OoduaRere.com Personality of the Year 2015 – Polls

The Russian Airman – Military’
I don’t think that anybody can deny that the performance of the Russian airmen in Syria has been absolutely spectacular: the number of sorties, the extremely high effectiveness of their strikes, their courage – everything that the world has seen during this mission by the Russian air task force in Syria has been truly remarkable, especially when compared to the, frankly, pathetic performance of the US-lead “coalition” forces.  Furthermore, following the Turkish attack on the Russian SU-24 and the murder by Turkish forces of one of the two pilots who had parachuted from the burning machine (a war crime), the 2nd pilot, Konstantin Myrakhtin managed to elude Turkish special forces for 10 hours before being rescued by a special team composed of Hezbollah, Syrian and Russian special forces.  Considering the small stretch of land involved and the presence of a large Turkish force it is absolutely remarkable how Captain Mutrashkin managed to remain free and to establish contact with the rescue team even though one Russian helicopter came under fire, had to crash land, and then was blown up (by a US made TOW missile – thank you Uncle Sam), but everybody was safely evacuated in 2nd chopper.

During the operation in Syria the Russian pilots showed exceptional courage, skills and determination .  Thinking of how much this small force has achieved, I think of Churchill’s famous sentence “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” which, I think, fully applies to them.  To pick as the “Saker Military Man of the Year” was really a no-brainer

 

 

 

 

‘Ron Paul – American Author’

Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American government official, author, and physician, who is a previous Republican congressman, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, and the presidential chosen one of the Libertarian Party in the 1988 U.S. presidential election.

Paul served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’ fourteenth and 22nd congressional districts. He represented the 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and from 1979 to 1985, and afterward represented the fourteenth congressional region, which included Galveston, from 1997 to 2013.

On three events, he looked for the administration of the United States: as the Libertarian Party chosen one in 1988 and as a hopeful in the Republican primaries of 2008 and 2012.

Paul is a pundit of the national government’s monetary approaches, particularly the presence of the Federal Reserve, the assessment arrangement, the military–industrial complex, and the War on Drugs. Paul was the first executive of the conservative PAC Citizens for a Sound Economy and has been described as the “scholarly back up godfather” of the Tea Party movement.

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