Putin has finally reincarnated the KGB

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Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.

A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.

Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin. The Kremlin has not commented...

Mr Putin served as a KGB officer in Soviet-era East Germany, and is also thought to have been responsible for keeping tabs on dissidents in his hometown of Leningrad, now St Petersburg. He headed the FSB from July 1998 to August 1999, before becoming prime minister, and has often quipped that there is no such thing as a former KGB officer...

Kremlin critics were horrified by the possible rebirth of an organisation synonymous in Russia with political oppression. “It’s time to get out [of the country],” wrote Elshad Babaev, a Twitter user. “Anyone who can should take the opportunity.”

The KGB was just one of the many incarnations of the Soviet Union’s feared secret police service, which was founded in 1917 as the Cheka.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...the-kgb-under-plan-to-combine-security-force/
 
^ i can'topen the link in IE,and can't find it on firefox ( takes me to home page) -but thanks.

I did find this: Clinton is still backing that no-fly in Syria,but Foreign Policy seems to say it's more about keeping assad grounded.
What about conflicts with Russian air -if it's only unintentional.. It's a good way to start a war!

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/22/hillary-clintons-new-colder-cold-war-russia-putin-election/
From Reset to Realpolitik, Clinton’s New Hard Line on Moscow

In March 2009, during Clinton’s first meeting with Lavrov, she brought a red button she believed was labeled with the Russian word for “reset.” Prophetic in hindsight, it instead said “overcharged.” For a while, on issues from cutting nuclear weapons stockpiles, to allowing the United States to transport military supplies across Russia to Afghanistan, to slapping sanctions on North Korea and Iran, the Obama administration had an amenable working relationship with Lavrov and then-President Dmitry Medvedev.

That began to change in 2011, when Russia abstained from a U.N. Security Council vote backing a no-fly zone in Libya. According to several people familiar with the diplomatic talks, Clinton personally assured Moscow that the operation wasn’t a ruse to overthrow Libyan President Muammar al-Qaddafi. Then videos emerged of U.S.-backed rebels killing Qaddafi, and Clinton separately quipping, “We came, we saw, he died,” confirming for many Russians their mistrust....

Among foreign policy officials and experts in the United States, he said, “everything is reduced to ‘evil Putin.’”

Cohen calls this across-the-aisle, anti-Russian convergence the “new Cold War wilderness that we have.”

Clinton said she was not surprised when Moscow invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea; the move was consistent with Putin’s intent to re-establish Russia as a world power, and most U.S. officials have united in condemning it. Russia’s military entry into the Syrian conflict, however, caught many off guard.

More than two years ago, Clinton argued that the United States should have been more forceful about its responsibility as a global leader.

To not do more in Syria was to become complicit in the “bloody stalemate,” she wrote in 2014. As it continues, the United States and its allies “will not be able to ignore it.”

Reporting contributed by Paul McLeary.
 
^ got it! thanks...so are we worried about an undemocratic Russia?

I'm more worried about that "cross-the-aisle, anti-Russian convergence the “new Cold War wilderness that we have.”

Clinton looks to be her usual hawk -Trump looks to be naive...
i'd like to take a little bit from both of them and come up with a realistic policy
 
anatta said:
^ got it! thanks...so are we worried about an undemocratic Russia?

I'm more worried about that "cross-the-aisle, anti-Russian convergence the “new Cold War wilderness that we have.”

Clinton looks to be her usual hawk -Trump looks to be naive...
i'd like to take a little bit from both of them and come up with a realistic policy
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I'm more worried about that sociopathic little runt in North Korea who keeps threatening nuclear war against South Korea and the U.S. base in Guam. Apparently I'm the only one, though.

http://www.ibtimes.com/north-korea-...n-regime-warns-uncontrollable-nuclear-2420951
 
christiefan915 said:
I'm more worried about that sociopathic little runt in North Korea who keeps threatening nuclear war against South Korea and the U.S. base in Guam. Apparently I'm the only one, though.

http://www.ibtimes.com/north-korea-...n-regime-warns-uncontrollable-nuclear-2420951
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he's certainly an out of control menace to Asia. We could shoot down ballistic missiles at the US/Hawaii.
The recent sub launched are more difficult

The problem is nobody really has any leverage except China ,and China lets the regime survive for whatever reason
 
christiefan915 said:
Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.

A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.

Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin. The Kremlin has not commented...

Mr Putin served as a KGB officer in Soviet-era East Germany, and is also thought to have been responsible for keeping tabs on dissidents in his hometown of Leningrad, now St Petersburg. He headed the FSB from July 1998 to August 1999, before becoming prime minister, and has often quipped that there is no such thing as a former KGB officer...

Kremlin critics were horrified by the possible rebirth of an organisation synonymous in Russia with political oppression. “It’s time to get out [of the country],” wrote Elshad Babaev, a Twitter user. “Anyone who can should take the opportunity.”

The KGB was just one of the many incarnations of the Soviet Union’s feared secret police service, which was founded in 1917 as the Cheka.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...the-kgb-under-plan-to-combine-security-force/
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You are as stupid as a rock, the KGB can not be resurrected because it never went anywhere in the first place. Sure they changed the name, that meant nothing.

U R DUMB
 
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