Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "news.com.au"
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I guess that whole, “Me Too,” thing is over now? . . . 🤷♂️
I mean, now it’s the 1950’s again, we can go back to men beating other men over a woman, because she cannot defend herself? Forget that the remark was harmless? Forget that she has made her own social media posts about alopecia, putting it in the public domain . . . herself!? Forget that Chris Rock’s job is to roast the audience at the Oscars, (which he’s done before!) and that they chose to sit on THE FRONT ROW?
But she’s just a, “little lady,” who can’t speak for herself, having neither the wit of a comedian nor the strength of an entitled male bully. All she has is the power to role her eyes and sit back and wallow in a puddle of her own sociopathic self pity and entitled sense of, “feeling aggrieved,” as though it was a serious issue like CANCER or something and NOT just flipping HAIR LOSS!
No attempt to stop him, from Jada? Not even to be seen in the entourage around him in the fall out? No condemnation of the appalling sexism, misogyny and entitlement on display, after the event? . . . And she’s certainly not aggrieved at her, ahem, “husband?” for taking matters out of her hands and making it all about him?
She has more to answer for than Will Smith at this point. Feminism is dead in the Smith household, (along with their wedding vows) and their warped notions of Bible teachings that they love to prattle on about. “God and love made me do it!” Errr, did it, Will? . . . Did it really? . . . Coz’ to me it just looked like a small insecure Cuckold who’s not dealing too well with his wife’s sociopathy to me? . . . 🙄
Anyone wanna’ buy a used Blue-ray of I Am Legend? I’m so over these fools . . . And the hypocritical Academy that made them what they are.
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@Madolite : Look at their history? Their very first Soviet leader, Lenin, was deposed by Stalin, who pulled the same dirty trick on Lenin that he’d pulled on his own closest supporters. Then Khrushchev, whom they, “invited to retire,” after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yeltsin got in by striking a deal with the KGB to purge all the top echelons of government in exchange for his Premiership. Then he was half blackmailed, half just drunk, and sleepwalked Russia back into the arms of Putin’s dictatorship. Only he’d been busy securing his own power by merging the secret services with Mafia families. Now? . . .
The sons of those mafia bosses are what we call, “oligarchs,” sitting in his cabinet with their soft hands, love of western luxury and sweaty brows. The question for them is, how unstable they’re willing to let it get, before usurping Putin won’t keep them in comfort anyway? They need to remove him BEFORE they’re all broke and the clamour for a genuine democracy gets too loud.
This is what the Russian people get for accepting a dictatorship as a trade off for, “Well, at least it’s,better than the bad old Soviet days,” thinking.
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Fukuyama writes fascinating books and is a deep, articulate and thoughtful man. But he famously predicted, “The End Of History,” with the fall of the Soviet Union and I didn’t believe him then. I hope he’s right about this, but these things do have a way of dragging on, mostly due to no one person or administration being willing to serve the decisive blow; in case it goes wrong and that’s all they’re remembered for.
All I know for certain is that we shouldn’t allow ourselves to get all, “disappointed,” if we don’t see quick results. The resolve of the west has totally blindsided Putin, but he will likely rally at some point. We have to be prepared to stay the course.
Ever since, “Energy Security,” has been a political term (over a hundred years now) the west has NEVER allowed themselves to drop that ball. Rightly or wrongly. That was Putin’s biggest miscalculation. The west KNOWS what he’s really up to: preventing Ukraine from getting rich on what may well be bigger gas and oil reserves than Russia’s! According to Shell, BP and Exxon it is. And they didn’t spend billions on the rights to develop those reserves, just to see Putin steal the lot from under them . . .
