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What if Putin is Telling the Truth?
On April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US coup d’etat in Ukraine, and the general state of relations with the United States and the EU. His words were frank. And in the middle of his remarks the Russian former KGB chief dropped a political bombshell that was known by Russian intelligence two decades ago.
Putin stated bluntly that in his view the West would only be content in having a Russia weak, suffering and begging from the West, something clearly the Russian character is not disposed to. Then a short way into his remarks, the Russian President stated for the first time publicly something that Russian intelligence has known for almost two decades but kept silent until now, most probably in hopes of an era of better normalized Russia-US relations.
Putin stated that the terror in Chechnya and in the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990’s was actively backed by the CIA and western Intelligence services to deliberately weaken Russia. He noted that the Russian FSB foreign intelligence had documentation of the US covert role without giving details.
What Putin, an intelligence professional of the highest order, only hinted at in his remarks, I have documented in detail from non-Russian sources. The report has enormous implications to reveal to the world the long-standing hidden agenda of influential circles in Washington to destroy Russia as a functioning sovereign state, an agenda which includes the neo-nazi coup d’etat in Ukraine and severe financial sanction warfare against Moscow. The following is drawn on my book, “The Lost Hegemon” to be published soon…
CIA’s Chechen Wars
Not long after the CIA and Saudi Intelligence-financed Mujahideen had devastated Afghanistan at the end of the 1980’s, forcing the exit of the Soviet Army in 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself some months later, the CIA began to look at possible places in the collapsing Soviet Union where their trained “Afghan Arabs” could be redeployed to further destabilize Russian influence over the post-Soviet Eurasian space.
They were called Afghan Arabs because they had been recruited from ultraconservative Wahhabite Sunni Muslims from Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Arab world where the ultra-strict Wahhabite Islam was practiced. They were brought to Afghanistan in the early 1980’s by a Saudi CIA recruit who had been sent to Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden.
With the former Soviet Union in total chaos and disarray, George H.W. Bush’s Administration decided to “kick ‘em when they’re down,” a sad error. Washington redeployed their Afghan veteran terrorists to bring chaos and destabilize all of Central Asia, even into the Russian Federation itself, then in a deep and traumatic crisis during the economic collapse of the Yeltsin era.
In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to install a President more friendly to a US-controlled Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean.
At that time, the only existing oil pipeline from Baku was a Soviet era Russian pipeline that ran through the Chechen capital, Grozny, taking Baku oil north via Russia’s Dagestan province, and across Chechenya to the Black Sea Russian port of Novorossiysk. The pipeline was the only competition and major obstacle to the very costly alternative route of Washington and the British and US oil majors.
President Bush Sr. gave his old friends at CIA the mandate to destroy that Russian Chechen pipeline and create such chaos in the Caucasus that no Western or Russian company would consider using the Grozny Russian oil pipeline.
Graham E. Fuller, an old colleague of Bush and former Deputy Director of the CIA National Council on Intelligence had been a key architect of the CIA Mujahideen strategy. Fuller described the CIA strategy in the Caucasus in the early 1990s: “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power.”6
The CIA used a dirty tricks veteran, General Richard Secord, for the operation. Secord created a CIA front company, MEGA Oil. Secord had been convicted in the 1980s for his central role in the CIA’s Iran-Contra illegal arms and drugs operations.
In 1991 Secord, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, landed in Baku and set up the CIA front company, MEGA Oil. He was a veteran of the CIA covert opium operations in Laos during the Vietnam War. In Azerbaijan, he setup an airline to secretly fly hundreds of bin Laden’s al-Qaeda Mujahideen from Afghanistan into Azerbaijan. By 1993, MEGA Oil had recruited and armed 2,000 Mujahideen, converting Baku into a base for Caucasus-wide Mujahideen terrorist operations.
