‘We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them,’ Putin said of the plane bombers at a somber Kremlin meeting broadcast on Tuesday. The FSB security service swiftly announced a $50 million bounty in a global manhunt for the bombers.”
The cockroach has started to repeat himself. The last time it was, “We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them, we will find them even in the toilet, and kill them in the toilet”, said a propos of Chechen terrorists. The famous toilet phrase got Putin unwavering love of Russians who, until then, were only vaguely aware of his existence.
What Russians failed to notice in their fantasy of killing Chechens in the toilet was how eagerly Putin allowed the Chechens to create a criminal state of religious fanatics in Chechnya and how happy he is to pay them an enormous tribute and allow them to conduct criminal activities in Moscow in return for not turning their de facto independence into a de jure one.
Yes, he is such a mighty opponent of terrorists. They must be shaking in their boots, poor sods.
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Good point. I’d say the same goes for Anonymous and their recent declaration against ISIL–do they really think that ISIL gives a s*#! about some guy (or guys) wearing a Guy Falkes mask?
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Yes, that was a cute but a fairly impotent gesture.
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Last year, at a rally in honor of Ukraine here, in Montreal, a man from Syria joined our yellow and light-blue column and said, ‘You and we have the same enemy, and it’s Russia.’
KGB is really omnipresent, they support all kinds of terrorists, and they are headed by one of the most ferocious as well as illiterate bandits of our time. I have no doubt that KGB is behind most of the terror attacks, which they orchestrate in the most ‘professional’ way. They did it back in the 1970s, when I was a university student’, and they keep doing it now.
The evil empire – those are the words to characterize them.
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“Last year, at a rally in honor of Ukraine here, in Montreal, a man from Syria joined our yellow and light-blue column and said, ‘You and we have the same enemy, and it’s Russia.’”
“I have no doubt that KGB is behind most of the terror attacks, which they orchestrate in the most ‘professional’ way.”
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Yes, we discussed that here, and we have little doubt that they (KGB) did plan it. Thank God, their technology let them down again.
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Off-topic:
Ukraine has just qualified to Euro-2016! We have scored against Slovenia at the 8th (!) added minute and thus made a 1:1 draw (the first game was 2:0, Ukraine).
It was an incredibly tough game, one of our players was knocked down and his head was bleeding; another one was punched, and the Slovenian pseudo-player was sent off. The fans threw petards at our players, etc., etc. But we did it!
Glory to Ukraine!
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Glory to the heroes! That’s great news.
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Power vacuums… someone fills them. Iran, Russia. Isis. Al quaeda etc.
Would be much better if the US led (maybe dragging along rest of eu, canada, australia, etc.) and helped foster more democratic pro-western govt. Not easy obviously (and doesn’t help when bad decisions were made as in bush’s case), but ultimately someone has teh power, and if we don’t lead obviously the other groups will seize on that.
Pretty sure you agree, just not sure how there is any chance the democrats will ever do that. Admittedly some of the Republicans may screw it up, but there is a chance we will actually lead.
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Yes, like when George W Bush was in power. He embraced Putin and let him run rampant, invading countries at will. That was a great example of US leadership. Well, what can one expect from a “leader” who first allows the biggest act of terror on US soil to take place and then can’t even find and punish the perpetrator. The same “leader” who turns the country into the butt of every joke in the world and, to top it all off, unleashes the global economic crisis two minutes before running away with his tail between his legs. What an example of leadership!
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This is totally like Orwell’s 1984. People literally erase from memory things that happened not two minutes ago.
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Russia has been WAYYYYY more aggressive under obama.. its almost like people forget what just happened.
And ISIS is on both administrations. Just pointing out that we have to lead, and also have good strategy when defeating.
And lets not forget a republican massively hastened the USSR’s collapse. Yes, historians are on both sides (basically a rorschah test), but Reagan did indeed.
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Russia has been more aggressive under Obama because he actually pushed back, insufficient though he response might have been. Had Obama rolled over like Bush did, Putin would not have needed to be as aggressive.
No, Reagan had nothing whatsoever to do with the KGB’S strategic decision to fool Americans into handing over some cash by temporarily pretending to disband the USSR. I’d like to blame Reagan for that but, in all fairness, anybody would have been fooled.
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The fact that Bush led badly is not a justification for Obama’s showing NO LEADERSHIP AT ALL. It’s not an all-or-none situation.
Matt’s right: “Power vacuums… someone fills them.” It’s either the U.S., or the bad guys.
And Reagan’s massive peacetime military build-up had a great deal to do with the collapse of the USSR, no matter what any Russian “experts” claim.
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Please, not the Reagan-defeated-the-USSR mythology! It’s embarrassing, especially today when even the blind have seen that the so-called collapse of the USSR was nothing but a ploy to get gullible Americans to hand over 20 billion dollars to provide KGB leaders with the most luxurious lifestyle on the planet. It’s better to pretend that this embarrassment didn’t happen instead of calling attention to it.
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Clarissa, you’re dead wrong on that issue.
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What issue? The fact of the US handing over billions in “humanitarian aid” to the Russian oligarchs / KGB employees who laughed all the way to Courchevel? Or that it’s unfair to blame poor confused Reagan for this? It doesn’t make sense to be too tough on the fellow when the whole world fell for the fake collapse of the USSR.
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Except that the USSR did collapse, leaving a rump state called Russia that’s desperately trying to retrieve some of its past glory.
Three nations of the old USSR (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) are already NATO members, and Ukraine stills hopes to join eventually.
The fact that Russian oligarchs got rich(er) from the vast corruption that followed, and Russia utterly failed at post-Communist democracy, doesn’t change the reality that the so-called “super-power” USSR is gone for good.
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This is just a fantasy while the 20 billion the US handed over to the KGB as a gift is an undeniable reality.
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It’s a fantasy that three former USSR states are in NATO and that the USSR no longer exists? Okay.
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“…but there is a chance we will actually lead.”
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