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Saturday, January 7, 2023 5:40 PM

THG


Copy and paste the link below into a browser and do a search. It will take you to his site.

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Monday, January 9, 2023 2:47 PM

THG


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DEMONS AMONG US IN RUSSIA

INSIDE RUSSIA






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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 8:53 AM

THG


Another country Putin thought was his friend has snubbed Russia by refusing to host its military for routine exercises

Armenia's leader has canceled Russian military drills planned in the country for later this year.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the drills were "inappropriate in the current situation," AP reported.

Pashinyan has accused Russia of failing to help in its ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/another-country-putin-thought-was
-his-friend-has-snubbed-russia-by-refusing-to-host-its-military-for-routine-exercises/ar-AA16drOT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=48d3e3ed50b44769b544b98cc21b8c7a




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Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:28 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Russians brought 100,000-200,000 troops plus heavy equipment (tanks, artillery, fighter-bombers) to their border with Ukraine.

NATO:The elephant labored, and brought forth a nouse. 28,000 troops; language barriers, snarled logistics, and poor integration.

I'm sure the Russians are shaking in their boots!

/snark

Meanwhile, the Biden* administration is busy pillaging Ukraine for the last dregs of wealth.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64020&p=7#1
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Doesn't it make you feel proud, to be a nation of parasites?

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.





Too funny...

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Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:30 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Let the nuclear games begin!!

(THUGGER has his own private delusional shield which will protect him from all fallout, figurative and literal.)





As always, a nothing burger threat.

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Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:34 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Awwww, look - another love sonnet from THUGGER to Putin. That's sweet. I wonder if THUGGER knows his love will forever be unrequited.


THUGGER is an idiot. It's that simple.



Hey kiki, what ever happened to the Russian su 57 stealth fighter that comrade Signym was touting as better than anything the US had. Oh yeah, the Russians couldn't get it to work. Never mind...

U.S 6th GENERATION FIGHTER IS DEVELOPED IN A YEAR & HAS ALREADY FLOWN! IT HAS “BROKEN RECORDS” TOO !


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Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
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DEMONS AMONG US IN RUSSIA

INSIDE RUSSIA




Plenty of demons right here, Ted.

Why are you worried about the Russian ones?

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Friday, January 27, 2023 6:46 PM

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Friday, January 27, 2023 6:47 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody gives a shit.

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Sunday, January 29, 2023 3:43 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

Poland Just Bought America's M1 Abrams Tank. That's Ironic.

Poland will purchase 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 main battle tanks from the U.S., replacing older tanks dating back to the Cold War. The tanks will arm Polish Army units guarding against incursions by the Russian Army.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-just-bought-america-s-m1-a
brams-tank-that-s-ironic/ar-AAMbFWY?ocid=msedgntp



. Poor sods. Spending hard earned money on junk




THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.





Oh boy oh boy.

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WHY RUSSIANS FALL OUT WINDOWS | Invisible War For Russia's Oil, Gas And Secret Bank Accounts


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Tuesday, January 31, 2023 2:30 PM

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Friday, February 3, 2023 2:30 PM

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'Significant Tensions' Emerging Within Russian Ranks And 'Playing Out In Public', UK Says

There are “significant tensions” emerging between a prominent paramilitary group and the official Russian ministry of defence, according to UK intelligence.

At a time when Russia is thought to be building up its resources for a renewed attack on Ukraine to mark one-year since the invasion began, all is reportedly not well within the forces’ ranks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/significant-tensions-emerging-wit
hin-russian-ranks-and-playing-out-in-public-uk-says/ar-AA1742jv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=da04961c8a804281a6454f6ab0391232




tick tock

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Friday, February 3, 2023 2:44 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
'Significant Tensions' Emerging Within Russian Ranks And 'Playing Out In Public', UK Says

There are “significant tensions” emerging between a prominent paramilitary group and the official Russian ministry of defence, according to UK intelligence.

At a time when Russia is thought to be building up its resources for a renewed attack on Ukraine to mark one-year since the invasion began, all is reportedly not well within the forces’ ranks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/significant-tensions-emerging-wit
hin-russian-ranks-and-playing-out-in-public-uk-says/ar-AA1742jv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=da04961c8a804281a6454f6ab0391232




tick tock

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Is this the same UK "intelligence" responsible for the Steel Dossier?



You're an idiot Ted.

