin notes his approval rating is high because "he is confident he's right."
Some more fun soundbites:
- *PUTIN SAYS BOLSHEVIKS BETRAYED NATIONAL INTERESTS IN WWI
- *PUTIN SAYS UNFORTUNATELY SUCH PEOPLE IN RUSSIA TODAY
- *PUTIN SAYS LIBERAL ECONOMIC MODEL LEADS TO BUILDUP OF CRISES
- *PUTIN SAYS NOBODY DENIES STALIN WAS A TYRANT
- *PUTIN SAYS LEADERS WIN SUPPORT BY BEING CONFIDENT THEY'RE RIGHT
- *PUTIN: FIGHTS AT UN SOMETIMES FIERCER THAN DURING COLD WAR
- *PUTIN SAYS UNITED NATIONS NOT ALWAYS EFFECTIVE
And perhaps of most note... just as Obama pronounced yesterday that US would not engage militarily:
- *PUTIN: RUSSIA FAR AWAY FROM BEING SUCKED IN GLOBAL CONFLICT
But...
- *PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA IS NUCLEAR POWER, STRENGTHENING CAPABILITIES
- *PUTIN: RUSSIA STRENGTHENS ARSENAL TO FEEL SAFE, NOT THREATEN
- *PUTIN: DON'T THINK ANYONE SEEKS LARGE-SCALE CONFLICT W/ RUSSIA
* * *
So - just like the Cold War - military build-up on either side and constant escalation in tensions...
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Putin forgot Afghanistan where opium production is up 40 fold since the US invasion and more than a million people have died from heroin all over the world?
Moar de-escalation.... futures jump.. jump i say... I need some spending money at the hamptons this long weekend.
Community organizer versus cold war KGB thug.
Place your bets....
Russia has seen firsthand the American dream for other nations, as American backed Oligarchs pillaged Russia while it's people starved and were impoverished. Putin loves his country, and and won't sit on his thumbs while America attempts to encircle it through proxies while rationalizing its actions through corruptMSMedia propaganda.
America ruins the world to rule it
Romney to Obama.......the 70's just called.......we're back.
Now those are the words of a true leader.....not Errr, we dont have a strategy yet for this problem, that problem....oh what happened to my telepromter, it went BLANK????
Unlike the USSA, Russia does not need to create wars to feed it's Military industrial complex. All Russia and China need to do is wait out the self destruction of the USSA via debt and over extension, and watch the anglo american new world order implode.
A lot of the hatred from the political puppets in the West is due to Putin's popularity. They're jealous sociopaths who yearn to be respected and admired as much as him. The fact that Putin's popularity is never mentioned is the key tell.
As much as I distrust authority, I'm starting to like this, "Putin"...
I mean, Bolsheviks, Stalin and the USSA in the same paragraph? Impressive!
Putin 2016????
I'm in. Got a source for a bumper sticker?
Let's edit that statement just to clarify above.
Ummmm...yeah...he's right about that!
PUTIN Buys Phys GOLD.
The G7 Say they Have GOLD In Storage, Somewhere, Somehow, Somewhen... Just Fuckin TRUST-US, ...Or We'll Drone-Ya...
meanwhile, kiev puppet regime moves for NATO membership:
http://rt.com/news/183664-ukraine-want-nato-membership/
As a staunch liberal, I believe Putin is dead wrong re: nuclear weapons. Doesn't he know that to feel safe you must turn in all your weapons and trust the authorities like the U.S. to protect you?
NO MATTER WHAT U.S. DOES, IT TURNS OUT LIKE LIBYA, IRAQ
Parasites always kill the host. Looting and pillaging always leave behind a shattered shell.
its not our fault putin backs losers. russia is going to be china's bitch before long and all that middle east oil china needs will still be all fucked up in a war zone while the house of saud charges what ever it wants.
Let's see, in a choice between evil western banksters that are trying to destroy you -and- China which is welcoming a partner against western hegemony, I would take China any day of the week... SO who has picked the loser in this little game? Me tinks it's the western money-printers...
