Another Putin Disaster
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Quote:Can you guess who wrote this?
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
First snippets of quotes of Putin's words:Quote:Then, the completely fabricated bullshit from people who want us to think they can read minds and that their lies are actual facts that belong in the news.
“President Vladimir Putin declared that if the West deploys missiles to Ukraine that could reach Moscow ‘in five to ten minutes,’ Russia is ready to counter by deploying a ‘new naval hypersonic missile, which may reach [Western] decision-makers in 5 minutes, flying at Mach 9 speed.’ (Militarynews.ru, November 30).”Quote:
The context of Putin’s statement was preparations for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, not NATO missile deployments.
So of course SECOND posts the bullshit and claims that it's really facts.
I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. Our spiritual, human and civilizational ties formed for centuries and have their origins in the same sources, they have been hardened by common trials, achievements and victories. Our kinship has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and the memory of people living in modern Russia and Ukraine, in the blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For we are one people.
Today, these words may be perceived by some people with hostility. They can be interpreted in many possible ways. Yet, many people will hear me. And I will say one thing – Russia has never been and will never be ”anti-Ukraine“. And what Ukraine will be – it is up to its citizens to decide.
Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“
July 12, 2021
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
What do you think Putin is doing in the following, 1kiki?
When the USSR collapsed, many people in Russia and Ukraine sincerely believed and assumed that our close cultural, spiritual and economic ties would certainly last, as would the commonality of our people, who had always had a sense of unity at their core. However, events – at first gradually, and then more rapidly – started to move in a different direction.
In essence, Ukraine's ruling circles decided to justify their country's independence through the denial of its past, however, except for border issues. They began to mythologize and rewrite history, edit out everything that united us, and refer to the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an occupation. The common tragedy of collectivization and famine of the early 1930s was portrayed as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Radicals and neo-Nazis were open and more and more insolent about their ambitions. They were indulged by both the official authorities and local oligarchs, who robbed the people of Ukraine and kept their stolen money in Western banks, ready to sell their motherland for the sake of preserving their capital. To this should be added the persistent weakness of state institutions and the position of a willing hostage to someone else's geopolitical will.
There are MANY, MANY MORE PARAGRAPHS WHERE PUTIN DESCRIBES WHAT IS WRONG WITH UKRAINE. Read Putin's article for all the terrible happenings that only Putin can fix.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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tl/dr
I have little interest in Putin and zero interest in Ukraine. And whatever happens in Ukraine has no bearing on US national security, or on NATO.
You'd think you'd have learned your lesson from Vietnam - the US was at war to protect somebody from the domino effect of Communist China going though Vietnam because that threatened the US ... in some non-existent way. And you were all gung-ho about it until you found out you'd been played. The Vietnamese didn't care to fight, and the US didn't care to win, and you were treated like a piece of meat, meant to be consumed by a pointless war drummed up by democrats.
But now you're all stampeded to 'care' about Ukraine for the same non-existent threat to the US, except now of course you're not going to lay your body on the line for the 'cause'.
Whatever. Truly, it makes no difference how much self-contradictory BS you post. Until you come up with a salient reason for US interest in Ukraine, everything you post is just wasted bytes of propaganda.
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Quote:Putin explains his thinking about Ukraine in a long article, but it too long, didn't read for 1kiki. And the shorter quotes, 1kiki calls lies. 1kiki is not trying to understand. If Putin means what he wrote and says, he will invade Ukraine and do it soon and use tactical nuclear weapons. But for all we know, the article with Putin's name as author was too long, didn't read even for Putin and everything in the article is meaningless as far as knowing what Putin will do about Ukraine.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
tl/dr
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Only Putin Knows What Happens Next
He alone can make the choice to bring Europe back from the brink of a major war.
By Tom Nichols
https://web.archive.org/web/20220123141403/https://www.theatlantic.com
/ideas/archive/2022/01/putin-knows-what-happens-next-ukraine/621348/
If Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t about to invade Ukraine—or, more accurately, isn’t about to expand his previous invasion—he’s certainly making a good show of it.
Russian military forces have been moving into position for weeks. Russia and Belarus announced snap exercises that will continue for at least a month. President Joe Biden says he is expecting an invasion, and there are reports that the U.S. embassy in Kyiv is planning to evacuate families and non-essential personnel. Some NATO members are stepping up military aid and assistance. The British government says it has outed a Russian scheme to topple the government in Kyiv and replace it with Russian stooges (probably in the hope that exposing the plan will foil it).
If this isn’t the setup for a massive Russian invasion, it’s a damn good dress rehearsal.
Through all of this, the Biden administration has cycled through all the combinations of threats to deter the Russians from attacking. But the reality is this: Putin created this crisis, and only Putin can end it.
American options are limited for several reasons. Perhaps most important, no one really knows why Putin is doing this—or whether he really intends to do it at all. It is unlikely his own inner circle even has a good read on their boss. As Fyodor Lukyanov, a well-connected Russian foreign policy figure put it: “The expert opinion that I can authoritatively declare is: Who the heck knows?”
