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Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat to the West
02-17-2008, 12:09 AM
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Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat to the West
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...5/wputin115.xml

Quote:By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
Last Updated: 2:10am GMT 15/02/2008

Vladimir Putin has delivered perhaps his most menacing tirade against the West yet, repeating threats to train nuclear missiles on Europe and warning of unspecified retaliation if Kosovo declared independence.

Addressing his last press conference as Russian president, Mr Putin mounted a defiant display that demonstrated more emphatically than ever the widening gulf between Moscow and its former Cold War rivals.

Vladimir Putin delivered his most menacing tirade against the West yet
Vladimir Putin used the language of the Russian street in his tirade

In a vintage performance, the former KGB spy laced almost five hours of invective with crude insults, threats and admonitions often expressed in the argot of the Russian street.

Reserving his greatest ire for the United States, which he accused of harbouring a colonial mentality towards Russia, Mr Putin again said that Europe would pay the consequences for a Washington-backed plan to erect a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

"Our generals, our security council, consider these moves a threat to our national security," he said. "We asked our partners to stop but no one listened to us. So if they continue we will have to react appropriately by retargeting our missiles." Mr Putin also made similar threats against Ukraine if it joined Nato.

The Russian leader - often accused of returning his country to a state of autocracy - portrayed his nuclear threat as an act of democratic generosity, saying he was acting in the interests of Europeans who opposed American military expansionism.

Few western countries escaped the vitriol. Europe was scolded for its "silly", "immoral" and "illegal" backing of Kosovo's imminent unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia.

Although he did not elaborate, Mr Putin gave warning of retaliation once Kosovo broke away - a threat likely to chill Western leaders. "We have a ready-made plan and we know what we are going to do," he said.
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Although Mr Putin is expected to hand over power to Dmitry Medvedev, his handpicked and pliant protégé, after elections next month, there was little sign of a swansong in his final press conference as president.

Indeed, this was Mr Putin at his most combative. To the delight of fawning Russian journalists, he confirmed his intention to re-emerge as a powerful prime minister in a Medvedev administration - and pointedly told reporters that he had no intention of hanging his successor's portrait on his office wall.

Encouraged by enthusiastic applause from his audience, Mr Putin often resorted to crude rhetoric to condemn his critics.

He told western observers who refused to monitor the forthcoming election, widely seen as a sham, that they should "rather teach their own wives how to cook cabbage soup.".

He later compared British newspaper stories that carried allegations of his alleged multi-billion- pound fortune to "detritus excavated from someone's nostril and smeared across bits of paper.".

Critics have accused Mr Putin of creating a personality cult during his years in power - an allegation that may have been borne out by the sycophantic and even simpering questions put to him by local reporters.

A Chechen journalist asked the president when he would grace the ravaged province with another visit, while a female reporter presented the president with a golden heart as a gift for Valentine's Day.

Asked what had made him such a great leader, Mr Putin suggested that he had been anointed by God to make Russia a great state and boasted that he had made no mistakes during his eight years in power.

Giving a brief insight into how his mind works, Mr Putin attributed his success to the fact that he approached politics with a tough-man attitude.

"Heads of state have no right to whinge or drool for any reason," he said. "If they are going to slobber and blow snot and say things are bad, bad, then that's how it will be."

Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Matt 5:9 KJV

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Gal 4:16 KJV

&The most dangerous man,to any government,is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably,he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest,insane and intolerable.&
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02-17-2008, 12:50 AM
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Quote:"annointed by god"?? what a crock

It's not like it's the first time vlad has threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes is it?

goddamn gazprom autocratic bully, always with this tough guy macho bullshit. I was never convinced he wasn't a pedo tbh. Getting a tad stressed with him always threatening to obliterate europe. I wish someone would floor the fuck with a hook punch during a press conference. fucking bullies man, who needs them

LOL! Nice rant :wink:

Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Matt 5:9 KJV

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Gal 4:16 KJV

&The most dangerous man,to any government,is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably,he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest,insane and intolerable.&
-H.L Mencken
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02-17-2008, 02:58 AM
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Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat to the West
Damn, this won't bring anything good...
The economy worldwide is bad... It's time for (cold) war I guess, the history repeats itself. And after this, the world will be closer to NWO, and the bankers will have even more money.
We can only hope Russia is not strong enough to go into the race...

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swimming about,& said Chuang Tzu, &They are really enjoying themselves.&

&You are not a fish,& replied the friend, &So you can't truly know that they
are enjoying themselves.&

&You are not me,& said Chuang Tzu. &So how do you know that I do not
know that the fish are enjoying themselves?&
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