Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is framing the State Duma elections as a referendum on his war in Ukraine after setting conditions to ensure his desired outcome. Putin stated on September 16 that participating in the State Duma elections scheduled for September 18-20 is a “responsibility” for all Russian citizens and contributes to strengthening Russia against external actors who seek to weaken Russia and undermine Russian sovereignty.[1] Putin will present his party’s inevitable victory as evidence of widespread domestic support for the war.[2]
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-september-16-2026/
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Ukraine flips the script, leaving Putin’s troops more likely to die than be wounded
By Kathrine Frich | September 16, 2026
Ukrainian intelligence data pointed to this grim trend months ago. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously noted that 62 percent of Russian casualties were fatalities, but the situation on the ground has grown even more extreme.
Up to 70 percent of Russian troops who become casualties today are killed outright, according to senior commanders speaking to UNITED24 Media.
https://www.dagens.com/war/ukraine-flips-the-script-leaving-putins-tro
ops-more-likely-to-die-than-be-wounded
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As Walls Close In, Zelensky Lashes Out
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/as-walls-close-in-zelensky-las
hes-out/
He's running out of people to fire. The EU better send him some more generals along with their citizens' futures.
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 3:25 PM (U)
Quote:Unlike in America, where only Billionaire Trump can fix things, and in Russia, where only Billionaire Putin keeps the war going, Ukraine has plenty of people to replace I-wanna-be-a-Billionaire Zelensky. He looks like he needs to quit, and somebody fresh should take the job. [Unlike in America and Russia, the top guy is not irreplaceable in Ukraine.]
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
As Walls Close In, Zelensky Lashes Out
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/as-walls-close-in-zelensky-las
hes-out/
He's running out of people to fire. The EU better send him some more generals along with their citizens' futures.
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Nobody is irreplaceable.
Nobody.
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Quote:If Zelensky's plane got destroyed in the air with him on board, I wouldn't mourn. Z spends too much time traveling around the world instead of doing his job. If the same happened to Trump, there would be JD Vance to replace him. Trump spends all his time running his mouth and traveling to golf courses instead of working.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody is irreplaceable.
Nobody.
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Is NATO ready to fight? The Ukraine war is raising doubts among military analysts
By Daniel Flynn, Max Hunder and Olena Harmash
September 17, 2026 5:07 AM CDT
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/is-nato-ready-fight
-ukraine-war-is-raising-doubts-among-military-analysts-2026-09-17/
KYIV, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people. It has also served as a proving ground for new weapons systems and raised an uncomfortable question for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Is the alliance prepared for the next war it might have to fight?
Five Ukrainian and Western defense officials told Reuters that developments on the battlefield are moving so quickly that some NATO weapons and tactics risk becoming outdated. While Ukraine – which is not an alliance member – adapts in weeks, NATO buys and develops systems over years, sometimes decades.
The Ukraine war and U.S. President Donald Trump’s haranguing of European allies have prompted many NATO members to dramatically increase their defense spending. The Pentagon is currently reviewing its military presence in European countries, which Trump has accused of sponging off U.S. protection and refusing to help prosecute his unpopular war against Iran.
Denys Shtilerman, the co-owner and chief designer of Fire Point, a leading Ukrainian missile and drone builder, told Reuters that tanks are now “worthless” because a drone costing about $5,000 can destroy one. Yet Europe still spends heavily on tanks – which, say many military analysts, still have a key role to play in future battles despite evidence to the contrary.
Cheap drones have also transformed warfare in other ways. Troops gathering in groups or large vehicle convoys all become far easier targets.
“They are good at storming positions,” Oleksandr Pivnenko, Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, said of the international troops his units trained with last year. “But if there’s a drone overhead and you don’t even look up, what do you think will happen to your squad?”
In June, Reuters attended a NATO military exercise near Paldiski in Estonia – a small Baltic country now fortifying its 210-mile border with Russia – in which American and European troops treated dozens of simulated casualties at wartime field hospitals. But the exercise took place with the assumption that NATO would command the airspace above the hospitals – no longer a given in the age of cheap, stealthy, long-distance drones.
Rather than simply receiving NATO training and assistance, Ukrainian officials described a growing role for Ukraine in teaching the alliance lessons drawn from the war with Russia. Yet they also said NATO’s military bureaucracy struggles to absorb those lessons. A Ukrainian officer who underwent NATO psychological operations training in Romania told Reuters that some alliance training materials still relied on case studies from World War Two. NATO didn’t respond to questions about the officials’ criticism of its training and bureaucracy.
