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Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

By Robert M. Dover, University of Hull | – Time is an ally of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. Russia needs to reduce its rate of battlefield deaths and remain militarily active in Ukraine for as long as possible. A great aid to Vladimir Putin would be a disruption in the supply of weapons to Kyiv, and a diminishing commitment from European and US governments to support the war or to provide military equipment. A rival crisis to distract Ukraine’s allies, in the form of war in the Middle East, could provide just this.

Source: Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

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Vladimir Putin’s Russia Claims to Be Fighting Nazism, but It’s Persecuting Anti-Fascists

On September 4, Russian anti-fascist Azat Miftakhov was released from jail, only to be instantly rearrested. Vladimir Putin claims to be fighting Ukrainian Nazis — but he persecutes anti-fascists in Russia itself.

Source: Vladimir Putin’s Russia Claims to Be Fighting Nazism, but It’s Persecuting Anti-Fascists

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Putin Calls Prosecution Of Trump ‘Political Persecution’ | Crooks and Liars

In this photo released by Roscongress Foundation, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Sergey Shinov, Roscongress Foundation via AP)

The Master of Political Revenge assassination and incarceration decries the application of law in the USA and gets the attention he demands.

We’ve become accustomed to ‘Putin Republicans’ repeating Kremlin talking points, but now we’re hearing Putin himself repeating Trump’s own propaganda that the multiple indictments against him are nothing more than political revenge to keep him from the White House.

Birds of a feather.

Source: Putin Calls Prosecution Of Trump ‘Political Persecution’ | Crooks and Liars

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Sovereignty mocked in the ‘proxy war’ in Ukraine

Putin claims Ukraine is not a country — history begs to differ

Putin isn’t Russia and ergo in this case Russia hasn’t invaded the Ukraine Putin has. Just as NATO hasn’t invaded Russian territory. NATO, the EU, and even America aren’t Authoritarian states. They don’t imprison or assassinate opposition voices. The “pup” being sold here is that Putin is the “victim”. Isn’t that what Trump is selling that he is the victim of the deep state and that he alone understands and could fix any problem that we face by treating despots, like Vlad and Kim more fairly. However, not Xi and never China that would be going too far economically

Russia, rightly or not, believes that it is facing an existential crisis. The giants of investigative journalism, who have been all but cancelled, silenced from mainstream media and deemed to be irrelevant agree with the basis of Russia’s claims and are wary of the way this proxy war is being prosecuted. The Ukrainian people have been “sold a pup”. They are being used and manipulated by the West, NATO, and primarily by the USA.

Sounds like a call to Vote Trump.

Our own government, in close alignment with the USA, NATO and the majority of the West, quickly made the determination that it was a relatively black-and-white affair. There is a “goody” and a “baddy” and that is as much as the people need to know. The media speak with one voice. There is more than a hint of Animal Farm in this. ‘Four legs good, too legs bad.’ Russia, we must believe, invaded Ukraine to grab territory, to grow an empire, and to return to a faded imperial past.

Source: Sovereignty mocked in the ‘proxy war’ in Ukraine

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Putin issues loyalty oath ultimatum to Wagner fighters

Absorbing the mercenaries is a means of conscripting an army and paying them Russian Army rates. That was what Prigozhin was pissed about. The breaking of a promise to his men. “We know who your families” sign here was Putin’s double cross. Note the Russian General  Armageddon who sided with Prigozhin has also been made to disappear.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Wagner fighters to sign an oath of allegiance to the Russian state after the plane crash that is believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary group’s volatile chief.

Source: Putin issues loyalty oath ultimatum to Wagner fighters

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Wagner Group Cemetery Levelled, Will Be Paved Over With Concrete | Crooks and Liars

Wagner Group Cemetery Levelled, Will Be Paved Over With Concrete

Here today gone tomorrow but not Putin even Mother Russia comes second to him. Information is denied and if out then confused.

Source: Wagner Group Cemetery Levelled, Will Be Paved Over With Concrete | Crooks and Liars

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Russia’s attack on Ukraine leaving catastrophic toll on environment

 

Aside from the devastating loss of human life, the attack on Ukraine by Russian forces has resulted in a massive environmental catastrophe, writes Sue Arnold.

