Pardon me, but Vladimir Putin is a douche bag.
Anybody who reads my site with any regularity knows that I'm no staunch patriot. I see cracks in my own nation's facade, to put it mildly. Putin, today, intimated that the world is gripped by a new arms race. That may well be so, but for Russia's leader to first claim that it's "...not [Russia's] fault, because [they] did not start it" and follow it up with, "Russia would always respond to the challenges of a new arms race by developing more hi-tech weaponry" - well, that's just stupid.
"Mommy, I didn't start the fight. I just called him a jerk after he called me stupid. That's not my fault."
Anybody who reads my site with any regularity knows that I'm no staunch patriot. I see cracks in my own nation's facade, to put it mildly. Putin, today, intimated that the world is gripped by a new arms race. That may well be so, but for Russia's leader to first claim that it's "...not [Russia's] fault, because [they] did not start it" and follow it up with, "Russia would always respond to the challenges of a new arms race by developing more hi-tech weaponry" - well, that's just stupid.
"Mommy, I didn't start the fight. I just called him a jerk after he called me stupid. That's not my fault."