The New Cold War With Russia

[Ryan Ruck]

New Russian Military Doctrine Says NATO Top Threat

December 26, 2014

President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine that describes NATO's military buildup near the Russian borders as the top military threat amid Russia-West tensions over Ukraine.

The document released by the Kremlin on Friday maintains the provisions of the previous, 2010 edition of the military doctrine regarding the use of nuclear weapons. It says Russia could use nuclear weapons in retaliation to the use of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also in case of aggression involving conventional weapons that "threatens the very existence" of the Russian state.

For the first time, the new doctrine says that Russia could use precision weapons "as part of strategic deterrent measures." The document doesn't spell out conditions for their use.

[Ryan Ruck]

Russians Rage Against America

Enduring Sanctions, Anger Turns to Hate: Racist Names for Obama and Putin Disses Coca-Cola

December 29, 2014

If you talk to a Russian about the international political situation, sooner or later you will be informed that there is a country in North America that you’ve never heard of. Its name is ‘Pindosia,’ ‘Pindostan’ or, more officially, ‘United States of Pindostan,’ and you will be told that one part of it, called Alaska, used to belong to Russia. Part of the word—‘stan’—stands for underdeveloped state, as in ‘ Pakistan,’ ‘Kazakhstan,’ or ‘Uzbekistan.’ The citizens of this country in plural form are called ‘pindoses,’ in singular—‘pindos.’

There are more than 316 million ‘pindoses’ in ‘Pindostan.’

Today, this country has a black President, and the Russians have a nickname for him too. He is called Maximka—after a character from a popular Soviet movie, made in 1952, which told the story of a black boy saved by the Russian sailors from the cruelty of the vicious American slave-traders who were terribly abusing him and calling him just that—“Boy.” In the film, the saved boy was fed well by the Russian crew, given the name Maximka, and became one of their own in the end.


Russians have taken to calling President Obama “Maximka” after a character from a popular 1952 Soviet movie, which depicted a black boy saved by Russian sailors.

But by the modern-day Russian legend, Maximka, unfortunately, has grown up into an ungrateful Russophobe.

One can assume that the reader by now has a clue what this country is.

The word ‘pindos’ in Russian is highly offensive, and defines a helpless creature that is a product of a very bad educational system, one who can survive in this world only with the help of various gadgets. The origin of the word is unknown, and the philologists are fighting to establish it. The most popular explanation states that this word was invented by Russian peacekeepers in Serbia with the purpose of describing a NATO soldier, who was seen by them as a strange, clumsy figure with his 90 lbs. of bulletproof vest, weapons, radios, flashlights and so on.

From afar, he looked very strange to the Russian eye—like a penguin.

The Russians have had their favorite, most-hated pindoses. One of them, the constant laughingstock in the media, used to be the US Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul. He was a huge fan of Twitter and if judged by the number of his tweets, spent more time on his gadget than actually doing his job. After more than two years of service there, upon his departure, he received only two words in Russian—via Twitter—from the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs: “Goodbye Mikhail.”

Today his place has been taken by the spokesperson for the US Department of State, Jen Psaki. She has an anti-fan club of haters who consider her not to be very bright—they even invented their own anti-IQ unit called 1 Psaki. One who has 3 Psakis has a brain of a clam. The term ‘psaking’ in Russian political newspeak means to know nothing about the subject while saying something banal and politically correct. She is so popular that when she injured her foot and came in front of the cameras with the cast on, all major Russian TV channels and newspapers reported the event.

Another hated ‘pindos’ is Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), famous in Russia for his periodic tweets to ‘Dear Vlad.’ In 2011, for example, Mr. McCain tweeted Putin, “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you.” Usually reserved and purposefully polite while talking about his ‘partners from over the Big Pool’ (Big Pool being the Atlantic Ocean ), this time Mr. Putin shot back, saying that Mr. McCain “has a lot of blood of peaceful civilians on his hands. He must relish and can’t live without the disgusting, repulsive scenes of the killing of Gadhafi.” “Mr. McCain was captured in Vietnam and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years,” Mr. Putin added. “Anyone [in his place] would have had his roof moved over.” The last three words in Russian slang mean “suddenly to become insane.”

Today, according to the respected Moscow ‘Levada Center,’ which measures political sentiment in Russian society, 74% of Russians have negative feelings towards the USA. It hasn’t always been like this; in the 1990s, 80% had positive attitude toward America.

Currently, 76% of Russians hate Obama personally and only a meager 2% like him. In 2009 only 12% of Russians had extremely negative feelings towards Obama.

These are the maximum peaks of anti-American feelings in Russia in years but the sociologists believe they could go even higher in the near future.

Anti-American sentiment has been growing slowly in Russia since the war in former Yugoslavia. But the sharp recent increase happened as a result of the US-led sanctions that were imposed on Russia after the ‘Russian annexation of Crimea.’ For example, just last week Visa and MasterCard completely stopped their operations in Crimea, leaving more than 2 million people there without access to their money. 75% of Russians do not believe that their country is responsible for the events in Ukraine. On the contrary, they blame the US.

When the sanctions began, many Russian businesses responded by putting up ‘Obama Is Sanctioned Here’ signs on their doors and windows.

However today they went much farther.

The owners of the Moscow supermarket “Electronics on Presnya” are using American flag doormats so the customers could wipe their dirty feet off, according to the British tabloid Daily Mail. “Customers have been filmed wiping their feet on the fabled stars and stripes as they enter and exit stores across Moscow, as struggling retailers take a hopeless swipe at their Cold War adversaries,” reports the newspaper. According to the Moskovky Komsomolets Moscow newspaper, the nation’s business owners decided to put the US flag under the Russians’ feet because of the strained relations between the two countries. “New doormats with the American flag were put at every exit so that America would not think that she is allowed to everything,” they say. “From one perspective, of course it is a flag, but from the other, because of this entire situation in the world, regular folks are suffering. All the electronics we import, mostly from China and buy for dollars. We have to work directly so the US would have no chance to manipulate the prices.” (The Russian ruble lost about 50% of its value because of the economic sanctions by the western countries and a fall in the oil price.)


