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  136. Ядро власти Путина крошечное. В его состав может входить от 3 до 5 человек. Начальники его личной охраны, глава ФСБ, глава секретной службы армии и, возможно, парочка легко узнаваемых крутых парней. Это центр, который принимает решение. Второй слой, в который входят Медведев, Шойгу и другие, более многочисленный, но бессильный за пределами своего строгого бизнеса, где Путин устанавливает цели и методы. Ниже этого, третий слой состоит из технократов, которые не слишком близки к методам власти Путина, но готовы выполнять свою работу за хорошую зарплату. Если не считать хардкорщиков, ни у кого нет реальной власти, и никто не любит Путина. Те, кто на втором и третьем уровнях, — оппортунисты, набивающие свои карманы, как могут. Они легко поменяют пристрастие, когда придет время. Но они также знают, что у тех, кто занимается хардкором, есть файлы на всех из них, и они могут в мгновение ока отправить их в тюрьму или еще хуже. Авторитарный режим быстрее скатывается к тоталитарной автократии. Путин может доверять только хардкорам, чьи парни все полностью осведомлены и готовы продолжать совершать преступления и грабить государство бесконечно долго, поддерживая Путина у власти в режиме, почти основанном на терроре. Эта конструкция хрупкая и рухнет. У Сталина было то же самое. Но у Сталина была сильная коммунистическая идеология, и он мог позволить себе убить своих ближайших союзников, таких как Берия. У Путина нет идеологической базы, потому что он вор и все это знают. Идеология «Zизма» — это глупая пропагандистская попытка создать что-то вроде идеологического клея, но российским обществом движут удобства и сохранение статус-кво; они хорошо знают, что власть имущие крадут богатства страны, но предпочитают избегать неприятностей с полицией. Они знают, что Zизм — это всего лишь маска. Самоуспокоенность и страх заставляют россиян молчать, наблюдая, как их родственники гибнут на войне, а Путин убивает своих оппонентов. Это не может продолжаться бесконечно.
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  386. Это послание движения «Граждане мира» Путину. Это ответ на его речь на этой неделе. Путин, знайте, что, когда вы угрожаете применить ядерное оружие, вы проявляете неуважение и оскорбляете всех нас, граждан мира. Подобные угрозы в высшей степени непристойны. Мы сравниваем это с самой отвратительной и отвратительной порнографией. Это богохульство, оскорбляющее самое святое в этом Мире, нашу жизнь на этой планете и жизни всех существ, которых мы любим и лелеем. Вы не имеете никакого права делать такие угрозы. Вы уже пересекли границу, которую никогда не должны были пересекать. Теперь вы должны отступить и исчезнуть из общественной жизни. Вы безумны, если думаете, что вы и русская культура переживете Армагеддон. Вы не будете. Вы оказались неспособны помешать простым дронам уничтожить ваши нефтеперерабатывающие заводы и другие активы. У вас не будет средств, чтобы остановить приближающиеся к вам баллистические ракеты и все другие виды оружия с ядерными боеголовками. Нет, вы не сможете защитить себя. Думаешь, ты будешь в безопасности в своем бункере с любовниками и бандой, пока вся Россия будет гореть? Ешь икру, пьешь водку и думаешь, что ты в безопасности? Нет вы не будете. Не ошибитесь. Сами россияне не простят вам того, что вы сделали. Они сами вас повесят при первой же возможности за все страдания, которые вы им навлекли. Я говорю о русских людях, но Армагеддон не пощадит никого. Победителей не будет. Так что будьте уверены, если нажать на низ, в вашу сторону одновременно полетит столько же ракет с ядерными боеголовками. Никому не будет места, где можно спрятаться от чудовищной катастрофы, грядущей на их пути. Вы видите сцену? Это то, что вы обещаете русскому народу? Это то, что они видят, и все мы тоже видим в ваших угрозах. Только глупцы не видят, что вы грозите принести Миру и своему народу. Нет, на самом деле русский народ – это не «свой народ». Никто не владеет русским народом, поэтому никто не имеет права распоряжаться им по своему усмотрению и нести ему разрушение. То же самое справедливо для всех глав государств и их сограждан в своих странах, Граждан Мира. Граждане мира «Граждане мира» — это не организация; У него нет штаб-квартиры; он не занимается сбором средств; это не НПО и не правительственное учреждение; он не выдает членства; оно не исключает ни одного из Граждан Мира. Это движение, единственной мотивацией которого является борьба за мир во всем мире и безопасность планеты.
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  719.  @operator9858  look, a few points: 1) I am talking about supplies for Russian forces in Crimea. Although some supplies for the Russian troops occupying Southern Ukraine still goes through Crimea; 2) if Crimea becomes isolated from supplies, the Russian army in Southern Ukraine will be in very weak position as supplies coming from Dombas region will be easily disrupted. The Sorovik lines have being effective in preventing Ukraine advances towards the Anzov sea, but once Crimea militarily becomes a dead zone (without airports, fuel supplies, drone operators, long range artillery and air defenses), there will not be enough support anymore for Russian troops in Southern Ukraine (South of Dnieper River). 3) in the Political front, there is an infighting going on between the FSB and the Army. The FSB has been cutting the heads of high ranking generals and officers. This is a purge in slow motion. But the Army is getting restless seeing the generals one by one being arrested. This can become explosive. Putin and FSB are playing a tough high risk gamble. A political collapse can happen if a rebellion starts, or if the removal of Army leadership weakens the command structure so much the army becomes ineffective to face a major defeat such as the neutralization of Crimea. All officers know Putin and the top FSB/KGB have been stealing huge amounts of country’s wealth. Army officers are also corrupt, but they do not get much. There is a deep sense of lack of moral and principles. The propaganda only apparently succeed in brainwashing people. But the masks are falling.
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  767. A country’s decision to link its international trade to its currency apart from dollar and euro, is not simple. Buyers and sellers in international markets want currencies they can use to pay for and buy goods from anyone anywhere in the world. No one is interested in getting locked in transactions in a currency that very few need it for their transactions. Especially the ruble in this moment of high volatility with crazy value swings. It just went back to the same value it was before Putin’s announcement. Not mentioning the fact that Russia is under severe international sanctions. Who would trust to get millions in rubles to see it all losing , let’s say, 3% of its value overnight? No chance. Traders are addicted to stability and low risk. Brazilian economy is as big as Russia’s. Brazil is a strong exporter of diverse commodities as well as manufactured goods. It may dream of having its currency recognized for international trade, but that is only a dream. Only three or four South American countries have done small percentage of their trade among themselves in their currencies. But none of them are stable enough. Besides that, they know they rely on dollars for most of the transactions with the rest of the world. Putin’s maneuver will fail. We will see. The maneuver will give some breathing space, helping the ruble to estabilize a bit and stop going down for a while. But this will not last long. As we can see, the effects of Putin’s announcement lasted less than 24 hours. The interested in following this, just check the variations of the daily exchange rates.
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  806. Sorry for this long comment. Let’s reflect. After WWII the communist block had a world-vision in which communist dictatorship of the proletariat was the most advanced society and had to dominate by defeating the capitalist-liberal-democracy, which also claimed to be the model for the whole world. Two strong ideologies trying to dominate the world. Without being defeated, communism lost due to its own weaknesses. The post-USSR world found two types of cleavages 1) separating religious fundamentalism from 2) secular polities; and cleavages between 3) kleptocrat dictatorships and 4) societies based on the rule-of-law. Of these four sometimes overlapping blocks, dictatorial kleptocracies are the weakest ones, for lacking ideological consistency, coherence and convincing arguments. These, like Russia, are the government of thieves, by the thieves for the benefit of the thieves. No matter their propaganda, they do not convince anyone but the naive. Kleptocrats cannot claim to have a world view according to which all societies must be organized. They do not have ideology; they just want to dominate and steal. The blocks of non-liberal secular societies, believe they do good business by keeping their people disciplined; China is here. They do not have a world domination project. In contrast, the religious fundamentalist want to spread their views, but are not strong enough to claim world domination. Liberal democracies no longer plan to impose their world view by force, they believe everyone will sooner or later see that is the best system. So, the sources of conflict on a global scale are only visible at the kleptocratic projects, because they only believe in power, oppression and domination; because that is the only way they can go on stealing the wealth of their countries. In this sense, China is not the main risk. China has not be involved in any military adventure for more than half a century. China wants to do business as opposed to Russia, that wants to invade other countries and steal land and resources by force. Kleptocrats know they cannot justify what they do, so they need to use force. There is where the risk is.
