Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Yeah. I'm sure most of Russia's army is dead.

You're an idiot and an asshole, Ted.

The Russians murdered 62 million Russians. Even when it was happening, the Russians pretended that it wasn't happening. The Germans didn't do it. It was Russians killing Russians and none of those murders got mentioned in Putin's speech today, Victory Day!, in Moscow. Putin won't be mentioning anything other than he is crazy and wants to kill as many Europeans and Ukrainians as he can.

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Russians murdered more innocent people just in their labor camps than the Nazis were machine gunning in the gullies and gassing in their concentration camps.
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The lesson is that 62 million Russians can be killed by Russians and the Russians will pretend they have amnesia about all those murders. What? What murders? We know nothing about murders! It was the Germans! It is all the Nazis' fault! We Russians are not to blame for what we did in WWII or Ukraine! It is all Nazis, 24-7!

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:48 PM

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LOL...

Yeah. I'm sure most of Russia's army is dead.

You're an idiot and an asshole, Ted.
The Russians murdered 62 million Russians.

Why do you pretend to give a fuck?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:52 PM

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LOL...

Yeah. I'm sure most of Russia's army is dead.

You're an idiot and an asshole, Ted.
The Russians murdered 62 million Russians.

Why do you pretend to give a fuck?

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Yeah, seeing as he hates Russians with a blind passion, he should be celebrating.

I think what we're seeing is reality seeping into SECOND's fevered brain. He senses that Ukraine is on the losing side of this war... by extension so is NATO ... and he just can't cope.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
LOL...

Yeah. I'm sure most of Russia's army is dead.

You're an idiot and an asshole, Ted.
The Russians murdered 62 million Russians.

Why do you pretend to give a fuck?

The point for retarded 6ix is that the Russians are awful people who have repeatedly threatened to drop nukes on the US, which has caused the US to waste more than $10 trillion on nukes in order to convince the awful Russians to NOT proceed with their evil plans.

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. spent at least $10.1 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:08 AM

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The Russian Public’s Imperial Hangover

Even as their government prepares them for the shock of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, most Russians continue to endorse Putin’s imperial dream. Why do the overwhelming majority of older Russians not only accept but support their country’s war on Ukraine? The common answer is that they have no choice: the authorities, with backing from the FSB, have systematically identified and punished those who engage in public acts of disloyalty. Under such circumstances, who would dare protest?

Russians are hostage to Putin’s Kremlin. Period.

Those seeking a silver lining are quick to point to the existence of underground opposition groups who have torched factories and public buildings. But which of those many conflagrations were the work of Russians themselves, as opposed to Ukrainian saboteurs? We won’t know this unless and until the Ukrainian army emerges victorious. For now, however, even the existence of a small but active Russian fifth column does not refute the fact that the Russian populace remains passive, even as tens of thousands of their brothers and husbands return from Ukraine in caskets.

But are they merely passive? Even after a year of war, credible Russian opinion researchers and bloggers affirm the presence of millions of what Russians call “hurrah patriots.” These zealots go far beyond the dictates of mere survival to mouth the Kremlin’s slogans. Granted, such zealots tend to be older, but many younger Russians sing in the same key. This brings us back to why so many Russians not only accept but support their country’s war on Ukraine?

Those who study Russia give short shrift to the psychological impact of imperialism on the Russian masses. Topics like centralized planning, the mega-industries that dominate the economy, ideology, and corruption have rightly garnered attention. But largely neglected is the state of mind fostered by imperial rule and its hold over the populace. This may be one the most enduring legacies of Lenin, Stalin, and their successors.

Forty years ago a brilliant writer from Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Chingiz Aitmatov (1928-2008), laid out the impact of authoritarianism on individual psyches in a bone-chilling novel, A Day Lasts More than A Hundred Years. The work blends such unlikely ingredients as the mythic past, Soviet rule, and intergalactic space. Yet its plot is simple. In ancient times an invading warrior tribe takes captive a Central Asian resistance fighter. As they do with all of their captives, the conquering tribesmen subject him to a harrowing process, binding his head in a cap made from the skin of a freshly slaughtered goat. The hat gradually shrinks, causing unbearable pain, which few survived. When the cap is finally removed, the victim has lost all consciousness of himself as a human being, his family, his entire people, and their past. His captors called such transformed beings “Mankurts,” zombies, who have been stripped of their individual and collective memories. The Mankurt is now entirely at his captors’ mercy, a slave without past or future, who meekly does whatever they demand of him.

Surprisingly, the official journal Novyi Mir published this disturbing story in 1980, as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s reign sank into terminal stagnation. A decade later, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, Aitmatov teamed up with director Hojaguly Nariyew from Turkmenistan to turn the Mankurt story into an acclaimed film. Aitmatov got away with this because his international renown rendered him untouchable. It helped that he had been an officer of the Writers’ Union of the USSR and a member of the Supreme Soviet.

Soon all those who had suffered under Russian rule — Ukrainians, Balts, Tatars, Chechens, and the peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus — were asking themselves whether they, too, had not been Mankurtized. The collapse of the Communist Party and the USSR itself opened the door to remedial actions. Leaders of the newly independent states understood that the best antidote to Mankurtism was to revive their national memory and identity.

Activists and scholars turned out books and films on heroic moments in their national pasts that Moscow had suppressed. Uzbeks reclaimed the memory of the Jadids, educational modernizers of the early 1900s who embraced modern knowledge, only to be exterminated by the Communists. Kyrgyz recovered memory of the 1916 Urkun, the mass revolt against the Tsar’s 1916 draft that left 220,000 Kyrgyz dead. Kazakhs wrote about the horrific Moscow-induced famine of 1930-1933 that killed two out of five Kazakhs. Tajiks honored the memory of the Basmachi, anti-Communist partisans who took to the mountains after 1917. And across the Caucasus the new leaders honored the national governments that had emerged briefly after World War I, only to be cut down by the Red Army. Ukrainians also participated in this movement by documenting the “extermination famine” (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 that took some 3.9 million lives, and when they celebrated the anti-Communist partisans who fought Moscow for a decade after the end of World War II.

In all the newly independent states this passion for national recovery was genuine and deep. But did this process also take place in Russia? Conscientious Russians like Andrei Sakharov toiled to rehabilitate long-reviled figures and movements from their own past. But their effort was only one element of what took place after the collapse of 1991 and, in light of subsequent events, the less consequential part. For the past that Russian reformers sought to reclaim was not sufficiently compelling to resist a counter-movement from those who still sought to rule through Mankurtism. Leading this powerful current were the FSB (KGB) and the Russian army, both of which survived the collapse of the USSR. Beginning even before his appointment as president in 1999, KGB veteran Vladimir Putin was maneuvering to place himself at the head of these neo-imperial forces.

Putin realized that autocracy and the Soviet imperial idea had deep roots not only in governmental, legal, and educational institutions, but in the psyches of ordinary citizens. Its legacy is like a hangover, but one that can be passed down, even to those who did not drink it in at the source. Yet to acknowledge that Mankurtism maintained its grip on millions of Russians is not to explain why it persisted. Nor can its survival be attributed solely to Putin and publicists like the fanatical Alexander Dugin. Nor does it suffice to say simply that millions of Russians had internalized it. How did Germans and Japanese who had internalized their leaders’ fascism emancipate themselves after 1945, when so many Russians after 1991 failed to do so?

