Is the "cold" war REALLY over? The "Terror" nations and organizations of the world seem to have no problem securing weapons and operating capital. Why is that? Do they have natural resources that they pilfer from their citizens in exchange for arms and munitions? Of course they do. Nations such as Russia and China are beating down their door for the resourses that they have. Russia and the United States have been bitter enimies for far too long to just "change", with no animosity, at the drop of a hat! Sure, it looks good to the world but it's just a superficial ploy to appease their critics. They fooled some, for a while, but the ideas of "communist" and "capitalist" remain VERY divided and old habits die hard. "Officially", communisum is not ruling Russia. "Unofficially", communisum is in every nook and cranny in the entire country and they have no allegiance to the United States or any other country in the free world, what-so-ever! Given half a chance, they will cut the US, and then rub salt in the wonds they have created.
You can "trust" a Russian {communist} just as much as you can trust a LIEberal or NDP'er, ... it CAN'T be done!!!

Is the "cold" war REALLY over?

Putin, the former KGB operative, has reversed freedoms in Russian. He has regained controll of the public airwaves, dismantled the best run oil company - Yukos - reverting it back to the state. His treatment of Mikhail Khordorkovsky is a disgusting human rights violation. His supension of provincial govenor elections - they get appointed now - is beyond blatant.

What fascinates me is the lack of response by the masses to this. The majority APPROVE of him.

The Russians will crush their Islamic troublemakers, but assisting the West in doing the same, I think not. Their game is to play off both sides far from home as they are doing in Iran.

Putin is a dangerous snake.

The Russians have to deny it of course. They always deny spying on one another. Being caught red handed(no pun intended) they may have to fess up.
You just know they did this as payback for the US support of Afganistan during the Russian/Afganistan war.

Rice: U.S. to Query Russia on Iraq Intel
AP ^ | March 26, 2006 | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL

Posted on 03/26/2006 9:00:31 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Rice: U.S. to Query Russia on Iraq Intel

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer

The Bush administration will ask Russia about a report that Moscow turned over information on American troop movements and other military plans to Saddam Hussein during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

"Any implication that there were those from a foreign government who may have been passing information to the Iraqis prior to the invasion would be, of course, very worrying," Rice said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"I would think the Russians would want to take that very seriously as well," she said.

Rice declined to speculate on whether Russia's actions, as detailed in a Pentagon report based on captured Iraqi documents, resulted in casualties among U.S. troops or what Russian President Vladimir Putin knew about any possible Russian involvement.

"We will certainly raise it with the Russian government. We want to take a real hard look at the documents and then raise it with the Russian government," Rice said on NBC's "Meet the Press." +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603443/posts

We know that France and Russia were in the pocket of Saddam Hussein -- corrupted by their lust for Iraqi oil. The US was right not to subjugate its security interests to a corrupt and compromised UN Security Council. Meanwhile, the left continues to claim that the US went to war over oil, when in fact it was leftist countries that were willing to prop up a brutal dictator because it suited their interests.

Coyote you got it. It's laughable to me, that everyone is so worried about the U.S.'s hunger for, and control of oil. What about China? Canada has rolled out the red carpet and practically begged them to take it.

What a twisted world. Dictators vs Democracies. Who you gonna call when the Commies control it all? Forget the US, even if they aren't broke and busted, I doubt they'll share their last loaf with a bunch of pacifists. If this isn't a
time to ask yourselves why it's so easy to take the word of an un-elected dictator over the President of a country BUILT on democracy, then maybe you all should find yourselves an island and call it Denial.

Obviously there has to be a day of reckoning over at the U.N.

The Russian govt. can't be held responsible for the actions of a couple of retired Generals. Putin undoubtedly had NO idea whatsoever that these guys were up to no good. This is what he'll tell the MSM, and they, of course, will believe every word of it.
I work with eastern Europeans, and a few, not many, regret the end of Communism. Some of them had very good do-nothing jobs that ended when the Empire collapsed.
Putin IS a snake. About as trustworthy as Stalin, and just as forgiving and merciful.As for the Russian masses, remember that so many were shocked to find the Leaders lived in luxury, after the great deflation of the Soviet windbag.
Lots of people like the idea of cradle to grave security, or at least the illusion of it. Even some in so-far non-Communist countries.
Good article, not really surprising.

Interesting find....Putin slid into grey zones early on, it is alleged.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2101607,00.html

"Putin accused of plagiarising his PhD thesis
Tony Allen-Mills, New York

THE career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to US researchers. A new study of an economics
thesis written by Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text.

Putin was labelled a plagiarist yesterday after a pair of researchers at the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC think tank, established that the Russian president’s academic credentials were based on a dissertation he had lifted in part verbatim from the Russian translation of a management study written by two professors at the University of Pittsburgh in 1978....."

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy....I was able to get a sense of his soul."
George W. Bush, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 16, 2001

Yup, leftists can be trusted to do leftist things.

Bats right. Throws left.