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@samualcrocket1405 : Did you notice Putin putting Taiwan on his new, “Naughty List,” the other day? That was his appeal for help from China. His problem is that he has shot his bolt, as all the help he could offer China with that design begins and ends with his rhetoric. If anything, this has made China think twice about their plans to take Taiwan and queered the pitch for them. They’re not thanking Putin for that. He’s spoiled their plan completely and whatever they say, their abstention at NATO whilst Xi said he still recognises Ukraine’s, “sovereignty,” and, “right to self determination,” was a giant, “F*ck You,” to Putin. Why would they risk economic harm, for an economy no bigger than Spain’s but more corrupt? When the only thing they sell that anyone wants is the one thing no one’s willing to buy from them? Putin might as well be asking China to jump off a cliff with him, for no apparent reason. But he does at least show us how desperate he really is. ✌️
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@garygraham8373 : Putin’s, “demented,” alright. But not in the way he wants you to think. Just because he pulls the pin from a grenade and sits with it in his lap saying, “If I lose I’m taking you all with me,” doesn’t mean he isn’t bluffing. If he was that demented he’d have done it by now. Everything he’s said has turned out to be the precise opposite of the truth, starting with, “I do not intend to invade Ukraine,” on the day he invaded Ukraine. Listen carefully and you’ll hear, that red line where he says he’ll use his nukes? That’s the line at which Russia folds. He wants to live more than most Russians. And definitely more than most Ukrainians. Don’t let his, “crazy,” act fool you.
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People really NEED to get over the MYTH of Putin’s, “smarts.” He NEVER, “planned,” to get bogged down in an un-winnable war, either in Ukraine or on the Global Markets. He might just as well have issued a statement saying, “I’m losing and I’m getting desperate already.” And he’s going to find that the very same levels of corruption and slow reaction time that he’s fostered in his goons is what comes to bite him on the ass, as the gas barons cut themselves a few, “back room,” deals with the west (if they haven’t started already?) knowing that they need to foster good relations with the west, for after Putin’s gone.
His recent, “naughty list,” was a joke. You can’t turn the heat up when your dial is already on 100%! All he did there was make a coded plea to China by adding Taiwan to his list. And their response has been, “This is between y’all.” Putin is THICK. And he’s proved it every step of the way! 🤣
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MyEyesBled: Well, I sure hope he takes Jada Plinket down with him? She has more to answer for here than he does. She’s got, “narcissistic sociopath,” written all over her. And judging by the way she partied hard, singing and dancing with her, “husband,” right afterward, she doesn’t feel it was the least bit sexist of her husband to take the entire matter out of her hands and beat a guy for her? Does the word, “feminism,” mean anything in the Smith household, I wonder?
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@KayJay940 : What amuses me about Putin’s, “bold,” move is that he seems to honestly think the west never saw it coming? By now, the UN has war gamed every scenario and has a plan to cope with Putin turning off the gas and oil faucets altogether. If I’m reading things aright, we should see any desperate attempt by Putin to right the sinking ship of state as a good thing. It just means it’s working. No one goes into a war (trade or otherwise) without expecting a return of fire. But the best minds in the world are planning for every possible eventuality. It’s about time this myth of Putin being, “smart,” was exploded anyway. He’s cunning and utterly untrustworthy, which passes for, “smart,” when western leaders have to explain away their embarrassment at being had by him once again. But people who actually KNOW the guy, like former KGB agents who are being interviewed by western media right now, all say he was just a thug and none too bright. His one, “good idea,” was to fold the Russian mob into the KGB when he was under Yeltsin. And he’s been playing crime boss ever since.
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@alwaysdisputin9930 : Well, the term, “Nazi,” isn’t an adjective to describe a behaviour, just because it’s cruel or unreasoning. That’s the fault of lazy journalists and even lazier knee jerk commentators on social media. If they don’t like something, they slap a, “Nazi,” label on it. But Nazism is an, “ideology,” based on, “racial purity,” intolerance of difference and the crushing of individualism. You know? All that stuff that Putin was advocating in his speech to that frightened stadium of sheep, half of whom had left after signing their names on the attendance register, before the gig even started, and half of the remaining crowd only stayed because it was too dicey to leave without being noticed. Putin’s whole schtick has always been to accuse his opponents of what he’s up to. After all, it’s his army with the, “Z,” Zwastikas we’re seeing in the streets of Ukraine? It’s his army that is rounding up innocent civilians like cattle, and deporting them against their will. It’s Putin that keeps bringing up, “racial,” issues. It was Putin who had to be talked out of the whole, “Public Executions in the streets of Ukraine,” idea!
