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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else getting tired of seeing people carry water for homophobic expansionist tyrants? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Or are you, in fact, posting from there? You keep talking about those Americans as though you're not in the club, isn't that curious...?
We'll see how happy those legend-worshippers are when they can't get their Pringles and Purdue chickens, won't we?
This isn't about "chosen fews" either. It's about a guy bigfooting his neighbors and taking over their countries. That sort of thing is frowned upon, you know. No one liked it in 1939, either.
Your characterization of all of Russia worshipping Vladimir like the second coming is falling apart, too.
Here's some light reading for you--the bloom is off the rose, I think:
http://www.euronews.com/2014/08/29/wives-and-mothers-of-russian-servicemen-demand-answers-on-their-whereabouts/
Wives and mothers of Russian servicemen demand answers on their whereabouts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/29/what-does-russia-tell-the-mothers-of-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine-not-much/
What does Russia tell the mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine? Not much.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/putin-world-kremlin-moscow-power-circle
Inside Putinworld, where few risk speaking truth to power
Kremlinology is back in vogue, the inner circle contracts and ruthless competition is encouraged among underlings
The wheels are coming off--it's only going to get more oppressive and more paranoid as time goes by.