Despite all the Western myth-making about his cold cunning, Putin is emotional, volatile, and vain. His 2014 invasion, in which he seized Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine, was in response to the utter humiliation of seeing the Ukrainian president at the time, his ally Viktor Yanukovych, chased out of the country. When Putin moved in, no one knew when he would stop—and it is likely he didn’t either. The Russians gained real estate and inflicted pain on the Ukrainians, but without much of a plan for what to do next.
Putin’s impulsive move in 2014 was meant to assuage his ego and cover his appearance of weakness by stirring nationalism at home. But all of this was seven years ago, and now Russia is committed to a frozen conflict. To be sure, Putin has shown that he can take territory and sit on it, and force everyone else to get used to it. But sooner or later, even Russians—who in the main feel positively about their fellow Slavs in Ukraine—start asking if there’s a point to all this.
The point may well be deep in the dark recesses of Putin’s psyche. The Russian president has made no secret of his mourning for the old Soviet Union. (That wistfulness does not extend to socialism or communism; the world’s richest man might be an aging nostalgist but he’s not crazy.) And yet he has made it clear that he does not think Ukraine is a real country, but rather a renegade imperial possession that must be wrangled back into Kremlin control.
Putin’s emotional and visceral attachment to Ukraine is another reason why the West has limited sway in the situation that is now unfolding. American negotiators proceed from the assumption that they are discussing a political crisis among several countries; Putin, however, sees nothing but interference in a large and undifferentiated Russian domain. The Russians, even in Soviet times, were always in the grip of a paradox in which they saw themselves both as a great empire and a nation of dispossessed victims, and Putin is the prime example of Homo Sovieticus, a product of a system whose view of the world constantly wavered between paranoia and messianism.
This isn’t to say that Putin is irrational. Rather, he simply does not share a common frame of reference about the world with his opponents in the West. Americans might be right that Putin is on “the wrong side of history,”
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There's not going to be any war, stupid.
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SECOND, I'll try to make this as short and simple as I can so that you might read it and understand:
Vietnam = zero threat to the US = Ukraine
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Quote:Vladimir Putin warns NATO 'everyone will be turned to radioactive ash' over Ukraine moves
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
SECOND, I'll try to make this as short and simple as I can so that you might read it and understand:
Vietnam = zero threat to the US = Ukraine
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-warns-nato-eve
ryone-25759453
That is not a zero threat, 1kiki. But maybe Russia is trolling! "LOL," Putin writes.
On the cover of the New York Times I see a Ukrainian soldier standing in a snow-covered trench that looks little different from those dug in 1914, and it seems to me I really don’t know what course the world is on. Russia has long seemed to me to be the ultimate troll state — analogically speaking, it establishes its notoriety through comments-level disingenuousness, rather than through OP’s, but it is such a master at the game of trolling that it has earned a reputation usually achieved only through the direct acquisition of a sizeable followership. It has seemed to me that Russia’s modus operandi from here on out, or at least as long as Putin is in power, will be to sow confusion, to never really do what it always seems poised to do, and to make that inaction itself a form of action by which it gets more or less what it wants.
Putin has said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the great tragedies of the twentieth century. Sometime around 1994, the dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no friend of the Soviet Union, for his part opined that the break-up of the USSR happened too fast, and more of it broke away than naturally or organically belonged apart from Russia. Solzhenitsyn would have liked to see Belarus, the eastern Russophone parts of Ukraine, and some of the northwestern Russophone parts of Kazakhstan eventually returned to their proper place in the Russian Republic. Putin’s strategy over the last decade has been broadly to make good on Solzhenitsyn’s wish.
It is difficult to know to what extent Russia in its present form is a revanchist empire doing what empires have always done —maximizing its territory and its sphere of territorial influence— and to what extent it is part of this strange new order that I have attempted to describe in the previous sections, in which territory matters less and less, and abstract networks and influence more and more. The brave new world of abstract clout-seeking, however irrational, however frightening, has some advantages over the old world of imperial entrenchments. I often find myself wishing Putin would behave a bit more like Trump, hamming it up online for attention, instead of pulling away altogether from the engine that churns up short-lived influencers such as I still hope our last president will turn out to be. Instead, Putin seems to remain stuck in that old way of seeing things, where reality is still out there in the world itself, in the form of territory, of oceanic shelves and transcontinental pipelines, while the online is a distraction for fools.
https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/here-for-the-ratio
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:It has absolutely zero, nada, zip, zilch, goose egg, to do with US security. And that's why I don't care.
If Russia invades Ukraine ...
Why do you? Is it because you're so stuck on Putin you just can't help yourself?
Russia notifies Ireland of 'unwelcome' naval exercises off Irish coast
ussia has notified Ireland of Russian naval exercises in international waters in the Irish Sea, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday, adding that they were unwelcome.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-notifies-ireland-of-unwelc
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How's Joe* doing?
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NATO sends more ships, fighter jets to Eastern Europe as Russia masses troops on Ukraine border
MOSCOW — NATO said Monday it would send additional ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe as Britain ordered some diplomats and their families to leave Ukraine, amid growing alarm that Russia may invade as it masses tens of thousands of troops near the border.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nato-sends-more-ships-fighter-jet
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