The ominous combination of passivity and chauvinism evinced by so many Russians today has far deeper roots in Russian society and history. Down to 1861 fully 80% of all Russians were serfs, under the strict control of landlords or the state. This form of slavery meant they were tied to the land but could be sold at will. Following Russia’s defeat in the first Crimean War of 1853-1856, Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom in 1861 (two years before Lincoln’s emancipation of America’s slaves), thus removing what his father had called “a gunpowder magazine beneath the state.” But even though serfs gained certain freedoms, they were still confined to their communal villages and obliged to make pay reparation to the state for another forty-six years. Making matters worse, in 1928 Stalin re-collectivized the entire Russian peasantry, converting them once more to the status of serfs, this time of the Communist state. In other words, most Russians knew even partial freedom for only two decades prior to recent times.

All of Russia’s great writers, and many foreigners, have written about the impact of serfdom and the village commune on the Russian psyche. Some idealized the peasantry and their village communes, defending them as the keeper of the nation’s values. Others attacked them both, identifying them as the source of Russia’s backwardness, its alienation from Europe, and of a national psychology based on dependence, subservience to Moscow, and disengagement from civic life. Recent studies affirm this latter view.

This is not to say that all Russians suffer from this psychology. Quite the contrary. Russia’s independent-minded intelligentsia has enriched the nation’s culture and European civilization as a whole. Where would we all be without Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, or Pasternak; without Mendeleev, and Kapitsa; or without Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev? However, for all its achievements, Russia’s intelligentsia has always existed more as a separate stratum of Russian life than as an emanation of the society as a whole.

It is this separation that may account for the persistence of the psychology of serfdom/slavery—call it Mankurtism– among the Russian populace at large. It has survived tsarism, Communism, and even the massive urbanization that has recently taken place. This deeply rooted identity of dependency does not prevent Russians from living good lives, from being resourceful and productive, from laughing, or appreciating the beauties of nature. But it enables those at the top, if they are so inclined, to play upon and manipulate the mass of people. It may explain the passivity we see among so many Russians today, and the success with which Vladimir Putin has been able to manipulate the public mood so as to support his backward-looking wars of conquest.

Will this ever change? Modern communications, expanded travel, and the passage of time may erode this psychology of dependence. But modern life alone will not bring about its demise. Progress will depend also on fundamental political and legal reforms, the transformation of Russia’s schools and, above all, universal civic education. These are all tasks that only Russians themselves can perform. Whether and how they chose to do so will depend on how Putin’s war against Ukraine ends. Meanwhile, well-wishers abroad can provide ideas but not money tied with “conditions” on its use, which fatally tainted such efforts after the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

Frederick Starr is Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:47 AM

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Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to use his Victory Day address to make any significant rhetorical changes and reiterated existing narratives, preparing for a protracted war and framing Russia as successfully resisting the entire West. Putin stated in his annual address marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 that “a real war has been unleashed against Russia” and that Russia has repelled international terrorism and will continue to “defend” residents in Donbas.[1] Putin has previously claimed the West is waging a global “war” against Russia.”[2] Putin has previously referred to the Russian military campaign in Ukraine as a ”war” but this rhetoric, whether an intentional acknowledgement of the scale of the fighting or not, has not corresponded with any changes in the Kremlin’s approach to the “special military operation.”[3] Putin similarly declined to use recent notable events such as his annual New Year’s Eve address or his February 2023 address to the Federal Assembly to offer any concrete vision on how to reverse the Russian military’s setbacks in Ukraine or reframe the war.[4] Putin has instead used these events to reinforce long-standing rhetorical lines aimed at preparing the Russian public for a protracted war in Ukraine by evoking the memory of World War Two without calling on Russian society to support full mobilization.[5]

Putin additionally attempted to use Victory Day celebrations to rally Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) partners, many of which have sought to reduce their reliance on the Kremlin since February 2022. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev joined Putin at the Moscow Victory Day parade in Red Square.[6] Putin emphasized the importance of CIS leaders attending the event and repeated boilerplate Kremlin rhetoric that Russia is pursuing a multi-polar world order.[7] Putin’s latest efforts to rally CIS countries was muted by the reluctance of several Central Asian leaders initially expressed towards attending the Victory Day event, and Lukashenko did not join the rest of the leaders at an earlier wreath laying ceremony.[8] Lukashenko also did not deliver his traditional Victory Day address in Minsk, Belarus, although it is not immediately clear why.[9] Other non-Western states have largely rebuffed the Kremlin’s attempts to coalesce a potential anti-Western coalition, most notably China through its increasing rhetorical distancing from Russia.[10] ISW has previously assessed that the degradation of Russian military power in Ukraine has likely made this Russian effort even less attractive to other states.[11]The Victory Day events showcased far less military equipment than usual (including only a single World War Two–era T-34/85 and no modern tanks, which Russia badly needs in Ukraine) and demonstrated the further degradation of the Russian military, despite the Kremlin’s attempts in previous weeks to downplay Victory Day by downsizing parades and outright canceling events.[12]

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:45 AM

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LOL...

Yeah. I'm sure most of Russia's army is dead.

You're an idiot and an asshole, Ted.
The Russians murdered 62 million Russians.

Why do you pretend to give a fuck?
The point for retarded 6ix is that the Russians are awful people who have repeatedly threatened to drop nukes on the US, which has caused the US to waste more than $10 trillion on nukes in order to convince the awful Russians to NOT proceed with their evil plans.

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. spent at least $10.1 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development.

Simply having nukes is threatening the rest of the world with the use of nukes.

There's only one country that ever actually did it. And it wasn't Russia.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 9:11 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to use his Victory Day address to make any significant rhetorical changes and reiterated existing narratives, preparing for a protracted war and framing Russia as successfully resisting the entire West.

Which is true. All you have to do is read THUGR's and SECOND's rabid dreams of toppling Putin or breaking up Russia, or their denigration of the Russian people and culture, to know they've been recruited in the elites' never-ending quest to destroy Russia

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Putin stated in his annual address marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 that “a real war has been unleashed against Russia” and that Russia has repelled [USA-sponsored and CIA-enabled] international terrorism

In Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine, and Russia proper

He also equated modern-day western elites with Nazis, which (listening to "Jungle" Josep Borrell and Ursula van der Crazy) I find an entirely apt comparison.

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and will continue to “defend” residents in Donbas.

Who have been subject to continuous shelling of civilian areas since 2014

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Putin has previously claimed the West is waging a global “war” against Russia.”

by expanding NATO to Russia's borders (breaking earlier promises) and placing missiles within a few minutes' flight time of Moscow, fomenting "color revolutions" and invasions along Russia's entire border including Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Chechnya, (The former) Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan etc (pretty much the way the west has treated most of the world)

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Putin has previously referred to the Russian military campaign in Ukraine as /a ”war” but this rhetoric, whether an intentional acknowledgement of the scale of the fighting or not, has not corresponded with any changes in the Kremlin’s approach to the “special military operation.”

