| The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by NairaMinted: 12:15pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
[size=18pt]The Demonization of Vladimir Putin[/size]by JOHN WIGHT  Vladimir Putin is probably the most popular Russian leader there has ever been, polling up around a phenomenal 80% as recently as November 2015 in a study carried out by a team of American researchers. This makes him inarguably the most popular world leader today, though you would think the opposite given the way he’s routinely depicted and demonized in the West. Paradoxically, the main reason for Putin’s popularity in Russia is the same reason he’s so reviled in the US and Western Europe. It comes down to the simple but salient fact that when it comes to leadership and political nous Vladimir Putin is playing chess while his counterparts in London, Washington, and Paris are playing chequers. This is not to ascribe to the Russian leader the moral virtues of Nelson Mandela or the humanitarian instincts of Mahatma Gandhi. But neither is he the caricature regularly and vehemently described in the UK and US media. Putin is not a villain straight from a Bond movie, sitting in a spooky castle somewhere in deepest Russia planning and plotting world domination. For that kind of ‘Masters of the Universe’ malarkey you need to take yourself to the White House in Washington, or maybe CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. No, the Russian President is a man who knows his enemy better than they know themselves, and who understands and has imbibed the truth of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s statement that, “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” What those Western ideologues and members of the liberal commentariat who’ve been lining up to attack him in their newspaper columns fail to appreciate, not to mention the army of the authors who’ve been churning out books painting Putin as a latter day Genghis Khan, is the deep scars left on the Russian psyche by the country’s exposure to freedom and democracy Western-style upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein lays it out in forensic detail in her peerless work, The Shock Doctrine (Penguin, 2007). The impact of free market shock therapy on Russia under Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, Klein describes thus: “In the absence of major famine, plague or battle, never have so many lost so much in so short a time. By 1998 more than 80 percent of Russian farms had gone bankrupt, and roughly seventy thousand state factories had closed, creating an epidemic of unemployment. In 1989, before shock therapy, 2 million people in the Russian Federation were living in poverty, on less than $4 a day. By the time the shock therapists had administered their ‘bitter medicine’ in the mid-nineties, 74 million Russians were living below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.” Klein also reveals that by 1994 the Russian suicide rate had doubled and violent crime increased fourfold. Given the devastation wrought on the Russian economy and society by Western free market gurus and their Russian disciples during that awful period, the country’s recovery to the point where it is now able to contest and resist Washington-led unipolarity where before it existed unchecked, has to count as a staggering achievement. Putin rose to power in Russia on the back of his role in violently suppressing the Chechen uprising, which began amid the chaos of the Soviet Union’s dissolution. It was a brutal and bloody conflict in which atrocities were undoubtedly committed, as they are in every conflict, until the uprising was finally crushed and Moscow’s writ restored. The former KGB officer was thrust into the spotlight as a key member of Boris Yeltsin’s team thereafter, viewed as a safe pair of hands, which propelled him onto the political stage and his first stint as president in 2000, when he elected to office upon Yeltsin’s death. Since then Putin has worked to restore the Russian economy along with its sense of national pride and prestige on the world stage. The loss of that prestige as a result of the demise of the Soviet era had a cataclysmic effect on social cohesion in a country that had long prided itself on its achievements, especially its role in defeating the Nazis in the Second World War. The new Russian president is credited with returning the country to its former status as a respected power that can’t and won’t be bullied by the West. The attempt to use Georgia as a cat’s paw in 2008 was swiftly dealt with, and so has the attempt to do likewise with Ukraine in 2014. All this baloney about Putin having expansionist aims is an attempt to throw a smokescreen over the West’s own expansionist agenda in Eastern Europe with the goal of throwing a cordon sanitaire around Russia in pursuit of a cold war agenda. Russia’s current game changing role in the Middle East, along with China’s ferocious economic growth and growing influence, is proof that the days of unipolarity and uncontested Western hegemony are drawing to a close. This more than any other factor lies at the root of the irrational Russophobia being peddled so passionately in the West. The most populous country in Europe is not and never will be a Western colony or semi colony. For those Western ideologues that cannot conceive of any relationship with Russia other than as a deadly or defeated foe, accepting this reality is a non-negotiable condition of achieving a semblance of stability and peace in the world. While Vladimir Putin and his government are not beyond criticism – in fact, far from it – their misdeeds pale in comparison to the record of Western governments in destroying one country after the other in the Middle East, presiding over a global economy that has sown nothing but misery and despair for millions at home and abroad, leading in the last analysis to the normalization of crisis and chaos. Their deeds, as the man said, would shame all the devils in hell. This article first appeared at American Herald Tribune.
