Another Putin Disaster by THGRRI

What was said in a nutshell? Russia is done, invest in Ukraine. It's a better bet.

T

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 7:18 PM

China's Xi Jinping is accused of betraying Putin by Russian state TV

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-xi-jinping-is-accused-of-
betraying-putin-by-russian-state-tv/ss-AA1aGm3M?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=624e26d093784f56ae7324e6a6627934&ei=370

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Thursday, May 4, 2023 1:45 AM

That's what everybody does, Ted.

The US is the best at betraying other countries.

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Friday, May 5, 2023 7:09 AM

Russia’s Patriarch Kirill first name on Czech national sanctions list

https://english.radio.cz/russias-patriarch-kirill-first-name-czech-nat
ional-sanctions-list-8781477

Oil Depot Near Crimean Bridge Hit by Ukrainian Drone Strike

https://funker530.com/video/oil-depot-near-crimean-bridge-hit-by-ukrai
nian-drone-strike/

Surrounded by corpses, Wagner's Prigozhin blasts Russian defence minister in expletive-laden video

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/surrounded-by-corpses-wagners-pri
gozhin-blasts-russian-defence-minister-2023-05-05/

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Friday, May 5, 2023 7:34 AM

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Russians Seem Very Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End by Alexander Baunov

Alexander Baunov (@baunov) is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

It’s a little embarrassing.

Normally, I write about various aspects of Russian politics — the basis of Vladimir Putin’s support, the Kremlin’s media strategy, Russia’s foreign policy. Now, to my surprise, I’m writing about something else: my own book.

Three years in the making, the book came out at the end of January and quickly became a best seller across Russia. The first print run disappeared almost immediately, and since then, there have been three more. While not many of the journalists and outlets remaining in the country have dared to write about it, there has been a huge amount of attention on social media and an extensive series of reviews in Russian-language publications abroad. Objectively — though it’s awkward to say — the book has become a bit of a phenomenon.

But the book, “The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Ended,” is not about Russia or Vladimir Putin. It’s about three dictatorships — those of Francisco Franco in Spain, Antonio Salazar in Portugal and the colonels in Greece — and how those countries became democracies, returning to the global fold. A large number of Russians haven’t suddenly taken an interest in the history of 20th-century Southern Europe. Rather, discussions of the book have common themes: How do prolonged right-wing dictatorships end? And can Russia become a democracy?

As one might expect, the book is being widely discussed by opposition groups and those calling for an end to the war. More surprisingly, it is also being read by the Russian nomenklatura — those at the apex of the Russian state. It seems that the book has become a pretext for discussion of taboo topics, such as political transition, the health and death of the leader, defeat in a colonial war, the end of isolation and, indeed, the end of the regime.

In days gone by, it was possible to broach such subjects, albeit gently. But in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s repression of dissent, the space for candid discussion has been sealed off. The Carnegie Moscow Center, for example, where I worked and was able to converse with members of the ruling elite, was shut down by the authorities last spring. The bulk of its scholars have left the country and are now creating another think tank in Berlin.

Those who remain in Russia have lost the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue on the country’s future. Yet the extraordinarily high level of interest in the book is evidence that, despite the fiction of consensus that state propaganda has tried to reinforce, Russians have not stopped asking questions about what comes next. Given the book’s focus, it seems that readers are thinking not about the regime’s continuation — as the authorities would wish — but about how it might end.

For many, the simple act of buying the book is a political statement, and numerous bookstores are using it to quietly indicate their positions. A major store near the notorious Lubyanka, the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (and previously the K.G.B.) in Moscow, placed copies of “The End of the Regime” right next to “Putin’s Path,” a hagiography devoted to the Russian leader, and a book on Stalin. The implication was clear.

Unlike many authors of the Soviet and czarist eras, who — deprived of the opportunity to discuss their country and their future directly — masked those discussions by focusing on other peoples and eras, I didn’t set for myself the goal of writing a book about Mr. Putin: This is not a book about Russia disguised as a book about Spain, Portugal and Greece. Nevertheless, unlike numerous Western works on similar topics, the book is written by an inhabitant of an autocracy for other inhabitants of an autocracy. This links author and readers with a special, almost conspiratorial view of the subject.

