For the FOGs --- Remember when Russia sounded like the crazy ones, and we were sane ?
I say this “tongue in cheek”, as Russia is far from a shining example of a “civilized society”, still the rhetoric is interesting.
SnT
Vladimir Putin:
“But you can’t just listen to the phone call in Russia; you need a special order from court. This is how this should be done in
civilized society, while tackling terrorism with the use of any technical means
On Syria
"From the outside some people think that if you bring the entire region in compliance with someone’s specific idea of democracy, things will settle down, and everything will be all right in that region. But that’s not true.
Considering that region’s background history, culture, religion – you cannot interfere with it from the outside.”
Putin pointed out that
the West is supporting some certain organizations that are fighting Assad in Syria, and they are countering "those very same groups" in Mali.
“What do you have there now?
There is a war of everybody against everybody among various tribes, there is war for resources, and, I’m afraid, if we go the same way in Syria, there will be same havoc in Syria that we’re now witnessing in Libya,” he concluded. “Isn’t that enough from what we’re seeing in Pakistan and Afghanistan right now,
where there’re terrorists that are not controlled by anyone, except for terrorists?”
http://rt.com/news/putin-rt-visit-br...ng-center-530/