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Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader

MickeyW said:
And that's extremely important to the running of this country!
People often think of only gasoline and oil...but it's all the plastics in hundreds of applications as well. Vinyl records are making a huge comeback.....no oil, no records! Just one example.

And I'm not into paying 4-5 dollars a gallon for my gas.....today it's $2.15 in my town and coming down.
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It wasn't about oil, it was about national ego.
 
annata said:
Saleh said his group had been supplied with advanced anti-tank missiles by foreign powers opposed to Assad.
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I see the US capable of sending anti aircraft missiles to the FSA and acting surprised when civilian airliners get shot down elsewhere.
 
Natan said:
I see the US capable of sending anti aircraft missiles to the FSA and acting surprised when civilian airliners get shot down elsewhere.
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Did the US send anti-aircraft missiles to the FSA? As far as I knew it was TOW missiles.
 
betuadollar said:
Setting Chechyna aside, which I feel is justified, and I haven't seen anything in Putin's history to suggest that, no. All of these people spouting American freedom, rah rah rah are the very same people who are trying to sneak American corporations into places like the Ukraine. As I've mentioned before I love the cold war; I think it's a beautiful thing. But to me it's just vital political posturing; I don't actually want to sacrifice young lives and our tax dollars to corporate profits. I guess you could say I see Putin more as a diplomat, leveraged perhaps, but a diplomat just the same. I'll tell you something else, too - none of this instability in the ME is good for American business. We're cutting off our hand to spite our face. That's just me, just an opinion, and maybe it's totally off base. But really, has Putin been pushing up on western Europe? Or has it been business as usual? Business as usual: people really do need resources, they really do need international trade. i don't think Putin is the militaristic threat everyone believes him to be.
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Ukrainians would disagree.
 
annata said:
Did the US send anti-aircraft missiles to the FSA? As far as I knew it was TOW missiles.
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Well they did Admit to having Man-pads. Said they got them from Libya.
 
Natan said:
Their ally Saudi Arabia might already have sent: Saudis Agree to Provide Syrian Rebels With Mobile Antiaircraft Missiles - WSJ I don't think those are manufactured locally in Saudi Arabia.
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well I can't read the link (WSJ required a subscription) and like everything else it's "reported" by HuffPo
I guess the question is if the 'rebels' have shot down any of Assad's planes..
But it's a really stupid idea for the US or SA to escalate that..quite a few FSA arms depots have been looted by al_Nusra (etc)
 
Chocolate said:
Sorry if I am missing your tone but you are unhappy with the fact that Russia is pushing for a lawful coalition between countries against ISIS? This somehow makes the USA weak? also you believe that Russia did not do the majority of the fighting in WWII?

I suppose I can understand why you make dislike Russia creating this coalition against ISIS since it's Russia and the USA hates anything they do. But I don't understand why you think they weren't fundamental to an allied victory in WWII

If you can answer any of these questions that would be fantastic, Thank you
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Russia isn't in it to defeat ISIS they're in it to prop up the brutal Assad dictatorship, as for WW2 the Soviets share equal war guilt with the Third Reich under the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact; furthermore Hitler wouldn't have made it past the Maginot line without soviet fuel and wheat feeding the Nazi war machine.
 
Riveroaks said:
Even though Putin got all those people killed in Chechnya that was all for Mother Russia and not selfish. Boris Yeltsin appreciated it too -- he has died since however.
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Mother Russia? What decade are we in? Thanks for letting us know that Boris Yeltsin has passed away. :peace
 
Putin world's most powerful leader?

I wouldn't follow Putin.

Show of hands. How many here would rather have Putin as their leader?
 
starcitizen said:
Russia isn't in it to defeat ISIS they're in it to prop up the brutal Assad dictatorship
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You do not mind that on the side of ISIS fighting about seven thousand immigrants from the Soviet Union? Personally, we remember Chechnya Russian company and do not want a repetition of the hell that was here twenty years ago./
 
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