Most important, the book gives readers a new, more accurate perspective on the country they live in. Russian and informed international readers are aware that analogies with the collapse of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union are misleading. It is difficult to imagine a defeat along the lines of that suffered by Germany being experienced by a nuclear power such as Russia. Similarly, the collapse of the Soviet regime came about first and foremost because of its sclerotic economic system, which left the population behind the Iron Curtain without food and consumer goods.

Even while waging war, Mr. Putin’s Russia remains a market economy and a consumerist society that has yet to close its borders. That makes it more akin to the dictatorships described in the book. They, too, kept their borders open and retained private ownership while dividing citizens into patriots and enemies, repressing the opposition, branding the West as corrupt and promoting special paths for their countries.

Russian readers have found much that is resonant in the book. How the Greek dictatorship, for example, collapsed after an attempt to annex Cyprus, which it regarded as a historical part of the country. Or how the Portuguese regime caved in as a result of a colonial, imperialist war that dragged on for years. Or how Salazar, plagued by health problems, was removed from power but continued to think that he was ruling the country. (To maintain the illusion, a special newspaper was published just for him.) And then there is the story of how in Spain, the idea of a transition to democracy slowly took hold and was brought about by the ruling elite itself.

Unsurprisingly, the book has infuriated some pro-Kremlin propagandists. Mobile network operators blocked one bookstore’s campaign of promotional text messages, a clear sign the book is seen as dangerous. Nevertheless, there is no legal way for the authorities to ban it. And in any case, prosecuting a book that focuses on the transition from conservative or fascist dictatorship to democracy risks looking overly defensive.

In one chapter, I write that political energy, like any other kind of energy, doesn’t simply disappear — it merely takes on different forms. Russians’ interest in “The End of the Regime,” it seems, is a good example of that energy finding an outlet.

Alexander Baunov (@baunov) is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230503142216/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/04/26/opinion/russia-putin-dictatorship-book.html

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BT4ZJ591/ Available only in Russian

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 3:20 PM

Ukraine flags block Russian ambassador's path on Victory Day

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine blocked the path of Russia's ambassador to Poland as he sought Tuesday to place a wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers on Russia's Victory Day holiday.

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=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 5:54 PM

The Ukraine Flag is good for nothing but toilet paper.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 11:58 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The Ukraine Flag is good for nothing but toilet paper.

So now you are anti-Ukraine? What next? Pro-Russian?

Kremlin Pilot’s Lost Corpse Washes Ashore on Russian ‘Victory Day’

The head of the Kyiv region police posted a photo of the remains on Telegram, along with the caption: “Pilot Roma floated to the surface, probably to celebrate May 9th. He couldn’t just sit around at home. ‘The holiday is sacred!’ A good example for all Russians. Better to stay at home than become accomplices in war crimes.”

Russia’s pro-war military bloggers have reacted with outrage to Ukraine’s announcement about Mankishev’s remains.

“They extracted [the body] precisely on May 9 and performed mockery and a photo session,” one popular Russian Telegram channel lamented.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/body-of-kremlin-pilot-roman-mankishev-wa
shes-ashore-in-kyiv-on-russian-victory-day

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The Ukraine Flag is good for nothing but toilet paper.
So now you are anti-Ukraine?

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN ANTI-UKRAINE.

WTF dude. Have you not been paying attention?

Quote:
What next? Pro-Russian?

#Rootin4Putin

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:02 PM

PUTIN'S PARADE: HOW LOW IS LOW?

INSIDE RUSSIA

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:17 PM

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?

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:19 PM

Quote:
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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Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:33 AM

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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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 7:56 PM

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 8:09 PM

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 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.

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.

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.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 10:04 PM

Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 8:01 AM

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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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 10:31 AM

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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
ne

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Friday, July 28, 2023 5:26 PM

So sad.

T

'Russian propaganda is beginning to fall apart,' says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

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Friday, July 28, 2023 11:52 PM

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So sad.

Yes you are Ted.

