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Does Putin think he is Bush?
MOSCOW (Reuters) - On a holiday created to unite his country, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a veiled warning that foreigners were seeking to split up the vast country and plunder its resource wealth. [How many Mexican illegals are in Moscow, do you think?]
"Some people are constantly insisting on the necessity to divide up our country and are trying to spread this theory," Putin told military cadets during a speech in Moscow on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. [Apparently the grown-up soldiers were too busy.]
"There are those who would like to build a unipolar world, who would themselves like to rule all of humanity," Putin said, a phrase he has used over the past seven years of his administration to mean the United States. [Damned if it doesn't sound as though he's talking about the United Nations.]
Putin... also said Russia was well respected by admirers as a stabilizing world factor. [Yeah, right.]
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Sunday was National Unity Day, an Autumn holiday created by Putin's administration three years ago to replace October Revolution Day, formerly the most patriotic celebration in the Soviet Union, when tanks, missiles and troops filled Red Square.
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A Levada Centre poll of adult Russians showed only a quarter of adults could correctly identify why they have Monday off from work.
A further 48 per cent had no idea whatsoever, while the remaining poll participants confused the holiday with the National Day of Reconciliation or Halloween. [And evidently the remaining 27% were too drunk to answer.]
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"Some think we have too much resource wealth and should divide it," Putin told the cadets. [This could be President Bush speaking...]
"They themselves have no wish to share their own riches, and we should take that into account." [Like our liberal Democrats.]
You don't suppose Mr. Putin boosted that speech from President Bush the last time he was at Camp David, do you?
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the whole talk about how the rest of the world wants a piece of russia and
the call for russians to defend the motherland has been in the playing
since the czarist times. unforunately russians fall for it over...and
over...and over again. look at the growth of the youth movement "Nashi"