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Europe will either resolve to help them or abandon itself to the care of the petro-czar Vladimir Putin, who stands ready to police the old continent, while preaching antiterrorist terrorism, with his devastation of Chechnya as a case in point.
Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007
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Europe will either resolve to help them or abandon itself to the care of the petro-czar Vladimir Putin, who stands ready to police the old continent, while preaching antiterrorist terrorism, with his devastation of Chechnya as a case in point.
The Somalization of the planet??? GayandRight 2007
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The President of the United States should never bow to king, and certainly not to a corrupt petro-czar, like the terrorist sponsoring Abdullah.
DovBear 2009
chained_bear commented on the word petro-czar
"What a difference half a year makes. Last summer, when oil prices hit an all-time high of $147 a barrel, so did the hubris of the petro-czars."
—Rana Foroohar, "The Decline of the Petro-Czar," Newsweek, Feb. 23, 2009, 24.
See also petro-nation.
February 20, 2009