Russian newspapers are giddily depicting the new trend of “American flag floormats” seen at Russian businesses.

By the words of the shopping center’s attorney Konstantin Trapaidze, the doormats with the American flag do not break any Russian law. “It is very probable that the doormats have a decorative character. Yes, people are walking on them but nobody prohibited this. They produce not only doormats with the flag on them but also furniture upholstery. The breaking of the law would be when someone would start burning such a doormat or real flag demonstratively, or tear it up.”

Major Russian TV channel Vesti eagerly reported that fact. They also added that some Moscow stores were selling the toilet paper with American flag imprinted on it. The pricetag was $1 per roll.

A number of Russian politicians have been working very hard to keep the flames of rage burning. Last week, the Speaker of the Russian Parliament, Sergei Naryshkin, raised the issue of starting an international investigation of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings by the US in 1945, as a ‘crime against humanity’ has no time limit. He wanted nothing less than a new Nuremberg trial with the US at the criminal’s bench.

Vladimir Putin, from his side, during his most recent press conference, used the occasion to show his negative attitude toward one of America ’s most popular products. Answering a question about Russian drink Kvass, he said, “I don’t know how harmful Coca-Cola is, but a lot of specialists say that it is, especially for children. I don’t want to offend Coca-Cola, but we have our own national non-alcoholic beverages, and we shall help them to win our stores’ shelves.”

He could have chosen another brand as an example of an unhealthy soda, since there is no shortage of different drinks in Russia’s stores. But to no one’s surprise, the Russian President chose for his attack the very symbol of Pindostan.

[Ryan Ruck]

The Stores And Stripes: Russian Shops Show Their Anti-US Sentiment By Putting Out American Flag Doormats For Customers To Wipe Their Feet On

December 24, 2014

Russian business owners are using American flags as doormats as resentment over U.S. economic sanctions puts the squeeze on traders.

Customers have been filmed wiping their feet on the fabled stars and stripes as they enter and exit stores across Moscow, as struggling retailers take a hopeless swipe at their Cold War adversaries.

Negotiations between the two nations are currently deadlocked over Russia's involvement in the Ukrainian crisis and the U.S. has initiated hard-hitting economic sanctions to try and force a compromise.


A customer wipes his feet on the stars and stripes as he enters a Moscow supermarket

In the video, the store owners' anti-U.S. sentiment is clear, as doormats emblazoned with the U.S. flag are positioned in doorways and corridors.

Customers are then filmed walking on the flags as they enter and exit the stores.

While recently announced U.S. sanctions have been dismissed by the Kremlin as useless, stabilizing the ruble, which is one of the world's worst-performing currencies this year following the sanctions imposed on Russia for its involvement in Ukraine, is a priority for Russia's monetary authorities.

The country's statistics agency reported today that consumer prices rose 0.9 percent last week when the ruble was in freefall - there was clear evidence last week that retailers of imported products, such as electronics and cars, were raising prices in the wake of the ruble's fall.

The weekly rise was the biggest since records began in 2008.

Measures taken include last week's increase in the Central Bank's main interest rate to a whopping 17 percent in the hope that it makes holding rubles more attractive for traders.

And in a bid to boost hard currency offering at the markets, the government has encouraged major companies to sell more hard currency.

Yesterday, it formally instructed five of the country's biggest state-controlled exporters to reduce their foreign currency assets to October levels and to not raise them again until March.

However the ruble performs over the coming days and weeks, the Russian economy is predicted to fall into recession next year and inflation to spike - many forecasters expect the annual inflation rate to double from the current 10 percent.

Some, like ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, are warning of a full-blown crisis.

[American Patriot]

Time to go into the market of Russian Flag Doormats.

[Avvakum]

Putin an Anti-Soviet and anti-communist. From the 'New Yorker';

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September 3, 2014 Putin Disses Lenin

By Masha Lipman

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As Russia’s military escalation in eastern Ukraine continued last week, Vladimir Putin found time to visit the Seliger National Youth Forum, a summer camp for pro-Kremlin young people some two hundred miles northwest of Moscow. Among the many subjects discussed was history: he spoke about the Bolsheviks, the masterminds of the 1917 October revolution and the founders of the Soviet state. To many in Russia, Putin’s interpretation of the revolution would sound odd. He accused the Bolsheviks of treachery because they undermined the country’s military effort against the Germans in the First World War.

Russia had entered the conflict as an ally of France and Britain. Three years later, the imperial regime fell, exhausted by the war and undermined by broad public unrest. The country was in disarray; soldiers defected. Several months after the collapse of the Russian empire, the Bolsheviks seized power. Lenin, their leader, who had called for “turning the imperialistic war into a civil one,” withdrew Russia from the alliance and made peace with Germany. His plan was to pitthe disenfranchised (soldiers, peasants, workers) against the nobility and the propertied class, to radically destroy the ancien régime and consolidate Bolshevik power. He launched the Red Terror, a merciless extermination of the Whites, the “hostile classes”; the officers of the imperial Army who had fought against Germany were among the primary targets. After several years of a horrific, fratricidal war, the Reds prevailed, and Lenin became the glorious leader of the world’s first “state of workers and peasants,” as it was known. For more than six decades after his death, in 1924, he was a worshipped founding father, his embalmed body kept on display in the Mausoleum in the Moscow’s Red Square. Cities, streets, industrial plants, collective farms, Naval vessels, universities, and libraries came to bear his name. His slogans, portraits, and statues were everywhere. Generations of Soviet citizens revered his memory, including Vladimir Putin, who was born in 1952.
By the nineteen-seventies, the cult was wearing out, and Lenin became the butt of political jokes. But the Communist Party, which referred to itself as the party of Lenin, still had a firm grip on power and full control over the historical narrative. The Soviet people dutifully celebrated the Bolshevik revolution and the Red victors of the civil war, and worshipped Lenin, who was said to be “forever alive,” “forever with you.”
During the years of Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, and the eventual unveiling of the crimes of the Soviet Communism, the figure of Lenin remained untouched long after other Communist heroes had been uncrowned. Even after the Soviet Union fell apart, in 1991, Lenin was not formally denounced. Russia’s first President, Boris Yeltsin, tried to build his regime on anti-Communism, but that effort ended in a spectacular failure. The Communists enjoyed broad public support.
When Putin came to power, in 2000, he made peace with the Communists; he expanded his electoral base, reduced theirs, and gently subdued them into loyalty. All through that decade, he preferred to avoid divisive ideological questions.
Lenin was not seen as a national hero, and the official discourse was mostly silent about him, but the Mausoleum remained open to visitors, and every Russian city has a Lenin Street or Lenin Square. In Moscow, a gigantic Lenin monument marks the beginning of city’s longest avenue, Leninsky Prospekt. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a “systemic” opposition party (that is, opposition only in name), which has a sizable faction in the Duma, regards Lenin as a man of genius, a “great philosopher and economist, a political genius of international renown,” as Vladimir Kashin, the Party’s deputy chairman, put it earlier this year.
When Putin returned to the Kremlin, in 2012, he became increasingly ideological. He now professes a state nationalism that draws on a besieged-fortress mentality, a hard-line anti-Western stance, and faux traditionalism. His platform includes a new, uniform concept of history, to be taught in schools. But, his emphasis on ideology notwithstanding, a shared national narrative of the formative event of the twentieth century is still missing: Was the 1917 Bolshevik revolution a national disaster that destroyed the imperial Russian statehood? Or was it the beginning of the Soviet state of which today’s Russia is a successor? In other words, since the Russian civil war did not end in a reconciliation, do we identify with the defeated Whites or with the Reds, led by Lenin, who exterminated them?

Speaking to the young people at Camp Seliger, Putin remembered the events of 1917 as a time when “some were shaking Russia from within, and shook it to the point that Russia as a state collapsed and declared itself defeated.” He likely meant it as a warning to those who might try to “shake” today’s Russia. But he also spoke of the Bolsheviks’ ”betrayal of the Russian national interests.” It was the Bolsheviks, after all, who “wished to see their fatherland defeated while Russian heroic soldiers and officers shed blood on the fronts of the First World War.”

More than half of the Russian people still view Lenin as a positive figure. Now Putin, with his signature evasiveness—and careful not to mention him by name—has called him a traitor. With streets and statues honoring Lenin all over Russia, Putin’s interpretation hardly contributes to a uniform version of history.

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[American Patriot]

Of course the New Yorker would say he's anti-communist.

The New Yorker is a LIBERAL rag. Always has been. Founded in 1925. In 1936 New Yorker celebrated Hitler as an artist, interviewed various people who were friends of Hitler.

Most magazines coming out of New York in particular have a liberal bent to them anyway.

Liberals are actually "Progressives". Progressives are actually Marxists and Marxists ARE commies.
Obama is a Communist, plain and simple.

All these various political titles (like, say Neoconservative) are made up, bullshit terms.

There is Communism, Capitalism. Period. Socialism is a Left Leaning "communism" that hasn't quite grown to it's full age.

All the rest of it is utter, made up crap.

Putin is a Communist. He is ACTING like a Communist. France and England are SOCIALIST and leaning towards Communism. The United States has gone Socialist because the government has LET IT HAPPEN. It's a matter of time before we go Commie too.

All the way around there are idiots who scream and cry about "big, evil corporations". THEY ARE SOCIALSIST and trying to DESTROY the ability for people to OWN shit.

The world is BLACK AND WHITE. There is GOOD and EVIL.

There is VERY little GOOD left. And let me explain this. Religion, in GENERAL is one more method to control Man kind. Religion and Government have both grown very large, very powerful and they vie for your brain.

(I am NOT saying that it's bad to believe in God. I am saying it IS BAD TO FOLLOW AN ORGANIZED RELIGION the same as it is BAD to follow most governments.)

Today we stand on the threshold of the destruction of Western Civilization as we know it and as many of us grew up.

Some of you shit on the 1950s and an innocent time in America, laugh at it. But we had a lot less crime, murder and gangs then than we do now. A parent could smack down a kid for a good reason... ANY PARENT could do that to ANY kid and make them behave themselves.

Teachers were there because they wanted to TEACH, not scam the population out of hard earned money.

Politicians, mostly haven't changed much. Most went there to do something good, most left there as jaded as those before.

Governments have come and gone. Politicians have come and gone. But the ONE THING that has been CONSISTENT since the 1960s is the shrill screaming cries of "Injustice" from the Leftists to force the Right to back off and shut up, hide and cower while the Left made changes to this country.

It's well past time to fight back now. The last three generations have been turned against Right and Good and been perverted into believing that America is bad, America starts wars, America is full of Capitalist Pigs who need to be defeated, and the money that belongs the corporations belong to the Socialists. And worse of all, they have been made to believe that the Government is the source of everything near and dear to their hearts.

This MUST change or America falls in one more generation - perhaps sooner.

[American Patriot]

By the way, one last point.

Putin is a politician. He's a communist. Politicians and Communists as history records LIE constantly to make themselves appear better or different than they are in the eyes of the electorate or people of whatever country in which they live.

Regardless of what some of them say publicly they have less than good mental processes when it comes to their OWN POWER and will say, do and pretend ANYTHING to keep them in Power.

Obama is a consummate liar. There are hundreds of lies he has told publicly, maybe even thousands. But certainly the oft-repeated "Tell a lie often enough it begins to sound like the truth" couldn't be more accurate when it comes to Obama.

Obama is a simpering, Marxist maggot who was a follower of people like Bill Ayers, Dorn, Muslims, Communists and various other Leftists assholes who want NOTHING less than the destruction of America.

Whether it's a commie bent, Islamic bent or some other method like taking over as much of the American economy and nationalizing it isn't relevant. This IS the plan for the USA. It's Obama's plan, it's the Communists plan, it's the Islamist plan and it's the plan of ever Liberal, Progressive, Marxist and this generation of America's children from the age of 16-45 right - even if the latter group doesn't THINK so yet.

They have been brainwashed to believe in Government.

[Avvakum]

AP, I respect what you're saying and agree with much of it, but I have to disagree when it comes to Putin. I can show where he's said and done things no Communist would do, even one working undercover. I don't think any politician should be trusted, but rather judged by their actions. Many of Putin's actions I can agree with, I'm not as Libertarian in my Conservatism as you might be.