Which is a war of attrition. If Russia were to unleash full-scale war against Ukraine, Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, and Odessa would be no more.

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Putin similarly declined to use recent notable events such as his annual New Year’s Eve address or his February 2023 address to the Federal Assembly to offer any concrete vision on how to reverse the Russian military’s setbacks in Ukraine or reframe the war.

Setbacks? I don't include capturing 20pct of Ukraine's territory as a "setback", or demilitarizing both Ukraine and western arsenals as a failure (for them. For us, yes)

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Putin has instead used these events to reinforce long-standing rhetorical lines aimed at preparing the Russian public for a protracted war in Ukraine by evoking the memory of World War Two without calling on Russian society to support full mobilization.

Bc they don't fight "blitzkreig" wars.

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Putin additionally attempted to use Victory Day celebrations to rally Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) partners, many of which have sought to reduce their reliance on the Kremlin since February 2022. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,

undr severe ecnomic pressure form the EU

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko,

who is embarking on full military and economic integration with Russia

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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,

Who remains closely allied with Russia

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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev joined Putin at the Moscow Victory Day parade in Red Square.

All Russia's partners

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Putin emphasized the importance of CIS leaders attending the event and repeated boilerplate Kremlin rhetoric that Russia is pursuing a multi-polar world order.

which happens to be true. Russia is not attempting to dominate the globe, like the USA is, but there are plenty of nations attempting to wriggle out from under the USA's oppressive fat ass

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Putin’s latest efforts to rally CIS countries was muted by the reluctance of several Central Asian leaders initially expressed towards attending the Victory Day event, and Lukashenko did not join the rest of the leaders at an earlier wreath laying ceremony. Lukashenko also did not deliver his traditional Victory Day address in Minsk, Belarus, although it is not immediately clear why.

It certainly has nothing to do with Bearus backing out of military and economic inegration with Russia. Did you knw that Belarus' objection to Russian econmic system is bc Belarus has NEVER let go of its Soviet style economy? They think Russia's economy is too western!

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Other non-Western states have largely rebuffed the Kremlin’s attempts to coalesce a potential anti-Western coalition, most notably China through its increasing rhetorical distancing from Russia.

China's statements and policies have remained the same. India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and a host of other nations are tilting to Russia WTF are they talking about?

And the USA attempting to force secondary sanctions on China, India, South Africa, and other regional powers will simply distance them from the USA further, if not now then at the earliest oppty

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ISW

The Nuland/Kagan neocon family project, guaranteed to spew neocon nonsense and as disoriented as Kiev

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has previously assessed that the degradation of Russian military power in Ukraine has likely made this Russian effort even less attractive to other states.

In their dreams!

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The Victory Day events showcased far less military equipment than usual (including only a single World War Two–era T-34/85 and no modern tanks, which Russia badly needs in Ukraine) and demonstrated the further degradation of the Russian military, despite the Kremlin’s attempts in previous weeks to downplay Victory Day by downsizing parades and outright canceling events.

As a result of terrorist threats from Kiev's security state?

As far as I can tell Putin spoke plain truth, which will be embraced by all nations not currently under Washington's thumb and all leaders not in Washington's pocket.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:13 PM

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As far as I can tell Putin spoke plain truth, which will be embraced by all nations not currently under Washington's thumb and all leaders not in Washington's pocket.

Compare life in Russia vs Poland. Putin has done poorly compared to the series of different leaders in Poland since 1999, but Putin tries to compensate for his past inadequacies by invading Ukraine in the present. Putin's Ukrainian plans won't work any better than his more peaceful plans that didn't involve an invasion of a European country. Russia's future, where Polish citizens pull even further ahead of Russians will prove how inadequate Putin was as a leader.

https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+gdp+russia+poland

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:15 PM

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As far as I can tell Putin spoke plain truth, which will be embraced by all nations not currently under Washington's thumb and all leaders not in Washington's pocket.
Compare life in Russia vs Poland. Putin has done poorly compared to the series of different leaders in Poland since 1999, but Putin tries to compensate for his past inadequacies by invading Ukraine in the present. Putin's Ukrainian plans won't work any better than his more peaceful plans that didn't involve an invasion of a European country. Russia's future, where Polish citizens pull even further ahead of Russians will prove how inadequate Putin was as a leader.

https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+gdp+russia+poland

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That is not at all reality.

You need to stop living in the mind of Kevin Drum.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:28 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+gdp+russia+poland

That is not at all reality.

You need to stop living in the mind of Kevin Drum.

Are you convinced that Russia is doing well compared to Poland? I picked that country because Russia invaded Poland on Sept 17, 1939, and would still own it in 2023, but Russia collapsed in 1991. How about a comparison between Russia and Canada? Russia never invaded Canada and the results are that Canada has a larger economy than Russia and Canadians are several times richer than Russians because there are far few Canadians sharing that economy than in Russia.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Compare+gdp+Canada+Russia

For some reason which no one will ever know, Canada never threatened to nuke the US, despite Canada having the longest border on Earth without a military to protect it from the evil US. Meanwhile, Russia has threatened, once again, to nuke the evil US. I wonder what Russia's problem is with the evil US that Canada does not have?

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:36 PM

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https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+gdp+russia+poland

That is not at all reality.

You need to stop living in the mind of Kevin Drum.
Are you convinced that Russia is doing well compared to Poland?

No. I'm talking about this part, pussy.

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but Putin tries to compensate for his past inadequacies by invading Ukraine in the present.

You're a little cocksucking bitch who has no idea how the world works.

Quit talking.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:46 PM

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dead hot air oozing out of 6ix's brain

I'm guessing that you believe Ukraine is full of Nazis and Russia had to invade to prevent a repeat of Hitler's invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941, which began after Russia invaded Poland on September 17, 1939. Russia had 21 months to stomp all over Poland before Germany stomped all over Russia. To the Polish, it seemed that the Germans were paying back the Russians.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 5:36 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Yanno, you stupid troll, one big difference between Canada and Russia is that the USA hasn't been trying to destroy Canada for 70 100 years. If we had been, Canada wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't know how you manage to hang on to such obviously stupid ideas. Ideas so transparently stupid even THUGR can see thru them. Must be bc your mind is fucked.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 6:31 PM

THG

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Yanno, you stupid troll, one big difference between Canada and Russia is that the USA hasn't been trying to destroy Canada for 70 100 years. If we had been, Canada wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't know how you manage to hang on to such obviously stupid ideas. Ideas so transparently stupid even THUGR can see thru them. Must be bc your mind is fucked.

Russia was defeated decisively in Bkamhut today with the 72nd Brigade nearly being wiped out, and pushed back an entire kilometer. Wagner forces still have no ammo and are going to withdraw from the line soon.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 6:38 PM

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So comrade signym, riddle me this.

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Where have all the young men gone?

"Where have all the flowers gone?" asks the famous 1960s antiwar song. In Moscow today, The New York Times reports, the question is: Where have all the men gone?

The answer to both questions is, in part, the same: To the graveyards of soldiers. But a lot of the missing men of Moscow have also fled Russian President Vladimir Putin's draft for his war in Ukraine. In fact, demographers say Russia may not recover for generations, if ever.

