As Syrian forces renewed their assault on the flashpoint city of Homs on Tuesday, Russia's foreign minister held talks in Damascus with President Bashar Assad about the country's escalating violence.
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| Persian poison with The Putin. |
And then there's The Putin; once more wanting to climb back on the charger and still not being able to send his KGB uniform to a charity shop or wean himself off the crack-'em-on-the-head style politics.
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| Chav the Thug blinging up Vlad. |
Personally, I was always hopeful that he and the old guard would embrace the breeze; follow Europe through the voting lobby at the UN and lean towards the West. But unfortunately they just can't. Old loves and new call them onto the nihilistic rocks of old. Casting an eye over RT news just confirms that changing a flag hasn't changed their ways; the Soviet junkie is till fixing in bad company; their language of anti against the West and Israel, more a nod to Gulag Joe rather than Gorby.
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