The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone on Showtime

Libsam · Jun 21, 2017

ok, let me try again

Russia's total sovereign debt is low, something like 15%
America's is 100%

Now, I've been told that once you reach something like 85%, it's impossible to pay off. The USA passed that threshold a few years ago.

EternalFantasies · Jun 21, 2017

Libsam said:
ok, let me try again

Russia's total sovereign debt is low, something like 15%
America's is 100%

Now, I've been told that once you reach something like 85%, it's impossible to pay off. The USA passed that threshold a few years ago.

Yea that's a different story.

Most of that debt the US owes to itself.

But absolutely, it's quite high while Russia is quite lean.

thør · Jun 21, 2017

rocket_surgery said:
Putin doesn't make mistakes in interviews so I can't imagine there's anything in it worth watching. The guy is way too smart and experienced to give anything away that he doesn't want people to know.

"In one scene, Putin shows Stone a clip on his cell phone depicting a view through the Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) camera on an attack helicopter, ostensibly showing a Russian helicopter gunship engaging ISIS on the ground in Syria. “This is how our Air Forces are operating,” Putin says. "

"However, there is one mammoth sized problem with Putin showing this footage to Oliver Stone. It’s all bullshit. The footage is from an American AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in Afghanistan mowing down Taliban with its 30mm gun back in 2013."

From SOFREP.

EternalFantasies · Jun 23, 2017

thør said:
"In one scene, Putin shows Stone a clip on his cell phone depicting a view through the Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) camera on an attack helicopter, ostensibly showing a Russian helicopter gunship engaging ISIS on the ground in Syria. “This is how our Air Forces are operating,” Putin says. "

"However, there is one mammoth sized problem with Putin showing this footage to Oliver Stone. It’s all bullshit. The footage is from an American AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in Afghanistan mowing down Taliban with its 30mm gun back in 2013."

From SOFREP.

That's quite embarrassing.

Earlier in the thread he was called smart and knows how to answer etc. I wonder what his cunning plan is here...

OldJourno · Jun 23, 2017

I thought it was a class move on Putin's part to offer Comey asylum.

EternalFantasies · Jun 23, 2017

OldJourno said:
I thought it was a class move on Putin's part to offer Comey asylum.

And multi faceted.

It answers for why he gave it to Snowden, and signals how this latter felt even more compelled to wistleblow, with Comey merely feeling he had to leak and complain about a little 'insinuation' at best from the Prez. Snowden's weight was a tad heavier...

Total democratic pussy. I lost respect there, and i had lots.

EternalFantasies · Jul 16, 2017

renard_ruse said:
The "western" media, the neo-cons of both major parties, and the anti-Russia trolls and loudmouths on the internet like to try to subtly imply that Russia today, which is actually a mostly free market democracy, is still communist.

One of their techniques is to cite the lie that President Putin is a "KGB agent." Americans apparently are so dumb they think that there is actually still a KGB, even though it hasn't existed for 25 years in Russia (they still have one in Belarus and Transnistria I think). The FSB is the Russian security agency which is similar to the FBI and CIA as well as handling Border Patrol functions. Its no different than any of these agencies in western countries.

Even if they add "former" KGB agent, they imply that President Putin must be a closet Communist. They fail to tell people that Putin has been a staunch anti-Communist and has worked to prevent the Communists from regaining power.

He was always a closet Christian and capitalist when he worked for the KGB during Soviet times. He only joined the agency because that is what you did in the Soviet Union if you were ambitious and wanted a career in politics and government, just like thousands of other people in the Soviet Union who didn't believe in the system. Its how you advanced if you were ambitious.

**I find it a shame to break the same subject into so many threads, as major subjects are nice to read in one place. So I'm gonna be an ass and reply to you in this thread.**

Most free market economy is a stretch, but yes, Putin believes the old system was a mistake, and he managed the transition to a free market economy - which the US through the UN had set up to be a total disaster - with a lot of effort to make it succeed and ensure Russia never feels the need to go back to a system that it knows. (ppl afraid of change even from what they dont like).

He did a great job. And what Americans view as he's some controlling regime, in fact, Russia would not have made it in those huge huge transformation times, had the power not been consolidated to ensure flexibility and maneuverability.

Tough times, tough measures. Simple as that. And the Putin Interviews shed a lot of light on this aspect.

The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone on Showtime

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