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@darkcomet1607 : Putin has been lying to you about that, “Dumbass,” region, madam. 🤦♂️ In the same way he lies about everything. “I don’t intend to invade Ukraine,” was repeated on the same day he invaded Ukraine. “We will not attack civilians,” was a corker, wasn’t it? How about Zelensky being a Jewish, “Nazi”? Did ya’ fall for that one too? Why do you think so many Russian soldiers have surrendered or refused to fight? They thought they were going to, “liberate Ukraine from Nazi oppressors,” until they GOT THERE, kid! The ONLY thing you can be certain of is, if Putin says it, the OPPOSITE is true! NO ONE BELIEVES YOUR HORSE SH*T, madam! 🤣
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@Oscarcat2212 : You’re seeing it wrong. Look at it from Putin’s point of view? He’s spent the last four weeks finding out his orders are not being followed in many cases, or they’re being deliberately sabotaged. He’s discovering that half of the money he thought he’d procured top of the line equipment with has been spent on corrupted general’s yachts and dachas. He’s ordered three, “special operations,” to go fetch Zelensky’s head and all three were sabotaged by tip offs from inside the FSB! He’s gotten SO paranoid that he’s fired over a thousand staff and replaced them all with new faces. He can’t even be sure his breakfast order will be carried out the way he likes his eggs without wondering if they’ve been poisoned!
Now, ask yourself? Even if he wasn’t bluffing (which I promise you he is) would YOU be willing to issue an order that is likely to mean suicide for the people carrying out that order, when there’s a strong reason to suspect you’ll be left looking like a dope in front of your generals, as absolutely nothing happens? In Russia, that’s the quickest way to find yourself being executed in the cellar with your family! And it’s not like they could ever count on nuclear protocols before this mess started.
The actual, “risk,” is NOT from Putin being, “cornered,” at all. It’s right now! While he still has a free hand to further pressure everyone, transmit his paranoia around the Kremlin and keep every sub commander and silo chief exhausted and on permanent high alert. The guy who negotiates with a loaded weapon in his hands whilst waving it in everyone’s faces . . . He’s the guy who’s going to have an accident. It’s NOT crushing him more swiftly that’s liable to get us all killed!
Colluding in helping Putin, “save face,” would be the west’s worst mistake. The smartest, safest play would be to offer a billion dollar bounty, citizenship and immunity to anyone who claims Putin’s head. And I think it might well come to that if Zelensky were to die in this? . . .
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The Ruble has lost 90% of its value on the global trading market. There are several, “realities,” Putin hasn’t factored in to his desperate plan here. Just like the staggering levels of corruption in his army, and the culture that punishes thinking on your feet or taking swift (unapproved by the Kremlin) action in a fluid situation that created this corruption: Russian oil barons will do back room deals to ensure that they remain rich, long after Putin is taken out (if they haven’t already started?) and it will just be more confirmation that his grip on the levers of power are slipping. And, even if Putin cut off the pipelines today, the west can take it. It would hurt a bit, especially in Germany, but we can take it in our stride. With these unprecedented levels of international cooperation we’re seeing, all this will achieve is a hastening toward energy independence from Russia. Putin might as well have said, “I’m in pain, and your sanctions are really working!” It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming?
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@TaoStein : If, “western opinion doesn’t matter outside the west,” then why has Putin sunk literal TRILLIONS of Rubles into propaganda at every level of western media, culture and political affairs? Why has Putin BANNED Facebook, YouTube and a raft of western media from Russia? Why is he jailing people for looking at western media on their phones and having cops LITERALLY spot checking people’s phones in the streets of Moscow? And why does Putin routinely have journalists MURDERED? It obviously, “matters,” a whole lot to Putin, or he wouldn’t be investing so much of his wealth on troll farms to reach the west.
And only now is Putin beginning to see the results of his efforts. And he’s SO disappointed! People have been happy to take his money and parrot his crap, while it was convenient, but they were NEVER fooled by ANY of it. And they’re just as happy to take other people’s money, or to stand well back while Putin’s oligarchs are being stripped of their assets. He thought the world would fight that? Oops! You can’t count on, “loyalty,” when you had to BUY it, son. That’s where Putin went wrong. He never took the time to, “convince,” anyone of anything. He over did it, with a deluge of palpable bollox, that even his supporters never actually, “believed.”
Now it’s, “inconvenient,” for China to parrot Putin’s narrative, and even they won’t play. And that’s even AFTER Putin put Taiwan on his Naughty List. Putin has lost the war of propaganda because he never mixed enough TRUTH in with his lies, like the Devil does. He thinks he’s a Bond Villain, but the Devil is way smarter . . .
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Helen R : They almost overthrew him a year or so ago, remember? Mass protests, because he and his cronies are living large while they are getting poorer. And that’s what this whole Ukraine show is really about. We all think we’re about to feel the economic sting of the coming rises in gas and food, but Putin knows his people will starve! At least a large proportion of them are about to face poverty, and he’s casting about in a panic, remembering how disgusted they are about his wealth, so his excuse will now be, “We’re at war, so get behind me. And you’re poor now, because of western sanctions. The west is bad.” It won’t work. No matter how many TV stations and newspapers he shuts down in Moscow. He closed another TV network yesterday I believe. How many is that now? If he was the one telling the truth, why does he lock up and assassinate journalists, I wonder?
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Good point. It’s such a giveaway that he wants us to, ‘’fear,” his madness, but he’s transparently bluffing when it comes to more, “extreme,” measures. Our mistake was to ever let him get away with that in the past. Russia’s economy is too small to compete as a, “superpower,” and this breaking point was a long time coming. This will only hasten western measures to cut Russia out of the energy markets all together, while we spend all of the stockpiled Rubles we ever had on our last purchases. It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming. And I’m willing to bet that Russian energy companies will be doing business behind Putin’s back, whilst cooking their books, (if they aren’t already?) while Putin’s grip on his dictatorship slips. Perhaps he doesn’t realise it, but if he cut off all energy supplies to the west today, it would hurt the cost of living (especially in Germany) but it would be far from a, “bank breaking,” crisis. He’ll have to do better than these desperate moves which only confirm that our measures against him are working? Russians KNOW how to restore balance. Remove the ONE obstacle: Leave Ukraine! Over Putin’s dead body? Fine. 🤷♂️
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@fraserwyllie8840 : I’m no geologist, but I can tell you who employs the best geologists in the world: Shell, BP and Exxon. They found massive reserves off the coast of Crimea, boom! Then in the Donbas region, boom! Now in the west, by the Carpathian Mountains, boom, boom and boom! They say it’s more than Russia’s reserves and, yes; it would take years to drill it, get it pumping and build the pipeline infrastructure. So, Putin doesn’t want to drill it. Who would buy obviously STOLEN reserves anyway? He just needs to ensure NO ONE does.
This is an armed robbery, son. And now Putin is realising that the cops aren’t letting him get away with it this time, so he’s doing what he always does: pulling the pin on a grenade and threatening to take us all with him. He’s BLUFFING! But his problem is that accidents happen and one of these days he’s going to drop that grenade and kill us all by MISTAKE!
So it’s up to the Russian people to see to regime change now. Clearly the west has decided to put pressure on the oligarchy to sort it out for themselves, like they’ve always done historically. They did it to Lenin, so they’re old hands at this. They fired Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile crisis too.
See, my specialty is political history, not geology. And I see that Putin cannot win this one. Because ever since the term, “energy security,” has existed (for over 100 years now) the west has NEVER allowed the east to get control over it. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. It just is. But, they could save a LOT of lives if they put Putin out of commission now, rather than later. And the, “gratitude,” of western leaders will carry a cash value.
Now. Tell me I’m, “wrong,” son? And show your working out? . . . I’ll wait.
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@pathart8854 : Well, you must keep in mind that this is just the beginning and that all the things you are suggesting are exactly what will happen. The sanctions will get harsher, more comprehensive and increasingly watertight. They will spread to other areas of industry and like water finding its own level, goods and services that are no longer available from Russia (or that you won’t buy from Russia, because your partners won’t do business with you if you do) will find that temporary arrangements have a way of becoming permanent ones, with legally binding contracts.
