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Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status
Having been relatively quiet for a while, Russia's leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner - "isolated"?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard the failing world order:
- *PUTIN SAYS U.S. DOLLAR LOSING TRUST AS RESERVE CURRENCY
- *PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY GROWING
Adding that the risk of major conflicts involving major countries is growing, as well as the risk of arms control treaties being violated, Putin exclaimed that the US-led unipolar world is like a dictatorship over other countries and that "US leadership brings no good for others," and calls for a new global consensus.
Having met Crown Prince Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in Sochi, who confirmed that Moscow “plays a very important role in the Middle East," and added that he had no doubts that his country and Russia “are bound by a privileged relationship," it appears Russia is less "isolated" than the West would have many believe.
As Bloomberg reports:
- *PUTIN SPEAKS AT MEETING OF VALDAI CLUB IN SOCHI
- *PUTIN SAYS WORLD GROWING LESS SECURE, PREDICTABLE
- *PUTIN SAYS NO GUARANTEE OF GLOBAL SECURITY
- *GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM IS WEAK, DEFORMED: PUTIN
- *COLD WAR ENDED WITHOUT PEACE BEING ACHIEVED: PUTIN
- *PUTIN SAYS COLD WAR `VICTORS' DISMANTLING INTL LAWS, RELATIONS
- *U.S. HAS WORSENED DISBALANCE IN INTL RELATIONS: PUTIN
- *PUTIN SAYS U.S. ACTING LIKE NOUVEAU RICHE AS GLOBAL LEADER
- *PUTIN SAYS WORLD LEADERS BEING BLACKMAILED BY `BIG BROTHER'
- *U.S. LEADERSHIP BRINGS NO GOOD FOR OTHERS: PUTIN
- *PUTIN SEES GLOBAL MEDIA UNDER CONTROL, UNDERMINING TRUTH
- *PUTIN SAYS WEST CLOSED EYES TO INTL TERRORISM ENTERING RUSSIA
- *PUTIN CALLS U.S. SELF-APPOINTED LEADER
- *PUTIN: UNIPOLAR WORLD LIKE DICTATORSHIP OVER OTHER COUNTRIES
- *PUTIN SAYS MANY COUNTRIES DISENCHANTED W/ GLOBALIZATION: PUTIN
- *PUTIN SAYS U.S. DOLLAR LOSING TRUST AS RESERVE CURRENCY
- *RUSSIA WON'T BEG FOR ANYTHING: PUTIN
- *SANCTIONS UNDERMINING WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION RULES: PUTIN
- *RUSSIA ISN'T WALLING ITSELF OFF FROM WORLD, PUTIN SAYS
- *RUSSIA READY FOR DIALOGUE ON NORMALIZING ECONOMIC TIES: PUTIN
- *PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY GROWING
- *PUTIN CALLS FOR NEW GLOBAL CONSENSUS, INTERDEPENDENCE
- *PUTIN: CONTINUED USE OF FORCE IN UKRAINE MAY LEAD TO DEAD END
- *PUTIN SAYS U.S. CAN'T HUMILIATE ITS PARTNERS FOREVER
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Fighting talk?
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Escalation? It seems sabre-rattling is picking up as The Washington Times reports,
Russian military provocations have increased so much over the seven months since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine that Washington and its allies are scrambling defense assets on a nearly daily basis in response to air, sea and land incursions by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Not only is Moscow continuing to foment unrest in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. officials and regional security experts say Russian fighter jets are testing U.S. reaction times over Alaska and Japan’s ability to scramble planes over its northern islands — all while haunting Sweden’s navy and antagonizing Estonia’s tiny national security force.
“What’s going on is a radical escalation of aggressive Russian muscle flexing and posturing designed to demonstrate that Russia is no longer a defeated power of the Cold War era,” says Ariel Cohen, who heads the Center for Energy, National Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington.
“The more we retreat, the more we are encouraging Russia to behave in a more aggressive way,” Mr. Cohen said. “We need to be engaging more deeply with our Central Asian allies, but instead we are in the process of abandoning turf to Russia, and it’s wrong — it’s against our interests geopolitically to let Russia feel that they all of a sudden have won all the turf without firing a shot.”
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Putin is kicking and screaming like a child because his precious Ruble is getting crushed, oh, and so is his budget based on $100 oil. Why is this happening?
Well, maybe he should try being nice to people instead of stealing land (Georgia), practicing nuclear attacks on previous allies (Sweden) and cutting gas lines to his biggest creditor (Europe). Shall I go on? Sending subs to interfere (Sweden, UK), harassing neighbours (Finland, Japan), attacking his own brothers (Ukraine)....
Putin, time to step down before you destroy Russia.
Putin is kicking and screaming like a child because his precious Ruble is getting crushed, oh, and so is his budget based on $100 oil. Why is this happening?
Well, maybe he should try being nice to people instead of stealing land (Georgia), practicing nuclear attacks on previous allies (Sweden) and cutting gas lines to his biggest creditor (Europe). Shall I go on? Sending subs to interfere (Sweden, UK), harassing neighbours (Finland, Japan), attacking his own brothers (Ukraine)....
Putin, time to step down before you destroy Russia.
Putin/Russia didn't steal any land in Georgia. The Israeli-Georgian defense minister thought it would be a great idea to break a truce and shell Russian peacekeepers, killing 16, then cried and stamped their feet when the Russian's distributed some payback and declared, a la Kosovo, that Abkhazia and South Ossetia would not be allowed to be crushed by Georgia or its US/NATO/Israeli puppetmasters.
BBC Places that don't exist - South-Ossetia / Abkhazia (2005 ...Note - these people are not Russian, but had no part of wanting to be ruled by Georgia. Georgia gambled on being able to use US/NATO tech to crush separatist movements, but it was a foolish gamble, backed, no doubt, by American neocons warmongers
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profiles/category/organizations
Nations with nukes do readiness drills - especially those increasingly surrounded by an enemy alliance's bases and missile shield.
No gas lines have been cut, and Ukraine was getting a discount for years - now, it is being asked to pay market price, after the US-backed coup.
What subs? there is absolutely no proof at all a Russian sub was located in some Swedish islands, meanwhile the US and UK routinely bomb, invade, attack, and surround sovereign nations at will.
Hard to see how he's harrassed Japan or Finland any more than the US has harrassed China, North Korea, Pakistan, Syria, and so forth.
Pretty sure Ukraine's junta attacked ethnic Russians first, and CIA and American and Polish mercs have been massacring civilians, but you're right - how evil for Putin to {purportedly} provide assistance to ethnic Russians on land that was formerly part of Russia proper....
No person who was not born within the current geography of Russia is a fucking Russian.
Such bullshit.
The idea that a segment of the population who came from Russia is always Russian and has the right to vote that the land they currently reside in can be once again become Russian with a corrupt vote is bullshit.
Some Jews from Europe once lived in Germany so with this logic we should partition Germany into the new and bigger Israel.
Suffice it to say that you are grossly ill informed. I assume you take the blue pill.
Rootin' for Putin. Our last chance against a one world government where we are all told are taxes will be lowered, our savings will be safe, our children will be educated, we'll be able to trust our leaders, the banks will be put under control, politicians will be honest, and it will rain in California.
Hey, you're stealing my campaign slogan "Rootin for Putin"; but I don't mind.
We may have thought of it at the same time, I've been using it for months now. Maybe it will catch on. Keep going!
Putin is making one thing very clear: before he ends up like Saddam Hussein or Mohammar Ghadaffi, and his country ends up like Iraq or Libya, he will light things up. I do hope they are listening.
Bastiat - I very much share this concern. What if you were Geronimo with nuclear weapons?
Poor, cannabalistic Shylock has never known the feeling of being completely satiated. More pounds of flesh, please.
In the cold-blooded analysis of the Neo-cons and the Neo-liberals, open war with Russia will inevitably end with the destruction of Russia. The considerable cost in blood and treasure, which the Americans would surely have to endure to achieve this end, are of no consequence to the Neocon/Neoliberal, because they (in their mindset) belong to a higher order of humankind; and they are sure that the damages to them will be slight in comparison to others. Furthermore, they will be in position to exploit the ruins of Russia and to accumulate even more wealth and power unto themselves and their kind.
Not even the Chinese and Iranians want to get so close to Russia as to incur the enmity of the clique that runs the new world order through Washington, DC and New York City. But, as long as Russia is seen to become stronger through its defiance, there's a chance that the other BRICS plus Iran and possibly even Turkey may seek to hedge their support for the US-dominated global order by helping Russian independence to succeed.
As a schoolboy, my history teachers were fond of drawing comparisons between Rome vs. Carthage and Athens vs. Sparta with the rivalry between America and Russia. (Even though we knew that the formal identification was USSR, it was easier to imagine and more vivid to say "Russia".) The people who engineered our entry into WW II and who gained so much from the creation of a "Unipolar world", are not going to let Russian nationalism lead to the establishment of another "pole". Everything that was done to cripple the Soviet Union will now be applied to Russia; and -if left to its own devices- will surely be just as successful in achieving its outcome, especially since Russia is just about half of what the Soviet Union was.
But, here lies the problem: Putin knows that. Letting this play out slowly at the pace set by the Neocons, will inevitably mean his disgrace and even further disintegration of "Russia" both as a country and as a concept. Putin is playing for time. Russia needs a break, if it is to succeed in realizing its aspirations.
That break could come from a succession of democratic outcome through elections of nationalists in the major European nations, or possibly even in the USA itself. The break could be an open war between the US and China, over Chinese assertions of sovereignty over Taiwan and parts of Japan. Another possibility would open revolt by the other members of the UN Security Council against the US sanctions imposed upon Russia, Iran, and North Korea. I don't believe that any of these are going to happen.