PUTIN vs OBAMA http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html#.U9vrUm0X30c.email
Nothing matters now. If exponential growth of ebola deaths continues to double every month then in June 2016 the reach toll reaches 6.2Billion......
putin vs. Obama is the least of our worries.
I'm really starting to wonder if this might be a Putin/Obama plan to throw out for good, the moldy cheese of Nazism in Ukriane. Put them in power and let their emotions and hatred show themselves.
USA has the Midas touch... only slightly softer and browner than gold.
you know things are out of whack when your "communist dictator" is more honest and effective than your "capitalist democracy."
Ahem... Honest "communist dictator"
The Obozo administration has purchased the patent for Brown-25... They had to as they have been spewing it for the last 6 years...
Our president and his controllers (who ever tells Valier Jarret what to tell Obama) are really just, well assholes. Remember the kid in school that no-body liked, you know the asshole. The one that even the so called loser kids that still had friends wouldn't even associate with. How the hell did they get control of the US?
If only Rand Paul and his kippah were president, then we'd be okay!
Something's wrong with you Sam. Ron Paul yes. Rand Paul no.
So who are you going to vote for, Hiltery or Romney?
Rand made the list when he turned on his own father by endorsing Romney before his father's campaign was even finished. Further, the fact that he supplicates to zionists is more reason to distrust this snake.
Everything The Scumbag U.S. "oligarch's" Touch Turns Out Like Libya Or Iraq
Let's edit that statement just to clarify above.
Ummmm...yeah...he's right about that!
Oligarch=the tribe. And then again it's always been about their Shekels cause the goyim is just a serf.
source for a bumper sticker?
Keep me apprised....I've got an ugly spot where i ripped off the hope and change bumper sticker.
Putin says, Zionism no good for you America, why don't you throw these people out of your Country like I did.
best translation i have seen all morning...
You fell for that shit .
http://www.makestickers.com/DesignReorder.aspx?SKU=90&DN=140829125301&ci...
http://www.zazzle.com/putin_2016_bumper_sticker-128326822707246005
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"Putin 2016" All he needs is a Hawaii birth certificate. Hell, at this point, he may just need "dual citizenship"...
Putin could probably claim some distant Alaskan lineage and be qualified. We went with a race baiting Marxist thug from Chicago via way of Kenya and Indonesia. I'll take Putin over that any day of the week.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2013/09/putin-for-president...
"Putin 2016????"
I changed my mind since he is not eligible. Here is my choice for my candidate:
Random Motherfucker from the Phone Book 2016.
Neither was Obama.
Anyone have a phone number for Mike Judge?
I think we have a prequel for Idiocracy.
Putin/Palin 2016 right? I mean, heck they are neighbors!
We could do worse
We will do worse.
"Putin in 2016."
You have to be born in America ... oh wait.
Sadly, saying he has no plan is probably the most honest thing Barry has ever said. Despite that, look at the list of meeting attendees in this article:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/obamas-national-security-counci...
A lot of "Deputy Assistant Secretary of [whatever]", the White House Counsel, and the Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs. Why so many lower-level players? What is Eric Holder's stake in this? Director of OMB?
Something feels "off".
Its Kabuki theater - ISIS is a CIA/Mossad/MI6/SA creature.
Wouldn't want to confuse things by bombing your own people, would you?
The giveaway is the ISIS ruthlessness and head chopping videos. Only the Israeli Mossad or Xe are that ruthless...
Putin and Merkel are the only heads of major states that behave like real "statesmen".
Because they know what they are dealing with, Bolsheviks.
Obama is going to respond after he finishes his morning round. Stretch goal today is 36 holes.
Obama is going for the 5 pound dumbbells today.....feel the burn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35fFm1p7pM
The USSA does not solve problems, it creates them. For the USSA, it is always about creating conflict to maintain hegemony and earn billions and billions for the MIC.
Couldn't Putin run for US President? He would fix everything, starting first with Obummer.
Well, given Obimbio was born in Kenya, Yes I do think Putin qualifies. Perhaps he should rent an apt in Cleveland to claim residency? Yeah, probably not... there isn't such thing as "illegal" anymore... that's rassys.
Vive Putin!!!!!
