Another Putin Disaster
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Originally posted by THGRRI: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:58 PM
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Russia moves to silence civil society and its 'undesirable' contacts
"Under a new law, Russian NGOs could face prosecution for communication with 'undesirable' groups based abroad – groups like Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0527/Russia-moves-to-silenc
e-civil-society-and-its-undesirable-contacts
Yep, I've been posting the truth about Russia since forever. Why, because Signym and kiki have been bashing America while living here and excusing everything Putin does to his own people.
Told you so comrade
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Originally posted by THGRRI: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 1:06 PM
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Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire" during remarks before evangelical Christians in Florida. The president was warning about a buildup of Soviet strength and global menace, and the need to confront it.
History is now repeating itself. Today's Russia is a pale version of the communist regime that finally dissolved in 1991. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, famously embittered by that collapse, is bent on reacquiring some of that former glory.
Putin's Make Russia Great Again strategy is a font of international mayhem.
Russia invaded neighboring Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, where fighting rages on and 10,000 have died. Its illegal annexation of Crimea was the first effort to alter European borders by force since World War II. The Russian military, dispatched to Syria, shored up the regime of Bashar Assad and committed atrocities, bombing a United Nations aid convoy and targeting hospitals.
High-confidence findings by the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency concluded that Putin ordered a cyber and propaganda attack to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine public faith in the American democratic process. Russian "trolls" posted false stories on Facebook that reached 140 million Americans, and Russian hackers stole thousands of emails from Democratic leaders and leaked them. Similar attacks have since occurred in Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Other Russian aggression includes selling weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan and oil to North Korea. The Kremlin also provides sanctuary to a rogue's gallery of cyber criminals,dispatches fighter aircraft that harass U.S. military jets in Syria and NATO aircraft over the Baltic, and sends submarines to prowl suspiciously close to crucial Atlantic undersea cables carrying 97% of global communications. All the while, Putin works to rig upcoming Russian elections in his favor.
The Trump administration's response to this mounting threat has been schizophrenic. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson writes in The New York Times that the Trump administration has "no illusions" about a resurgent Russia. And a suddenly tougher line emerged last month with the welcome announcement that anti-tank weapons would be sold to the Ukrainian government for defense against Russian-backed rebels.
Even so, these steps run contrary to President Trump's tendency toward appeasing Putin. The administration has slow-walked implementation of tough, new sanctions against Russia passed overwhelmingly by Congress last summer. The sanctions are to finally go into effect this month.
And Trump has not convened a Cabinet-level meeting on Russian interference in the presidential campaign. "When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing," Trump tweeted in November.
Reagan famously urged listeners in 1983 "to beware the temptation ... to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire." Thirty-five years later, those words are again worth heeding.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Biden* and BoJo* are really trying to provoke a response from Russia so they can impose sanctions and kill Nordstream2. This whole farce isn't about Ukraine at all. USA and UK (and NATO) are more than willing to throw Ukraine under the bus. After all, look how they abandoned Kiev (shredded files, destroyed computers, yanked their staff) and pulled their trainers and withdrew their CIA post all the way back to Brussels.
What they're trying to do is to drive a wedge between Germany and Russia, torpedo German competitiveness, and pull everyone back into the NATO fold, and Germany is spineless enough to let them do it.
This is a replay of GWB's "moving goalposts" for Saddam... sanctions will be applied if Russia invades Ukraine... well, if Russia does ANYTHING... oh,no, for troops in it's territory... oh no, for Navalny...
Sanctions are going to be applied no matter what Russia does, or doesn't do. That's the point.
'Russia is in trouble': Gen. Wesley Clark assesses Putin's footing in Ukraine
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Originally posted by THG:
Yep, I've been posting the truth about Russia since forever. Why, because Signym and kiki have been bashing America while living here and excusing everything Putin does to his own people.
