Russia - Our Friend?

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, Murderer-in-Chief and former KGB Officer is at it again.

In 2001, George Bush declared that Putin was a man we could work with.

In 2006, Vlad (the impaler) has been linked to numerous deaths, including the Polonium poisoning incident in London. The offensive use of nuclear materials could be interpreted as an act of war. The Scotland Yard investigation leads right back to Moscow (and dare we whisper the Kremlin).

Vlad has other aspirations. He just bullied Shell Oil into relinquishing rights to oil fields. Those fields were developed using Shell shareholder money and technology. Czar Putin all but held a gun to Shell's head and stole the investment. (Who knows maybe Vlad did hold a gun to someone's head.).

Now he has turned right around and is threatening the same treatment against British Petroleum.

In many ways we could turn the clock back fifty or one hundred years and see the same things. Czar Nicholas was pretty corrupt. Lenin, Stalin and the rest probably murdered ninety million people between 1920 and 1953. The Gulag still functions. People vanish off the streets, and the violence that has plagued Russia over the centuries once again walks openly.

Czar Vlad is busy arming the Iranians, selling off slightly used Russian military technology to the Chinese and developing a new generation of Soviet (oops I meant to say Russian) nukes. They threaten their smaller neighbors and seek to oppose American foreign policy.

For all of you who hate America, just remember it was America (not Europe, not Asia, not Africa or the Middle East) that stood between the Free World and Soviet aggression. In the final analysis, the world will look to the Stars and Stripes to stand in the gap once again.