What is Putin's end game?
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Naunihal Singh is one of the world’s leading scholars of military coups. His 2017 book Seizing Power uses statistical analysis, game theory, and historical case studies to try to figure out what causes coups and what makes them likely to succeed.
In Singh’s view, the Ukraine conflict raises the odds of a coup in Russia for two reasons: It could weaken the military leadership’s allegiance to Putin, and it could provide an unusual opportunity to plan a move against him.
The motive for Russian officers to launch a coup would be fairly straightforward: The costly Ukraine campaign becomes unpopular among, and even personally threatening to, key members of the military.
More at https://www.vox.com/22961563/putin-russia-ukraine-coup-revolution-inva
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Chapter 7 is USSR, 1991: Three Days That Changed the World
That this coup attempt, undertaken by a coalition that included every major senior military and political figure in the country short of its target, Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev, did not succeed is hard to understand. Indeed, even opponents of the coup believed that it would succeed, and at least one went so far as to call the failure of the coup a miracle.
The novel reading of the Soviet coup of 1991 in this chapter argues that the attempt failed because the junta behind it was less adept at manipulating expectations than its adversaries. . . . Yeltsin’s faction understood what the junta did not: that during a coup attempt nominal control over the armed forces is not sufficient by itself to take over a country.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Signym provides an accurate portrait of many Russians view of the world. Everything is tinted with a Soviet perspective. They are paranoid so they perceive their surroundings as a victim would. It's represented in all her posts. All her posts going back forever. And these same Soviet thinking Russians are the number one reason Russia is heading for disaster.
Aspects of Russias’ tragedy will overflow out onto the rest of the world which will be remember and resented. It will be one of countless reasons many investors will not return.
I remember how Signym sounded off about TPP, Trans-Pacific-Partnership. She wanted posters to believe it was bad that America had a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United State.
My bet is she would love to post Russia has made such an agreement. Well, that's not going to happen.
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Quote:Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore
Originally posted by THG:
]Signym provides an accurate portrait of many Russians view of the world. Everything is tinted with a Soviet
Quote:THEY'RE paranoid?
perspective. They are paranoid
What about US??
We see threats EVERYWHERE! How else can we be persuaded to involve ourselves in such godforsaken places that nobody can even find on a map?
GRENADA!
IRAQ!
SOMALIA!
Seriously???
Quote:Maybe bc they've been invaded umpty-ump times. What's OUR excuse?
they perceive their surroundings as a victim would.
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blah blah blah...
I remember how Signym sounded off about TPP, Trans-Pacific-Partnership. She wanted posters to believe it was bad that America had a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United State.
My bet is she would love to post Russia has made such an agreement. Well, that's not going to happen.
a) You misunderstood what I posted. I disagreed with a trade agreement that forced us to have it settled by a secret trade tribunal, not in American courts
b) I have no idea what you're going on about. Don't try mind-reading, son. You suck at it ,
BTW, as you can see from SECOND'S post, we really DO want to destroy Russia. Every anti-Russian post by you, SECOND, CAPON, and JAYNEZ drives that point home, over and over.
It's not a paranoid belief on Russia's part, it's reality.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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I stand in solidarity with The People of Russia and Ukraine.
Fuck the politicians of all countries. All of this is their doing.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Quote:Philosophers tend to be more systematic than politicians. Unlike a politician, a philosopher will be more forthright, less sneaky, about ultimate goals. This philosopher, who Putin knows, doesn't run Russia, but if he did . . .
Originally posted by SignyM:
BTW, as you can see from SECOND'S post, we really DO want to destroy Russia. Every anti-Russian post by you, SECOND, CAPON, and JAYNEZ drives that point home, over and over.
It's not a paranoid belief on Russia's part, it's reality.
Aleksandr Dugin: The sinister ideologue who's Putin's favourite philosopher
by Alex Hearn
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/aleksandr-dugin-the-sinister-ideol
ogue-whos-putins-favourite-philosopher-3829SiTsfS8P7UK19PwT4k
The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be completely irrational. As well as worrying about how to stop the aggression, many of us are trying to understand why it is happening.
Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian philosopher, historian and sociologist, is not well known, but it might help to understand his thinking and influence. Known as “Putin’s philosopher” by some, Dugin is nostalgic for a simpler time. He mistrusts technology and dreams about closing down the internet. It is modernity itself that he doesn’t like. To put that another way, he wants to radically change our world.
Dugin derives his worldview from that of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who joined the Nazis and ran the University of Heidelberg for them, implementing their “racial” exclusions. Like Heidegger, Dugin sees technology as eroding identity and promoting individualism, helped by “globalist elites” seeking to control the world. His “counter-revolution” aims to end the rights, liberties, science and internet of the Western world.