General Secord’s covert Mujahideen operation in the Caucasus initiated the military coup that toppled elected president Abulfaz Elchibey that year and installed Heydar Aliyev, a more pliable US puppet. A secret Turkish intelligence report leaked to the Sunday Times of London confirmed that “two petrol giants, BP and Amoco, British and American respectively, which together form the AIOC (Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium), are behind the coup d’état.”
Saudi Intelligence head, Turki al-Faisal, arranged that his agent, Osama bin Laden, whom he had sent to Afghanistan at the start of the Afghan war in the early 1980s, would use his Afghan organization Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) to recruit “Afghan Arabs” for what was rapidly becoming a global Jihad. Bin Laden’s mercenaries were used as shock troops by the Pentagon and CIA to coordinate and support Muslim offensives not only Azerbaijan but also in Chechnya and, later, Bosnia.
Bin Laden brought in another Saudi, Ibn al-Khattab, to become Commander, or Emir of Jihadist Mujahideen in Chechnya (sic!) together with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. No matter that Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi Arab who spoke barely a word of Chechen, let alone, Russian. He knew what Russian soldiers looked like and how to kill them.
Chechnya then was traditionally a predominantly Sufi society, a mild apolitical branch of Islam. Yet the increasing infiltration of the well-financed and well-trained US-sponsored Mujahideen terrorists preaching Jihad or Holy War against Russians transformed the initially reformist Chechen resistance movement. They spread al-Qaeda’s hardline Islamist ideology across the Caucasus. Under Secord’s guidance, Mujahideen terrorist operations had also quickly extended into neighboring Dagestan and Chechnya, turning Baku into a shipping point for Afghan heroin to the Chechen mafia.
From the mid-1990s, bin Laden paid Chechen guerrilla leaders Shamil Basayev and Omar ibn al-Khattab the handsome sum of several million dollars per month, a King’s fortune in economically desolate Chechnya in the 1990s, enabling them to sideline the moderate Chechen majority.21 US intelligence remained deeply involved in the Chechen conflict until the end of the 1990s. According to Yossef Bodansky, then Director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Washington was actively involved in “yet another anti-Russian jihad, seeking to support and empower the most virulent anti-Western Islamist forces.”
Bodansky revealed the entire CIA Caucasus strategy in detail in his report, stating that US Government officials participated in,
“a formal meeting in Azerbaijan in December 1999 in which specific programs for the training and equipping of Mujahideen from the Caucasus, Central/South Asia and the Arab world were discussed and agreed upon, culminating in Washington’s tacit encouragement of both Muslim allies (mainly Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) and US ‘private security companies’. . . to assist the Chechens and their Islamist allies to surge in the spring of 2000 and sustain the ensuing Jihad for a long time…Islamist Jihad in the Caucasus as a way to deprive Russia of a viable pipeline route through spiraling violence and terrorism.”
The most intense phase of the Chechen wars wound down in 2000 only after heavy Russian military action defeated the Islamists. It was a pyrrhic victory, costing a massive toll in human life and destruction of entire cities. The exact death toll from the CIA-instigated Chechen conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates ranged from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians. Russian casualties were near 11,000 according to the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers.
The Anglo-American oil majors and the CIA’s operatives were happy. They had what they wanted: their Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan oil pipeline, bypassing Russia’s Grozny pipeline.
The Chechen Jihadists, under the Islamic command of Shamil Basayev, continued guerrilla attacks in and outside Chechnya. The CIA had refocused into the Caucasus.
Basayev’s Saudi Connection
Basayev was a key part of the CIA’s Global Jihad. In 1992, he met Saudi terrorist Ibn al-Khattag in Azerbaijan. From Azerbaijan, Ibn al-Khattab brought Basayev to Afghanistan to meet al-Khattab’s ally, fellow-Saudi Osama bin Laden. Ibn al-Khattab’s role was to recruit Chechen Muslims willing to wage Jihad against Russian forces in Chechnya on behalf of the covert CIA strategy of destabilizing post-Soviet Russia and securing British-US control over Caspian energy.