Far more likely, the US will incrementally take over Ukraine and the Baltic states, like it did South Korea and Japan, and will deny Russia access to Ukraine both as a market and as a source of raw materials and agricultural products, and access to the Western World through the Baltic and Black Seas. Once that is done -and it will take no more than a decade to accomplish- Russia will have a choice: to exist as a marginal outcast like Iran, or exist as a vassal state to the US-dominated world order. I am sure that Putin and a large majority of Russians will not accept that.
To prevent that, Russia must continue to do what it is doing: disrupt the Ukrainian economy and support the genuinely pro-Russian elements in Eastern Ukraine. Russia will fight a "proxy war" with the United States in Ukraine, and will fight it indefinitely -if that is what it takes- to keep the Ukraine from becoming a functional vassal of the United States.
Secondly, Russia can intimidate the Baltic States and Poland. Knowing full well that a war between the US and Russia will be fought on their land and the majority of civilian casualties that NATO nations will suffer will be theirs, not America's, maybe the politics in these countries will turn against America and seek to accommodate the Russians, at least by opposing the sanctions. Russia doesn't want to intimidate the Finns, Swedes, and Germans; but Russia wants them to understand that it is ready for war and that they will be drawn into the conflict. Merkel must be convinced that it is better for Germany to break with the United States now than to face war with Russia later.
The Ukrainian nationalists from Lvov to Kiev are frustrated by this dilemma. Their leaders are trying to provoke an outright invasion by Russia (like 1939) in order to cajole the United States to rescue them a la South Korea (like 1950), rather than draw them in over decades into another Vietnam. But either way, they want the US military involved. And the arrogant Neocons/Neoliberals of the United States are willing to oblige them.
This is the war that Putin warns us about.
SS20 ICBM's from russian super subs just cause a little flesh wound here and there ? I don't think so. they're nation killers; and they have regular exercises; including test firing missiles. 48000 ton displacement submarine with 20 SS20's on board; each one with ten thermonuclear warheads. Why? so nobody tries anything more serious than mouth flapping.
The damn fools who promote the idea of a US first strike nuclear attack on Russia and knock out the Russian ICBMs with the European missle shield, while the Oligarchs while away the time in deep underground military bases are overlooking several details.
First Russian subs nuclear weapon equipped and Russian aircraft aloft with nuclear weapons.
Second, for the nuclear winter that follows such insanity, the air filtration systems in the deep underground military bases are not going to filter radioactive air for the duration of a nuclear winter.
The US is truly led by the psychopatically insane.
and.... everybody forgets (and belittles) the "bear" bombers. if folks only realized the ingenious "ace-in-the-hole" game changers these will be in the event of.....
Destruction of Russia = the destruction of world's 9th largest economic. If society fell apart and I had to choose between golfer in chief and putin, for survival, there is no debate.
@ Anachronism:
Before any comment, I have great respect for you!
Was the only commentator who made ??text with more than two paragraphs and exposed a consistent idea.
Now it's my turn:
Anglo-Saxons, Slavs, Muslims and Eastern peoples have different cultures.
Even within Brazil you have many indigenous peoples who think distinctly Central Government in Brasilia.
The sociological question is only addressed in the United States of America by CIA specialists and other soups rooted in little letters and Universities fornidas of government money.
You can check this in the media reports, the guys have no conception of the difference between Shia, Sunni and other Muslim groups, the guys always say "chinezes" and do not even know how many beliefs or over 300 dialects that there are those one billion two hundred thousand living beings.
In the 1970s there was a theory that said that if all Chinese to raise their hands and walked toward Europe, Europe was fucked, would not feed as many people.
In this sense the Korean War was ended, Patton said in so many words that kill that lot of people, with only bomb!
China and the "Ace in the Sleeve".
Americans miliary not know what is or what they have there.
It may be an unfortunate surprise.
I do not think that minimize the current status of the world compared with Peloponezas wars, the invasion of Rome is a happy intersection.
The world has evolved, today you have the Spanish War of Ukraine, you have the English, Americans and people from many countries fighting for ISIS Muslims, you have a number of similar intersections with the Spanish Civil War.
No, my dear, today's wars can not be compared to what happened in Greece, Crete and ancient Rome, the thing is much more dense, there is much more involved than women and gold.
:-)
Ohh, shit. We got some shirtless Putin! You know how the ZHers love them some shirtless Putin! Panties be droppin'.
I can respect reasonable anti-Putin screeds, but why do so many of you trolls resort to this lazy, easy homoerotic/homophobic script?
Get thee to consortiumnews.com, or globalresearch.ca to read some truth.
Or just fuck off back to HuffPo...
He was likely masturbating while posting that.
Honkado, You can get up off your knees now. We know when we're licked.
Ariel Cohen appears to be little more than a dissembling neocon cunt
http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ariel-cohen/
But wht's the IAGS, I wonder, generally willing to keep an open mind...
Well, under advisors, you have the reprehensible R. James Woolsey, you have arch neocons Pollack and Abrams, and as for "senior fellows" - it seems at least 4 of 5 are Jews, with Cohen and Rosner having likely ties to the oligarchs and, probably, to Israel's government.
Neat. Rosner et al have been singing the same song for years
Wrestling the Russian Bear by Kevin RosnerYou don't have to be a Putin fanboy to question why this neocon think tank would appear in an establishment rag that hasn't done any serious journalism for 30 years...
Good for you Duck; the more awareness that gets out there the better. the Washinton times, indeed; that's the whole fucking problem, it is---temporarily, "The Washington Time"; but not forever.
"What we see now, is a cruel battle with time. On the one hand, Russia and China, together with the rest of the BRICS, are trying to get rid of the dollar and form their own currency system to gain complete independence, on the other, the neocon banking-corporate puppets in the US are in panic and seek desperately a pretext to come to war with Russia and put an end to this threat for their plans. This explains their agony to drag Russia into a warm conflict."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/08/the-dominant-elite-ready-to-b...
This Crimea thing is really something. For Ukrainians, Latvians, Sweeds or anyone to think Russia would give up their naval base there, just because. is seriously delusional.
Take Guantamino. Cuba has requested the u.s to leave years ago and have accepted no money for the lease but the u.s stays. Why? Because it can.Period.
The difference? In Crimea there was at least a vote and the Russian parliment voted to accept the annex request. In Guantanimo the u.s stays by shear arrogance and power. Just like it operates in the rest of the world.
What if Crimea voted the other way, Russia would have probably annexed anyway but that point is moot.
Alaska? Alaska is about 13 miles from Russia. Russia could launch a Cessna 150 and the paranoid u.s would probably intercept.
Now none of this was going on until the u.s was clearly put in it's place over Syria. It decided a Ukraine regime change was in order and put its bretheren Nazi's in charge knowing this would really antagonize Russia. But Russia didn't overtly play like everyone hoped. Then US/NATO decided to move troops and equipment to Russias border. Still Russia didn't over react. Now the u.s is down to name calling and demonizing. Still Russia is acting mature and logical against a bully nation that for all practical purposes declared war on them in a U.N. speech recently.The fact that we are not in a conventional/nuclear war is completely due to Russia's patience as the u.s has done everything short of armed attack to start one.That's probably next.
I personally want to thank Russia for it's patience and dedication to diplomatic solutions rather than knee jerk reactions like the u.s. Sorry fellow americans. I do not wish to be incinerated because it supposedly will boost the economy and no,,, nuclear war is not winnable contrary to what the Neo CONS (nazi's) say.
Roger that.
Tyler you can rationalize Putin as much as you may like, but honestly only some of what he points out can be taken as correct. Whatever the provocation, Putin is the one who moved on Crimea first, teting perimeters, etc. Putin is frankly inviting ISIS troublemakers in with some of these views. The birth of ISIS certainly is open for debate, but whatever the merits, Iran and Russia have no basis to sit on the sidelines when it comes to ISIS fighting, and the fact that they are shows they are not ready to take leadership roles fully in the global community.
Having said that, looks like Oak found the link to Siran sending in Rev Guards to help Assad. At least this makes sense, but this Shiite axis only serves to create more instability in the Middle East. Until the Sunni and Shiite begin to coexist, the bullshit will continue in the ME with all its paths and variations with proxies and subgroups. I don't give Islam much thought much the time, but for a so called common religion or belieft system, they do wind up killing each other a lot.
Back to Putin, to me is just a good olf KGB communist from the era before Gorbachev. Do business in Russia at your own peril, McDs is finding that out.
MacDonalds. We're supposed to feel sorry for McDonalds? birth of ISIS is open for debate; no it isn't. not a bit of it. you're delusional.
Holy fuck. wow! I don't hear ISIS yammering to chop Russian heads off. Nope. Just unaccountable meddling idiots. Keep trying to shove "they hate us for our freedom" down other country's throats and you do so at your own peril is clearly the meme you meant to write. And, well, of course, this says it all don't it?: I don't give Islam much thought much the time, but for a so called common religion or belieft system, they do wind up killing each other a lot.
Honestly, I can't measure whats more apparent - your arrogance, or your ignorance.
shit. now I'm grumpy.
agreed - a cogent analysis that might paint Putin in a negative light {esp. perhaps for civil liberties or economic decisions} is one thing - bu this is incoherent babbe, like an essay copied and psted from terms and phrases employed at neocon mouthpieces like the NYT or Weekly Standard.
In short, this is some piss-poor trolling. For those that hate Putin - you have the entire world of corporate mainstream media to echo your beliefs about what's happening. Kindly fuck off there, or stay and try to summon a rational argument as to why it is Putin and Russia that is the 'aggressor' versus the US/UK/NATO axis of colonialism, fiat reserve currency, and unremitting meddling in the internal affairs of countries nowhere near its borders.
Better check who kills most muslims in real
and promotes so called muslims killings of muslims
bk - you are largely wrong. You are guilty of cob webbed thinking.
How did Putin and his hydrocarbon billionaires acquire the rights to all that oil?
Oh thats right, the people of Russia wanted to give it to them.
No other person on Earth has stolen more from the people of Russia than this asshat Putin.
Stupid post....
VV Putin was never about money
You know nothing about Putin Administration
http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2014/06/15-years-of-putin-rule-in-one-infograph.html
Russia has 13% Flat Tax only
Russians are better off than ever
better worry about your own country
Which part of 'we live in a multipolar disestablishmentarianist world' do they not understand.
Photo of obsolete F16 is appropriate.
Well the F-16 is the best fighter in the US inventory. The F-16 is far better than the F-22 and laughable F-35. Just ask pieere Sprey who helped design the F-16, A-10 and quit the F-15 because it was getting too big and expensive.
Is that photo actually a Japanese variant taking off?
Just hours earlier, De Margerie had met Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at his country residence outside Moscow to discuss foreign investment in Russia. In his speech hours before the plane crash that took his life, de Margerie said U.S. and European Union sanctions on the country were “unfair and unproductive,” and that he opposed efforts to render it “isolated from the major global economic and political process.”
De Margerie was a keynote speaker last spring at Putin’s annual economic summit in St. Petersburg—an event that many Western executives decided to skip—where he signed a deal with Russian oil group Lukoil (LUKOY) to develop shale oil in Western Siberia. De Margerie also pressed ahead with major Russian investment, including the $27 billion Yamal natural gas venture in the Arctic led by Russian gas group Novatek (NVTK:LI), even as sanctions against Novatek and one of its owners, Gennady Timchenko, have complicated financing.
De Margerie told Bloomberg News recently that he was “doing everything” to move the Yamal project forward, in keeping with his belief that politics and business should be kept separate. Total, the world’s No. 4 non-state-owned energy group, has said that Russia could become its largest supplier of oil and gas by the end of this decade, up from its fourth-biggest supplier in 2013.
De Margerie’s death removes from the scene a businessman who rarely shied away from geopolitical debates and became one of Russia’s most outspoken allies in its efforts to avoid economic quarantine, willing to say what others only dared think. Although European corporate giants from Siemens AG to Renault SA (RNO) have built close relationships with Russia, most business leaders have preferred to keep their lobbying private to avoid offending governments committed to punishing Putin.
PetroDollar War – French Energy Giant Total CEO AssassinatedGetting a pilot to crash into a Caterpillar at the end of a runway is a tough way to assssinate one of the passengers. Shouldn't the plane have just blown up in the air?
He may be right but only US$1.26 to buy one Euro today, but it was US$1.45ish for a long time. US$0.87 to buy one A$. British Pound and US Dollar have been gaining a lot in recent months. Seems like confidence is rising, but I can not vouch that my personal confidence is high.
With every market, commodity and currency manipulated by central planners - charged, proven and admitted - how can there exist any confidence, muich less confidence rising? I don't get it.
Any rational true-blue and honest good person has to have only a lot of honor, admiration, and huge respect for a real leader that is NOT AFRAID to speak his truth to power. Big grace on Mr Putin, who we can be sure is here checking in once in a while. How cool could it be if he started posting under his real name and selectively responding to peoples comments.
The direct in your face question is, how much longer will any semblance of normalcy, dignity, and the righteous Rule of Law that might be left in America allow the insanity on the helm of the good Ship America to run the grand ol country straight into the rocks of disaster, destruction, and demise? Is that the choice of the majority?
HERE YE, HERE YE! SPEAK OUT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE TO SAVE THE SHIP.
May the very small part of any goodness and sanity left in the world stop the out of control maniacs that are better at creating this fear paradigm, chaos, and everything but love, be stopped and put into a place that can not hurt any moar people, lands, or the precious world in which we ALL share.
May the reality of God, or that which is simply called Love, find each and every soul on earth and change them into the light of goodness to turn the tides of the dirty-dark-evil that even now is overflowing over the unchecked borders of the great land many might still love.
God bless America.
This is the same, President for Life, Putin, who is so accepting of ideas from the those he governs that it is a crime for more than two people to gather and protest.
Thats right, if more than two people attempt to voice in public disagreement with any of Dictator Putins decrees they will find themselves in jail.
He is a tyrant. Nothing more, nothing less.
His only suppport on the internet is by those who recieve a salary to promote his dictatorship and the usefull fool idiots who are always around.
useless talkings
Here's what's happening.
THE GAS DEAL WITH UKRAINE HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED.
So Russian planes over international waters over the Baltic are being met with NATO fighters and screamed about in the press.
Russia is being accused of violating Estonian and Swedish air space. More screaming.
The unidentified -- but unquestionably Russian -- submarine was the lead story, along with Ebola, for a week. SCREAM.
An Estonian spy, whom the Russians pinched on their side of the border, Tallinn claims was on the Estonian side of the border and was abducted. And the Western Media is in lockstep with the NATO lies.
ALL TO GUARANTEE THE UKRAINIAN OFFER IS ACCEPTED BY PUTIN.
Now this:
Do you think that the $3 billion dollars the EU wants from England is to pay the past due Ukrainian gas bill.
Hmmmm.
This is the way the US negotiates. Compromise. Compromise.
BUT DO IT OUR WAY.
ed.
I carelessly forgot
but it never got off the ground
Actually, that last Polish one fell flat on its face.
http://rt.com/news/197984-politico-putin-tusk-sikorski/
vlad, just keep the nuke algos tweaked. this sorry sack of shit country couldn't handle "the shootout".
vlad, just keep the nuke algos tweaked. this sorry sack of shit country couldn't handle "the shootout".
That end sentence says it all:
>>Russia feel that they all of a sudden have won all the turf without firing a shot.
So all the fighting in the ME and Ukraine was other people - who's firing shots to start battles if it isn't Putin? Pick any Western developed country and you'll find an answer.
Sounds like a call for a shooting war in Central Asia, to stop the perfidious Russians from stealing back their traditional region of hegemony, the former Soviet Republics in its back yard, by peaceful means.
I've mentioned this before by Rob Parry over at consortiumnews.com is doing great work on Russia.
Globalresearch.ca, counterpunch, voltairenet, antiwar, and a few others are also great complements to a long day of CNN on in the background.
Surrounded by idiots, I want a new drug.
Beijing, Beijing, Beijing.
Brazil, Brazil, Brazil.... keep an eye on the Soros-related effort to privatize their central bank.
The game is a global private central banking cabal, whether or not it's a single currency.
@ Duffy Duck:
Here in Brazil you have three options:
Your choice - Aetius Neves.
Our choice - Dilma Rousseff.
The third option - Military Dictatorship (the military does not accept privatize Petrobras much less the Bank of Brazil) BNDES forget it!
The third option is interesting to Brazilians, would the "DST" imposed by the banksters and network managers.
The third option also would make Brazil more nationalist like "Fuck the Americans."
In your first choice, you will have a split but very worthy country people to take up arms and do as Ukraine did, believe me.
hehe.
Escalation ain't just a happy Eskimo on a new snow mobile.
Vlad is right, the mask is off. The US has sunk to the bottom of the morality barrel. The US is a country run by criminal bankers and walking brain dead progressives. The military has been purged and we're suing people for not baking gay wedding cakes.
I sure hope it happens in my lifetime...There is a dangerous and ugly arrogant faction that has to be beaten down and defeated, even if it means a loss of our 'prestige' in the world. We've squandered our privilege over many decades. We've exercised our "rights" without regard for others. We've imposed on the globe the very condition so noxious to early Americans...the forced harboring of the Master's soldiers. They forced themselves into people's homes...we force ourselves into their countries and base our soldiers there. Sometimes temporarily, as 'peacekeeping' type forces, or on a more permanent basis. It's a bit obnoxious, and should be expected that many would see it that way, and prefer we went home.
Not saying things wouldn't likely be much the same under ANY of the countries capable of replacing us. But it would at least be different. And who knows? Maybe someone finally receives the revelation that NOBODY can successfully ride the bull of a global empire. At least, not for long, and at great cost. And that great wealth can be had and HELD better by strong local barons than it can by a distant Emperor trying to oversee everything. Maybe we trend back to more local and regional organization, in all its inefficient, protectionist glory...
Better for us, not better for a few at the top, but better for most. We just aren't ready for a global society. Our make-up doesn't allow for the behavioral changes that would be needed to even have a chance at pulling it off. Technology has unfortunately given some (like US) the ability to try it on a scale never seen, despite the certainty of failure. Ensuring that the collateral damage will extend to everyone.
Of course it's more likely that our new Russian or Chinese overlords just add their own spices to the existing dish and give it a good stir...same old warmed-over crap as always.
Still, I continue to harbor the hope that enough people just get tired of this shit. I'll bet there are a lot of Russian and Chinese 'folks' who are, and I know plenty of Americans are. The longer things remain troubled, the more cross over to that side, and you reach the tipping point.
But for the American shadow government and lobbyocracy... we would be engaging in trade with Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and so forth. We would have forced Israel to stop building settlements an supported a 2 state settlement or some kind of loose confederation modelled on Bosnia and Herz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
We'd nationalize the Fed, and make the dollar backed by silver and gold, as per the Constitution - or, failing that, would at least have it issued directly by the .gov without debt attached to private entities at issuance.
We'd pay less in taxes but still be able to do "liberal" things like public education, college loans, and bridge and road repair.
We'd have better schools and fewer illegal immigrants but perhaps more legal immigrants with advanced science and engineering degrees [we're all set with programmers, thanks].
In short, it's really a relatively small amount of people, a political superstructure, which stands above and interferes in the dialogue that could and should take place between nations in 2014.
Don't lose heart. It's a small amount of people who benefit from all the debt and war and subverting of the Republic for the AngloZioAmerican Banking and Energy Empire [AZABEE].
