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MADem

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1. What utter horse shit. Putin is insane.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:33 PM
Mar 2014

That doesn't mean we need to get into a shooting engagement with him.

With any luck, he'll keel over dead. He's obviously in a post-middle aged crazy cycle, with the facelift and the hair transplants and the wife dumping and the new girlfriend...I wonder if he doesn't have syphilis; he's acting like someone whose brain is being eaten away. He can keep isolating himself if he'd like; he'll start to understand what it means to be "barely tolerated."

I hope he likes the view of the G-7 from his Kremlin perch.

This article is garbage. It's not even a quality translation.

What utter horse shit. Putin is insane. MADem Mar 2014 #1
NO facts; just invective and insults. Nothing to respond to. n/t arendt Mar 2014 #2
Yes, that article is nothing but a piece of propaganda; a screed. Complete crap. nt MADem Mar 2014 #3
Right. Stephen Cohen is a propagandist. I'm sure Harvard will be shocked to hear it. n/t arendt Mar 2014 #5
They won't be shocked at all--in that half-baked, piece of shit article, it says he is "widely MADem Mar 2014 #7
The level of dismissive hatred you casually throw around has no place at DU arendt Mar 2014 #21
Bull right back at you, and stop defending the indefensible. It's not "hatred" -- it's called a MADem Mar 2014 #22
I'm defending Cohen, an honest scholar, not Putin; but... arendt Mar 2014 #23
In one brief sentence, you are defending a defense of a murdering despot. MADem Mar 2014 #24
+ 1 n/t MBS Mar 2014 #16
LOL what? Putin saved Obama's Presidency? phleshdef Mar 2014 #4
Once in Syria, and maybe again with Iran. arendt Mar 2014 #6
Obama and Kerry had been pushing Russia to push to get chemical weapons out karynnj Mar 2014 #18
Yeah, where's the UNREC button? This is trash. nt MADem Mar 2014 #8
cohen is delusional. Putin did not save Obama's presidency. Jesus how idiotic nt geek tragedy Mar 2014 #9
jesus, what blatant propaganda.. surely this is a joke of some sort... dionysus Mar 2014 #10
Read Cohen's original article, not the Voice of Russia summary LuvLoogie Mar 2014 #11
I've never seen this information steve2470 Mar 2014 #12
Timing is important. The tripartite offer was before EU deal. joshcryer Mar 2014 #13
Anyone who believes this shouldn't be on DU davidpdx Mar 2014 #14
Anyone who believes that Putin saved Obama's presidency, I have a bridge geek tragedy Mar 2014 #19
I agree davidpdx Mar 2014 #20
Unrec. The Russian propaganda sure is thick today. FSogol Mar 2014 #15
Putin is an imperialistic autocrat... Nitram Mar 2014 #17
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