PUTIN IS THE WORLD'S THIRD MOST DANGEROUS MAN

• OSAMA.
• MAHMOUD.
• VLADIMIR.

• JIHADO-TERROR.
• IRANIAN SHIA HEGEMONY.
• RUSSIA.

AND PUTIN IS STEADILY GROWING IN POWER, AND.... AUDACITY. TODAY'S NEWS IS FURTHER PROOF:

BREITBART/AP:

Russia poised to walk away from CFE arms treaty

Russia was set to suspend compliance overnight Tuesday with a key Cold War treaty that sets limits on troops and weaponry across Europe, a move starkly underlining growing East-West tensions.

A foreign ministry spokesman confirmed to AFP that Russia's moratorium on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty would take effect at midnight, in accordance with a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin last month.

"Starting at midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT), Russia will suspend all compliance concerning the treaty," a statement from the foreign ministry read.

"Such a step has been caused by the exceptional circumstances connected to the content of the treaty which concern the security of Russia and demand that we take immediate measures," it added.

"Russia will not be constrained by the limitations placed on its arms deployments on its flanks.

"At the same time, we have no current plans to accumulate massive armaments on our neighbours' borders," it added.

Signed in 1990 and modified in 1999, the CFE places precise limits on stationing of troops and heavy weapons from the Atlantic coast to Russia's Ural mountains -- a mammoth agreement that helped resolve the Cold War standoff.

Suspension means that Russia will be free to move troops without notifying NATO, dealing a new blow to East-West relations already teetering from Moscow's threat to leave the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty.

Tensions are also swirling around US plans to install a missile-defence system in NATO members Poland and the Czech Republic. Washington insists the system is aimed at Iran, but Moscow says the shield would threaten its own nuclear forces.

Moscow says the CFE needs major revision, but that Russia could re-enter the treaty if NATO countries agreed to modifications.

"The moratorium is not an end in itself but a way of attracting our partners' attention to the unfavourable situation in this area," Anatoly Antonov, head of the Foreign Ministry department on security, told journalists last week.

However, Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said "the treaty is dead."

"What was very important is the transparency regime which was very much working and very active, allowing transparency of all military activity," he told AFP.

"With the CFE gone, European nations will lose an important independent source of information about Russian military activity."

NYTIMES:

A day after President Vladimir V. Putin endorsed a loyal protégé, Dmitri A. Medvedev, as his successor, Mr. Medvedev went before the nation today and declared that he in turn wanted to name Mr. Putin as his prime minister.

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev during a live televised address today in Moscow.

The announcement could bring to a close questions about how Mr. Putin intends to wield influence over Russia after his term ends next year. Mr. Putin is barred by the Constitution from running for a third consecutive term, but he had indicated in recent months that he had no intention of giving up all his power when he stepped down in the spring.

Mr. Medvedev has no background in the state security services and virtually no power base in the Kremlin, and he is seen here as a relatively weak figure beholden to Mr. Putin. With Mr. Putin as prime minister, it would appear that little would change in who controls Russia.

Some analysts conjectured that Mr. Medvedev could even step down before his term as president ends — clearing the way for Mr. Putin to be elevated from prime minister to president, which would be possible under the Constitution.

• THESE NEWS ITEMS COME A FEW DAYS AFTER PUTIN ANNOUNCED HE WAS INTENT OF FORMING A SUPER-REPUBLIC WITH BELARUS - A STORY WE HAD LAST FRIDAY - BEFORE THE MSM.

• PUTIN ARMS SYRIA AND IRAN AND HAS A HUGE INTEREST IN KEEPING OIL AND GAS PRICES HIGH.

• HE MUST NOT BE TRUSTED. HE IS AN OLD KGB MAN AND THE KGB WERE RUTHLESS.
  
• ALSO: REMEMBER THAT THE KGB WAS VERY ADEPT AT USING SURROGATES AND FOMENTING WARS WHICH HELPED THE USSR AND GAVE US GREAT TROUBLE: VIETNAM; ANGOLA; NICARAGUA; ETC.
• THEY MAY EVEN NOW BE HELPING OSAMA AND IRAN AND ASSAD AND NASRALLAH FOR THE SAME REASONS.
  
• THE KGB TRAINED ARAFAT, TOO. AND CARLOS. AND ABBAS.
  
• I WOULD NOT PUT IT PASSED PUTIN.
  
• LIKE ASSAD - PUTIN ASSASSINATES HIS FOES WHEN HE FEELS IT'S NECESSARY.
  
• HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR POWER.
  

WE DESPERATELY NEED A NEW PRESIDENT WHO WILL COURAGEOUSLY COUNTER HIM - AND NOT BE OUT-MANEUVERED BY HIM:

MCCAIN. MITT. OR RUDY.