BBC article has all the detils.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6349287.stm
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quote:Originally posted by dogsoldier0513:
Putin has been quoted before...2 years ago, IIRC, that HE 'longed for' the 'old days' of the USSR. He's 'power-hungry' as well.
quote:Originally posted by interventor:
Putin is assisting Iran in its nuclear program, selling advanced weaponry to Iran and China, and blackmailing western and central Europe with gas and oil. And, you compare the US with the USSR, a prison of nations, that exterminated 50 million people and filled the gulags with hundreds of thousands of zeks! You. have no gravitas, no bottom and no soul!
quote:Originally posted by interventor:
The BBC has misrepresented what he actually said. He didn't say that the US per se was "very dangerous," he said that the reaction of other countries to the perceived threat of the US (i.e. to develop nuclear weapons) was a "very dangerous" development. Of course, he implicitly blames the US for what other countries do. but there is an important semantic distinction between what the BBC claims he said and what he actually said.
That you would care what an ex-KGB agent and the BBC, anti-American for many years snd not just during the Bush administation, speaks volumes.
Check your sources, then check your epistimology.
quote:Originally posted by themax:
Who in the world would be behind someone named Putin??
quote:Originally posted by themax:
Who in the world would be behind someone named Putin??
quote:Originally posted by EdEKit:quote:Originally posted by themax:
Who in the world would be behind someone named Putin??
Who in the world would be pig headed enough to ignore the President IN CHARGE OF SECOND MOST POWERFUL NUCLEAR ARSENAL ON EARTH?