An article in the leading newspaper of Spain is discussing the idea that Putin is the world’s most powerful leader as a very wide-spread and commonly accepted one. The article’s author agrees with this belief but points out that Putin’s power will not be long-lasting.
Be that as it may, today nobody even doubts that Putin is the most powerful leader in the world. As the Russians say, a holy place will never remain empty. When the US steps back, somebody has to step forward, and the likelihood it will be somebody better is pretty much nil.
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Один из участвующих в “Марше мира”
Разрозненное с Марша
http://taki-net.livejournal.com/1935524.html
И грустно и смешно –
Разговор в очереди на Марш мира
http://taki-net.livejournal.com/1935210.html
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To be honest, I have no use for this march. So the Russians marched – yet again – felt good about themselves, went home, and nothing changed. But the self-congratulation among the protesters is so huge one might think they actually achieved something. And now they will write a billion of weepy, self-aggrandizing posts. Yippee.
Even Putin looks better against the background of this impotent opposition.
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While even some Russians aren’t afraid to wait in lines to protest against Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, some American organizations do everything to help Putin become even more powerful leader.
Очередная пакостная история от Института Рона Пола
http://taki-net.livejournal.com/1935683.html
For non-Russian readers, look at this from Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/september/01/top-ten-ways-you-can-tell-if-russia-has-invaded-ukraine.aspx
Have never heard of this institute before. Does it have a good reputation?
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A reputation? Please don’t make me laugh too hard. Some Putinoid puppet wrote a piece that everybody in the world would be ashamed to publish but these clowns were in a rush to oblige. “Here is a completely invented list of what I decided a Russian invasion would look like. Since reality is different from my weird fantasy, there must be no invasion.”
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Somewhat connected, thought it was an interesting article:
U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms
Summary of the article:
” in April 2009, the new president and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri A. Medvedev, vowed to rapidly complete an arms treaty called New Start, and committed their nations “to achieving a nuclear-free world.”
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The original idea was that modest rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling nuclear complex would speed arms refurbishment, raising confidence in the arsenal’s reliability and paving the way for new treaties that would significantly cut the number of warheads.
Instead, because of political deals and geopolitical crises, the Obama administration is engaging in extensive atomic rebuilding while getting only modest arms reductions in return.
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In open and classified reports to Congress, Mr. Obama laid out his atomic refurbishment plans, which the Congressional Budget Office now estimates will cost $355 billion dollars over the next decade. But that is just the start. The price tag will soar after 10 years as missiles, bombers and submarines made in the last century reach the end of their useful lives and replacements are built.
“That’s where all the big money is,” Ashton B. Carter, the former deputy secretary of defense, said last year. “By comparison, everything that we’re doing now is cheap.” “
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Liked that:
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🙂 🙂
Jokes aside, it is very significant that the desire for a good tsar is seen even here. In the US, for instance, it doesn’t occur to people to ask the President to repair the local roads. There are municipal authorities for that.
And this is one of the reasons why life in Russia sucks.
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