"Putin spent years racing against Russia's demographic clock, only to order an invasion of Ukraine that's consigning his country's population to a historic decline," Bloomberg News reports. Here's a look at what demographer Alexei Raksha calls Russia's "perfect storm" of demographic decline:

Where have all the young men gone?

Putin says his October 2022 mobilization drafted about 300,000 men to send to Ukraine. Another 300,000 Russians are believed to have fled to other countries to avoid the draft. The U.S. calculated in May 2023 that about 20,000 Russian fighters had died in Ukraine since December and another 80,000 were injured. That's on top of tens of thousands Russian soldiers killed or wounded in the first 10 months of the war. "I feel like we are a country of women now," Moscow resident Stanislava, 33, told the Times. "I was searching for male friends to help me move some furniture, and I realized almost all of them had left."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to use his Victory Day address to make any significant rhetorical changes and reiterated existing narratives, preparing for a protracted war and framing Russia as successfully resisting the entire West.
Which is true. All you have to do is read THUGR's and SECOND's rabid dreams of toppling Putin or breaking up Russia, or their denigration of the Russian people and culture, to know they've been recruited in the elites' never-ending quest to destroy Russia

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Putin stated in his annual address marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 that “a real war has been unleashed against Russia” and that Russia has repelled [USA-sponsored and CIA-enabled] international terrorism
In Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine, and Russia proper

He also equated modern-day western elites with Nazis, which (listening to "Jungle" Josep Borrell and Ursula van der Crazy) I find an entirely apt comparison.

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and will continue to “defend” residents in Donbas.
Who have been subject to continuous shelling of civilian areas since 2014

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Putin has previously claimed the West is waging a global “war” against Russia.”
by expanding NATO to Russia's borders (breaking earlier promises) and placing missiles within a few minutes' flight time of Moscow, fomenting "color revolutions" and invasions along Russia's entire border including Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Chechnya, (The former) Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan etc (pretty much the way the west has treated most of the world)

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Putin has previously referred to the Russian military campaign in Ukraine as /a ”war” but this rhetoric, whether an intentional acknowledgement of the scale of the fighting or not, has not corresponded with any changes in the Kremlin’s approach to the “special military operation.”
Which is a war of attrition. If Russia were to unleash full-scale war against Ukraine, Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, and Odessa would be no more.

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Putin similarly declined to use recent notable events such as his annual New Year’s Eve address or his February 2023 address to the Federal Assembly to offer any concrete vision on how to reverse the Russian military’s setbacks in Ukraine or reframe the war.
Setbacks? I don't include capturing 20pct of Ukraine's territory as a "setback", or demilitarizing both Ukraine and western arsenals as a failure (for them. For us, yes)

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Putin has instead used these events to reinforce long-standing rhetorical lines aimed at preparing the Russian public for a protracted war in Ukraine by evoking the memory of World War Two without calling on Russian society to support full mobilization.
Bc they don't fight "blitzkreig" wars.

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Putin additionally attempted to use Victory Day celebrations to rally Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) partners, many of which have sought to reduce their reliance on the Kremlin since February 2022. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,
undr severe ecnomic pressure form the EU

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko,
who is embarking on full military and economic integration with Russia

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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
Who remains closely allied with Russia

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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev joined Putin at the Moscow Victory Day parade in Red Square.
All Russia's partners

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Putin emphasized the importance of CIS leaders attending the event and repeated boilerplate Kremlin rhetoric that Russia is pursuing a multi-polar world order.
which happens to be true. Russia is not attempting to dominate the globe, like the USA is, but there are plenty of nations attempting to wriggle out from under the USA's oppressive fat ass

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Putin’s latest efforts to rally CIS countries was muted by the reluctance of several Central Asian leaders initially expressed towards attending the Victory Day event, and Lukashenko did not join the rest of the leaders at an earlier wreath laying ceremony. Lukashenko also did not deliver his traditional Victory Day address in Minsk, Belarus, although it is not immediately clear why.
It certainly has nothing to do with Bearus backing out of military and economic inegration with Russia. Did you knw that Belarus' objection to Russian econmic system is bc Belarus has NEVER let go of its Soviet style economy? They think Russia's economy is too western!

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Other non-Western states have largely rebuffed the Kremlin’s attempts to coalesce a potential anti-Western coalition, most notably China through its increasing rhetorical distancing from Russia.
China's statements and policies have remained the same. India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and a host of other nations are tilting to Russia WTF are they talking about?

And the USA attempting to force secondary sanctions on China, India, South Africa, and other regional powers will simply distance them from the USA further, if not now then at the earliest oppty

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ISW
The Nuland/Kagan neocon family project, guaranteed to spew neocon nonsense and as disoriented as Kiev

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has previously assessed that the degradation of Russian military power in Ukraine has likely made this Russian effort even less attractive to other states.
In their dreams!

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The Victory Day events showcased far less military equipment than usual (including only a single World War Two–era T-34/85 and no modern tanks, which Russia badly needs in Ukraine) and demonstrated the further degradation of the Russian military, despite the Kremlin’s attempts in previous weeks to downplay Victory Day by downsizing parades and outright canceling events.
As a result of terrorist threats from Kiev's security state?

As far as I can tell Putin spoke plain truth, which will be embraced by all nations not currently under Washington's thumb and all leaders not in Washington's pocket.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:55 PM

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Yanno, you stupid troll, one big difference between Canada and Russia is that the USA hasn't been trying to destroy Canada for 70 100 years. If we had been, Canada wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't know how you manage to hang on to such obviously stupid ideas. Ideas so transparently stupid even THUGR can see thru them. Must be bc your mind is fucked.

THUGR: "...Bkamhut ..."

So you don't buy the Russia-Canada comparison either.

The rest of your post is baloney.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:59 PM

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So comrade signym, riddle me this.

Where have all the young men gone?

"Where have all the flowers gone?" asks the famous 1960s antiwar song. In Moscow today, The New York Times reports, the question is: Where have all the men gone?
The answer to both questions is, in part, the same: To the graveyards of soldiers...

Still reposting NYT lies?

Where have all your neurons gone? THAT'S the question!

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:13 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, you stupid troll, one big difference between Canada and Russia is that the USA hasn't been trying to destroy Canada for 70 100 years. If we had been, Canada wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't know how you manage to hang on to such obviously stupid ideas. Ideas so transparently stupid even THUGR can see thru them. Must be bc your mind is fucked.

When Russians were starving, Herbert Hoover, before he was President, was running food to Russia to save them from what they had done to themselves. When the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in which Stalin agreed to split Europe with Hitler, collapsed, the US came to Russia's aid with billions of dollars in raw materials, food, fuel, vehicles, planes. The US bombed the hell out of German munitions factories, cutting in half what Germany could throw at the Russian Army. What was Russia bombing? Nothing, because they could not get bombers up in the air. When WWII was over, the US didn't put Russians on trial for murdering more civilians than Germany murdered in its extermination camps.

But then the Russians got full of themselves and decided to keep every piece of land they had crossed while moving toward Berlin and Tokyo. Funny how the Russians only let loose these conquered lands when Russia collapsed in 1991 out of gross incompetence at running an economy.

