Medvedev
If only US could find an American equivalent of Putin. Smart, deeply patriotic, ruthless politician and great organizer. Instead we have bunch of empty suits (and skirts) that are hell bent on bleeding US dry and selling it off to the highest bidder. Democracy failing in US. American people are generally good and generous but American Government spends gazzilions of US taxpayers $ all over the world to force US influence and control in form of forced “democracy”. Forcing US form of “democracy” onto people that do not want it everywhere. From Iraq where democracy of any kind will never work to Ukraine and Russia where Western style of democracy cannot work.
US Government DOES NOT represent American people. If only Americans would know just a fraction of what is done all over the world in their name.
I bet the first time you heard about “Orange Revolution” you asked yourself: “Ukraine? Where is Ukraine? Somewhere between Uruguay and Uranus?” but your beloved Government is there. Spending hundreds of millions of your money to elect one group instead of another for who knows what reason.
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2004/cr120704.htm
In Russia Western style of democracy would lead to chaos, fragmentation of Russia, economic collapse and massive unrest and starvation. Russia was well underway. Some regions of Russia were demanding UN recognition (not just Chechnya) Putin put the end to that quick
Oligarchs were stealing everything of worth from Russia and selling it off to the highest bidder. Putin put controls over them. Some of them had to run to West for safety.
Economy recovering, people earn more, crime goes down… What is wrong with the picture? Everything, in US eyes anyway. US backs weak, PC candidate who is not even Russian and has popularity in single digits. Why? Because strong Russia is an independent Russia. US wants weak, messed up country forever dependent on US foreign aid.
Putin’s popularity approval ratings are in 70-80% range and he is a “tyrant”
Compare it to mid 20s approval for Bush and tell me who represents their people better.
There is a passage in Bible that goes something like this: “Pull log out of your own eye before pointing out speck in eye of your brother.”
US democracy is failing miserably in the sea of corruption and dictatorship of political correctness while “patriotic” Americans are busy telling others that their political system is not good enough.
Russia is getting more and more stable by the day. US backed non-Russian guy name Kasparian (Kasparov) who openly loathes Russians and is serving interests of the USA, not Russian people. He is a member of US National Security Advisory Council. Though his name was taken off official list just recently. I wonder if, say, Al Gore was an official member of some Russian Security Council, his campaign was paid for by Russia, how much Americans would object to that? Yet US expected different reaction from Russia?
Can you imagine something more anti-democratic? US is hell bent on destabilizing Russia as much as possible
Russia is not US friend. Duh. Russia is not US friend because friends do not threat friends like shit. Friends do not get into friends backyards and start moving fences around. Friends do not help some bum off the street to come into your friend’s house and take control over it.
US deals with Russia like a first rate school yard bully and then it is surprised that Russia is not much of a friend after all.
If US would treat Russia as just one of potential allies after fall of USSR things could be so different now. Instead, “Stick it to the Russki” mindset persisted. US started treating Russia as some third world semi-colony. What US did in Ukraine, the birthplace of Russia and some other former Soviet republics is nothing but spiting in the face of Russia at any given opportunity.
Great historical opportunity was missed. Russia really could become long term, reliable ally for generations the way Britain is.
Lesson of WWI was missed entirely by the new leadership of US. Defeated Germany was punished non-stop and insulted at every opportunity. It did not take long for Hitler to capitalize on that and come to power.
Parts of Germany were cut off from all sides and given into control of other nations. Similarly US payrolled anti Russian groups in counties like Ukraine and de-facto gave it into Polish control.
Needless to say US leadership knows nothing about history of the region. They do not know that for centuries Poland wanted control of Ukraine or parts of it.
The biggest downside or this bullying of Russia is their increasing friendliness with China. Russian shipbuilders and weapon manufacturers work overtime and double time trying to fill all the orders from China. More and more advanced technologies are transferred to China.
Just one example: Russians figured out how to maneuver ballistic missile warhead in terminal trajectory (which was previously considered impossible due to super high speed) and in less than two years Chinese are testing missiles with use of that new technology. Des not sound very scary? Now Chinese can hit moving ship at sea hundreds if not thousand miles away and with those missiles going into boomer subs almost anywhere in the world. Those missiles cannot be defended against except a slim chance of hitting one shortly after launch and only one or two of them at the time not salvo of them.
This kind of close cooperation and on very advanced level increases with every anti-Russian step US takes. I think it was shortly after “Orange Revolution” that Russia announced building base in China. Supply base where Chicoms will go to weapons supermarket and pick what they like right off the shelf.
There was never much love between Russia and China but with US pressure alliance was forged out of necessity. It never even hit US main street press but there is now an official anti US alliance called BRICS. Russian and China are main players, India joining and even Brazil and South Africa are in it. Last two are not much of a military powers but their strategic location may some day come in handy to the new alliance.
