04-23-2014, 04:31 AM
It's easy for us to critique Putin from the Western point of view, far off from the comfort provided by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but Russia has gone through their normal cycle of economic, political, then military collapse. They have been in a position of resurgence after a strong leader rose to the top after many years of downturn under Yeltsin.
Putin is such that he remains very cool-headed, but you know he's thinking that he is going to win whatever skirmish or conflict is on the table at the time, while the rest of the "leaders" in the West coordinate their metrosexual girlsuits and make empty threats about maybe doing some sanctions. Oh wait, Russia is the energy provider for Europe, especially after that little disaster in Japan, combined with Germany's utter insanity of shutting down one of their safest, cleanest sources of energy at the behest of the useful idiots for Moscow that think they are actually environmentalist/Green Party advocates.
With those fundamental realities, we all wish we had a real leader who was as much of an advocate for our own Nation as Putin is for his, rather than the Soviet plant that our current WH occupant is, who clearly is more concerned about our enemies, while reducing our military capacity to unprecedented levels since we became the world super power. All this at the threshold of the series of wars that will be fought over Europe-the wars we sought to prevent with NATO during the Cold War, that are now finally playing out with no tangible opposition to Russia.
With that big picture in mind, it will be interesting to see how much actual revenue is allocated to upgrading the US Military Small Arms, versus tying our hands with "green" and "environmentally conscious" projectiles that don't leave a nasty footprint....it seems to come right out of a genius and insidious playbook concocted from Lubyanka.
Putin is such that he remains very cool-headed, but you know he's thinking that he is going to win whatever skirmish or conflict is on the table at the time, while the rest of the "leaders" in the West coordinate their metrosexual girlsuits and make empty threats about maybe doing some sanctions. Oh wait, Russia is the energy provider for Europe, especially after that little disaster in Japan, combined with Germany's utter insanity of shutting down one of their safest, cleanest sources of energy at the behest of the useful idiots for Moscow that think they are actually environmentalist/Green Party advocates.
With those fundamental realities, we all wish we had a real leader who was as much of an advocate for our own Nation as Putin is for his, rather than the Soviet plant that our current WH occupant is, who clearly is more concerned about our enemies, while reducing our military capacity to unprecedented levels since we became the world super power. All this at the threshold of the series of wars that will be fought over Europe-the wars we sought to prevent with NATO during the Cold War, that are now finally playing out with no tangible opposition to Russia.
With that big picture in mind, it will be interesting to see how much actual revenue is allocated to upgrading the US Military Small Arms, versus tying our hands with "green" and "environmentally conscious" projectiles that don't leave a nasty footprint....it seems to come right out of a genius and insidious playbook concocted from Lubyanka.