It is tragic that whole populations suffer when such things happen, and it seems to have become the modern way of war; fought as hard in the board room as on the battlefield. In that regard, we can probably say that World War Three is already underway.
But if the aggressor is causing whole populations to starve and suffer, it is the job of the defending democracies to push that suffering back to its source. If it’s Russia’s population that starves, and if all the rich oligarchs who’ve been enjoying the privileges of western democracy and open markets are forced to go home and starve with them, maybe THEY will take responsibility and DO something about that?
After all, Russians have been very accepting of Putin’s dictatorship, so long as things were better than the bad old days? At least they don’t have to cue all day for a loaf of bread and face jail if they complain about it, whilst pretending to love communism? Well, maybe the price they’ll pay for looking the other way when it suited them is more just than it first appears?
I don’t wish starvation on ANYONE. But if it is going to happen, I’m willing to pay extra for my gas and put up with a few inconveniences. And if anyone has to starve, we should make damned sure it’s the people who’s country is making war on the free world! Maybe, if they don’t like it, they’ll remove the source of the problem? We’re not expecting a sudden rash of democracy to break out in Russia? The 1990’s taught us that is never likely to happen with rampant mafia and KGB goons forming the entire infrastructure of Russia’s alleged, “political system.” But we can no longer do business with Putin, so we need a change of face. Preferably NOT a leader who thinks the being a, “strong man,” means screaming about his nukes every time he’s upset about something?
This story ends with Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine. All that’s up for grabs is how long that takes and how poor Russia gets while innocents die and the world gets keener on Punishing Russia. If he uses gas, as seems likely, he might well get that World War he claims he doesn’t want?
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@amcleanYT : Tell me? What, “elected leader,” are you referring to, Vlad? When you watched the Netflix documentary, “Ukraine On Fire,” was the narrator called Vladimir Putin by any chance? Because the Moscow hood you’re talking about didn’t, “win,” his election any more than Putin the war monger, “won,” his, kiddo! 😆
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I promise you he’s bluffing. There’s nothing to worry about from a deliberate nuclear attack . . . Accidental nuclear Armageddon? . . . The threat of that is increasing by the day, but that’s all the more reason to crush this fool and soon!
This is the standard Kremlin Kleptocracy Playbook 101 response to the UN meeting and showing unity, along with fresh sanctions and a fresh package of support for Ukraine. He was BOUND to make his most grievous threat at this point, so as to intimidate the meeting of world leaders and hope to influence them away from, “drastic,” steps. The sort of things we SHOULD do. That’s what passes for, “diplomacy,” from the Putin Potty Place. Get used to it.
You have to look at this like negotiating with a cornered gangster who thought his robbery was going to go fine and is shocked to find himself surrounded by cops. He pulls the pin on a grenade and says, “If you arrest me I’ll let this grenade go and take you all with me!” We KNOW he’s bluffing and that everything he’s said and done shows us how DESPERATE he is to live. That doesn’t mean that, “accidents,” can’t happen though, so we MUST be careful. But we’re not letting him get away with it now we have him in that corner. He just needs some help coming to terms with the fact that he’s done. And we’re going to recommend his own people, “help,” him with that. If they don’t, we will.
He’s BLUFFING, as he ALWAYS HAS. Our mistake has only been letting him get away with that sh*t for too long. That’s why we’re in this mess.
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@nobodyspecial4702 : It does make you wonder though? How many people, even the ones supporting freedom and democracy in Ukraine, actually know what this is really about? Putin is simply stealing Ukraines recently uncovered gas and oil reserves. It was (relatively) easy when he could cause enough conflict on his border with Ukraine that western companies like Shell and Exon were forced to pull out. And while he can control the offshore reserves by invading the Crimea. But now they’ve found MASSIVE gas and oil reserves by the Carpathian Mountains, to the west, where Ukraine has no border with Russia. And Putin knows he has nothing else the west wants or can’t get elsewhere, so he’s cooked up this excuse. Naturally, countries like Germany would far rather buy their gas and oil from a free democracy next door than a dictatorship many miles away, that has made threats to cut off their gas supplies in the past. This is SO predictable that you can plot the route of the Russian troops! They will stop at the Carpathians, when they have control of the abandoned drilling sights! It’s a smash and grab operation by a psycho who’s broken the Russian economy through his theft, murder and torture. But many don’t realise this, even now!
