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2014-03-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Pentagon studies Putin body language for hint of intent

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-08 04:39|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Reviving the lost science of Kremlinology. So much for the End of History, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-08 07:23|| 2014-03-08 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Predictive analysis based upon the body language of a veteran intelligence agent? What's next, bone tossing, horoscopes, spoon bending ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-08 12:09|| 2014-03-08 12:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-08 12:32|| 2014-03-08 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Another intelligence coup by the US. Who cares about body language? Cat's out of the bag and long gone, bro.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-03-08 13:24|| 2014-03-08 13:24|| Front Page Top

#5 ..the extended middle finger, although only implied, is not that difficult to pick up and interpret..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-08 13:30|| 2014-03-08 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Try this, read a history book!! Hagel is a moonbat! Its clear to even this moron, me, that he will take the country one way or the other. If you oppose him you will disappear.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-03-08 16:09|| 2014-03-08 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Ignorant or evil.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-08 16:21|| 2014-03-08 16:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Western Ukraine was a hot bed of suppoprt for the Nazis. They even had their own SS Division and others were notoriously brutal as concentration camp guards. I shed no tears.

Posted by borgboy 2014-03-08 16:57|| 2014-03-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Here are my two favorite body language tips:
Man pointing a gun may shoot gun quickly after pointing.
Man holding a golf club may shoot golf ball quickly after.

Posted by Airandee 2014-03-08 17:21|| 2014-03-08 17:21|| Front Page Top

#10 They should consider hiring me. I'd tell them about Putin's intent without even watching him.

Posted by European Conservative 2014-03-08 18:47|| 2014-03-08 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Putin may be an amoral thug, but his behavior is predictable--everyone always acts to protect their own perceived interests. He's got Chechens + a hot bed of extremists on his entire southern border about to explode, and with an international crackdown on trafficking, He's moving to secure access to ports around the equator to protect Russian interests that include heroin and cocaine + weapons and the turf battles have begun. But he's a capitalist, which can be reasoned with and disputes resolved, where a socialist or fascist are intolerant and entitled. Atheism and conservatism are incompatible, and the root of the problem in DC, but Russian libertarian capitalists are still products of western civilization. Putin even claims to have been baptized. Libertarian religious views can tip either way, either with a deep reverence for God & a moral compass built-in, or wanting total lawlessness, rebelling against all authority in heaven and earth.without rules and laws to confine them, but they are both opposite of the fascistic intol-otalitarianism and even socialistic egalitarians as neither respects individualism. They can justify eugenics and genocide, determining a social triage where they determine which desirables are worth leaving on the planetand these are the people in control in Washington, the EU, UN, and even the mullahs who want sharia. Sure makes for strange bedfellows and strategic allies -- but Putin would be easier to reason with than Obama! Black market capitalism and individual liberty is preferable to the disdainful power-hungry narcissist that crushes his enemies and rewards the groupies. And with hired snipers of unknown origin shooting up Kiev, maybe it was neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians stirring up chaos? I'd trust a Russian billionaire with a taste for women and intolerance for Muslim bullish*t over an entitled socialist egomaniac-in-chief with global aspirations. Now if only a Pentagon study could predict O's intent, illogical and arbitrary as it is....

Posted by Flaiger Uneamp8181 2014-03-08 19:10|| 2014-03-08 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Flaiger Uneamp8181: @I'd trust a Russian billionaire with a taste for women and intolerance for Muslim bullish*t over an entitled socialist egomaniac-in-chief with global aspirations.

..well said, sir..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-08 19:53|| 2014-03-08 19:53|| Front Page Top

#13 What Uncle Phester said.

Posted by Barbara 2014-03-08 21:11|| 2014-03-08 21:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Me, too, #10 EC (along with just about everybody else here) - but you're closer, so you get first dibs. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2014-03-08 22:23|| 2014-03-08 22:23|| Front Page Top

#15 How about we instead look at what Putin does? Not much mystery regarding his intentions from that standpoint.

Posted by Iblis 2014-03-08 22:25|| 2014-03-08 22:25|| Front Page Top

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