In a single decade, Vladimir Putin, by his own design, restructured Russian Energy Policy to re-establish his country as a dominant World Super Power. When he took power in 1999, his nearly bankrupt Russian Republic was drowning in the Western ideology of free trade. Putin, being a conservative patriot and fan of the old guard could not simply sleep until his "Mother Russia" reigned supreme once again.
Upon taking office, Putin expelled many foreign energy executives, forced foreign energy companies to sell their interest to state owned energy producers and began to drink vodka that seemed to taste a lot more Russian. Who could blame him. Putin grew up in a communist dominated Russia where the corruption and oppression were just as Georgian as pecans and peaches. Short sighted Western police actions and imperialism is enough to piss off any former patriot of Russian dominance.
So nearly ten years after his rise to power, Putin seems to be well on his way to returning Russia to its communist roots. The concern for the West should not be how to stop the process but how to live in a world where people are free to enforce their own interpretation of government.
Cleophus Williams
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Energy Not Ideology, The New Pawn of The New Russian Super Power
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Russia is a Superpower again as the United States, CNN (as stated here on CNN August 1, 2008) and other news media's have admitted http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dNr2GH08I, this is an NATO expansion war. US former president Ronald Reagan promise Russia there would be no NATO expansion into post Soviet Union countries back 1989 which has clearly been violated. NATO is the new cold war, they are expanding and we cannot trust NATO. NATO is evil and Russia is the ally here. People need to Google the truth about what NATO means and what relation is NATO, EU & Bilderberg together. I support Russia and I am against NATO, NATO is the enemy here. NATO wants to expand membership and spread every they can into more countries. NATO is about building a military block and when countries apply for NATO membership, they wave their rights to protect themselves or governored themselves but are under the rules of NATO. It is a communist movement on a private sector by NATO and this is wrong. Russia & China has been dead set against NATO and this is why. I want Russia to make its stance and stand against NATO, this evil lying agency that has no business taking countries rights away.
Who start this conflick? Georgia, NATO & the US, read link by Pat Buchanan : http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan94.html and this video link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBRl-BvKJII
And read what Ron Paul has said about NATO pushing into Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyJiWYmXGLY
Here is a couple of Americans living in Georgia admitting Georgia & the US started the conflicts with Russia and that Georgia was indeed killing Russian people inside of Georgia. Something the US bilderberg media is not going to air on US television news channels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4DdRmALFYg
We have to understand that Russia is protecting itself from NATO.
NATO is an organization whose purpose ended with the end of its Warsaw Pact adversary. When NATO struggled to define its future after the Cold War, it settled on attacking a sovereign state, Yugoslavia, which had neither invaded nor threatened any NATO member state.
This current round of NATO expansion is a political reward to governments in Georgia and Ukraine that came to power as a result of US-supported revolutions, the so-called Orange Revolution and Rose Revolution. The governments that arose from these street protests were eager to please their US sponsor and the US, in turn, turned a blind eye to the numerous political and human rights abuses that took place under the new regimes. Thus the US policy of “exporting democracy” has only succeeding in exporting more misery to the countries it has targeted.
NATO expansion only benefits the US military industrial complex, which stands to profit from expanded arms sales to new NATO members. The “modernization” of former Soviet militaries in Ukraine and Georgia will mean tens of millions in sales to US and European military contractors. The US taxpayer will be left holding the bill, as the US government will subsidize most of the transactions. Providing US military guarantees to Ukraine and Georgia can only further strain our military. This NATO expansion may well involve the US military in conflicts as unrelated to our national interest as the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia. The idea that American troops might be forced to fight and die to prevent a small section of Georgia from seceding is absurd and disturbing.
By Congressman Ron Paul: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/01/ron-paul-disband-nato/
So I have provided these facts below to state Russia is indeed a Superpower.