Putin is a politician who favors Capitalism, he is an Orthodox Christian who wants Russia to recover from the disaster of 1917. None of this effects, or should effect the role of the United States in the World. In fact, Putin, like when Bush 43 was in office, could be a definite help to us. Obama and others, being the Leftists they are, WANT the USA and Russia to be enemies. They're moving away from Lenin and Communism under Putin, which is what the 'New Yorker' was actually COMPLAINING about, and we're moving TOWARDS Lenin and Communism. Putin even warned us about that, years ago! But even now, he is trying to make peace with America;

Russia's Putin Sends New Year's Message To Obama




Posted: 12/31/2014 8:29 am EST Updated: 2 hours ago

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year's message to U.S. President Barack Obama that Moscow is looking for equality in bilateral relations next year.
The Kremlin on Wednesday published several dozen New Year's messages addressed to heads of states and international organizations such as the Olympic Committee and FIFA.
Putin reminded Obama of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the allied victory in World War II and said that it should serve as a reminder of "the responsibility that Russia and the United States bear for maintaining peace and international stability." Moscow is anxious for the relations to advance but only as long as there is "equality and mutual respect."
Conspicuously absent from the list of the recipients of New Year's messages was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

[American Patriot]

Putin would be well served to keep the peace (as part of his responsibility with Russia and the United States) if he shut his mouth and stopped threatening the US.

You see, regardless of what Putin said, he is a KGB Colonel. First and foremost.

Look, you don't throw off your beliefs in "the system" so fast as "Gosh, our country fell. Well, I'll hang up my rank and be a politician and forget all that nonsense."

No you, not me, not him. The very nature of a belief comes from learned responses and education, as well as experiences. The Bible saying about a leopard changing his spots - that he can not alter his being (and yes, I know the quote, and I know it speaks of being able to do good, where one has done evil) - but the fact remains that in a man's life time his personal and mental changes are GRADUAL, not instant as Putin has pretended.

I have been an American all my almost six decades. I won't change that. I won't change that I was in the military for nearly three of those decades. I don't change my actions or beliefs based on specious arguments from someone like you - and we both know we've spent a lot of time arguing on this site (some of us under various OTHER names). Worse, I am a Patriotic American and THAT will never change. I would never become a socialist, a communist, a fascist. I have no desire to gain control over a population and control their very thoughts.

Putin is NOT unlike me. In fact, he's even more dyed-in-the-wool nationalist than I am. He's a Russian born to a Soviet Union in 1952, thus OLDER than me. He was a KGB officer for sixteen years. I was a US military officer for 10 years longer than him. During his time with Gorby he was a fast rising start and Gorbachev was a total commie. Putin's actions in his government are regarded by the domestic opposition and foreign observers as undemocratic.

Putin a man of the Country - Mother Russia. NOT the Russia you love and adore - the pre 1917 Russia. No, he's an unmitigated Communist and I would not be surprised to learn he was directly responsible for the murders of thousands of Afghan people, as well as his own.

To oppose any leader in Russia is to paint yourself into a corner and then wait like a rat for the cats to come and eat you.

In America, that can't and won't happen (not yet anyway). In Russia you can go to the gulag for saying something against the party. No, that shit hasn't changed since BEFORE 1989.

They simply suppress it.

Ryan showed it best with his images of what Russia did to people.

Russia shut down Berlin. America had the airlift.

Russia has been excluded from the G8 for annexing Crimea. That's no small thing to be brushed over!

Russia has drawn sanctions from the US, Britain and other countries. Russia has retaliated by closing down fuel and gas to other countries.

Putin is almost a mirror image of Obama: The ancestry of Vladimir Putin has been described as a mystery with no records surviving of any ancestors of any people with the surname "Putin" beyond his grandfather Spiridon Ivanovich.

Sounds a lot like Obama. The man came from no where and is going to big places. Obama came from no where and went to big places.

Two mystery men on an "apparent date with destiny" but both of whom actually are helping the other? I would say there's no such thing as a world power like the Illuminati, but reading about these men makes me cringe for the unknown staring right AT us, and the people literally fawning over these men.

Neither is a man. BOTH are unacceptable leaders and both have been "groomed" by someone to be where they are.

AP, I respect what you're saying and agree with much of it, but I have to disagree when it comes to Putin. I can show where he's said and done things no Communist would do, even one working undercover. I don't think any politician should be trusted, but rather judged by their actions. Many of Putin's actions I can agree with, I'm not as Libertarian in my Conservatism as you might be.

Putin is a politician who favors Capitalism, he is an Orthodox Christian who wants Russia to recover from the disaster of 1917. None of this effects, or should effect the role of the United States in the World. In fact, Putin, like when Bush 43 was in office, could be a definite help to us. Obama and others, being the Leftists they are, WANT the USA and Russia to be enemies. They're moving away from Lenin and Communism under Putin, which is what the 'New Yorker' was actually COMPLAINING about, and we're moving TOWARDS Lenin and Communism. Putin even warned us about that, years ago! But even now, he is trying to make peace with America;

Russia's Putin Sends New Year's Message To Obama




Posted: 12/31/2014 8:29 am EST Updated: 2 hours ago

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year's message to U.S. President Barack Obama that Moscow is looking for equality in bilateral relations next year.
The Kremlin on Wednesday published several dozen New Year's messages addressed to heads of states and international organizations such as the Olympic Committee and FIFA.
Putin reminded Obama of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the allied victory in World War II and said that it should serve as a reminder of "the responsibility that Russia and the United States bear for maintaining peace and international stability." Moscow is anxious for the relations to advance but only as long as there is "equality and mutual respect."
Conspicuously absent from the list of the recipients of New Year's messages was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

[Avvakum]

AP, it's New Years eve and I'm not going to argue with you about Vladimir Putin anymore or even Barack Obama, I don't 100% trust any holder of political office in the world today. I wish we had another Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Jackson in the White House, but we don't. I wish that a Czar was on the throne in Russia, but they don't, not yet anyway.

