This miserable S.O.B is now threatening nuclear war..

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-russia-ready-respond-aggression-123956691.html



Don't mess with nuclear Russia, Putin says
Reuters
By Alexei Anishchuk 5 hours ago



LAKE SELIGER Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia's armed forces, backed by its nuclear arsenal, were ready to meet any aggression, declaring at a pro-Kremlin youth camp that foreign states should understand: "It's best not to mess with us."

[louis-t]

1. Pro-Kremlin youth camp?

[joshcryer]

3. Well, Putin is a fascist, so it stands to follow.

[Takket]

46. Read: brainwashing facility

[Ryano42]

2. Sad to say...but it may be time to get this guy back on the job.

WTF Pooty Poot

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Maurice?

[JustAnotherGen]

55. Just watched it yesterday!

A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play.


How about a nice game of chess?

I agree with Joshua. Have since I made my mom take me to see it four times 31 years ago.

[RKP5637]

4. Sounds like we're back with Nikita Khrushchev! n/t

[Peacetrain]

6. What a spectacularly deranged nimrod Putin is..

He has spent too many days with his shirt off wrestling toothless bears.. I cannot believe a sane world leader would say something like that..

[RKP5637]

12. I think his behavior is irrational and I do wonder if there is an underlying cause. n/t

[Peacetrain]

16. After decades of trying to get nuclear missiles under control

I lived through the cold war.. good bad and indifferent.. all the work that has been done on all sides trying to get these things under control.. He really does have some type of derangement going on to try and get this kind of blustering going again..

[Louisiana1976]

28. Yeah--he must be going nuts.

[Control-Z]

5. Last I heard his nuclear arsenal

is stored in various broken down shacks with padlocks for security.

[former9thward]

20. The last you heard?

Yeah, I bet you are right in the pipeline of information.

[Control-Z]

39. Wow. What the hell did I do

to deserve your demeaning snark? How old are you? 17?

There's been more than one program reporting on the decay of Russia's nuclear weapons and the absence of any real security since the cold war ended.

That, dear, IS the last I had heard about it.

[former9thward]

49. There is no end of propaganda about Russia.

1950s all over again. When I was in the Air Force I was part of a team who looked at our missile silos in the Midwest. We found that 2/3s of our missiles were incapable of firing due to corrosion and other problems. But of course you never hear about that.

[Control-Z]

60. That's just not true. There have been stories.

Still no excuse for being such a snot to me. An apology would have been the acceptable response.

[former9thward]

62. The U.S. has the same problems.

How come you are not mocking the U.S.? I have no respect for "stories" about this stuff.

[Control-Z]

63. Hmm.

The US is my country.

As far as I know we haven't threatened to start a nuclear war.

[former9thward]

66. We certainly did in 1962.

[Control-Z]

69. Lolol.

So you are living in the 60s. Gawd damn if that doesn't explain soooooo much. (Hint. It's the 21st century.)

Now apologize for being so obnoxious or just end this dialogue. I've had enough of your games.

[Katashi_itto]

61. Don't worry about him he was rooting for the Sgt that was captured to be tried as a traitor. He is

an authority on nothing.

[Control-Z]

64. Thanks, Katashi_itto!

Really. For a moment there I thought I was on that other site. Scary.

[Katashi_itto]

67. Np, Yeah that was my first reaction to him too.

[GeorgeGist]

50. And still using 8 inch floppies

[Control-Z]

65. Oh my gawd! Lolol.

It took me a second to remember what those even were. Best laugh I've had all day! Thanks!

[LiberalAndProud]

7. Can I take this to mean to cold war is back on? Was it ever off?

“My vas pokhoronim.”

[Peacetrain]

9. Putin is singlehandedly pulling us back into a cold war stance.

[Louisiana1976]

29. Absolutely true.

[GP6971]

27. I think it was off

in the early 90s. I worked for a international grocery distributor and we were all scratching our heads when we were asked to quote pricing on "canned bear". Turned out they wanted pricing on canned beer. Plus we supplied a new store in central Russia.

[LiberalAndProud]

30. I seem to remember some controversy when a Russian visited a missile silo

when Bill was president. So there was a momentary thaw.

Your account was interesting. I suppose now you'll tell me you worked for that place that brands itself "Supermarket to the world."

