Putin is a thug. See the murder of Alexander Litvinenko with Polonium-214, the execution-style gunning down of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and others.
Russia is a thug. See how they won’t return Western Karelia to Finland, see how they took away South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia.
The USA is a thug. I just finished reading this
cryptome.org/2013/11/cia-chile-coup-instructions.pdf regarding the CIA plotting a military coup in Chile, in July 2000, on behalf of the US government (thanks Edward Snowden, for exposing it). I also just finished reading this
thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/10/22/us-venezuela-relations-a-case-study-of-i about how the 2002 military coup in Venezuela was orchestrated by the CIA and the USA.
However…
Right now, the USA is helping the murderous Al Qaeda in Syria, who are killing Christians, kidnapping and executing Christian (Catholic and Orthodox) bishops, priests, and monks. I didn’t hear a peep from US President Obama, or Secretary of State John Kerry, on behalf of the Christians in Syria.
At least, Russian President Putin spoke out on behalf of Syrian Christians.
US President Obama almost pulled the trigger on bombing Syria, and possibly transforming that country into a nuclear wasteland with our depleted uranium shells, just like we did in Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
I give credit to Russian President Putin for stopping yet another American- and French-made humanitarian catastrophe happening in Syria.
Babies are born with birth defects in Iraq, and the Iraqi civilians are suffering of hugely increased numbers of leukemias, lymphomas, and other cancers, due to our depleted uranium shells. That’s exactly what would have happened in Syria, but it was thankfully averted, in no small part, due to Russian President Putin, and due to our Pope Francis.
So, thug or no thug…
Thank you, President Putin! :flowers:
And Thank you, Pope Francis! :flowers: