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"Finds new ways to scare the world"what a laughable statement.
Which country has surrounded which country with military bases and missile shields?
Thats why US is such in a state if ppl belive this kind of bull . Pathetic
FOUR years ago Mitt Romney, then a Republican candidate, said that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe”. Barack Obama, among others, mocked this hilarious gaffe: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the cold war’s been over for 20 years,” scoffed the president. How times change. With Russia hacking the American election, presiding over mass slaughter in Syria, annexing Crimea and talking casually about using nuclear weapons, Mr Romney’s view has become conventional wisdom. Almost the only American to dissent from it is today’s Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
Every week Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, finds new ways to scare the world. Recently he moved nuclear-capable missiles close to Poland and Lithuania. This week he sent an aircraft-carrier group down the North Sea and the English Channel. He has threatened to shoot down any American plane that attacks the forces of Syria’s despot, Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s UN envoy has said that relations with America are at their tensest in 40 years. Russian television news is full of ballistic missiles and bomb shelters. “Impudent behaviour” might have “nuclear consequences”, warns Dmitry Kiselev, Mr Putin’s propagandist-in-chief—who goes on to cite Mr Putin’s words that “If a fight is inevitable, you have to strike first.”
In fact, Russia is not about to go to war with America. Much of its language is no more than bluster. But it does pose a threat to stability and order. And the first step to answering that threat is to understand that Russian belligerence is not a sign of resurgence, but of a chronic, debilitating weakness.
Vlad the invader
As our special report this week sets out, Russia confronts grave problems in its economy, politics and society. Its population is ageing and is expected to shrink by 10% by 2050. An attempt to use the windfall from the commodity boom to modernise the state and its economy fell flat. Instead Mr Putin has presided over a huge increase in government: between 2005 and 2015, the share of Russian GDP that comes from public spending and state-controlled firms rose from 35% to 70%. Having grown by 7% a year at the start of Mr Putin’s reign, the economy is now shrinking. Sanctions are partly to blame, but corruption and a fall in the price of oil matter more. The Kremlin decides who gets rich and stays that way. Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian tycoon, was detained for three months in 2014. When he emerged, he had surrendered his oil company.
Mr Putin has sought to offset vulnerability at home with aggression abroad. With their mass protests after election-rigging in 2011-12, Russia’s sophisticated urban middle classes showed that they yearn for a modern state. When the oil price was high, Mr Putin could resist them by buying support. Now he shores up his power by waging foreign wars and using his propaganda tools to whip up nationalism. He is wary of giving any ground to Western ideas because Russia’s political system, though adept at repression, is brittle. Ins utions that would underpin a prosperous Russia, such as the rule of law, free media, democracy and open compe ion, pose an existential threat to Mr Putin’s rotten state.
http://www.economist.com/news/leader...-threat-russia
"Finds new ways to scare the world"
Which country has surrounded which country with military bases and missile shields?
Thats why US is such in a state if ppl belive this kind of bull . Pathetic
Hater: do you take US and Euro saber rattling against Russia seriously, or do you mock it?
Please pick a lane.
A country undergoing economic distress with weapons like Russia can be dangerous. With as fd up as Russia is due to absolute economic incompetence, a leader like little Vladimir can only puff his chest militarily. Just wait out the tantrums and Russia will beg to be back trading freely. But it won't matter unless somehow they correct a totally dysfunctional economic system led by authoritarians."Finds new ways to scare the world"
Which country has surrounded which country with military bases and missile shields?
Thats why US is such in a state if ppl belive this kind of bull . Pathetic
Um im laughing at d stupidity of the article. Putin is finding new ways to scare the world
Eastern Europe had kittens after he invaded eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The Sunnis are extremely concerned about the Russo-Iranian Alliance's Middle East interventions. That is two areas of the wrold and the article discusses it. It seems you didn't even read it, comrade.Um im laughing at d stupidity of the article. Putin is finding new ways to scare the world
I still think US and Russia need to work together to defeat the extremist Sunnis...
Obama did a solid job in his first term. I think Romney could have done better in this latest term though.
By rolling back all the you liked from Obama's first term?
He couldn't really roll back the stimulus that had already been spent, the decision to bail out the auto-industry, the death of Osama and some other things. If he rolled back the ACA, then oh well.
Crimea was not taken over for nothing. US organized the coup vs a legitimate president and installed their own puppet government. This is equivaled to Russia toppling Mexican president and installing their own. Yeah, US would allow that to happen
This is trueCrimea was not taken over for nothing. US organized the coup vs a legitimate president and installed their own puppet government. This is equivaled to Russia toppling Mexican president and installing their own. Yeah, US would allow that to happen
A bit of a stretch to call it an aircraft carrier group. It's an old aircraft carrier, a tug boat in case it breaks down, and some random vessels. I don't think the Royal Navy was scared.This week he sent an aircraft-carrier group down the North Sea and the English Channel.
Crimea was not taken over for nothing. US organized the coup vs a legitimate president and installed their own puppet government. This is equivaled to Russia toppling Mexican president and installing their own. Yeah, US would allow that to happen
What there is no doubt of is that he is Russia's man.
Also what is of little doubt is that you using the same logic the Kremlin used for the Ukraine protests as well as the protests of Putin's rigging of the 2012 election. He blames the US and George Soros for that too.
The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked do ents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. — but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican Ins ute, the National Democratic Ins ute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same.
What there is no doubt of is that he is Russia's man.
Also what is of little doubt is that you using the same logic the Kremlin used for the Ukraine protests as well as the protests of Putin's rigging of the 2012 election. He blames the US and George Soros for that too.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-...regime/206574/
There he is with the ultimate re ed conspiracy. Muahahhahaha
romney called russia a threat and got lol'd by libs tbh
Anything not from a Russian hack?
His female predecessor, who was much more Western oriented, got thrown out for the same basic reason:
Massive corruption.
So what?
They don't own the book on being correct.
Are you claiming the Soros has not meddled in Ukraine since the early 90's?
It's amusing TheStupidityAnnex's takes are 90% from Russian hacks nowadays. Him and ducks need to get a room.
It's amusing you think every leak is from a Russian hack.
It is a good bet, though.
Not every leak. Just the ones TheDumbassAnnex has posted to this point. Its little surprise Putin is trying to appeal to white nationalists nor that they simplemindedly lap it up.
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