After all, what's so funny about the idea that the neocons, the MIC, the evil fucks making enemies and deserts where there ought to be friendship and gardens... what's so funny imagining that it will just take a little bit more awake people, more comments on blogs and MSM websites, letters to Congress Cowards, and willingness to speak the truth.... to defeat the political superstructure which has drifted so obviously into corparatism, crony capitalism, and statism [i.e. bona fide fascism]??
Putin has his flaws (like anyone else). But one of them ain't the inability to oppose the NWO.
So in that respect, I consider him an *ALLY* to All of Humanity.
Don't forget that Putin lives in a rough neighborhood. There are many NWO back thugs who would like to take his place leading (and looting) Russia. As far as I can tell, Putin is a patriot.
Russia has improved greatly under Putin. Is it perfect? No but Putin and Russia have made exponential gains while Amerika has a non-American running the country who wants to legalize 34 million invaders? The US Military does nothing because career bureaucrats worry about their pension. I hope it tanks so their pensions are worthless.
15 Years of Putin:
http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2014/06/15-years-of-putin-rule-in-one-inf...
Russia has 13% Flat Tax only
Paper ($), bites and baites.
Nobody talks about the real economy, those guys who grow the food, raising livestock and chickens.
Only think of all fiat paper.
Forget that Gold is the currency ancient, forgotten that there are spring, summer, autumn and winter, forgot that without oil and minerals and many people working the economy does not advance.
Forgotten that without Education, Health and Safety no country develops.
Today the USA only think of bomb, bomb, bomb, to acquire cheap oil, cheap ores, fuck other previously peaceful countries (even with dictators), making excuses to bomb, bomb, bomb anyone who cynically peite them.
Interestingly, using raw materials purchased by gun barrel to make more bombs.
Import geniuses from other countries for its research centers, people who cost a small fortune to form the state.
That's not how the world works.
The world is seeing how far the hypocrisy of an "Exceptional" State will!
The world already understand that the State of Israel is a son of a bitch, and just did not, until now, furnaces barbecues Palestinians. The world is assimilating the United States are managed by the State of Israel.
It took but it happened.
The greatest fear of the Israelis are coming true, you do not see in the media since the last shit they did in medical killing UN, children, homes with white phosphorus bomb and bombs of various types and calibers.
The guys are quiet ones, you all know who are giving medical support to ISIS, weapons, logistical support.
Israel is today, with his tail between his legs, you know that shit grab disappears.
A fart on Tartuz Israel, Syria, and starts World War III.
Today the world is small.
Unfortunately for these guys, many of us "third world" we are peaceful bag-filled with all this, we know we are cannon fodder but, Germans, Japanese, Filipinos are also fed up with so many "exceptional" military bases in their territories.
For my part, I believe that a second civil war in America is next, or the citizens themselves can withstand much shit done by his government, so "exceptional" where such a beautiful and exported the strength of gunfire and shelling democratic constitution is present through CIA, NGOs and that pile of alphabet soup - that just fucks the Americans themselves who pay taxes.
I swear to you that if it were Libio citizen, rather Gaddafi - where is the gold that was in Libya ?.
If it were Iraqi citizens, rather Saddam, there were no car bombs or gunfire, Sunnis and Shiites lived quiet.
In Syria, Sunnis, Shiites and Alawites and Christians lived in harmony. What is it today?
A cauldron - not a barrel, a cauldron - gunpowder!
With shit bombs, wars, at least with these guys in charge there was widespread deaths democratically.
I speak as Brazilian, Geographer, Historian.
Or you Americans get their way their government or the whole world will.
The shit is that if the rest of the world take the first attitude, you're going to shit, will turn nuclear barbecue.
: - /
RE
No, just him talking sense and telling it like it is (with a Russian slant).
His ain't no saint, but he also knows what the US is doing undermines his interests as well as Russia's.
PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY GROWING
The people in charge, no matter who they fight for, who pays them, or what they care about politically......knows that the people have almost had enough of their shit. The US leadership is in denial about this, but Russia is not. But unlike in Russia, when Putin can crack heads and violate basic human rights without any consquences, he knows that the US WILL BE DIFFERENT. Once that "tide" rolls in, shits gonna get ugly real quick. And then NO one calls the shots.
Granted, it kinda needs to happen to get some of these politician's heads out of their asses and stop lying and shit, but Russia knows that even THEY can't just jail and kill everyone who will eventually come to the conclusion that those in power are not only aloof, but also corrupt.
The Ford Presidency The Highest Interest Rates since Jesus
Guys, just look at it. This is a song from a very old movie Soviet times (about 30 years old):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ79KQdwNjk,
a translation:
Circling the Earth, as in childhood carousel
A circling above Earth Wind Loss,
Wind losses, separation, resentment and evil
They do not have the numbers
They do not have the numbers - through all of the slots,
In the hearts of the people, ripping the door from its hinges,
Crushing of hope and instilling fear
Wind circling, circling winds.
For hundreds of years, and day and night turns
Carousel-Earth
For hundreds of years, everything in life back
Ha normal.
Ho is in the world wind of change
He arrives, expelling wind change,
Dispel it when the time comes
Wind separations, grievances wind.
For hundreds of years, and day and night turns
Carousel-Earth.
Hundreds of years back all the winds
Ha normal.
Tomorrow the wind will change,
Tomorrow past return
He comes, he will be kind, tender
Wind of change.
Tomorrow the wind will change,
Tomorrow past return
He comes, he will kind, tender
Wind of change.
He comes, he will be kind, tender
Wind of change.
To those who think that us 'oldies' are not interested in world events are wrong.
I am worried about my Great Grand children, and the world they will inherit,. I have spoken to others my age and they have the same problem, plus the feeling of utter helplessness to do anything about it . Here in the the UK we cannot get guns like you can in the US. Getting a water pistol is a nightmare and forget about a real gun such as .22 or a single shot- shotgun. As for a proper rifle with a magazine, well, only criminals have them, so thats just a pipe dream. When the SHTF we don't know what we can do, having millatary training is one thing, getting a rifle is impossible. Spare a thought for us as you prepare, we can't.
You absolutely can get a shotgun or rifle in the UK.
You need a shot gun certificate or a firearm certificate respectively. Costs 50 quid and you and your property will have to be vetted by the police, and you will have to have someone vouch for you.
http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/start-shooting/how-to-get-shotgun-c...
https://www.gov.uk/shotgun-and-firearm-certificates
Then you can go online and order a pump, or even semi-automatic shotgun or rifle, which will be more expensive than getting the gun cabinet installed.
e.g.
http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/category/Guns/Semi+Automatic/Shotgun_1/
You'll have to show your certificate when buying guns and ammo.
Yeah. The US Military - loving dear leader Obola. They have been f**king over young American soldiers since 1861. Cowards. All they care about is pensions and serving the Kenyan.
Here's the whole 3 hour conference
http://beforeitsnews.com/new-world-order/2014/10/putin-unloads-on-new-wo...
Oh oh, we've got a muslim fighting with another muslim male right below my balcony. They already know that I am looking at them. Maybe I will take my AK out for some fresh air.
Update: They left and I didn't have to do anything but stare them down. You should see the cars they drive. I believe one was a Lotus and the other driving was something I can't afford. Sounded like they were arguing about a female. These Arab kids have WAYYYY too much money and they are SO fucking arrogant. Fine, get your fucking cars off my lawn and take your fight somewhere else. I don't need that sort of shit going on around here. There is a god damned good reason why there is no screen on my office window.
Manny,
You should have whipped out your cock and just started pissing on them. Or get a monkey that likes to fling its own shit at people.
They couldn't have been fighting over a woman. They're all waiting for the 72 million virgins in wherever it is they go to die.
I believe one was a Lotus and the other driving was something I can't afford.
You can afford a Lotus? Fuck me, I'll be right over to test drive that hunk of shit.
You Canuck wanker. You told me that you would e-mail me and you didn't. You know as well as I do that I can't afford a Lotus. I can barely afford a Red Green K-car. You should see my 2001 Hyundai Accent. It was only 92 HP when it was new. I think it is about around 50 HP now but I still get around 42 MPG. Chicks don't dig it much but neither do the cops. I keep the nice 4x4 truck in the garage where it can't burn up a shitload of gas.
You had better come over and visit asshole. We should probably buy an old tractor just to see if we can fix it up. Bring some Canadian beer and we will sort out the world's problems.
Edit: I am tempted to buy this truck. I might need it. Oh, I'm so sorry about about all of the damage to your car. I really didn't mean to back into it.
That grain truck is so badass that I might need it. I would have to go all the way down to Iowa and drive the thing back. That would be expensive and dangerous but I can do it if it has brakes. We don't know that yet. I love trucks and that one would be a great one to have but I just don't know if it would make it up to northwestern Wisconsin on it's own. It is an International though so there is a good chance it would. I will have to call and ask.
I would fix it up to a point. The wife asked why I like huge piles of junk. She doesn't get it. You get all of these assholes rolling up in their shiny new sports cars. What if I rolled up in a 1971 International grain hauler and said "Get off my fucking lawn"?
Ariel Cohen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Cohen
Member of tribe likely
Leaders/Governments and bankers fear anarchy, because they know that they are actually the bottom of the gene pool when it comes to survival.
Control the game. Control the rules. Control the Currency.
Profit.
Lose control of the game, and the rest of the cards come tumbling down.
To be seen
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928
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A military conflict between the US & Russia would drive a US population who is sympathetic to Russia into the Arms of A Government they do not love.
The braggadocio might make Putin and Russians feel good, but it is terrible strategy.
Finally someone speaks the truth. Look at the retards that run our country.......Oboner, Clinton, Bush, Cheney, Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc. Can ANYONE dispute ANYTHING Putin just said? Our "leaders" should be in mental institutions, jail, or my favorite, hanging by the neck at the end of a rope.