Putin is a Nationalist for Russia, and I respect that. Russian Nationalists didn't support Communism during the Soviet period, so much as put up with it for the sake of the Russian people and not wanting foreign threats to take advantage of Soviet rule to dismember Russia under the disguise of 'fighting Communism'. The choice was Stalin or Genocide under Hitler.

Not living under a Dictatorship now in America, we don't have to make hard choices, but I guarantee you that if you and I for example were in Washington and saw the White House under attack, and the President under enemy attack, you and I would rush to defend the White House no matter the occupant. A patriot defends his country, even under harsh and seemingly impossible circumstances.


The people of Russia covered themselves in glory and made immense sacrifices to do their part to defeat the Fascists during the Great Patriotic War, and they have no reason to thus be ashamed of the WWII Red Army or what they did and sacrificed. 27 million lives.... Each year, Volgagrad is renamed for a month back to 'Stalingrad', not so much for Joseph Stalin, as the Russian Soldier of WWII, so the city really is; 'the city of the man of steel'. The people against Putin in Russia who want American aid against him are Racists, Nazis and Fascists or Communists, and they paint themselves as 'pro-democracy' when if they managed to overthrow Putin the only election afterwards would also be the last. If Navalny turns out to be an exception to that, and is better-for Russia-than Putin, then I wonder if he would have even the tentative support that the Western Liberals are giving him. If he's a better man than Putin, then we might see.

It's why decent folks everywhere support al-Sisi in Egypt for example, because he overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood and keeps extremists out of government. You know that if an election were held tomorrow in Egypt, Morsi would receive a plurality of the vote, and thus win. Putin keeps the extremists out in Russia in the same manner, until Russia matures and returns to being a responsible world power. Look at us voting Barack Obama in office-twice-and ask yourself if we in fact are losing remaining a responsible world power.

Like I said earlier, my focus is on extremist Islam now. Don't impugn my patriotism if I disagree with you on some of the rest.

[Avvakum]

I hate to double-post, but something you wrote before caught my attention;


"Putin is almost a mirror image of Obama: The ancestry of Vladimir Putin has been described as a mystery with no records surviving of any ancestors of any people with the surname "Putin" beyond his grandfather Spiridon Ivanovich."


Yes, that is mysterious, but Spiridon was born in 1878 I think, and police records and baptismal records in Czarist Russia were pretty good for accounting for many people, except for "Old Believers". Old Believers, depending on the group, don't like to register with authorities at all, or be numbered, or give out their real names. 'Putin' is no doubt in my mind an last name alias of an 'Old Believer' family, which decided to come out into regular Russian society on their terms and for their own reasons.....

'Mysterious' doesn't equal 'Evil' necessarily. The weirdness of Obama's family history has got that beat by miles, 'very strange' aren't quite the words for it.

But i'll just let V. Putin speak for himself about Obama and socialism;

[Avvakum]

And here is an article about Putin defending CAPITALISM at the 2009 Davos meeting;

Putin On Capitalism and the Financial Crisis

February 18, 2009 Global Economy, Physical Gold, Politics No Comments

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Capitalism and the Financial Crisis. Putin sounds like anything but and ex KGB head as he speaks at Davos on Capitalism and the Financial Crisis.
The DOW is up slightly today as we digest the great mortgage bailout package. President Obama spoke correctly yesterday when he said that the signing of the “stimulus” bill was “the beginning of the end”. I bet that he wishes he could have taken that phrasing back, but then who’s listening anyway.
The Dow is up 2.63 at 7,555, the NAS is up 5.44 at 1,476, the lighter than air dollar is up .192 (.25%) at 87.99 (I guess the laws of economics have been reversed, the more money you print, the more valuable it gets) and gold continues up, gaining $7.10 at $976.70. Gold is maintaining it’s position as the canary in the mine shaft. While the markets are enveloped in the smoke and mirrors, gold continues to gain as it is points towards more financial turmoil ahead.
Putin on Capitalism and the Financial Crisis!

Today I would like to spend a little time looking at Vladimir Putin’s take on the financial crisis. These quotes are from the latest Davos Summit meeting and they are pretty amazing when you consider who is making them.

In the last few months, virtually every speech on this subject started with criticism of the United States. But I will do nothing of the kind.
I just want to remind you that, just a year ago, American delegates speaking from this rostrum emphasized the US economy’s fundamental stability and its cloudless prospects. Today, investment banks, the pride of Wall Street, have virtually ceased to exist. In just 12 months, they have posted losses exceeding the profits they made in the last 25 years. This example alone reflects the real situation better than any criticism.
The existing financial system has failed. Substandard regulation has contributed to the crisis, failing to duly heed tremendous risks.

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd among others should listen to these words because Putin is speaking to them. Their manipulation of the lending practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are directly responsible for the housing bubble that was a central cause of the current financial crisis that we are in. Government force changed the lending practices, the mission, of those two mortgage giants and artificially changed the entire landscape in which the housing industry existed. It was only a matter of time before the house of cards, no pun intended, imploded. We have entered a new era where we need new terminology. In the past these sanctimonious idiots in Washington have accused banks of “predatory lending”, but I think that is totally misleading. The U.S. suffers from “predatory legislation”. Until we remove and hold accountable these “predatory legislators”, things can only get worse.
Prime Minister Putin continued:

“Add to this colossal disproportions that have accumulated over the last few years. This primarily concerns disproportions between the scale of financial operations and the fundamental value of assets, as well as those between the increased burden on international loans and the sources of their collateral.
The entire economic growth system, where one regional center prints money without respite and consumes material wealth, while another regional center manufactures inexpensive goods and saves money printed by other governments, has suffered a major setback.”
“I would like to add that this system has left entire regions, including Europe, on the outskirts of global economic processes and has prevented them from adopting key economic and financial decisions.”
“Moreover, generated prosperity was distributed extremely unevenly among various population strata. This applies to differences between social strata in certain countries, including highly developed ones. And it equally applies to gaps between countries and regions.”
“A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. Even a global recovery posted in the last few years has failed to radically change this situation.”
“And, finally, this crisis was brought about by excessive expectations. Corporate appetites with regard to constantly growing demand swelled unjustifiably. The race between stock market indices and capitalisation began to overshadow rising labour productivity and real-life corporate effectiveness.”