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  882. I don’t agree that the West and Ukrainians are in the back foot. Of course Putin is already setting up the whole scheme to win the fake election. He cannot survive outside power in any fashion. At the moment he loses power, he loses his life. Metaphorically, he made his pact with the devil and has no way out of it; he can only carry on stealing power the way he can do so, and having more hundreds of thousands Russians dying in Ukraine. He has no other solution and the Western leaders and politicians know that very well; as much as he does. So, he is poised to keeping playing the “Russian roulette” to the last bullet, perhaps hoping that Trump will save him, and take the bullet on his behalf. But this will not happen because Trump will be behind bars. Such irony that the Russian dictator is putting all his hope on the election of a corrupt in the US; again, as in the WWII, Russia powerful man praying for American “land lease” to save them … what irony! but this time the “land lease” will be wearing an orange uniform in an American jail. It is seriously necessary to emphasize again and again that Putin is lost, no matter the fake appearance of successful statesmanship he puts up in his international trips and internal propaganda. All falsehoods. Russian population must be informed that he will make their lives even more miserable than they already are, with hundreds of thousands of Russian families, millions in fact, paying a very heavy price for his corrupt ambitions, with their men dead, crippled or crazy for life or far away in another country. This is a huge disaster and no dictator can survive that.
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  918. I am not convinced the Admiral is right about Putin being just a façade and shady guys, pulling the strings behind Putin, are the ones in Power. A dictator does not survive longer with such arrangement, in which someone else is calling the shots. That simply does not work. Shoygu and Garisimov (sorry if a misspelled the names) are too weak to be part of such team; they are only in their post because Putin knows they are his puddles, otherwise with the dismal results of their strategies, they would have already gone out of the window or forgotten on the sidelines. Secondly, mafia does not like to be entangled into politics of running government business. Putin’s regime is “mafia-like” but not actual mafia. The real mafias think politics is not good for business. They only want to support with money some politicians who facilitate for them to carry on with their business. Third, with FSB free to do as it pleases, throwing whoever they want out of windows and exploding civil airplanes in midair, they do not need mafias to do their dirt business; they do it themselves. Mafias always run the risk to bump into regular police and create a big mess; FSB does not have such problem. FSB is Putin’s operational arm, serving him and keeping him in power by frightening anyone who may think about challenging him. That is the arrangement of the regime and also its main weakness. Putin’s pseudo popularity can change overnight, if someone turns the switches of the official propaganda in other direction. But for that, Putin may need to be already dead or in his way to that. Yes, there are shady guys, but they are at the FSB and are known by the West information agencies; but they are not calling the shots, although surely have influences on Putin’s mind. So, political science is different from military science, I think.