I'm not sure if this article has been posted previously in the comments section, but if not EnJOY. The blog was written so well with enough humor for every one. It has the perfect blend of laughter and vomit.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-start-war-and-lose-empire.html
Not unlike the comment section here at ZH, you will enjoy these just as much.
I'd bet 50 of the gray hairs I know against tres beacoup them mofos.
Before I was rudely interupted by Team Saudi spoiled brat princes, I was going to suggest that Russia start minting some PM coins of their own designs. They have the metal to do it or so it is said. At least they should in silver. But they do not do that and it makes me wonder where the metal is. I suppose the argument would be that they do not want to trade PMs for fiats. Eventually the T market has to collapse and there must be a plan B. Well, then what? Putin is not saying anything about this. Until that happens, I really don't care what Putin says.
Hey Putin, are you just going to do another debt based digital paper currency or are you planning on issuing a hard money?
Cream always rises.
*News Flash*
Russia(and China) wish that the US wasn't so 'Boss" in the world. Is this even an article, cuz it sure ain't newsorthy but who cares anyways this comment will be on the 10th page of a formerly newsworthy website that does nothing but post doom and gloom tyrades.
Dude
Polyanna.com is for sale.
Buy it and show old I Love Lucys.
I'll be there all the time and buy whatever is being advertised.
Ariel Cohen
The NWO is on drugs bitchez.
Me can't wait for Commrade Officer Vlady to bulldoze Urals and make Homeland WARM. Let in thE warm air from global warming. Will make ussa leaders very happy too, since it cool them off! Everybody wins. Maybe he bring vodka an d woman who not married, and not tooo ugly from too many potatos and beets. We make big BarBQ. I can cook. It will be world changer. I'm sure it work, and they send extra methane anywhere needed, too.
U.S. is already a wholly owned sub of China.
The bankers haven't broken the news yet.
Everything going just according to plan...
https://www.perpetualassets.com/news/2014/10/24/were-in-the-end-game-now...
Putin for President. End the Fed!
"We are the Champions"
But why are the burgers so small ?
https://www.academia.edu/8945501/Dinosaur_Death_by_Dwarfism
But why are the burgers so small ?
They never are in the advertising pictures, huge , dripping with juices, then you order and end up with a couple of sorry looking buns wrapped in paper,and Maccas wonders why their revenue is falling of a cliff.
World without rules? Where do I sign up?
A world without rulers is a world without wars.
ignorant
news
OBAMA'S BIG LIE ABOUT ISIS AND ITS OIL REVENUE.
We hear that ISIS is making a million dollars a day selling oil from the wells it controls. Their oil does not flow through pipelines and is not carried by tanker ships.
ISIS oil can only get to market by tanker trucks.
Has anyone heard of any airstrikes, either jet or drone, at ISIS tanker trucks? I haven't.
The Negroid Commander-in-Chief isn't interested in halting the supply of ISIS oil from hitting the market.
That's because, besides the benefits of fear that the beheadings created in the West and the advantage the bombing of Syria will soon pay in overthrowing Assad, OBAMA DOESN'T WANT TO DESTROY ISIS OIL BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS SUPPLY AND A LOWER PRICE FOR OIL AND THAT, HE THINKS, PUNISHES PUTIN.
ISIS oil is a drop in the bucket, I am sure the US is doing all it can to stop the flow of oil from ISIS, since this money goes straight into terrorist activities you are delusional if you think the US is going to let this oil flow continue if it can prevent it.
Aussiekiwi says
Send me a link from any newspaper describing how a allied sortie shot up and destroyed any size convoy of tanker trucks.
They only travel about 60 mph and their travel is restricted to things that look like roads.
If you think that ISIS is what it appears to be, you are the deluded one, mate.
Send me links to tanker truck destruction and prove yourself right.
bid the soldier..... I said 'I am sure the US is doing all it can to stop the flow of oil from ISIS'
Here is a link for you: I could have found a lot more but the idea that the US would want ISIS to thrive to punish Russia is completely insane. I bet you don't believe the moon landings occurred either.
http://time.com/3512917/isis-funding-stopping-iraq/
If the U.S. and its allies continue to bomb ISIS’s oil facilities, however, the group will begin struggling to fund itself. The Paris-based International Energy Agency said in a report released Tuesday that the aerial campaign has brought ISIS oil production down to around 20,000 barrels per day, from a high of around 70,000 a couple of months ago. If oil installations continue to be hit, ISIS will not be able to use its own military vehicles that run on the diesel and gas produced by small, local refineries
Aussiekiwi
If there was an evil city on the other side of a broad river which could only be supplied with food by a single bridge over that river. Wouldn't it make more sense for the forces of goodness and light to destroy the bridge and not waste time bombing the fields where the food for the evil city is grown?
I asked you to find one link that said one tanker truck was hit by allied planes. You came back to me with stories of oil refineries, oil installations, oil fields that were destroyed, but no tanker trucks.
THERE ARE ALMOST 40 GLOBAL COMPANIES THAT BUILD TANKER TRUCKS.
http://www.globalsources.com/manufacturers/Oil-Tank-Trucks.html
BUT HALIBURTON IS THE PREMIER REBUILDER OF DESTROYED OIL REFINERIES, OIL INSTALLATIONS AND OIL FIELDS.
Do you get the picture? Assets are destroyed by the US so they can be replaced by US companies.
Nice America wouldn't do that.
So Aussiekiwi believes.
putting putin
will not work out
for zion, amen.
Because China doesn't worship amen.
Vlad..no offense, but fuck you.
So, i guess under your threats of nukes, Russia would be completely immune from U.S. launched uranium isotopes raining down on your empty diseased melon, and your country
Dude, its a tired laughable act, break open the Stoli, and give us a break
nuke ISIS now.no offense, but fuck you.
Aussi no offense taken motherfucker
get lost goat
What's not to love about Vlad? He's the tsar of a country with no rule of law, a failing currency (despite billions spent by the Russian government to prop it up), a commodity economy whose primary commodity - oil - is falling precipitously, and the adulation of a population in thrall to the state-controlled media of RussiaToday.com et al.
Did I leave anything out? Oh yes, the tsar of this country is in the middle of an attempt to reconstitute the country into its prior failed form...the Soviet Union. Awesome!
Where are all you Zero Hedgers meeting up to form your new utopia? Vladivostok? Novosibirsk? Volgograd?
Hey maybe after the social and economic collapse of the Neo-Fascist new Roman empire here in America we'll get a leader with some balls too!
We already got a leader with 'balls', Bob. W had more than two. Unfortunately, balls isn't worth much without brains, and Putin's missing one.
Only the mentally challenged attempt to reconstitute the Soviet Union. :-)
Where are all you Zero Hedgers meeting up to form your new utopia? Vladivostok? Novosibirsk? Volgograd?
I see your point, where o where can we find a country that has a democracy? just don't seem to be any no matter how hard we look, your right, its a big problem.
No democracy. American Founding Fathers warned against that.
Democracy is mob rule. Two wolves and lamb deciding what for dinner, etc.
America was founded as a Representative Republic.
and hows that working out for you?
Aussiekiwi: And your alternative options would be?......
It would work only if Americans do their part.
Founding Fathers told what needed to preserve freedoms in real.
Not my problem
Russia is more free
Putin knows that many countries declare war on America, lose, and get new infrastructure built by American contractors.
Lol, so, what??
Yeah, lose a parent, spouse or child so your country can get an infastructure?
Dang, and some people get to vote?
I wish what you said can be true. Unfortunately, you have to travel a bit to know the truth.
Japan is rich but Japanese are poor and suffering. Japanese Governemtn dances to the tune of USA and not work for the welfare of its own people.
Saudi Arabia with all the US Technological marvels sells so much oil but the people in eastern region producing oil are impoverished. The Saudi Government tortures and kills anyone who dare complain loudly.
Germany is much better. Or so I think. But then, I did not have chance to travel to regions inside Germany.
I've been to Germany many times. Good people, decent standard of living, and hard working. I could live there. If you have too much of their superior beer, just walk up to a cop and hand him your keys. He'll drive you home and his partner will briing your car. Seems pretty sane to me, unlike the American Gestapo with their roadblocks, checkpoints and brutality. It appears to me that the present USSA and 1940's Germany have traded places. It's an insult to all my uncles who faught in WW2, and some didn't return. Is this the freedom they risked their lives for?
At least Germany still has some freedom today. At least they got something out of our efforts. Shame we didn't keep up our guard at home.
“The more we retreat, the more we are encouraging Russia to behave in a more aggressive way,” Mr. Cohen said. “
“The more we advance, the more we are encouraging Russia to behave in a more aggressive way,” Mr. Cohen said. “
There you go, that makes a lot more sense, considering Russia is totally surrounded and the 'good guys' have been advancing for 50 years.
Putin SAYS:
He just wants a bit of the country next door.
Thats so old and so boring.
This article is pretty much nonsense. Not Putin's statements, but the characterization of their meaning.
Approval of Putin in Russia is 89.4% in the USA is around 52%
Approval of Obama in Russia is - 0.2% (made ??a search with some Russians who live in NY).
Obama approval in the USA you already know, no need to explain.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
I bet Putin would bet Obama at golf too.
golf is bored
not important
GO PUTIN, FUK america, rise up real americans
Yeah a big fuss about his speech in the media. But when Obama went to the UN and said that there are currently three dangers to world being ISIS, Russia and Ebola, the media thought that what he said was alright. This speech by Putin is a reaction to Obama's speech.
The world is heating up. There will be a big conflict. And Europe runs the risk of being turned into a burning heap of rubble. Again. Cause the overlords in Brussel did not see that they were being played.
The tribe consist of the most advanced world players and they do control most aspects of finance, media and other International organizations.
But every time they feel comfortable and start actually using their power, they get beaten up. Be it in Egypt, or Persia, or more recently in Germany they always get beaten up. They had to run from one place to another with accumulated wealth (I will not say stolen. But I would say, accumulated with unfair advantage).
Whatever is happening now is the same. the poor Americans will be made into a monstor while the tribe runs away with all the accumulated $35 trillion in off-shore accounts and US industries now transfered into China and elsewhere.
America is sabre rattling just as Germany did before. The likely result is what Putin is talking about now.
Timely reminder. Anyone listening??
Russia was not the aggressors - Russia did not annex Crimea- they voted to join Russia - what a bunch of horseshit
I think the issue is that the Russian Army was patroling Crimean streets and polling places before and during the election.
You know. Because nothing says 'Freedom and Democracy' like a machine-gun toting party to the election standing at the front door of the polling places, saying "Did you vote for me?" as people leave.
From what I know of Crimea, they really did want to rejoin Russia.
But it was done poorly. And if done in a less army-marching-in-the-streets way the current objections would not be with us.
Crimea citizens were protected.
regardless of all the cry wolf, not one proof...
Crimea had plenty of guys to guard voting
done poorly?
you rather have Odessa style massacre?
Kyiv Oligarch's death squads?
You could do better?
Forget You...
It was elegant
Crimea is still celebrating
“Several of you have noticed what can only be called a declaration of war on Russia by one of the top figures of the Anglo-Zionist international capital, George Soros who has declared that "Russia is an existential threat to Europe". First, Khodorkovsky, now Soros - it is pretty clear who is gunning for Russia and how, and it is equally clear that what these financiers are really admitting by their bellicose statements is that Putin is an existential threat to them. In the latter statement, they are actually 100% correct (proving one more time that those who say that Putin is an oligarchic puppet are just useful and manipulated idiots).”
“Nuland, Soros, Khodorkovsky, Hillary, Friedman and the list goes on and on and on. The entire Neocon cabal is out for war and they are putting tremendous pressure on the rest of the planet to join.”
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
The Dodd-Frank bill and the reign of Eric Holder didn't do shit to reel in Wall Street or stop the lawlessness.
Putin seems right more than he is wrong.
Somebody tell Putin that "Anarchy" doesn't mean ... without rules.
FFS
Here is the speech Vladimir Putin delivered to the Valdai today. It is long, but well worth reading in its entirety, instead of relying on someone else to give you propaganda spin and snippets.
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, friends, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the XI meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
It was mentioned already that the club has new co-organisers this year. They include Russian non-governmental organisations, expert groups and leading universities. The idea was also raised of broadening the discussions to include not just issues related to Russia itself but also global politics and the economy.
I hope that these changes in organisation and content will bolster the club’s influence as a leading discussion and expert forum. At the same time, I hope the ‘Valdai spirit’ will remain - this free and open atmosphere and chance to express all manner of very different and frank opinions.
Let me say in this respect that I will also not let you down and will speak directly and frankly. Some of what I say might seem a bit too harsh, but if we do not speak directly and honestly about what we really think, then there is little point in even meeting in this way. It would be better in that case just to keep to diplomatic get-togethers, where no one says anything of real sense and, recalling the words of one famous diplomat, you realise that diplomats have tongues so as not to speak the truth.
We get together for other reasons. We get together so as to talk frankly with each other. We need to be direct and blunt today not so as to trade barbs, but so as to attempt to get to the bottom of what is actually happening in the world, try to understand why the world is becoming less safe and more unpredictable, and why the risks are increasing everywhere around us.
Today’s discussion took place under the theme: New Rules or a Game without Rules. I think that this formula accurately describes the historic turning point we have reached today and the choice we all face. There is nothing new of course in the idea that the world is changing very fast. I know this is something you have spoken about at the discussions today. It is certainly hard not to notice the dramatic transformations in global politics and the economy, public life, and in industry, information and social technologies.
Let me ask you right now to forgive me if I end up repeating what some of the discussion’s participants have already said. It’s practically impossible to avoid. You have already held detailed discussions, but I will set out my point of view. It will coincide with other participants’ views on some points and differ on others.
As we analyse today’s situation, let us not forget history’s lessons. First of all, changes in the world order – and what we are seeing today are events on this scale – have usually been accompanied by if not global war and conflict, then by chains of intensive local-level conflicts. Second, global politics is above all about economic leadership, issues of war and peace, and the humanitarian dimension, including human rights.
The world is full of contradictions today. We need to be frank in asking each other if we have a reliable safety net in place. Sadly, there is no guarantee and no certainty that the current system of global and regional security is able to protect us from upheavals. This system has become seriously weakened, fragmented and deformed. The international and regional political, economic, and cultural cooperation organisations are also going through difficult times.
Yes, many of the mechanisms we have for ensuring the world order were created quite a long time ago now, including and above all in the period immediately following World War II. Let me stress that the solidity of the system created back then rested not only on the balance of power and the rights of the victor countries, but on the fact that this system’s ‘founding fathers’ had respect for each other, did not try to put the squeeze on others, but attempted to reach agreements.
The main thing is that this system needs to develop, and despite its various shortcomings, needs to at least be capable of keeping the world’s current problems within certain limits and regulating the intensity of the natural competition between countries.
It is my conviction that we could not take this mechanism of checks and balances that we built over the last decades, sometimes with such effort and difficulty, and simply tear it apart without building anything in its place. Otherwise we would be left with no instruments other than brute force.
What we needed to do was to carry out a rational reconstruction and adapt it the new realities in the system of international relations.
But the United States, having declared itself the winner of the Cold War, saw no need for this. Instead of establishing a new balance of power, essential for maintaining order and stability, they took steps that threw the system into sharp and deep imbalance.
The Cold War ended, but it did not end with the signing of a peace treaty with clear and transparent agreements on respecting existing rules or creating new rules and standards. This created the impression that the so-called ‘victors’ in the Cold War had decided to pressure events and reshape the world to suit their own needs and interests. If the existing system of international relations, international law and the checks and balances in place got in the way of these aims, this system was declared worthless, outdated and in need of immediate demolition.
Pardon the analogy, but this is the way nouveaux riches behave when they suddenly end up with a great fortune, in this case, in the shape of world leadership and domination. Instead of managing their wealth wisely, for their own benefit too of course, I think they have committed many follies.
We have entered a period of differing interpretations and deliberate silences in world politics. International law has been forced to retreat over and over by the onslaught of legal nihilism. Objectivity and justice have been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Arbitrary interpretations and biased assessments have replaced legal norms. At the same time, total control of the global mass media has made it possible when desired to portray white as black and black as white.
In a situation where you had domination by one country and its allies, or its satellites rather, the search for global solutions often turned into an attempt to impose their own universal recipes. This group’s ambitions grew so big that they started presenting the policies they put together in their corridors of power as the view of the entire international community. But this is not the case.
The very notion of ‘national sovereignty’ became a relative value for most countries. In essence, what was being proposed was the formula: the greater the loyalty towards the world’s sole power centre, the greater this or that ruling regime’s legitimacy.
We will have a free discussion afterwards and I will be happy to answer your questions and would also like to use my right to ask you questions. Let someone try to disprove the arguments that I just set out during the upcoming discussion.
The measures taken against those who refuse to submit are well-known and have been tried and tested many times. They include use of force, economic and propaganda pressure, meddling in domestic affairs, and appeals to a kind of ‘supra-legal’ legitimacy when they need to justify illegal intervention in this or that conflict or toppling inconvenient regimes. Of late, we have increasing evidence too that outright blackmail has been used with regard to a number of leaders. It is not for nothing that ‘big brother’ is spending billions of dollars on keeping the whole world, including its own closest allies, under surveillance.
Let’s ask ourselves, how comfortable are we with this, how safe are we, how happy living in this world, and how fair and rational has it become? Maybe, we have no real reasons to worry, argue and ask awkward questions? Maybe the United States’ exceptional position and the way they are carrying out their leadership really is a blessing for us all, and their meddling in events all around the world is bringing peace, prosperity, progress, growth and democracy, and we should maybe just relax and enjoy it all?
Let me say that this is not the case, absolutely not the case.
A unilateral diktat and imposing one’s own models produces the opposite result. Instead of settling conflicts it leads to their escalation, instead of sovereign and stable states we see the growing spread of chaos, and instead of democracy there is support for a very dubious public ranging from open neo-fascists to Islamic radicals.
Why do they support such people? They do this because they decide to use them as instruments along the way in achieving their goals but then burn their fingers and recoil. I never cease to be amazed by the way that our partners just keep stepping on the same rake, as we say here in Russia, that is to say, make the same mistake over and over.
They once sponsored Islamic extremist movements to fight the Soviet Union. Those groups got their battle experience in Afghanistan and later gave birth to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The West if not supported, at least closed its eyes, and, I would say, gave information, political and financial support to international terrorists’ invasion of Russia (we have not forgotten this) and the Central Asian region’s countries. Only after horrific terrorist attacks were committed on US soil itself did the United States wake up to the common threat of terrorism. Let me remind you that we were the first country to support the American people back then, the first to react as friends and partners to the terrible tragedy of September 11.
During my conversations with American and European leaders, I always spoke of the need to fight terrorism together, as a challenge on a global scale. We cannot resign ourselves to and accept this threat, cannot cut it into separate pieces using double standards. Our partners expressed agreement, but a little time passed and we ended up back where we started. First there was the military operation in Iraq, then in Libya, which got pushed to the brink of falling apart. Why was Libya pushed into this situation? Today it is a country in danger of breaking apart and has become a training ground for terrorists.
Only the current Egyptian leadership’s determination and wisdom saved this key Arab country from chaos and having extremists run rampant. In Syria, as in the past, the United States and its allies started directly financing and arming rebels and allowing them to fill their ranks with mercenaries from various countries. Let me ask where do these rebels get their money, arms and military specialists? Where does all this come from? How did the notorious ISIL manage to become such a powerful group, essentially a real armed force?
