Another Putin Disaster
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Slovakia lawmakers approve defense military treaty with US
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a defense military treaty with the United States.
The treaty allows the U.S. military to use two Slovak air force bases — Malacky-Kuchyna and Sliac — for 10 years while Slovakia — a NATO member — will receive $100 million from the U.S. to modernize them.
The deal was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Slovakia’s defense minister, Jaroslav Nad, on Feb. 3 in Washington. It still needs to be ratified by President Zuzana Caputova, who supports it.
The vote took place amid fears that Russia will invade Ukraine. Moscow has massed more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, but insists it has no plans to attack. Slovakia borders Ukraine.
Thanks for the assist, Putty. This helps a lot.
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Czech minister: Putin gave Europe 'gift' as gas crisis showed alternatives exist
"I like to say (Russian President) Vladimir Putin gave Europe a great Christmas gift because he showed that we are not dependent on Russian gas," Lipavsky said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/czech-minister-putin-gave-euro
pe-gift-as-gas-crisis-showed-alternatives-exist/ar-AATETv7?ocid=msedgntp
Thanks Putty...
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I think you probably should spell it Pooty.
Yours sounds like Silly Putty, and I don't think that's what you're going for.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX: One of the biggest sources of disinfo is the UK govt... which BTW is more rabidly anti-Russsian than ours.
It isn't just Bellingcat/White Helemts/"Assad gassed his own people" false flag, and the Steele "dossier"/Trump-as-Putin's-puppet hoax.
Most people forget, but the original "Saddam/WMD" allegation didn't come from the CIA or DIA, it came from Britain, under Tony Blair. When that proved to be false, one war and a few trillion dollars later, the CIA whined... "well, it wasn't US. We just passed it along".
Our "intelligence" agencies use British "intelligence" agencies to fabricate disinfo for them so the disinfo looks more credible and CIA has plausible deniability. I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of UK sources any farther than I could throw a piano. They truly lie worse than our own agencies.
Let's just say that there's not a single government in the world that I would trust with anything important.
It's not in their best interests to be truthful with any of us plebs.
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Facing maximum pressure from Russia, Zelensky refuses to blink at the negotiating table
With Russian warships and tanks encircling his country amid dire warnings from the United States about an impending invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has shown himself to be resistant to the pressure he faces from Russia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/facing-maximum-pressure-from-russ
ia-zelensky-refuses-to-blink-at-the-negotiating-table/ar-AATKLBA?ocid=msedgntp
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Ted smells WWIII coming and he's creaming his undies.
Go Joe Biden* Go!
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‘It Doesn’t Take Much to Slit the Throat of a Russian Soldier’: Fox News Analyst Predicts ‘Brutal’ Slog If Russia Invades Ukraine
Griffin explained that Putin’s occupations of Crimea and the Donbas regions of Ukraine have likely alienated any everyday Ukrainians who might be inclined to remain neutral:
They are not neutral anymore. And they are anti-Moscow, anti-Russia, and maybe what they lack in terms of weapons, they don’t lack in terms of a will to fight. And it doesn’t take much to slit the throat of a Russia soldier. And that is what you’re going to see. You’re going to see a brutal conflict ensue. Those are the intelligence estimates that we’ve been hearing about from the U.S. officials, and this is not a cakewalk. And Putin may have a stronger military, may be able to dominate Ukraine in the first two weeks, but it’s occupying a country like Ukraine – that is where empires get drained.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-doesn-t-take-much-to-slit-the-
throat-of-a-russian-soldier-fox-news-analyst-predicts-brutal-slog-if-russia-invades-ukraine/ar-AATKp8P?ocid=msedgntp
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Thank Putin for goals leading his nation where despair and dread spreads to all visual artists.
The Square by Tatyana Tolstaya, June 12, 2015
Desacralize: to divest of sacred qualities or status.
Dehumanization and “desacralization” are one and the same.