Once back in Chechnya, Basayev and al-Khattab created the International Islamic Brigade (IIB) with Saudi Intelligence money, approved by the CIA and coordinated through the liaison of Saudi Washington Ambassador and Bush family intimate Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Bandar, Saudi Washington Ambassador for more than two decades, was so intimate with the Bush family that George W. Bush referred to the playboy Saudi Ambassador as “Bandar Bush,” a kind of honorary family member.
Basayev and al-Khattab imported fighters from the Saudi fanatical Wahhabite strain of Sunni Islam into Chechnya. Ibn al-Khattab commanded what were called the “Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya,” his own private army of Arabs, Turks, and other foreign fighters. He was also commissioned to set up paramilitary training camps in the Caucasus Mountains of Chechnya that trained Chechens and Muslims from the North Caucasian Russian republics and from Central Asia.
The Saudi and CIA-financed Islamic International Brigade was responsible not only for terror in Chechnya. They carried out the October 2002 Moscow Dubrovka Theatre hostage seizure and the gruesome September 2004 Beslan school massacre. In 2010, the UN Security Council published the following report on al-Khattab and Basayev’s International Islamic Brigade:
Islamic International Brigade (IIB) was listed on 4 March 2003. . . as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida. . . The Islamic International Brigade (IIB) was founded and led by Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (deceased) and is linked to the Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM). . . and the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR). . .
On the evening of 23 October 2002, members of IIB, RSRSBCM and SPIR operated jointly to seize over 800 hostages at Moscow’s Podshipnikov Zavod (Dubrovka) Theater.
In October 1999, emissaries of Basayev and Al-Khattab traveled to Usama bin Laden’s home base in the Afghan province of Kandahar, where Bin Laden agreed to provide substantial military assistance and financial aid, including by making arrangements to send to Chechnya several hundred fighters to fight against Russian troops and perpetrate acts of terrorism. Later that year, Bin Laden sent substantial amounts of money to Basayev, Movsar Barayev (leader of SPIR) and Al-Khattab, which was to be used exclusively for training gunmen, recruiting mercenaries and buying ammunition.
The Afghan-Caucasus Al Qaeda “terrorist railway,” financed by Saudi intelligence, had two goals. One was a Saudi goal to spread fanatical Wahhabite Jihad into the Central Asian region of the former Soviet Union. The second was the CIA’s agenda of destabilizing a then-collapsing post-Soviet Russian Federation.
Beslan
On September 1, 2004, armed terrorists from Basayev and al-Khattab’s IIB took more than 1,100 people as hostages in a siege that included 777 children, and forced them into School Number One (SNO) in Beslan in North Ossetia, the autonomous republic in the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation near to the Georgia border.
On the third day of the hostage crisis, as explosions were heard inside the school, FSB and other elite Russian troops stormed the building. In the end, at least 334 hostages were killed, including 186 children, with a significant number of people injured and reported missing. It became clear afterward that the Russian forces had handled the intervention poorly.
The Washington propaganda machine, from Radio Free Europe to The New York Times and CNN, wasted no time demonizing Putin and Russia for their bad handling of the Beslan crisis rather than focus on the links of Basayev to Al Qaeda and Saudi intelligence. That would have brought the world’s attention to the intimate relations between the family of then US President George W. Bush and the Saudi billionaire bin Laden family.
On September 1, 2001, just ten days before the day of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, Saudi Intelligence head US-educated Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, who had directed Saudi Intelligence since 1977, including through the entire Osama bin Laden Mujahideen operation in Afghanistan and into the Caucasus, abruptly and inexplicably resigned, just days after having accepted a new term as intelligence head from his King. He gave no explanation. He was quickly reposted to London, away from Washington.
The record of the bin Laden-Bush family intimate ties was buried, in fact entirely deleted on “national security” (sic!) grounds in the official US Commission Report on 911. The Saudi background of fourteen of the nineteen alleged 911 terrorists in New York and Washington was also deleted from the US Government’s final 911 Commission report, released only in July 2004 by the Bush Administration, almost three years after the events.