Redistribution of wealth is a key part of correcting the problem. On that note both, Prime Minister Putin and President Obama agree. This is disconcerting in and of itself. The next quote is utterly amazing to me. Putin is warning President Obama not to kill the golden goose! Putin sounds like an American hero. We really do live in bizzaro land.

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

No one but the House, Senate majority and the President! “Beam me up Scotty, she’s gonna blow!” How often is it that you can agree with the ex head of the KGB, than you can with the majority of the Congress and the President of the United States!
Keep in mind that Prime Minister Putin is no dummy and is using this situation to his advantage. He does not want to see the U.S. reduced to third world status. He needs us to keep the Muslim terrorist threat in check. Without the U.S. lead on that front, Russia and all of Europe would be in big trouble and right quick. Prime Minister Putin continued with four points that should be noted.

“This means we must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and bad assets. True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalization, bonuses or reputation. However, we would conserve and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets. I believe financial authorities must work out the required mechanism for writing off debts that corresponds to today’s needs.”

Here Putin pretty much backs the free enterprise system. Let the troubled banks go under and let the market place correct the problem.

“Second. Apart from cleaning up our balance sheets, it is high time we got rid of virtual money, exaggerated reports and dubious ratings. We must not harbor any illusions while assessing the state of the global economy and the real corporate standing, even if such assessments are made by major auditors and analysts.”

“In effect, our proposal implies that the audit, accounting and ratings system reform must be based on a reversion to the fundamental asset value concept. In other words, assessments of each individual business must be based on its ability to generate added value, rather than on subjective concepts. In our opinion, the economy of the future must become an economy of real values. How to achieve this is not so clear-cut. Let us think about it together.”

Spoken like a true capitalist, not a KGB head. We must keep in mind that in order to get into the center of the flock, sometimes the wolf may have to act like a sheep. With that thought in mind, I would rather negotiate with Putin before I would give the Ahmadinejad the time of day!

“Third. Excessive dependence on a single reserve currency is dangerous for the global economy. Consequently, it would be sensible to encourage the objective process of creating several strong reserve currencies in the future. It is high time we launched a detailed discussion of methods to facilitate a smooth and irreversible switchover to the new model.”

This is going to happen at some point or another. It may be a new currency that will be used for settlements in the oil markets that brings this about. After all of the printing press money filters through the U.S. economy very few will consider it a store of value.
“Fourth. Most nations convert their international reserves into foreign currencies and must therefore be convinced that they are reliable. Those issuing reserve and accounting currencies are objectively interested in their use by other states.”
We are beginning to see foreign governments reducing their holdings in U.S. dollars. That trend will continue and accelerate. I would urge you to read this speech in it’s entirety. When the Prime Minister of Russia sounds more like a proponent of the capitalist system then the President of the United States, something is very wrong. “Beam me up Scotty, she’s gonna blow.” It is time to buy gold and buy gold now! We are headed into dark days and gold may be the only shining light out there in the near future.
Till next time, good luck and good trading! You’re gonna need it!

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You've Been Told Wrong. Putin Never Lamented the End of Soviet Union

He regretted the loss of ties between former countrymen and the distress of millions of Russians who were left outside independent Russia


Boyd D. Cathey (The Unz Review)
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Soviet breakup left 20 million Russians outside Russia




This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared at The Unz Review

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As Professor Lynch [Allen C. Lynch, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft, 2011] recounts:

Putin accepted the irreversibility of the Soviet Union’s collapse and came to terms with the market and private property as the proper foundations of the Russian economy. [Lynch, p.28]

It is true that Putin lamented the break-up of the old Soviet Union, but not because he regretted the disappearance of the Soviets, but, rather, because of the numerous and intimate economic, linguistic, social, and cultural connections that interrelated most of the fifteen constituent republics of the old USSR.
His comments on the topic were very clear, but have been selectively taken out of context by the Putin haters. [See the book-length interview with Putin, with comments from other Russian leaders, First Person: An Astonishing Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, New York, 2000, pp. 165-190]
Much like the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire after World War I, which left significant ethnic minorities cut off from their historic former homelands — for example, millions of Austro-German Sudetens in Czechoslovakia, Hungarian Transylvanians in Romania, etc. — and a number of economically non-viable states in the Balkans, the dissolution of the Soviet Union created the same situation in Eastern Europe.


The present intractable crisis in Ukraine is a clear example of what can happen and has happened as a result. It was this situation that Putin rightly lamented; it was this break-up that he foresaw correctly as a tragedy.
Split into 15 countries




The much-criticized—by the American press—secession of Crimea from Ukraine and its subsequent re-union with Russia clearly illustrates this.
What too many so-called “experts” in America fail to understand (or, if they do, skillfully omit in their reports) is that Crimea was an integral part of Russia for hundreds of years until Communist Nikita Khrushchev sliced it off from Russia and gave it to Ukraine in 1954, despite the fact that 60% of its population is ethnically Russian and its culture and language completely Russian. [See the Wikipedia article, “Crimea”]
Moreover, the Ukrainian “oblasts,” or provinces, of Lugansk and Donetsk, have a similar history and ethno-cultural make-up. They were arbitrarily added to the Ukrainian socialist republic in the 1920s after the Communist revolution, despite being historically part of Mother Russia for centuries.
Interestingly, at the same time Putin made the “break-up” of the Soviet Russia comment, he visited Poland to denounce and condemn the Communist massacre and crimes in the Katyn Forest at the beginning of World War II, as well as the horrid Soviet gulags. On more than one occasion, especially at the meetings of the international Valdai Discussion Forum in 2013 and 2014, he has harshly condemned in the strongest terms Communism and the atrocious crimes committed by Communists.

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Boyd D. Cathey holds a doctorate in European intellectual history from the Catholic University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain and an MA in American intellectual history from the University of Virginia. He was assistant to conservative author and philosopher the late Russell Kirk. He has published in French, Spanish, and English on historical subjects as well as classical music and opera. He is active in the Sons of Confederate Veterans and various historical, archival, and genealogical organizations.

