Putin Calls U.S. ‘Parasite’ as Russia Buys Its Debt

Bloomberg
August 19, 2011

For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the U.S. is a “parasite” because its rising debt weighs on the global economy. For his government, the same debt is the safest possible investment.

Russia, the world’s largest energy producer, has boosted its holdings of U.S. debt by more than 1,600 percent since September 2006, according to U.S. Treasury Department data. Russia used surging commodity prices to build the world’s third- largest reserves pile, boosted in part by return on Treasuries.

Putin, 58, who oversaw the largest buildup of U.S. debt holdings in Russia’s history as president from 2000 to 2008, may return to the post after elections next year. The country is now one of the world’s 10 largest holders of the securities with $110 billion at the end of June, about 70 percent more than when Putin left the Kremlin.

“They are sending out a message” largely for domestic consumption, Edwin Gutierrez, who helps manage about $7 billion in emerging-market debt at Aberdeen Asset Management in London, said in a phone interview on Aug. 17. “It’s ironic that these voices of complaint come as they experience massive capital appreciation.”


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20 Responses to “Putin Calls U.S. ‘Parasite’ as Russia Buys Its Debt”

  1. How is infowars got the nerve to talk junk about Putin, when they’ve got an obviously pro-communist picture up saying Dissent is a Patriot’s Duty, and the guy is throwing up the clenched communist fist? Add to this the picture is copyrighted by SATANSGOALIE, and I think it’s rather clear to anyone paying attention what infowars is.

    • How does infowars

  2. I wish Infowars would put a picture of Putin on the front page pretty much everyday like Drudge does. I especially liked the one with Putin and Medvedev fishing in matching outfits. Ahhhhh Putin, I just hang on his every word.

    If someone with more credibility had made this remark I might consider it an actual insult, but coming from Putin, well pffffft, a parasite calling a parasite a parasite. I think we been through this before, it’s more Putin trying to set himself up as righteous and worldly. A real global leader in his own mind.

  3. Putin on the ritz!

    • LOL!

  4. I guess Putin feels that sometimes you gotta make a pact with the devil. What a sorry statement that the US, in as much economic trouble as it is, is still the best bet. placeofrefuge2012.com

  5. Garthog,

    I don’t understand your rhetoric. How is it our fault that our gov’t puts us in so much debt and allows gas prices to $5/gal, against our wishes, which forces us, that do work, to work so we can pay for this welfare state created by the gov’t. Its set up so we don’t have the time to seek out and persue justice as we are too busy trying to pay off DEBT and survive! And then there is the welfare state where people aren’t inclined to “bite the hand that feeds them”. All this is manufactured. People are elected based on their word and when they LIE, how is that our fault as Americans? The responsibility rests squarely on the LIAR(S). However, the consequences of their lies rests directly on us as the very policies they enact have no effect on them. They live under completely different rules.

    How is it our fault that when we elect a good president (JFK) and he attempts to do for the people he gets shot in the face with a high powered sniper rifle in broad daylight? How is it our fault that all these operations are carried out in complete secrecy and we get NO ANSWERS!? How is all this our fault? Most of the destructive legislation is passed in the dead of night behind closed doors. How is this our fault as Americans???!!! Perhaps the only way I can see is we as a society have not dealt well with morality and I guess that starts at home in the beginning of ones upbringing. don’t lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc. But this in now way has anything to do with watching our “leaders” or forgetting to watch them.

    Man if Ron Paul gets in I fear for his life. The minute he tries to END THE FED or investigate the CIA, or pull out of any/all of the wars, I think he will be next.

  6. total debt per citizen = $176,000
    interest per citizen = $11,702

    shameful.

  7. When did America go from being the host to the parasite? We need to turn things around. We not only need people to wake up, but we need an enlightenment! Click on my name and join the discussion. Start a movement.

  8. Putin is also a parasite.

  9. All that foreign oil controlling American soil
    Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed
    Sheiks walkin’ around like kings
    Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
    Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris
    And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

    Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more
    You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin’
    In the home of the brave
    Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave
    Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
    And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

  10. Parasite is the perfect description for the u.s. gov’t.

  11. Parasite is the perfect description for america. Americans are so fulla shit thinking they are a great nation. America was founded on the butchering and genecide of the indians. They took a back seater in world war 1+2 then came out richer for it. Then made big hollywood movies about america saved the world.haha what a joke your american bastard race are. America has more blood in her hands than any other nation. Now its your turn to get a taste of your own medicine. Quite rightly so. You desrve it. America is a plague onto the world. Always has always will.

    • Because one happens to be in reside in a given nation, doesn’t necessarily mean they endorse the foreign and/or domestic policies of the country they, for all you know may, due to myriad possible reasons, be forced to reside in.

      I would encourage you to examine the mentality/frame of mind which motivates your blanketed assertions, and perhaps entertain the possibility that we are all individuals with free-will, and not all of us base our identities and worldviews centralized around the farce of nationalism.

  12. When you can see the stove is hot, and you are warned not to touch, but you put your hand on the burner anyway, then I have no sympathy for you Mr. Putin.
    Parasites can not bite if you protect yourself. We could not increase our debt if other countries like yours weren’t so willing to lend. Just like the parasites that live off our government, if it wasn’t available they would have to fend for themselves.

  13. if its a president primeminister dicktator what ever you call your leaders these days?

    you are looking into the very eyes of herr satan its spirit living within human templet.

    if you fail to know satan you will parish everlasting torment. you need to know he is God of earth and that your only weapon to fight it and rebuke it is a real faith in Yahshua the massia by his blood!

    rebuke satan publically cuz he is a loser he has been defeated by the blood. the power it remove satan from your heart and country is the power in the blood.

    the power is in the blood of the lamb! conves it daily ask God for your inheritance with out dought or unbelief. do it its sitting there in his wearhouse. call on the massia Yashua to save you from your sins.

  14. The American people allowed this mess to take place mostly because we are so busy purusing the American Dream that we forgot to keep an eye on the people manipulating our future. Shame on us.

  15. I wonder if Sarah Putin, I mean Palin saw this one coming from her house? She may have even of seen it coming from Idaho University in Moscow, Idaho.

    A Coup d’etat began with Sarah Palin’s run for office in the 2008 presidential election.

    She was planted as McCain’s running mate for a reason. Everything about her is a total fabrication. If you think McCain and Sarah planned on “reforming Washington” by getting elected you’re wrong. In addition, when a Coup happens the military doesn’t announce it on the front page of the news. They try and keep a lid on it.

    Whether you believe it or not it’s the truth. Obama is not the president, he’s the acting president. He disappeared for 2 weeks after his election win only to reappear looking exhausted sitting next to John McCain, with a bad poker face, for a press photo shoot. Obama is now a Pentagon puppet.

    Learn what Obama, Osama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last presidential election and the military’s overthrow of our government. Search ElectNoMoreSpys.blogspot

  16. massive capital appreciation??????? It is just worthless paper.

  17. Now Putin should take a picture of the financial success and dump all that money back into the hands of the poor in Russia. He can show America how it’s done. This world ends soon. I always say do it for your soul. We were put on this planet to perfect our souls. At the end people will have to ask themselves if they made a contribution to make this world a better place. The writers, poets and artists are the most under appreciated members of our society. I just wish this world would have appreciated and nurtured their talents.

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