I'm pretty sure Canada would have been in trouble with the US if it had been as greedy, violent, and stupid as Russia. But instead of following the Russian path of threatening the US with nukes, Canada created a prosperous economy that never collapsed in 1991, very unlike the Russian one, run by Communists with bizarre ideas of how to run a factory or grow food or just about anything a dialectical materialist can screw up out of purist ignorance.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:18 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Four years of an alliance if convenience... in which the USSR put far more people and materiel into the war than the USA and Britain ever did... changes 100 years of anti-Russian aggression.

Right.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:22 PM

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:47 PM

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dead hot air oozing out of 6ix's brain
I'm guessing that you believe Ukraine is full of Nazis and Russia had to invade to prevent a repeat of Hitler's invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941, which began after Russia invaded Poland on September 17, 1939. Russia had 21 months to stomp all over Poland before Germany stomped all over Russia. To the Polish, it seemed that the Germans were paying back the Russians.

Nope. Not at all.

This is all about NATO gaining an even greater foothold. It always was.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:43 AM

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Four years of an alliance if convenience... in which the USSR put far more people and materiel into the war than the USA and Britain ever did... changes 100 years of anti-Russian aggression.

Russian aggression included killing 13,053,000 Russians during WWII, which certainly gave the US and UK reasons to be concerned that, perhaps, Russians would insanely try to kill US and UK citizens once WWII was over. Russians certainly tried in Korea and Vietnam. Plus there were those 30,000 nukes the Russians made to wipe the US and UK off the map of the world.

The Germans never forgot that Russia killed 2 million German civilians after peace was declared. That murder rampage against civilians was completely forgotten by Russians. According to Russia, it never happened, but Russia said the same after killing 13,053,000 Russians.

From the book Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
Download the free book from https://libgen.unblockit.asia/search.php?req=R.+J.+Rummel
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1 61,911,000 Victims: Utopianism Empowered, 1917-1987

2 3,284,000 Victims: The Civil War Period, 1917-1922

3 2,200,000 Victims: The NEP Period 1923-1928

4 11,440,000 Victims: The Collectivization Period, 1929-1935

5 4,345,000 Victims: The Great Terror Period 1936-1938

6 5,104,000 Victims: Pre-World War II Period 1939-June 1941

7 13,053,000 Victims: World War II Period, June 1941-1945

8 15,613,000 Victims: Postwar and Stalin’s Twilight Period, 1945-1953

9 6,872,000 Victims: Post-Stalin Period, 1954-1987

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:51 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Nope. Not at all.

This is all about NATO gaining an even greater foothold. It always was.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

6ix, it is good to know that you never stop being a crazy asshole. Is your consistency in being a dumb-ass getting you ever closer to super-success in life?

Pervasive issues with Russian combat capability, exacerbated by continued attritional assaults in the Bakhmut area, are likely considerably constraining the ability of Russian forces in this area to defend against localized Ukrainian counterattacks. The 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade itself is emblematic of many of the endemic force generation issues constantly faced by the Russian military. ISW reported on August 7, 2022, that the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade was forming in Orenburg Oblast as part of the 3rd Army Corps, a new formation created in 2022 and largely comprised of volunteer battalions.[7] Forbes reported in September of 2022 that the 3rd Army Corps deployed to Kharkiv Oblast and that the Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast counteroffensive largely destroyed the corps’ constituent elements, likely including the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.[8] Ukrainian media suggested that the surviving elements of the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade may have redeployed to Mykolaiv Oblast following the Kharkiv Oblast counteroffensive, where they once against suffered losses during Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive in October 2022.[9] ISW cannot confirm where the 72nd Brigade deployed to following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the west (right) bank of the Dnipro River, but it is highly likely that whatever elements of the 72nd Brigade that deployed to the Bakhmut area more recently are not operating at anywhere near full strength. The Russian military command’s apparent commitment of elements of a formation that has suffered two successive defeats to the Bakhmut axis alongside already attrited Wagner elements likely offer Ukrainian forces opportunities to exploit with limited counterattacks. A Russian milblogger, citing a Wagner commander active in the Bakhmut area, additionally reported that the alleged withdrawal of the 72nd Brigade was the result of severe miscommunication between command of the 72nd Brigade and the Wagner Group.[10] Issues with the ad hoc commitment of various depleted force groupings to the Bakhmut axis, alongside apparent command and control failures, are likely preventing Russian forces in the area from conducting sound defensive operations.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 12:03 PM

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Hey dumb shit SECOND:

The USA elites were against Russia LONG BEFORE WWII. Ever since 1917 in fact. They were against Communism, which (of course) threatened their existence.

Also, your figures on Russians killed are bogus and, BTW, irrelevant to the moment.

Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.

But the "collective west" elites can't seem to agree to a neutral buffer zone, instead are intent on using every nation stupid enough to get involved as its proxy for the "destroy Russia" project. I don't care what crap rationalizations you use to paint over our naked aggression, it's still bogus.

But if you want to talk about brutal nations, let's look at Britain which killed tens of millions in establishing it's empire. Or the USA which also killed tens (if not hundreds) of millions, establishing ITS empire.

Why do you keep mouth-breathing crap?

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 2:41 PM

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Nope. Not at all.

This is all about NATO gaining an even greater foothold. It always was.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

You're saying Russia invading Ukraine is all part of NATO's masterplan? And Putin is an idiot for falling into it?

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 3:31 PM

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Originally posted by K2PO:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Nope. Not at all.

This is all about NATO gaining an even greater foothold. It always was.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

You're saying Russia invading Ukraine is all part of NATO's masterplan? And Putin is an idiot for falling into it?

Hey KRAPO! Nice to see you still being a lying sack of shit!
Never change, dood!

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:10 PM

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Originally posted by K2PO:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Nope. Not at all.

This is all about NATO gaining an even greater foothold. It always was.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

You're saying Russia invading Ukraine is all part of NATO's masterplan? And Putin is an idiot for falling into it?

Hey KRAPO! Nice to see you still being a lying sack of shit!
Never change, dood!

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He's not smart enough to lie. He's simply a bullhorn for the intelligent liars filling his empty brain cavity with nonsense.

Stick to checkers dude. You couldn't handle a game of chess.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:53 PM

THG

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Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.

No...

T

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:54 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.

No...

T

Yes. Period.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 6:47 PM

K2PO

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey KRAPO! Nice to see you still being a lying sack of shit!
Never change, dood!

Are you pissed because your "Bakhmut conquered by January" prediction has turned out so bad?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.

Lol, the UK just gave Ukraine new cruise missiles capable of hitting the Kerch bridge

Add all the Lend Lease provided by the West since the invasion - if "strategic mastermind" Putin's whole aim was to make Ukraine toothless militarily he has a funny way of achieving the complete opposite

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:17 PM

Ukraine can get fucked.

Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:38 PM

K2PO

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ukraine can get fucked.

Your tax dollars say different

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Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?

Z was elected in 2019, 2.5 years after Obama left office... Do you mean "Trump plant"? *shrug* This makes as much sense as anything you say.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:59 PM

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Hey dumb shit SECOND:

Signym, your personal version of history does not match European history. Russians 'Haven't Changed' Since World War II: Estonian Prime Minister

Russian forces fighting in Ukraine are exhibiting the same "brutality" as the Soviet troops that occupied much of eastern and central Europe during the Second World War, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said.

While Ukraine's Western partners analyze Russian capabilities on display through more than one year of full-scale war, Kallas said European Union and NATO nations must also end what she called the "historical cycle" of Russian aggression against its neighbors.

"I'm very surprised that they haven't changed since the Second World War," Kallas told Newsweek in an exclusive interview at Stenbock House, the official seat of the Estonian government—in Tallinn.

"The way they operate, the brutality, the atrocities; it hasn't changed at all. And the question that I have in my mind is, how is that possible, really, in 2022 or 2023? But it is still so."

Estonia, which shares a 183-mile border with Russia, has long been among those nations sounding the alarm over the threat from Moscow. Tallinn and its Baltic neighbors emerged from hundreds of years of Russian — and later Nazi German and Soviet — rule, punctuated by brief periods of independence. For them, Ukraine's struggle echoes their own.

Moscow's clear defeat and subsequent war crimes trials for its leaders, Kallas said, are imperative for all those along Russian borders.

"We are carefully gathering lessons: how they act, how they fight, and how they operate, generally, to be prepared," she explained. "There's a much broader question that is outside the military scope, and this is the question of how to really cut this historical cycle that Russia always continuously attacks its neighboring countries. And the key to this is accountability.

"There hasn't been any accountability for the crimes that Russians have committed in their neighboring countries. Whereas for the Germans, there were the Nuremberg Trials. And the Nazi crimes are widely condemned across the world.

"One of the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials, for example, was that the German people got to know about the crimes that the Germans committed, and hence they have this public guilt about this. The Russians don't have that."

Ukraine is now working with foreign partners to set up a special tribunal to try Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top officials — likely all in absentia — for their aggression against Ukraine. How such a tribunal will be formed, operated or be given international legitimacy remains to be seen.

"The special international tribunal to prosecute the crimes of aggression is of utmost importance," Kallas said. "Crimes of aggression are leadership crimes. Somebody decides to attack another country. And if there isn't any leadership crime — the crime of aggression — there are no war crimes, either.

"Russia has seen that nothing happens when they attack another country. All the aggressors, or would-be aggressors, in the world are carefully taking notes. If the outcome of aggression as a policy tool is that you walk away with more territories than you had before, that aggression pays off. And it's a call for everybody to use that."

'They Can't Win'

Western hopes of a mass uprising or palace coup to unseat Putin have not come to fruition. Infighting among Moscow's elites may undermine Putin's leadership, but there is little indication that he is losing his grip on power.

"We see those signs, but we would want to see those signs much stronger. They definitely have some infighting going on," Kallas said, noting the recent public protests of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin against rivals in the regular Russian military hierarchy.

Polls — ever questionable given the risks of speaking out in against an increasingly totalitarian state — surveying Russian attitudes to the war paint a picture flitting between enthusiasm for and indifference toward the Kremlin's so-called "special military operation," which began with the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

"The majority of Russian people support the war," Kallas said, citing recent polls.

Among the top reasons, she said, is the "glory" respondents associate with such a conflict.

"Coming from a small country where war always means destruction and human suffering, for a bigger country it might mean 'glory.' And that's the worrying part," she said.

Any hope of negotiations and compromise, Kallas suggested, is misplaced.

"The war ends when Russia realizes it was a mistake, like they did with the [Cold War-era] war in Afghanistan.

"When they realize that they can't win this war, then they'll stop. And that's why it's very important that we are behind Ukraine saying that we are ready to go on as long as you, we are supporting Ukraine as long as it takes. And it's also important for Russians to see that the will of the Ukrainians is not breakable."

With the Kremlin's forces struggling on the battlefields of Ukraine, Western minds are turning to what comes next for Russia, and how extreme a makeover will be required before any level of cooperation — or even tolerance — can be revived. Officials and policy wonks have been debating the merits of goals ranging from regime change to demilitarization, and even dismemberment.

All give more ammunition to Russian officials and Moscow propagandists seeking to whip up popular support for a war they frame as existential.

"The goal for the West is that Russia is pushed back to their territory and the war ends, because the war ends then," Kallas said. "What happens to Russia, how they manage themselves; I think it shouldn't be the worry of the West, really. It's not up to us to say. It is the processes inside Russia that would happen then.

"It's a big territory, a lot of small nations, different types. If they want to have an independent country, it's up to them to decide. But I don't think it's for the West to say, really, what happens inside Russia."

The Nuclear Option

Bloody attrition warfare is ongoing in multiple frontline hotspots in southern and eastern Ukraine as Kyiv prepares what it hopes will be a significant spring counteroffensive. Russia still occupies some 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, and leaders in Kyiv have made clear their intention to liberate all and cede none.

Ukrainian ambitions to retake the Crimea — occupied and annexed by Moscow in 2014 following the pro-Western Maidan Revolution — is causing particular concern among Kyiv's Western allies. Their fear is that Putin might resort to nuclear weapons to prevent the loss of the peninsula, which holds great strategic and symbolic value.

"It's up to the Ukrainians to say," Kallas said when asked where Kyiv should stop its advance. "I don't think from outside we can say where we think the line is. It's up to Ukrainians to say where they draw the line, really, and what they are willing to give up.

"Even if, politically, somebody decides that to have some kind of peace agreement, I don't think that the Ukrainian people will agree to this. I mean the fighters, it's very hard to see."

"I'm worried about the policy tool of aggression paying off. If you move to another country, attack that country, and then you walk off with more than you had before, then it's only upside.

"You don't really calculate your people when you're a dictator. You don't really care about the people. But you have more fertile soil, industry and whatever is there. You walk away with more, and then it is a bad sign for the whole rules-based international order."

Putin's nuclear arsenal remains his trump card, though NATO nations are believed to have quietly outlined to the Kremlin the Western retaliation that would follow the use of even a small, tactical nuclear warhead in Ukraine.

Kallas said those who have the most to fear are the least concerned.

"If the Russians decide to use a nuclear bomb, it would be on Ukraine or some other neighboring countries," she said. "It wouldn't be on those Western countries. So, if Ukraine is not afraid, if we are not afraid, you shouldn't be, either, because you are not the ones that will be hit."

Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Foreign Ministry by email for comment.

https://www.newsweek.com/russians-havent-changed-ww2-estonia-prime-min
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Friday, May 12, 2023 1:58 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ukraine can get fucked.

Your tax dollars say different

Not MY tax dollars. I haven't paid federal tax since before child rapist Zelensky was inaugurated.

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Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?

Z was elected in 2019, 2.5 years after Obama left office... Do you mean "Trump plant"? *shrug* This makes as much sense as anything you say.

The Obamas and the Bidens and all the higher ups in Ukraine have had each others dicks up their collective asses since 2014. You didn't think that Trump being President was going to stop that from happening, did you?

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Friday, May 12, 2023 2:50 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Hey dumb shit SECOND... did you get an award at school for "stupid"? Or was it for "lying"?

Asking an Estonian elite about Russia is like asking ... well... you.

I don't read your walls of gibberish and I sure didn't read his.

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Friday, May 12, 2023 6:25 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey dumb shit SECOND... did you get an award at school for "stupid"? Or was it for "lying"?

Asking an Estonian elite about Russia is like asking ... well... you.

I don't read your walls of gibberish and I sure didn't read his.

Signym, why don't you start screaming that only you know the Holy Truth about Russians and every contradiction is Fake News from the Faithless?

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Friday, May 12, 2023 6:26 AM

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Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool
by Thomas L. Friedman

I have not written much about the war in Ukraine lately because so little has changed strategically since the first few months of this conflict, when three overarching facts pretty much drove everything — and still do.

Fact No. 1: As I wrote at the outset, when a war of this magnitude begins, the key question you ask yourself as a foreign affairs columnist is very simple: Where should I be? Should I be in Kyiv, the Donbas, Crimea, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels or Washington?

And from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head. Unfortunately, Putin doesn’t grant visas to his brain.

That’s a real problem because this war emerged entirely from there — with, we now know, almost no input from his cabinet or military commanders — and certainly with no mass urging from the Russian people. So Russia will be stopped in Ukraine, whether it’s winning or losing, only when Putin decides to stop.

Which leads to fact No. 2: Putin never had a Plan B. It’s now obvious that he thought he was going to waltz into Kyiv, seize it in a week, install a lackey as president, tuck Ukraine into his pocket and put to an end any further European Union, NATO or Western cultural expansion toward Russia. He would then cast his shadow across all of Europe.

This leads to fact No. 3: Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop. There’s no way he can seize control of all of Ukraine anymore. But at the same time, he can’t afford to be defeated, after all the Russian lives and treasure he has expended. So he can’t stop.

To put it differently, because Putin never had a Plan B, he’s defaulted to a punitive, often indiscriminate rocketing of Ukrainian towns and civilian infrastructure — a grinding war of attrition — with the hope that he can somehow drain enough blood from Ukrainians, and instill enough exhaustion in Kyiv’s Western allies, that they give him a big enough slice of Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine he can sell to the Russian people as a great victory.

Putin’s Plan B is to disguise that Putin’s Plan A has failed. If this military operation had an honest name, it would be called Operation Save My Face.

Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool.

You can see from Putin’s Victory Day speech in Moscow on Tuesday that he is now grasping for any rationale to justify a war he started out of his personal fantasy that Ukraine is not a real country but part of Russia. He claimed his invasion was provoked by Western “globalists and elites” who “talk about their exclusivity, pit people and split society, provoke bloody conflicts and upheavals, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism and destroy traditional family values that make a person a person.”

Wow. Putin invaded Ukraine to preserve Russian family values. Who knew? That’s a leader struggling to explain to his people why he started a war with a puny neighbor that he says is not a real country.

You might ask, why does a dictator like Putin feel he needs a disguise? Can’t he make his people believe whatever he wants?

I don’t think so. If you look at his behavior, it seems that Putin is quite frightened today by two subjects: arithmetic and Russian history.

To understand why these subjects frighten him, you need to first consider the atmosphere enveloping him.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a foreign affairs writer reporting from autocratic countries is that no matter how tightly controlled a place is, no matter how brutal and iron-fisted its dictator, EVERYBODY TALKS.

They know who is stealing, who is cheating, who is lying, who is having an affair with whom. It starts with a whisper and often stays there, but everybody talks.

Putin clearly knows this, too. He knows that even if he gets a few more kilometers of eastern Ukraine and holds Crimea, the minute he stops this war, his people will all do the cruel arithmetic on his Plan B — starting with subtraction.

The White House reported last week that an estimated 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine in just the past five months and roughly 200,000 killed or wounded since Putin started this war in February 2022.

That is a big number of casualties — even in a big country — and you can see that Putin is worried that his people are talking about it, because, beyond criminalizing any form of dissent, in April he rushed through a new law cracking down on draft dodging. Now anyone who doesn’t show up will face restrictions on banking, selling property, even getting a driver’s license.

Putin would not be going to such lengths if he was not fearful that, despite his best efforts, everyone was whispering about how badly the war is going and how to avoid serving there.

Read the recent essay in The Washington Post by Leon Aron, a historian of Putin’s Russia and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, about Putin’s visit in March to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

“Two days after the International Criminal Court charged Putin with war crimes and issued a warrant for his arrest,” Aron wrote, “the Russian president came to Mariupol for a few hours. He was filmed stopping by the ‘Nevsky microdistrict,’ inspecting a new apartment and listening for a few minutes to the effusively grateful occupants. As he was leaving, a barely audible voice is heard on the video, crying out from a distance: ‘Eto vsyo nepravda!’ — ‘It’s all lies!’”

Aron told me that the Russian media later scrubbed “It’s all lies” from the audio, but the fact that it had been left in there may have been a subversive act by someone in the official Russian media hierarchy. Everybody talks.

Which leads to the other thing Putin knows: “The gods of Russian history are extremely unforgiving of military defeat,” Aron said. In the modern era, “when a Russian leader ends a war in a clear defeat — or with no win — usually there is a change of regime. We saw that after the first Crimean War, after the Russo-Japanese war, after Russia’s setbacks in World War I, after Khrushchev’s retreat from Cuba in 1962 and after Brezhnev and company’s Afghanistan quagmire, which hastened Gorbachev’s perestroika-and-glasnost revolution. The Russian people, for all their renowned patience, will forgive a lot of things — but not military defeat.”

It’s for these reasons that Aron, who just finished a book about Putin’s Russia, argues that this Ukraine conflict is far from over and could get a lot worse before it is.

“There are now two ways for Putin to end this war he cannot win and cannot walk away from,” Aron said. “One is to continue until Ukraine is bled dry and/or the Ukraine fatigue sets in in the West.”

And the other, he argued, “is to somehow force a direct confrontation with the U.S. — bring us to the precipice of an all-out strategic nuclear exchange — and then step back and propose to a scared West an overall settlement, which would include a neutral, disarmed Ukraine and his holding on to the Crimea and Donbas.”

It’s impossible to get into Putin’s head and predict his next move, but color me worried. Because what we do know, from Putin’s actions, is that he knows his Plan A has failed. And he will now do anything to produce a Plan B to justify the terrible losses that he has piled up in the name of a country where everybody talks and where defeated leaders don’t retire peacefully.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230511122728/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/05/09/opinion/putin-ukraine-war.html

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Friday, May 12, 2023 6:37 AM

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Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov contradicted the pre-war Kremlin justifications for the war by asserting that the Russian “special military operation” began as “a conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” He said that Russia has “partially” achieved the goals of “protecting” people in Donbas,[9] but added that Russia is still far from fully achieving these goals. He said that it was ”hard to believe” at the beginning of the war that NATO, the United States, and European countries would ”intervene in this conflict.” ISW previously reported that the Kremlin has begun to shift its domestic narratives to claim that Russia is fighting only against NATO in an effort to set informational conditions for potential Russian military failures during the planned Ukrainian counteroffensive.[10] Peskov’s statement is consistent with the new Russian narrative but contradicts Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements prior to the February 24, 2022 invasion. Putin stated on February 21, 2022, that Russia is ”not fighting the Ukrainian people” and claimed that Ukraine had become a hostage of its ”Western masters.”[11] The Russian pre-war justification for the invasion relied heavily on portraying a NATO threat to Russia supposedly emanating from Ukraine.[12]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-may-11-2023

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Friday, May 12, 2023 8:00 AM

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Moscow denies reports Ukraine has broken through front lines

Russia’s defence ministry has denied reports that Ukrainian forces had broken through in various places along the front lines and said the military situation was under control, according to Reuters.