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@CTROCK : You missed the video in which PooTin made a great show of putting Taiwan on his, “naughty list,” did you? Practically on his knees, begging China for help? You missed him angrily calling sanctions an, “act of war,” on Russia, as he pounded his desk? Personally, I enjoyed that suck-up-to-China bit at his rally, where they had a, “technical difficulty,” and he got cut off mid sentence. I bet that producer was found in a ditch the next day? You might be missing all this great TV, but we’re not. 😋
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@ghosuk5552 : “Shut up,” is a typical response from Putinistas, isn’t it? Putin likes to shut up journalists, news stations, radio stations, Facebook, VPN’s, right? Silencing your opponents is kinda’ traditional for the Kremlin Kleptocracy. How’s that workin’ out for ya’ madam? Has it never occurred to you that the world has, “never talked about it,” for the last 8 years because maybe it NEVER HAPPENED? At least, not the way Putin tells it, kid. 🙄
What will you do when the money stops coming in? Putin won’t be able to pay you in a few weeks. Then you’ll need to find a real job.
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@divinebeing5720 : Yeah, China abstained because they see Russia as a threat to the west and, being a Communist dictatorship, that’s good for them. But, they didn’t vote to, “support,” Russia? Why’s that? Oh, that’s right. Because, just like the rest of the planet, if you take away Russia’s oil and gas reserves, Putin’s got NOTHING the world wants that they can’t get somewhere else. You can draw their route to the Carpathian Mountains on a map if you like? You’ll see Russia’s troops are on a PREDICTABLE route. They just want to steal Ukraine’s energy reserves. It’s a smash and grab operation, by a psycho who thinks he’s the villain in a Bond movie. And we all know what happens at the end of a Bond movie, right? 😉
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@andrewordog519 : The, “war chest,” will need to deplete a little further before the full financial pain is being felt by all Russians. Putin didn’t realise so much of his wealth would be frozen by the west (two thirds of all his assets, from what I’ve read) and it belies the myth of him being a very, “smart,” guy. He can’t keep indefinitely paying his propaganda army, his army in Ukraine AND his domestic thug police to keep order at home while the coffers run dry and industry grinds to a halt. More unemployed people leaving the country or just having nothing better to do than read western news and get mad at Putin, whilst fewer cops are willing to work for free and may want to avoid having their head shaved and being tattooed with a, “Z,” in Red Square when the sh*t hits the fan?
But it will take a few weeks yet. His oligarch chums are realising that the longer they leave things, the less there will be to rescue, so they may act? They also know that the more desperate things get, the more likely it is that unpaid cops will join the people and depose the lot of them.
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I just hope you all understand how the Kremlin 101 Playbook, “On International Diplomacy,” works. Because, those of you who know your history will know that this is classic meaningless rhetoric. Look at it from Putin’s point of view and you’ll soon see what I mean:
Imagine you’re the guy who’s heist has gone horribly wrong? You’re cornered and sitting there with a big grenade and you’ve pulled the pin and threatened to let go of the lever if they arrest you? Stalemate, or so it seems? Except all the people in your gang are getting hurt, getting poorer and angrier by the day. And you know it’s only a question of time before something gives.
At the point when all the cops who have you in that corner and aren’t letting you go, they decide to get into a huddle together to talk about how to end this hostage siege, and you’re watching them, getting increasingly twitchy and exhausted, wondering if you might drop that grenade accidentally by yourself!?
At that point, what do you do? You make your worst possible threat, in the hopes of intimidating that huddle out of doing anything too, “drastic.” When Putin says, “Do X or Y and I’ll nuke you all,” he’s really telling you, “Do X or Y and I’ll fold and lose this thing.”
I’m certain of two things. One: Putin is BLUFFING. Two: We should call his bluff! We should have called his bluff in the 1990’s and he’s only pulling this sh*t because WE’VE ALLOWED IT! We owe Ukraine more than an apology. We owe them TOTAL VICTORY.