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Putin Helped Thwart 1991 KGB Coup. Personally Fought for Democracy

• Enough with the lies of Putin as a "KGB thug"
• Putin was a KGB analyst - a desk jockey
• Later on he briefly headed the FSB (Russian FBI equivalent)
• Meanwhile, in the turmoil of 1991 he sided with democrats...
• ...took personal risk to defy KGB, Soviet hardliners

Boyd D. Cathey (The Unz Review)
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Saved his mentor, the liberal Anatoly Sobchak from KGB arrest




This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared at The Unz Review

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The charges against Putin go from disingenuous to the dishonest.
The “KGB thug” and the “break-up” of the USSR accusations have been addressed in a variety of well-researched books and in-depth articles.
The documentation contradicts these allegations, including some charges that have been made by usually conservative voices.
It is extremely curious that such ostensibly conservative publications as The New American, for example, find themselves parroting accusations first made by notorious leftwing publicists and, then, by international gay rights supporters.
On the contrary, various historians and researchers, including Professor Allen C. Lynch (in his excellent study, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft, 2011), Professor Michael Stuermer (in his volume, Putin and the Rise of Russia, 2008), M. S. King (in The War Against Putin, 2014), Reagan ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock, Reagan Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, former Congressman Ron Paul (his web site, www.ronpaulinstitute.org, contains numerous scholarly articles defending Putin), Reagan budget director David Stockman, and conservative writer William Lind—none of these men on the Left—have pointed out that those allegations have been ripped out of context and are largely untenable.
Professor Lynch reveals in his detailed study that the evidence for the “Putin KGB thug” allegation is very thin and lacks substantial basis.
First, Putin was never “head of the KGB,” as some writers mistakenly (and, often, maliciously) assert. That is simply a falsehood.
Rather, he served as a mid-level intelligence bureaucrat who sat at a desk in Dresden, East Germany, where he was stationed with his family for several years before returning to Leningrad.


His job was to analyze data, and he had no involvement in other activities. [Lynch, pp. 19-21] Contemporary American intelligence reports confirm this fact.
Indeed, this was one of the reasons that early on, during 1990 and 1991, Putin was considered a hopeful figure among the generation of younger Russians by American intelligence sources.
After the fall of Communism during the administration of Boris Yeltsin, he very briefly served at Yeltsin’s request as head of the FSB intelligence service. But the FSB is not the KGB.
Lynch treats in some detail the question of Putin’s supposed continued subservience to KGB ideology, with particular reference to the events surrounding the abortive Communist coup by the old hands at the KGB in August 1991.
Putin, by that time, had resigned his position in the KGB and was serving as deputy mayor to pro-American Leningrad mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, one of the fiercest critics of the KGB and the old Soviet system.
It was Putin who organized the local Leningrad militia to oppose the attempted KGB coup and protect Mayor Sobchak and the forces of democratic reform:

Putin played a key role in saving Leningrad for the democrats.

The coup, which lasted but three days, was carried out on August 19. That same day Mayor Sobchak arrived on a flight from Moscow.

The Leningrad KGB, which supported the coup, planned to arrest Sobchak immediately upon landing.

Putin got word of the plan and took decisive and preemptive action: He organized a handful of loyal troops and met Sobchak at the airport, driving the car right up to the plane’s exit ramp.

The KGB turned back, not wishing to risk an open confrontation with Sobchak’s armed entourage [led by Putin].” [Lynch, p. 34]

This signal failure in Russia’s second city doomed the attempted KGB coup and assured the final collapse of the Soviet system and eventual transition of Russia away from Communism.
It was Vladimir Putin, then, who was largely responsible for defeating and preventing the return of Communism in Russia.
It is very hard to see how a secret supporter of the KGB would take such action, if he were actually favoring the return of Communism.

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What Putin said about America and Americans;

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

Vladimir Putin

[American Patriot]

I'll point out again. Putin is a liar. Leftists and Communists, LIKE MUSLIMS lie for their convictions and have zero qualms doing so.

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I'll point out again. Putin is a liar. Leftists and Communists, LIKE MUSLIMS lie for their convictions and have zero qualms doing so.

I don't call anyone a liar, especially someone I share the same Cup of Communion with, but more importantly, I want to know peoples actions, and Putin's actions have not been consistent with the idea of a secret Communist trying to fool people by means of a secret plan. There are just some things a Marxist Leninist wouldn't do, even a secret one, without his comrades becoming too paranoid to trust or work with him. One of those things is Putin calling Lenin and the Bolsheviks 'traitors' against Russia.

A Communist would NEVER do that. Lenin is their earthly substitute for God.

Putin's actions are consistent with being a pissed off Russian Nationalist, who has had enough of the Merkels and Obamas and Clintons. You watch. If Jeb Bush runs for President for example, you watch and notice.

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Obama attacked Russian economy through oil prices

Published time: December 30, 2014 16:30
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US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo/Doug Mills)

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Pushing down global oil prices was part of Washington’s rationale to destabilize the Russian economy, US President Barack Obama said in an interview to National Public Radio, a non-profit media organization.

Oil price key to Russian economy crumbling

Answering a direct question whether it was the US that collapsed oil prices globally to create problems for Russia, Obama said that Russian economy “was already contracting and capital was fleeing even before oil collapsed.”

Obama revealed that it was a “part of our rationale” that the “only thing” keeping Russian economy “afloat” was the price of oil.

Sanctions only made Russian economy more vulnerable to the “inevitable” oil price disruptions. “They'd have enormous difficulty managing it,” Obama said.

The US should be “firm with the Russians” when it comes to issues like Ukraine, but also America must build its manufacturing base to make sure its economy is better than Russia’s.

“Ultimately, the big advantage we have with Russia is we've got a dynamic, vital economy, and they don't. They rely on oil; we rely on oil and iPads and movies and you name it,” Obama said, adding that “making sure that prosperity is broadly shared” is also important for American people to feel confident about the future.


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“We don't really have a serious conventional military peer”

Pressure on Russia has not helped to solve the Ukrainian crisis, Obama said, because such international problems are big, difficult and messy.

