Updates tagged with putin on Arkwood Pond Social!
lnxw48a1: So the #UK has some responsibility for the massacres and genocides that #Putin has unleashed since 2000? https://mastodonapp.uk/@Declassified_UK/109559035928897895
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 18:28:29 UTC
So the #UK has some responsibility for the massacres and genocides that #Putin has unleashed since 2000? https://mastodonapp.uk/@Declassified_UK/109559035928897895
simsa04: I still wonder how #Russia under #Putin, Putin and his circle, and their apologists in the South and West could ever come up with the idea that NATO and "the West" were out to "encircle" and "subdue" Russia. If you want to bring down a country, you don't first engage in economic relationships with it or make yourself dependent on it in crucial areas of #infrastructure and #energy. Assuming Putin to be a rational player – a murderous one, but still – he must have clearly seen that delivery of raw materials to the West was increasing, not decreasing Russia's security. Not even a NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia could endanger Russia given the scale of Western dependency. Thus, the Greater Russia chimera with the corresponding conspiracy idea of the West wanting to "extinguish" Russia is the fantasy of a drama queen that cannot accept that Russia is a banal and mediocre state with little else to offer than raw materials and conflict. Putin needed to concoct interrelationships of historical, existential, and religous dimensions because he seemingly couldn't accept that after 20 years in power (various positions), his only achievement had been the creation of a mafia-state for his self-enrichment. But the country itself had become a failure, and so, irrespective of his riches, he himself. (Since 2007 I would argue.) And so he started it. A genocidal war on a sovereign neighbouring state, to ease his feelings of inferiority as man and head of state.
simsa04's status on Thursday, 15-Dec-2022 05:01:30 UTC
I still wonder how #Russia under #Putin, Putin and his circle, and their apologists in the South and West could ever come up with the idea that NATO and "the West" were out to "encircle" and "subdue" Russia. If you want to bring down a country, you don't first engage in economic relationships with it or make yourself dependent on it in crucial areas of #infrastructure and #energy. Assuming Putin to be a rational player – a murderous one, but still – he must have clearly seen that delivery of raw materials to the West was increasing, not decreasing Russia's security. Not even a NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia could endanger Russia given the scale of Western dependency. Thus, the Greater Russia chimera with the corresponding conspiracy idea of the West wanting to "extinguish" Russia is the fantasy of a drama queen that cannot accept that Russia is a banal and mediocre state with little else to offer than raw materials and conflict. Putin needed to concoct interrelationships of historical, existential, and religous dimensions because he seemingly couldn't accept that after 20 years in power (various positions), his only achievement had been the creation of a mafia-state for his self-enrichment. But the country itself had become a failure, and so, irrespective of his riches, he himself. (Since 2007 I would argue.) And so he started it. A genocidal war on a sovereign neighbouring state, to ease his feelings of inferiority as man and head of state.
lnxw48a1: #Putin to visit Donbass "in due course". https://tass.com/russia/1545279
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 18:46:50 UTC
#Putin to visit Donbass "in due course". https://tass.com/russia/1545279
lnxw48a1: #Putin is telling the mothers of Russian soldiers that he shares their pain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63760278 [www bbc co uk]
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 05:15:35 UTC
#Putin is telling the mothers of Russian soldiers that he shares their pain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63760278 [www bbc co uk]
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/288194 [www celebretainment com] More rumors about #Putin's health. While the rumors might provide an explanation for the timing of going from a smoldering proxy war in the #Donbass to attempting to extinguish #Ukraine's independent statehood, one can look back and see that some of the ideas that led this way were already prominent in 2014 and possibly earlier. One can also see that even if #Russia's leader was to pass away from a fatal disease, the war would likely continue, because the ideas and circumstances leading in that direction would still be widespread among national leadership as well as the nation's people themselves.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 02:12:18 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/288194 [www celebretainment com] More rumors about #Putin's health. While the rumors might provide an explanation for the timing of going from a smoldering proxy war in the #Donbass to attempting to extinguish #Ukraine's independent statehood, one can look back and see that some of the ideas that led this way were already prominent in 2014 and possibly earlier. One can also see that even if #Russia's leader was to pass away from a fatal disease, the war would likely continue, because the ideas and circumstances leading in that direction would still be widespread among national leadership as well as the nation's people themselves.