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Friday, February 17, 2023 6:34 AM

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Friday, February 17, 2023 7:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Our country worked a lot better before the Federal Government destroyed the mafia's here and took over their jobs.

Maybe Russia's will too.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023 11:22 AM

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Russian internal strategy document details Kremlin's plans to take control of Belarus within 7 years: report

Russian President Vladimir Putin's executive office distributed an internal strategy document in fall 2021 that lays out the Kremlin's 10-year plan to take full control of neighboring Belarus, a country north of Ukraine that borders three NATO members, Yahoo News reported on Monday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-internal-strategy-documen
t-details-kremlin-s-plans-to-take-control-of-belarus-within-7-years-report/ar-AA17JtDS?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fbbd1bda25954fe9be58e7f6ffb26940




The biggest problem comrade signym has are the facts reported about Putin and Russia. They keep proving some of us here right, and her wrong. It happens again and again and again.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023 2:46 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says [as reported by MSN, the people who brought you RUSSIA!!RUSSIA!!]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!






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Monday, February 27, 2023 10:11 AM

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Monday, March 6, 2023 7:51 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Amid Russian Advances, Residents in Ukraine's Bakhmut Describe Dire Conditions

https://www.voanews.com/a/amid-russian-advances-residents-in-ukraine-b
akhmut-describe-dire-conditions/6990777.html


Russia works to ease visa regime for India and 5 other countries.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/russia-works-t
o-ease-visa-regime-for-india-other-countries-tass/articleshow/98438923.cms


seems Ruskie might need foreign men with pitchfork and shovels?


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Monday, March 6, 2023 12:20 PM

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Monday, March 6, 2023 12:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody cares.

American's didn't even know Estonia was a thing until Encino Man and long since forgot that.

If one were to ask you to point out Estonia on a map, you wouldn't be able to do it without Google.

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Monday, March 6, 2023 5:59 PM

THG


I told you so comrade signym. I told you so. Russia is a third rate country.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:03 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by THGRRI:

We have another case of history repeating itself in Russia today. Genocidal Russian leader Josef Stalin at first used the May 9th Victory Day celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany to create solidarity and patriotism, but after two years he decided the celebrations had served their purpose so he cancelled them. Current Russian president Vladimir Putin seems to be taking a page from his historical mentor Stalin as he is using Victory Day to whip up nationalist fervor as he attempts to rewrite history and paint a false picture that Russia is still fighting fascism, but this time it’s Europe and the U.S. who are out to subjugate Mother Russia.




Putin's Top Ally in Europe Disappoints Him Once Again

On Tuesday, Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Csaba Hende told reporters that his country is expected to vote in favor of Sweden joining NATO. Allowing the country into the military bloc would be a major blow against Putin, who has cited the prevention of NATO expansion as one of his reasons for starting the war in Ukraine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-s-top-ally-in-europe-disapp
oints-him-once-again/ar-AA18kyCH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5f2fd8b0c5af468da727922a849d4311&ei=24




Why, because Putin invaded Ukraine.

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Thursday, March 9, 2023 5:44 PM

THG


Reporter Mariam Nikuradze speaks with Isa Soares from the frontlines of the protests in Tbilisi, Georgia about the government's scrapping of the controversial "foreign agent bill," and why the protests are still happening.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/reporter-it-s-one-of-the-largest-
protests-i-ve-seen-in-my-career/vi-AA18qoLe?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=5309d73a2f7b4f779c2fd93a1aecfbb0&ei=43




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Thursday, March 23, 2023 9:41 AM

THG


Vladimir Putin is using 'powerful stimulant drugs', claims Russian political scientist

Russian political scientist Valery Solovei has alleged that a recent speech made by the Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals that he is under the influence of strong drugs. Recent images of Putin meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping have also fuelled more speculation about his health.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vladimir-putin-is-using-powerful-
stimulant-drugs-claims-russian-political-scientist/ar-AA18Z2h2?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=417b3fa02d754d1ab50ef14194a13f68&ei=31





Not sure, I'm just saying.

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Thursday, March 23, 2023 6:45 PM

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Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Not sure, I'm just saying.



You say stupid shit every day, Ted.

At least you're admitting you don't know though. Good for you.

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Monday, March 27, 2023 5:59 PM

THG


Xi Jinping’s plan to annex Russian territory is there for all to see

The long-debated agreement on “Power of Siberia 2” (POS2) – a massive pipeline project to pump gas from Western Siberia to China via Mongolia – has become emblematic of the one-sided and slightly abusive relationship between China and Russia since the start of the Ukraine war. It is not good news for Moscow.

