Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Demurin
[REGNUM] The military operation that our country is conducting against the fascist regime that seized Kyiv in 2014 is increasingly acquiring the character of an internal cleansing political operation. One by one, she opens the abscesses that were formed by the efforts of the West on the body of Russia back in the 1990s and were not cleaned out in the 2000s.
The military operation that our country is conducting against the fascist regime that seized Kyiv in 2014 is increasingly acquiring the character of an internal cleansing political operation. One by one, she opens the abscesses that were formed by the efforts of the West on the body of Russia back in the 1990s and were not cleaned out in the 2000s: liberal pop and theater parties, “Russian” athletes who have dug in in the West, various kinds of “social activists” ... And it was possible not to strain about the artistic and sports audience, but our government itself has made the main “heroes” of modern Russia out of them!
Among these abscesses is the Yeltsin Center, which advocated the termination of the operation to force Ukraine to denazification and abandon the role of the forward base of the NATO offensive against our country. Like, the Soviet Union was destroyed together; it is clear for what purposes they did it; why fight now?
The Yeltsin Center and the Yeltsinists in general are proteges of the West who, just as Boris Yeltsin wished, want the West to be the guarantor of their power in Russia and that they, accordingly, could plunder our country without fear of popular anger - it would be suppressed by the occupation NATO troops.
We have not heard a single statement from the Yeltsin Center against the military coup carried out by the US and its allies through their Ukrainian puppets in Ukraine in 2014. We have not heard such statements from the Yeltsinists against the repression of Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian activists that then swept across Ukraine. We have not heard their statements condemning the atrocities at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa. We have not heard them condemn the punitive operation of the Kiev junta against the Donbass, which refused to obey the fascists...
Finally, we have not heard a single speech against NATO moving its troops and military infrastructure to our borders. On the contrary, they constantly put sticks in the wheels of any actions aimed at making Russia more independent, so that its ability to defend itself grows, so that it gets out of Western control.
Today, the Yeltsinists are again talking about our “uncivilization”: they are again proposing that we go to the “community of civilized countries” and together with it, as it should be understood, destroy everyone who will stand in the way of American hegemonism, as was the case in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya , Syria. And as they tried and failed to do in Cuba and Venezuela. They want our country, having taken over the "baton" from fascist Ukraine, to become the vanguard of the Anglo-Saxon racists in their attempts to subdue China.
It will not happen. I am also sure that the positive outcome of the actions to denazify, demilitarize and democratize Ukraine, to withdraw it from NATO satellites, will give impetus to the cleansing of Russia itself. After all, we and our puppets of the West have a lot of them and they really interfere!
You know bloody well that his predecessor would have done what any competent leader of a global hegemon would do: force tiny Ukraine to accept a deal, and force small but nuclear-armed Russia to stay out with the threat of a nuclear strike.
Trump is right. Admit for once that your own leaders' stupidity and GROSS INCOMPETENCE enabled this horrible outcome.
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If securing the Crimea and protecting Russian speakers in the Donbas meant killing every man, woman, and child in Kyiv, would Putin be OK with that?
Posted by: Matt ||
02/28/2022 14:47 Comments ||
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Go there yourself, tough guy. Please stop the name calling.
How many hundreds of civilians did NATO slaughter in Serbia in 1999? I don't recall seeing your ilk shedding any tears over NATO's slaughter of innocents. Please stop the name calling.
All to help boost a fucking Muslim terrorist group. On European soil.
And you idiots think that encouraging the Ukrainians is going to result in a good outcome. Please stop the name calling.
How many times does your leaders' incompetence have to be displayed before you Americans tell them to stop making horrific situations worse? Please stop the name calling.
Do some good for once. Help bring about peace - instead of pouring gasoline on the flames and turning a regional spat of no importance to the US into a trigger for worldwide chaos
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will give impetus to the cleansing of Russia itself
NB: if you're an ethnic or religious minority in Russia, this is the signal to bolt.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 22:11 Comments ||
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Had Putin rolled into Luhansk and Donbass, and stopped with a wider DMZ around them, that likely would have been nothing from the West on this other than some weak sanctions. Old senile Joe even hinted at this when he made his "minor incursion" remarks.
