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Flashback Russian President Vladimir Putin: So who created ISIS, anyway?

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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:57 UTC

In 2014, President Obama named the three major threats to US national security; ISIS, Russia and Ebola (because spiraling national debt, unequal distribution of wealth, over-incarceration, climate change etc. are less pressing issues.)

It would be fair to say that Russian politicians took much offence to being placed in this list, next to a terror organisation and a disease.

In relation to this statement, Putin answers a number of questions from a US journalist at the Valdai International Discussion Club, late 2014.

To draw his point to a close, Putin mirrors the words of John F Kennedy in a 1963 speech titled "A Strategy for Peace", unusual for its time due to the warmth of the address to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

Putin is likely to echo the words he said at Valdai when he speaks at the UN in New York tomorrow.

Comment: Putin isn't shy when it comes to putting liars and hypocrites in their place. With one day before his highly anticipated speech at the UN General Assembly, all eyes are on New York for Putin the Great.

See also: Putin interview on CBS 60 Minutes: Preview of UN speech

Reader Comments

falcor · 2015-09-27T20:11:33Z

Who defeated ISIL is the same important.

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rbateman1 · 2015-09-28T06:06:16Z

Putin's latest comments

When asked about his regrets about the collapse of the Soviet Union, which the MSM and others have used to accuse Putin of wanting to resurrect that regime, he turned the tables. Imagine, if you will, the US selling Alaska back to the Russians, and the West Coast to China. Suddenly, 10's of millions of Americans would find themselves in a foreign country. Putin did say that when the Soviet Union disintegrated, 25 million Russians found themselves in a foreign country overnight.
Now, that's scary, and darned if it didn't happen.

Baybars · 2015-09-28T06:12:29Z

I though China already owned the west coast of N.America?!?

lilies · 2015-09-30T12:07:51Z

Chilling effects

Its chilling to listen to Putin's sober arguments. When will the relevant people realize the truth in Putin's words? Only then this psychopathic madness of US hegemony will end.