Ahead of Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Russia, Putin boldly announced that the pipeline deal was ready to be signed off, prematurely labelling it “the deal of the century”. But Xi, unmoved by such excessive zeal, declined to sign anything. No mention whatsoever of POS2 appears in the official statements Xi made during the meetings. In the final joint communiqué, all a disappointed Putin could comment was that more work still had to be done “on study and approval”.

It is in this context that we should read Xi’s parting words to Putin – oracular and ominous – that referred to “changes coming, such as haven’t been seen for a century”, which “we can push forward together”. China watchers have been poring over these words for every last nuance, but it’s pretty clear that Xi was framing himself as leader, with Putin nominally by his side, of a revisionist assault on the liberal world order.

Beijing’s vision for the People’s Republic of China’s centenary in 2049 is the global triumph of a “fully developed, rich and powerful China”. This will not include sharing power with a chaotic Russian kleptocracy. The harder Xi focuses his efforts on realising the “China Dream”, the more implacably will his political and economic coercion be directed at Putin and Russia, and the weaker and more dependent both will become.

Xi’s revisionist goals entail wiping out the shame of historical territorial losses. He has imposed Communist authority on Hong Kong, seeks to do so in Taiwan, and undoubtedly has the same ambition for the 600,000 square kilometres – three times the area of Great Britain – which Tsarist Russia wrested from Opium War-weakened Manchu control in 1858-60 under the Treaties of Aigun and Peking. This area includes parts of Siberia, from which Putin’s much-vaunted pipeline deal would extract resources to sell to China.

Since the Chinese Communist Party regime derives much of what it parades as “legitimacy” from these revanchist campaigns, paying Putin for Siberian resources feels like buying family silver back from a robber. Beijing regards its loss of Mongolian lands in the same way, given the crucial Soviet role in breaking Mongolia away from the remnants of Chinese authority in the early 20th century.

Already, cross-border economic activity in Siberia by uncounted Chinese communities, including in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, tacitly revive historical Chinese claims to this resource-rich and highly strategic region. For decades, Chinese gangsters have been smuggling precious Siberian resources back to China through a porous frontier – often in collusion with Russian criminals. It’s a clear breach of Russian sovereignty.

Putin’s disastrous assault on Ukraine may have drawn his gaze far away from Russia’s 4,200km border with China, along with many thousands of soldiers who should guard it, but the Chinese remain focused. Xi Jinping’s zero-sum ambition for the “great rejuvenation of China” is imposing itself step by step on Russian soil.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/xi-jinping-s-plan-to-annex-russia
n-territory-is-there-for-all-to-see/ar-AA198KbQ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f663a0a5511d4f77966d880920dcc270&ei=46




Laughing here again comrade signym. Putin fucked up in ways not realized yet.

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Monday, March 27, 2023 9:19 PM

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would start the process of ratifying Finland's NATO membership






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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 4:23 PM

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Russia loses influence in countries of the former USSR: Armenia and Kazakhstan






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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:10 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
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Russia loses influence in countries of the former USSR: Armenia and Kazakhstan



As if even your stupid ass gives a single shit about Armenia and Kazakhstan.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 6:29 PM

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This post was made in May last year. Signym has had a lot of time since to see Russia get its ass kicked.

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Russians brought 100,000-200,000 troops plus heavy equipment (tanks, artillery, fighter-bombers) to their border with Ukraine.

NATO:The elephant labored, and brought forth a nouse. 28,000 troops; language barriers, snarled logistics, and poor integration.

I'm sure the Russians are shaking in their boots!

/snark

Meanwhile, the Biden* administration is busy pillaging Ukraine for the last dregs of wealth.

Doesn't it make you feel proud, to be a nation of parasites?

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.





I remember when you say a nation of parasites that you are Russian after all.

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IS RUSSIA'S NEW FOREIGN POLICY ChatGPT GENERATED?



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Sunday, April 2, 2023 6:54 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


You're too stupid to be a bot, THUGR.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 7:04 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


From, Moscow, by someone who's actually been there...

