Putin's Collapse: "Stop sanctions or I'll take my shirt off"

[CID1990]

Aww, why you gotta be like that, kalmie?

It is possible to be in favor of fracking and still be an independent. Being independent does not mean having no opinions, it just means picking opinions from either side regardless of the side. I know that must be hard to understand from where you are standing, so far over there to the left, but if I see something over on the right you might be interested in I'll walk it over when I agree with you on something else.

Struck a nerve I see?

Get back to me when you start taking conks and conk policies to task even a tenth of the amount you go the other way. You can't honestly deny this is true.

I actually think you have a good head on your shoulders Ganny…keep up on trucking'.

His approach is at least more honest than claiming to be some kind of thoughtful moderate while being a 100% doctrinaire donk.

[CID1990]

Uh the 80s called and they want their foreign policy back

You should tell that to the conks frothing at the mouth over Obama reengaging with Cuba.

You COMPLETELY missed.

Completely.

[kalm]

Struck a nerve I see?

Get back to me when you start taking conks and conk policies to task even a tenth of the amount you go the other way. You can't honestly deny this is true.

I actually think you have a good head on your shoulders Ganny…keep up on trucking'.

His approach is at least more honest than claiming to be some kind of thoughtful moderate while being a 100% doctrinaire donk.

The appropriate response to 91% of your posts...

And that's being generous!

[Cap'n Cat]

Obama's on a fucking winning streak v Conks AND Putin. When he instituted sanctions, every single Conk derided him as weak (again).

Sanctions now strangling Russia. Ruble lowest in ages. Investment virtually non-existent. Oil prices down.

Add the robust US economy, breath of fresh air with Cuba, Conk Congress with no veto override power, booming stock market and Obama's got the Conks on the run (again)!





LMAO @ Conks!!

[Cap'n Cat]

Yup - and all of the right-wing media gushing how great a leader Putin was, and how he was schooling Obama, and how America would be better off with Putin as President.

Seriously, it's now like you're quoting almost directly from Cappy. When did Cappy turn into Dick Cheney?

Caution, Fanny. You're showing your Conk ass again. Bipartisan, son.

[andy7171]

Yeah! Cappy is bipartisan, as long as the right agrees with him.

[andy7171]

[Cap'n Cat]

Yeah! Cappy is bipartisan, as long as the right agrees with him.

You're dumber 'n I thought, Andrew.

[Grizalltheway]

You should tell that to the conks frothing at the mouth over Obama reengaging with Cuba.

You COMPLETELY missed.

Completely.

Please enlighten me, Henry Kissinger.

[kalm]

Sounds like sanctions have played somewhat of a role...

MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Russia's government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, warning the full effects would be felt next year.

Kudrin -- a darling of investors who is credited with building Russia's $170 billion worth of sovereign wealth funds -- added that sanctions over Ukraine, not falling oil prices, were primarily behind the collapse of the rouble and warned that Russia risked seeing its debt downgraded to junk status in 2015.

"Today, I can say that we have entered or are entering a real, full-fledged economic crisis. Next year we will feel it clearly," the former minister told a news conference.

"The government has not been quick enough to address the situation ... I am yet to hear ... its clear assessment of the current situation."

Kudrin, one of few to criticize President Vladimir Putin, quit in 2011 in protest at proposals to increase defense spending.

He has since criticized Putin's response to Western sanctions imposed following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its subsequent support for loyalist fighters. But the two men are still believed to be close.

Russia has been hit by what Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev called a "perfect storm" of plummeting oil prices, sanctions and a flight of investors' capital, made worse by a lack of structural reforms that means the economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil revenues..

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[Ivytalk]

Sounds like sanctions have played somewhat of a role...

MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Russia's government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, warning the full effects would be felt next year.

Kudrin -- a darling of investors who is credited with building Russia's $170 billion worth of sovereign wealth funds -- added that sanctions over Ukraine, not falling oil prices, were primarily behind the collapse of the rouble and warned that Russia risked seeing its debt downgraded to junk status in 2015.

"Today, I can say that we have entered or are entering a real, full-fledged economic crisis. Next year we will feel it clearly," the former minister told a news conference.

"The government has not been quick enough to address the situation ... I am yet to hear ... its clear assessment of the current situation."

Kudrin, one of few to criticize President Vladimir Putin, quit in 2011 in protest at proposals to increase defense spending.

He has since criticized Putin's response to Western sanctions imposed following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its subsequent support for loyalist fighters. But the two men are still believed to be close.

Russia has been hit by what Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev called a "perfect storm" of plummeting oil prices, sanctions and a flight of investors' capital, made worse by a lack of structural reforms that means the economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil revenues..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/2 ... 65816.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Poor Kudrin will be assassinated by a couple of poisoned-umbrella-wielding Bulgarians within 30 days.

[GannonFan]

Sounds like sanctions have played somewhat of a role...

MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Russia's government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, warning the full effects would be felt next year.

Kudrin -- a darling of investors who is credited with building Russia's $170 billion worth of sovereign wealth funds -- added that sanctions over Ukraine, not falling oil prices, were primarily behind the collapse of the rouble and warned that Russia risked seeing its debt downgraded to junk status in 2015.

"Today, I can say that we have entered or are entering a real, full-fledged economic crisis. Next year we will feel it clearly," the former minister told a news conference.

"The government has not been quick enough to address the situation ... I am yet to hear ... its clear assessment of the current situation."

Kudrin, one of few to criticize President Vladimir Putin, quit in 2011 in protest at proposals to increase defense spending.

He has since criticized Putin's response to Western sanctions imposed following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its subsequent support for loyalist fighters. But the two men are still believed to be close.

Russia has been hit by what Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev called a "perfect storm" of plummeting oil prices, sanctions and a flight of investors' capital, made worse by a lack of structural reforms that means the economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil revenues..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/2 ... 65816.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sanctions have helped, and sanctions were always what we should've done. In the long run, Russia is screwed on it's current course. But clearly what's really been the dagger for Russia has been the American oil boom - the drop in oil prices has absolutely thrown the Russian economy into a spiral much faster than they would've been otherwise, and has also lessened the impact of Europe being weak-knee and needing Russian oil. Europe can continue to be that way and it pays Russia little.

So once again, yay Fracking! Take that Putin!!

[JohnStOnge]

Gee I wish Scarlett Johansson would say that.