Adopted by educational institutions across Russia, Dugin’s influential 1997 book Foundations Of Geopolitics advocates for Russian rule “from Dublin to Vladisvostok” using military means, disinformation and leveraging natural resources. “Eurasia” is Dugin’s term for the new Russian Empire. Long before the recent invasion, he saw Ukraine as an integral part of this vision, and that Russia not controlling Ukraine would be “an enormous danger for all of Eurasia”. So it is unsurprising that in 2015, Dugin was sanctioned by the US for “actively [recruiting] individuals with military and combat experience” to fight on behalf of Russia-backed forces in Ukraine.
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Dugin’s messianic narrative of a sacred mission sees the West as the Antichrist and Russia as being akin to the Roman empire.
Some would describe Dugin’s philosophy as a death cult because he seeks the total destruction of his opponents.
Alarmingly, his ideas have had influence on the thinking of some important Russian figures, most notably Putin. It’s no coincidence that the war in Ukraine aligns with his philosophy and activities, and for this reason Dugin has been cast as a Rasputin-style figure.
President Putin has built on top of generations of antisemitism to gain more power, using vast resources and technology to supercharge a toxic strain of modern Jew-hatred.
The Russian leader’s approach to national rejuvenation is underpinned by Dugin’s fascistic ideology. Labelled by one journalist as “Putin’s brain”, Dugin, who had been a Communist Party organiser, became an advisor to the speaker of the Duma. The Daily Beast reported that his “Eurasian” ideology is required reading for Russian generals.
Dugin’s buzzword, “Novorossiya”, meaning “new Russia”, was repeatedly used by Putin on national television in 2014 regarding the annexing of Crimea, resurrecting the Tsarist terminology of the Russian empire.
Dugin envisages a “new world” centred around Russia, and Putin’s victorious press release about Ukraine was similarly titled the “offensive of Russia and the New World”. According to Ukraine’s Page News, its proud publication had been scheduled for two days after the Ukraine invasion. With efficiency typical of the Soviet era, somebody forgot to re
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Quote:Putin's philosopher, Aleksandr Dugin, has been written about. See:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I stand in solidarity with The People of Russia and Ukraine.
Fuck the politicians of all countries. All of this is their doing.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=aleksandr+dugin
Here is an interesting one: "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed": Alexander Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology
https://www.amazon.com/American-Empire-Should-Destroyed-Immanentized/d
p/1891469436/
"All too often, history is driven by the mad passions and ambitions of tyrants — and by warped visions of "progress" crafted in the shadows behind their thrones. James Heiser's brilliant new book drags one of today's most dangerous "gray eminences" into the light. His careful, intricate analysis reveals Aleksandr Dugin, whose twisted ideology shapes Vladimir Putin’s brutal and aggressive effort to build a Eurasian empire centered on Russia. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the perilous and irrational motivations of those who now rule in Moscow."
Putin won't clearly state his ultimate goals because he is sly and crafty, but his philosopher, like all philosophers, will expound in great detail on what Russia should ultimately become -- the ruler of all Eurasia, the vast continent, biggest in the world.
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+Be+Destroyed
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Take the Hindu tv networks wi5th a pinch of salt, Gravitas with Palki Sharma can somewhat be sometimes slightly ok for a different view but they still have bias and buy lots of stuff from Russia, the tv channel WION is an Indian multinational English language news channel headquartered in New Delhi.
https://www.wionews.com/world/what-alternatives-can-russia-use-as-alli
es-deploy-financial-nuclear-weapon-460269
its clear Russia has done crimes, it has been criminal, it is killing innocents with its invasion
On the internationl stage it seems Sometimes the Indians think zelenskyy is a type of idiot clown
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Originally posted by SignyM:
BTW, as you can see from SECOND'S post, we really DO want to destroy Russia. Every anti-Russian post by you, SECOND, CAPON, and JAYNEZ drives that point home, over and over.
I wouldn't care a fig about Russia if they'd just stop invading other countries and fcking with the world economy. And it's not "Russia." This is all on your bff, Putin. One. Fcking. Guy.
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SECOND: Dugin has zero influence on Putin. Dugin is neither a power figure in the Kremlin (or out of it) nor is he a personal friend.
It's a little like saying that Michael Hudson is Biden's* philosopher.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Oh, bullshit, you incompetent liar.
SignyM:
BTW, as you can see from SECOND'S post, we really DO want to destroy Russia. Every anti-Russian post by you, SECOND, CAPON, and JAYNEZ drives that point home, over and over.
CAPON: I wouldn't care a fig about Russia if they'd just stop invading other countries and fcking with the world economy. And it's not "Russia." This is all on your bff, Putin. One. Fcking. Guy.
You were all onboard with RUSSIA!TRUMP!COLLUSION!, thumping that silly hoax for all it was worth, that didn't have a shred of reality behind it and had nothing to do with "invasions".
Man, you're gonna have to do better than that if you want to get paid!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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