Quote:

In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation. Import substitution in all areas, especially agriculture, has been a resounding success. Supermarkets have everything – and more – compared to the West. There’s an abundance of first-rate restaurants. You can buy a Bentley or a Loro Pianna cashmere coat you can’t even find in Italy. We laughed about it chatting with managers at the TSUM department store. At the BiblioGlobus bookstore, one of them told me, “We are the Resistance.”

In Moscow, their [neocon] toxic ghosts are always lurking in the background. Yet one cannot but feel sorry for the psycho Straussian neocons and neoliberal-cons who now barely qualify as Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s puny orphans.

In the late 1990s, Brzezinski pontificated that, “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical center because its very existence as an independent state helps transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”

With or without a demilitarized and denazified Ukraine, Russia has already changed the narrative. This is not about becoming a Eurasian empire again. This is about leading the long, complex process of Eurasia integration – already in effect – in parallel to supporting true, sovereign independence across the Global South.

I left Moscow – the Third Rome – towards Constantinople – the Second Rome – one day before Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev gave a devastating interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta once again outlining all the essentialities inherent to the NATO vs. Russia war.

This is what particularly struck me: “Our centuries-old culture is based on spirituality, compassion and mercy. Russia is a historical defender of sovereignty and statehood of any peoples who turned to it for help. She saved the U.S. itself at least twice, during the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. But I believe that this time it is impractical to help the United States maintain its integrity.”
In my last night, before hitting a Georgian restaurant, I was guided by the perfect companion off Pyatnitskaya to a promenade along the Moscow River, beautiful rococo buildings gloriously lighted, the scent of Spring – finally – in the air. It’s one of those “Wild Strawberry” moments out of Bergman’s masterpiece that hits the bottom of our soul. Like mastering the Tao in practice. Or the perfect meditative insight at the top of the Himalayas, the Pamirs or the Hindu Kush.

So the conclusion is inevitable. I’ll be back. Soon.



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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 2:54 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

You're too stupid to be a bot, THUGR.




NATO just got hundreds of tanks, 62 fighter jets, and a whole lot of artillery after Finland joined the military alliance

Finland's strong military and its decision to join NATO were in part motivated by Russian actions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nato-just-got-hundreds-of-tanks-6
2-fighter-jets-and-a-whole-lot-of-artillery-after-finland-joined-the-military-alliance/ar-AA19vv8q?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=90ae3c8f3c9947cf92b5398b680302af&ei=168




I'm sorry comrade, you were saying?

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Thursday, April 6, 2023 6:16 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

In regards to the recent incursion of British vessel into Russian protected waters, Putin, in his annual call-in show, said: "They won't start WW III because it's a war they know they'll lose".

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.





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Saturday, April 8, 2023 11:18 AM

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Hey comrade signym. Does this mean Putin is winning? Big picture comrade, it's about the big picture. Too funny...

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Saturday, April 8, 2023 12:51 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


THUGR you just unwittingly confirmed the suspicion that the west has been trying to destroy Russia for decades, and that our lates adventure in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with Russia. Eventually Sweden, and other European NATO nations, will realize that joining NATO was a Big Mistake.

Not to fear. Russia, China, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others have figured out that the USA is just an all-consuming Borg and are creating blocs with other countries so they can get out.

Considering it was Biden's* policies that triggered this mass defection from the west, I think this is more like Biden's* disaster.



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Saturday, April 8, 2023 1:04 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Yanno, our country is going to hell in a hand basket and you're focusing on bullshit?
So let's see... Things are going badly in Ukraine so our (stupid) policy-makers try to use Taiwan and Sweden as a distraction. The Euro is falling and half of the world is de-dollarizing and we are creeping closer to the Great Reset, when western central banks will convert to digital currency and you're obsessing about Trump?

And you post about the Big Picture?

Dood, you can't see the Big Picture unless you get your head unstuck from wherever you parked it.

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Saturday, April 8, 2023 1:37 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, our country is going to hell in a hand basket and you're focusing on bullshit?
So let's see... Things are going badly in Ukraine so our (stupid) policy-makers try to use Taiwan and Sweden as a distraction. The Euro is falling and half of the world is de-dollarizing and we are creeping closer to the Great Reset, when western central banks will convert to digital currency and you're obsessing about Trump?

And you post about the Big Picture?

Dood, you can't see the Big Picture unless you get your head unstuck from wherever you parked it.