As for financing sources, today, the money is coming not just from drugs, production of which has increased not just by a few percentage points but many-fold, since the international coalition forces have been present in Afghanistan. You are aware of this. The terrorists are getting money from selling oil too. Oil is produced in territory controlled by the terrorists, who sell it at dumping prices, produce it and transport it. But someone buys this oil, resells it, and makes a profit from it, not thinking about the fact that they are thus financing terrorists who could come sooner or later to their own soil and sow destruction in their own countries.
Where do they get new recruits? In Iraq, after Saddam Hussein was toppled, the state’s institutions, including the army, were left in ruins. We said back then, be very, very careful. You are driving people out into the street, and what will they do there? Don’t forget (rightfully or not) that they were in the leadership of a large regional power, and what are you now turning them into?
What was the result? Tens of thousands of soldiers, officers and former Baath Party activists were turned out into the streets and today have joined the rebels’ ranks. Perhaps this is what explains why the Islamic State group has turned out so effective? In military terms, it is acting very effectively and has some very professional people. Russia warned repeatedly about the dangers of unilateral military actions, intervening in sovereign states’ affairs, and flirting with extremists and radicals. We insisted on having the groups fighting the central Syrian government, above all the Islamic State, included on the lists of terrorist organisations. But did we see any results? We appealed in vain.
We sometimes get the impression that our colleagues and friends are constantly fighting the consequences of their own policies, throw all their effort into addressing the risks they themselves have created, and pay an ever-greater price.
Colleagues, this period of unipolar domination has convincingly demonstrated that having only one power centre does not make global processes more manageable. On the contrary, this kind of unstable construction has shown its inability to fight the real threats such as regional conflicts, terrorism, drug trafficking, religious fanaticism, chauvinism and neo-Nazism. At the same time, it has opened the road wide for inflated national pride, manipulating public opinion and letting the strong bully and suppress the weak.
Essentially, the unipolar world is simply a means of justifying dictatorship over people and countries. The unipolar world turned out too uncomfortable, heavy and unmanageable a burden even for the self-proclaimed leader. Comments along this line were made here just before and I fully agree with this. This is why we see attempts at this new historic stage to recreate a semblance of a quasi-bipolar world as a convenient model for perpetuating American leadership. It does not matter who takes the place of the centre of evil in American propaganda, the USSR’s old place as the main adversary. It could be Iran, as a country seeking to acquire nuclear technology, China, as the world’s biggest economy, or Russia, as a nuclear superpower.
Today, we are seeing new efforts to fragment the world, draw new dividing lines, put together coalitions not built for something but directed against someone, anyone, create the image of an enemy as was the case during the Cold War years, and obtain the right to this leadership, or diktat if you wish. The situation was presented this way during the Cold War. We all understand this and know this. The United States always told its allies: “We have a common enemy, a terrible foe, the centre of evil, and we are defending you, our allies, from this foe, and so we have the right to order you around, force you to sacrifice your political and economic interests and pay your share of the costs for this collective defence, but we will be the ones in charge of it all of course.” In short, we see today attempts in a new and changing world to reproduce the familiar models of global management, and all this so as to guarantee their [the US’] exceptional position and reap political and economic dividends.
But these attempts are increasingly divorced from reality and are in contradiction with the world’s diversity. Steps of this kind inevitably create confrontation and countermeasures and have the opposite effect to the hoped-for goals. We see what happens when politics rashly starts meddling in the economy and the logic of rational decisions gives way to the logic of confrontation that only hurt one’s own economic positions and interests, including national business interests.
Joint economic projects and mutual investment objectively bring countries closer together and help to smooth out current problems in relations between states. But today, the global business community faces unprecedented pressure from Western governments. What business, economic expediency and pragmatism can we speak of when we hear slogans such as “the homeland is in danger”, “the free world is under threat”, and “democracy is in jeopardy”? And so everyone needs to mobilise. That is what a real mobilisation policy looks like.
Sanctions are already undermining the foundations of world trade, the WTO rules and the principle of inviolability of private property. They are dealing a blow to liberal model of globalisation based on markets, freedom and competition, which, let me note, is a model that has primarily benefited precisely the Western countries. And now they risk losing trust as the leaders of globalisation. We have to ask ourselves, why was this necessary? After all, the United States’ prosperity rests in large part on the trust of investors and foreign holders of dollars and US securities. This trust is clearly being undermined and signs of disappointment in the fruits of globalisation are visible now in many countries.
The well-known Cyprus precedent and the politically motivated sanctions have only strengthened the trend towards seeking to bolster economic and financial sovereignty and countries’ or their regional groups’ desire to find ways of protecting themselves from the risks of outside pressure. We already see that more and more countries are looking for ways to become less dependent on the dollar and are setting up alternative financial and payments systems and reserve currencies. I think that our American friends are quite simply cutting the branch they are sitting on. You cannot mix politics and the economy, but this is what is happening now. I have always thought and still think today that politically motivated sanctions were a mistake that will harm everyone, but I am sure that we will come back to this subject later.
We know how these decisions were taken and who was applying the pressure. But let me stress that Russia is not going to get all worked up, get offended or come begging at anyone’s door. Russia is a self-sufficient country. We will work within the foreign economic environment that has taken shape, develop domestic production and technology and act more decisively to carry out transformation. Pressure from outside, as has been the case on past occasions, will only consolidate our society, keep us alert and make us concentrate on our main development goals.
Of course the sanctions are a hindrance. They are trying to hurt us through these sanctions, block our development and push us into political, economic and cultural isolation, force us into backwardness in other words. But let me say yet again that the world is a very different place today. We have no intention of shutting ourselves off from anyone and choosing some kind of closed development road, trying to live in autarky. We are always open to dialogue, including on normalising our economic and political relations. We are counting here on the pragmatic approach and position of business communities in the leading countries.
Some are saying today that Russia is supposedly turning its back on Europe - such words were probably spoken already here too during the discussions - and is looking for new business partners, above all in Asia. Let me say that this is absolutely not the case. Our active policy in the Asian-Pacific region began not just yesterday and not in response to sanctions, but is a policy that we have been following for a good many years now. Like many other countries, including Western countries, we saw that Asia is playing an ever greater role in the world, in the economy and in politics, and there is simply no way we can afford to overlook these developments.
Let me say again that everyone is doing this, and we will do so to, all the more so as a large part of our country is geographically in Asia. Why should we not make use of our competitive advantages in this area? It would be extremely shortsighted not to do so.
Developing economic ties with these countries and carrying out joint integration projects also creates big incentives for our domestic development. Today’s demographic, economic and cultural trends all suggest that dependence on a sole superpower will objectively decrease. This is something that European and American experts have been talking and writing about too.
Perhaps developments in global politics will mirror the developments we are seeing in the global economy, namely, intensive competition for specific niches and frequent change of leaders in specific areas. This is entirely possible.
There is no doubt that humanitarian factors such as education, science, healthcare and culture are playing a greater role in global competition. This also has a big impact on international relations, including because this ‘soft power’ resource will depend to a great extent on real achievements in developing human capital rather than on sophisticated propaganda tricks.
At the same time, the formation of a so-called polycentric world (I would also like to draw attention to this, colleagues) in and of itself does not improve stability; in fact, it is more likely to be the opposite. The goal of reaching global equilibrium is turning into a fairly difficult puzzle, an equation with many unknowns.
So, what is in store for us if we choose not to live by the rules – even if they may be strict and inconvenient – but rather live without any rules at all? And that scenario is entirely possible; we cannot rule it out, given the tensions in the global situation. Many predictions can already be made, taking into account current trends, and unfortunately, they are not optimistic. If we do not create a clear system of mutual commitments and agreements, if we do not build the mechanisms for managing and resolving crisis situations, the symptoms of global anarchy will inevitably grow.
Today, we already see a sharp increase in the likelihood of a whole set of violent conflicts with either direct or indirect participation by the world’s major powers. And the risk factors include not just traditional multinational conflicts, but also the internal instability in separate states, especially when we talk about nations located at the intersections of major states’ geopolitical interests, or on the border of cultural, historical, and economic civilizational continents.
Ukraine, which I’m sure was discussed at length and which we will discuss some more, is one of the example of such sorts of conflicts that affect international power balance, and I think it will certainly not be the last. From here emanates the next real threat of destroying the current system of arms control agreements. And this dangerous process was launched by the United States of America when it unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and then set about and continues today to actively pursue the creation of its global missile defence system.
Colleagues, friends,
I want to point out that we did not start this. Once again, we are sliding into the times when, instead of the balance of interests and mutual guarantees, it is fear and the balance of mutual destruction that prevent nations from engaging in direct conflict. In absence of legal and political instruments, arms are once again becoming the focal point of the global agenda; they are used wherever and however, without any UN Security Council sanctions. And if the Security Council refuses to produce such decisions, then it is immediately declared to be an outdated and ineffective instrument.
Many states do not see any other ways of ensuring their sovereignty but to obtain their own bombs. This is extremely dangerous. We insist on continuing talks; we are not only in favour of talks, but insist on continuing talks to reduce nuclear arsenals. The less nuclear weapons we have in the world, the better. And we are ready for the most serious, concrete discussions on nuclear disarmament – but only serious discussions without any double standards.
What do I mean? Today, many types of high-precision weaponry are already close to mass-destruction weapons in terms of their capabilities, and in the event of full renunciation of nuclear weapons or radical reduction of nuclear potential, nations that are leaders in creating and producing high-precision systems will have a clear military advantage. Strategic parity will be disrupted, and this is likely to bring destabilization. The use of a so-called first global pre-emptive strike may become tempting. In short, the risks do not decrease, but intensify.