[GP6971]

33. No way

I worked for them for 12 years........great the first 10 years then it went all downhill from there...new senior management that didn't trust anyone who was there more than 5 years. I was the 11th to be let go. Looking back, probably the best thing that happened to me. Scum company

[LiberalAndProud]

35. It must be a unique and interesting view of the rest of the world.

It was a good job to have for a while.

[GP6971]

36. Loved going into work

I can count on one hand the times I didn't want to go in to work for the first ten tears. After that, not so much. Name of the company.......Supervalu......otherwise know as sewervalu.

[Rex]

8. So far I don't see anyone messing with you Lord Pootie Poot.

I guess Mr. Vain is getting upset that the world is not staring at his pectorals 24/7?

[pampango]

53. Do you think he is worried that Ukraine's vast and powerful army will invade Russia?

Hey, conservatives have to keep their folks scared and fired up. "I am all that stands between you and those evil - Ukrainians, Europeans, Americans, etc. We are fighting them in Ukraine so that we don't have to fight them in the streets of Moscow!"

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. What are things nuclear powers say for $1000, Alex?

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Puttie's Mafia buds are pissed.

Sanctions are hitting his buds pocket books big time. Ol Vlad is not a dummy. It's all about the control of our planets Oil reserves. He knows he is in the drivers seat with the 3rd or 4th largest oil and gas proven reserves. Duh! We are like the 14th in known reserves. JP-Morgan,Exon-Mobile,and others have hundreds of millions hanging out there in the Ukraine and in Russia. When the posturing finishes,Vald and President Obama will have a photo op and all will be Okay. BTW,big checks cut to the participating political campaigns. Same shit different day,mean while,Fake noise and CNN as well as NBC/comcast as well as the Disney/ABC,will wring their hands and bring on their over paid Pundents to tell us how bad our President is and we should be bombing the hell out of Benghazi.


Sound familiar,it should,Military-Industrial-complex at it's best.

[Louisiana1976]

31. Excellent points.

[adirondacker]

37. +1000. nt

[kentuck]

13. My fear is that they are more ready for war than we....

..especially in Europe and their part of the world. Did anyone really think they would not fight for Ukraine? We can accuse them of having a thousand soldiers in Ukraine at the same time we put a thousand soldiers in Iraq. But there really isn't that much difference.

[Peacetrain]

14. You have got to be kidding me.. are we threatening the world with nuclear annihilation

if we don't get our way.. NO!

[Lurks Often]

19. More ready in what respect

Putin and Russia may be more willing to go to war, but involving NATO and more especially the United States would be a grave miscalculation. The Russian military is nowhere as capable as the US military, the biggest concern would be that Russia is defeated so badly that Putin might resort to "tactical" nuclear weapons in a last ditch effort to save both himself and Russia from looking so weak that the Chinese start looking across their border with designs on Siberia and the resources there.

[kentuck]

22. But then...

we would have to stop hitch-hiking a ride to the space station with them... It would be good to remember that there are no victors in war. I would agree that it is despicable to even think of nuclear war as a means to resolve differences.

[CJCRANE]

17. I think we're seeing a reaction

rather than an action.

[KoKo]

56. Samatha Power calling Putin a Liar at UN, PBO going after Russia using undiplomatic language

this past week. You don't use the kind of language both did and not expect push back.

That context has been left out of the comments here. And, I'm not going to bother to get the link to Power's diatribe at UN or Obama's full speech about Putin and Russia which was a challenge to Putin and Russia. Most here have seen both as they've been played over and over in the media and on the net.

[flamingdem]

18. Disgusting BUT Putins survival is based on his actions now

He will not survive if he shows any weakness.

So best to ignore the rhetoric.

[Cha]

25. 'Cause Putin has dictators waiting in the wings?

[flamingdem]

43. Not sure what he's got in the wings!

Just hoping it's not nukes. Just saying that the nuke talk sounds like bravado. Was reading that Putin won't survive the crisis politically so he had to trot out nukes as a deterrent, so old school.

[Scootaloo]

21. I always find it interesting...

That when nations we don't like say "we will respond to being attacked' we say they are threatening to attack. But when nations we do like actually do launch attacks, we pretend they're acting in pure self-defense.

Putin's an ass, but he's not making threats, he's issuing a warning to not attack Russia.

