Why Putin thinks he has power? Because he does!

Could you imagine telling your bank that you are placing Economic Sanctions on them??  They would just laugh and laugh at you.  Especially if you owed them money on your car or home.

Russia is one of Americas top 10 creditors that we owe money.
 
In 2011, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denounced the United States as a "parasite" on the global economy.

At the time, the U.S. Congress was embroiled in a debt ceiling debate. (that's raising the limit we borrow and spend past a pre-set amount).

Where does Russia get all it's buying Power?  The answer is oil.  Russia is the worlds largest oil producer.

Side note- a lot of Russia's pipe lines for this oil go across the Ukraine.  Another side note- makes one wonder why we borrow money when we have access to our own oil???

Any how, this is why Putin does what he wants, when he wants.  We have neither the power or money to be the power we once were, due largely to progressive political powers and policy's in re guard to oil and foreign policies.

For those of you that need plain English, we owe Russia tens of Billions of dollars because we had to borrow it from them to stay a float.  That is the reason we reset things with them and pulled down our missile defenses.

Now you know who is slave and who is master.

We owe more money to the world, in which, is lending us Billions upon Billions while we spend it faster than we can borrow it.
 
If you don't believe this, simply just Google "Americas Top 10 creditors.  You will be surprised.  We have gone from strength to deadbeats.  All at the hands of those we voted into office to manage these things on our behalf.

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