Source: Russia’s attack on Ukraine leaving catastrophic toll on environment

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Political Analysis and Satire -Prigozhin & Putin

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The Great Putin Double Cross

1 Hire Mercenaries to do your recruiting and fighting “at a price” and a “promise”

2 Double Cross and cancel that contract and absorb them into your Army at far cheaper rates

3 Kill, imprison or exile their leaders and those that protest and call them “mutineers”. They can’t be any of those they were “free guns for hire” not “mutineers” not a “coup”  but a Black Birding effort to recruit the Wagner mercenaries into the Russian army at a cheaper rate. Simply Threaten retaliation on their families like a mafia boss that might guarantee a favorable response.

Mr Prigozhin, 62, a former Putin ally and ex-convict whose forces have fought the bloodiest battles of the 16-month war in Ukraine, defied orders this month to place his troops under Defence Ministry command. He complained on Monday about a military order that all volunteer units including Wagner are meant to sign by July 1 placing themselves under the control of Russia’s Defence Ministry.

Source: Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire | Facebook

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Russia-Ukraine war: After aborted mutiny, Moscow’s top generals drop out of public view

Last seen denouncing the mutiny: Russian General Sergei Surovikin.

Putin’s doing a Trump or is Trump dreaming of doing a Putin? Putin disappears generals like Trump does lawyers

Russia’s most senior generals have dropped out of public view following a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top brass, amid a drive by President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority and unconfirmed reports of at least one arrest.

Source: Russia-Ukraine war: After aborted mutiny, Moscow’s top generals drop out of public view

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Putin Says Failed Coup Played Into Hands Of Russia’s Enemies | HuffPost Latest News

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.

What was really a protest was called a coup. Actually, the mercenaries were being double-crossed by Putin and the Western media helped in the process calling it a mutiny.

Prigozhin’s statement appeared to confirm analysts’ view that the revolt was a desperate move to save Wagner from being dismantled after an order that all private military companies sign contracts with the Defense Ministry by July 1.

  Prigozhin said most of his fighters refused to come under the Defense Ministry’s command. He said the force had planned to hand over the military equipment it was using in Ukraine on June 30 after pulling out of Ukraine and gathering in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. He accused the Defense Ministry of attacking Wagner’s camp, prompting them to move sooner.

Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said on Twitter that Prigozhin’s mutiny “wasn’t a bid for power or an attempt to overtake the Kremlin,” but a desperate move amid his escalating rift with the military leadership.

Source: Putin Says Failed Coup Played Into Hands Of Russia’s Enemies | HuffPost Latest News

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Russian agents’ threat to family reportedly made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Putin has an amazing method of recruitment

He contracted mercenaries to arrange, form, and train a privately paid army as an adjunct to his Russian forces. Recruitment of volunteers was en-mass from Russian prisons and volunteers. It allowed promises to be made that no regular army grunt could think of. Now after that was done he’s sacked the head contractor and “blackbirded” the private forces into his regular army cutting out the middleman and saving himself millions in the process and saving any further embarrassment of comparing the competency of the two forces at the same time. After all the prison rabble couldn’t be seen to be better-trained fighters than his own Russian Force.

Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders before Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his advance on Moscow, according to UK security sources

Source: Russian agents’ threat to family reportedly made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance

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Putin’s arrest warrant an act of political hypocrisy

An arrest warrant for war crimes alleged against Vladimir Putin highlights the bias shown by the media in overlooking sins of the “good guys”, writes Dr William Briggs.

Source: Putin’s arrest warrant an act of political hypocrisy

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Russia-Ukraine war: arrest warrant may signal the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

A family walks past a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, displayed in the window of a children’s library in St. Petersburg.

Putin’s Historic Legacy isn’t looking any better than Stalin’s is that what he’s been aiming for? He’ll have to ban a lot of books and commentary from the Russians particularly history.

Vladimir Putin is a man who kills children. He is someone who kidnaps them from home and family. That is the contention of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC): its judges have examined his evidence and found every reason to believe it, issuing two indictments against Putin.

Source: Russia-Ukraine war: arrest warrant may signal the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

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Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine: Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

Russia’s attempt to blackmail Germany and the rest of Europe into giving up its support of Ukraine by cutting energy supplies has failed, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion attempt of its western neighbour. “Those who look at the past year will see: the Russian president has failed,” Scholz said in a statement.

Source: Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine: Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

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More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia to Invade

 

In the past year, additional proof has emerged proving the West’s provocation of Russia to give it its “Vietnam” in Ukraine.