lnxw48a1: Is #Putin's #Russia planning to use #Belarus for renewed attacks against #Ukraine's capital Kyiv? https://nu.federati.net/url/288007 [www atlanticcouncil org]
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 04-Oct-2022 01:56:05 UTC
Is #Putin's #Russia planning to use #Belarus for renewed attacks against #Ukraine's capital Kyiv? https://nu.federati.net/url/288007 [www atlanticcouncil org]
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/287903 [www telegraph co uk] Secret section of #Putin order may allow up to 1,000,000 to be called up for deployment to #Ukraine. Protesters in #Russia being conscripted. Border crossings have long waits and security forces starting to screen people to prevent escape.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 23-Sep-2022 01:55:49 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/287903 [www telegraph co uk] Secret section of #Putin order may allow up to 1,000,000 to be called up for deployment to #Ukraine. Protesters in #Russia being conscripted. Border crossings have long waits and security forces starting to screen people to prevent escape.
lnxw48a1: @geniusmusing While I’m glad to see a little opposition arising in #Russia, I think #Putin has put himself in a win-or-die situation in #Ukraine.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 22-Sep-2022 13:50:57 UTC
@geniusmusing While I’m glad to see a little opposition arising in #Russia, I think #Putin has put himself in a win-or-die situation in #Ukraine.
lnxw48a1: #Putin: partial mobilization to continue invasion of #Ukraine, votes in captive areas to join #Russia, threats of nuclear war https://nu.federati.net/url/287879 [www nbcnews com]
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2022 20:30:01 UTC
#Putin: partial mobilization to continue invasion of #Ukraine, votes in captive areas to join #Russia, threats of nuclear war https://nu.federati.net/url/287879 [www nbcnews com]
lnxw48a1: #Russia’s #Ukraine invasion: https://birb.site/@charlag/109032007836088244 I did not check for sources, but according to this person, #Putin is escalating.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2022 07:07:29 UTC
#Russia’s #Ukraine invasion: https://birb.site/@charlag/109032007836088244 I did not check for sources, but according to this person, #Putin is escalating.
lnxw48a1: BREAKING NEWS #Putin survives assassination attempt / car bomb. https://nu.federati.net/url/287847 [www news com au] Purges starting now.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 03:03:57 UTC
BREAKING NEWS #Putin survives assassination attempt / car bomb. https://nu.federati.net/url/287847 [www news com au] Purges starting now.
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/287829 [www abc net au] Now that #Ukraine has gained the initiative in #Russia's invasion, Vladimir #Putin may face new pressure. Expect him to try to find a new place to exert pressure and attempt to cut US and Western European backing.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2022 03:18:55 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/287829 [www abc net au] Now that #Ukraine has gained the initiative in #Russia's invasion, Vladimir #Putin may face new pressure. Expect him to try to find a new place to exert pressure and attempt to cut US and Western European backing.
lnxw48a1: #Putin may be sidelining his military commander https://nu.federati.net/url/287666 [en defence-ua com]
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 01-Sep-2022 09:03:31 UTC
#Putin may be sidelining his military commander https://nu.federati.net/url/287666 [en defence-ua com]
lnxw48a1: A car bomb near Moscow, #Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/briefing/russia-bombing-imran-khan.html [www nytimes com] Naturally, some of the elites blame #Ukraine, but if I was planning a bombing in an invading country, I would probably strike against its weapon-making industries, its fuel / energy industries, its transportation industries, even though this is believed to have been targeted at the originator of the philosophy of "survival of Eurasia against Western aggression" that #Putin parrots in his speeches. IMO, now that Vlad the Invader has already ingested the ideas, killing the originator will have little effect on the eventual outcome.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 05:58:23 UTC
A car bomb near Moscow, #Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/briefing/russia-bombing-imran-khan.html [www nytimes com] Naturally, some of the elites blame #Ukraine, but if I was planning a bombing in an invading country, I would probably strike against its weapon-making industries, its fuel / energy industries, its transportation industries, even though this is believed to have been targeted at the originator of the philosophy of "survival of Eurasia against Western aggression" that #Putin parrots in his speeches. IMO, now that Vlad the Invader has already ingested the ideas, killing the originator will have little effect on the eventual outcome.
lnxw48a1: Saw a headline today saying that Vladimir #Putin continues to compare himself to Peter the Great, and to speak of #Russia's grand imperial ambitions. I think there is hardly a country in Europe or Asia that would not be affected by the increasingly likely spread of this war.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 01:36:52 UTC
Saw a headline today saying that Vladimir #Putin continues to compare himself to Peter the Great, and to speak of #Russia's grand imperial ambitions. I think there is hardly a country in Europe or Asia that would not be affected by the increasingly likely spread of this war.