The Russian empire strikes back 16/08/2008
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011861.html
Russia confident they are a Superpower again
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/europe/15russia.html?scp=1&sq=russia%20superpower%20anne%20barnard&st=cse
THE OUTLOOK ON A TRIPLE-SUPERPOWER WORLD
The Christian Science Monitor
By Helena Cobban from the August 22, 2008 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0822/p09s03-coop.html
Georgia: a return to superpower misbehaviour
The First Post August 21, 2008
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45162,opinion,georgia-a-return-to-superpower-misbehaviour
Merkel's Most Serious Foreign Policy Crisis: Superpower Flexes its Muscles: 08/18/2008
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,572726,00.html
U.S. worries Russia returning to its past
Bush administration struggles for right response to Russia's aggression
Updated 9:39 a.m. PT, Sun., Aug. 17, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26253358
CNN NEWSROOM
Russia Attacks Neighbor; Return of a Superpower; Interview With Sergei Ivanov, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister
Aired August 11, 2008 - 11:00 ET
http://www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/11/cnr.03.html
A Superpower Is Reborn
The New York Times
By RONALD STEEL Published: August 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24steel.html
Superpower swoop : New Statesman
Misha Glenny
Published 14 August 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2008/08/georgia-russia-ukraine-cheney
US worries Russia returning to authoritarian past
By the Associated Press
http://www.wokv.com/common/ap/2008/08/17/D92K3M7O0.html
Russians are confident their nation is back as a Superpower
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/08/15/russians_are_confident_their_nation_is_back/
Superpower Russia
Published: 8/12/2008
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=246638
John Roughan: So much for sole superpower
5:00AM Saturday August 16, 2008 New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10527278&pnum=2
Danger of Cold War
August 18, 2008: The FINANCIAL
http://www.finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18207&Itemid=14
Washington Acknowledges Russia as Superpower
May 27, 2007
http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929
Putin's Paranoid Bear Sharpens Its Claws
The Scotsman: August 18, 2008
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977424041
The Red Army marches again: Dailymail
By PETER HITCHENS
Last updated at 22:48 10 May 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-565421/The-Red-Army-marches--I-fear-futures-says-Peter-Hitchens.html
Washington Acknowledges Russia as Superpower
Kommersant: May 26, 2007
http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929
Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower
http://www.books.google.com/books?id=eC6HdSYZhRgC&dq=Russia+in+the+21st+Century:+The+Prodigal+Superpower&pg=PP1&ots=AD3lnsFUdL&sig=XZZre_9YuBdKtxp7k0CmeylD9dQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR9,M1
http://www.amazon.com/Russia-21st-Century-Prodigal-Superpower/dp/0521545293/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219706181&sr=1-3
Global Warming, the Arctic Thaw and the New Cold War
Why Russia's Incursion Into Georgia Bodes Ill for the Climate
August 18, 2008
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/shapley/arctic-thaw-47081802
U.S. No More The Only Super Power
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter: American Chronicle
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/71513
I first have to say, I respect Russia's position in the world I live and raise my children in. I will be the first to say that I do not personally alienate people that believe differently from me. It is a horrible and detrimental practice. Vladamir Putin is a clear, decisive thinker that epitomizes leadership. He is a true Russian patriot that believes in his State. Do I agree with all of his policies? No! I will say that he has very much impressed me by putting back together a system he felt that was necessary to the heritage of his people.
Government was created to control individuals who lack the vision for the future. It is not applicable to all in a particular society. Those who need not to be governed become a societies leaders. Stalin, Lenin, Hitler where all great thinkers and leaders but horrible individuals. I do not see this trait in Putin, to me he is a recognizable leader with a honest goal in mind. Not that I agree with his ideology, but to him and others it seems to be necessary.
Nato is a military institution that perpetuates Western Wealth. (See Ron Paul on Imperialism)
Long Life And Health To Vladamir Putin and Long Live Mother Russian
Nato is a military institution that perpetuates Western Wealth.
In the case of NATO expansion, geoeconomic and geopolitical advantages went hand in hand. NATO’s presence guarantees the West both political and economic predominance in Eastern Europe and as NATO expands farther, also into western Eurasia. An economically painful consequence for Russia has been that now Western defense corporations have locked out Russia’s defense industry market from one of its few remaining outlets. This forced Russia to find new military arms clients among the West’s real and potential enemies – with the expected U.S. negative reaction to Russia’s searching for new markets.
The West’s attempts to portray NATO expansion purely in terms of expanding democracy (to regions that already have it), are unconvincing to Russians, who are excluded from the club, and have their interests undermined by that expansion. Since idealistic and realistic aspects of Western expansion are intrinsically intertwined, it is ingenuous to trumpet the former and deny the latter to Russia whose interests are disregarded by Western expansion.
http://www.russiaotherpointsofview.com/2008/04/response-to-rob.html
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