Russian president
Vladimir “Teflon” Putin is on a roll—or so we’re led to believe by the media.
The Russian president combines the slick machismo of James Bond, the cojones
of George Patton and the craftiness of Cardinal Richelieu.
Actually, in his dealings
with Cuba, Putin looks more like Barney Fife. We’re not accustomed to seeing Mr
Macho-Cool Vladimir Putin made an international jackass. But many Cuba-watchers
snickered as the hapless Russian President met with the Castro brothers on July
11th and “wrote off” their $32 billion debt to the Soviet Union.
“That old thing? I never liked it anyway,” Cuba-watchers easily imagine Putin hissing through gritted teeth. “We will provide support to our Cuban friends to overcome the illegal blockade of Cuba,” is what Putin actually hissed for the record.
Vladimir Putin rose to the rank of Lieut. Colonel in an organization that tortured and murdered at roughly TWICE the rate of the Nazi SS. So his offense at the “illegal” U.S. embargo of a KGB-founded, terror-sponsoring regime should provoke only chortling and snorting. Instead it’s probably causing a fit of the vapors at the State Dept. and in faculty lounges nationwide......To Read More....
“That old thing? I never liked it anyway,” Cuba-watchers easily imagine Putin hissing through gritted teeth. “We will provide support to our Cuban friends to overcome the illegal blockade of Cuba,” is what Putin actually hissed for the record.
Vladimir Putin rose to the rank of Lieut. Colonel in an organization that tortured and murdered at roughly TWICE the rate of the Nazi SS. So his offense at the “illegal” U.S. embargo of a KGB-founded, terror-sponsoring regime should provoke only chortling and snorting. Instead it’s probably causing a fit of the vapors at the State Dept. and in faculty lounges nationwide......To Read More....
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