The Ukraine war has also exposed a vulnerability that NATO officials say is far harder to solve: air and missile defense. Russia’s relentless barrages against Ukrainian cities have highlighted Europe's dependence on sophisticated U.S. anti-missile systems such as the Patriot, first used in the 1991 Gulf War. Ukraine has a critical shortage of Patriot interceptors – the missiles fired to destroy incoming threats.
Fearing that its reliance on Patriots might become a strategic vulnerability, Europe is building non-U.S. alternatives. Ukraine is awaiting delivery of the new French-Italian SAMP/T-NG air-defense system, designed to intercept ballistic missiles. France has promised to accelerate its deployment to Ukraine, and European diplomats previously told Reuters it was expected to arrive by next spring.
In a statement, the Ukrainian defense ministry said its soldiers and NATO’s had much to learn from each other, hailing Ukraine’s use of drones and radio/electronic warfare as “globally unmatched" and praising European efforts to help tackle Russia’s drone and missile bombardments.
In July, Ukraine and nine European allies launched an air-defense coalition that includes plans to jointly develop a new anti-ballistic missile system. Known as Freyja, the project is a consortium of about a dozen companies with Fire Point as the lead private-sector partner. The goal is to build a system that is cheaper and faster to produce than the Patriot, while ensuring that Europe, not the U.S., controls its manufacture.
“If you spend $20 billion on your air defense system, you must be independent in your security,” said Fire Point’s Shtilerman.
Additional reporting by Andrew R.C. Marshall and John Shiffman Edited by Jason Szep.
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 6:32 PM (U)
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
IF RUSSIA WINS ...
it will insist on
Retaining the four regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea, and Zaparhozia) and quite possibly Kherson and Odessa as wel.
A formally neutral (i.e. non-NATO) Ukraine,
With limited military
And all pro-Nazi elements (like Azov) expunged.
In order to achieve all that, the government in Kiev will have to be Russia-friendly.
If the remainder if Europe insists on warring with Russia, then the war will expand. If not, that's where it stops.
And if they lose? Hey, I'm still waiting on an answer to my other question.
T
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 10:10 PM (U)
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
No, it's not in Putins writings.
But if you really think so, find that quote and post it.
Vladimir Putin: The rebuilding of ‘Soviet’ Russia
Published
28 March 2014
"That man was a former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, and he has been in charge of the world's largest country, as president or prime minister, ever since. Few realized it at the time, because few were listening, but that speech provided a blueprint for pretty much everything he has done, for how he would re-shape a country that was perilously close to total collapse."
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26769481
Try again. And answer my question. What if Russia loses?
T
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Text of the speech please.
I don't care how BBC frames... well, anything really.
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Ubu LOVES BBC.
Just not the kind you're thinking of.
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Now that the USA won’t defend Europe because of Trump, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are declaring early that they will be pacifists if Russia attacks anywhere in Europe.
(The slogan "Better Red Than Dead" is back by popular demand!)
Slovakia doesn't want war 'because of some Article 5,' Prime Minister Fico says
By Martin Fornusek | September 18, 2026 9:53 am
https://kyivindependent.com/slovakia-doesnt-want-war-because-of-some-a
rticle-5-prime-minister-fico-says/
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Sept. 17 raised concerns about a potential conflict between Russia and NATO while casting doubt on his country's commitment to the alliance's collective defense principle.
Speaking before his visit to Ukraine, the Slovak leader said that the Russia-Ukraine war is "out of control," and that the risk of a Europe-wide conflict has never been as serious as it is now.
Fico, Slovakia's Kremlin-friendly, populist leader, has been among the loudest critics of Europe's military support for Ukraine and one of the few NATO heads of government to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow during the all-out war.
"I don't want Slovakia to be part of an armed conflict because of some Article 5," Fico said in the Slovak city of Presov, referring to the North Atlantic Treaty's clause that says an attack against one member is an attack against the entire alliance.
Article 5 requires all NATO member states to assist the attacked ally in a manner they deem appropriate, which may include an armed response.
"Yes, we are in NATO; we value that, and cooperation and commitments matter to us, but as the head of government, I will do everything I can to prevent Slovakia from being dragged into an armed conflict."
The Slovak leader also accused European capitals of warmongering and claimed there are attempts to find "an excuse for a major conflict between NATO and Russia." The comments follow a series of suspected Russian hybrid attacks across European countries and increasingly frequent Russian strikes near Ukraine's borders with NATO members.
Fico, as well as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other European leaders, are set to travel to Ukraine to meet top officials on Sept. 18.
Ukraine is hosting the inaugural Carpathian 8 Summit, a regional cooperation forum bringing together Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Austria, and Serbia. The summit is set to take place in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast between Sept. 18 and 20.
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[ A Way Where Ukraine Loses Is Still a Strong Possibility ]
How Ukraine’s futuristic war could get ‘much worse,’ according to ex-Google CEO
“The rate of innovation is faster than I’ve ever seen, and I work in tech,” Eric Schmidt told NBC News’ Richard Engel.
Sept. 14, 2026, 1:50 PM CDT / Updated Sept. 15, 2026, 3:29 AM CDT
By Alexander Smith
Ukraine’s battlefield “kill zones,” where leaving your bunker can mean death by Russian drone within minutes, look set to grow swiftly as the war drives breathtaking technological advancements, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned.
Schmidt, now CEO and executive chairman of rocket maker Relativity Space, is helping Ukraine fight a technological battle with the Kremlin that moves so quickly that weapons can lose their advantage within months.
“The rate of innovation is faster than I’ve ever seen, and I work in tech,” Schmidt told Richard Engel, NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent. Schmidt previously chaired the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and has advised the Pentagon.
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine stretches into its fifth year, Schmidt said Moscow is becoming better at developing and deploying new weapons, eroding an advantage Ukraine had relied on.
“Historically, Ukraine was this small, really smart, really fast innovator, and the Russians were, if you will, big, slow, not very capable. That’s changed,” he said in an interview for the weekly global affairs podcast “The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim.”
Winning would depend on how quickly either side could get its latest inventions into widespread use, Schmidt argued.
“Whoever plays the game of fastest innovation to scale will win this war,” he said.
Ukraine appears to agree with Schmidt’s assessment.
More at https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-russia-drone-war-eric-sc
hmidt-google-rcna597661
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It's just the big 5 companies taking your tax dollars to R&D the murder weapons that are going to be "policing" our skies in the coming decades and throwing all the Ukrainian men in the meat grinder before they are all replaced with Muslims that will enslave the Ukrainian women and boys while taking all the girls under 10 years old as their wives.
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Quote:Show this to anybody who is NOT a Trumptard, and they will realize you are a Nazi. It only takes one sentence to spot a Nazi, but you've written similar sentences hundreds of times over years.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's just the big 5 companies taking your tax dollars to R&D the murder weapons that are going to be "policing" our skies in the coming decades and throwing all the Ukrainian men in the meat grinder before they are all replaced with Muslims that will enslave the Ukrainian women and boys while taking all the girls under 10 years old as their wives.
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As Russia votes, the Kremlin offers the public few options – or incentives
Upcoming elections appear set to be more stage-managed than usual. But they still provide insight into public and Kremlin attitudes.
By Fred Weir, Special correspondent
Moscow | Sept. 18, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0918/russia-election-vladi
mir-putin-ukraine-war-united
Russians have voted nine times for their Duma, or lower house of parliament, since it was formed in 1993, as the Russian Federation emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But these days, it’s hard to find much public enthusiasm for the exercise.
Democracy in Russia has always been “managed.” Russian elections have never looked like congressional or parliamentary races in the West, with their robust debates and sometimes fiery public protests.
Instead, experts say, Russians accepted that their vote was a tit for tat. For voting in line with the Kremlin, citizens were promised stability that was unthinkable in the chaotic 1990s; or a redistributed slice of national oil profits; or a sense that, together, they were helping rebuild Russia’s status as a great power, especially after it annexed its former territory of Crimea in 2014.
But now, after five years of war in Ukraine and growing economic strains, the vote that starts Sept. 18 finds a nation weary. And with President Vladimir Putin under pressure to maintain his place at the pinnacle of Russia’s power structure – one he has held since the turn of the century – the public will have little room to express its opinions at the polls.
“These will likely turn out to be the most inconspicuous elections in the history of post-Soviet Russia,” says Andrei Kolesnikov, an independent political analyst and Kremlin critic in Moscow.
Maintaining a “systemic opposition”
While many in the West view Mr. Putin’s Russia as simply a dictatorship, the reality is a lot more complicated.
After a period of social turmoil and economic collapse in the 1990s, which featured a destabilizing struggle between irreconcilable political forces, Mr. Putin set out to tame the country. He banished wealthy oligarchs from politics, ushered in an era of social stability and relative consumer prosperity, and fostered a political system that critics quickly dubbed “managed democracy.”
President Vladimir Putin, meeting with the chair of the Central Election Commission in Moscow, Aug. 5, 2026, says that Russia’s ability to hold elections during wartime shows national stability.
The new system ensured that a certain amount of competition took place between distinctly different parties, and real political debates were sometimes aired. But the Kremlin set the limits and used various methods to ensure that no big electoral surprises ever occurred. That system has evolved over time, mostly in the direction of making it more reliable and predictable from the Kremlin’s point of view.
The spectrum of parties is partly genuine, reflecting real political forces that speak to different social constituencies. But the garden has been heavily landscaped over the years to include only parties that play by an accepted set of rules; these are known as the “systemic opposition.”
Those parties whose differences with the Kremlin seem fundamental, or who are seen as tied to foreign interests, are excluded. That “nonsystemic opposition,” personified by the late populist leader Alexei Navalny, is now mostly in exile and deeply divided, seemingly unable to agree among themselves on what to do – if anything – about Russian elections.
Alexei Venediktov, the founder and longtime editor of the independent Echo Moskvi radio station, says the Kremlin’s key goal was to ensure effective management of the country at every level. “And that doesn’t involve endless discussions and disputes.”
“The task in the upcoming elections is to reproduce the same composition the parliament has now. What is wanted is a simulacrum of a parliament, basically a printer to produce the needed laws with a minimum of discussion,” he says.
Echo Moskvi was forced off the air in early 2022 for allegedly spreading “deliberately false information” about the war in Ukraine. When Russians go to the polls starting Sept. 18 to elect a new State Duma, there will be no anti-war candidates on the ballot, the only party advocating for such a position having been barred from competing.
The war’s effect
Mr. Putin kicked off the election campaign of United Russia, the ruling party that supports him – but which he does not formally lead – with a speech on Aug. 22, Russia’s National Flag Day. In it, he stressed national unity, a determination to win the war without concessions to Ukraine or the West, and economic self-sufficiency for Russia. The fact that Russia is holding these elections amid war, he said, demonstrates the “stability of the state [and] the maturity of our political system.”
But over the summer, the war escalated and moved much closer to home for many Russians.
A new generation of Ukrainian drones has been striking deep into Russia’s heartland, destroying oil refineries and laying waste to consumer distribution centers. Most attacks receive detailed coverage in Russian social media.
The psychological impact on average people of seeing huge explosions erupt in their own neighborhoods, and the subsequent shortages of gasoline and other consumer disruptions, is hard to gauge. Polls show that about two-thirds of Russian respondents favor a negotiated end to the conflict, though large majorities still say they support their troops in Ukraine, and only a quarter support making concessions to Ukraine in order to end the conflict.
It’s hard to tell how the ongoing hardships might affect voting patterns, but a surprising surge in popularity of Yabloko, the only party that was on the ballot that explicitly opposes the war, from around 1% to as much as 5%, suggests that anti-war sentiment might be on the rise. In mid-August, Russia’s Supreme Court disqualified Yabloko from running candidates in the elections, taking that option away from voters.
A shrinking playing field
An impressive 11 parties will be on the ballot, most of whom describe themselves as opponents of the ruling pro-Kremlin United Russia party. They range from the Communists, the social-democratic Fair Russia, and the quasi-liberal New Peoples’ Party on the left to the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party on the right. At least five of them are likely to surpass the 5% barrier required for gaining representation in the Duma.
The range of available choices narrowed when the Supreme Court barred Yabloko – which has run in every Duma election since 1993 – from fielding any candidates. The court cited alleged violations of election laws, such as using copyrighted material in their campaign literature and some candidates receiving funds from abroad. Regardless, the result was to exclude the only party in the race that explicitly opposes the war in Ukraine.
Analysts pointedly note Yabloko’s recent surge in opinion polls. “People ask why the authorities allowed Yabloko to be registered, then removed it,” says Mikhail Vinogradov, head of a Moscow-based independent political think tank. “Even though Yabloko had hardly started campaigning, the sudden interest in it from a part of society that has grown tired of the war caused alarm in some government circles, and the authorities decided they didn’t want this precedent of a legally permitted anti-war stance to stand.
“It won’t make much difference,” Mr. Vinogradov adds, “since critics of the war don’t have high expectations from the Duma elections anyway.”
The court case against Yabloko was instigated by a rival, the small nationalist Rodina party, which accused it of being “unpatriotic.” At least seven Russian political parties – including the Communists, Fair Russia, and New People – subsequently issued statements vilifying Yabloko.
Eliminating competitors by denouncing them to the law seems to be a growing trend in Russian politics. In the Volga region of Samara, a local court stripped a popular incumbent Communist deputy, Mikhail Matveyev, of his right to run after a candidate from the Party of Pensioners accused him of using copyrighted Microsoft fonts in his campaign material. The Communist Party, the largest in the systemic opposition, is outraged but appears helpless to do much about it.
“In many regions, the election campaign is far from clean, honest, and transparent,” says Dmitry Novikov, a Communist Duma deputy and party official. “The electoral laws are overregulated, and we are accused not actually of violating them, but of things like copyright infringement.
“How on earth can a candidate, who is not an investigator, know which publicly available fonts are copyrighted and which aren’t?” Mr. Novikov asks. “All this leaves us very critical of the way the election is being conducted.”
Public disinterest
Sociologists say public enthusiasm for elections has waned over the years, with up to 80% of pensioners voting mostly out of a sense of duty, but only a third of people under age 30 doing so.
“I won’t take part in the elections,” says Anna, a student in St. Petersburg. She declined to give her full name for fear of potential repercussions from being quoted in a Western publication, a common public concern. “There is no real choice for me; it is all an imitation of a democratic process. There is an authoritarian regime in Russia, and there is no party I feel any reason to support.”
Kseniya, a homemaker in Moscow, agrees. “I gave birth to my third child, and I don’t think I’ll have time or wish to go to vote, even if there was any real choice,” she says.
“At this point, public interest in the elections is very weak,” says Lev Gudkov, scientific director of the Levada Center, Russia’s only independent public opinion agency. “People just don’t associate electoral outcomes with the solution of their everyday problems. It’s the authorities who need the election to promote the illusion of nationwide support, and to rotate the ranks of the deputies. It’s become a largely bureaucratic exercise.”
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Russian Duma vote to see unprecedented ballot-stuffing — political scientist
September 18, 2026, 05:16 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/russia-s-duma-polls-to-see-record-ballot-
fraud-political-scientist-warns-50642572.html
Vadym Denysenko, political scientist and head of the analytical center Delovaya Stolitsa, writes
"These elections are fundamentally about endorsing Putin’s policy to prolong the war," Denysenko emphasized.
"Consequently, the authorities must produce a respectable voter turnout figure. Turnout will not be exceptionally high, but it will likely settle around 60%. Meanwhile, the result for United Russia must — as party leadership declared at their penultimate congress — surpass their previous showing."
Denysenko noted that in the 2021 parliamentary campaign, United Russia garnered just over 49% of the official vote. For the current cycle, party functionaries are targeting at least 52% to 54%, with quotas potentially adjusted even higher in the final days of campaigning.
"Everyone understands perfectly well — including inside Russia — that United Russia does not command the authentic popularity required to achieve such numbers," Denysenko stated.
"In my assessment, this will be Russia's first election with falsifications on this massive scale. Historically, ballot-box stuffing in Russia fluctuated between 10% and 15%, which proved sufficient for their purposes. However, roughly 10 days before these elections, official surveys by the Russian Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) placed United Russia's actual support at approximately 30%."
To meet the Kremlin's targeted benchmarks, regional election commissions will need to inject fraudulent ballots equivalent to 22% to 25%, and potentially up to 30% of the total tally, Denysenko assessed.
Prior to the 2024 presidential vote, Putin prioritized the appearance of authentic public affection and popular legitimacy, relying on state political technologists to secure favorable margins with modest padding.
Following the Wagner Group mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin in June 2023, the Kremlin abandoned its desire for societal affection, pivoting toward control through unvarnished intimidation and fear.
Denysenko concluded that Russian citizens have been stripped of political agency, transformed into an obedient demographic mass compelled strictly to fulfill Putin's perceived historical objectives.
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Friday, September 18, 2026 5:10 PM (U)
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Text of the speech please.
I don't care how BBC frames... well, anything really.
Putin’s speech harked back to Russia’s empire – the threat doesn’t stop at Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s lengthy speech justifying the dismemberment of Ukraine said much about him but also contains chilling warnings for the rest of Europe. And European states must heed those warnings if they do not wish to be the next victims of the Russian president’s imperial ambition.
It’s long been known that Putin hankers for a lost age of Russian dominance over its neighbours. Calling the collapse of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” is one of his most-quoted (and most misunderstood) historical judgments.
In his speech, Putin reached back far further than the cold war to find his grievances. He stated clearly that the processes that led to Russia losing territory a century ago must be reversed. He pointed out what he said were catastrophic mistakes by the Bolsheviks in recognising Ukraine as a republic, and ceding land to end the war with Germany in 1918. He lamented the loss not of the Soviet Union, but of the “territory of the former Russian empire”
Vladimir Putin’s lengthy speech justifying the dismemberment of Ukraine said much about him but also contains chilling warnings for the rest of Europe. And European states must heed those warnings if they do not wish to be the next victims of the Russian president’s imperial ambition.
It’s long been known that Putin hankers for a lost age of Russian dominance over its neighbours. Calling the collapse of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” is one of his most-quoted (and most misunderstood) historical judgments.
In his speech, Putin reached back far further than the cold war to find his grievances. He stated clearly that the processes that led to Russia losing territory a century ago must be reversed. He pointed out what he said were catastrophic mistakes by the Bolsheviks in recognising Ukraine as a republic, and ceding land to end the war with Germany in 1918. He lamented the loss not of the Soviet Union, but of the “territory of the former Russian empire”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/putin-speech-rus
sia-empire-threat-ukraine-moscow
The ‘Union State’ — Inside Putin’s Plans To Rebuild The USSR With A 1990s Treaty
What are Vladimir Putin’s long-term goals in Ukraine? An overlooked treaty from the mid-1990s reveal that his ambitions go far beyond Ukraine to building a Russian Empire 2.0.
According to the political scientists analyzing the processes in the post-Soviet space, in 2023 Russia is planning a transition of power, which implies the transition of Vladimir Putin to the post of “Secretary General of the Union State”. The role will not just encompass Russia and Belarus but have a broader meaning. In the information space of Russia, they have already begun to promote the topic of a new “union state”. So on Aug. 13, 2022, Kremlin propagandist and “political scientist” Anton Bredikhin said that in addition to Russia and Belarus, the new “union state” may include temporarily occupied territories of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia; temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine; Transnistria and the Autonomous Republic of Gagauzia [in Moldova].
https://worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/union-state-ussr-putin/
Remember, nobody does or says anything that Putin doesn't approve.
Answer the question comrade. What happens if Putin loses.
T
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Show this to anybody who is NOT a Trumptard, and they will realize you are a Nazi. It only takes one sentence to spot a Nazi, but you've written similar sentences hundreds of times over years.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's just the big 5 companies taking your tax dollars to R&D the murder weapons that are going to be "policing" our skies in the coming decades and throwing all the Ukrainian men in the meat grinder before they are all replaced with Muslims that will enslave the Ukrainian women and boys while taking all the girls under 10 years old as their wives.
Fuck your Nazi bullshit, you simple-minded fuck.
My track record on predictions has been pretty fucking good over the years. Especially the long-term ones.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Show this to anybody who is NOT a Trumptard, and they will realize you are a Nazi. It only takes one sentence to spot a Nazi, but you've written similar sentences hundreds of times over years.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's just the big 5 companies taking your tax dollars to R&D the murder weapons that are going to be "policing" our skies in the coming decades and throwing all the Ukrainian men in the meat grinder before they are all replaced with Muslims that will enslave the Ukrainian women and boys while taking all the girls under 10 years old as their wives.
Fuck your Nazi bullshit, you simple-minded fuck.
My track record on predictions has been pretty fucking good over the years. Especially the long-term ones.
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Friday, September 18, 2026 9:51 PM (U)
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The only parallels going on to WWII right now is every white, college "educated" liberal fuck and their hatred for Jews.
Shut the fuck up, loser.
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