{"id":48028,"date":"2014-03-05T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=48028"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:24:10","slug":"crimean-crisisthreatening-the-use-of-force-russia-mafia-state-boss-iron-valodya-putin-breaking-news-48028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/crimean-crisisthreatening-the-use-of-force-russia-mafia-state-boss-iron-valodya-putin-breaking-news-48028\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimean Crisis: Threatening the use of force ! Russia is a Mafia State with boss Iron Valodya (Putin) \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iron Valodya wants to revive the Russian Empire,\u00a0The world’s largest mafia state Russia why does not respect the rules of civilized.<\/h1>\n

Just as we\u2019ve turned the coverage of politics into sports, we\u2019re doing the same with geopolitics. There is much nonsense being written about how Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin showed how he is \u201ctougher\u201d than US President Barack Obama and how President Obama now needs to demonstrate his manhood. This is how great powers get drawn into the politics of small tribes and end up in great wars that end badly for everyone. We vastly exaggerate Iron Valodya’s \u00a0strength \u00a0so does he \u00a0and we vastly underestimate our own strength, and ability to weaken him through nonmilitary means.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with Vladimir Putin. Any man who actually believes, as Putin has said, that the breakup of the Soviet Union was \u201cthe greatest geopolitical catastrophe\u201d of the 20th century is caught up in a dangerous fantasy that can\u2019t end well for him or his people. The Soviet Union died because Communism could not provide rising standards of living, and its collapse actually unleashed boundless human energy all across Eastern Europe and Russia. A wise Putin would have redesigned Russia so its vast human talent could take advantage of all that energy. He would be fighting today to get Russia into the European Union, not to keep Ukraine out. But that is not who Putin is and never will be. He is guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations toward his people and prefers to turn Russia into a mafia-run petro-state \u2014 all the better to steal from.<\/p>\n

People in Russia now began to call him with the his former KGB code name Iron Valodya<\/strong> !<\/p>\n

So Vladimir Putin is now fighting human nature among his own young people and his neighbor countries who both want more EU and less Putinism. To put it in market terms, Putin is long oil and short history. He has made himself steadily richer and Russia steadily more reliant on natural resources rather than its human ones. History will not be kind to him especially if energy prices ever collapse.<\/p>\n

So spare me the Putin-body-slammed-Obama prattle. This isn\u2019t All-Star Wrestling. The fact that Putin has seized Crimea, a Russian-speaking zone of Ukraine, once part of Russia, where many of the citizens prefer to be part of Russia and where Russia has a major naval base, is not like taking Poland. I support economic and diplomatic sanctions to punish Russia for its violation of international norms and making clear that harsher sanctions, even military aid for Kiev, would ensue should Putin try to bite off more of Ukraine. But we need to remember that that little corner of the world is always going to mean more, much more, to Putin than to us, and we should refrain from making threats on which we\u2019re not going to deliver.<\/p>\n

What disturbs us about Crimea is the larger trend it fits into, that Putinism used to just be a threat to Russia but is now becoming a threat to global stability. We opposed expanding NATO toward Russia after the Cold War, when Russia was at its most democratic and least threatening. It remains one of the dumbest things we\u2019ve ever done and, of course, laid the groundwork for Putin\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n

For a long time, Vladimir Putin has exploited the humiliation and anti-Western attitudes NATO expansion triggered to gain popularity, but this seems to have become so fundamental to his domestic politics that it has locked him into a zero-sum relationship with the West that makes it hard to see how we collaborate with him in more serious trouble spots, like Syria or Iran. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is engaged in monstrous, genocidal behavior that also threatens the stability of the Middle East. But Putin stands by him. At least half the people of Ukraine long to be part of Europe, but he treated that understandable desire as a NATO plot and quickly resorted to force.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to go to war with Putin, but it is time we expose his real weakness and our real strength. That, though, requires a long-term strategy \u2014 not just fulminating on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d It requires going after the twin pillars of his regime: oil and gas. Just as the oil glut of the 1980s, partly engineered by the Saudis, brought down global oil prices to a level that helped collapse Soviet Communism, we could do the same today to Putinism by putting the right long-term policies in place. That is by investing in the facilities to liquefy and export our natural gas bounty (provided it is extracted at the highest environmental standards) and making Europe, which gets 30 percent of its gas from Russia, more dependent on us instead. I\u2019d also raise our gasoline tax, put in place a carbon tax and a national renewable energy portfolio standard \u2014 all of which would also help lower the global oil price (and make us stronger, with cleaner air, less oil dependence and more innovation).<\/p>\n

You want to frighten Iron Valodya ? Just announce those steps. But you know the story, the tough guys in Washington who want to take on Putin would rather ask 1 percent of Americans \u00a0the military and their families \u00a0to make the ultimate sacrifice than have all of us make a small sacrifice in the form of tiny energy price increases. Those tough guys who thump their chests in Congress but run for the hills if you ask them to vote for a 10-cent increase in the gasoline tax that would actually boost our leverage, they\u2019ll never rise to this challenge. We\u2019ll do anything to expose Putin\u2019s weakness; anything that isn\u2019t hard. And you wonder why Vladimir Putin holds us in contempt ?<\/p>\n

Russia has created world’s largest mafia organization after post-Communist era, now we understand that this organization has one single boss !<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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