Putin's Warning Appears Aimed for U.S.

[Rose Siding]

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned that Ukraine's crisis over last week's disputed presidential election must be solved without foreign pressure -- even as European envoys returned to Kiev for a second round of mediation.

While it was delivered in a phone call with the German chancellor, Putin's message appeared aimed more at the United States, seen by the Kremlin as behind a campaign to install Ukraine's pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko at the helm of the nation Russia has always regarded as its main satellite.

The former Soviet republic of 48 million has emerged at the center of arguably the biggest direct geopolitical confrontation between Moscow and the United States and its Western allies since the late 1980s, when Eastern Europe was still firmly in the embrace of the Communist empire but struggling to break out.

"Putin is being told by his advisers and allies that for a long time, the West has been actively interfering in Ukraine and Yushchenko as a politician is a purely American project," said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of a leading Russian foreign affairs journal. "He's told that the whole campaign is being run on ... mostly American, money, and if Yushchenko wins Ukraine will sharply change its political orientation -- quickly joining NATO, trying to rupture its ties with Russia and so on."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-putin-ukraine,0,2856541.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[opihimoimoi]

1. Sounds/Looks like the Team Bush are way over their heads and appears

nearly submerged save for the barely blinking lifevest lites.

[VegasWolf]

3. Nooo!! n/t

[tom_paine]

2. Soulmates BushPutin will fare no better than Soulmates HitlerStalin

This Honeymoon is coming to an end.

[Zech Marquis]

4. pootie-poo has nukes

real BIG ass nukes :nuke: so * had better stop while he's ahead--not to mention the little factoid of Vlad being a forer KGB cHIEF...something tells me that Putin's has something planned to mke * FEEL stupid, real soon...

[opihimoimoi]

6. Bush has revealed to the world that he and his team are WEAK

when it comes to deep thinking. They keep making rookie mistakes... even after 4 years, they still don't get it. The Bush Team are ROOKIES and are floundering in High Seas with nary a flare.

[VegasWolf]

5. If bush gets China/Russia pissed at us, we're really fucked!

[Nordic]

7. Bush and Putin have already cut a deal over this

you can bet.

Bush gets Iraq, Putin gets the Ukraine.

Watch Putin invade the Ukraine here pretty soon.