I know the people who are in trouble. Funny thing, the most troubled Americans are the craziest and it is not that they went crazy after trouble hit. They had crazy beliefs that caused their troubled lives. See 6ixStringJack as the poster boy for troubled Americans. He has multiple addictions because he is crazy, but he sees the solution to his troubles as a change of government as if Trump would save poor stupid crazy 6ix from himself. You goddamn Trumptards need to directly work hard on yourselves and fix yourself rather than think you should take over the national government and foreign policy as an easy and indirect way to escape from the mess you Trumptards have made of your lives.

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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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 SIGNYM:
THUGR you just unwittingly confirmed the suspicion that the west has been trying to destroy Russia for decades, and that our lates adventure in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with Russia. Eventually Sweden, and other European NATO nations, will realize that joining NATO was a Big Mistake.

Not to fear. Russia, China, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others have figured out that the USA is just an all-consuming Borg and are creating blocs with other countries so they can get out.

Considering it was Biden's* policies that triggered this mass defection from the west, I think this is more like Biden's* disaster.

You are insane, Signym.

Wartime Putinism

By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman, January 13, 2023

https://web.archive.org/web/20230114084101/https://www.foreignaffairs.
com/ukraine/wartime-putinism



Winning a long war requires a mobilization of troops and supplies that can outlast the other side. Positive objectives and clearly defined goals are the path to victory. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt was able to mobilize American society around the imperative of Japan’s unconditional surrender. After a shocking attack on U.S. soil, Americans rallied around the objectives of defeating Japan, avenging the assault on Pearl Harbor, and eliminating the threat posed by imperial Japan. Those goals would have been sufficient to sustain the U.S. war effort, but Americans had an additional aim: to strike a blow for democracy. By defeating Japan, the United States would encourage the democratization (and, by extension, the Americanization) of Asia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not followed this classic formula. In fact, he has inverted it, by attacking Ukraine first and only then attempting to mobilize Russian society. He has described what Russia is doing in Ukraine not as a war but as a “special military operation.” He has never articulated a set of persuasive objectives; his stated goals have shifted over time. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has at various points aimed to halt an invented genocide, to “de-Nazify” a country that was not fascist, to liberate Ukraine’s allegedly Russian nature, and to demilitarize the country—even though it posed no real threat to Russia. According to VTsIOM, a state-owned polling institution, a majority of Russians considered Ukraine a friendly country before the war. Only 11 percent of Russians saw Ukraine as an enemy.

It is tempting to see Putin’s war as a total failure. From Kyiv to Kherson, Russia has endured significant battlefield losses. It has solidified Western support for Ukraine on a scale unthinkable before the war and provoked a formidable response from Kyiv. As Ukraine’s military improves, Russia’s prospects for ending the war on its terms are fading away—not that these terms have ever been clear. Russia also faces sanctions imposed by many of the world’s richest and most technologically advanced countries. With so many forces arrayed against Putin, some experts have speculated about a possible crackup of his regime.

But the regime in the Kremlin is hardly on the verge of collapse. Putin has used the war to clamp down on Russian society, to pull elites even closer to him, and to shore up his domestic position. No longer able to lean on his reputation as a foreign policy genius—capable of wresting Crimea from Ukraine (as he did in 2014) or making Russia a serious player in the Middle East (as he did in 2015)—the Russian president has instead focused on militarizing the state and the public sphere, purging those who openly dissent from the government’s position on the war, and stoking militant anti-Westernism among the wide swaths of the public that are, if not pro-war, at least genuinely anti-antiwar.

Call it “wartime Putinism.” More repressive and less flexible than prewar Putinism, it has imposed the spirit of war on the Russian population. The price of not winning a war, however, is a panoply of negative objectives: not losing, not giving up, not admitting defeat, not allowing anything to threaten the survival of the regime. A fundamentally empty project, wartime Putinism is a Faustian bargain with Russia’s future. The Kremlin is no longer achieving a record of success but enforcing a narrative of success that is at odds with the reality on the ground. The war has created a version of Putinism that offers diminishing returns.

NORMALIZING WAR

Putin has never been shy about waging war. His tenure as Russia’s president began with an inherited conflict in Chechnya and entanglement in Moldova. In 2008, when he was serving as prime minister, Russia invaded Georgia. And two years after he became president again in 2012, Putin annexed Crimea and infiltrated eastern Ukraine. By 2015, Russia’s military and intelligence services were taking an expeditionary turn, intervening in Syria, meddling in foreign elections, and flexing their muscles in Africa. Putin has long enjoyed being filmed and photographed as Russia’s commander in chief, and he has turned the public celebration of victory in World War II into a keystone of post-Soviet Russian identity.

