Putin never left. >>click<<Putin set to return?
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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*
Re: Putin set to return?
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.
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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
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But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
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Palin/Putin 2012!Originally Posted by Strike For The South
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"Nietzsche is dead" - God
"I agree, although I support China I support anyone discovering things for Science and humanity." - lenin96
Re: Pursuit of happiness
Have you just been dumped?
I ask because it's usually something like that which causes outbursts like this, needless to say I dissagree completely.
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That is so much exactly what I've been thinking for months that I could weep with joy at the recognition.
Brilliant.
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I heard Medvedev's speech after Obama's election. A very threatening posture. It struck me that the Russians immediately had their reaction to the election ready. For one thing, missiles near Kaliningrad. I wonder if he is testing Obama's resolve. Or whether he is counting on negotiations and quickly raised his bid, hoping to meet at a 'reasonable middle'? ('okay..let's meet halfway. How about you guys withdraw missile shields from Poland, and we withdraw our missiles from Kaliningrad in return?')
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Or even more effective, ignore him. A few missiles in Kaliningrad will play well to the home crowd, but militarily make no difference at all. It's not remotely threatening unless we choose to make it so.
Russia is desperate to be recognised again as a super-power, and we would do well to have a policy of recognising the good, positive behaviours rather than responding to the willy-waving.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
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