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So the #UK has some responsibility for the massacres and genocides that #Putin has unleashed since 2000? https://mastodonapp.uk/@Declassified_UK/109559035928897895
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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.
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#Putin to visit Donbass "in due course". https://tass.com/russia/1545279
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#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]
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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.
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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]
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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.
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@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.
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#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]
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#Russia’s #Ukraine invasion: https://birb.site/@charlag/109032007836088244
I did not check for sources, but according to this person, #Putin is escalating.
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BREAKING NEWS
#Putin survives assassination attempt / car bomb. https://nu.federati.net/url/287847 [www news com au]
Purges starting now.
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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.
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#Putin may be sidelining his military commander https://nu.federati.net/url/287666 [en defence-ua com]
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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.
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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.
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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
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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