Barack Obama Keeps Vlad Putin Up at Night with Nightmares of US Hegemony

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Russia needs more weapons to punch through America’s new missile defence shield, Vladimir Putin said yesterday in blunt remarks that will complicate efforts to cut the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals.

The Russian Prime Minister, reasserting himself as the country’s real ruler, said that Moscow should press ahead with a new generation of weapons to stop the Americans doing “whatever they want”.

“To preserve the balance we must develop offensive weapons systems, not missile defence systems as the United States is doing,” he said during a visit to the naval port of Vladivostok on the Pacific coast.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6970921.ece

Hey Vlad! Didn't you get the message?

Obama is bringing peace, gumdrop rainbows and free puppies to the world.

[NHSparky]

Or, more correctly, Vlad knows he can bitchslap Obama around more than any president since Carter (hell, maybe ever) and he's gonna milk that for all he can.

[thundley4]

Lord Zero's response will be to offer deeper cuts to America's defenses and foreign aid to Russia.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'm sure he knows full well that with Zero in charge, he has absolutely nothing to worry about, and is merely dredging the river for the corpse of an excuse to do what he planned to do anyway.

[Eupher]

I'm sure he knows full well that with Zero in charge, he has absolutely nothing to worry about, and is merely dredging the river for the corpse of an excuse to do what he planned to do anyway.

Ah, right out of the Hugo Chavez playbook -- or maybe I have that backwards. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Ah, right out of the Hugo Chavez playbook -- or maybe I have that backwards. 

Hugo is the rankest of amateur Latin comic-opera generalissimos in diplomatic duplicity, compared to the Russians.