Consortium News on Feb. 4, 2022 warned that the U.S. was setting a trap for Russia in Ukraine, as it had in Afghanistan in 1979 and Iraq in 1990, to provoke Russia to invade Ukraine to provide the pretext to launch an economic, information and proxy war designed to weaken Russia and bring down its government — in other words, to give Russia its “Vietnam.” Twenty days later Russia invaded.

Source: More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia to Invade

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Putin’s faltering Ukraine invasion exposes limits of Russian propaganda – Atlantic Council

Putin’s faltering Ukraine invasion exposes limits of Russian propaganda

In a world of relative truth, this article would be regarded as mere Western propaganda. Not, however, in a rational world based on evidence and reasoned analysis. Even if provoked Putin made an inexcusable human error.

As the Russian attack on Ukraine approaches the one-year mark, it is increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade was one of the biggest geopolitical blunders of the modern era. The Russian dictator initially expected a short and victorious war. Instead, Putin’s faltering invasion has transformed him into an international pariah and shattered Russia’s reputation as a military superpower. How could he have got it so wrong?

Source: Putin’s faltering Ukraine invasion exposes limits of Russian propaganda – Atlantic Council

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As Putin’s army loses ground in Ukraine, he’s relying more and more on Wagner Group mercenaries – ABC News

A composite image of Yegveny Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin

The Wagner Group has been called everything from “Putin’s ghost army” to “hired killers”.

But perhaps the most brutal description comes from Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia: “Wagner can be considered the gangster contract killers of Putin’s mafia state.”

The ambassador, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, does not hold back: “Justice awaits Wagner if its members survive the battlefield.”

These days few subjects will elicit as strong a response from Ukrainians as the Wagner Group — Russia’s mercenary group which does things that even the feared Russian special forces, the Spetsnaz, won’t do.

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Source: As Putin’s army loses ground in Ukraine, he’s relying more and more on Wagner Group mercenaries – ABC News

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Spurred by Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Solar Soars by 50% in EU: Report

EU solar power

“The numbers are clear. Solar is offering a lifeline amid energy and climate crises. No other energy source is growing as quickly or reliably as solar.”

Source: Spurred by Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Solar Soars by 50% in EU: Report

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Putin cancels annual TV news conference

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President Vladimir Putin will not hold his traditional televised year-end news conference this month, the Kremlin says, 10 months into Russia’s stuttering invasion of Ukraine.

Source: Putin cancels annual TV news conference

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Russia-Ukraine war: Russian soldiers in Ukraine unhappy with Vladimir Putin, top generals, blogger reports

Igor Girkin, who has been convicted over his role in the shooting down of MH17, has now criticised Russia’s handling of the Ukrainian invasion.

In a scathing 90-minute video analysing Russia’s execution of the war, Girkin said the “fish’s head is completely rotten” and that the Russian military needed reform and an intake of competent people who could lead a successful military campaign.

Source: Russia-Ukraine war: Russian soldiers in Ukraine unhappy with Vladimir Putin, top generals, blogger reports

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Putin warns threat of nuclear war rising, Russia has best weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the threat of nuclear war is increasing as he boasted his country has the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons.

In his latest chilling comments, Mr Putin added that Russia would strike back if hit.

Source: Putin warns threat of nuclear war rising, Russia has best weapons

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Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert | Crooks and Liars

Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert

Viktor Sevalnev was recruited by the Wagner group and made commander of his company after the previous commander died in combat. According to the Russian site, The Insider, he was allegedly executed after his men deserted from the front.

Source: Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert | Crooks and Liars

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Russia warns of ‘dirty bomb’ provocation in calls with West

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, pictured with President Vladimir Putin, has raised the unlikely prospect of Ukraine detonating a nuclear dirty bomb within its own borders.

All Russia is doing now is making announcements for its domestic interests. This isn’t a warning it’s a threat on what it is they are prepared to unleash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asserted the international community was unlikely to believe Shoigu’s claims, and implied that Moscow was setting the stage for deploying a radioactive device on Ukrainian soil.

Source: Russia warns of ‘dirty bomb’ provocation in calls with West

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Putin claims Ukraine is not a country — history begs to differ

Gangsters are overtaking the planet and where they aren’t they are trying to in varying forms. By gangsters, I mean wannabe Caesars. Single heads of State representing themselves and/or a small minority of interests. That form of power has been far easier to organize than a majority in support of its own protection and any Democracy.

Trump, not as bright as most, tried with the advice of Steve Bannon in the USA. Now the Republicans have taken his lead. He may have tripped and we’ve yet to see if he failed. Or, has a replacement already been cloned? We’ve seen the rise of these would-be kings in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and in even self-claimed Democracies like Israel, Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Italy Sweden and Russia all really being seduced by the siren’s call of religious Nationalism trumpeted by these gangsters.

Putin is seen as their hero despite being just another wannabe Ceasar too. He’s a role model of power, and toughness, in his own mind. Flaunting his ability to command the support of a nation while milking it for all its worth. His problem,he believes in his own propaganda and in less than 8 months has had to distance himself from even his inner circle of sycophants who he can no longer trust becoming more and more a Nero rather than a Caesar.

His truth America wants to crush him like a bug but do it by proxy

Vladimir Putin’s misguided views of Ukraine’s independence are inaccurate, as history reveals, writes Susan Bothmann.

Source: Putin claims Ukraine is not a country — history begs to differ

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Russian citizens among arrests for humiliating bridge attack

“This is not therefore a new war-winning strategy but a sociopath’s tantrum.”

Source: Russian citizens among arrests for humiliating bridge attack

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Putin really could fall — but will that help the West as much as we think? | Salon.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony to receive credentials from foreign ambassadors to Russia at the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on September 20, 2022. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin faces multiple crises and his grip on power may be fading. None of that will solve the West’s problems

The demagoguery of Trump and his Fox News heralds is more a symptom of this spreading virus than the main cause of our crisis. That cause is partly conspiratorial and malevolent, but often it’s just mindless: Americans (and other Westerners) have been increasingly stressed and dispossessed in recent decades by the frantic financialization and consumerization of civil society. It’s groping and goosing us 24/7, bypassing our minds and hearts on its way to our lower viscera and our wallets by titillating us, intimidating us, tracking us, indebting us and leaving us enmeshed in a spider’s web of commercials come-ons and pressures.

Unlike Putin, Donald Trump is both a product and an accelerant of that social malady. Putin has his oligarchs and his rubber-stamp parliament, but he hasn’t mastered the new autocrats’ learning curve, which may be transforming the West even as he clings to the weakest elements of Russia’s old authoritarianism: a society running on fear more than on love.

Source: Putin really could fall — but will that help the West as much as we think? | Salon.com

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Putin Commits ‘Blunders Of Shakespearean Proportions’ | Crooks and Liars

 

Putin Commits 'Blunders Of Shakespearean Proportions'

So they’re playing a strong hand, but what does that matter when the guy across the table has nukes? The good guys have no choice but to keep doing what they’re doing and hope for the best.

Hope, as we know, is not a strategy. But in the absence of any other options, it’s all we have to fall back on.

Source: Putin Commits ‘Blunders Of Shakespearean Proportions’ | Crooks and Liars

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Stinging retreat for President Putin in annexed Ukraine city

A day after Russia annexed four Ukraine provinces, its troops have been forced to withdraw from a strategic occupied city for its operations in the East.

Source: Stinging retreat for President Putin in annexed Ukraine city

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Ukraine’s top nuclear power specialist abducted by Russians: Report

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Vladimir Putin blasts the West in combative speech, says Russia remains strong despite ‘insane’ sanctions – ABC News

 

Source: Vladimir Putin blasts the West in combative speech, says Russia remains strong despite ‘insane’ sanctions – ABC News

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Russia’s ‘Victory Day’ and the Trump-Putin Alliance Against Ukraine | The Smirking Chimp

Trump Remains Loyal to Putin. Trump’s initial take on Russia’s 2022 invasion was to call Putin “savvy” and a “genius.” He has showered endless praise on the Russian dictator, never uttering an unkind word about him. Russia’s state-controlled media has replayed all of it.

President Biden and a united NATO deprived Putin of the “Victory Day” celebration that he desired this year. But Putin isn’t finished—with Ukraine, Trump, or American democracy. Recently, U.S. intelligence agencies assessed that Putin may increase his efforts to interfere with upcoming U.S. elections.

Compared to the obstacles that Putin encountered in Ukraine, undermining American democracy is his path of least resistance to a momentous Russian “Victory Day” down the road. As Trump and his Republican allies suppress voting, place Trump’s minions in critical state positions that could influence election outcomes, and push bogus post-election audits that destroy voter confidence, they have become Putin’s accomplices.