This was the political and cultural trajectory that led to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Yet that invasion was a turning point, a rupture even, making Putin’s government inseparable from war. Russia’s operations in Ukraine are on a different scale from those of Putin’s previous wars. The stakes are higher, as is the level of political repression.

Putin has exploited the war to reduce the political liberties of Russians to zero: no right to free speech, no right to assembly, no right to organize opposition to the government. The imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which occurred before the war, might have been more conspicuous without the war. Indeed, the tug of war between Putin and opposition forces escalated in 2012, when Putin came back to the Kremlin for his third presidential term, and in 2018, at the peak of Navalny’s efforts to forge an alternative to Putinism. This tug of war has vanished.

Meanwhile, wartime Putinism has had a surprisingly limited effect on the Russian economy. The same technocrats who warned Putin of the war’s potentially devastating consequences about a month before it began have worked hard to keep the Russian economy going since February 2022. Sanctions are closing off options for the Russian military and for some Russian businesses (for instance those that deal in metallurgy, automotive parts, machinery, and equipment), whereas other Russian businesses (those that deal in food or aluminum, for example) have been holding their own. Sanctions may prove more meaningful over time, yet they have not done that much to alter the lives of ordinary Russians. Those with means can still live comfortable lives. Those without means did not have much to lose, anyway. The government has been spending money lavishly on pensioners, poorer Russians, and those connected to the war effort; unemployment is low. If middle-class Russians and small-business owners have been hurt by the war, they are adjusting. At least for now, Russia shows every sign of being able to muddle through economically.

And for the time being, Putin can depend on the acquiescence of the Russian population. To what degree Putin is viewed as an effective wartime leader is hard to say. But very few Russians, even those who would not have opted for war back in February 2022, want their country to lose in Ukraine. Defeat can be feared even in a disastrous war, and Putin is politically insulated by such fear. Even if winning is beyond him at this point, many Russians believe they need him as their leader to stave off defeat.

Still, there are relatively few true believers in Putin’s war in Russia. They tend to be older, politically marginalized, and living in remote regions of the country. These are the people for whom Putin’s arguments about Western malignance most acutely resonate.
According to a November 2022 Levada poll, 81 percent of Russians over the age of 55 have negative feelings about the West. For these Russians, Ukraine oscillates between being an enemy aligned with the West and a part of Russia, living since 2014 under an illegitimate government and suffering from the artificial Ukrainian identity imposed on it by nationalist fanatics in Ukraine and by those in the West that fund and encourage these fanatics.

The problem with true believers is that their beliefs can get in the way. An ad hoc assembly of bloggers and commentators on the messaging service Telegram have drummed up the kind of support for the war that state-run media outlets cannot inspire—something more spontaneous and sincere, with all the emotional power of social media. But it is from these same corners of the Russian media ecosystem that vocal critics of Russia’s military tactics has emerged. Many of them think that the war is not being fought aggressively enough. Over the past few months, the Kremlin has tolerated these voices, but it has also reined them in. After all, these figures are pro-war and pro-regime. Now and then, they have to be reminded to stay within their limits.

Among the political elite, outright criticism of the war is inconceivable. The Russian government forces critics out of the country, intimidates those who stay, and prosecutes those who are not intimidated. Those still in Russia face professional retaliation, public stigmatization, and arrest for opposing the war. Ilya Yashin, a leading opposition politician, was arrested and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for discussing the massacre that Russian forces carried out in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. Almost 400 others have had criminal cases brought against them as a result of their antiwar activism, and more than 5,500 have been fined, detained, or banned from certain activities. In the absence of an effective opposition party or movement, overtly antiwar statements register as isolated gestures, underscoring the Kremlin’s seemingly unshakable hold on Russia’s political sphere and on Russian public opinion.

Despite being so visibly in control of the political scene, the Kremlin is taking no chances. Western media has focused on the military mobilization initiated in September. At least as consequential has been the militarization of the public sphere. Only a minority of Russians are actively engaged in the war, but all must demonstrate their acquiescence in the war, an acquiescence that does not imply passionate support. The mass media, the cultural world, and the educational sector have all played a role in either justifying the war or in laying the groundwork for a war that will last as long as Putin thinks it must. Sometimes the goal is to stoke the emotions of war. A more subtle goal is to make the war seem routine, an organic and inevitable part of Russian life.