[arcane1]

23. Agreed. I half expected this OP to be about John McCain

[sendero]

52. Not really..

.... he's warning the west not to interfere with his takeover of Ukraine. Hardly "defensive".

[Cha]

24. "declaring at a pro-Kremlin youth camp.." Kinda like RT only for Russian youths?

"It's best not to mess with us".. Like Putin is Messing with Ukraine and that all the other shit he messes with?

thank you, Peacetrain.

[greytdemocrat]

26. When the US

is perceived as weak and dithering, this is what happens.

[Louisiana1976]

32. Well said.

[LiberalAndProud]

34. You're not missing the sarcasm tag, are you?

[emulatorloo]

41. Heard it on Fox maybe?

[Blue_Tires]

38. It's clear that this crisis has come down to only two real options for NATO:

1. Let Putin grab his chunk of Southeast Ukraine so he has his goddamned protective blanket around Crimea; and hope he doesn't have further ambitions to move in on Kiev...

2. Prepare to engage Russia in a wider-scale war...

[Rex]

40. Well option two will never happen.

Not with this POTUS.

[Wella]

47. That seems like the choices, all right.

Nothing good here.

[KoKo]

57. Russia wants the West to stop surrounding it with Nato bases. That's what this is about...

That was the agreement. Putin wants Ukraine to be a Federation and to partner with both EU and Russia. That was his proposal. The Coup promoted by the Neocons and NGO's and the rest want Russia surrounded by Nato and Russia will not stand for Ukraine to have a Nato Base on it's borders. Just as USA would not tolerate Russian Missiles in Cuba. Its a matter of protecting Russian territory and it's access to ports. It won't tolerate Ukrain with Nato base and yet that's exactly what Ukraine's Prime Minister "Yats" as Neocon Victoria Nuland of US State Department has called Nato to have an "emergency meeting" over in the the next week. Ukraine is requesting special treatment for Nato Base. If they are so innocent why do they need a Nato base? Putin sees this as a direct threat to Russia.

It will not go well...

[Xolodno]

42. Wow...the drama in this thread!

He is using nationalism to inspire youths....hello? Just like our own politicians will go and inspire our own youths on American Exceptional-ism?

He probably does this on a regular basis...but given current tensions...it gets played in the media (not the media would ever use sensationalism...naw..not ever [stated with heavy bleeding sarcasm]).

Geez...why is this even news. I'm sure politicians from China to Brazil say something similar.

Or this is a thread about "how dare <insert name of country> defy US supremacy!"

[Stardust]

48. He might not have even meant that, or the translation could be inaccurate. Sounds more like a

Hollywoood macho one-liner. Could Putin really be that stupid?

[951-Riverside]

44. Maybe I'll be the lucky ones to get blasted to smithereens if this thing kicks off

I'm getting quite tired of these stupid suit wearing primates holding the world hostage with their weapons of mass destruction. If they have a problem with each other they should just fight it out in cage but leave the rest of the world out of it.

I'm sick of wars!
I'm sick of grandstanding!
I'm sick of propaganda!
I'm sick of being scared!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

45. Is that the Russian version of "Bring it on!".

[CJCRANE]

51. I've seen this movie before.

Saddam is crazy. He is the new Hitler.

Gadaffi is crazy. He is the new Hitler.

Assad is crazy. He is the new Hitler.

Repeat ad nauseam.

When people are threatened by neocon propaganda they reply in kind.

[KoKo]

58. That's pretty much what this is about.... Enemies everywhere...

More money for the MIC...and the Vast Security Agencies.

[demwing]

54. As the election approaches (now, and in 2016), look for more such stories

trying to make Mitt Romney seem prescient.

[KoKo]

59. Actually given the War Fever promoted by MSM ....maybe John McCain should

run again. Maybe make General Dempsey his running mate and "Bombs Away!" McCain already has creds since he was in Syria doing photo ops with the "Rebels"...(the ones that became ISIS) and in Ukraine before the Coup posting with the NeoNazi far right Svoboda thugs just before Victoria Nuland showed up doing a photo op passing "sweets" (and probably envelopes of cash--not photo oped) to the same.

[leftyladyfrommo]

68. Just another little short guy with huge ego issues.

He is really a piece of work.

And yet he is so popular in Russia.

[roamer65]

71. Pootie poot is a neo-Stalinist.

He longs for the days of the old USSR.