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@thedirty530 : You know you don’t have to refute everything these pukes say, right? No one, “believes,” them. Not even them. When Putin can’t afford to pay his troll farms in St Petersburg half of the world’s internet traffic will cease! And about 90% of YouTube troll activity. It’s not like these cnuts have any, “ideology,” anyway? Unless you count a vague sexual repression and a clear sense of racial hatred as an, “ideology?” It’s not just that their, “narratives,” are so laughably amateurish either. But, no one in their right mind trawls through reams of lies unless they’re already in the choir that these idiots are preaching to. But they do like to keep you talking (or some will) so that you’re NOT commenting on other videos far and wide, spreading the good word. They’d much rather waste your day and keep you away from the grown ups if they can.
Personally, I admire your patience. I don’t have that much. ✌️
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The whole reason Putin has pulled back and is trying to shell Ukraine into dust is because he has been hoist by his own propaganda. He spent the last 20 years moving Russian families into the areas where Ukraine has gas and oil reserves and telling them they’re essentially, “the same people.” Now the soldiers are there, finding NO, “Nazis,” and these people DON’T WANT, “liberation,” and they’re having a hard time shooting down the very people they were meant to think are, “the same,” as them. Many have relatives there. So Putin’s army has terrible morale issues. And, as their commanders keep getting picked off, they must be contemplating turning back to Moscow to have it out with Putin?
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@mrnobody6609 : If you want to know what Putin’s, “ulterior motives,” are, check the public records of Shell, Exxon and BP? They did a deal to develop Ukraine’s gas and oil (believed to be as much as, if not more than, Russia’s) signed off on decades ago now. Putin prevented it by annexing Crimea, where the offshore reserves are not being drilled. Then he scared them out of the Donbas region, the focal point of more recent propaganda. Now they’ve confirmed even richer finds to the west of Ukraine, by the Carpathian Mountains. Putin can’t reach or influence that area. Not without taking the whole country. This is an armed robbery of old western style imperialism. He doesn’t seem to know it’s out of fashion now. But that’s the, “WHY?” of it. He doesn’t want to drill it himself. He wants to ensure that NO ONE does. True story. ✌️
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@ranzocin1624 : Putin’s, “smart,” strategy:
Lie, lie and lie some more. When the lies get laughed at, lie again.
As if you can, “justify,” bombing a hospital by saying, “but, but, there was a nasty man in the building, even though we were 16 MILES away so it made no difference anyway.” You’re sick in the head, madam. 🙄
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@Spacey7 : So, Ukraine can win this thing without, “good,” or, “bad,” and rely on, “interests,” and, “history,” instead. After all, Putin’s objectives seem so unclear to the world and to his own people, because he can’t say openly what they are: Ukraine’s massive gas and oil reserves. They are still completely undeveloped and Putin needs to keep it that way. Shell, Exxon and BP have confirmed that Ukraine has as much gas and oil as, if not more than, Russia. He doesn’t want a Democracy competing from a geographically more convenient position. Especially since he’s threatened to turn off the gas lines to Europe before now.
If you doubt me, check the oil companies public records as to where their finds are located, and how much they spent on a deal with Ukraine to develop those finds? They are offshore in Crimea, in the Donbas region (ringin’ any bells?) and now even bigger reserves have been located by the Carpathian Mountains to the west of Ukraine, where Putin has been unable to reach the area or, “influence,” them.
So, now he thinks he’s a Bond Villain and he can steal the entire country? When, ever since, “energy security,” has been a thing, in over a hundred years, has the west EVER allowed themselves to lose dominance over energy reserves? Does Putin think he’s exceptional? Does he actually believe his own propaganda now? All we know for sure is that he has threatened us with nukes, but he has also backed down EVERY SINGLE TIME the west has stood up to him. So, all we need focus on is getting the mad man’s finger off that trigger, in case of accidents.
But only a fool allows a mad man to point a loaded weapon at their head a second time. Putin must be deposed. He’s underestimated his enemy and is leading his oligarchs to ruin, along with his country. They will, “suggest retirement,” soon. So long as our resolve only grows and shows no sign of weakening.
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