face it. There is a contingent on DU who love a shirtless Putin and are swooning

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283. Don't get the "bully Putin" thing.

The US is the one trying to start an international conflict here, and Putin, wether you like him, despise him, or sees him as an actor in the international scene with which acts under positive and negative actions at times, is the one helping prevent it. One can argue that he's not doing it as a humanitarian action, but I think he will get many honest thanks from around the world if he's able to prevent it. Hope he's able to stand on this.

I'm not entirely confident, though. I think soon another "reason" to intervene in Syria will appear. This is part of a long time strategy to get Syria rid of its secular government, shared by the Arab states and the US, though for different reasons. The authentic protests of the Syrian people were hijacked by foreigners, either jihadists or paid mercenaries, and agents of the US.

In orther to stop wars a very deep reform in the US foreign policy and the country's economic dependence on the war/oil industries would be needed. I thought Obama would be the one to propose it...

And, as shown, Obama also takes his shirt off. Wow. Big deal.