These three stories are interconnected and together very important. I implore you to read all three of the links and you will see they tell a complete story and it is not good. I have written about all this numerous times during Bush's regime. While he was going around the world arming who he wanted and war mongered he was driving the non aligned nations and much of the world to ally with Russia to take him on.
I had great hopes that Obama's election would put an end to the anti American fervor and the desire to see us go down. Because of Bush you may remember there was a drive by nations against us to gain life time Presidency to stay in control to stay in control in the fight for the future they all knew was coming.
We discussed often the arming of Venezuela and South American Nations are the reemerging Russian navy in our back yard waters as they have started using Cuba with their nuclear ships again and are now visiting Venezuela as well. Obama tries to unify the world but we see nothing has changed. Chavez and Ahmadinejad HATE America and are reinforcing their ties.
Hugo Chávez deepens petroleum and military ties with Russia
We knew Putin wanted to stay in power but Russian law only allowed two terms so Putin got his puppet Medvedev elected as President and he has continued to pull the reins as the prime minister. He has continued to dictate Russian actions and policies as the Defacto President. Putin Russia's current PM and former president has now given the clearest signal to date that he is considering a return to his old job.
Putin told Russian 45 Russian experts from around the world that ha and President Medvedev were in meetings trying to decide who was going to run as President in 2012 and that he was mildly optimistic about a reset in relations proposed by Obama. I found that odd that scares the hell out of me that, we have to fear the nightmare Bush being President here again. That is a scary thought but I think it can happen? Anyway I wish Putin and Medvedev would both run and divide the country but Putin would win. I guess he wants to run the country as the President not the PM.
Worse the constitution has since been changed to extend terms to six years from four therefore If Mr. Putin were to return to office in 2012 he could potentially remain until 2024. I have more than mixed feelings about that. Great concern would be an understatement because like most of you when Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw a good man I saw evil and a man with nothing but contempt and hate for us. That has not changed in any regard! Putin Signals Desire to Return to Presidency
Listening to Putin rattle off his concerns about US intentions, with Iran coming out to extend official recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, over whose survival Russia fought a brief but bloody war with Georgia last year.
Until now only Nicaragua has joined Moscow in recognizing the independence of the two republics. I still only see future war and do not like to see the likes of Putin Chavez and Ahmadinejad uniting together against us nor do I like the prospect of another 12 years of Putin at the helm to unify the world against us because that is all that will come out of it.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma