Beats our spineless bunch any day of the week.
Yeah.
Our lot say: "O great bank overlords, you forgot to write down the figure you want from the taxpayers to bail your companies out. Please, don't be modest. Oh and you can keep my pen."
Beats our spineless bunch any day of the week.
That is brilliant, I would vote for him with displays of leadership like that. Beats our spineless bunch any day of the week.
Yeah.
Our lot say: "O great bank overlords, you forgot to write down the figure you want from the taxpayers to bail your companies out. Please, don't be modest. Oh and you can keep my pen."
Displays of leadership my bottom, its pure TV. Look up Magnitsky case, or Serdyukov trial- Putin KNOWS about the corrupt politicians but does not do a damn thing. And not because he's weak or something, because its he is only part of the system- his system, their system. He is powerless to change it, hence all this circus with "protecting russians" to hide corruption and bad economy. Russians were harassed in Tajicistan since 2003 and still are now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9b5LP4Ubc
Putin is just yet another oil rich dictator , charismatic in a oil rich dictator way. So was Gaddafi btw
The ethnicisation of the Ukrainian conflict suits the Kremlin. Its worst nightmare is a Ukraine growing into an alternative Russia - a better place for talented and entrepreneurial Russians to live and work than Russia proper. Or even worse - a united pro-democracy front rising against the mafia state in all of the former Soviet republics, with Ukraine in the lead.
The West misinterprets Putin by thinking that he wants to rebuild an empire - it is much more likely that the real goal is a compact, monoethnic and ultra-nationalist Ukraine, with the Russian element reduced to a minimum. Being intimately linked to Russia at many different levels, a successful, democratic and tolerant Ukraine threatens the existence of the mafia state and that's what is at stake for the Kremlin rulers.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, my comment was slightly tongue in cheek. Truth be told the whole political system in the West and East is completely broken. Doesn't matter if you vote in a tyrant or you vote in an empty shell of a leader through democracy in the west.
From top to bottom it's full of corruption/incompetency or both.
I couldn't even begin to think what the solution would be to fix the situation and I don't ever see it changing in the slightest in my life time.
Son of US VP Joe Biden appointed to board of major Ukrainian gas company
Hunter Biden, son of US VP Joe Biden, is joining the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer. The group has prospects in eastern Ukraine where civil war is threatened following the coup in Kiev.
Biden will advise on “transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities” to ”contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”
Joe Biden’s senior campaign adviser in 2004, financier Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden’s, also joined the Bursima board claiming it was like ‘Exxon in the old days’.
More @ http://rt.com/business/158660-biden-son-ukraine-company/
more spin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27399223
'russian terrorists' ok what about kiev fascists and kiev attacking civilians![]()
My apologies, this thread had a few "go putin!" posts that were perfectly serious.
I disagree about similarity of east and west political systems. Ultimately, all people in all countries are self interested if not outright selfish and a perfect system with a perfect Jesus-and-Saints governent is just not possible. Western governing method is a technology, just like a computer is, and although it is not all powerful and perfect for any job, it is much more advanced than the feeble alternatives. And just like computers, it gets better through science (like economics) - albeit at a slower rate.
I still remember chuckling when I saw the names of the sponsors on the board behind Victoria Nuland as she gave her "$5 billion into Ukraine" talk in Washington.
They were ExxonMobil and Chevron.
You storm around accusing everyone else of being fascist,
whilst your mob are fixing elections,
arresting people who dont agree with them,
converting floors of regional offices to 'prison and interrogation' centres,
forcing ukranian speakers to leave,
and are led by a guy who calls himself 'the gunman'.
You would have thought the moment you found yourself supporting Hezbollah,
You know who you remind me of? That comedy sketch by mitchell and webb 'are we the baddies?'
Originally Posted by Devlish View Post
You would have thought the moment you found yourself supporting Hezbollah,
Borsch, which eastern European country are you from?
Also about the oil rich dictator thing, please provide some evidence.
The reason putin runs absolute rings around the western useful idiots following a neocon zionist agenda set by the jew wolfowitz is because he came from the ground up.
I'd vote for him all day long.
All becomes clear! Devilish is a zionist.
Aren't the Kiev 'fascists' positioned against the Jews? Now you're saying the Jews are behind the support Kiev gets from the West? I don't get it!![]()
That's not surprising, he is a neo-fascist, just like good old Nigel. Unlike Nigel, who fights imaginary Romanians and Bulgarians, Putin is quite dangerous.
We easily forget how fascism works: as a bright and shining alternative to the mundane duties of everyday life, as a celebration of the obviously and totally irrational against good sense and experience. Fascism features armed forces that do not look like armed forces, indifference to the laws of war in their application to people deemed inferior, the celebration of “empire” after counterproductive land grabs. Fascism means the celebration of the nude male form, the obsession with homosexuality, simultaneously criminalized and imitated. Fascism rejects liberalism and democracy as sham forms of individualism, insists on the collective will over the individual choice, and fetishizes the glorious deed.
...
Putin now presents himself as the leader of the far right in Europe, and the leaders of Europe’s right-wing parties pledge their allegiance. There is an obvious contradiction here: Russian propaganda insists to Westerners that the problem with Ukraine is that its government is too far to the right, even as Russiabuilds a coalition with the European far right. Extremist, populist, and neo-Nazi party members went to Crimea and praised the electoral farce as a model for Europe. As Anton Shekhovtsov, a researcher of the European far right, has pointed out, the leader of the Bulgarian extreme right launched his party’s campaign for the European parliament in Moscow. The Italian Fronte Nazionale praises Putin for his “courageous position against the powerful gay lobby.” The neo-Nazis of the Greek Golden Dawn see Russia as Ukraine’s defender against “the ravens of international usury.” Heinz-Christian Strache of the Austrian FPÖ chimes in, surreally, that Putin is a “pure democrat.” Even Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, recently shared Putin’s propaganda on Ukraine with millions of British viewers in a televised debate, claiming absurdly that the European Union has “blood on its hands” in Ukraine.
That would make you an Islamo-fascist then I suppose? You really should try and keep those scary monsters under your bed where they belong.
Yeah its Oulton, the jews are camped out in his attic waiting for him to go to sleep apparently. Dont go to sleep Oulton!!!! We'd hate to see anything happen to you.![]()
Aren't the Kiev 'fascists' positioned against the Jews? Now you're saying the Jews are behind the support Kiev gets from the West? I don't get it!![]()
That's not surprising, he is a neo-fascist, just like good old Nigel. Unlike Nigel, who fights imaginary Romanians and Bulgarians, Putin is quite dangerous.
That's not surprising, he is a neo-fascist, just like good old Nigel.