lnxw48a1: https://nypost.com/2022/05/14/russias-vladimir-putin-ill-with-blood-cancer-secret-recording/ [nypost com] More speculation of Putin's #health, this time a wealthy person with known ties to #Putin was secretly recorded stating that the dictator has 'blood cancer'. #Russia #invasion #war #cancer #Ukraine
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 13:03:32 UTC
https://nypost.com/2022/05/14/russias-vladimir-putin-ill-with-blood-cancer-secret-recording/ [nypost com] More speculation of Putin's #health, this time a wealthy person with known ties to #Putin was secretly recorded stating that the dictator has 'blood cancer'. #Russia #invasion #war #cancer #Ukraine
lnxw48a1: #Putin did not declare war or announce widespread military call ups as some thought he might, but he did use "Victory Day" to tie #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine to the World War II fight against Nazis.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 09-May-2022 16:12:19 UTC
#Putin did not declare war or announce widespread military call ups as some thought he might, but he did use "Victory Day" to tie #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine to the World War II fight against Nazis.
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/286258 [www dailymail co uk] From 2022-03-23: Someone claims that members of #Russia's FSB are planning a coup over the consequences of the war in #Ukraine. I don't see an FSB coup happening. Having been involved in the spy agency, #Putin knows what they are capable of doing, and he's naturally going to keep a very close watch on them.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 07-May-2022 05:12:19 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/286258 [www dailymail co uk] From 2022-03-23: Someone claims that members of #Russia's FSB are planning a coup over the consequences of the war in #Ukraine. I don't see an FSB coup happening. Having been involved in the spy agency, #Putin knows what they are capable of doing, and he's naturally going to keep a very close watch on them.
lnxw48a1: https://news.yahoo.com/u-officials-warn-nightmare-putin-192343670.html #US and #Ukraine officials believe #Putin may declare war on May 9 (2022-05-09) to escalate #Russia's invasion in pursuit of some victory.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 05-May-2022 17:54:29 UTC
https://news.yahoo.com/u-officials-warn-nightmare-putin-192343670.html #US and #Ukraine officials believe #Putin may declare war on May 9 (2022-05-09) to escalate #Russia's invasion in pursuit of some victory.
lnxw48a1: Formerly one of #Russia's richest men, this man was forced to sell his bank for a fraction of its value after he criticized #Putin for the #invasion of #Ukraine. https://nu.federati.net/url/286198 [www dailymail co uk]
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 04-May-2022 00:46:43 UTC
Formerly one of #Russia's richest men, this man was forced to sell his bank for a fraction of its value after he criticized #Putin for the #invasion of #Ukraine. https://nu.federati.net/url/286198 [www dailymail co uk]
lnxw48a1: I should clarify that this is a summary of what their comment says, not my own opinion. I think the nuclear threats are because he backed himself into a corner by promising quick success in the #invasion of #Ukraine ... #Russia can still continue the #war for some time before running out of options. (Without considering the option of overthrowing #Putin, as I consider that unlikely until and unless the Russian military leaders see total military collapse in their near future.) As for if or when a nuclear exchange will start, I profess complete lack of knowledge. He's a would-be world emperor, so seeing his path forward stymied could trigger an attack at any time. Or he could sit in the corner crying that those meanies prevented him from righting the (in his mind) wrong that was the breakup of the Soviet Union. It is anyone's guess which will happen.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 14:16:39 UTC
I should clarify that this is a summary of what their comment says, not my own opinion. I think the nuclear threats are because he backed himself into a corner by promising quick success in the #invasion of #Ukraine ... #Russia can still continue the #war for some time before running out of options. (Without considering the option of overthrowing #Putin, as I consider that unlikely until and unless the Russian military leaders see total military collapse in their near future.) As for if or when a nuclear exchange will start, I profess complete lack of knowledge. He's a would-be world emperor, so seeing his path forward stymied could trigger an attack at any time. Or he could sit in the corner crying that those meanies prevented him from righting the (in his mind) wrong that was the breakup of the Soviet Union. It is anyone's guess which will happen.
