"Who Are You, Mr. Putin? The Answer Isn't So Friendly Anymore"
"Prior to his massive victory in the elections, there was not a single Western media outlet that even knew who he was."The Russian card again began to turn into a trump card – but in the hands of the opponents of the current Western leaders. And the circle of those leaders, who had assumed the beginning of a partnership with Putin's Russia, has begun to visibly thin: Gerhard Shroeder and Silvio Berlusconi have left, as has Jacques Chirac, and Tony Blair is on his way out the door even as we speak. Only George Bush is left, and he has only a year and a few months left. So he has decided to give an advance summing-up of the period in relations with Russia that is drawing to a close.
Russia’s covert foreign intelligence operations against America have reached Cold War levels under President Vladimir Putin, according to Washington officials.To them he was just an obscure spy that Yeltsin probably had appointed when drunk. Putin was belittled and ridiculed. When he held his first speech as a President not a single Western journalist attended to listen. God knows were CIA was, but they were also missing. They were sitting in Moscow, and did not even notice that Putin went to Yekaterinburg (Yeltsin.s home town), where the entire Tsar family had been murdered. Putin went directly to nearby Snezhinsk, known as Chelyabinsk 19 which used to be one of the two secret atomic research centers in Soviet (Nizhni Novgorod was the other). These cities are the Russian counterparts of Los Alamos and Livermore.
Putin made a couple of promises. And he has made good on every one of them. He wowed to restore the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) which was in shambles. He wowed to pay all state debts. He wowed to restore Russia (The Empire). He wowed to install the “dictatorship of the law”. Both the Tricolor and the double headed eagle emblem were already reinstalled. The West was in shock when he started to prosecute the criminal oligarchs, of which several fled to the West or to Israel, where they have been given sanctuary to this day.
In just 7 years Putin has created a corporative state and all debts are paid. Moscowites have become the big spenders and international investors of today. He has not named a successor, because there is none. By the end of his presidency he has created enough external enemies and established a solid support from the suffrage and the new “pioneer” generation. They will beg him to continue to lead the Empire. They will beg him not to step down, because sovok russkies don’t have the ability to run a state without a supreme leader. They are happy drinking vodka and eat Borsh while singing sentimental songs.
His weapons are energy and the lame ducks of the West. “Tsar” Vladimir is a leader with full support of his people. In the West till today, only Estonia and Poland are showing guts to stand up against him.
Russia’s covert foreign intelligence operations against America have reached Cold War levels under President Vladimir Putin, according to Washington officials.
White House intelligence advisers believe no other country is as aggressive as Russia in trying to obtain U.S. secrets, with the possible exception of China.
In particular the SVR, as the former KGB’s foreign intelligence arm is now known, is using a network of undercover agents in America to gather classified information about sensitive technologies, including military projects under development and high-tech research.
Yuri Shvets, a former KGB agent, said: “In the days of the Soviet Union, the number of spies was limited because they had to be based at the foreign ministry, the trade mission or the news agencies like Tass. Right now, virtually every successful private company in Russia is being used as a cover for Russian intelligence operations.”
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