You want the fault in this, it was Putin's decision to attack outside of the "Russian" regions, and levy war on ALL of Ukraine's large cities, and the cherry on top was the manic paranoid nuclear threats.
To you Putin Punks, here is a famous American quote "Dont' start nuthin, won't be nuthin."
Face it, Putin fucked up. And his grandiose delusions will cost you dearly unless you manage to fix him like you did Andropov.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a very big deal and a very bad thing. Permit me to stipulate that, before going on to observe that the event has also triggered the latest outbreak of mass hysteria among the Western ruling class, the severest yet.
Just when sobriety, responsibility, probity, and diplomatic skill are most needful, our pundits and policymakers offer the opposite: trembling emotion, cheap propaganda, wild fantasies, a refusal to dialogue and de-escalate. And the worst part is: It’s all so damned familiar. Once more, we are falling—or rather, being driven—into structural information traps that hamper sound decision-making and force policy choices we might regret dearly when it’s too late.
The process has proved highly costly in recent years. This time, it could spell catastrophe. This time, rash action risks a direct confrontation with a mighty Eurasian civilization with wounded pride and a vast arsenal of strategic weapons. How did we get here?
If you’re stuck in one of these info traps, it is very difficult to pull yourself out. Those who might try to help will face the full force of your wrath (as we will see). Once the media moment has passed, of course, you might wonder how you ever came to believe X or to advocate Y. There might be hints of regret. But then life presses on. Other concerns compete for your limited time and attention. That is, until the next trap-laden media event.
Yet we must examine previous episodes. Four especially stand out: the post-9/11 wars, the Arab Spring, the European migrant crisis, and the Covid pandemic. These happen to be the defining media moments of my career as a journalist, and in some cases, I fell into the info traps. The experience indelibly shaped my worldview. But you don’t need to share my worldview to notice—and beware—three info-trap patterns common to all of these media moments.
First, beware emotionally charged images that tend to overwhelm reason. The Arab Spring should have been instructive on this count. Following the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor in 2010, images of denim-clad, smartphone-wielding young liberals taking to the streets dazzled reporters and social-media users. The images fed a narrative of heroic Jeffersonians facing down hidebound kleptocrats. The fervor suppressed inconvenient questions.
Questions like: Were these youths, in fact, representative of their societies, or did they win our favor merely because they happened to look and sound like us? Were they actually prepared to govern their societies, or might their movements be hijacked by less-savory actors? If Islamists with mass support did end up in power, would the young liberals be able to accept that? Were there reasons to take a more cautious approach, taking into account religious and tribal complexities and the geopolitical fault lines that crisscross the region?
Needless to say, the United States didn’t pursue a cautious policy, pushing its clients to step down and, in the case of Libya, mounting a military intervention to oust Muammar Gaddafi. The result: instability, civil war, ungoverned spaces, terror, and an eventual return to autocracy in most Arab Spring states.
Emotive images similarly overwhelmed rational decision-making during the 2015-16 European migrant crisis. The decisive shift toward flinging open the continent’s gates came in response to a photograph of a Syrian child lying dead on Turkey’s western shore after trying to reach the Greek isles. More than a million newcomers—mostly men, many unvetted—poured into Europe as refugees. It was far from clear how many were, in fact, economic migrants whose crossings had been made possible by human smuggling. Concerns about mass migration’s adverse effects on security, welfare services, and social cohesion were, again, suppressed until much later—when it was too late.
The pandemic supplied its share of gripping and potentially misleading images—above all, that of the death and misery in Italy’s Covid wards, scenes that were certain to arrive at a hospital near you, unless drastic but temporary measures were taken. Few inquired about the extent to which Italy’s horrors were a specific product of Italy’s health system and its elderly population.
Second, beware the treatment of dissent or criticism as treason. This is perhaps the most pernicious pattern in info traps, because it taps into the very human tendency to ostracize and “out-group” dissidents. Modern media, with their power to incite ravenous mobs, have supercharged this ancient temptation. The mob has been instructed to defend a certain policy—and only a traitor or villain could have second thoughts!
Thus, opponents of the Iraq War, including many who made this magazine their home, were called “unpatriotic” conservatives. France’s reservations led to the idiocy of “Freedom Fries.” Those who questioned the Arab Spring—including as eminent a scholar of the Middle East as Bernard Lewis—were dismissed as “Orientalists” and worse. Likewise, those who questioned Angela Merkel’s open-door policy could barely get a hearing in the mainstream.
Then there was Covid. Everyone had to wear a mask. Everyone had to boast of his vaccination status online, to post masked selfies. To proclaim #StayHomeSaveLives. Critics of job-killing and small-biz-destroying lockdowns were no doubt callous and heartless. When R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, warned that the West was succumbing to a dangerous safety-ism, prioritizing physical wellbeing at the expense all other goods, the Catholic University theologian Joseph Cappizi accused him, falsely, of proposing that “the value of life should be measured in economic terms,” of being “indifferent to the wellbeing of society’s most vulnerable members.” It was a sophisticated way of asking the same question posed by Reno’s frothy online persecutors: “How many Grannies are you prepared to kill on the altar of your economy, Rusty?”
Third and finally, beware delusions of total mastery over complex crises. It’s all too easy for people speculating on traditional or social media that complex matters are actually simple, that “we” can take drastic measures without worrying about the consequences, because the West enjoys a uniquely capable civilization, thanks to its scientific and technological prowess. We think we can “game out” the outcomes, to see around the corner, to prophesy with data.
Time and again, events make a mockery of this confidence—yet it persists. The Iraq War’s proponents told us we would be greeted with flowers, that the occupation would be short and sweet. Operation Iraqi Freedom plunged the country into chaos and civil war that finally redounded to the benefit of Iran. “Wir schaffen das [We can do this],” then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel said of the prospect of absorbing a million migrants. Her decision dramatically destabilized European politics. “Two weeks to flatten the curve” lasted more than two years.
Do you notice similar patterns in the Western response to the Ukraine crisis? I’m afraid I do. From the pictures of grandmothers and photogenic young women taking up Kalashnikovs to defend Ukraine, to (manufactured) stories of Ukrainian troops sacrificing themselves rather than surrender, we are being bombarded with one-sided, emotionally gripping images.
We are once more treating dissidents and critics as traitors and villains and “Putin shills.” The same people who accused lockdown critics of murderous indifference are now accusing critics of escalation of…the same thing: Capizzi on Monday assailed the Harvard Law scholar Adrian Vermeule for “liking” a map circulating online showing Russian forces encirclement of the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. Vermeule was guilty of something, because he had clicked “like” on a map of a place “where innocents are dying.”
And we are once more touting our own mastery over events that are rather hard to master. The usual hawkish suspects are feeding the dream of a hopeless Ukrainian resistance. These figures are likely merely deepening the Ukrainian people’s pain, without altering the ultimate outcome of the conflict. And measures that could plausibly alter the outcome bear the unfortunate risk of bringing us close to the brink of all-out war with Moscow.
Perhaps that is what many Americans want. But those who are comfortable with the escalation cycle and think they’re prepared to accept the downsides might consider if they’re viewing events from deep inside an information trap.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited By Alexander Saveliev
[REGNUM] The Russian military special operation in Ukraine will have serious multi-level consequences, each of which will determine the new architecture of international relations in its own way.
#4
However, the interests of state security this time prevailed - Russia began to actively defend itself.
Back to the imperialism of forced buffer states, eh?
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/28/2022 7:54 Comments ||
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#5
Nicely written propaganda with the Nazi and dirty bomb implications. We all need to understand that Putin is doing this for humanity's sake. Bless their hearts...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/28/2022 8:23 Comments ||
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#6
"We're doing it for the Chilruns"
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/28/2022 8:46 Comments ||
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This has all been very educational for me. Just last week I would have said that Putin was a powerful figure and that Joe Biden was a doddering idiot. But it turns out that Putin, Czar of the all the Russias, is really a helpless victim of cruel circumstances; and that Biden is a sinister genius who easily gulled Putin with his Jedi mind tricks. ("Vladimir, you must use cluster munitions on Kharkiv.") This is maskirovka turned on its head.
