Why Putin is driving Washington nuts
Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington's top bogeyman - and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners and assorted media shills - will be none other than back-to-the-future Russian President Vladimir Putin.
And make no mistake; Vlad the Putinator will relish it. He's back exactly where he wants to be; as Russia's commander-in-chief, in charge of the military, foreign policy and all national security matters.
Anglo-American elites still squirm at the mention of his now legendary Munich 2007 speech, when he blasted the then George W Bush administration for its obsessively unipolar imperial agenda "through a system which has nothing to do with democracy" and non-stop overstepping of its "national borders in almost all spheres"."
So Washington and its minions have been warned. Before last Sunday's election, Putin even advertised his road map The essentials; no war on Syria; no war on Iran; no "humanitarian bombing" or fomenting "color revolutions" - all bundled into a new concept, "illegal instruments of soft power". For Putin, a Washington-engineered New World Order is a no-go. What rules is "the time-honored principle of state sovereignty".
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/NC09Ag01.html
leveymg
(36,418 posts)will have to do for lack of something more substantial. Call it unipolar-and-a-half.
DoBotherMe
(2,340 posts)We have squandered our resources and reputation and are no longer capable of defending democracy. Russia has oil and gas and friends with the same. Dana ; )
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Actually, our adversaries have done rather better than our erstwhile friends in recent years, comparatively speaking.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
yurbud
(39,405 posts)If Syria, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan or any other country played ball on the terms dictated by oil companies and international banks, their leaders could name themselves goods and grind up their people to feed their purse dogs and our governemnt wouldn't say a peep against them
Articles like the OP make me almost blind with anger, not at the article or the person who posted it, but at the dishonestly with which our elected leaders talk about this stuff.
It's pretty bad when a thug like Putin is more honest about what we are doing in the world than our leaders are.