Vlad Putin Praises Russian Treachery

Vlad Putin Praises Russian Treachery

On first meeting then-President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in 2001, President George W. Bush said of Putin that, ”I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. He added, “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”

Putin has proven himself straightforward, but trustworthy? I don’t know what Bush detected in his soul but the former head of the USSR’s secret police, the KGB, could be described as trustworthy only from a Russian perspective.

Appointed Prime Minister by figurehead President Dmitry Medvedev, Putin has shown repeatedly that he’s a lowlife but outdid himself and shamed his country by boasting about the USSR’s thievery during the Cold War.

Beset by mass demonstrations opposing his campaign for reelection as president on March 4th, Putin has been stirring up anti-Americanism reminiscent of his KGB days. Although a repugnant campaign tactic, that’s almost understandable in view of the decline and fall of the Russian empire, the obvious effect of that collapse on the Russian people, and their need to focus on something other than their loss of superpower status.

However, Putin arousing old animosities is far from bragging about his nation’s treachery.

In any war, hot or cold, every country resorts to underhanded methods to gain an advantage. Few nations brag about them. Using as an excuse for the USSR’s massive theft of America’s nuclear secrets after WWII, Putin said it was done because Russia didn’t want the United States to be the sole atomic power on the planet.

Contrary to historical record, the thievery wasn’t conducted so that the USSR could have a shot at world domination. . .
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