It is no secret that US-Russia relations have grown sour in recent
years, with the Obama Administration paring back ties, and President
Trump aiming to avoid more than the bare minimum contact with Russia.
Clearly, this is not an environment for things to improve.
But according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it’s not just that things are getting bad, “they are in fact deteriorating, getting worse by the hour.” He cautioned things are just getting worse and worse.
The comments were made on state TV, a contrast to comments about
improving Russia-China trade ties. Putin reported that trade in 2019 had
already exceeded his trade target by $8 billion.
Russian officials are also expressing displeasure at new US military deployments in
Poland, seeing them as another concerning move putting more US troops
near the Russian border. This has been a source of tensions for years,
and is only growing.
Now, US and Russian positions seem to differ on everything, with the US
moving away from the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, moving away from
existing nuclear treaties with Russia, and dialing up threats on Iran as Russia warns them against such escalation.
Putting more troops on the border with Russia…
Are they actually hoping to invade Russia with a land army at some point?
Cause if so, they might as well save everyone the hassle and just crawl into their bunker and commit suicide…cause that’s how it’s gonna end anyway.
The US has sent not nearly enough troops to Poland to effectively stop a Russian invasion, nor nearly enough to invade Russia. 1,000 more only serves to slightly boost Poland’s economy… so it would be more efficient and safer to just give Poland the money and not bother sending troops there. But the US does what it can spin, not what makes any sense.
Before anyone dismisses Putin’s remarks as bluster, current events and the pattern of history point to another world war.
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While Trump is regarded with contempt as a bumptious, bilious buffoon, vigorous, valiant, virile Vladimir Putin earns international admiration & respect as a strong, serious, sensible statesman.
Putin is all horse, no hat. A wimp.
By only reading all headlines of anti-war every day I realize that mankind is whooping it up to go on an even bigger war pad.
Yup, because being evil is a lot easier and more fun than staying to the short and narrow path.
What Putin says is of no consequence. The man is a wuss.
That wuss has ten thousand Nukes under his belt you idiot.
Right. And we’ve got our boys right up to his doorstep–and how has that brave man responded. Get real, uber idiot!
And how should Putin be responding to NATO right on his doorstep?
The same response JFK had that brought about the Cuban missile crisis. Fair is fair, right?
And what, a “real man” responds by attacking those troops? Thank god we don’t live in your High Noon shoot-em-up Western mentality.
Not me, dude, its our great leaders who think they are John Wayne.
The question is – what is Russia going to do other than complain? Probably nothing.
Russia should go back to become the 2nd Soviet Union in order to maintain the world balance again…
Russia today is much more powerful than the Soviet Union ever was . And the Russian people are much more united behind their government
Russia is not doing much to counter US world dominance! I don’t call that power, rather stay away from actions and watch from the sidelines…
As Uncle Sam approaches the gallows, Eurasia prepares the noose.
Democrats force Trump to worsen relations with Russia, yet Democrats don’t actually want bad relations with Russia. It is all domestic partisan warfare that has a side effect on Russia, about which none care as much as they care about getting at each other. Russia is discounted as just not important enough to get in the way of domestic politics, even as they rave about it being an all important bad guy.