Basayev claimed credit for having sent the terrorists to Beslan. His demands had included the complete independence of Chechnya from Russia, something that would have given Washington and the Pentagon an enormous strategic dagger in the southern underbelly of the Russian Federation.
By late 2004, in the aftermath of the tragic Beslan drama, President Vladimir Putin reportedly ordered a secret search and destroy mission by Russian intelligence to hunt and kill key leaders of the Caucasus Mujahideen of Basayev. Al-Khattab had been killed in 2002. The Russian security forces soon discovered that most of the Chechen Afghan Arab terrorists had fled. They had gotten safe haven in Turkey, a NATO member; in Azerbaijan, by then almost a NATO Member; or in Germany, a NATO Member; or in Dubai–one of the closest US Allies in the Arab States, and Qatar-another very close US ally. In other words, the Chechen terrorists were given NATO safe haven.
68 Comments on "What if Putin is Telling the Truth?"
Dredd on Mon, 25th May 2015 7:54 pm
Wow.
Davy on Mon, 25th May 2015 8:16 pm
We know from Frontline’s “Putin’s Way” he is a liar of the highest qualities. I am sure the U.S. Was involved as Putin related in his documentary but he of course is not telling the whole story.
Putin is an elegant thug. He got rich by being a liar, a thug, and a opportunist. Yet, what politician is much different. Putin is just in a league above them in smarts and cunning. I admire Putin in many ways but don’t flatulate in my face with a message Putin is telling the truth. He is out for himself first and Russia second. The rest of the world be damned.
Adonis on Mon, 25th May 2015 8:23 pm
Riveting reading Neo
Davy on Mon, 25th May 2015 8:31 pm
Oh, I forgot Putin is also a MIC lovin war pig with a war pig Russian government a close second to the DC war pigs.
Russia faces growing aggression from global arms producers – Putin
http://rt.com/business/261873-russia-arms-exports-agression/
GregT on Mon, 25th May 2015 8:49 pm
Frontline’s “Putin’s Way” was a propaganda piece based on a book written by Karen Dawisha entitled “Putin’s Kleptocracy”.
“Cambridge University Press recently declined to publish a book by Karen Dawisha, a professor at Miami University of Ohio and author of several books on Russia, which alleges that President Vladimir Putin and some of his associates were involved in illegal financial activity during the 1990s. The full correspondence between Dawisha and the publisher is featured on Edward Lucas’ blog at the Economist. While the publishing house didn’t cast doubt on Dawish’s claims, it did note that in England, “a libel claimant can require the writer and publisher to prove truth, which in the case of your book, would be extremely difficult to do.”
There are so many lies and distortions in the piece that it is shameful.
PBS-TV’s Frontline Misrepresents Russia’s Vladimir Putin
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/01/pbs-tvs-frontlines-misrepresents-russias-vladimir-putin.html
Adonis on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:00 pm
Dont blame Putin that’s what capitalism has done to humanity selfishness and greed .
Apneaman on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:06 pm
Putin has some dictator like powers so he does not have to answer to as many influential people as Obama. Anyone think Jamie Dimon can get Putin on the phone and make veiled threats then have it written up the next day in the papers as a matter of fact? Putin is a clever monkey and is using his advantage and circumstances wisely, but we must remember the West led by the US has become so completely bloated and corrupt that even formerly simple things, like fixing roads, are now a permanent clusterfuck. Just one short term band-aid fix after another by morons who’s main concern is pleasing their 1% masters while smiling and glad handing the tax payer. As for this global cheerleading and admiration for Putin, I think most of it is just a way for people to express their disgust with the west especially for countries that suffered from a nasty American foreign policy. That some of it comes from within western countries is very telling and Neo cons are sure making a big deal about RT. As they say when they push those “terrorist” national security spying bills on us all – why worry about it if you have nothing to hide? Power&guilt makes them paranoid? My guess is that the number of people who are Putin cheerleaders is much smaller than it seems. It’s just talked about more in collapse communities because aware people are the ones who are angry and paying attention. When law abiding folks start seeing their government as the biggest threat to their families then – The enemy of my enemy is…….