The next obvious threat is the further escalation of ethnic, religious, and social conflicts. Such conflicts are dangerous not only as such, but also because they create zones of anarchy, lawlessness, and chaos around them, places that are comfortable for terrorists and criminals, where piracy, human trafficking, and drug trafficking flourish.
Incidentally, at the time, our colleagues tried to somehow manage these processes, use regional conflicts and design ‘colour revolutions’ to suit their interests, but the genie escaped the bottle. It looks like the controlled chaos theory fathers themselves do not know what to do with it; there is disarray in their ranks.
We closely follow the discussions by both the ruling elite and the expert community. It is enough to look at the headlines of the Western press over the last year. The same people are called fighters for democracy, and then Islamists; first they write about revolutions and then call them riots and upheavals. The result is obvious: the further expansion of global chaos.
Colleagues, given the global situation, it is time to start agreeing on fundamental things. This is incredibly important and necessary; this is much better than going back to our own corners. The more we all face common problems, the more we find ourselves in the same boat, so to speak. And the logical way out is in cooperation between nations, societies, in finding collective answers to increasing challenges, and in joint risk management. Granted, some of our partners, for some reason, remember this only when it suits their interests.
Practical experience shows that joint answers to challenges are not always a panacea; and we need to understand this. Moreover, in most cases, they are hard to reach; it is not easy to overcome the differences in national interests, the subjectivity of different approaches, particularly when it comes to nations with different cultural and historical traditions. But nevertheless, we have examples when, having common goals and acting based on the same criteria, together we achieved real success.
Let me remind you about solving the problem of chemical weapons in Syria, and the substantive dialogue on the Iranian nuclear programme, as well as our work on North Korean issues, which also has some positive results. Why can’t we use this experience in the future to solve local and global challenges?
What could be the legal, political, and economic basis for a new world order that would allow for stability and security, while encouraging healthy competition, not allowing the formation of new monopolies that hinder development? It is unlikely that someone could provide absolutely exhaustive, ready-made solutions right now. We will need extensive work with participation by a wide range of governments, global businesses, civil society, and such expert platforms as ours.
However, it is obvious that success and real results are only possible if key participants in international affairs can agree on harmonising basic interests, on reasonable self-restraint, and set the example of positive and responsible leadership. We must clearly identify where unilateral actions end and we need to apply multilateral mechanisms, and as part of improving the effectiveness of international law, we must resolve the dilemma between the actions by international community to ensure security and human rights and the principle of national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of any state.
Those very collisions increasingly lead to arbitrary external interference in complex internal processes, and time and again, they provoke dangerous conflicts between leading global players. The issue of maintaining sovereignty becomes almost paramount in maintaining and strengthening global stability.
Clearly, discussing the criteria for the use of external force is extremely difficult; it is practically impossible to separate it from the interests of particular nations. However, it is far more dangerous when there are no agreements that are clear to everyone, when no clear conditions are set for necessary and legal interference.
I will add that international relations must be based on international law, which itself should rest on moral principles such as justice, equality and truth. Perhaps most important is respect for one’s partners and their interests. This is an obvious formula, but simply following it could radically change the global situation.
I am certain that if there is a will, we can restore the effectiveness of the international and regional institutions system. We do not even need to build anything anew, from the scratch; this is not a “greenfield,” especially since the institutions created after World War II are quite universal and can be given modern substance, adequate to manage the current situation.
This is true of improving the work of the UN, whose central role is irreplaceable, as well as the OSCE, which, over the course of 40 years, has proven to be a necessary mechanism for ensuring security and cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic region. I must say that even now, in trying to resolve the crisis in southeast Ukraine, the OSCE is playing a very positive role.
In light of the fundamental changes in the international environment, the increase in uncontrollability and various threats, we need a new global consensus of responsible forces. It’s not about some local deals or a division of spheres of influence in the spirit of classic diplomacy, or somebody’s complete global domination. I think that we need a new version of interdependence. We should not be afraid of it. On the contrary, this is a good instrument for harmonising positions.
This is particularly relevant given the strengthening and growth of certain regions on the planet, which process objectively requires institutionalisation of such new poles, creating powerful regional organisations and developing rules for their interaction. Cooperation between these centres would seriously add to the stability of global security, policy and economy. But in order to establish such a dialogue, we need to proceed from the assumption that all regional centres and integration projects forming around them need to have equal rights to development, so that they can complement each other and nobody can force them into conflict or opposition artificially. Such destructive actions would break down ties between states, and the states themselves would be subjected to extreme hardship, or perhaps even total destruction.
I would like to remind you of the last year’s events. We have told our American and European partners that hasty backstage decisions, for example, on Ukraine’s association with the EU, are fraught with serious risks to the economy. We didn’t even say anything about politics; we spoke only about the economy, saying that such steps, made without any prior arrangements, touch on the interests of many other nations, including Russia as Ukraine’s main trade partner, and that a wide discussion of the issues is necessary. Incidentally, in this regard, I will remind you that, for example, the talks on Russia’s accession to the WTO lasted 19 years. This was very difficult work, and a certain consensus was reached.
Why am I bringing this up? Because in implementing Ukraine’s association project, our partners would come to us with their goods and services through the back gate, so to speak, and we did not agree to this, nobody asked us about this. We had discussions on all topics related to Ukraine’s association with the EU, persistent discussions, but I want to stress that this was done in an entirely civilised manner, indicating possible problems, showing the obvious reasoning and arguments. Nobody wanted to listen to us and nobody wanted to talk. They simply told us: this is none of your business, point, end of discussion. Instead of a comprehensive but – I stress – civilised dialogue, it all came down to a government overthrow; they plunged the country into chaos, into economic and social collapse, into a civil war with enormous casualties.
Why? When I ask my colleagues why, they no longer have an answer; nobody says anything. That’s it. Everyone’s at a loss, saying it just turned out that way. Those actions should not have been encouraged – it wouldn’t have worked. After all (I already spoke about this), former Ukrainian President Yanukovych signed everything, agreed with everything. Why do it? What was the point? What is this, a civilised way of solving problems? Apparently, those who constantly throw together new ‘colour revolutions’ consider themselves ‘brilliant artists’ and simply cannot stop.
I am certain that the work of integrated associations, the cooperation of regional structures, should be built on a transparent, clear basis; the Eurasian Economic Union’s formation process is a good example of such transparency. The states that are parties to this project informed their partners of their plans in advance, specifying the parameters of our association, the principles of its work, which fully correspond with the World Trade Organisation rules.
I will add that we would also have welcomed the start of a concrete dialogue between the Eurasian and European Union. Incidentally, they have almost completely refused us this as well, and it is also unclear why – what is so scary about it?
And, of course, with such joint work, we would think that we need to engage in dialogue (I spoke about this many times and heard agreement from many of our western partners, at least in Europe) on the need to create a common space for economic and humanitarian cooperation stretching all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Colleagues, Russia made its choice. Our priorities are further improving our democratic and open economy institutions, accelerated internal development, taking into account all the positive modern trends in the world, and consolidating society based on traditional values and patriotism.
We have an integration-oriented, positive, peaceful agenda; we are working actively with our colleagues in the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS and other partners. This agenda is aimed at developing ties between governments, not dissociating. We are not planning to cobble together any blocs or get involved in an exchange of blows.
The allegations and statements that Russia is trying to establish some sort of empire, encroaching on the sovereignty of its neighbours, are groundless. Russia does not need any kind of special, exclusive place in the world – I want to emphasise this. While respecting the interests of others, we simply want for our own interests to be taken into account and for our position to be respected.
We are well aware that the world has entered an era of changes and global transformations, when we all need a particular degree of caution, the ability to avoid thoughtless steps. In the years after the Cold War, participants in global politics lost these qualities somewhat. Now, we need to remember them. Otherwise, hopes for a peaceful, stable development will be a dangerous illusion, while today’s turmoil will simply serve as a prelude to the collapse of world order.
Yes, of course, I have already said that building a more stable world order is a difficult task. We are talking about long and hard work. We were able to develop rules for interaction after World War II, and we were able to reach an agreement in Helsinki in the 1970s. Our common duty is to resolve this fundamental challenge at this new stage of development.
Thank you very much for your attention.
@ Gallistic:
Grateful!
I was looking for the full speech!
:-)
You are welcome, man.
As you well know, it is always prefereable to read the source documents and apply some critical thinking on your own than to accept someone's spin about it.
Thanks for this.
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Is there anybody on ZH who can explain the slobbering love affair with Russia here? After all, anybody who can think, view reality as reality, understand history, and believe in the unalienable dignity of each human being realizes that Russia is shit.
But we see a true leader.
A leader of humanity.
Versus praying to god, amen.
Stack On
Rodger, Rodger!
Russia doesn't have laws that prohibit local back yard chickens and permit control to grow food in your back yard. Russia will survive peak oil and the petro dollar imperialism without firing a shot. America has done nothing to set up local food security, it's a death trap of bio engineered seedless foodweb. With a dead soil to boot. Along with a dehydrated biosphere from fracking water away from life. Shit ? Whose shit you smelling?
I smell your shit.
America is the bad guy
Period
@ Ecosutra:
In South and Central America it occurs!
I have a neighbor who raises chickens and has a garden, all neighbors contribute with leftover vegetables to chickens this neighbor, in exchange there is left in the neighborhood, now and then someone wins a chicken egg already plucked and cleaned of guts to bake.
You can not imagine how yellow is an egg yolk posted by chicken created naturally, you can not imagine the taste of meat that has created a chicken with leftover vegetables.
:-)
It might just be the case that Zerohedge is now owned by the Russian propaganda machine.
it might just be the case you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground in real
It might be the case that the truth hurts.
You are welcome to show proof to backup BeeTee's claim.
Otherwise just more useless talkings.
better worry about your own country
what are you going to do about it, kill us all? Guantanamo bay? gag order? Nofly list? what are you going to do with us?
No we do not follow msm, but our own judgement.