Posted by: Matt ||
02/28/2022 12:30 Comments ||
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Vladimir Putin, wanting to get on the good side of voters, goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids. He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wants the best for the people. At the end of the talk, there is some time for questions. Little Sasha puts her hand up and says "I have two questions: Why did we Russians take Crimea? And why are we sending troops to Ukraine?"
Putin says "Good questions . . ." But just as he is about to answer, the bell rings, and the kids go for lunch.
When they come back, they sit back down and there is room for some more questions so another girl, Misha, puts her hand up and says, "I have four questions. My questions are: Why did the we Russians invade Crimea? Why are we sending troops to Ukraine? Why did the bell ring 20 minutes early for lunch? And where is Sasha?"
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02/28/2022 00:00 ||
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Sasha and Misha are boys' names in Russian.
Posted by: Blackbeard Protector of the Welsh1069 ||
02/28/2022 0:15 Comments ||
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Sure, Blackbeard Protector of the Welsh1069, in Russia. In America not only do lots of girls get neutral names or feminized boy names, but as a writer I’m fond of once wrote, “A name ending in A implies a C cup.”
#6
It's a very old Soviet joke that never goes out of fashion.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
02/28/2022 5:58 Comments ||
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#7
I want to thank Putin and Trudeau for fortifying the American 2d Amendment in a manner that blows away the lies and misdirection the Left has engaged in for generations.
#10
WAIT FOR IT.
The way this admin has screwed things up, I would not be surprised to see the Media headlines announcing "US TROOPS AMMO SHORTAGE". Since Russian imports have been Banned and the CCP refusing to supply ammo to either side.
Followed by the DOD requesting Citizens turn in their 5.56mm and 72x51 to supply the US ground troops.
2 months later Biden announcing Ammo confiscations from ammo vendors and registered gun owners.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
02/28/2022 15:59 Comments ||
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Robert A. Heinlein, Mercutio. Stranger in a Strange Land. Jubal Harshaw dictating the beginning of a new novel to one of his secretaries, discussing his conventions for naming female characters.
[Jpost] With most media stuck in Kyiv, Lviv or abroad, this means there is a tremendous lack of information about this war, despite the international focus on the fighting.
#1
And a tremendous volume of garbage, lies and bullshit emanating from the western propaganda press.
Like the bullshit about how the Russians are bogged down when in reality the mayor of Kiev just admitted his city's totally surrounded. Klitshko's own words today: "All ways are blocked and we are encircled -- everywhere is Russians and we don't have a way to evacuate."
#3
Rapid development has been a problem in warfare for millennia. Many a commander has gotten wrong or incomplete information at critical times.
Rapid development is a problem for lots and lots or subjects other than warfare.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
02/28/2022 11:15 Comments ||
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FAKE NEWS Update:
1) Russian tank that ran over a civilian car in Kyiv was a Strela-10 Ukrainian air defense system. NOT Russian.
2) Photos of Zelenskyy in military garb with a helmet on are from a 2021 Ukrainian border inspection trip.
3) The “Ghost of Kyiv” MiG-19 shooting down a Russian Su-35 was from a Digital Combat Simulator animation.
4) The “Ghost of Kyiv” identitified as Samuyil Hyde is actually a pic of SAM HYDE, an internet prankster.
5) Photo of two children (girl in pink with teddy bear, boy saluting) watching convoy pass, are from 2016.
6) The photos of a woman saying goodbye to her man, going off to fight Putin’s Russians IS FROM A MOVIE.
7) Snake Island “martyrs” actually were NOT killed, and a video shows all 82 being transported to Sevastopol.
8) “Her Blood Is On His Hands” old lady photos that were on the front pages of The Sun, The Mirror, and The Guardian are actually images from years ago.
Fuck you cia scumbags for creating this mess
Posted by: Black is a form of dirt ||
02/28/2022 14:51 Comments ||
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FAKE NEWS Update:
Blackie is making some factual claims. I am not qualified to judge if he’s right — I’m inclined to doubt him on his record of nasty trollery alone, but one does want to be fair — so you lot who are qualified need to grade his effort.
#6
Her Blood Is On His Hands” old lady photos that were on the front pages of The Sun, The Mirror, and The Guardian are actually images from years ago.
Umm no. There's video and she was talking to the media, too.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
02/28/2022 16:50 Comments ||
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1) Russian tank that ran over a civilian car in Kyiv was a Strela-10 Ukrainian air defense system. NOT Russian.
A longer video shows it was part of an infiltration unit. The Anti-aircraft gun truck with the armored Strela carrier was under small arms attack at the time and the 2 occupants killed. It was shear petty meanness that the armored Strela carrier run over the car and old man driving (he lived). Don't know the ultimate fate of the Strela carrier.
#8
Our russian fascist troll is 0-for2 so far. Trollboy, looks like you're as credible as Putin. We used to have Islamic Rage Boy. I guess we now have Russian Rage Boy. Hey Putin stooge, got any Green Helmet Guy pics you want to start waving around?
Buy on the rumour, sell on the news... or is it the other way round? When blood is running in the streets, anyway. Now is the time when people like me should use the play money to take a few profits if they’re there or buy a few blue chip stocks/bonds if they’ve crashed despite solid fundamentals, but otherwise stay away from anything exotic and hold until the players get it out of their system. Those of you clever about such things will do as you please, but you-all understand matters financial in ways I simply can’t despite decades of reading and discussion on the subject. Trailing daughter #2, who takes after Mr. Wife, has promised to advise me should it ever become necessary.
#10
Nearly every ordinary person and every single friend family member acquaintance wants no part of this madness. It was mad for the Ukrainians to flirt with NATO - completely totally irresponsible and foolish - mad for the Americans to tease them with hints about joining NATO and Mad for Putin to invade.
Normal decent humane people want peace. There an obvious solution and only the US president and his diplomats can make it reality.
Your ghoulish and disgusting taunts do nothing but make us hate you. We will never forget.
#11
So I understand: Vladimir Putin does not have the ability to end this war? Is that what you're saying? Events are beyond his control?
Posted by: Matt ||
02/28/2022 14:53 Comments ||
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Just a game to you. "Play money."
My brilliant paternal grandmother was originally Russian, so I know there are those who can read intelligently.
Play money is a term of art associated with investing in the stock market, being defined as money one can afford to lose without going hungry. The name is a warning that if the money is needed for food and shelter, it must not be bet in risky financial markets. The very opposite of a game, in fact, which is why I don’t play.
#13
Stop fucking expanding NATO.
Stop it.
It was an insane delusion to think that any major power would allow a hostile military alliance led by a US hyperpower to put its missiles and bombers and soldiers 300 miles from its capital.
Abandon that foolish and absolutely horrific fantasy.
Alongside this carrot, any rational and even marginally competent leader - unlike your blithering fucking idiot president - would wield a big stick. Not your stupid sanctions, not your ridiculous twitter images of this or that tank burning but the same stick US presidents always use in these crises i.e. your nukes. That's what Trump would have done .. probably did.
Peace is available if and only if the US sends over an intelligent set of diplomats like the ones you used to have before your idiot NATO-expanders got into power
#14
Your ghoulish and disgusting taunts do nothing but make us hate you. We will never forget.
All taunting aside, we know you hate us. You hated us before the invasion. One more reason most Americans want nothing to do with foreign wars. So while you're busy hating us, stop asking us to help you.
#15
Typical American ignorance and negligence. Before your idiotic sanctions most Russians LIKED Americans. Opinion polls before 2014 showed that a large majority of Russians had a favorable opinion of America and wanted closer relations. Putin himself offered - and gave - real and substantial help in the war against terror.
Your fucking idiot president Obama, your clown diplomat McFaul and your insane neocon plotters in Kiev - Victoria Nuland, plus all the shitty little American carpetbaggers around her - your people trashed Russians' goodwill. You humiliated us, yet AGAIN.
Your stupid fantasies about bringing NATO to the edge of our capital threw this all away. Since 2015 Russians' favorability toward the US has plunged and Russian favorability toeard China has soared.
Nice job, geniuses. Well done, Obama and Nuland. Bravo, McFaul. Hope your carpetbags are stuffed full, Biden et Cie.
Your foolish people turned what should have been friendship and cooperation between two advanced European Christian nations into a totally pointless and destructive squabble.
Man up and take some responsibility. For once.
Posted by: Blinky Prince of the Ostrogoths9871 ||
02/28/2022 15:37 Comments ||
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"Stop asking us to help you"
Who asked for your help? You're so full of sarcasm you can't even think straight.
Normal people as opposed to keyboard Rambos don't want help; they want the US hyperpower' leader to act like one and bring about peace.
The war will conclude one of two ways: either Kiev will look like Grozny did in 2000, or there will be a settlement that ends the war now without further bloodshed.
We and the rest of the great power nations have no use for your idiot leaders but right now, we have no choice. It's America's world disorder. Only the US president can intervene and end this war before tens of thousands are killed.
#17
Actually, and I don't know which name you prefer, most of us, the occasional Ukrainian, Pole and Hungarian aside, don't hate the Russian people. Personally, you have my sympathy for the terrible hand you've been dealt with your various governments. Tsars, then Communists, then an inept interregnum and now a Chekist thugocracy. One can appreciate your institutionalized paranoia but to break out of this cycle the first step is to admit you have a problem. A little paranoia can be a good thing, but seeing European boogymen coming to steal your country? C'mon man, those fops are so self-involved trying to invent socialism-that-actually-works, that they could never spare the effort. It's like the 3 bears being afraid of Goldilocks. And as for the US, faggedaboutit. It's cold enough here, we don't need more frozen tundra. We just wanna buy your gas and sell you our Levi's. . Мир
#18
Learn to punctuate and use paragraphs, then try your hand at logical reasoning and mastering basic principles of composition - and then maybe I'll respond to your ramblings
#22
Suddenly the whole world wants America to be World Cop.
Sorry. You already spent years telling us how unsuitable you felt that was.
We've bought in. No matter if you change your minds now.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/28/2022 16:50 Comments ||
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#23
So the keyboard geniuses choose another Grozny over peace.
And you'd rather see your andyour children's incomes and wealth destroyed than tell your ducking idiot president and his men to get heir arses over to Belarus and broker a peace deal.
You're insane. No wonder your country is so fucked up.
#24
McFoul was ambassador for 2 years and had little independent authority. His last day as ambassador was 26 Feb 2014 the day before the Russian take over of Crimea. Crimea declared itself an independent country and Russia then declared Crimea part of Russia in March 2014. No US ambassador returned to Moscow until summer 2014.
Did this sequence of actions hurt the relationship between the US and Russia. Of course it did. But how could it not.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
02/28/2022 17:18 Comments ||
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Look get it through your Slavic brain. We just want to be left alone. But NO! you and your European brethren dragged us into two of your fratricidal tribal wars in the first half of the last century. Something a lot American ancestors came here to avoid. Even after the second one, we demobilized and tried to go back to 'normal' but your big leader decided to blockade Berlin. Then that little bit about what your boys did in Czechoslovakia just pushed it further. That made the apparatchiks in Washington reintroduce a peacetime draft, listen to the geopolitical 'geniuses' in London and join something called NATO or as the Brits referred to it - to keep the Germans down, the Americans in, and the Russians out. Planning and funding the North Korean invasion didn't help at all at the time. The defense budget then became the biggest thing in town. All that was the start of the poison that killed the old republic and gave us the oligarchy we have today. Look in the g'damn mirror if you want to see who got us here.
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Are we many, just one, or generic?
Is our Putin benign or barbaric?
Why'd we take the Ukraine?
Are we gluttons for pain?
Oh, and last but not least...
Where is Merrick?
[USAA News] Politicians, why the hell do we need you? You have done nothing for the citizens of this country. Nothing! Your job is to protect the God-given rights of American citizens. You work for the people and you have forgotten your place.