Perk Earl on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:10 pm
Whether or not it’s the truth Putin is telling, it sure indicates the US touched a nerve via interfering with Russia in the Ukraine. He wanted to pester those folks until they joined Russia like Crimea did. Now he’s trying to get back at the US like some kid on the block that was bullied.
Meanwhile China upped the rhetoric plainly saying there will be war with the US if there is interference in their making more manmade islands (to falsely claim more territory).
I think the US should draw a line in the sand and just as plainly state that if China continues to make artificial islands they will be forced to bomb them into oblivion. At some point you have to make a stand.
Perk Earl on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:12 pm
I mean bomb the phony baloney islands into oblivion, not China.
GregT on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:20 pm
Perk,
The US fomented the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Not only did the West violate the Budapest Memorandum, they are supporting Neo-Naziism, fascism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Russia has supported the Eatern Ukrainians’ rights to self determination. The west is supporting the Kiev Junta in bombing the people that they are supposed to be representing.
GregT on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:22 pm
Bombing the phoney baloney islands off of China’s coast will only end very badly for the US.
penury on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:31 pm
The decay is becoming more apparent I am afraid.
PrestonSturges on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:47 pm
Fuck that noise.
Makati1 on Mon, 25th May 2015 9:54 pm
Apneaman, I just read a very accurate statement re: our freedoms.
“Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say”
Perk Earl on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:02 pm
GregT, China’s been content for the most part so far to make deals with countries for FF and food sources, but if a precedent of allowing them to take territory by way of making phony baloney islands takes place, then that opens a big can of anything goes. From there China really ups the ante.
Think about it–China’s meme is growth just like the West, but they have been on a tear in the double digits in growth until recently and now it’s much lower. They have to expand by taking resources from other countries or be satisfied with low growth. Either we stop them now or watch out!
Davy on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:23 pm
Greg, I don’t doubt Frontline’s piece used references from propaganda sources. Yet, you would agree some of those things did happen. He was a lowly KGB agent that now runs Russia. He is thought to be the richest politician in the world. Those kind’s of accomplishment don’t come without deceit and bad behavior.
Ape Man made some great points I agree with. Putin is standing up to a corrupt DC. In that respect the man deserves praise. Since all politicians are a necessary evil we should accept Putin as a blue eyed devil doing angelic works. Anyone standing up to corrupt power at the scale of DC is someone to be admired and in some ways supported. There must be a balance of power or there is tyranny.
Bob on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:44 pm
If Putin is so worried about resource depletion….why for every 1 barrel of oil Russia drills for…4 to 5 barrels of oil are leaked and this is on land…
You don’t even want to know what they do in the Sea.
All BP did was lie lie lie about the Gulf of Mexico and this is free press here…
Over there..it’s one big cover up.
This is such moronic idiocy.
When you understand how Russian Men are…and how they act and there is absolutely no government control for EPA…this is such a joke.
Chandra V Pakala on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:49 pm
CP Answer : USA & Americans mind your own business first, the way others are minding there own business by being independent and self reliant systems. Did Putin interfered when USA invaded or interfered @ IRAQ War I & II. No, they minded there own business, smartly, stayed out of wars invested in there Russian cute little Kovas for there ‘Sweet Kovas & Education’ for over 2-3 decades to bring back the country from Ground Zero to where it was today. Imagine if they continued wars like u guys were doing & An ‘Empty treasury department @ White House’ & ‘ USA Stone Age @ 1600 A.D Returns’. RIGHTEOUSNESS.
GregT on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:50 pm
Guys,
Everything that you say about Russia or China can also be said about the US. Only on a much larger scale.
