Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Kremlin insiders reportedly have serious concerns about Putin’s war and the long-term damage it is inflicting upon the Russian Federation. Putin is certainly aware of the unrest in his inner circle. He knows that ugly things can happen to a leader who appears to be running the country off the rails
It appears that Biden* is completely unaware.
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, threatening the personal interests of powerful insiders.
Oh. Right... Biden* wouldn't imagine doing that. He just laughs at American Citizens while Trevor Noah makes jokes about how "things are really looking up".
He'll be fine.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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The Misdiagnosis of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is, by all accounts, a strongman who rules with an iron fist. He is unashamedly narcissistic, and this narcissism fuels his megalomaniacal obsessions, or so we have been led to believe. However, such insights from so-called experts leave a lot to be desired. In fact, such insights are both lazy and unhelpful. Designed to titillate rather than inform, such articles do little to answer the following question: what fuels Vladimir Putin's dangerous behavior?
The real reason Putin behaves the way he does has more to do with power than it has to do with narcissism, ego, or “toxic masculinity.” To be more specific, his behavior is the product of unbridled power. Surrounded by yes men, he appears to be suffering from hubris syndrome, a disorder that stems from the possession of unlimited, uncontested power and minimal constraint on its use.
In 2009, in a rather interesting paper, the academics David Owen and Jonathan Davidson asked an important question: “How may we usefully think about a leader who hubristically abuses power, damaging the lives of others?” Although some see it “as nothing more than the extreme manifestation of normal behavior along a spectrum of narcissism,” the matter could and should be “formulated differently.” Hubris syndrome, the authors warned, “can affect anyone endowed with power.”
The authors discussed business leaders, artists and religious gurus that have succumbed to hubris syndrome. The financial collapse of 2008, for instance, was instigated by international bankers who “displayed marked signs of hubris.” George W. Bush, a man who oversaw the disastrous invasion of Iraq, succumbed to hubris syndrome, according to the authors. Notable politicians who were consumed by hubris include Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher. The former “developed hubris syndrome in the summer of 1938 only a year after taking office.” Meanwhile, the latter “did not develop hubris syndrome until 1988, 9 years after becoming Prime Minister.” Vladimir Putin who has been the president of Russia since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008. In total, he has been the most powerful man in Russian for almost two decades.
In their paper, the aforementioned authors concluded by discussing the possibility of hubris syndrome having "an environmental onset, akin to a stressful experience.” It “disappears in response to environmental change.” For Putin, an “environmental change” would require him leaving office.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/misdiagnosis-vladimir-putin
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Misdiagnosis of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is, by all accounts ... blah blah blah
By "all accounts" Saddam had WMD, Assad "gassed how own people", and Trump was peed on in Msocow hotel making him Putin's policy-slave.
But we now know those accounts were all fabricated.
SECOND, you have an unerring talent for spreading bullshit. So go help out our farmers; I hear there's a fertilizer shortage and you seem to have quite a bit.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:The full quote, which Signym cut off before it got to the point: Vladimir Putin is, by all accounts, a strongman who rules with an iron fist. Signym, make the argument that Putin is a weak man with fists of jello.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The Misdiagnosis of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is, by all accounts ... blah blah blah
By "all accounts" Saddam had WMD, Assad "gassed how own people", and Trump was peed on in Msocow hotel making him Putin's policy-slave.
But we now know those accounts were all fabricated.
SECOND, you have an unerring talent fro spreading bullshot, and a lot of it. Go help out our farmers; I hear there's a fertilizer shortage and you seem to have quite a bit of it.
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 SIGNYM:Quote:So, punish Russia because ... bad ideas were acted on in the past?
SignyM:
Punish Russia today because of.... Stalin????
Why are you hyperventilating about WWII? That's like hyperventilating about Confederate generals, for god's sake! You're just trying to drum up outrage by linking current events to past personalities, as if there was some sort of connection.
Seriously, dood. You pretend to be a realist but you're living in some other world.[
SECOND: The same bad old ideas keep repeating in history.
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Signym
By "all accounts" Saddam had WMD, Assad "gassed how own people",
Can anyone notice the hypocrite comrade signym bringing up the past to support her opinion when it suits her, but if TWO does it she complains, suggests it stupid. Suggests it's disingenuous.
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Yep, SECOND doubles down on spreading bullshit here.
What's your excuse, SECOND, for quoting "accounts" that have lied dozens of times in the past, about events large and small? Do you LIKE promoting liars?
Russia has a Security Council of strong-minded, competent, and diverse opinions. For example, Nabulina (sp?) head of Russia's Central Bank, and Glaziev (sp?) head of the new EAEU currency, just can't see eye to eye. Petrushev is a hard-liner and Peskov has a soft spot for Turkey. There are many in the Security Council who wanted to go hard into Ukraine but Lavrov, being a diplomat, preferred diplomacy. I don't have a lot of insight into Russia's Security Council but I know Putin doesn't run the country by himself.
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After a Russian tycoon criticized Putin’s war, retribution was swift
The New York Times reports:
Oleg Y. Tinkov was worth more than $9 billion in November, renowned as one of Russia’s few self-made business tycoons after building his fortune outside the energy and minerals industries that were the playgrounds of Russian kleptocracy.
Then, last month, Mr. Tinkov, the founder of one of Russia’s biggest banks, criticized the war in Ukraine in a post on Instagram. The next day, he said, President Vladimir V. Putin’s administration contacted his executives and threatened to nationalize his bank if it did not cut ties with him. Last week, he sold his 35 percent stake to a Russian mining billionaire in what he describes as a “desperate sale, a fire sale” that was forced on him by the Kremlin.
“I couldn’t discuss the price,” Mr. Tinkov said. “It was like a hostage — you take what you are offered. I couldn’t negotiate.”
Mr. Tinkov, 54, spoke to The New York Times by phone on Sunday, from a location he would not disclose, in his first interview since Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine. He said he had hired bodyguards after friends with contacts in the Russian security services told him he should fear for his life, and quipped that while he had survived leukemia, perhaps “the Kremlin will kill me.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/world/europe/oligarch-putin-oleg-ti
nkov.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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SignyM:
Punish Russia today because of.... Stalin????
Why are you hyperventilating about WWII? That's like hyperventilating about Confederate generals, for god's sake! You're just trying to drum up outrage by linking current events to past personalities, as if there was some sort of connection.
Seriously, dood. You pretend to be a realist but you're living in some other world.[
SECOND: The same bad old ideas keep repeating in history.
SIGNY: So, punish Russia because ... bad ideas were acted on in the past?
SIGNY: By "all accounts" Saddam had WMD, Assad "gassed how own people",
THUGR: Can anyone notice the hypocrite comrade signym bringing up the past to support her opinion when it suits her, but if TWO does it she complains, suggests it stupid. Suggests it's disingenuous.
I don't believe in tarring people with what historical figures have done.
But the people who lied to you then are the people lying to you now.
Suggests you're too stupid to know when you're being lied to.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:It appears that western sanctions were pretty broad-brush, targeting potential friends in the Russian oligarchy as well as enemies. I'm sure we don't have the full story.
Many western countries have also issued widespread sanctions on Russian oligarchs, including Tinkov, in hopes to pressure Putin into ending the invasion.
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Pity would be no more,
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