I don't know. He was doing pretty well, then he pointed out the clandestine Iranian truth: PUTIN: RUSSIA (Iran too) STRENGTHENS ARSENAL TO FEEL SAFE, NOT THREATEN.
At this point, I just don't think he has the ability to control his tongue in international diplomacy.... Nulazew, Fuck the EU?
Spot on LL. It's about money, but im certain there are also big agendas afoot that would just appall the public if ever they were revealed. We would have a revolution within a week.
"Putin and Merkel are the only heads of major states that behave like real "statesmen".
Do you have a beef with Jinping or were you thinking Eurocentric?
OK, count him in too.
Plus Merkel says some very toady, unstatesman like things.
Merkel is a true, honest-to-God weathervane. I've never, ever, seen a more indecisive country leader. Everything was alright for her as long as she knew where the money was (she's a real compass, always pointing to the gravy). As of now, the situation has changed, and the money is in TWO places, East and West, so she spins madly pointing once East, the next day West.
And that's a "statesperson"??????
Exactly what I think of every time I see Putin handing Obama his ass. All the liberals loved that "haha he got him on that one, snark snark"
Nicely put.
They are actively trying to build a better nation based on laws and capitalism while america is slipping further and further into outright despostism.
hahaha, so true, and sickening....
https://www.perpetualassets.com/news/2014/08/29/virtual-companies-the-po...
The duffer doesn't stand a chance, just the way it was planned.
I guess this is the flexibility Obama promised Medvedev/Putin in 2012.
This is it.
Got the Crimea, now, about that overland connector ;-)
I guess this is the flexibility Obama promised Medvedev/Putin in 2012.
WINNER!
It was indeed planned this way. We know someone is pulling Obama's strings. There's a case to be made that the other end of those strings are in Russia.
http://youtu.be/kTxcJTRP5AM
bucky baby make up your fucking mind you tool.
today you say obarme is a russian agent last week an arab muslim agent.
i guarantee you will never make the yid connection will you bucky.
obama is netanyahoos queen based on facts on the depleted uranium grounds
Bucky's a fundamental Christian that's been brainwashed to believe the Yids are God's Chosen People and therefor must be our supreme rulers and livestock herders.
Confucius say: "People that suck ass often swallow some shit."
Shinnicock Pow-Wow this weekend out in the hamptons will be off the hook.
Clearly referring to the "Obimbo Touch".
Im by no means a Putin lover, but he's right.
Of course he is, which is why he's demonized. Truth is the US government's biggest enemy, so anyone speaking it is feared and loathed.
Vlad with the statement of the year! Why is he so spot on? Because our country can no longer survive without manufacturing conflict around the world. TRUTH
You see, there are people in Vichy DC who consider all of us here a bunch of thugs.
Then thug-i-am. Rather be labeled something negative and derogatory than Banker, Politician, President, or Congressman.
Freedom loving terrsts.
Mongo just wants to see the average inept, idiotic looking IDF soldier going toe to toe with the average Russian soldier. Sheet! In fact Mongo would pay to see that funny shit. Maybe those big stupid knapsacks the IDF wear on their heads might save em.....maybe
idf (small letters on purpose) only good vrs kids on a beach or sniping old ladies from rooftops.
Hey now, those rocks can leave a nasty bruise, ya know!
This right-on-the-damn-bullseye statement is for European consumption. Vladdy-Poot is hammering home the point that the euros need to stop being America's bitches, think for themselves, consider the terrible "costs" accruing to them for "wearing the blue dress" for America. He's a very, very smart operator.
Will the euros wake up? I'm betting Germany is waking up (Merkel's statement yesterday about the U.S. not being able to cure the world's problems), and as it does, it's going to help the others wake up too. America's "global chaos ploy" is failing. Its cynical, "throw everyone under the bus" strategy just to cut across the rise of Russia-China is exposed for what it is - America cares nothing about the euros or anyone else. All it cares about is its own global dominance in perpetuity, no matter the "costs" to the rest of the world, including its friends and allies.