Night after night, year after year, we go to work, pay our taxes, and bite our tongues. We watch you on the evening news pontificate about this issue or that scandal, yet you do nothing to help the American citizen who pays your exorbitant salary through our endless hard work. We’re sick of it!
We watched as Hillary Clinton broke every law in the book by lying to the FBI about her using a personal server to conduct government business with classified information, and then delete over 33,000 emails once she was caught. It was proven that she broke multiple laws, regardless of intent. In fact, the laws she broke specifically state that intent is not needed for these laws to be broken. And what did you do? Nothing. Who was punished? Who went to jail? Who was held accountable? Hillary Clinton? James Comey? John Brennan? Please.
And what about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups? After the IRS was caught intentionally harassing these groups, they finally admitted that they were breaking the law. Who was sent to jail? Who was fired? Lois Lerner? James Clapper? Obama? Again, no one.
And how about members of Congress? Apparently, it’s just fine for them to outright lie and spend millions of our dollars and three years of our time investigating a phony Russia scandal launched by Hillary Clinton’s Steele dossier. This resulted in more of our hard-earned money being wasted with the impeachment proceedings of President Trump. Was anyone even scolded for lying? For wasting our money? God forbid any one of us lies to Congress. That would mean our heads!
Did you even notice that Joe and Hunter Biden were peddling Joe’s influence to the highest Chinese bidder when he was Vice President? Ukraine ring a bell? Imagine, the former Vice President of the United States was altering American foreign policy based on how it financially benefit him and his family. Where’s the outrage? Why is no one in jail or hanging from a yardarm? Your silence is your approval.
Now we have Big Tech censoring us...censoring the very President of the United States! Because of you, our voices are now censored in the public square, violating our first amendment right to free speech. Where are you? You are not protecting our rights! For working only a few months out of each year and making top dollar, you appear to help no one but yourselves. Are the Big Tech deals too good to pass up? Do values and the Constitution mean nothing to you? Why did you even run for office in the first place? It certainly wasn’t to help the American people.
And the 2020 Presidential election. It’s obvious to everyone that the Democrats cheated by having Democrat votes magically appear in the middle of the night — all in key swing states, mind you. And we know you’re going to do nothing, again. We’ve seen the fraud and the cheating. We know the logistics. We’ve done our jobs by voting and paying attention. How about you do your jobs and start arresting people? Why is Joe Biden the President and not in jail for corruption? Why are his cronies allowed to flout our election laws?
For years, the American people have slaved away and tolerated you as a necessary evil. You are not necessary anymore. You have not protected anything for the American citizen!
We watched as our elected officials entered Congress as ordinary folks and left as multi-millionaires.
We watched as you took a broken healthcare insurance system and made it infinitely worse by adding more government to the problem rather than removing it altogether to let a truly free market help us.
We watched as people who hate us call for our destruction while they openly steal the 2020 election and then tell us that it’s all fair and honest.
We watched as governors and mayors transformed themselves into tyrants by completely ignoring our Constitution, usurping power, and creating laws out of thin air, all in the name of, "public safety." This is America. The rights of the individual trump the rights of the public. Don’t you realize that this principle is the very cornerstone of our republic? Now that you’ve reversed this principle, we have socialism.
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It has everything to do with America's leading Ukraine down the garden path - and then dumping them. You promised them NATO membership. You gave them tweets.
Everyone sees that the US is an unreliable ally led by a blithering idiot. No one can rely on the US. That's why Japan wants its own nukes now and Israel will take its own actions regardless of what the idiot president of the US says or does.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Vladimir Putin, wanting to get on the good side of voters, goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids. He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wants the best for the people. At the end of the talk, there is some time for questions. Little Sasha puts her hand up and says "I have two questions: Why did we Russians take Crimea? And why are we sending troops to Ukraine?" 
[USAA News] Politicians, why the hell do we need you? You have done nothing for the citizens of this country. Nothing! Your job is to protect the God-given rights of American citizens. You work for the people and you have forgotten your place.
Hezbollah
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
