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. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=14257.)

Red Dawn 2010

Red Dawn 2010

During the height of the Cold War, Hollywood produced a zany comedy titled, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” meant in part to defuse the Russian threat by satirizing it. The 1966 movie featured left wingers Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, and Theodore Bikel and generally fulfilled its purpose.

We should expect to see people such as Woody Allen and his ilk in a sequel, “The Chinese Are Coming, the Chinese Are Coming” any day now even if the threat from China is not perceived with quite the same fear as was felt with the Soviet Union.

A few months ago, I posted an article “The Coming War with China” which hypothesized the plausibility of a Sino-American war sometime in the future and based that hypothesis on China’s unprecedented build-up of its war machine including its first real navy, our own precarious economic position, Chinese research targeting our power grids, etc.

(See “The Coming War with China” here: http://tiny.cc/8pbi7)

Just as weapons are never developed which are not eventually deployed, nations, especially nations with global ambitions, do not engage in massive military expansion without an eye toward using that military.

Some people disagree with that theory as it relates to China as evidenced by an extended comment posted on my website in reaction to “The Coming War with China.”

The commenter, a self-described ex-patriate living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is “disgusted with U.S. culture” even as he’s presumably enamored with Chinese culture, its hundreds of millions of poor, its one-child and abortion policies–and its military build-up at the expense of taking better care of its own people.

The commenter fails to identify himself in any way aside from being a disgusted ”ex-pat” who is shamed by anti-Asianism in America. He does incorporate a link to noted lefty Abe Sauer’s rant about a new flick, “Red Dawn 2010″ which, Sauer says, perpetuates unfair stereotypes about China and its ambitions.

Sauer calls MGM’s yet to be released “Red Dawn 2010,” a xenophobic distortion. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1718)