<div>From this distance Putin is at least honourable if not heroic,<br />and Obama is a ridiculous Caligula-like petty tyrant.</div>
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<td>-------Original Message-------<br /> From: Brussel, Morton K <brussel@illinois.edu><br /> To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@anti-war.net><br /> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ufpj-activist] What is Putin thinking!<br /> Sent: Mar 28 '14 00:15<br /> <br /> FYI. <br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><strong>From: </strong>Kevin Zeese <<a href="mailto:kbzeese@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbzeese@gmail.com</a>></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><strong>Date: </strong>March 27, 2014 8:15:46 AM CDT</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><strong>To: </strong>ufpj-activist <<a href="mailto:ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org" target="_blank">ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org</a>></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><strong>Subject: </strong><strong>[ufpj-activist] What is Putin thinking!</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr">The media and politician propagandists in the US have much of the population thoroughly confused about Russia and Putin. In reality, Putin is acting quite rationally. Paul Craig Roberts explains this is what Putin thinks:
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<div>"The Americans promised Gorbachev that they would not take NATO into Eastern Europe, but the Americans did. The Americans withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which prohibited escalating the arms race with anti-ballistic missile systems. The Americans arranged with Poland to deploy anti-ballistic missile bases on Poland’s border with Russia. The Americans tell us the fantastic lie that the purpose of American missile bases in Poland is to protect Europe from non-existent Iranian ICBMs. The Americans change their war doctrine to elevate nuclear weapons from a retaliatory deterrent to a pre-emptive first strike force. The Americans pretend that this change in war doctrine is directed at terrorists, but we know it is directed at Russia. The Americans have financed “color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine and hope to do so in the Russian Federation itself. The Americans support the terrorists in Chechnya. The Americans trained and equipped the Georgian military and gave
it the green light to attack our peacekeepers in South Ossetia. The Americans have financed the overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine and blame me for the anxiety this caused among Crimeans who on their own volition fled Ukraine and returned to Russia from whence they came. Even Gorbachev said that Khrushchev should never have put Crimea into Ukraine. Solzhenitsyn said that Lenin should not have put Russian provinces into eastern and southern Ukraine. Now I have these Russian provinces agitating to return to Russia, and the Americans are blaming me for the consequences of their own reckless and irresponsible actions.<br /> <br /> "The Americans say I want to rebuild the Soviet Empire. Yet, the Americans witnessed me depart from Georgia when I had this former Russian province in my hands, thanks to the short-lived war instigated by the Americans.<br /> <br /> "There is no end to the American lies. I have done everything possible to respond to provocations in a low-key reaso
nable manner, offering to work things out diplomatically, as has my Foreign Minister Lavrov. But the Americans continue to provoke and to hide their provocations behind lies. The Americans brazenly bring to me a strategic threat in Ukraine. They intend to put Ukraine in NATO, the purpose of which expired with the Soviet collapse. They intend to put more missile bases on Russia’s borders, and they intended to evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, its warm water port<br /> <br /> "Americans have no intention of working anything out. They intend to subjugate Russia. Washington wants Russia powerless, surrounded with ABM bases that degrade our strategic deterrent to uselessness. These Americans will not work with me. They will not listen to me or to Russia’s Foreign Minister. They only hear their own call for American hegemony over the world. My only alternative is to prepare for war."<br /> <br /> <a style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" href="http://dissiden
tvoice.org/2014/03/how-much-war-does-washington-want/#more-53528" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/03/how-much-war-does-washington-want/#more-53528</a><br clear="all" />
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