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  965. Ядро власти Путина крошечное. В его состав может входить от 3 до 5 человек. Начальники его личной охраны, глава ФСБ, глава секретной службы армии и, возможно, парочка легко узнаваемых крутых парней. Это центр, который принимает решение. Второй слой, в который входят Медведев, Шойгу и другие, более многочисленный, но бессильный за пределами своего строгого бизнеса, где Путин устанавливает цели и методы. Ниже этого, третий слой состоит из технократов, которые не слишком близки к методам власти Путина, но готовы выполнять свою работу за хорошую зарплату. Если не считать хардкорщиков, ни у кого нет реальной власти, и никто не любит Путина. Те, кто на втором и третьем уровнях, — оппортунисты, набивающие свои карманы, как могут. Они легко поменяют пристрастие, когда придет время. Но они также знают, что у тех, кто занимается хардкором, есть файлы на всех из них, и они могут в мгновение ока отправить их в тюрьму или еще хуже. Авторитарный режим быстрее скатывается к тоталитарной автократии. Путин может доверять только хардкорам, чьи парни все полностью осведомлены и готовы продолжать совершать преступления и грабить государство бесконечно долго, поддерживая Путина у власти в режиме, почти основанном на терроре. Эта конструкция хрупкая и рухнет. У Сталина было то же самое. Но у Сталина была сильная коммунистическая идеология, и он мог позволить себе убить своих ближайших союзников, таких как Берия. У Путина нет идеологической базы, потому что он вор и все это знают. Идеология «Zизма» — это глупая пропагандистская попытка создать что-то вроде идеологического клея, но российским обществом движут удобства и сохранение статус-кво; они хорошо знают, что власть имущие крадут богатства страны, но предпочитают избегать неприятностей с полицией. Они знают, что Zизм — это всего лишь маска. Самоуспокоенность и страх заставляют россиян молчать, наблюдая, как их родственники гибнут на войне, а Путин убивает своих оппонентов. Это не может продолжаться бесконечно.
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  993. The nucleus of Putin’s power is tiny. It may consist of 3 to 5 men. The chiefs of his personal guard, the head of FSB, the head of secret service of the Army and maybe a couple of easily identifiable hardcore guys. This is the centre that makes the decision. The second layer, with Medvedev, Shoygu, and others, are more numerous but powerless beyond their strict business where Putin is the one setting the targets and methods. Below that, the third layer is comprised of technocrats with not much affinities with Putin’s power methods but willing to do the jobs for good salaries. Apart from the hardcore, no one has real power and no one likes Putin. Those at the second and third levels are opportunists filling up their pockets as they can. They will easily change allegiances when the time comes. But they also know that those at the hardcore have files on all of them and can have them in jail or worse in a blink of an eye. The authoritarian regime is sliding faster into a totalitarian autocracy. Putin can only trust the hardcore, whose guys are all fully aware and committed to carry on perpetrating crimes and stealing the state indefinitely, sustaining Putin in power in an almost terror based regime. This structure is fragile and will collapse. Stalin had the same thing. But Stalin had the strong communist ideology and could afford to kill his closest allies such as Beria. Putin does not have ideological base because he is a thief and everyone knows that. The “Zism” ideology is a stupid propaganda attempt to creat something like an ideological glue, but the Russian society is driven by conveniences and preservation of status quo; they know well those in power steal the wealth of the country, but prefer to keep out of troubles with the police. They know Zism is only a mask. Complacency and fear keep the Russians quiet watching their relatives being killed in the war and Putin killing his opponents. This cannot last indefinitely.
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  1051. This is a message from the movement Citizens of the World to Putin. This is an answer to his speech this week. Putin, be aware that when you make threats of using nuclear weapons you are disrespecting and insulting all of us, Citizens of the World. Such threats are obscene to the extreme. We compare it with the most abject and revolting pornography. It is a blasphemy offending what is the most sacred in this World, our life in this planet and the lives of all beings we love and cherish. You do not have any right to make such threats. You already crossed the boundary you should have never crossed. Now you must retreat and disappear from public life. You are insane to think that you and the Russian culture will survive Armageddon. You will not. You have been incapable to stop simple drones from destroying your refineries and other assets. You will not have the means to stop ballistic missiles and all the other sorts of weapons with nuclear warheads coming in your direction. No, you will not be able to defend yourself. Do you think you will be safe in your bunker with you lovers and gang while all of Russia is burning? Eating caviar, drinking vodka and thinking that you are safe? No, you will not. Make no mistake. The Russians themselves will not forgive you for what you have done. They themselves will hang you at the first opportunity, for all the misery you brought upon them. I speak about Russian people but Armageddon will spare no one. There will be no winners. So, be assured, if you press the bottom, there will be as many missiles with nuclear warheads flying in your direction at the same time. No one will have a place to hide from the monstrous disaster coming on their way. Do you see the scene? Is this what you promise to the Russian people? This is what they see and all of us also see in your threats. Only the stupid ones do not see what you are threatening to bring to the World and to your own people. No, in fact the Russian people is not “your own people”. Nobody owns the Russian people, so no one has the right to dispose of them at will and bring destruction upon them. The same is valid for all heads of states and their co-citizens in their countries, the Citizens of the World.
