Another Putin Disaster
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Quote:You are insane, Signym.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR you just unwittingly confirmed the suspicion that the west has been trying to destroy Russia for decades, and that our lates adventure in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with Russia. Eventually Sweden, and other European NATO nations, will realize that joining NATO was a Big Mistake.
Not to fear. Russia, China, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others have figured out that the USA is just an all-consuming Borg and are creating blocs with other countries so they can get out.
Considering it was Biden's* policies that triggered this mass defection from the west, I think this is more like Biden's* disaster.
Wartime Putinism
By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman, January 13, 2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20230114084101/https://www.foreignaffairs.
com/ukraine/wartime-putinism
Winning a long war requires a mobilization of troops and supplies that can outlast the other side. Positive objectives and clearly defined goals are the path to victory. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt was able to mobilize American society around the imperative of Japan’s unconditional surrender. After a shocking attack on U.S. soil, Americans rallied around the objectives of defeating Japan, avenging the assault on Pearl Harbor, and eliminating the threat posed by imperial Japan. Those goals would have been sufficient to sustain the U.S. war effort, but Americans had an additional aim: to strike a blow for democracy. By defeating Japan, the United States would encourage the democratization (and, by extension, the Americanization) of Asia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not followed this classic formula. In fact, he has inverted it, by attacking Ukraine first and only then attempting to mobilize Russian society. He has described what Russia is doing in Ukraine not as a war but as a “special military operation.” He has never articulated a set of persuasive objectives; his stated goals have shifted over time. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has at various points aimed to halt an invented genocide, to “de-Nazify” a country that was not fascist, to liberate Ukraine’s allegedly Russian nature, and to demilitarize the country—even though it posed no real threat to Russia. According to VTsIOM, a state-owned polling institution, a majority of Russians considered Ukraine a friendly country before the war. Only 11 percent of Russians saw Ukraine as an enemy.
It is tempting to see Putin’s war as a total failure. From Kyiv to Kherson, Russia has endured significant battlefield losses. It has solidified Western support for Ukraine on a scale unthinkable before the war and provoked a formidable response from Kyiv. As Ukraine’s military improves, Russia’s prospects for ending the war on its terms are fading away—not that these terms have ever been clear. Russia also faces sanctions imposed by many of the world’s richest and most technologically advanced countries. With so many forces arrayed against Putin, some experts have speculated about a possible crackup of his regime.
But the regime in the Kremlin is hardly on the verge of collapse. Putin has used the war to clamp down on Russian society, to pull elites even closer to him, and to shore up his domestic position. No longer able to lean on his reputation as a foreign policy genius—capable of wresting Crimea from Ukraine (as he did in 2014) or making Russia a serious player in the Middle East (as he did in 2015)—the Russian president has instead focused on militarizing the state and the public sphere, purging those who openly dissent from the government’s position on the war, and stoking militant anti-Westernism among the wide swaths of the public that are, if not pro-war, at least genuinely anti-antiwar.
Call it “wartime Putinism.” More repressive and less flexible than prewar Putinism, it has imposed the spirit of war on the Russian population. The price of not winning a war, however, is a panoply of ne
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I almost never read more than a sentence or two into your excessively long posts SECOND. But in what I've read, there's not a scintilla of original thought,not a moment of clarity or insight. Just a rehash of deep state propaganda rationalized with monumentally tortured logic and psychological projection.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, our country is going to hell in a hand basket and you're focusing on bullshit?
So let's see... Things are going badly in Ukraine so our (stupid) policy-makers try to use Taiwan and Sweden as a distraction. The Euro is falling and half of the world is de-dollarizing and we are creeping closer to the Great Reset, when western central banks will convert to digital currency and you're obsessing about Trump?
And you post about the Big Picture?
Dood, you can't see the Big Picture unless you get your head unstuck from wherever you parked it.
Bitch bitch bitch, leave then.
T
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I almost never read more than a sentence or two into your excessively long posts SECOND. But in what I've read, there's not a scintilla of original thought,not a moment of clarity or insight. Just a rehash of deep state propaganda rationalized with monumentally tortured logic and psychological project
I have no doubt comrade signym was looking in a mirror when she came up with this shit.
T
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR you just unwittingly confirmed the suspicion that the west has been trying to destroy Russia for decades, and that our lates adventure in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with Russia. Eventually Sweden, and other European NATO nations, will realize that joining NATO was a Big Mistake.
Not to fear. Russia, China, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others have figured out that the USA is just an all-consuming Borg and are creating blocs with other countries so they can get out.
Considering it was Biden's* policies that triggered this mass defection from the west, I think this is more like Biden's* disaster.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I know you can't see me laughing but I am. I'm rolling on the floor.
T
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Idiot
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Idiot
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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PUTIN FLIES OFF TO THE MOON!
April 12, 2022 Vladimir Putin officially announced Russia's Lunar program. One year later let's find out if he LIED again or Russian is actually making progress in the Lunar program?
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THE DAY OF RECKONING FOR RUSSIANS IS COMING || 2023
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MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA is an update of important news from Russia
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The Russians will be fine, Theodore.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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