“Desacralization” was the slogan of the twentieth century; it’s the slogan of ignoramuses, of mediocrity and incompetence. It’s a free pass doled out by one dimwit to another bonehead while trying to convince the third nincompoop that everything should be meaningless and base (allegedly democratic, allegedly accessible), and that everyone has the right to judge everyone else; that authority can’t exist in principle, that a hierarchy of values is obscene (since everyone’s equal), and that art’s worth is determined solely by cost and demand. Novelties and fashionable scandals are surprisingly not that novel and not that scandalous: fans of the Square keep presenting various bodily fluids and objects created from them as evidence of art’s accomplishments. It’s as if Adam and Eve—one suffering from amnesia, the other from Alzheimer’s—were attempting to convince each other and their children that they are clay, only clay, and nothing but clay.
I’m considered an “expert” in contemporary art by an arts fund in Russia that’s subsidized by foreign money. They bring us art projects and we decide if said projects should get funding or not. There are actual experts working alongside me on this panel, true connoisseurs—old art, “pre-Square.” All of us can’t stand “The Black Square” and the “self-assertion of that entity called ‘the abomination of desolation.’ ” Yet they keep submitting projects that consist of “the abomination of desolation,” solely of the abomination, and nothing else. We are obligated to spend the money that has been allocated to the fund or else it will be closed. We try our best to fund those who come up with the least pointless and annoying ideas. One year, we funded an artist who placed empty picture frames along a riverbank, and another artist who wrote “ME” in big letters that cast a beautiful shadow, as well as a group of creators who organized a campaign to clean up dog feces in St. Petersburg’s parks. Another year, it was a woman who affixed stamps to rocks and mailed them to various cities in Russia, as well as a group that made a pool of blood in a submarine, which visitors had to step over while listening to the letters of Abelard and Heloise via headphones. After our meetings, us members of the panel step out for a silent smoke, where we try to avoid making eye contact with one another. We then silently shake hands and hurriedly walk home.
(Translated, from the Russian, by Anya Migdal.)
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220209171746/https://www.newyorker.com/c
ulture/cultural-comment/the-square
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 THG:
‘It Doesn’t Take Much to Slit the Throat of a Russian Soldier’: Fox News Analyst Predicts ‘Brutal’ Slog If Russia Invades Ukraine
Griffin explained that Putin’s occupations of Crimea and the Donbas regions of Ukraine have likely alienated any everyday Ukrainians who might be inclined to remain neutral:
They are not neutral anymore. And they are anti-Moscow, anti-Russia, and maybe what they lack in terms of weapons, they don’t lack in terms of a will to fight. And it doesn’t take much to slit the throat of a Russia soldier. And that is what you’re going to see. You’re going to see a brutal conflict ensue. Those are the intelligence estimates that we’ve been hearing about from the U.S. officials, and this is not a cakewalk. And Putin may have a stronger military, may be able to dominate Ukraine in the first two weeks, but it’s occupying a country like Ukraine – that is where empires get drained.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-doesn-t-take-much-to-slit-the-
throat-of-a-russian-soldier-fox-news-analyst-predicts-brutal-slog-if-russia-invades-ukraine/ar-AATKp8P?ocid=msedgntp
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Looks like Ted's even loving the FOX News coverage. He can't wait for war.
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Russian media are now claiming there are lots of US troops in Ukraine. Such a claim, not even backed up by some fake video, would clearly serve as an excuse for an invasion.
Besides these reports about Russian media claiming US troops in Ukraine, there are also lots of reports that Putin’s own position in Moscow is not secure, that many around him want him out. It even may be that this possible invasion is partly going on to distract from that and to keep people in line. But a failed invasion could trigger his overthrow.
It is reasonable of President Biden to be urging US citizens to leave Ukraine at this time, and maybe reason will prevail in the head of V.V. Putin, which is what matters.
https://angrybearblog.com/2022/02/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine
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