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  1093. Well, he did not answer the question what is life. He listed some attributes and aspects that may guide one who wants to identify whether something is alive or not. But his question belongs to the set of questions that science does not bother to answer, because they are not answerable in the realm of science anyway. Still, science goes on with its business without trying to answer such fundamental questions. Another example, what is space? Physics does not care about answering it, but do a lot of work with it. The recognition that some questions cannot be scientifically answered is not a failure. As we land in other places in the cosmos, we use identifiers of life to try to recognize whether there is any form of life, with the attributes we know. So, we look for some sort of “unit” that may distinguish itself from its surroundings, and show some sort of functions we may recognize as “taking something from the environment” for its own apparent “needs”. We will expect those needs are related to preservation, growth and reproduction, in whatever fashion it may come about. Those will be the basics: unit, distinction from environment, absorption of something from the environment for preservation as unit, as well as possibly growth and reproduction. From there, it may get more complicate with attributes that are relevant but not essential, like perception, communication, sociability, will and aim. But the creature may show attributes we have never noticed anywhere, never mind associate with life. Let’s see :))
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  1172. Putin has to be cornered; there is no other away of solving this problem once and forever. By giving him any sense of free room to play and possibly win only prolongs the agony of the whole conflict. He has already crossed a number of boundaries with no way back. His only way is ahead and getting deeper and deeper into the war direction. Incorporating the Ukrainian regions into Russian Federation territory is another of those no-going-back destroyed bridges. So, his end will come from inside, when many around him realize that he has misjudged, he is a bad strategist, he is out of his mind and the price he is asking Russian people to pay is too high comparing that the only thing that is in the bargain is his personal ambition (supported by a group of yes-sir subservient guys). Many, including the oligarchs are fed up with him. Now he has to more and more be exposed to the reality that facts are not following his expectations, and the more desperate he gets the less the facts obey him. When he may try some ultimate extreme movement, that is when the opposition to him will gather enough energy to liquidate him. There is no other way. He will not commit suicide, withdraw or capitulate. If the incorporation of Ukrainian territory goes ahead, there will not be any chance of diplomacy or negotiated settlement. He will have crossed the ultimate line making any dialog impossible. He knows the Western countries know that he is not in condition to offer any credible acceptable settlement to the problem; he knows he broke the trust and the will to give him an honorable way out. There is no such way out anymore. And the people shouting on the streets “Putin to the trenches” is indeed very disturbing for him. We need to have faith that when his desperation reaches the highest point, some guys around him will act and solve his problem. The question is whether, after he is gone, the FSB guys up to their necks in his criminal deeds, will stage a coup or not.
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  1191. Well, what does not seem to have entered McConnell's calculation is that while the president may surf through the shutdown with his base blindly supporting him, this does not mean that the very same base will be on McConnell's side. He may and should end up paying a heavier price for the shutdown than Trump. The blind crowd supports the president just because he is the president; any president could get similar support by default. However, majority leader in the Senate is seen differently; pending on how heavy is the bad effects of the shutdown on his constituencies, he may see things getting very tough on him. The President has a country constituency of blind followers; McConnell has only a state base, and that could turn very ugly on him, no matter the support the president gets from them. If McConnell is not seen as making any explicit effort in any direction, he certainly will lose a lot of his supporters, particularly anyone in a way or another affected by the shutdown. He is making a dirty gamble that might backfire on him. On the other hand, if he is betting on the erosion of the president chances to reach the end of the mandate and be the candidate in 2020, he may be welcoming the opportunity of letting the president prestige with his base burn out in slow fire. He will not be seen as the one who did that. Either way, he is gambling that everybody else but him will look bad in this story, the president and the Democrats included, and he will be the one to have spared his prestige. But, again, he is very wrong if he is thinking that way. We will see.