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/286150 [www newsnationnow com] #Putin's nuclear dick-waving is because he's rapidly running out of options besides nukes and admitting failure of #Russia's #invasion of #Ukraine
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 01:32:25 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/286150 [www newsnationnow com] #Putin's nuclear dick-waving is because he's rapidly running out of options besides nukes and admitting failure of #Russia's #invasion of #Ukraine
lnxw48a1: Something I don’t understand: rightist Holocaust deniers love to bring up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor in response to discussion of Nazi atrocities, but suddenly forgot all that when #Putin’s #Russia starts a war against #Ukraine. #Holocaust #Holodomor #RU #UA #invasion
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2022 18:37:55 UTC
Something I don’t understand: rightist Holocaust deniers love to bring up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor in response to discussion of Nazi atrocities, but suddenly forgot all that when #Putin’s #Russia starts a war against #Ukraine. #Holocaust #Holodomor #RU #UA #invasion
lnxw48a1: #Putin's key supporters playing face-saving waiting game in #Ukraine https://nu.federati.net/url/285945 [www theguardian com] The author, Olga Chyzh believes that neither the intelligence community nor the military wishes the war to end, because of the purges that can be expected. #Russia #invasion #RU #UA
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2022 00:09:44 UTC
#Putin's key supporters playing face-saving waiting game in #Ukraine https://nu.federati.net/url/285945 [www theguardian com] The author, Olga Chyzh believes that neither the intelligence community nor the military wishes the war to end, because of the purges that can be expected. #Russia #invasion #RU #UA
lnxw48a1: Kasparov: Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil https://www.chess.com/news/view/kasparov-ted-talk-russia-war-ukraine-putin #Russia #invasion #Ukraine #Putin #chess #kasparov
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 18-Apr-2022 00:45:30 UTC
Kasparov: Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil https://www.chess.com/news/view/kasparov-ted-talk-russia-war-ukraine-putin #Russia #invasion #Ukraine #Putin #chess #kasparov
lnxw48a1: "Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory." https://nu.federati.net/url/285679 [www newstatesman com] #Russia #Ukraine #war #invasion #Putin #NATO #China #geopolitics #RU #UA
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 03-Apr-2022 12:34:10 UTC
"Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory." https://nu.federati.net/url/285679 [www newstatesman com] #Russia #Ukraine #war #invasion #Putin #NATO #China #geopolitics #RU #UA
lnxw48a1: Russian military conscripts say they were sent out with non-functioning 1940s rifles https://nu.federati.net/url/285614 [www dailymail co uk] I don't know how reliable the Daily Mail is (not being from the UK), especially about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. With this article, they're probably not on #Putin's payroll.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 00:13:40 UTC
Russian military conscripts say they were sent out with non-functioning 1940s rifles https://nu.federati.net/url/285614 [www dailymail co uk] I don't know how reliable the Daily Mail is (not being from the UK), especially about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. With this article, they're probably not on #Putin's payroll.
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/285551 Sorry, I can't read Italian. Article says that #Putin says he plans to withdraw #RU troops from most of #UA by 2022-05-09, leaving only the Donbass areas (e.g., the breakaway republics) and speculates that this is not likely to happen unless #Russia has lost a lot of soldiers and cannot continue its invasion. And even then, if they unilaterally retreated, every Ukrainian would continue shooting as they left ... and probably follow them into the Donbass region in an attempt to liberate its territory from the invaders.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 00:00:37 UTC
https://nu.federati.net/url/285551 Sorry, I can't read Italian. Article says that #Putin says he plans to withdraw #RU troops from most of #UA by 2022-05-09, leaving only the Donbass areas (e.g., the breakaway republics) and speculates that this is not likely to happen unless #Russia has lost a lot of soldiers and cannot continue its invasion. And even then, if they unilaterally retreated, every Ukrainian would continue shooting as they left ... and probably follow them into the Donbass region in an attempt to liberate its territory from the invaders.
lnxw48a1: https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/fcd85d06-4833-419a-8911-eaaa8b67c854 Vladimir #Putin discussing the #Russia versus #Ukraine war and sanctions' collective effect of purifying Russian society of those whose values come from elsewhere. If a group of Russian military leaders are going to overthrow him, they'd better hurry. He's starting the purges.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 17-Mar-2022 00:14:44 UTC
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/fcd85d06-4833-419a-8911-eaaa8b67c854 Vladimir #Putin discussing the #Russia versus #Ukraine war and sanctions' collective effect of purifying Russian society of those whose values come from elsewhere. If a group of Russian military leaders are going to overthrow him, they'd better hurry. He's starting the purges.
lnxw48a1: I'd be very careful about underestimating #Russia's military. As a number of its former #USSR / #CCCP sister republics have learned, the primary obstacle to #Putin's dream of rebuilding the empire is Russia itself, not any opposing nation.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2020 22:19:20 UTC
I'd be very careful about underestimating #Russia's military. As a number of its former #USSR / #CCCP sister republics have learned, the primary obstacle to #Putin's dream of rebuilding the empire is Russia itself, not any opposing nation.
cereal: I wonder what it's like to be compliant, even in lockstep, with #Putin? #mastodon
cereal's status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2019 08:22:22 UTC
I wonder what it's like to be compliant, even in lockstep, with #Putin? #mastodon