As Putin said, Russia is the only power that fears nothing. It is fearlessly exposing the U.S. on the global stage. Russia has balls the size of the moon, and you can damn well bet that right now Russia and Putin are secretly being cheered on a grand scale around the globe.
Well said. But I'm betting the euros will never wake up. They're too used to others telling them what to do. The people in the EU seem to be more clueless than the people in the US. How else to explain Hollande and the rest of their elected "leaders"?
“he is confident he's right”
And Obamba is confident that Wall Street, the Fed and the inner circle of the secret society is right.
Gee.. I guess they both are right.
Which half of the turd pie would you like?
"Gee.. I guess they both are right."
No. Putin belongs to a very different culture, a culture where there is ONE higher truth, the same for all. What he means is, he's confident he stands for the objective truth.
And he's right.
The secret societies that you speak of have lost thier minds. That makes sense from looking at the time line. Think about it, the people in control now are the Grand Children of the people who Got us into and won WW1 and WW2. Even though those wars were not necessarly fought for the right reasons. I think Hitler was a creation gone out of control and the Japennees were a threat to thier global power plan and had to be stopped. They did have a sense of Nationalism. Thier grand children on the other hand were raised as spoiled bitches that think the people on the ground are just toys to be manipulated and they believe that the nation itself does not matter in a Global world, they have lost the patroitic spirit and care only for themselves and personal enrichment. The russian elites still seem have national pride and seem to care about thier populance to some extent. This can be seen by thier social laws regarding the family. If our elites would wake up and see that our success is thier success we wouldn't be in this economic shit show we are in today. On the bright side having people in control here with a spoiled bitch attitute cannot last long as they usally self destruct. I just hope they don't take us all with them through some type of last ditch effort to maintain control.
What de-escalation?
Russia-led military bloc ready to send peacekeepers to Ukraine
http://rt.com/politics/183644-russia-csto-peacekeepers-ukraine/
BTFWWIII
give us a source............................
Well it was the heroin trade that was being cornered was it not? That and future minerals/pipelines and isolation of the East.
Plus had to install new bankers. and as a sideline fill the pockets of the arms dealers.
win win. winning.
there's a reason the nickname for Afghanistan is "The Bear Trap", suggest you read up on that
The "Graveyard of Empires" is much older.
Shame they don't teach history in America.
"Afghanistan is where they make those blankets Grandma had, right?" —average American
Is that what was in the road ?
Damn, I thought they were just "aging" persian carpets to sell to yanks.
evidently they don't teach it in UK either
yeah, you are right.
Buy you know? He keeps stacking.
It's called the "reverse Midas touch" foreign policy. Everything the US touches turns to fecal matter.
Queue the Russian imperialist apologists. Russian imperialism is good, US imperialism is bad.
Lord Putin will not be mocked here! ;-)
I gave him a greenie. It's a valid point.
Certainly it is.
You see, killing and conquest are always good, depending on who's doing it ;-)
Killing and conquest are what the lower 99% suffer. The rich .o1% profit off of war, hence the reason why the USSA always creates problems, and never solves them.
Yeah, those Russian oligarchs are really suffering, no doubt about it.
Its about time for a Ukrainian squirrel to run across the ZH stage don't you think? ;-)
Exactly what Russian imperialism are you talking about? NATO has gobbled up much of the former Soviet Union and wants more (Ukraine and other countries).
How did the Soviet Union "aquire" those countries? How did Estonia (for one example) fall under Soviet domination?
How did the USA acquire Hawaii ? How did the US acquire Texas ? How did the US acquire Diego Garcia ? Just who gave Okinawa to the US Military ? Who allowed the USA to transfer Mainz-Kostheim and Mainz-Kastel to Hessen just so it could have big bases ? Who gave the USA all those bases in Germany and control of Wehrmacht barracks in the centre of Wiesbaden ? Just who let the USA spend $60 million building an NSA listening station inside Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden ?
Pretty sure Estonia beat both the Soviets & the Germans and declared its independence (1920), who both teamed up again to subjugate it by a treaty Estonia wasn't even a party to.
As far as Hawaii they can leave with my blessings anytime they want and take their favorite son with them.
