Meet Vladimir Putin. . .
• Holds a personal net worth
of $41 billion
• Controls 20% of the world’s
oil and natural gas
• Has befriended Iranian President Ahmadinejad and provided him with his first shipment of nuclear fuel
• Opposes the U.S. war against Iraq and has spoken out publicly against other U.S. military interests
• Has imposed censorship on television and radio stations, newspapers and Internet sites critical of his administration’s policies
• Has taken over controlling interest of Russia’s largest company, Gazprom, from private ownership
• Is intent on using Russia’s
vast natural resource reserves to manipulate the world to do as he wishes… or pay dire consequences…
“The time when Washington could look on Moscow as a budding strategic partner is quickly fading into history.”
Kiplinger’s
“Some believe that we are too lucky to possess so much natural wealth, which they say must be divided. These people have lost their mind.”
-Vladimir Putin
“As relations continue to sour, Putin may well retaliate against U.S. and European Union companies doing business in Russia.”
– Kiplinger’s
“He’s the new czar of Russia and he’s dangerous in the sense that he doesn’t care about civil liberties, he doesn’t care about free speech.”
– Richard Stengel, Managing Editor,
TIME Magazine