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Sunday, July 30, 2023 6:46 PM

Ukrainian Tank Losses Diminish As Polish Technicians Save More And More Damaged Leopard 2s

How many Western-made tanks has Ukraine lost in the first seven weeks of its long-anticipated southern counteroffensive?

That entirely depends on how many damaged tanks the Ukrainians can repair—or get their allies to repair for them. If Kyiv’s forces or friends can fix up every tank analysts have counted as damaged, losses of Leopard 2 tanks might total ... three.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-tank-losses-diminish-as
-polish-technicians-save-more-and-more-damaged-leopard-2s/ar-AA1exmj4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a5631413920f4c71b257c04032c5f9dc&ei=50

Three, that's too funny, aye comrade?

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Sunday, July 30, 2023 7:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

now apparently russia is sending lancet drones to finish off any ukie-fielded tanks - and other armored vehicles- that are disabled in the field.

say 'goodbye' to your armored weqpons, kiev!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Monday, July 31, 2023 4:50 PM

America calls Putin's bluff.

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Friday, August 4, 2023 6:00 AM

Russian warship appears damaged in Ukrainian sea drone attack on navy base

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-warship-damaged-ukraine-dro
ne-attack-navy-base-novorossiysk-rcna98114

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Saturday, August 12, 2023 7:32 PM

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023 9:56 PM

Black swan song of Russian Empire

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/black-swan-song-of-russian-empire
/ar-AA1fDbEu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f1a25bd5d8bd49dc961a0351731df4df&ei=75

Bye

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023 5:41 AM

Some of it can compare but at other times I don't think it truly compares, Czech and Slovaks were one at the time, Czech very Bohemia, Polish, Germanic Lutheran, Proto-Slavic and Gallic and Roman influence, Hussite movement, a culture later splitting into other Republic, they shared a lot with German Saxon culture and Polish culture. The history of Czech is different to other former USSR States and Russia the Soviets were a huge bloc and at the time had feared military ships, helicopters and aircraft, it had space stations and put robots on the Moon.

Russia seems to be in a kind of decay and can no longer land a robot on the Moon without crashing

Failed Lunar Mission Dents Russian Pride And Reflects Deeper Problems With Space Industry
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-lunar-failure_n_64e5c814e4b07db6
8195fc4d

spun out of control and crashed

first mission in 47 years

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Thursday, August 31, 2023 1:49 PM

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-has-developed-a-lo
ng-range-weapon-a-day-after-a-strike-deep-inside-russia-1.6542543

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Friday, October 13, 2023 6:17 PM

Word is he is dying. We can hope.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 7:17 PM

Comrade signym, can you see me laughing?

T

Vladimir Putin is the ‘biggest gift to NATO’ since the USSR’s collapse

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 11:04 PM

Quote:
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Word is he is dying. We can hope.

T

We've been hearing that for as long as we've been hearing that Kathleen Kennedy was being kicked out of Lucasfilm.

Good luck, Theodore.

Although I doubt very much that Putin's death is going to have a single effect on your life.

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Friday, October 20, 2023 7:31 PM

100 000 RUSSIAN COPS HAVE DISAPPEARED!

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Friday, October 20, 2023 8:02 PM

Yeah. Sure they have, idiot.

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Sunday, October 22, 2023 11:29 AM

Swedish government expects NATO membership within 'a few weeks'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/swedish-government-expects-nato-m
embership-within-a-few-weeks/ar-AA1iCXag?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ed5f7ff8c395460fbb23c26a946e204c&ei=64

Thanks Putin, dummy. This is another thread comrade signym avoids. It makes her cry. Too funny...

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Sunday, October 22, 2023 2:41 PM

Fuck NATO.

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Monday, October 23, 2023 4:07 PM

Oh no comrade signym, oh no.

T

RUSSIAN Economy Collapsing - Net Loss Hits 1.7TR, Oil & Gas Revenues Fall 70% & War Costs Rise

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Monday, October 23, 2023 5:50 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Monday, October 23, 2023 6:35 PM

Meanwhile... In the US Economy.

Get fucked, Ted.

Nobody comes to you for economic advice. If I want to know what the best dildo to use while bouncing to pics of war and Obama, you're the first person I'll come to.