WALKING A TIGHTROPE

Wartime Putinism is an experiment in deferring problems. Further Ukrainian advances on the battlefield or even the military status quo may force Putin to layer a second mobilization on top of the mobilization of reservists he declared in September 2022, something he will avoid as long as he can. A second mobilization would test the bona fides of wartime Putinism. Mobilization is itself traumatic, and mobilization without military progress is more than traumatic. It is a rebuke to those in positions of military and political responsibility. But Russia’s first round of mobilization occurred amid battlefield setbacks, and the Kremlin survived it intact. A version of this cycle might simply repeat itself. Or the government may opt for expanding the conscription of young men.

Wartime Putinism could also undermine itself through stasis. Russia can unite around the bleak mission of not losing a war for only so long. After the end of the Soviet Union, in 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin promised prosperity, political liberty, and Russia’s integration into Europe. He fell short in the execution, but at early stages of his rule those goals represented a galvanizing mission for post-Soviet Russia, and between 1991 and 2000, Yeltsin did bring Russia closer to the free market and to Europe. During his tenure, Putin’s mission has been more nebulous: stability and prosperity at home after the economic disruptions of the 1990s; Russian military might abroad; and a seat at the table of international politics. Putin’s 2022 war has damaged Russia’s international reputation, and it has dented the perception of Russian military might. What is left is the drive for stability through militarization, a paradoxical political aspiration.

Wartime Putinism is a reduced Putinism, and it would be impossible to describe today’s Russia (to Russians) as an ascendant power. It is, rather, an embattled power. This explains the frenzied media campaign to drum up support for the war, which masks the fact that Putin has committed Russia to a long cycle of stagnation. Isolation and sanctions will together contribute to Russia’s economic and technological decline. Nobody can say how long Putin can walk this dispiriting tightrope. Putin’s warpath does not lead from point A to point B but is a circuitous route that leads from point A back to point A. A fine-tuned method for avoiding failure, wartime Putinism has all the hallmarks of a dead end.

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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Saturday, April 8, 2023 5:56 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I almost never read more than a sentence or two into your excessively long posts SECOND. But in what I've read, there's not a scintilla of original thought,not a moment of clarity or insight. Just a rehash of deep state propaganda rationalized with monumentally tortured logic and psychological projection.

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Sunday, April 9, 2023 2:19 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, our country is going to hell in a hand basket and you're focusing on bullshit?
So let's see... Things are going badly in Ukraine so our (stupid) policy-makers try to use Taiwan and Sweden as a distraction. The Euro is falling and half of the world is de-dollarizing and we are creeping closer to the Great Reset, when western central banks will convert to digital currency and you're obsessing about Trump?

And you post about the Big Picture?

Dood, you can't see the Big Picture unless you get your head unstuck from wherever you parked it.






Bitch bitch bitch, leave then.

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Sunday, April 9, 2023 2:23 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I almost never read more than a sentence or two into your excessively long posts SECOND. But in what I've read, there's not a scintilla of original thought,not a moment of clarity or insight. Just a rehash of deep state propaganda rationalized with monumentally tortured logic and psychological project






I have no doubt comrade signym was looking in a mirror when she came up with this shit.

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Sunday, April 9, 2023 2:25 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THUGR you just unwittingly confirmed the suspicion that the west has been trying to destroy Russia for decades, and that our lates adventure in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with Russia. Eventually Sweden, and other European NATO nations, will realize that joining NATO was a Big Mistake.

Not to fear. Russia, China, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others have figured out that the USA is just an all-consuming Borg and are creating blocs with other countries so they can get out.

Considering it was Biden's* policies that triggered this mass defection from the west, I think this is more like Biden's* disaster.



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






I know you can't see me laughing but I am. I'm rolling on the floor.

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Sunday, April 9, 2023 2:48 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Idiot

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Thursday, April 13, 2023 7:27 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Idiot

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T

PUTIN FLIES OFF TO THE MOON!

April 12, 2022 Vladimir Putin officially announced Russia's Lunar program. One year later let's find out if he LIED again or Russian is actually making progress in the Lunar program?






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THE DAY OF RECKONING FOR RUSSIANS IS COMING || 2023





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MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA is an update of important news from Russia







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Thursday, April 20, 2023 12:44 AM

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The Russians will be fine, Theodore.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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