Source: Russia’s ‘Victory Day’ and the Trump-Putin Alliance Against Ukraine | The Smirking Chimp

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The last thing we needed was another crazed dictator – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Hitler killed himself he only had a gun. Putin will kill every one else;

The Russians will not thank him for destroying their economy, the Russian troops’ parents and families will not thank him for killing their sons, and the Ukrainian people will never accept the reason for the invasion, or its apparent objective: The subjugation of its identity and status as a sovereign nation. The death and destruction means there will never be reconciliation between Russia and Ukraine.

Putin’s war is a grave mistake, and hundreds of thousands will pay the price. The greatest threat comes from Putin, and his absolute hold on power. He, if cornered, might pull out all the stops, and attempt to bluff the Unites States and Europe with the threat of nuclear war. The possibility is there, and it looks to be Putin’s last card.

Source: The last thing we needed was another crazed dictator – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Elections in Europe — Amid Ukraine agony, Russia still finds support

Putin will prevail if good people do nothing

Russia find support in the hypocricy and political skullduggery of nations like Australia who are prepared to make noise about supporting Ukraine on one hand but then trading with nations supporting Russia  like India. The Morrison government wants to have it both ways and pretends they don’t. Morrison is typical of a misogynistic male liar who whispers “I’ll put it in a little bit if it hurts I’ll take it out, promise” and call that ok and consent.

Ideas of “folk” identity die hard, whether that is among a minority of “tradition-minded” French reviling Arab citizens there, ethnic-Serb nationalism, or even dreams from yesteryear of Magyar ethnic hegemony and empire in Hungary. The European Community before 1992 was a thoroughly democratic and prosperous Western European club, actually enacting ideals of justice, sharing and peace. It then acceded to urgent requests from the former communist states of Eastern Europe to be admitted to the new EU. NATO likewise agreed to admit those states to the alliance, as they were demanding greater assurance of protection from Russia. In light of the barbaric events of the last six weeks, they had reason to fear. Governments of the West, while united and determined in the present crisis, must rue that they had few alternatives during the ructions of the 1990s and made this rod for their own backs.

Source: Elections in Europe — Amid Ukraine agony, Russia still finds support

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Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

Putin’s approach to war was clearly spelt out in Allepo and Chechnya and he hasn’t changed. His hope is to grab Ukraine’s resources and turn Eastern Europe into his own personal Nth Korean feifdom. His legacy is to have destroyed Russia and it’s reputation for the next 200 years.

The Russian withdrawal from the small town of Bucha near the capital of Kyiv left behind a raft of murdered civilians in the streets and bombed buildings the way an ebbing tide leaves behind flotsam and driftwood after a violent tsunami. The Russian government is attempting to escape blame for these atrocities by simply denying that they are the work of Russian troops, as though the Ukrainians shot themselves, repeatedly and in large numbers. Government spokesmen claim that the videos are deep fakes. It is an old war lie, rooted in a hope that the fog of war and your side’s blind nationalism will serve to perfume the stench of rotting corpses.

Source: Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

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Satellite images contradict Russian claims, show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks

Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies show Yablonska Street in Bucha, Ukraine, strewn with bodies on March 19, 2022.

Russians prove to be absolute liars and are losing absolutely. Not just the war but their global propaganda efforts to discount what it is they have really done. They will go down in history for being duped by a steroid-riddled madman Vladamir Putin.

In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around Wednesday.

But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The New York Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.

Source: Satellite images contradict Russian claims, show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks

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Russian Forces Accused of ‘Deliberate Massacre’ in Bucha

Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a "rapid retreat" from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv.

Vlad’s Army of Liberation is less civilized and less disciplined than the Nazis army was.

“These people were not in the military. They had no weapons. They posed no threat,” said an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Source: Russian Forces Accused of ‘Deliberate Massacre’ in Bucha

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Russia’s Neighbors Look at Putin and Ask “Who’s Next?” – Mother Jones

One panelist on Rossiya-1, Russia’s most nationalistic state TV station, recently called for “for nuclear missiles to hit Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia” and the opening of a “corridor” from Russia to its Kaliningrad exclave “in order to save Kaliningrad from the nuclear bombardment of Lithuania and Poland.” According to a recent survey from the Ukrainian polling company Active Group, 86 percent of Russians support an armed invasion of other European countries, including Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. (This poll should, however, be taken with a giant grain of salt given that polling in Russia is extremely unreliable.)

