What’s With Putin?
As Ellroon of has already mention in her post on the Shrubbery’s diplomatic style it is being reported Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Newsweek titles their piece in the magazine’s upcoming issue on Vladimir Putin, The Tyrant’s Turn.
People wonder why “Vladdie Pooh” is no longer the Shrubbery’s best buddy, well it is probably not because the use of Mr. Putin’s first name by anyone who hasn’t known him well for at least a decade is demeaning and insulting to a Russian, although it is. It not so much that the Shrubbery thinks it’s a great honor to have Mr. Putin go to Crawford and Kennebunkport, while Mr. Putin views that as forcing him to stay in an environment that he assumes is bugged rather than the secure Russian embassy in Washington, or that such informality diminishes the status of the Russian nation, although that’s how Russians would view it. The worst part is when Russia offered unprecedented assistance after 9/11 in a hope of establishing new and better relations with the US, and instead, the Shrubbery treated the offers as his due.
The Russians offered their reasoned and researched views on Iraq, based on intelligence from their people who had been on the ground in the country for some time, and those views, correct as everyone must now admit, were ignored. The US openly intervened in matters that Russia considers its sphere of influence, like Georgia and the Ukraine, without consultation or regard for the Russian interests.
Mr. Putin has gone back to what he knows best, his KGB past, and is acting consistent with that experience. From the Shrubbery he has learned that the lever [more of a crowbar, really] that works best with the West is oil and natural gas, so he took control of it, and now intends to rule Russia in much the same way as the Shrubbery.
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Pooty poot has always been a two-bit KGB goon and Russia has always been a Mafia-ruled thugocracy, ever since Yeltsin overthrew the last lawful government of Russia by sending tanks to fire upon the Russian White House. It’s just that it wasn’t polite to say so until recently. Reminds me of Fade’s experience with the Russian mafia over in Angry Ballarina’s comments section.
That said, I don’t think Pooty poot has any intention of running Russia in the same way as the Shrubbery. For one thing, Pooty poot is *competent*, unlike the Shrubbery. For another thing, from everything I can tell Pooty Poot is actually a Russian patriot, in his own KGB thug way, and fully intends to step down at the end of his Presidential term because the alternative will be instability that is bad for the nation. He may still try to run things from behind the scenes, but (shrug). Maybe he’ll find his own Shrubbery to run for President, while he plays Cheney behind the scenes making his puppet’s mouth move. Who knows. But one thing is, I think, pretty certain, which is that he’s not going to try to run again in defiance of the Russian Constitution, because that would be too destabilizing of a country that the central government still only tenuously controls (most of the country is still largely controlled by the Russian Mafia, of which Pooty Poot’s faction is but one faction albeit the one that happens to be in control of the government at the moment).
– Badtux the Russian Scholar Penguin
*sigh*
Y’know, if Mr. Putin ever does wrest control of Russia away from the mobs (no, I’m not holding my breath), I still crave to visit there, and to the Siberian tiger refuge. Y’know, when those Powerball numbers come in (ha ha ha)…
You look at the way that Dumbya tries to whip his little dick out in front of EVERY foreign leader/diplomat, on American soil or theirs, and it’s not just embarrassing as hell, it’s fucking pathetic. He’s such a barely-sublimated submissive, trying to be all macho and shit to prove that he’s NOT a sub, that his pee-pee is as big as anybody else’s (except maybe Condi’s), that his Daddy has bought him control of the whole wide world — it’s worse than watching Donald Trump trying to fix that dead wombat that he calls “hair.”
Y’all KNOW that every time that the male prosties were brought into the White House, it’s so that Dumbya could shove that pony-tail butt plug up into his small intestine and let Karl Rove ride him around bareback, whilst the JimmyJeff GannonGuckert hooker-boy showered them both with the gold that reminds them of how filthy-rich that they’re getting by destroying this country and several others.
Nothin’ I hate worse than a sub with a fucking ego — they’re generally sociopathic passive-aggressive manipulative cunt-farts as it is, but when you give them POWER — oh, well, just fuckitall and stay home.
One wonders if Biggus Dickus is ever allowed to meet with heads of state, or whether he just waggles his bionic dick at them and they run, screeching and clenching their buttocks, from the building. ‘Cause you KNOW that Dick Cheney is a TOP.
Honestly, I can’t imagine any previous Head of State, even NIXON, for fuck’s sake, who has shown equal amounts or more disrespect towards the leaders of other sovereign nations. He fucking MOLESTED the German chancellor, for fuck’s sake!!! They really should’ve pulled a Kennedy on that one, had him lobotomized and put away into a very secluded mental institution like they did that daughter who wanted to frolic with the yard boys. He tells men (dipolmats, senators, aides, etc.) that they have “beautiful faces,” he treats female leaders like they’re either PROPS or SECRETARIES, and he has the diplomatic skills of your average hemorrhoid.
How in the FUCK did this flaming fucktard even convince his PARENTS (sociopaths that they are) that he could hold down a single JOB, let alone the PRESIDENCY?!?!?! After all, he didn’t have to convince the VOTERS, they had Diebold for that…
*sigh*
I wish that Putin would put a hit out on Cheney first, THEN go after the short-bus kid.
Now, now, Badtux, no one has ever trusted Boris Yeltsin enough to include him in a coup, it was the old line Party appartchiks who wanted Gorbachev gone. By doing that they delivered Russia into the waiting arms of the KGB.
Putin will, no doubt, be replaced by Sergei Ivanov, a classmate at KGB U, and not Dimitri Medvedev. Oh, they’ll hold an election, but Putin’s blessing is all that’s needed.
In referring to running things like the Shrubbery, I meant for the benefit of his friends, basing decisions on oil, and totally ignoring the law. Of course, as you say, he will do a better job because he knows how to get things done.
Annti, the Russian mob is an alliance between the KGB and criminal gangs. The KGB ran the prisons, but was only interested in political crimes, so they recruited specialists from among the criminals. You don’t need a warrant when you have burglars working for you.
While he’s annoying, there are benefits for the criminal class having the Shrubbery as President, the most obvious being you don’t worry about getting caught – just ask Osama.
Bryan, I’m talking about what happened after the old Party flacks eased Gorbachev out and settled themselves into the Russian legislative building as the lawfully elected legislature and defied Yeltsin. Yeltsin sent the tanks in and cleaned them out in an odd role-reversal of what they’d tried (and failed) to do with Yeltsin. Oddly, this was depicted in our propaganda rag newspapers as a GOOD thing, because, y’know, democracy is only good if the folks elected are folks we like (hmm, just like in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela!).
– Badtux the Democracy Penguin
Ah, the Second October Revolution and the founding of the oligarchs, okay. That was really the only success Boris had while in office. No one should have been backed in that mess, but Yeltsin was “privatizing” so the DLC and Repubs thought he was a hero.
The Supreme Soviet players forgot to go to the barracks, and talked only to the generals, while Yeltsin got to the colonels who actually had troops to command.
Unfortunately Yeltsin’s constitution made Putin possible.