Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Obama’s Russian Odyssey
Written on July 8, 2009 – 3:13 pm | by larrylibido
Satter: I don’t agree that the Putin regime is the enemy of the U.S. Putin and his friends use anti-Americanism to consolidate their position with the Russian population. They know that nothing unites Russians behind an unworthy leader like the impression of an external threat. But, in many ways, the Russian leadership loves America (and the West.) They own real estate here, they have their bank accounts here, they party here, they send their children to be educated here and they look to the West as an escape route if things get too hot for them in Russia and as the place for a quiet retirement.
The attitude was well illustrated by the circumstances surrounding the arrest on pimping charges of Mikhail Prokhorov, one of the directors of Norilsk Nickel, the giant Russian mineral metals producing company and one of the world’s richest men. He and 16 of his girlfriends were arrested in the French resort town of Courchevel where they had gone to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Christmas. (Prokhorov was later released. The girls’ trips were all paid for but the French police were not sure what they were supposed to give in return.)
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