Another Putin Disaster
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 22:07
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How Vladimir Putin went from world leader to international outcast
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-vladimir-putin-went-from-worl
d-leader-to-international-outcast/ss-AA15Fibp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b4eca54219044e58f9b88fb0239d63d&ei=336
Give me room I'm falling down laughing here. Aren't you comrade signym, aren't you?
T
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Originally posted by THG:
How Vladimir Putin went from world leader to international outcast
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-vladimir-putin-went-from-worl
d-leader-to-international-outcast/ss-AA15Fibp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b4eca54219044e58f9b88fb0239d63d&ei=336
Give me room I'm falling down laughing here. Aren't you comrade signym, aren't you?
T
Okay. So now we're going to pretend that Russian leaders haven't always been outcasts on the international stage?
Keep laughing while Russia works with OPEC and China against US imperialism and our economy gets even worse under increasingly weak Democrat leadership, you stupid, mindless hyena.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Who are Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner mercenary group
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wagner-group-mercenari
es-battle-of-bakhmut-b2363361.html
Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but the Wagner leader’s threats against the country’s military leadership show tensions escalating to an alarming extent
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Quote:Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. 6ix, you have No Job and No Prospects. 6ix, you are the reason the economy is worse in counties under Republican control. 6ix, you mock me for working while you stay in bed as if your life is the dynamo powering America. Trumptards are not contributing more than they consume, but they don't believe it and can't understand why they are so poor and unhappy.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Okay. So now we're going to pretend that Russian leaders haven't always been outcasts on the international stage?
Keep laughing while Russia works with OPEC and China against US imperialism and our economy gets even worse under increasingly weak Democrat leadership, you stupid, mindless hyena.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-voting-counties-equal-70-of-a
mericas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/
Russian leaders are outcasts because they always threaten to nuke the world.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.
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Biden: Putin has 'already lost' Ukraine war
https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/07/15/world/americas-emea/biden-putin
-has-already-lost-ukraine-war/1900676
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Putin is running out of options in Ukraine
Lawrence Freedman writes:
Governments start wars in pursuit of various objectives, from conquering territory to changing the regime of a hostile state to supporting a beleaguered ally. Once a war begins, the stakes are immediately raised. It is one of the paradoxes of war that even as its original objectives drift out of reach or are cast aside, the necessity of not being seen as the loser only grows in importance—such importance, in fact, that even if winning is no longer possible, governments will still persevere to show that they have not been beaten.
The problem with losing goes beyond the failure to achieve objectives or even having to explain the expenditures of blood and treasure for little gain: loss casts doubt on the wisdom and competence of the government. Failure in war can cause a government to fall. That is often why governments keep on fighting wars: an admission of defeat could make it harder to hold on to power.
All of these dynamics are evident in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin set as his objectives the “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine. By the first, he presumably meant regime change, in which case the war has clearly been a failure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s position is as strong as ever. As for demilitarization, Ukraine is on its way to becoming the most militarized country in Europe. Many of the Russian speakers in Ukraine on whose behalf Putin claimed to be acting now prefer to speak Ukrainian, while the Russian-speaking areas of the Donbas have been battered, deindustrialized, and depopulated because of this ruinous war.
Russian forces have failed to take complete control of any of the four oblasts, or administrative regions—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia—that Putin claimed for Russia in September 2022. Much of the ground initially seized after the full-scale invasion has been relinquished, and more is being lost, albeit slowly, during the current Ukrainian offensive. Before February 2022, Russia could be confident that Ukraine would not be able to challenge the illegal annexation of Crimea, but now even Russia’s hold of the peninsula is no longer certain. Ukraine still hopes that its war aims—the liberation of all occupied land and the restoration of the borders created in 1991—can be achieved. Even if Ukraine’s current offensive falters, Russia lacks for now the combat power to seize the advantage and take more territory.
Putin is not close to achieving any of his war aims while the price of his gambit grows ever steeper. He may, of course, believe that at least some of his original objectives are still possible, or take some comfort from those analysts in the West who are convinced that the best Ukraine can hope for is a military stalemate. But the Russian leader has never shown himself to be satisfied with a stalemate. He wants a resolution in which he can be shown to be the clear victor. When asked about negotiation, including by sympathetic interlocutors, for example from Africa, he still demands that Ukraine recognize the annexations of the four oblasts, which would require Kyiv to hand over more territory to Moscow. That is clearly not going to happen.
More at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putin-running-out-options-ukrai
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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So sad.
T
'Russian propaganda is beginning to fall apart,' says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
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So sad.
Yes you are Ted.
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