Moscow was reacting after Russian military bloggers, writing on the Telegram messaging app, reported what they said were Ukrainian advances north and south of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with some suggesting a long-awaited counteroffensive by pro-Kyiv forces had started.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had earlier said the offensive had yet to start.

“Statements circulated by individual Telegram channels about ‘defence breakthroughs’ that took place in different areas along the line of military contact do not correspond to reality,” the Russian defence ministry said in a Telegram post.

“The overall situation in the area of the special military operation is under control,” it said in a statement, using the Kremlin’s description of the war in Ukraine.

The fact the Russian ministry felt obliged to release the statement reflects what Moscow acknowledges is a “very difficult” military operation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/may/12/russia-ukraine-war-
live-moscow-denies-wagner-claims-of-bakhmut-breakthrough-by-ukraine

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Friday, May 12, 2023 9:40 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey dumb shit SECOND... did you get an award at school for "stupid"? Or was it for "lying"?

Asking an Estonian elite about Russia is like asking ... well... you.

I don't read your walls of gibberish and I sure didn't read his.
Signym, why don't you start screaming that only you know the Holy Truth about Russians and every contradiction is Fake News from the Faithless?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

I learned a long time ago that nearly everything YOU post is a lie, and frankly, I don't have time to waste on your posts, troll.

Im fact, if you're as rich and in-charge as you say (ahem!) you are, how do you find the time to search out and repost such tidbits of crap?

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

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Friday, May 12, 2023 2:18 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I learned a long time ago that nearly everything YOU post is a lie, and frankly, I don't have time to waste on your posts, troll.

Im fact, if you're as rich and in-charge as you say (ahem!) you are, how do you find the time to search out and repost such tidbits of crap?

Signym, have you got some kind of learning disorder? Because none of this stuff takes more than two minutes to read unless you have to slowly sound out the words and use your English-to-Russian dictionary to translate them into a language you are more familiar with.

How about this story: Ukrainian defenders kill 750 Russian soldiers in one day
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/12/7401816/

Signym, it is about Russians being converted into dead meat for dogs to eat. Fortunately for Putin, there are millions of Russians available to be made into dog chow. Those Russians won't be missed. Stalin proved the same, killing millions of Russians in a fit of pique. Even today, Russians pretend that didn't happen.

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Friday, May 12, 2023 2:54 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

SECOND, why should I waste my time on crap? I can tell from the first two sentences whether something is worth reading, and your "stuff", frankly, doesn't rate.

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Friday, May 12, 2023 3:00 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Has the Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive begun?

Military Summary Channel (a pro-Kiev website) says "yes"

Zelenskiy says "no".

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

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Friday, May 12, 2023 4:30 PM

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SECOND, why should I waste my time on crap? I can tell from the first two sentences whether something is worth reading, and your "stuff", frankly, doesn't rate.

Signym, you'd learn some sad truths about Russia, if you click on the link:

Country comparison Canada vs Russia
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/canada/russia

Russia - International emigrant stock
https://countryeconomy.com/demography/migration/emigration/russia
So many millions of Russians leaving for better places.

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Friday, May 12, 2023 4:52 PM

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Net migration - Russian Federation
United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM?locations=RU

Russian Federation 2022 942,445

The recent Russian emigrants are predominantly young, well-educated, and ambitious. Many continue to be active professionally and politically outside their home country. They tend, more than their predecessors, to have been driven out by current political circumstances or even political persecution.
https://www.gmfus.org/event/democratic-potential-new-russian-emigrants

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Friday, May 12, 2023 6:57 PM

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Georgiy Muradov, permanent representative of Crimea under the Russian president, told Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti in an interview published on Friday that the U.K. may be turned "into a devastated territory" following the delivery of the weapons to Ukraine.

"The English island itself risks turning into a devastated territory [after providing Ukraine with depleted uranium shells and long-range missiles] aimed at the Russian Crimea," said Muradov.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-crimea-threatens-destroy-uk-britain-uk
raine-storm-shadow-missiles-1799900

Or maybe this is old news, just another threat to nuke the UK, one more out of millions of times Russia has threatened to nuke the West. Maybe this time the Russians will really do it. Go for it, Putin! Show how manly you are! Nuke King Charles III!

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Friday, May 12, 2023 7:24 PM

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Russia welcomes Signym! Russia May Build a Village for American Conservatives

By Jon Jackson On 5/11/23

Plans are in place to build a village in the Moscow region for conservative Americans and Canadians, according to a Russian state media outlet.

The Kremlin-backed RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday reported on the community that caters to expatriates with "traditional" values, writing that construction is expected to begin next year.

While Russia is at odds with the U.S. government, especially in regards to the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken up causes favored by many Western conservatives. He has signed legislation that restricts LGBTQ+ rights, and he enjoyed a closer relationship with former President Donald Trump than with Trump's Democratic successor to the White House.

Russian state-operated media outlets also give Trump favorable coverage and often air clips from right-wing pundits critical of the war in Ukraine, including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

RIA Novosti quoted Timur Beslangurov—a partner of VISTA Immigration law firm who assists foreign investors in obtaining residency and citizenship in Russia—as saying "about 200 families want to emigrate [to Russia] for ideological reasons."

In total, Beslangurov said, tens of thousands of people with no ties to Russia want to move to the country.

The lawyer spoke about the planned project for conservative ex-pats at a legal forum in St. Petersburg, according to RIA Novosti, saying the regional government in Russia had approved plans for the village.

Beslangurov reportedly said traditional Catholics are among the 200 families from the United States and Canada that are looking to move to the Russian village because they "very strongly believe in the prophecy that Russia will remain the only Christian country in the world."

No Russian officials have announced plans for the village, but Beslangurov said the Moscow region administration has signed off on the project. He also said the community will be financed by the relocating families.

As for why Westerners are seeking to relocate to Russia, Beslangurov cited the spread of progressive values.

"The reason is the propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, it is not known what will happen next. Many normal people emigrate, including considering Russia, but they face huge bureaucratic problems of Russian migration legislation," he said.

When reached for comment, Beslangurov told Newsweek that he could not provide any additional information about the village project.

George Ajjan, international political strategist, told Newsweek that if the report of the village is to be believed, Russia would likely not have too much trouble filling the village with conservatives.

"There are plenty of Americans who have made a choice to live abroad, whether borne of pragmatism and logistic ease, or ideological reasons," Ajjan said. "Out of 330 million, you could probably populate a small compound in Moscow suburbs with Americans as obsessed with their wokeness victimization narrative as they are willfully ignorant of the harsh realities of living in an authoritarian state."

Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-may-build-village-american-conservativ
es-1799809

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Friday, May 12, 2023 8:39 PM