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Not really, Woosh gave the correct answer in this post. Like China, Putin with Russia is following an independent policy that isn't slave to US wishes, and he's winning. The USA doesn't like it and will use any means to discredit him. .

How can you say that when I've observed that I don't like his methods, merely understand the necessity? I'm not fooled in any way about him or his motives. Those motives are to be in absolute power and make Russia a top world power again in the way the USSR was. He will do whatever is...

No it isn't, that refers to two terms in a row. Putin circumvented that when he swapped places with Dmitri Medvedev and was Prime Minister. That means he has two terms from 2012, and this election starts his second term which will expire in 2024. It's widely believed he will have the...

Thanks for the explanation Zlatan. I don't need to explain that away Tommie, as I've explained to Zlatan, Putin does what he feels necessary and has been very successful in uniting Russia and getting it in order. I certainly don't approve of the methods but understand the necessity. But that...

No, I don't know what I'm suppose to explain away, your post makes no sense. Who was being spoken of and in what context? Perhaps you'd care to explain that? Edit: Crossed witn Zlatan's explanation. .

I don't even understand what you mean? .

That's the impossibility and why the certainties implied by the current official accusations are so wrong. They make the accusers look foolish in many eyes. It's left the Russians secretly amused, not a good outcome if they are the guilty ones. This could have been handled far more subtly. .

Exactly. .

That's the point, they don't have to be clever and capable since they know how predisposed the West is to accuse Russia of everything and anything, especially since Crimea. As current events show only too clearly, any hint is enough to trigger the accusations. As for who could be the...

Or maybe you are doing exactly what the real perpetrators want you to do? Assume the obvious. Given the dominance of the uncertainties I prefer to not accuse anyone, but instead defend anyone accused on the basis of unsupported accusations. Defending on that basis is not saying they are...

In the Soviet era all the satellites were engaged in their civil and military operations for deliberate strategic reasons, it was a major strength and a US weakness. That's why the Ukraine for example has so many Russian nuclear facilities. They could well have the knowledge to carry out this...

Indeed. Then the politicians insisted Iraq and it's president were guilty of having WMD but the public largely disagreed, some like me explaining why that was not true. The public were right. Now we have the politicians once again insisting on the guilt of a president and country while many...

No useful concession at all then. .

Neither, I just refuse to be brainwashed by propaganda from either side and that's especially true when there are deliberate lies issued as "evidence". I make up my own mind, being gullible is blindly accepting one version when the two presented are both so questionable. .

With 37,345 posts to date, you could hardly blame Tommie for that. :D .

Really, observing the dispersal of arms and information resulting from the breakup of the USSR is wrong? Isn't it true you faced the Kalashnikovs that escaped that way to end up in IRA hands? .

Not so, it's the thing decent people do and the basis of all good legal systems. I haven't supported Putin's innocence. I've repeatedly posted that I've no idea who was responsible. What I'm doing is exposing the total lack of any sound basis for saying either Russia or Putin are the guilty...

This has nothing to do with what I posted and you quoted. That was just an observation on the legal status as it stands, and it's the same for international as well as national affairs. .

The latter cannot be said since this group of nerve gases were created by the USSR when Putin was a nobody in the KGB. When the USSR fell apart it was chaotic and we know that nuclear materials and information and vast quantities of many kinds of arms fell into all sorts of Russian and foreign...

Got it in one! This is from a post by the OP about his build: "My bike is a carrera vulcan from halfords with a rear DD hub motor," ,