Vladimir Putin and The Return of The Czars

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RedState: Vladimir Putin and The Return of The Czars Nature And Militarism Both Abhor Vacuums

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | March 31st, 2014 at 09:30 PM

Andrej Illiaronov, Putin’s economic adviser between 2000 and 2005 and now senior member of the Cato Institute think tank, said that “parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership. Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,”

 

International Business Times

 

So Czar Vladimir has started chopping off pieces of the once-liberated Soviet Empire the way Jack the Ripper handled his business with the ladies. He has totally called Barack Obama’s bluff and has deduced that soft power and gutless, blustering venality are synonyms in the foreign policy thesaurus. He has decreed that the time has come to reinstate The Brezhnev Doctrine and that nobody West of Prague has the willpower to deny him that which he believes is already his. The amazing thing is not so much that Vladimir Putin has moved to punch a big, gaping hole through the rotten crust of the decaying Post-modern West. I’m thus far pleasantly surprised by the fact that more of the rest of the world isn’t joining him for a massive pile-on. This, of course, can be subject to change.

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Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

 

Adam Withnall Sunday 30 March 2014

 

After annexing Crimea and with troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.

 

According to Andrej Illarionov, the President’s chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to create “historical justice” with a return to the days of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Soviet Union under Stalin.

 

Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned that Russia will argue that the granting of independence to Finland in 1917 was an act of “treason against national interests”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-wants-to-regain-finland-for-russia-adviser-says-9224273.html