Putin speech appears to link U.S., Nazi policies

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

MOSCOW - Who was President Vladimir Putin talking about when he said the world faces threats to peace like those that led to World War II?

Putin’s statement at a Victory Day parade on Red Square on Wednesday was artfully phrased to be both blunt and vague — but political observers have little doubt he was criticizing the United States for “disrespect for human life, claims to global exclusiveness and dictate, just as it was in the time of the Third Reich.”

While Putin didn’t name any particular country in the speech marking the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, the remarks echoed his increasingly strong criticism of the perceived U.S. domination in global affairs.

Political analysts close to the Kremlin say that Putin referred to the United States in his remarks, expressing Russia’s dismay at what it views as U.S. unilateralism in world affairs and disrespect for other countries’ interests.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11497296/

[jedicord]

1. You mean Pootie Poot is dissin' the Boy King? n/t

[sakabatou]

2. GODWIN!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. Wonder what Commander Flightsuit sees now...

as he looks deep into Putin's soul?

[TheLastMohican]

4. Putin has nailed it.

No wonder he is having a 75% approval rating. The Russians have a vast historical experience fighting with nazis. So they tell it as it is.

[emad]

5. Cold War reheated - RAF Tornados foil Russian spy in sky

SNIP from London Evening Standard today:
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It is the type of incident which was routine two decades ago. But this took place last week.

Two Bears were spotted during a major Royal Navy exercise to the north of the Outer Hebrides. Commanders believe they were planning to spy on the warships, including the aircraft carrier Illustrious.

Two Tornado F3 fighters took off from RAF Leuchars in Fife and intercepted the Bears in international airspace.

The pilots were close enough to wave but there was no radio contact.

After shadowing the Russians for some 15 minutes, they watched as the giant bombers turned and headed home to their base in Murmansk. In similar skirmishes during the 1970s and 80s, Soviet spies were sometimes spotted watching from the perimeter of RAF stations to time exactly how long it took jets to take off and intercept Bear bombers, probing the UK's defences and testing the response.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23395635-details/Cold+War+reheated+-+RAF+Tornados+foil+Russian+spy+in+sky/article.do

[Eurobabe]

6. Oh boy, the G8 meeting in Heiligendamm should be frosty!

I heard the place was going to be pretty much locked down anyhow. Nowhere to go to avoid one another.

Asshat will have to look deep into Putin's eyes and read his soul. :rofl:

[David__77]

7. He's right.

Russians support him because he's seemingly the opposite of Yeltsin and appears at least to defend Russian interests. Putin is no progressive, broadly speaking, but he might play a progressive role internationally.

[StarryNite]

8. If it quacks like a duck

[Thothmes]

9. Putin

This coming from a man that was on officer of the KGB. An organization much more successful than the Gestapo in suppressing internal decent within the Soviet Union.

[Javaman]

10. Okay, NOW can we call moron* and his room full of dopes, nazis? nt

[Bassic]

11. Well, although there is some truth to that

Putin is in no position to lecture anyone on the subject.

[Bonobo]

12. Time for U.S. to listen to rest of world as well as its own citizens.

A low-achieving 70's party-boy steals the office of POTUS for 7 years. He destroys the armed forces, guts the national guard, runs us into the red, tortures in our name, sends citizens to gulags.

A man with an approval rating of 28%, a VP with an approval rating of 9%, ignoring the will of the will of the people, thwarting US law with vile, dictatorial signing statements.

This man who intentionally breeds fear within our own country to support his petty frat boy, megalomaniacal dreams of power and sick, pseudo-Christian new wave, born-again religion crap. This man, this treasonous man. Fuck him.

We are nazis. As HST, said of him, he should drown on his own urine.

"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us .... George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world."