Yeah, those Russian oligarchs are really suffering,...
Some of them are dead. Look up Boris Behrezovski. He was the richest man in Russia when Putin came to power. Boris did a llt of his suffering in London. So what's your point?
Dude, really? Although only recently a member, I've been hanging around here for years. You used to slot in some excellent posts. Has some twat hacked your account?
LOL
Maybe it's just carry over from the chatty/catty after-hours threads?
No, its really me...lol.
And again, I don't care what anyone thinks of me or my comments. I detest Putin & Obama equally, they are the same person to me.
What more can I say about these two idiots, I don't have a man crush on either but its quite apparent you guys do.
Of course, the "Russian" oligarchs who rape's Russia's wealth under Yeltsin were mostly Jewish - and a good number, perhaps more than half, still are.
Jews are less than 2% of the population. They are less than 1% of the population in Ukraine but many, if not a bare majority of the oligarchs there are Jews, including the ex-banker current PM installed by the zionist jew Victoria Nuland.
Oh, but you probably think you still have a 'point,' right?
You don't - the Bolsheviks were initially western-backed Jews and never had the support of the majority of the Russian people.
Russian imperialism is good, US imperialism is bad
They kinda live there and we kinda don't
Agreed.
+1
For many years, I have been very impressed with the Impaler. He is a much better leader than the standard Western fare, but he is not above being raked over the coals or mocked on ZH.
Nobody is...
-double post-
But lord Nuttyyahoo will be.
But lord Nuttyyahoo will be.
so move on to another site - or are you paid to troll only here?
and ISIS is Bolshevism pretending to be a religion.
The Bolshevics have a standard operating plan to kill the top 10% of the population. They didn't teach that part of Marx in university.
Do you really mean Jews when you say Bolsheviks? I mean that was who made up the party and they are the bigest propenents of Marxism.. Marx himself being jewish..
Why must we speak in riddles in America?
Are we afraid or is it the fact that most are just so ignorant and of history and probably can't even handle the truth?
Not all Jews are Bolsheviks, and probably the other way around also. So the term Bolsheviks is more accurate.
That's why everything we touch turns to shit. Barry doesn't even know the definition of the word imperialism...
I don't think that's people's problem. The issue is that lately when the US takes control of countries, it brings nothing but pain and hell to the people there. It's also people's issue with Israel and Gaza. If you're going to take over land, you need to treat the people on it somewhat well and have some level of peace.
Remember the good old days of US imperialism? Hawaii, Puerto Rico, The Phillipines, Texas...
The Phillipines? Treating people well? You need to look into that. 45 caliber side arms were developed for shooting Phillipinos at close range.
What imperialism?
If I were an independent nation I would certainly have less fear of Russian imperialism than Western imperialism.
Please post a list of the countries invaded/bombed/overthrown by Russian in the past 20 years.
Please post a list of the countries invaded/bombed/overthrown by the west in the past 20 years.
It will become clear to you that one evil is lesser than the other, at this point.
PUTIN SAYS BOLSHEVIKS BETRAYED NATIONAL INTERESTS IN WWI
So clearly the thing to do was work for the KGB.
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He didn't work for the KGB?
It was Andropov as head of the KGB who saw the dead end of the Soviet system and masterminded perestroika. He was the one who personally,as USSR general secretary, picked Gorbachev as the only man who could bring down Communism in the USSR. You totally misunderstand the ways of the KGB. As in they were/are nothing like the ways of the CIA/NSA/DIA/DHS or anything you have in mind.
So the KGB were the good guys?
Mmmkay, sure...lol.
The KGB protected the communist state leadership. Just like SAVAK or any other arm of the state. And he was part of the machine and still is.
"The KGB protected the communist state leadership. Just like SAVAK or any other arm of the state. And he was part of the machine and still is."
Of course they did. After all you have to stand behind someone before you can stab him in the back.
The KGB played a long term game with national interest coming first and foremost. Go compare that with the Bay of Pigs and anything else the CIA has come up with ever since.
Also: You drink too much Kool Aid.
All I know is the KGB.......has got a lot of damn passwords.
"The KGB played a long term game with national interest coming first and foremost."
