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Vladimir Putin: Thomas Friedman Is Fascistic
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At a meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with newspapers and radio stations, prominent reporter Thomas Friedman posed an urgent question to Russian President Vladimir Putin: "Would it not be nice, Mr. Putin, if Western leaders stopped condemning Russian sanctions, and started negotiating with President Putin?"
Putin's answer was clear: "That is not our style. And now we are using this question not as an occasion for dialogue, but as an excuse for blackmail."
Putin is referring, of course, to the sanctions imposed last year by the European Union and the United States on Moscow as punishment for what they see as Moscow's role in the Ukrainian crisis.
Friedman quickly tweeted the Kremlin's response: "Embarrassing. Framing Putin like he's Hitler or something. Hey, it gives his supporters something to boo, right?"
From Friedman's perspective, Putin served his patriotic role nobly, allowing Ukraine's territory to be ethnically cleansed and then abandoning the pro-Russian separatist stronghold Donetsk. The world, in its global wake of "horror" and "political terror," could have acted differently — if it wanted, Friedman wrote, instead of humanizing Russia with grotesque double crossings such as "their crisis center," which deals with the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
"We need a story about people at the bottom who are shaking their heads exasperatedly over how bad things are for them. We want to see the world waking up and thinking, 'You know, Putin is a far cry from the East Siberian barbarians we were all warned about,' " says Friedman.
But things have deteriorated very quickly, says Friedman. During his recent talk at the Saint Petersburg Student Union, "there was so much casual violence for no good reason." He speculates Putin, responding to U.S. recognition of Jerusalem on Friday, "is willing to take great risks because at the end of the day
Vladimir Putin: Thomas Friedman Is Fascistic
Enlarge this image toggle caption Pavel Golovkin/AP Pavel Golovkin/AP
At a meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with newspapers and radio stations, prominent reporter Thomas Friedman posed an urgent question to Russian President Vladimir Putin: "Would it not be nice, Mr. Putin, if Western leaders stopped condemning Russian sanctions, and started negotiating with President Putin?"
Putin's answer was clear: "That is not our style. And now we are using this question not as an occasion for dialogue, but as an excuse for blackmail."
Putin is referring, of course, to the sanctions imposed last year by the European Union and the United States on Moscow as punishment for what they see as Moscow's role in the Ukrainian crisis.
Friedman quickly tweeted the Kremlin's response: "Embarrassing. Framing Putin like he's Hitler or something. Hey, it gives his supporters something to boo, right?"
From Friedman's perspective, Putin served his patriotic role nobly, allowing Ukraine's territory to be ethnically cleansed and then abandoning the pro-Russian separatist stronghold Donetsk. The world, in its global wake of "horror" and "political terror," could have acted differently — if it wanted, Friedman wrote, instead of humanizing Russia with grotesque double crossings such as "their crisis center," which deals with the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
"We need a story about people at the bottom who are shaking their heads exasperatedly over how bad things are for them. We want to see the world waking up and thinking, 'You know, Putin is a far cry from the East Siberian barbarians we were all warned about,' " says Friedman.
But things have deteriorated very quickly, says Friedman. During his recent talk at the Saint Petersburg Student Union, "there was so much casual violence for no good reason." He speculates Putin, responding to U.S. recognition of Jerusalem on Friday, "is willing to take great risks because at the end of the day
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