Chandra V Pakala on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:54 pm
C.P. Extended Answer :
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AMERICAN WAY @ BUSINESS : I MIND MY BUSINESS, PLEASE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. ————————————-USA & Americans mind your own business first by being independent and self reliant systems, instead of ‘interferring’ in others and creating more mess to everyone.. Did he interfered when USA invaded or interfered @ IRAQ War I & II. No, they minded there own business, smartly, stayed out of wars invested in there Russian cute little Kovas for there ‘Sweet Kovas & Education’ for over 2-3 decades to bring back the country from Ground Zero @ 1991, to where it was today. I’m very cerain he would have worked very smartest and hardest to bring it back where it is today, otherwise USSR & Russia would have been a Stone Age. India played a very big and key role helping it’s eon old friend with fiscal and economic aid to it’s children for food & weapons program very similar to 1980 USSR (Food To Weapon Program). Imagine if they continued wars like u guys were doing & An ‘Empty Treasury Department : A Begging China Big Bowl @ White House’ & ‘ USA Stone Age @ 1600 A.D Returns’. RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Bob on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:56 pm
Putin doesn’t mention how he came to power overnight…right after the apartment buildings blew up.
He was down in the polls until the explosions and then all of a sudden security came to the front importance for the Russian people.
He blamed the explosions on terrorist..but no terrorist were ever found.
But he is right about 9/11…and the agreement was after the wall came now..no new Nato countries from the FSU countries..and Clinton broke that agreement…along with now…more Nato countries surrounding Putin.
Problem is…Russia is so ramped with corruption their economy is going backwards .
If he would spread the wealth and lead his people and share the wealth..Ukraine especially would be happy.
But go to Ukraine and it’s like going back into time to the 1950’s…in Kiev and the big cities…and like the 1930’s in the smaller towns…and people are tired of going without when compared to the Western European countires.
All you have to do is look at the women of the countries.
You cannot find any women in Europe who want to leave Europe for a better life…
But 90% of the women in Russia and the FSU countries want to leave for better life.
so Putin..stop being so full of corrupt Sheet
Jim on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:57 pm
Yeah, They hope everyone has short memory. Who remember history? Russia didn’t have any troubles and GDP was raising, oil went high and nobody touched Russia up until they started an aggression Georgia, then Ukraine They could continue to build country strength and be powerful country if they continue towards market economy and modernizing. Dictatorships and communist countries rarely can be powerful as he wanted. But they stopped reforms and went into neighbors business, with military power and that’s when everything stopped. Who made them to go this way?
Joe on Mon, 25th May 2015 10:57 pm
Putin doesn’t mention how he came to power overnight…right after the apartment buildings blew up.
He was down in the polls until the explosions and then all of a sudden security came to the front importance for the Russian people.
He blamed the explosions on terrorist..but no terrorist were ever found.
But he is right about 9/11…and the agreement was after the wall came now..no new Nato countries from the FSU countries..and Clinton broke that agreement…along with now…more Nato countries surrounding Putin.
Problem is…Russia is so ramped with corruption their economy is going backwards .
If he would spread the wealth and lead his people and share the wealth..Ukraine especially would be happy.
But go to Ukraine and it’s like going back into time to the 1950’s…in Kiev and the big cities…and like the 1930’s in the smaller towns…and people are tired of going without when compared to the Western European countires.
All you have to do is look at the women of the countries.
You cannot find any women in Europe who want to leave Europe for a better life…
But 90% of the women in Russia and the FSU countries want to leave for better life.
so Putin..stop being so full of corrupt Sheet
GregT on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:17 pm
The Western European countries will be going back to the 30’s much sooner than you can imagine Joe. What we have been enjoying in the West is not sustainable. Capitalism is destroying the only planet that we will ever have to live on.
Frunze on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:17 pm
What if he is telling the truth? He is telling the truth! There is no question and it’s perfectly obvious. And one can say this without lending any support at all to Putin and his oligarchs. They are all criminals but in this case, the latter group of criminals aren’t the aggressors.
