Another Putin Disaster
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Here is the formal text of the statement in the video above.
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0 December 202118:10
Foreign Ministry statement on dialogue with the United States and other Western countries regarding security guarantees
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We note US President Joseph Biden’s readiness expressed at the December 7, 2021 talks with President Vladimir Putin to establish a serious dialogue on issues related to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation. Such a dialogue is urgently needed today when the relations between Russia and the collective West continue to decay and have approached a critical line. At the same time, numerous loose interpretations of our position have emerged in recent days. In this connection we feel it is necessary to once again clarify the following.
Escalating a confrontation with our country is absolutely unacceptable. As a pretext, the West is using the situation in Ukraine, where it embarked on encouraging Russophobia and justifying the actions of the Kiev regime to undermine the Minsk agreements and prepare for a military scenario in Donbass.
Instead of reigning in their Ukrainian protégés, NATO countries are pushing Kiev towards aggressive steps. There can be no alternative interpretation of the increasing number of unplanned exercises by the United States and its allies in the Black Sea. NATO members’ aircraft, including strategic bombers, regularly make provocative flights and dangerous manoeuvres in close proximity to Russia’s borders. The militarisation of Ukraine’s territory and pumping it with weapons are ongoing.
The course has been chosen of drawing Ukraine into NATO, which is fraught with the deployment of strike missile systems there with a minimal flight time to Central Russia, and other destabilising weapons. Such irresponsible behaviour creates grave military risks for all parties involved, up to and including a large-scale conflict in Europe.
At the same time, statements are made that the issue of Ukraine’s hypothetical NATO membership concerns exclusively Kiev and the Alliance, and that nobody should interfere in this process. Let us recall, however, that NATO countries, apart from the Washington Treaty, have obligations regarding the indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic and the entire OSCE space. This principle was initially proclaimed in the Helsinki Final Act and was later reaffirmed in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe of 1990, which states: “Security is indivisible and the security of every participating State is inseparably linked to that of all the others”, whereas in 1999, The Charter for European Security was adopted at the OSCE Istanbul summit, which stressed that the participating States “will not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States.”
All these documents were signed by the leaders of the OSCE member-states, including all NATO countries. However, in violation of the principle of indivisible security – as well as in violation of the promises given to the Soviet leaders – NATO has been persistently moving eastwards all these years while neglecting Moscow’s concerns. Furthermore, each new member added to NATO’s frenzied anti-Russia charge.
We have been saying for a long time that such developments are inadmissible. Over the past decades we have offered a number of times to render the principle of comprehensive and indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic a legally binding status since the West is obviously inclined to disregard its political obligations. However, we were invariably refused.
In this connection, as PreNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Putin discusses Ukraine tensions with Macron, Niinistö,
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday spoke on the phone with his French and Finnish counterparts and reiterated his demand for guarantees precluding NATO from expanding to Ukraine or deploying weapons there.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-discusses-ukraine-tensions-
with-macron-niinist%C3%B6/ar-AARNWO7?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Poor Putie. He's trying anywhere he can to find a way to back down gracefully. Oops...
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Putin never wanted Ukraine. It's a garbage dump full of westerners and oligarch rats gnawing whatever flesh is left.
Oh, btw - Chernobyl? That's Ukraine, not Russia, fyi. Another oozing festering Ukrainian rot.
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Quote:FYI, Putin has stuck his nose into crappy little Belarus for the same reason as he did Ukraine -- to save himself from overthrow.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Putin never wanted Ukraine. It's a garbage dump full of westerners and oligarch rats gnawing whatever flesh is left.
Oh, btw - Chernobyl? That's Ukraine, not Russia, fyi. Another oozing festering Ukrainian rot.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko seemed to have no plan. But his neighbors did. On August 18, 2020, a plane belonging to the FSB, the Russian security services, flew from Moscow to Minsk. Soon after that, Lukashenko’s tactics underwent a dramatic change. Stephen Biegun, who was the U.S. deputy secretary of state at the time, describes the change as a shift to “more sophisticated, more controlled ways to repress the population.” Belarus became a textbook example of what the journalist William J. Dobson has called “the dictator’s learning curve”: Techniques that had been used successfully in the past to repress crowds in Russia were seamlessly transferred to Belarus, along with personnel who understood how to deploy them. Russian television journalists arrived to replace the Belarusian journalists who had gone on strike, and immediately stepped up the campaign to portray the demonstrations as the work of Americans and other foreign “enemies.” Russian police appear to have supplemented their Belarusian colleagues, or at least given them advice, and a policy of selective arrests began. As Vladimir Putin figured out a long time ago, mass arrests are unnecessary if you can jail, torture, or possibly murder just a few key people. The rest will be frightened into staying home. Eventually they will become apathetic, because they believe nothing can change.
The Lukashenko rescue package, reminiscent of the one Putin had designed for Bashar al-Assad in Syria six years earlier, contained economic elements too. Russian companies offered markets for Belarusian products that had been banned by the democratic West—for example, smuggling Belarusian cigarettes into the European Union. Some of this was possible because the two countries share a language. (Though roughly a third to half of the country speaks Belarusian, most public business in Belarus is conducted in Russian.) But this close cooperation was also possible because Lukashenko and Putin, though they famously dislike each other, share a common way of seeing the world. Both believe that their personal survival is more important than the well-being of their people. Both believe that a change of regime would result in their death, imprisonment, or exile.