John Wight is the author of a politically incorrect and irreverent Hollywood memoir – Dreams That Die – published by Zero Books. He’s also written five novels, which are available as Kindle eBooks. You can follow him on Twitter at @JohnWight1 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by daniska3yaro(m): 2:00pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
Nice writeup 1 Like |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by Nobody: 10:08pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13? And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14? Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan. The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria. Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.  Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu. The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon. The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi. The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part. Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively. This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki. I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! 7 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by NairaMinted: 10:19pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! An ode from another awoken citizen that brought joy to my heart and a wide beam across my face. 7 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by OBAGADAFFI: 10:54pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
These Putin trolls and their delusional behavior. 3 Likes |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by fineguy11(m): 4:04pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
nice piece @NAIRAMINTED!kudos for sharing. 3 Likes |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by Poseidon000: 4:17pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! [size=13pt]
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You really got me hard with the quoted
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden
and Benjamin Netanyahu
shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in ijebu
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: App"leyard,Nairami"nted, Scu"lly95, Fine"guy11,
Shymm"3x,Cyprus00'0 & hun"gryboy
You dun mad finish 
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| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by Appleyard(m): 11:52pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! my ribs oo :-D :-D 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by scully95: 2:40am On Feb 02, 2016 |
Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! lWKMD!!! 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by seunny4lif(m): 11:02am On Feb 02, 2016 |
Abeg how u take write all this Respect oooh People think i dey craze here Thank u Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by fineguy11(m): 10:39pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
Akathriel:
Vladimirovich Putin - Thou fire of my loins and my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Did Yahweh not command Joshua to overrun the Amalakites in the book of Exodus 17:13?
And did Caleb not drive out the 3 sons of Anak - Sheshai, Ahiman & Talmai from Hebron in the book of Joshua 15:14?
Vladimirovich Putin - As Caleb drove out the 3 sons of Anak from Hebron, so shall you drive out Bill Clinton, George Bush & Barrack Obama from America. They shall flee into Cuba & be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans shall hear the blasts of the Russian Topol-M and their hearts shall fail them. Even the Anunnaki living in the underground facility at the Dulce Airforce Base, New Mexico shall be vapourized by the Russian SS-18 Satan.
The head of Donald Trump shall we use to play ping-pong on the Madison Square Garden, and the limbs of Hilary Clinton shall we use as baseball bats in playing international tournament between Russia & Nigeria.
Thou shall also overrun Israel with your Russian elite killers - Spetsnaz, and Benjamin Netanyahu shall flee into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon where they will cut off his scrotum and feed it as a delicacy meal to my fowl in Ijebu.
Then shall thou commandeer 1,200 - 13Year Old white American virgins along with 700 Israeli widows as spoils of war and deliver them to my family house in Ijebu.
The 700 widows shall I distribute among my loyal friends on Nairaland - namely: Appleyard, Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Shymm3x, Cyprus00 & hungryboy
The 13Year old virgins shall I keep for myself, and then shall I break the record of King Solomon.
The heads of the Rothchilds, George Bush & Tony Blair shall thou decapitate & use in appeasing the wandering ghosts of Saddam Hussein & Muammar Ghaddafi.
The American Gold Reserve shall thou share into 7 equal parts. Mother Russia shall take 2 parts, Nigeria shall take 1 part, China shall take 1 part, Iran Shall take 1 part, North Korean shall take 1 part and I shall take the remaining part.
Then shall we restructure the global currency & adopt the Naira as the official world currency. 1 Naira shall then be equivalent to 1000Pounds Sterling & 2000Euros respectively.
This shall be the horrible fate of the AngloZionist empire who have enslaved my people & covertly turned the Earth into a slaughter-house for the Anunnaki.
I, Akathriel Underscore Obatala have spoken! EPIC!even PUTIN wld laugh uncontrollably for 3 days non-stop upon reading this perfectly composed piece! 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by MosquitoLaps(m): 6:04pm On Feb 03, 2016 |
I tell you.
That guy's craze is of a special breed.
you can even see Appleyard and NairaMinted caught in the mix. |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by MosquitoLaps(m): 6:05pm On Feb 03, 2016 |
I tell you.
That guy's craze is of a special breed.
you can even see Appleyard and NairaMinted caught in the mix.
Wait until Missy89 sees this. 2 Likes |
| Re: The Demonization Of Vladimir Putin by Nobody: 7:24pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Can a demon be demonized?
I respect him though, he has done what has to be done for his country to become great again and he is rightly hailed as a great leader. |