Bautu charles on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:49 pm
I support Putin because like here in Africa those western countries pretend to be bringing Democracy yet in actual sense they want to install their favourite order to steal our wealth for exemple in Libya Presidend Museveni told them to leave the matter to be solved by African they refused because of Oil in Congo the same Kenya and Southern Sudan etc so these people are always not good to be near with
BlacksTerrorizeUSA on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:53 pm
Well… Russia gave tanks jets missles guns to North Korea so they could invade south Korea, then they pained their Jets to look Korean, and started killing NATO and USA aid sent to help SK. Jets engine designed given to them for free by the British RollsRoyce. Russia then sents arms to Vietnam and Laos, the entire region is murdered by Russian backed terrorists and they all turn into violent oppressive Communist countries. Innocent people being slaughtered. Remember the Berlin Wall? People who did not want to suffer under communism were shot if they tried to move over to the Democratic German side…, USA had to stop Russia so they gave OsamaBinLaden One billion US dollars to clean out the Russians. Giant Russian Hind attack helicopters were being blown up by US stinger missles and we made them pay for Vietnam.
Apneaman on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:54 pm
Perk, who is this “we” you speak of that must stop China? There is no “we” anymore IMO. Just the 1% and their 10% managerial and security employees. We implies unity and there is none in the west – we are culturally dead. The only thing we share anymore is the desire to consume consume consume like a bunch of fucking junkies trying to hide the pain with purchases. Those Chinese are clever and patient; they been around for awhile and have not forgotten how to play the game. In fact, they wrote the book on it back when my European ancestors were running around in the forest with paint on their faces. Ever hear of Sun tzu?
Will we go out with a whimper instead of a bang? Cyberwar more likely than nuclear war
http://energyskeptic.com/2013/cyberwar-richard-clarke/
Bautu charles on Mon, 25th May 2015 11:54 pm
I support Putin because like here in Africa those western countries pretend to be bringing Democracy yet in actual sense they want to install their favourite order to steal our wealth for exemple in Libya President Museveni told them to leave the matter to be solved by African they refused because of Oil in Congo the same Kenya and Southern Sudan etc so these people are always not good to be near with
Apneaman on Tue, 26th May 2015 12:01 am
BlacksTerrorizeUSA BlacksTerrorizeUSA?
Why how subtle. Whatever are you implying? Did you get gang raped in prison by a bunch of big black cocks or something? That would explain it.
Bong Valencia on Tue, 26th May 2015 12:21 am
What if Putin is telling the truth?
It’s not relevant!!!!
czar on Tue, 26th May 2015 12:39 am
i believe in putin, he is not the bad guy, we all know what the USA, UK & nato are up to. if the us comes to a certain country they bring war. they will cause lots of problem with their so called democracy see what happen in libya oh yeah democracy, see whats happening in iraq, democracy.
czar on Tue, 26th May 2015 12:40 am
i believe in putin, he is not the bad guy, we all know what the USA, UK & nato are up to. if the us comes to a certain country they bring war. they will cause lots of problem with their so called democracy see what happen in libya, syria & iraq.
theedrich on Tue, 26th May 2015 12:44 am
Yes, Putin is probably telling the truth. But so is the U.S. regime, even under liar Ø. When they speak about each other, that is. Both countries have clandestine operations fighting subterranean wars against the other. The world is not a nunnery. Choose your side and go after the enemy hammer and tong. Nietzsche was right: the underlying world dynamic always has been, is and always will be the Wille zur Macht. ISIL understands this. The TV-hypnotizees of the West do not.
qcumber on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:26 am
Even if this is true, which I highly doubt, what has it got to do with Putin’s invasions and seizures in Georgia and Ukraine which are happening now?
clueless on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:28 am
Faction of Delusional Americans are here again, marinating their distorted brains in the sauce of Imaginary greatness.
Failed.
Definitely, Putin is telling the truth.
Accept the fact.
aquarias on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:29 am
In every tale there is some truth, as to how much of it is truth is questionable, but can probably be sought out or found out,as to what is the real truth, Im incline to beleive what Theedrich said that both countries have clandestine operations in the works, fighting sub wars against each other, I have heard this before ! but that is not just with russia its with other countries also , friends or foe
Julius Babyetsiza on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:30 am
Evil brewing evil – USA, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
GregT on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:42 am
+1 theedrich
What surprises me the most is that the people still fall for the propaganda. Our oligarchs care as much about us as the other oligarchs do. Not in the slightest. We are nothing more to them than livestock and cannon fodder. Supporting any of these people, on any side, is going to get us all killed.
ItIsOver on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:44 am
Clueless, US is transitioning to fascism. High degree of wealth concentration, increased xenophobia and a declining middle class. These are the recipes for capitalism to morph the state into autocratic tyranny.
We all know that US once hired, trained and ordered Osama Bin Laden. The entire Islamist brand involves Western architects. Not only that, but the Western populace will continue to pretend otherwise. This is the same segment that is guilty about the general inequity throughout the world and know that we play a disproportionate role.
Unfortunately, nothing is going to change. You can vote in the Greens but except Western tyranny to reign supreme. We’re going to continue seeing that various terrorists such as those in the Paris, Sydney attacks and elsewhere maintaining significant ties with Western intelligence outfits until they go “sour”. Maybe we’ll see the nukes we help proliferate used as well.
Anyhow, I’m not surprised. Capitalism is falling apart, particularly in the West, and now we’re just trying to appear solvent.
jimmie c boswell on Tue, 26th May 2015 1:56 am
nobody is telling, the truth here. the only difference between russian government lies, american government lies and chinese government lies, is by the country they come from. since not a single governments alleged as truth, matches what G-D is commanding to happen to all of you as their enemies. you just blaming each other with lies, for what G-D commands to happen. and the ussr, did not need any enemies. other than themselves as enemies of G-D, for G-D to command their collapse.
jimmie c boswell on Tue, 26th May 2015 2:05 am
whenever you leave G-D, out of the conversation. i, know you are lying.
since i know, that Only G-D is THE COMMANDER, of all of your national and individual pestilence, plague, and famine.
even the cold war plague, commanded to happen by G-D. even the wwi, wwii, cancer, and alzheimers plagues. because you are all, the enemies of G-D.
so you, might as well forget about any peace on earth. to any of you self proclaimed, innocent enemies of G-D.
jimmie c boswell on Tue, 26th May 2015 2:10 am
not a single one of you, can show me where in The Word of G-D. THEY promised any peace, to any of you as THEIR enemies. and you can expect more, hell and death commanded from here on in until the day of rest. and i do not believe, that HaMosheeach is going to go easy on you ether for the day of rest.
jimmie c boswell on Tue, 26th May 2015 2:14 am
and i do not care, how many subtle intellectual imbeciles of the fields. think you got out of being here, in This Physical Story from G-D again.
Apneaman on Tue, 26th May 2015 2:28 am
God is dead jimmie, just look around. Money changers run America and the world.
Teddy Grimstad on Tue, 26th May 2015 2:36 am
There is Not A TRUE word Coming Out Of That BASTARDS Mouth. He is Born A Lier and A Professional KILLER that cover himself behind a Diplomatic shield. I remember when KURSK the Submarine was in
trouble, he let no one near the Sub, even though the Norwegian Navy was so cole that they could have saved the 100 sailors aboard. May HE ROT IN HELL where he belong.
GERALD PEACOCK on Tue, 26th May 2015 3:29 am
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ComradeRoger on Tue, 26th May 2015 3:35 am
I stopped reading after the line about a ‘coup’ in Kiev when no such event happened.
Anyone who begins an article with such rank Kremlin propaganda is to not worth bothering with.
jerome on Tue, 26th May 2015 3:40 am
i like putin.i even like soviet union,i get inspired by Vladimir Lenin.i want russia to be a soviet union.i love mother russia,i love their national song.i proud to be a russian.
John on Tue, 26th May 2015 3:49 am
The facts hurt people like ComradeRoger. He is adamant that people who shoot at police and throw molotov cocktails at them are peaceful protesters.