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Jesus Christ! I never thought PatNet would be loaded with Ukrainian Propaganda Bullshit Purveyors.
But then again, it is loaded with 'real estate experts' who insisted earlier this year that rates would not go up and the housing bubble would keep on a truckin', too.
God must love fools...because he makes so damn many of them.
Jesus Christ! I never thought PatNet would be loaded with Ukrainian Propaganda Bullshit Purveyors.
If some shitty, too-bit turd world country can kick Russian ass, then why do we even need NATO anymore?
Putin is losing the war in Ukraine.
So far the idiot is Putin.
So, Putin has to use nukes to win. That’s not really winning is it?
If Russia is winning they have a strange way of showing it.
However, they were later foolish to believe that the leadership of Russia was going to be a good neighbor and they started buying gas and oil from them.
He who holds the resources also hold the real money, not fiat Babylonian debt paper which is a magic act.
Europe was able to get the USA taxpayers to pay hundreds of billions of dollars to defend it from Russia.
In this sense, they were pretty clever.
However, they were later foolish to believe that the leadership of Russia was going to be a good neighbor and they started buying gas and oil from them.
Now things are fucked all around and it’s Putin who has miscalculated.
Putin is losing the war in Ukraine.
Historically, the guy in the Kremlin who loses a war has to go.
Whether this happens soon is anyone's guess.
How it happens is also anyone's guess.
A few more guys will die mysterious premature deaths before Putin does however.
Putin is too moderate. We need his successor to nuke Europe.
The idiot is Putin, but Europe is suffering rampant inflation and resource calamity, facing a freezing winter and shutdown of its economy? Seems Putin only has to keep the Ukraine war going at low boil to keep Europe and the West fucking themselves. He just keeps going at a leisurely stroll.
You don't have to 'love Putin' to think the Russians are 'winning'. There are many ways to win, not just in terms of territorial expansion.
What will Russia “win” long term by using their energy exports as a weapon against Europe? It will only increase the economic power of the US (and Red States) with LNG shipments.
CNN reports that 18 Russian province leaders have called for Putin to step down. Russian television has moved away from the official propaganda line on Ukraine. People are going on the air and questioning the war. They are not being immediately arrested and threatened with 20-year prison sentences.
Things at the highest level of the Kremlin are opaque. We can only guess what is going on there. How does this play out? I do not see a situation where a large group of Russian police or military personnel come into Putin's office with guns drawn and put handcuffs on him.
Rather let us look at how the reign of President Robert Mugabe came to an end in Zimbabwe. The reports that I have read point to a much simpler way to take someone out of power. One afternoon after lunch, a very brave young man came to Mugabe's office. Please allow me to paraphrase what happened next as follows:
"Mr. President, here is your pardon that protects you from any criminal prosecution. Here is your indemnity against any seizure of your assets anywhere in the world. Oh, by the way, here is your letter of resignation."
Please put yourself in the shoes of this very brave young man. He must have felt like a person on the gallows with the rope around his neck. He was figuratively "Waiting for the trap door to drop." Mugabe could have easily had him arrested and thrown in a vile prison for the rest of his life.
With no fanfare or comment, Mugabe signed the letter of resignation. As they would say in a gangster movie, "He was given an offer that he could not refuse."