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Thursday, December 14, 2023 7:20 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

SIGNYM

Finland grants rapid military access to U.S. on its territory

The Finnish government has decided to sign an agreement with the United States for cooperation in the defense sector. It entails granting American military forces broad access through their territory, notably in the area near the border with Russia, according to Finland's government press service.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/finland-grants-rapid-military-acc
ess-to-u-s-on-its-territory/ar-AA1lvHUt?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1cbf36d54c034d239eeee4b560c49a23&ei=60

Good grief Putty, what now?

T

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023 2:10 PM

Russian Government Creates Bill to Criminalize 'Russophobia' Worldwide

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-government-creates-bill-t
o-criminalize-russophobia-worldwide/ar-AA1lJ36Y?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f5db32157b874d84a808afd697150c9c&ei=213

Oh no signym, please don't turn me in. Holy fuck, can you believe this little tyrant. Just when I finally stopped laughing about him he gets me laughing again.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 5:47 PM

Six Ukrainian pilots complete basic training for F-16 flights in the UK

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/six-ukrainian-pilots-complete-bas
ic-training-for-f-16-flights-in-the-uk/ar-AA1m2zCa?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=94849673a62548938de6fc97c60f557f&ei=17

Great news aye comrade signym.

T

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Monday, March 4, 2024 2:00 PM

US House Member Initiates Discharge Petition for Ukraine Aid Bill

Amidst growing support for Ukraine in the US House of Representatives, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican, is taking steps to circumvent House Speaker Mike Johnson regarding the approval of a bill to aid Ukraine. Employing a legislative tactic known as a discharge petition, Fitzpatrick seeks to bring the bill directly to a vote on the House floor, thereby circumventing the standard committee process and the speaker’s authority. To succeed, the discharge petition needs at least 218 signatures, which is a simple majority of the House. Fitzpatrick intends to have the petition ready by early March and has suggested that a number of his Republican colleagues are ready to support the maneuver. The requirement is that the House must be in session for at least 30 days prior to the vote on the petition. While signaling the need for urgency, Fitzpatrick has not yet decided on the exact form of the Ukraine aid bill he wishes to present.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-house-member-initiates-disc
harge-petition-for-ukraine-aid-bill/ar-BB1jh9Mo

Let's go, get it done.

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Thursday, April 4, 2024 12:33 PM

NATO has grown. That in itself and a Putin disaster.

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:00 AM

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I think in this case I'll post something more appropriate sig.

Putin

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:06 AM

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:09 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 1:06 P

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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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI: Thursday, February 15, 2018 5:06 PM

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Question, does sig and 1kiki realize in firefly, Russia no longer exists. Ain't that a kick in the head.

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Too funny...

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by THG: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:47 PM

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Umm ... where's the disaster for Putin? This is like you posting about Turkey under Saudia (sic) Araba (sic) thread.

I guess you don't even respect the content of you own threads!

In any case, this is just a slow withdrawal. Iraq will eventually demand that our troops leave their country, so we will probably shift them over to Saudi Arabia.

It's a mess for Putin because when Trump is gone payback is coming. That said, Putin doesn't have the budget to fill Americas shoes. His entire budget comes from oil and it's the size of Italy's. Not enough to do more than bluff.

What will come out of this is a renewed effort to straighten NATO. All Trump succeeded in doing was to point out weakness that exposed it attack. They will cut the fat and excommunicate the bad actors. This will happen as we fix the holes in the rule of law in this country that let Trump be Trump.

tick tock comrade troll. And I'll post what I want where I want.

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I sure called that. We're getting big time payback on Russia.

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by THG: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:30 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Meanwhile, I care not one bit about Putin or Russia, because I'm a born-and-raised US citizen. I care about my country.

But you obsessively track everything to do with Russia because ...

Because it pisses you off comrade. For years now you and sig have defended Putin and Russia against every, and I mean every negative thing said about them, while bashing America. You are fooling no one comrade...

We here don't have to see you visually to see the Putin dog collar you wear around your neck.

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Monday, April 8, 2024 10:55 AM