“But wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership,” Obama said, adding later in his speech that in Ukraine the US has been upholding international norms.

Speaking about the future, Obama said that “America is in a great position and our military is more capable than any military in history.”

“We don't really have a serious peer, at least on the conventional level,” Obama said, but acknowledged that “obviously Russia is a significant nuclear power.”
Putin ‘not so smart’ after all – Obama

“You'll recall that three or four months ago, everybody in Washington was convinced that President Putin was a genius... And he had outmaneuvered all of us and he had, you know, bullied and, you know, strategized his way into expanding Russian power,” Obama said.

“We don't want war with Russia,” Obama recalled telling himself at the time. So instead he concentrated on applying “steady pressure” on Moscow.

An international coalition with European partners was formed “to oppose Russia's violation of another country's sovereignty,” Obama said, after the interviewer mentioned the Crimean Peninsula.

After the citizens of Crimea voted overwhelmingly in favor of reuniting with Russia in spring, Moscow quickly organized the region’s reentry into the Russian Federation.

“Over time, this would be a strategic mistake by Russia,” Obama said.

“And today, you know, I'd sense that at least outside of Russia, maybe some people are thinking what Putin did wasn't so smart,” Obama said.


US President Barack Obama.(AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan)

“America never colonized or grabbed resources of other countries”

“America's never been in the business of colonizing other countries and grabbing their resources… we've never been in the business of bullying folks into doing things that we can't do for ourselves,” Obama said, adding that when such things were done, they “never worked out all that well. That's not our best tradition.”

America’s best tradition is to lead by example, to be strong and secure to stand up for “what we believe in,” Obama said, emphasizing that the US is “in a great position to do that right now.”

Through the last two years of his presidency, Obama said he intended to build on work “that we've done over the last six years” and expressed hope he can bring the country together to do it.


Putin pushes back: Beware the wounded Russian bear

By Desmond Lachman

Published December 05, 2014FoxNews.com


Putin defiant against West in address

Contrary to what he would like us to believe, things are going very poorly for Vladimir Putin these days. Having found the West more united than he expected on the issue of sanctions against Russia, he now discovers that the bottom has fallen out of the international oil market. As if that were not enough, he also finds Europe nixing his pet Southstream gas pipeline, supposed to run under the Black Sea, which he had hoped would increase Russia’s energy stranglehold over Ukraine and the rest of Europe.

But before we indulge in too much glee over Putin’s discomfort, we should consider the all-too-real risk that when cornered, he is apt to become even more dangerous.

Russia has a long history of rulers who start armed adventures abroad to deflect attention from economic and social troubles at home. When he annexed Crimea last March, Putin appeared to be continuing in that tradition.

A real danger is that a Russian economy in tatters will only increase the incentives for aggressive moves abroad.

The aggression came about in order to defuse growing domestic opposition to his increasingly corrupt handling of the Russian economy, and increase his authoritarian grip over the country. It worked. Encouraged by the highly favorable domestic response, Putin kept the foreign pot boiling by blatantly backing separatism in Eastern Ukraine.

When he launched his Ukrainian adventure around a year ago, Putin was counting on a divided Europe inability to join the U.S. in imposing meaningful economic sanctions as a response. He must now feel deeply disappointed. Despite considerable business pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to duck sanctions, Europe did join in strengthening penalties on the Russian energy and financial sectors. This forced Putin to strike a long-term energy supply arrangement with China at prices generally viewed as unfavorable to Russia.

Since then, Europe has managed to thwart Russia’s further attempts to undermine Ukraine and increase its stranglehold on the European energy market. Effectively blocking the construction of Southstream was an important step in the process. Russia intended to use the pipeline to supply Europe with gas without having to go through Ukraine—a move that would have drastically increased his ability to squeeze that country without putting Europe’s energy supply in play.

The Southstream setback has caused Putin to make another hasty and questionable move: an alternative pipeline deal with Turkey. In order to seal the deal, Russia had to offer a 6 per cent discount on its gas prices. At the same time, supplying Europe through Turkey rather than through Ukraine will add considerably to Gazprom’s transportation costs and it is still not clear whether Europe will allow that gas to enter Europe through Greece.

In addition, Putin appears to have been caught totally flatfooted by developments in the international oil market. He especially seems to have misjudged the major shifts caused by the U.S. shale oil revolution, along with increased offshore oil and gas production in a variety of other countries, and the slowing in the overall global economy. Those changes have seen benchmark global oil prices decline from $115 per bbl. to around $75 over the past six months.

All this, in turn, has blown a hole in the Russian budget, which depends on oil for around 45 per cent of its tax revenues. Over the past six months, the Russian ruble has also lost around half its value, contributing to an inflation rate now at 9 per cent.

Coupled with sanctions, the dismal oil picture has caused a collapse in investor and household confidence in the economy, and forced Moscow to acknowledge that the country is headed for a recession next year.

A real danger, however, is that a Russian economy in tatters will only increase the incentives for aggressive moves abroad. This is, after all, how Putin’s era got started: with a lethal campaign against Chechnya to consolidate his regime at home.

Among other things, the bad news for Putin could be equally bad news for early resolution of the Ukraine crisis. Worse yet, as Senator John McCain has recently warned, it could spell trouble for countries like Moldova and the Baltic states, which Russia has long considered to be part of its “near abroad.”

It could also be the prelude for Russia using its energy leverage over countries even further afield, such Bulgaria, Finland and Slovakia. Like the Baltics, all are totally dependent on Russia for their natural gas supplies.

Thwarting a bear does not turn the beast into a lamb. It mostly creates an angrier and more unpredictable bear.

[Avvakum]

Well, there you have it. Barack Obama, has engineered this crisis, as he has done all the others since he's occupied the White House. We shouldn't do his dirty work for him, even intellectually. I don't know how he can sleep at night, working to make the world safe for Jihadists, Nazis, and Fascists, and trying it seems to create a new cold war where none should have existed.

[American Patriot]

No, there you have a bunch of fucking Soviet Propaganda.

The article is from rt.com

Russia Today, state owned RIA Novsti organization. And it's a PROPAGANDA ARM of the Russian STATE.

Are you DENSE?