Source: Russia’s Neighbors Look at Putin and Ask “Who’s Next?” – Mother Jones

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Yes, Putin and Russia are fascist – a political scientist shows how they meet the textbook definition

The problem Hitler comitted suicide. Putin has the bomb and a bullet big big difference.

I believe Putin’s fascist Russia faces a serious risk of breakdown in the not-too-distant future. All that’s missing is a spark that will rile the people and elites and move them to take action. That could be an increase in fuel prices, the development that led to a citizen revolt in Kazakhstan earlier this year; a blatantly falsified election, such as the one that led to riots in autocratic Belarus in 2020; or thousands of body bags returning to Russia from the war in Ukraine.

Source: Yes, Putin and Russia are fascist – a political scientist shows how they meet the textbook definition

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British spy chief says Russian President underestimated Ukrainian defence and global response to war – ABC News

A Russian marine takes position in front of a helicopter during a training exercise

Sir Jeremy Fleming says Russian soldiers are “refusing to carry out orders”He warns countries like the UK, the US and Australia may be targeted by Russian cyber attacksHe says China is backing Moscow for now in part because of its plans for Taiwan

Source: British spy chief says Russian President underestimated Ukrainian defence and global response to war – ABC News

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If Biden Really wants Putin to Fall, He should make Green Energy a War Measure

Biden is positioning clean energy and climate measures to be part of his budget this year. It might be harder for Republicans and two Democrats in Congress to obstruct the president’s plans if he framed them as a war measure to take on the menace of the Russian rogue state. The rhetoric of a war on Russian oil and gas would be powerful, and would expose congressmen and senators who dragged their feet to charges of aiding the enemy.

Source: If Biden Really wants Putin to Fall, He should make Green Energy a War Measure

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Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, left.

If true, the deaths of so many generals, alongside more senior Russian army and naval commanders – in just four weeks of combat – exceeds the attrition rate seen in the worst months of fighting in the bloody nine-year war fought by Russia in Chechnya, as well as Russian and Soviet-era campaigns in Afghanistan, Georgia and Syria.

Source: Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate

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‘Ukrainian Blood on Their Hands’: Analysis Details How Big Oil Funded Putin’s War Chest

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“Fossil fuels are the currency of despots, dictators, and warmongers. Our global reliance on oil and gas is not only killing our planet but also making the world a less safe and equal place.”

Source: ‘Ukrainian Blood on Their Hands’: Analysis Details How Big Oil Funded Putin’s War Chest

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Russia-Ukraine war: Russia bombs Lviv airport as fears remain for hundreds in theatre rubble

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears at a pro-war rally in Moscow.

Putin does exactly what Hitler did and the world watches as he claimsit for the greater motherland. However, it looks more like a confected Nth Korean rally no opposition or equivalent allowed at the point of is  guns. All Style and suppressed meaning.

 Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a packed Moscow stadium and lavished praise on his troops fighting in Ukraine, three weeks into the invasion that has led to heavier-than-expected Russian losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home.

Source: Russia-Ukraine war: Russia bombs Lviv airport as fears remain for hundreds in theatre rubble

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Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak

Doublespeak has always been Scott Morrison’s primary weapon. However he applies it so badly it simply comes out as a lie. Taxes aren’t taxes, they’re “efficiency reviews”. “Keeping Australians Safe” is all about the  creation of fear enabling increased control over things that aren’t even happening.  Giving us freedom is Morrison’s excuse for doing nothing “not holding the hose” etc etc.  “On the water matters” was his classic response for ” not answering” questions. In fact Trump Putin and Morrison are the same all doublespeakers. Anthony Albanese or Albo on the other hand has a history of calling a spade a shovel faces and interprets the facts and gets on with the job when either in government or in opposition. He believes consensus negotiated decisions are part and parcel of a progressive democracy

Doublespeak is a tool in the arsenal of tyranny. It is one of Putin’s weapons of choice, as it is for many authoritarians and would-be authoritarians around the world. As Orwell warned: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”The Conversation

Source: Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak

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Comrades in Crazy: Top 4 Putin Trolls in the Republican Party, starting with Tucker Carlson

Vladimir Putin is admired on the American Right as no foreign leader has been since Adolf Hitler. Today’s counterparts of Charles Lindbergh and Father Coughlin are arguably more organized, and they have the advantage of prominent perches in both old and new media.

