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It’s interesting that to appeal to the Russian public it actually helps to portray the war as what it really is, a colonial war. No attempt to disguise it as being about Nato or Russian security, which is what Kremlin uses for idiots abroad
richwicks says
Why would Putin talk to Bill Clinton in 2011?
Why wouldn't he?
richwicks says
This is just more bullshit from the intelligence agencies. They never stop lying to the public.
Or more gaslighting from you.
Russia, if we don't make peace.
Aaaaand they keep
confessing:
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1706377083608293415/mediaViewer
Let's hear the pretzel-logic denial of why this diesn't mean what it means.
Anybody wants to take a stab at this?
You do realize that by posting that map you basically agreed withe premise that the whole SCHMO is nothing but a landgrab?
No, it means that Russia will do what it needed to do to stop the Black Sea from becoming a NATO pond. Russia took Crimea in 2014 to prevent a NATO naval base at Sevastopol, and if the war continues with Ukraine leaning further toward NATO, the Russians will take the coast to prevent a NATO base at Odessa.
Russia's navy in the Black Sea is in absolute shambles.
socal2 says
Russia's navy in the Black Sea is in absolute shambles.
So what? Navies don't fight land wars.
Their army apparently doesn't either. Or at least seems to be getting their asses handed to them by a lesser opponent.
Their [Russia's] army apparently doesn't either. Or at least seems to be getting their asses handed to them by a lesser opponent.
Russia looks like shit in this. Undeniable. No different than us in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Russia's failure is a totally different universe. Russia lost more men and material in 30 days than the US lost in both wars over 20 years.
An official in the Ukrainian region which Moscow claims to have annexed has said Russia should try to take territory that was formerly part of the Russian Empire "through the might" of weapons.
In September 2022, Zaporizhzhia was one of four Ukrainian regions that Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed, the others being Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk, although Moscow does not fully control any of them.
But the top Kremlin-installed official in the oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, said Russia should also have its eye on the Baltic states, as well as Poland and Finland, all five of which are NATO countries.
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In the interview shared by Russia watcher Julia Davis, Balitsky seemed ready to take on the alliance as he spoke of how the Russian Empire that ended with the 1917 revolution had "lost its footing" as well as "great numbers of people."
"I'm not even talking about territories. I understand that it includes Warsaw, Helsinki, also known as Helsingfors," he said.
The Russian Empire, which existed between 1721 and 1917, covered a vast territory. Finland was part of Russia's empire until it declared its independence after the Russian Revolution. The 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk saw revolutionary Russia renounce its claims on Polish territories.
Balitsky described how "all of the Baltics" were "all our lands, and our people live there," noting the Russian-speaking population in those countries.
"They were turned into a voiceless heard, they became trembling beasts," he said. "We have to correct this...through the might of Russian weapons.
"I don't believe in any diplomacy in this instance. Of course diplomacy always has to be present but I believe we can get it back only with the might of Russian weapons."
He said that Russia can "get our people back, the former subjects of the Russian Empire"
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Nothing more, nothing less.
Almost feeling sorry for the believers in loony shit like "plans for imminent attack", "NATO weapons", "Nazis", "bird with vials controlled by satellite" and various time-travel shit.