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What's Putin's Game?
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. What's he after? What is he trying to accomplish? . |
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Kalle Member
since 2007-10-15
Posts 89Finland |
Putin is one form of superior being And I doubt you`d have the guts to ask him that directly, he`d destroy you in one look. He`s a fox, a monster He has his cryptonite but talking about it here is pointless... |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Wrong . . . |
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Kalle Member
since 2007-10-15
Posts 89Finland |
Wrong? Well, what IS his Game, in your opinion? I have to say that I am slightly perpelexed... |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
I think he wants a kind of Russian Monroe Doctrine. It's our backyard, don't mess with it. |
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Kalle Member
since 2007-10-15
Posts 89Finland |
I think the matter is somewhat more complex than just Russian foreighn policy. I`m surmising that he might be one of the SOUL Cathchers in the Russian Rye Fields. And I`m not kidding, Living in Finland I sense his presence. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. I think Putin wants to corner the market on the anti US mania which wins him instant popularity in his home country and costs him virtually nothing, He has been in a recent campaign of showing his population a strong macho character and I think his recent actions are a part of that. "Vladimir the Great" isn’t that far fetched. . |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
High oil prices. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. High oil prices won’t better fill his belly or get him a nicer dacha; there’s more, ( a sense of history), to the man. . |
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Kalle Member
since 2007-10-15
Posts 89Finland |
Mother Russia produces these Grand Inquisitors. She is such fertile Lady  |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s1335618.htm http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/09/26/gary-kasparov-gazprom-can-have-its-own-army/ |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4276 http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1228/p01s01-woeu.html |
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Kalle Member
since 2007-10-15
Posts 89Finland |
He`s just too healthy to be given to excessive introspection He is a man of forwardmotion. |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
John, You may be right, but that's pretty much the same thing I said, or at least meant. You want to go personality, I want to argue territory marking.  LR, I think that's part of the game as well, but I don't remember any comments concerning Venezuela. One criticism, perhaps, is that we are all to o ready to fall back into bi-polarism. And you think he's not? |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
I'm not sure I understand the Venezuala reference Brad -- but, to your other point -- high oil prices are all about personality and marking territory too. Without them Putin has no territory. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Remember Putin is former KGB. That’s as Old Guard as you can get. . |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTM4OWJmYWRiZThmMmM4MDZlZDNlMTRjZWEyNDVhMTE=&w=MA== . |
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