And that long term game included torture & murder.
Yeah, "the good guys".
Yeah, you win. US never did that. Or supported regimes that did that. Or export suspects to countries that are well known to use torture, with the explicit intent of extracting information the CIA wanted. \sarc.
Get off the Kool Aid. Just say no.
Now we're getting somewhere.
What is your emotional response when you see a picture of a bare chested Putin riding a horse? Is it an admiration of his vigor, vitality, manliness, chivalry perhaps?
CIA or FSB? First guess doesn't count ;-)
You are a simpleton, aren't you? Putin is just a front man. He is a presentable, articulate(unlike some US specimens) , likeable on first impressions and a very much expendable Lubyanka asset. That's all I think of Putin. Take Putin out and there will be another Putin right behind him. Same nobody, same nothing much past, straight out of some Lubyanka office.
However it has come to my attention that you seem to be attributing onto others some sort of homoeroticism about what is ultimately just another tool of the trade.
Would you like to elaborate further on this psychological projection of yours?
I wasn't aware that recognizing something presented as vigorous, with vitality, manly or chivalrous represented anyones homoeroticism.
Besides, I'm married, with children.
Perhaps you're doing a little projecting yourself there fellah ;-)
"What is your emotional response when you see a picture of a bare chested Putin riding a horse? Is it an admiration of his vigor, vitality, manliness, chivalry perhaps?"
Your words not mine.
Emotional does not mean sexual. No more than being sad makes me laugh, except when I'm speaking to you...lol.
But now I've hurt your pride, should I be happy or sad? ;-)
Emotional does not mean sexual.
Its awfully close nmewn and you know it too. Now go get a hanky, sit down some place where you can compose yourself and come back when you feel ready.
No wonder this place has gone to hell in hand basket, you people don't even know the difference between admiration and sexual arousal.
Or does Putin do that for you? ;-)
Some of your comments used to be pretty good. Now you've shown us you're just another neocon.
Neocon? Are there or are there not Russian troops in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine?
And you know what, I really don't give a flying fuck what you think the quality of my comments are, I'll comment as long as Tyler allows me.
Don't like it? Have him/them ban me like a good little Hitler Youth would, that'll show the quality of yourself.
Enjoyed your comments, Agent Default.
Many, many people seem to be fatally attached to the idea of there being a "good guy" and a "bad guy". This leads to all sorts of illusions and makes it very easy for the media to manipulate such persons. Best, IMO, to drop the bad guy, good guy thinking and realize that there are only interests. Each side has interests. Each side has plans and contingencies. Each side is playing the game differently. Best not to be fooled by the acting, e.g. seeing the U.S. leaders as either godly or idiots. There is so much more going on than that simplistic front, which is invented for the "chattering classes". Best not to see Putin as either a savior or "He man". Again, there is far more going on than the media portrayals.
don't you think you've gone to the absurd homoerotic/homphobic/anti-Russian well once too often?
Of course you don't.
Cookie?
I don't think he is claiming USA never did that, I think his point is both sides do it. I am just amazed at all the blind believe in any government system by ZH'ers. The defending of the KGB as an upright organization?? Really? It matters not who is in power...power corrupts and the KGB, CIA, Mossad are all thugs who do the dirty work without pause for their respective handlers. CIA still tortures assasinates and causes massive havoc around the world, so does the Mossad . The KGB is not far behind.
it never ceases to amaze me how so many westerners (not your posts) grossly over simplify complex reality... for example, if you were in the KGB, then you are evil. The KGB was a huge organization, with any number of actions, the faction that Putin arose from only being one. Btw, when you read the back story on how he rose to power, it is quite interesting. He came from special section that was firewalled off from most of the organization. their mission was to take back russia from any type of internal (ie zionist) take over... which is exactly what happened. If ONLY the U.S. had such a group somewhere in the vast military and security complex... because it is quite obvious that the american government was captured long ago by the very forces that took over Russia with the bolshevik revolution, the zionists.
some (many) like to use straw men to try and bolster their opinion. nmewn can't go 2 posts without dragging out a scarecrow to try and make his point