Hmm, and here I would have sworn Putin was putting country first.
Re: Putin set to return?
Hmm, and here I would have sworn Putin was putting country first.
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Soviet Union II: Putin's Revenge
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
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Putin is way too smart to get back so early. He'll let Medvedev have a full term at least, probably two terms, before going for the office again. In the mean time he'll just continue as PM, calling the shots behind the scenes.
RTW, 167 BC: Rome expels Greek philosophers after the Lex Fannia law is passed. This bans the effete and nasty Greek practice of 'philosophy' in favour of more manly, properly Roman pursuits that don't involve quite so much thinking.
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Putin never left. >>click<<Putin set to return?
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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He is very popular in Russia. Why not return? The locals don't particularly like democracy, so they'd probably not have a problem with him.
Abroad his "rep" would be no worse than Bush had, nor such figures as Mugabe. He's god loads of natural resources and massive foreign reserves of cash. Like it or lump it, he's got a lot of what we need.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
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I just wanted a Palin-Putin death match.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Did he ever really leave?
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
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Palin/Putin 2012!
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