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  1280. The nucleus of Putin’s power is tiny. It may consist of 3 to 5 men. The chiefs of his personal guard, the head of FSB, the head of secret service of the Army and maybe a couple of easily identifiable hardcore guys. This is the centre that makes the decision. The second layer, with Medvedev, Shoygu, and others, are more numerous but powerless beyond their strict business where Putin is the one setting the targets and methods. Below that, the third layer is comprised of technocrats with not much affinities with Putin’s power methods but willing to do the jobs for good salaries. Apart from the hardcore, no one has real power and no one likes Putin. Those at the second and third levels are opportunists filling up their pockets as they can. They will easily change allegiances when the time comes. But they also know that those at the hardcore have files on all of them and can have them in jail or worse in a blink of an eye. The authoritarian regime is sliding faster into a totalitarian autocracy. Putin can only trust the hardcore, whose guys are all fully aware and committed to carry on perpetrating crimes and stealing the state indefinitely, sustaining Putin in power in an almost terror based regime. This structure is fragile and will collapse. Stalin had the same thing. But Stalin had the strong communist ideology and could afford to kill his closest allies such as Beria. Putin does not have ideological base because he is a thief and everyone knows that. The “Zism” ideology is a stupid propaganda attempt to creat something like an ideological glue, but the Russian society is driven by conveniences and preservation of status quo; they know well those in power steal the wealth of the country, but prefer to keep out of troubles with the police. They know Zism is only a mask. Complacency and fear keep the Russians quiet watching their relatives being killed in the war and Putin killing his opponents. This cannot last indefinitely.
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  1311. Russians will not win this war. The deterioration of the fighting spirit among Russians is getting bigger by the day, although the signs of that are well suppressed from the media and public opinion. But Russians know that things are going badly wrong when Putin and his poodle (Medvedev) speak about using nuclear weapons. Russians know what Armageddon means for them and how a bomb leads to another in exchange until everything is blown up. They are more threaten by Putin’s speeches than the Westerners. No matter what the propaganda tells them, they know the West is stronger than them. They also know that they could have been in peace, if Putin had not started the madness. When I say they know that, I am saying up to 70 to 80 % of people older than 18 know that. They do not speak because they are afraid. The Russians have already had to swallow massive reality shocks on their presumption of inexpugnable power that could not be harmed. They had lost hundreds of thousands of men, had to endure the hardship of sanctions, had to watch colossal defeats with Ukrainians successful spectacular attacks. They swallowed their pride and are preparing themselves psychologically for the miserable worse. They feel it and are shaken. Putin’s mask of success pretending that everything is according to plans is convincing less and less; his messages are worn out. He knows that. His desperation is evident with the killing of Navalny and Prigozhin. He feels his days are numbered but his cold heart and hatred keeps him pretending he is fine. Everything underneath the appearance of stability is in fact shaking. The defeat is palpable; the collapse of the army is a scary prospect haunting Putin and his gang on a daily basis; but they cannot admit it. The Oligarchs and the rich Russians connected and doing businesses in the West, even if doing dirty businesses, they were happy with the open field for their operations independent of the Kremlin and its strategies. Those are fed up with the fact that they are now very well monitored and in the radar of all Western countries. They know that the invasion of Ukraine turned out to be extremely bad fir their business. So, this whole contingent will be ready to jump out of Putin’s boat and very hopeful to go back of business as usual. This is adding a lot of weight to the boiling underneath.
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  1415. This is a message from the movement Citizens of the World to Putin. This is an answer to his speech this week. Putin, be aware that when you make threats of using nuclear weapons you are disrespecting and insulting all of us, Citizens of the World. Such threats are obscene to the extreme. We compare it with the most abject and revolting pornography. It is a blasphemy offending what is the most sacred in this World, our life in this planet and the lives of all beings we love and cherish. You do not have any right to make such threats. You already crossed the boundary you should have never crossed. Now you must retreat and disappear from public life. You are insane to think that you and the Russian culture will survive Armageddon. You will not. You have been incapable to stop simple drones from destroying your refineries and other assets. You will not have the means to stop ballistic missiles and all the other sorts of weapons with nuclear warheads coming in your direction. No, you will not be able to defend yourself. Do you think you will be safe in your bunker with you lovers and gang while all of Russia is burning? Eating caviar, drinking vodka and thinking that you are safe? No, you will not. Make no mistake. The Russians themselves will not forgive you for what you have done. They themselves will hang you at the first opportunity, for all the misery you brought upon them. I speak about Russian people but Armageddon will spare no one. There will be no winners. So, be assured, if you press the bottom, there will be as many missiles with nuclear warheads flying in your direction at the same time. No one will have a place to hide from the monstrous disaster coming on their way. Do you see the scene? Is this what you promise to the Russian people? This is what they see and all of us also see in your threats. Only the stupid ones do not see what you are threatening to bring to the World and to your own people. No, in fact the Russian people is not “your own people”. Nobody owns the Russian people, so no one has the right to dispose of them at will and bring destruction upon them. The same is valid for all heads of states and their co-citizens in their countries, the Citizens of the World.
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  1603. This is a message from the movement Citizens of the World to Putin. This is an answer to his speech this week. Putin, be aware that when you make threats of using nuclear weapons you are disrespecting and insulting all of us, Citizens of the World. Such threats are obscene to the extreme. We compare it with the most abject and revolting pornography. It is a blasphemy offending what is the most sacred in this World, our life in this planet and the lives of all beings we love and cherish. You do not have any right to make such threats. You already crossed the boundary you should have never crossed. Now you must retreat and disappear from public life. You are insane to think that you and the Russian culture will survive Armageddon. You will not. You have been incapable to stop simple drones from destroying your refineries and other assets. You will not have the means to stop ballistic missiles and all the other sorts of weapons with nuclear warheads coming in your direction. No, you will not be able to defend yourself. Do you think you will be safe in your bunker with you lovers and gang while all of Russia is burning? Eating caviar, drinking vodka and thinking that you are safe? No, you will not. Make no mistake. The Russians themselves will not forgive you for what you have done. They themselves will hang you at the first opportunity, for all the misery you brought upon them. I speak about Russian people but Armageddon will spare no one. There will be no winners. So, be assured, if you press the bottom, there will be as many missiles with nuclear warheads flying in your direction at the same time. No one will have a place to hide from the monstrous disaster coming on their way. Do you see the scene? Is this what you promise to the Russian people? This is what they see and all of us also see in your threats. Only the stupid ones do not see what you are threatening to bring to the World and to your own people. No, in fact the Russian people is not “your own people”. Nobody owns the Russian people, so no one has the right to dispose of them at will and bring destruction upon them. The same is valid for all heads of states and their co-citizens in their countries, the Citizens of the World.
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  1607.  @manilajohn0182  You may be right in relation to the destination of the reserves, but how many soldiers Russia can afford to take from their current positions, send to the front line and replace them with those reservists remains to be seen. Pay attention that the call for reservists goes to men from 18 to 45 or so. I would say that the guys above 25 have not joined the reserves recently and are not in need of only a two weeks refresher training; they will need far more than that. Most of the guys from 25 to 45, have not gone into the reserves recently, as you said. They are settled in their civilian settings, building their private lives. They have been uprooted from there to fight a war that, so far, in their mentality, may seem to be ok, as shown in the TV propaganda of the government. But once they start to feel in their flesh and surroundings the misery they have been dragged in, that will make them extremely scared and angry. Besides that, unless Russian Army fixes its incompetence and corruption (what I doubt), the reservists will experience the poverty of their condition (shortage of food, accommodation, support, equipment, ammunition, medicine, and so on). The ideological glue is very weak. All of them know the regime is filth corrupt and the kleptocracy in the Kremlin does not give a shit to their lives or the lives of anyone else. This is very different from fighting for the communism ideology (or for nazism, or radical islam, or liberal democracy, etc. for that matter). Nationalism to sustain the privileges and illusions of kleptocrats is a trick that does not survive for long; It betrays itself in no time.
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  1717. Ни одна благородная правовая система ни в одной стране не будет поддерживать, одобрять и поддерживать такую ​​презренную схему смягчения судебных приговоров за участие в войне. Это отклонение, возмутительный разрыв с правами человека и верховенством закона. Любой юридический процесс, созданный для того, чтобы придать этой схеме видимость законности, столь же презрен. Посылая таких людей на войну таким ложным способом, Россия доказывает, что не имеет никакого уважения к закону и закону. При Путине страна скатилась до той стадии, которая была два столетия назад или даже раньше. Это режим, который претендует на установление своего мирового превосходства над цивилизованными принципами Запада. Как это вообще могло быть возможно? Как можно допускать такие повторные обработки по вопросам правовых принципов? Если бы я был гражданином России, мне было бы очень стыдно за свою страну.
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  1807. A number of things need to be considered to bring those Wagner guys to a cohesive combat troop level. Yes they are selected based on willingness to be ruthless and careless about living or not. This is the myth about them. But an effective combat force requires an ideological identity and meaningful reasons to fight that are not plentiful among soldiers of fortunes. Experienced mercenaries are effective in command positions when the troop under them are ideologically motivated; in that they add the tactic skills and competences to make quick decisions. This is not the case. The Wagner guys are commanding their own band, with the lack of meaning characteristic of such mercenaries. They are and will fail. Recruitment gets more and more difficult, especially of experienced guys who are seeing the current debacle. The Group is attracting only those desperate for getting some money or get out of jail. One cannot make a good troop out of that. The capacity the Ukrainians show to hit barracks and ammunition depots is slowly draining the willingness of the Group to carry on. The leaders will have to resort to extreme enforcements among them, what will further discourage voluntary qualified fighters. The relationship between the regular Army, the Wagner Group and those cannon fodders from Chechenia, will get more and more full of frictions and mutual accusations, as the failures on the ground mounts. Mercenaries do not perform well in a war where the “nationalist” or “ideological” base of the endeavor does not exist or is weak. They do not bring the elements, the motivation force to fill those holes, no matter how the brain washing propaganda tries to create momentum.
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  1810. ⁠ @toliklisiy5868  you must be a Russian troll. “Ukraine attack Donbas”… are you kidding? Donbas was and still is and will continue to be part of Ukraine. In Donbas Ukraine was facing internal struggles, of which, we must say, Russia was behind the scenes instigating and financing, because Putin’s Russia cannot tolerate a democratic ruled by law Ukraine. Russia is the opposite of that; it is a kleptocracy ruled by a criminal. When Russia fought the war in Chechenia, it was also fighting an internal problem with a separatist region. The West sanctions at that time was only intended to make Russia less cruel in its genocidal intentions against the Chechen people. But the West was not promoting the Chechen insurrection. In the West the Chechen conflict was seen as a Russian problem; only the criminality of Russian intervention in Chechenia was object of protests in the West. Russia invasion of Ukraine (including Crimea) has no justification whatsoever. Those are acts of bandits with no respect for the rule of international law. Putin is in the wrong side of history and this will become clear soon. How come that in the XXI Century we have a criminal presiding and authoritarian regime, annihilating the opposition in his own country and imposing and oppressing his own people into silence, pretending to have the right to grab bits and pieces of the land of other countries by force? How come that a little tyrant can pretend to eradicate nazism that does not exist at all, when in fact the fascist is the tyrant himself and the kleptocrats supporting him? How come that such tyrant can turn a people with remarkable cultural achievements like the Russians into a collective of zombies and brainwashed slaves? This is really incredible!
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