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Most popular in decades Russian leader gave smart answer to Obama's ill-mannered and counterproductive remark that angered many Russians.
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Vladamir Putin is possibly the most popular leader in Russian history, although you'd never know it by reading the western media. According to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal in November 2007 , Putin's personal approval rating was 85% making him the most popular leader in the world. Putin's popularity derives from many factors. He is personally clever and charismatic. He worked tirelessly to improve the lives of ordinary Russians and restore the country to its former greatness. He has raised over 20 million Russians out of grinding poverty, improved education, health care and the pension system, (partially) nationalized critical industries, lowered unemployment, increased manufacturing and exports, invigorated Russian markets, strengthened the ruble, raised the overall standard of living, reduced government corruption, jailed or exiled the venal oligarchs, and amassed capital reserves of $850 billion.
Its interesting to observe to what extent the western media is nothing more than a propaganda bullhorn for the Neocons forces. Putin's personal approval ratings already confirm his enormous popularity, but the media continues to treat him like he's a tyrant. It is completely incongruous.
Russia is no longer up for grabs like it was after the fall of the Soviet Union. Putin put an end to all of that. He reasserted control over the country's vast resources and he's using them to improve the lives of his own people. This is a real departure from the 1990s, when the drunken Yeltsin steered Russia into economic disaster by following West's neoliberal edicts and by selling Russia's Crown Jewels to the vultures oligarchs. Russia is no longer for sale.
Russia is, once again, a major world power and a force to be reckoned with. This may explain why Putin is despised by the West. Freud might call it petroleum envy, but it's deeper than that. Putin has charted a course for social change that conflicts with basic tenets of organized greed. He is not a member of the corporate-banking brotherhood which believes the wealth of the world should be divided among themselves regardless of the suffering or destruction it may cause. Putin's primary focus is Russia; Russia's welfare, Russia's sovereignty and Russia's place in the world. He is not a globalist.
That is why the Bush administration has encircled Russia with military bases, toppled neighboring regimes with its comical color-coded revolutions, (which were organized by US NGOs) intervened in Russian elections, and (threatened) to deploy a nuclear weapons system in Eastern Europe..
In most articles, Putin is disparaged as anti democratic; a charge that is never leveled at the Saudi Royal family even though women are forbidden to drive, they must by fully-covered at all times, and can be stoned to death if they are found to be unfaithful. Also, in Saudi Arabia, beheading is still the punishment of choice for capital crimes.
Why is Putin blasted for rolling back democracy when Bush's stooge, Mikhail Saakashvili, arbitrarily declares martial law and deploys his truncheon wielding Robo-cops to beat protesters senseless before dragging them off to the Georgia gulag? The pictures of Saakashvili's bloody crackdown appeared In the foreign press, but not in the US where the media had all its camera lenses focused on Garry Kasparov (contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal and right-wing loony) as he was led off to the Moscow hoosegow in handcuffs for protesting without a permit.
What American wouldn't prefer a leader who stuck up their national interests rather than the interests of global Capital? Has Putin repealed habeas corpus, due process and the presumption of innocence? Has Putin abducted innocent suspects from the streets of foreign capitals and taken them to black sites where they've been tortured, water-boarded and sometimes killed? Has Putin initiated war's of aggression on defenseless countries killing and maiming a million or so civilians on a pack of lies? Has Putin created 4 million refugees and a humanitarian crisis which is likely to erupt into a region-wide conflagration?
Putin's crime is that he rejected Bush's unipolar world model. As he said in Munich:
The unipolar world refers to a world in which there is one master, one sovereign; one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. At the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within. What is even more important is that the model itself is flawed because at its basis there is and can be no moral foundations for modern civilization.
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