Tucker Carlson- Murdoch’s Fox News

Candace Owens

Tulsi Gabbard

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Source: Comrades in Crazy: Top 4 Putin Trolls in the Republican Party, starting with Tucker Carlson

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Putin will prevail if good people do nothing

Trump is treated same way. Why is it we continue to constatly talk and allow people like Putin ,Kim Jong Un and the other varieties of dictators to simply get away with harm in the expectation something will change? Insanity has been defined as repeating the same actions with the expectation of different outcomes,and we do just do it time and time again.

Putin’s evil has prevailed because good people have not been able to do anything. The list of Russian dissidents is long and the circumstances of their demise have always been chilling. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the poisoning and gaoling of opposition leader Alexey Navalny and the assassination of Boris Nemtsov — former Deputy Prime Minister and liberal opposition figure, who had expressed his fears over Putin’s “plans to kill him” over his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Yet the West has continued to have dialogue with him. We have underwritten him. We have underwritten his corruption.

Source: Putin will prevail if good people do nothing

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Russian Attacks Halt Plans To Evacuate Ukrainian Civilians | HuffPost Latest News

People cross on an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A second attempt to evacuate civilians from a besieged city in southern Ukraine collapsed Sunday as Russian attacks stopped plans to create a humanitarian corridor, a Ukrainian government official said, and Pope Francis called for an end to the “rivers of blood and tears” created by the war. Food, water, medicine and almost all other supplies were in desperately short supply in the port city of Mariupol, where Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed to a 11-hour cease-fire to allow civilians and the wounded to be evacuated. But Russian attacks quickly closed the corridor, Ukrainian officials said.

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Putin: Ukraine May Lose Statehood ‘If They Continue Doing What They Are Doing’ | Newsmax.com

“The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood,” Putin said in Moscow, according to The New York Times. “If that happens, they will have to be blamed for that.”

The statement comes amidst Putin tightening state control over information. It is unclear how much information the Russian people are receiving about the war.

During Putin’s meeting, he also likened Western-imposed sanctions as actions “akin to a declaration of war.” The statement marks an escalation in rhetoric.

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Can Anyone Convince Vladimir Putin To Choose Peace In Ukraine? | HuffPost Latest News

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen during a meeting with members of Russian business community in the Moscow Kremlin on Feb. 24.

His over indulgence in steroids might have amplified his isolation, paranoia and what appears to be his Stalinist mentality. If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree Putin hasn’t come very far from being the KGB officer he was trained to be. Perhaps we are witnessing the frog, the scorpion and it’s simply his nature. The view of Putin with his advisors seperated at the ends of a very, very long table suggests he didn’t come to listen.

“Right now, I frankly do not see how anybody can get through to Putin,” said Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a former president of Latvia who met with her Russian counterpart repeatedly. “He is so dead set on rewriting history … he has invented a parallel universe in which he lives mentally.”

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Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power | Vladimir Sorokin | The Guardian

A mural depicts a hypothetical Time magazine cover that portrays the face of Russian president Valdimir Putin with a birthmark on his head in the shape of Ukraine, referring to the birthmark of Michail Gorbachev.

Who’s to blame? Us. Russians. And we’ll now have to bear this guilt until Putin’s regime collapses. For it surely will collapse and the attack on a free Ukraine is the beginning of the end. Putinism is doomed because it’s an enemy of freedom and an enemy of democracy. People have finally understood this today. He attacked a free and democratic country precisely because it is a free and democratic country. But he’s the one who’s doomed because the world of freedom and democracy is far bigger than his dark and gloomy lair. Doomed because what he wants is a new Middle Ages, corruption, lies, and trampling on human freedoms. Because he is the past. And we must do everything in our power to make this monster remain there – in the past – for all time, together with his Pyramid of Power.

Source: Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power | Vladimir Sorokin | The Guardian

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Putin shunned by world as his hopes of quick victory evaporate | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian

Placard with face of Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin was facing growing international isolation and the prospect of pariah status on Saturday night as long-term allies dramatically turned against him following the invasion of Ukraine, and western nations planned further decisive military and financial action against Moscow.As his hopes of a quick victory evaporated in the face of fierce resistance by Ukrainian soldiers and armies of citizen volunteers, Russia’s president was deserted by his key ally, China, and had his ultimatum demanding Kyiv’s surrender defiantly brushed aside by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.In perhaps the most striking development, Germany announced on Saturday night that it would supply Ukrainian troops with 1,000 anti-tank weapons as well as 500 Stinger missiles from its own military reserves.

Source: Putin shunned by world as his hopes of quick victory evaporate | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian