Forget 'evil' Putin - we are the bloodthirsty warmongers

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50. Wonderful post

Yes, Putin is a statesman and that's not his only great speech. I've read most of them, which can be found (properly translated) on the Kremlin website and they are all to the point, no bullshit, and very insightful. Very good reading. I think it was in his Crimea speech that he said, "You cannot call the same thing black today and white tomorrow", referring to the hypocrisy and lies of the west - lies and hypocrisy that get repeated by a few here (fortunately far more here see through it). It's the exact same shit as during the Bush administration only then it was called out for what it was on sites like DU. Well said, in the Salon quote, about Putin honoring history, too. He does and he is also very forward thinking about a future where in a multi-polar world (rather than Anglo-American hegemony) other countries and peoples have a voice in how the world is run and their sovereignty respected - all anathema to the Hegemon which seeks nothing less than total global domination, just like it's predecessor, the British empire (who caused the starvation of 30 million Indians, btw, for the sake of markets).

Sanctions and economic warfare lay the groundwork for a hot war. The US, UK and the Gulf State sponsors of global terror want war. They would have settled for complete capitulation but that will never happen with the Russian people or most of the Russian leadership (not just Putin). Russians do not want war and have bent over backwards to avoid it but they will fight for their own culture, land and very survival, as is to be expected and is their right. It's amazing how any in Europe, having been the theater for two horrific world wars, are chomping at the bit for another one. They seem to be absent the long memory of the Russians.

The next card the US/UK/Saudis intend to play against Russia is Wahabbi terror stirred up in Chechnya and the Caucasus (again). You may recall that Prince Bandar (House of Saud) went to see Putin last year and said if Putin would cease support for Syria that the Saudis would guarantee there would be no terrorist attacks at the Sochi Olympics, stating that the Saudis controlled the Chechen terrorists. Of course, threats get nowhere with Putin and just as the Saudis and US have driven down the price oil, they will employ the "jihadists". Oh, and those Chechen Wahabbists had Ukrainian neonazis fighting with them in the Chechen wars. The most well known was 'Sashko Biliy', killed by the coup regime because he posed a threat to them.