Kilt
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From the military point of view, officially declared, some kind of "denazification" is madness. And I really want to explain this by the personal psychopathy of Vladimir Putin.
But I have a feeling that this is not Vladimir Putin's personal psychopathy, because all his words about "Nazis" are the words of any colonel, major of the FSB in any regional department.
I am more than sure that, in general, we are dealing with a domestic political situation, when the FSB is not just trying to participate in an ideological discussion, but has taken action. Because FSB officers, the current and former ones, are not only abstractly present in power in Russia. They are in the General Staff and in corporations. And, in general, they, as I understand it, decided to implement their idea of a deglobalized Russia. The idea that it's time to finish with all these games of the last 30 years and that we need to press the entire post-Soviet space to the nail and, in general, clog up and survive on.
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11 minutes ago, elijah said:
So true. And Ukraine aggression would not be answered. If he remains in power, he will strike again. And I would not be surprised if its a NATO country, most probably the Baltics, where there are many Russians who suddenly may need "peacekeepers".
I don't think he'll dare to attack a Baltic Nato country. His military advisers are fully aware that Nato's strikeback will hit hard.
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17 minutes ago, sotos8 said:
it's not about equivalency ,do we need to sign a form or something that we do not approve Putin's imperealism and invade of Ukraine?
Some of us are just trying to understand what led to the war not justify it
Waging wars is Putin's solution and panacea to his diminishing and falling popularity. Same thing happened in February 2014. He invaded Crimeea, his popularity/ approval rate sky rocketed. Start a war and get back in the good graces of your nation, at least the part that is brainwashed by the public tv channels.
Him and his kgb clique of yester years really have no tricks up their sleeves, except for scheming and strategizing attacks, making up imaginary enemies and spewing propaganda and spreading fear about the impending nazi threat in Ukraine and the god-given right or moral obligation to purge and cleanse the lands of people who are threatening the lives of russian-speaking populations outside of Russia or limiting the status of the Russian language in those territories.
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My brain is weeping
The Kremlin said on Thursday that the length of Russia's military operation in Ukraine depended on how it progressed and on its aims, and that the assault should ideally cleanse the country of "Nazis" and "neutralise" Kyiv's military potential.
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Bombing of the Ivano-Frankovsk Airport (western Ukraine)
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2826972307608931&id=100008885670204
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Aftermath of the shooting of a military convoy outside of the Harkov town of Ukraine (attention: graphic content)
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The Kiev Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Defense bombed.
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I'm still waiting for these game-changing sanctions the US and EU promised
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8 hours ago, Nonoka said:
...For me now, the question is how far Putin is willing to go to see his security demands fulfilled. I highly doubt that even if Ukraine would let go of these separatist territories (and NATO accepts), that Russia would stop there and withdraw its forces. Putin seemed quite unhinged to me in his speech yesterday - talking about how the creation of independent Ukraine should have never happened (so basically denying the legitimacy of Ukrainian state) and that Ukraine could quickly build nuclear weapons to challenge Russia (which is an absolutely outlandish claim, according to pretty much any analysis I've read).
I'm sorry, but no matter how big the historic heritage Ukraine shares with Russia, his rhetoric yesterday against the country was totally unacceptable and definitely had the tone of war in it. And I don't think Putin has much right to complain how the Ukrainian government is a NATO puppet regime, illegitimate etc. - given that he just recently propped up the dictatorship in Belarus and help them beat down huge protests by society (did people here forget about that?).
And he didn't just stop at Ukraine - he explicitly talked about how allowing the former Soviet republics to break away was a 'historic mistake' (even though they did so out of free will - ask any Estonian for example what they think about their country's "membership" in the Soviet Union).
To clarify - I'm under no illusion that NATO, and within them particularly the US, are these big moral defenders of freedom and sovereignty as they like to portray themselves. But the Russian regime under Putin definitely isn't interested in letting its former partner states have an independent future either, that much he made clear yesterday. And whether Russia likes it or not, the majority of Ukrainians today (but also e.g. Georgians, Moldavians) do see their future as part of the EU and NATO (check this out or this) - they do not want to live under a Russian sphere of influence as Belarussians for example are forced to. (Oh and by the way: the claim by Putin that Russia is being 'surrounded' by NATO is highly exaggerated anyway - not even 10 percent of Russia borders on NATO countries, see here).
I don't know where this is going to end, but again, speaking as a Hungarian-Romanian, I am quite happy atm that both countries are inside NATO and EU and with that, somewhat safe and sound from an economic and security perspective...I don't see this conflict de-escalating anytime soon.
Multumesc
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1 hour ago, CzarnaWisnia said:
Most Westerners know NOTHING about Ukraine, not the first thing (let alone picking it out on a worldmap), but they have these opinions about it. They figure Ukraine is a peaceful, united country. Well it's not. There's a civil war that's been going on for years. Recognizing the sovereignty of other nations (that is, populations who democratically affirmed their self-determination) is not against international law.
You mean the self-determination of Donbass and Lugansk regions fueled and enabled by the Kremlin and FSB puppeteers?
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7 hours ago, elijah said:
Hmmmm. But he is trying to prevent it. Unfortunately Putin has such demands that he knows won’t be accepted. Biden popularity would suffer even greater if a war in Ukraine starts. Putin needs this war, because last time he got Cremea in 2014 and that cemented him in the power. Now, as the covid is taking a toll on the Russians, he d attempt another land grab to bounce back in the good graces of the Russians.
moreover Putin wants to reinstate the spheres of interest/domination prior to the Cold War. That's why he wants to strike the iron while it's still hot, but at what cost?!
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with English translation
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9 hours ago, LSD said:
#lifegoals
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2 minutes ago, karbatal said:
Wtf?
George Floyd must be rolling in his grave
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8 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:
It has just been reported, she has died at the hospital.
She died for Trump. Absolutely useless death. She should have known better, but didn't.
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Seriously, the National Guard couldn't handle these hillbillies?
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I'm positive Trump will be prosecuted for instigating this interference and his party fellow men will abandon him as fast as they can.
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15 hours ago, Junior said:
Was this clown involved in this mess?
He could have taken his shirt off to flaunt his 6-pack
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Why is the National Guard sleeping? Why aren't these protesters stopped? This can create a very well dangerous precedent.
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On 11/1/2020 at 4:18 AM, Nikki said:
I know the church often does ceremonies for people who died months and years later, but we've only done this to our grandparents who were very catholic. so I'll look into that.
it's hard, especially considering his personality.. he was so outgoing, so social and eccentric. knowing he was so afraid to die, how even just this wednesday he expressed so much sadness about not seeing me grow older and how i wanted to avoid talking about it.. I knew he was dying, but not that day. it's gut wrenching indeed
the coming weeks will be hard.
thanks for your kind words
Huge hugs !!!
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Go Michigan!!!!
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Reminds me of 9/11, when American radio banned songs from airplay that had lyrics about plane crashes, like Alanis's Ironic
New war in Europe, courtesy of Putin
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This woman is so conniving and despicable. The embodiment of "alternative facts" or the Upsidedown world. She's Lavrov's ideological spawn.