Another Putin Disaster

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THG

Sunday, January 8, 2023 3:40 AM (P)

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

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THG

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:47 AM (P)

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DEMONS AMONG US IN RUSSIA

INSIDE RUSSIA

THG

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 6:53 PM (P)

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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THG

Sunday, January 15, 2023 4:28 AM (P)

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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THG

Sunday, January 15, 2023 4:30 AM (P)

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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THG

Sunday, January 15, 2023 4:34 AM (P)

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Originally posted by THG:
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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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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 15, 2023 8:19 AM (P)

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

THG

Saturday, January 28, 2023 4:46 AM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 28, 2023 4:47 AM (P)

Nobody gives a shit.

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THG

Monday, January 30, 2023 1:43 AM (P)

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

THG

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 12:30 AM (P)

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THG

Saturday, February 4, 2023 12:30 AM (P)

'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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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, February 4, 2023 12:44 AM (P)

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

THG

Friday, February 17, 2023 4:34 PM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 17, 2023 5:08 PM (P)

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

THG

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 9:22 PM (P)

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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THG

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:46 AM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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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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THG

Monday, February 27, 2023 8:11 PM (P)

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JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, March 6, 2023 5:51 PM (P)

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?

THG

Monday, March 6, 2023 10:20 PM (P)

Why Estonia Election Results Are a Blow to Putin

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-estonia-election-results-are-
a-blow-to-putin/ar-AA18hhdI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=c6b9f1aae79b45079be19cb1f6fea415&ei=28

So sorry puddy.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 6, 2023 10:28 PM (P)

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

THG

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 3:59 AM (P)

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

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THG

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:03 AM (P)

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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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THG

Friday, March 10, 2023 3:44 AM (P)

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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THG

Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:41 PM (P)

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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THG

Friday, March 24, 2023 4:45 AM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 24, 2023 5:16 AM (P)

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

THG

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 3:59 AM (P)

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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THG

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:19 AM (P)

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

THG

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 2:23 AM (P)

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 3:10 AM (P)

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

THG

Monday, April 3, 2023 4:29 AM (P)

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?

SIGNYM

Monday, April 3, 2023 4:54 AM (P)

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

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

SIGNYM

Monday, April 3, 2023 5:04 AM (P)

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

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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.

MORE AT https://www.unz.com/pescobar/the-capital-of-the-multipolar-world-a-mos
cow-diary/

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

THG

Thursday, April 6, 2023 12:54 AM (P)

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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THG

Friday, April 7, 2023 4:16 AM (P)

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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THG

Saturday, April 8, 2023 9:18 PM (P)

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

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SIGNYM

Saturday, April 8, 2023 10:51 PM (P)

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

SIGNYM

Saturday, April 8, 2023 11:04 PM (P)

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

SECOND

Saturday, April 8, 2023 11:37 PM (P)

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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

SECOND

Saturday, April 8, 2023 11:39 PM (P)

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.

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 ne

SIGNYM

Sunday, April 9, 2023 3:56 AM (P)

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

THG

Monday, April 10, 2023 12:19 AM (P)

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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THG

Monday, April 10, 2023 12:23 AM (P)

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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THG

Monday, April 10, 2023 12:25 AM (P)

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.

T

SIGNYM

Monday, April 10, 2023 12:48 AM (P)

Idiot

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

THG

Friday, April 14, 2023 5:27 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Idiot

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

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?

THG

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 1:01 AM (P)

T

THE DAY OF RECKONING FOR RUSSIANS IS COMING || 2023

THG

Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:22 AM (P)

T

MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA is an update of important news from Russia

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 20, 2023 10:44 AM (P)

The Russians will be fine, Theodore.

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

THG

Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:32 AM (P)

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

T

THG

Thursday, May 4, 2023 5:18 AM (P)

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

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

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, May 4, 2023 11:45 AM (P)

That's what everybody does, Ted.

The US is the best at betraying other countries.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, May 5, 2023 5:09 PM (P)

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

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

Oil Depot Near Crimean Bridge Hit by Ukrainian Drone Strike

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

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

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

SECOND

Friday, May 5, 2023 5:34 PM (P)

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

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

It’s a little embarrassing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THG

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 1:20 AM (P)

Ukraine flags block Russian ambassador's path on Victory Day

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

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1aWOaP.img?w
=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 3:54 AM (P)

The Ukraine Flag is good for nothing but toilet paper.

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SECOND

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 9:58 AM (P)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 10:27 AM (P)

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

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN ANTI-UKRAINE.

WTF dude. Have you not been paying attention?

Quote:
What next? Pro-Russian?

#Rootin4Putin

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

THG

Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:02 AM (P)

T

PUTIN'S PARADE: HOW LOW IS LOW?

INSIDE RUSSIA

THG

Friday, May 12, 2023 5:17 AM (P)

How Vladimir Putin went from world leader to international outcast

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-vladimir-putin-went-from-worl
d-leader-to-international-outcast/ss-AA15Fibp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b4eca54219044e58f9b88fb0239d63d&ei=336

Give me room I'm falling down laughing here. Aren't you comrade signym, aren't you?

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 12, 2023 5:19 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
How Vladimir Putin went from world leader to international outcast

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-vladimir-putin-went-from-worl
d-leader-to-international-outcast/ss-AA15Fibp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b4eca54219044e58f9b88fb0239d63d&ei=336

Give me room I'm falling down laughing here. Aren't you comrade signym, aren't you?

T

Okay. So now we're going to pretend that Russian leaders haven't always been outcasts on the international stage?

Keep laughing while Russia works with OPEC and China against US imperialism and our economy gets even worse under increasingly weak Democrat leadership, you stupid, mindless hyena.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 24, 2023 5:33 PM (P)

Who are Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner mercenary group
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wagner-group-mercenari
es-battle-of-bakhmut-b2363361.html
Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but the Wagner leader’s threats against the country’s military leadership show tensions escalating to an alarming extent

THG

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 5:56 AM (P)

T

SECOND

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 6:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Okay. So now we're going to pretend that Russian leaders haven't always been outcasts on the international stage?

Keep laughing while Russia works with OPEC and China against US imperialism and our economy gets even worse under increasingly weak Democrat leadership, you stupid, mindless hyena.

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. 6ix, you have No Job and No Prospects. 6ix, you are the reason the economy is worse in counties under Republican control. 6ix, you mock me for working while you stay in bed as if your life is the dynamo powering America. Trumptards are not contributing more than they consume, but they don't believe it and can't understand why they are so poor and unhappy.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-voting-counties-equal-70-of-a
mericas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/

Russian leaders are outcasts because they always threaten to nuke the world.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 8:04 AM (P)

Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 6:01 PM (P)

Biden: Putin has 'already lost' Ukraine war

https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/07/15/world/americas-emea/biden-putin
-has-already-lost-ukraine-war/1900676

SECOND

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 8:31 PM (P)

Putin is running out of options in Ukraine

Lawrence Freedman writes:

Governments start wars in pursuit of various objectives, from conquering territory to changing the regime of a hostile state to supporting a beleaguered ally. Once a war begins, the stakes are immediately raised. It is one of the paradoxes of war that even as its original objectives drift out of reach or are cast aside, the necessity of not being seen as the loser only grows in importance—such importance, in fact, that even if winning is no longer possible, governments will still persevere to show that they have not been beaten.

The problem with losing goes beyond the failure to achieve objectives or even having to explain the expenditures of blood and treasure for little gain: loss casts doubt on the wisdom and competence of the government. Failure in war can cause a government to fall. That is often why governments keep on fighting wars: an admission of defeat could make it harder to hold on to power.

All of these dynamics are evident in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin set as his objectives the “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine. By the first, he presumably meant regime change, in which case the war has clearly been a failure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s position is as strong as ever. As for demilitarization, Ukraine is on its way to becoming the most militarized country in Europe. Many of the Russian speakers in Ukraine on whose behalf Putin claimed to be acting now prefer to speak Ukrainian, while the Russian-speaking areas of the Donbas have been battered, deindustrialized, and depopulated because of this ruinous war.

Russian forces have failed to take complete control of any of the four oblasts, or administrative regions—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia—that Putin claimed for Russia in September 2022. Much of the ground initially seized after the full-scale invasion has been relinquished, and more is being lost, albeit slowly, during the current Ukrainian offensive. Before February 2022, Russia could be confident that Ukraine would not be able to challenge the illegal annexation of Crimea, but now even Russia’s hold of the peninsula is no longer certain. Ukraine still hopes that its war aims—the liberation of all occupied land and the restoration of the borders created in 1991—can be achieved. Even if Ukraine’s current offensive falters, Russia lacks for now the combat power to seize the advantage and take more territory.

Putin is not close to achieving any of his war aims while the price of his gambit grows ever steeper. He may, of course, believe that at least some of his original objectives are still possible, or take some comfort from those analysts in the West who are convinced that the best Ukraine can hope for is a military stalemate. But the Russian leader has never shown himself to be satisfied with a stalemate. He wants a resolution in which he can be shown to be the clear victor. When asked about negotiation, including by sympathetic interlocutors, for example from Africa, he still demands that Ukraine recognize the annexations of the four oblasts, which would require Kyiv to hand over more territory to Moscow. That is clearly not going to happen.

More at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putin-running-out-options-ukrai
ne

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

THG

Saturday, July 29, 2023 3:26 AM (P)

So sad.

T

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 29, 2023 9:52 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
So sad.

Yes you are Ted.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

THG

Monday, July 31, 2023 4:46 AM (P)

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

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

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

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

Three, that's too funny, aye comrade?

T

SIGNYM

Monday, July 31, 2023 5:00 AM (P)

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

say 'goodbye' to your armored weqpons, kiev!

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

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Tuesday, August 1, 2023 2:50 AM (P)

America calls Putin's bluff.

T

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 4, 2023 4:00 PM (P)

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

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

THG

Sunday, August 13, 2023 5:32 AM (P)

T

THG

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 7:56 AM (P)

Black swan song of Russian Empire

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

Bye

T

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 3:41 PM (P)

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

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

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

spun out of control and crashed

first mission in 47 years

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 31, 2023 11:49 PM (P)

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

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

THG

Saturday, October 14, 2023 4:17 AM (P)

Word is he is dying. We can hope.

T

THG

Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:17 AM (P)

Comrade signym, can you see me laughing?

T

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 19, 2023 9:04 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

Word is he is dying. We can hope.

T

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

Good luck, Theodore.

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

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Saturday, October 21, 2023 5:31 AM (P)

T

100 000 RUSSIAN COPS HAVE DISAPPEARED!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 21, 2023 6:02 AM (P)

Yeah. Sure they have, idiot.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Sunday, October 22, 2023 9:29 PM (P)

Swedish government expects NATO membership within 'a few weeks'

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

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

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 23, 2023 12:41 AM (P)

Fuck NATO.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 2:07 AM (P)

Oh no comrade signym, oh no.

T

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

SIGNYM

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:50 AM (P)

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

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:35 AM (P)

Meanwhile... In the US Economy.

Get fucked, Ted.

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

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Friday, December 15, 2023 5:20 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

SIGNYM

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

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

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

Good grief Putty, what now?

T

THG

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 12:10 AM (P)

Russian Government Creates Bill to Criminalize 'Russophobia' Worldwide

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

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

T

THG

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 3:47 AM (P)

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

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

Great news aye comrade signym.

T

THG

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:00 AM (P)

US House Member Initiates Discharge Petition for Ukraine Aid Bill

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

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

Let's go, get it done.

T

THG

Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:33 PM (P)

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

T

THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:00 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think in this case I'll post something more appropriate sig.

Putin

T

THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:06 PM (P)

THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:09 PM (P)

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

Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire" during remarks before evangelical Christians in Florida. The president was warning about a buildup of Soviet strength and global menace, and the need to confront it.

History is now repeating itself. Today's Russia is a pale version of the communist regime that finally dissolved in 1991. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, famously embittered by that collapse, is bent on reacquiring some of that former glory.

Putin's Make Russia Great Again strategy is a font of international mayhem.
Russia invaded neighboring Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, where fighting rages on and 10,000 have died. Its illegal annexation of Crimea was the first effort to alter European borders by force since World War II. The Russian military, dispatched to Syria, shored up the regime of Bashar Assad and committed atrocities, bombing a United Nations aid convoy and targeting hospitals.

High-confidence findings by the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency concluded that Putin ordered a cyber and propaganda attack to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine public faith in the American democratic process. Russian "trolls" posted false stories on Facebook that reached 140 million Americans, and Russian hackers stole thousands of emails from Democratic leaders and leaked them. Similar attacks have since occurred in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Other Russian aggression includes selling weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan and oil to North Korea. The Kremlin also provides sanctuary to a rogue's gallery of cyber criminals,dispatches fighter aircraft that harass U.S. military jets in Syria and NATO aircraft over the Baltic, and sends submarines to prowl suspiciously close to crucial Atlantic undersea cables carrying 97% of global communications. All the while, Putin works to rig upcoming Russian elections in his favor.

The Trump administration's response to this mounting threat has been schizophrenic. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson writes in The New York Times that the Trump administration has "no illusions" about a resurgent Russia. And a suddenly tougher line emerged last month with the welcome announcement that anti-tank weapons would be sold to the Ukrainian government for defense against Russian-backed rebels.

Even so, these steps run contrary to President Trump's tendency toward appeasing Putin. The administration has slow-walked implementation of tough, new sanctions against Russia passed overwhelmingly by Congress last summer. The sanctions are to finally go into effect this month.

And Trump has not convened a Cabinet-level meeting on Russian interference in the presidential campaign. "When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing," Trump tweeted in November.

Reagan famously urged listeners in 1983 "to beware the temptation ... to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire." Thirty-five years later, those words are again worth heeding.

T

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THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:12 PM (P)

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

THGRRI

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

T

Too funny...

T

THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:20 PM (P)

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

THG
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Umm ... where's the disaster for Putin? This is like you posting about Turkey under Saudia (sic) Araba (sic) thread.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:30 PM (P)

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

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

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

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

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

T

Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

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THG

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:55 PM (P)

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Originally posted by THG: Sunday, May 23, 2021 1:18 PM

Poor signym, she posts a propaganda video to make her point. That Putins' russia is able to bully not just the US but Britain as well. Good luck with that comrade. And comrade kiki cannot think of anything to say to defend Putin against what's posted in this thread so she can only nonsensically repeat herself. Too funny; time for her to ask her handler for assistance.

T

Well, we all know that you post lies, THUGR. So, is what I posted TRUE? Did Britain decide to deploy its destroyer in the Black Sea, or did it reverse itself?

I'll bet you're too afraid to find out for sure because you're NOT all about "facts", you're all about telling yourself stories that you like, because they soothe your excited fears.

APRIL 2, 2024, 10:51 AM

ODESA, Ukraine—In his office overlooking Odesa’s Pivdennyi Port on the Black Sea, Viktor Berestenko smiled contentedly at the half-dozen large international cargo ships just beyond the harbor. “It’s as beautiful as your first kiss,” said the grinning president of the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine. Speaking to Foreign Policy in late March Berestenko was only too happy to inform me that Ukraine’s three free ports—all in and around Odesa—are operating 24/7, and that the country’s grain exports are back to prewar levels.

On the floor laughing here comrade. Ukraine owns the Black Sea. Russia's fleet is being destroyed and won't go near the Black Sea anymore. Putins' navy has lost to a country that doesn't have any ships. Again, way to funny comrade.

T

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