Both also learned lessons from the Arab Spring, as well as from the more distant memory of 1989, when Communist dictatorships fell like dominoes: Democratic revolutions are contagious. If you can stamp them out in one country, you might prevent them from starting in others. The anti-corruption, prodemocracy demonstrations of 2014 in Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych’s government, reinforced this fear of democratic contagion. Putin was enraged by those protests, not least because of the precedent they set. After all, if Ukrainians could get rid of their corrupt dictator, why wouldn’t Russians want to do the same?
Lukashenko gladly accepted Russian help, turned against his people, and transformed himself from an autocratic, patriarchal grandfather—a kind of national collective-farm boss—into a tyrant who revels in cruelty. Reassured by Putin’s support, he began breaking new ground. Not just selective arrests—a year later, human-rights activists say that more than 800 political prisoners remain in jail—but torture. Not just torture but rape. Not just torture and rape but kidnapping and, quite possibly, murder.
Lukashenko’s sneering defiance of the rule of law—he issues stony-faced denials of the existence of political repression in his country—and of anything resembling decency spread beyond his borders. In May 2021, Belarusian air traffic control forced an
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Oh. You mean the US isn't free to create 'fuck the EU' coups wherever they want anymore?
Oh. Dear.
Now we know where you stand on 'democracy'.
Oh, btw, we already know you hate the US.
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Quote:Every line you wrote a Russian troll has already written a thousand times before, here and elsewhere. There is much overlap, perhaps 100%, between you, a self-claimed "California" "housewife" who is "not a Republican", and a straight forward Moscovian earning a small paycheck repeating Putin talking points about America and Western Democracies.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Oh. You mean the US isn't free to create 'fuck the EU' coups wherever they want anymore?
Oh. Dear.
Now we know where you stand on 'democracy'.
Oh, btw, we already know you hate the US.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Ah ... yes. Your entirely empty arsenal of facts and thinking is on full display when you have nothing left but 'Russian Troll™'.
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Since you can't refute it, I guess my post still stands:
Oh. You mean the US isn't free to create 'fuck the EU' coups wherever they want anymore?
Oh. Dear.
Now we know where you stand on 'democracy'.
Oh, btw, we already know you hate the US.
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SECONDRATE, you rightly aplogized to me for libeling me as a Russian Troll, now you should apologize to KIKI.
But you can't stop lying, can you? It's in your nature. That's why your thoughts twist and turn and bite themselves. You've got a bag of snakes for a brain bc you're untethered from honesty. And reality.
And you think "Trumptards" are crazy!
Hahaha!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:By who? Not by Russians! "The opposition" has so little support they can't even get a seat in the Russian Parliament (Duma) and where ppl disagree with Putin they think he's too soft on the West!
1KIKI:
Putin never wanted Ukraine. It's a garbage dump full of westerners and oligarch rats gnawing whatever flesh is left.
Oh, btw - Chernobyl? That's Ukraine, not Russia, fyi. Another oozing festering Ukrainian rot.
SECONDRATE: FYI, Putin has stuck his nose into crappy little Belarus for the same reason as he did Ukraine -- to save himself from overthrow.
The West had clearly attempted to orchestrate yet another "regime change" coup in Belarus, which failed. All that did was to drive Lukashenko into Russia's arms.
Interesting fact: Unlike Russia, Belarus never privatized its production, so it was never raped by oligarchs and western hedge fund managers like Bill Browder. On top of that, since Russia sold oil to Belarus at cutrate prices, Belarus got a good income selling refined oil to the EU at market rates. The living standard in Belarus is quite high, certainly much better than Ukraine (the West's "success story")
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The Human Development Index (HDI) ranks nations based on an aggregation of quality of life statistics, including life expectancy, per capita income and education. Based on the quality of these indicators, a country is awarded a score from 0-1. Belarus’ HDI score stands at 0.80, which places the country in 53rd place worldwide. Despite their lack of political freedom, Belarussians have a standard of living well above the world average.
https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-living-conditions-in-bela
rus/
Anyway, the West continues to try and make trouble on Russia's border, taking provocative actions in Ukraine, the Black Sea, Georgia, Moldova, and elsewhere, and Jens Stoltenberg, the know-nothing NATO foreign scy, newly-appointed German foreign scy Annalena Baerbock, and Boris Johnson are clearly on a campaign of provocation. I think they're hoping to come so close to Russia's "red lines" as to force a response, by which the West can then apply full weight of sanctions and other forms of hybrid warfare.
One thing is for sure: Russia is not about to "invade Ukraine" absent military action by Kiev first. Russia will probably respond asymmetrically, by deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Belarus. And whatever Russia does will be coordinated with China.
Question: If Russia is kicked out of SWIFT, how will the EU pay for its natgas? These bureaucrats in NATO, the EU, and UK are so fucking stupid. I think they're trying to build a moat between "the East" and "the West", but they're only hurting themselves.
But then, that may be why all of this Covid-authoritarianism: To keep "their people" under thumb while they burn their economies and financial system down and try to gin up a war.
I have no idea what the EU/UK are aiming at, since the only winner in a conflict between Russia and the West would be the USA. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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