Save it, Ted. You don't give a single shit about Russian people. We have dozens and dozens of your posts here that show it. Hell... they're not all even contained in the RWED since you've been so excited with your War Boner the last few weeks you can't help but jack off all over the site.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Germany will buy F-35 jets as it ramps up military spending after Russia's Ukraine invasion
Germany has announced that it will buy 35 US-made F-35A fighter jets, the first major arms purchase to be publicly confirmed since Chancellor Olaf Scholz committed to ramping up his country's defense spending in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-will-buy-f-35-jets-as-it-
ramps-up-military-spending-after-russia-s-ukraine-invasion/ar-AAV5fn9?ocid=msedgntp
Good job Putin. Told you so signym. Told you so.
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Originally posted by Thg:
Germany will buy F-35 jets as it ramps up military spending after Russia's Ukraine invasion
Germany has announced that it will buy 35 US-made F-35A fighter jets, the first major arms purchase to be publicly confirmed since Chancellor Olaf Scholz committed to ramping up his country's defense spending in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-will-buy-f-35-jets-as-it-
ramps-up-military-spending-after-russia-s-ukraine-invasion/ar-AAV5fn9?ocid=msedgntp
Good job Putin. Told you so signym. Told you so.
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This post is just more evidence how modern day Democrats sound more and more like GWB Neo-Cons every single day.
I TOLD YOU SO, Ted.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh dear. THUGR ran out of anything credible to say.
Soon, he will be posting picture of pigs.
HAHAHAHA!
Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap
Reality doesn’t conform to the theory of the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game.
In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine’s little-known president into a global hero, wreck Russia’s economy, and solidify his legacy as a murderous war criminal.
How did he miscalculate so badly?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-dictator-trap-
russia-ukraine/627064/
I keep telling you so comrade Signym. Why can't you guys ever get it right?
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Ukraine joins European power grid, ending its dependence on Russia
Grid operators had been preparing such a move after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, but the large-scale Russian military assault on Ukraine last month prompted an emergency request by Kyiv to speed up a process that was expected to take years more to complete.
"This step will give Ukraine the opportunity to receive electricity if Russia continues to destroy our power infrastructure, and thus to save our power system," said Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, who chairs the management board of Ukraine's grid operator Ukrenergo. "We are sincerely grateful to our European partners for their great support and assistance during these difficult times."
The switch will allow energy suppliers in the continental grid that stretches from Portugal to Poland to supply electricity to Ukraine if necessary. This could allow Ukraine to turn off some of the coal-fired power plants it currently keeps running to ensure grid stability.
In the long-term, Ukraine could export surplus electricity generated by its nuclear power plants to the rest of Europe.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-european-power-grid-russia/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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'Scum and traitors': Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin turns his ire on Russians
"He's clearly angry, emotional and feels the need to speak in this very aggressive tone," said John Lough, an associate fellow at London’s Chatham House think tank.
Lough thinks the speech was clearly aimed at Russia's elites, some of whom he believes are privately dismayed about the failure of the war and the economic backlash it has inflicted at home.
According to Lough, Putin was saying to the elites: "Don't think about having second thoughts. We're all in this together and if I go down, you go down."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scum-and-traitors-under-pressure-
over-ukraine-putin-turns-his-ire-on-russians/ar-AAVcIF6?ocid=msedgntp
Brace yourself comrade Signym here is comes. I told you so.
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The term “dictator” comes from ancient Rome — a man whom the republic would temporarily give absolute authority during crises. The advantages of untrammeled power in a crisis are obvious. A dictator can act quickly — no need to spend months negotiating legislation or fighting legal challenges. And he can impose necessary but unpopular policies. So there are times when autocratic rule can look more effective than the messiness of democracies bound by rule of law.
Dictatorship, however, starts to look a lot less attractive if it continues for any length of time.
The most important argument against autocracy is, of course, moral: Very few people can hold unrestrained power for years on end without turning into brutal tyrants.
Beyond that, however, in the long run autocracy is less effective than an open society that allows dissent and debate. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the advantages of having a strongman who can tell everyone what to do are more than offset by the absence of free discussion and independent thought.
I was writing at the time about Vladimir Putin, whose decision to invade a neighboring country looks more disastrous with each passing day. Evidently nobody dared to tell him that Russia’s military might was overrated, that Ukrainians were more patriotic and the West less decadent than he assumed and that Russia remained highly vulnerable to economic sanctions.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220318025056/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/03/17/opinion/china-russia-xi-jin-ping.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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