Vladimir Putin & The Boston Bombings

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The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is singing you a siren song, Mr. and Mrs. America, about how you and he are struggling together against global terrorism.  Don’t you believe it, though — not for one neo-Soviet second.  Russia stands with the terrorists, not against them.  Russia stands against America, and all she represents.

On April 25, 2013, the Israeli air force shot down a drone aircraft five miles from its port city of Haifa, which has a population of about 300,000.  Hezb’allah denied sending the drone, but six months ago, when another drone was intercepted by Israeli Defense Forces, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezb’allah, openly boasted that his fighters had assembled and dispatched the Iranian-designed aircraft and declared ominously that “it was not the first time, and it will not be the last.”

One day after the latest drone attack, Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with a Hezb’allah official in Beruit and told assembled reporters: “We cooperate with Hezb’allah and respect the Lebanese people’s will… this party, which has proven its credibility [over the course of time], must [have its opinions] respected.”

The United States recognizes Hezb’allah as a terrorist organization, as does Israel.  But for Russia, Hezb’allah is a partner and ally.  Similarly, Russia actively supports the genocidal anti-U.S. regime in Syria, and it actively supports Iran.  Before they were swept away by popular insurrections, Russia also supported the anti-democratic rulers of Egypt and Libya while the U.S. sided with the popular revolts against them. 

That’s actually only the half of it.  Russia is even carrying out terror acts of its own — for example, menacing neutral Sweden with military invasion.  And it has been convicted more times than you can count in the European Court for Human Rights for state-sponsored crimes ranging from kidnapping to murder to torture throughout the Caucasus region.  The United States has just enacted the Magnitsky law to punish high-ranking government officials for torturing and murdering anti-corruption attorney Sergei Magnitsky after arresting him on bogus charges.