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Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin
Townhall.com ^ | February 25, 2022 | Gina Loudon

Posted on 02/25/2022 5:27:03 AM PST by Kaslin

What’s going on in the mind of Vladimir Putin? Why did he choose this moment to invade?

The conditions are perfect right now for Putin and tyrants around the world to expand their power and territory.

Who among the Western leaders has the moral authority to demand that tyrants like Vladimir Putin resist their dictatorial urges?

For the past two plus years of the pandemic, Putin observed Western leaders repeatedly lying to their people. When they weren’t outright lying, they were hiding the data.

As they pushed mask and jab mandates, Western politicians hid data on their efficacy or lack thereof. There is literally not one pro-mask politician who has not been busted maskless at a gathering. They have revealed themselves as liars and hypocrites.

When movements emerged demanding God-given freedoms be restored, Western leaders sent the jackboots to quash the protests.

Tell Vladimir Putin he is a thug and he will point to horses trampling protesters in Ottawa and old men and women being tear gassed and dragged away to jail, or he can point to the January 6th political prisonsers still sitting in jail to this day being treated as terrorists as they are denied a speedy trial and due process, or he can point to the French citizens dragged out of restaurants refusing to show their vax papers.

Putin now believes that Western leaders aren’t that much different from him.

Joe Biden is the most corrupt American president to ever cheat his way to the Oval Office. The extent of his corruption fills volumes and more is uncovered every day thanks to Hunter’s laptop from hell.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau showed his true dictatorial colors when he treated protesters as terrorists, froze their bank accounts, and dragged them off to jail. In the eyes of Putin, Trudeau is envious of his ability to see the power he wants and to take it.

Western leaders have gotten a taste of dictatorial power and are doing all they can to hold onto the power they grabbed during the pandemic.

Putin sees them as kindred spirits. In Putin’s eyes, they are fellow dictators pretending to be “democratic” who wish they had the guts of Putin to seize more power and territory.

Western leaders have each completed their obligatory condemnation of Putin in the same way they read their prepared propaganda lines in front of the camera for the past two years. Few believe what comes out of the mouths of Western leaders after they spewed COVID lies in order to grasp onto more power. Putin also knows their words are empty. Putin knows these politicians have to put on a show in front of the TV cameras. He doesn’t hold it against them.

The rest of the world is also drunk on Russian oil right now. Putin has recently had an influx of cash that is fueling his military thanks to Joe Biden and other “green” politicians who have throttled back energy production and pushed the climate change hoax to score political points.

Every pipeline that is shut down by an environmentalist Western leader, every drilling permit that’s denied, every oil rig shut down, gives Putin a little more advantage. Every dollar that oil rises is billions more in the pocket of Putin.

Putin also recognizes that Biden needs an international crisis to distract from all the Biden-created crises. Biden needs someone else to blame for high gas prices. Why would Biden stop Putin from giving him a distraction and a scapegoat for high gas prices? Watch for Jen Psaki to start blaming Russia for high gas prices. Democrats will start placing Putin’s head over the stickers on gas pumps with Biden’s face that say “I did that.”

The main motivation that pushed Putin to invade Ukraine at this moment in time is because America is currently at its weakest. The U.S. won’t be this weak for long, though. The American people are about to remove a lot of incompetent and corrupt leaders in the next two election cycles, but it can’t happen fast enough.

Unfortunately, all of the above also applies to Xi Jinping. The CCP will be the next to flex their tyrannical muscles.

It is both a historical fact and consequence that weak, corrupt US leadership creates the vacuum for tyrants to exploit. Both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Putin’s taking of Crimea and the first parts of Ukraine all saw tyrants take territory when Democrats occupied the Oval Office. It’s just a coincidence, right?

The moment when America is weakest is when tyrants are at their boldest. The world needs a strong United States.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: genius; putingenius; russia; savy; smart; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; vladimirputin

1 posted on 02/25/2022 5:27:03 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

A really good analysis by Lauren’s guest.

One could actually see this as inspired by the same thing happening to russia with the collapse of the USSR - though on a much lower level - as what happened to Germany with the Treaty of Versailles, which arguably sowed the seeds of the rise of the Nazis in Germany.

Not to give either a pass, but it brings some perspective. The interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYK4UGS-C0I


2 posted on 02/25/2022 5:39:19 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Kaslin

“Putin now believes that Western leaders aren’t that much different from him.”

If so, he’s right.

Another poster, I forget who, reminded me that the 2014 coup set this all in motion. In large part, Obama is responsible for this.


3 posted on 02/25/2022 5:42:53 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Kaslin

Rather than speculate about speculative rumors, it is wise to examine Putin’s actual thoughts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4040719/posts


4 posted on 02/25/2022 5:46:27 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Kaslin
Putin now believes that Western leaders aren’t that much different from him.


5 posted on 02/25/2022 5:48:01 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Kaslin

The most dictatorial countries in the world right now are:

1) Canada
2) Australia
3) New Zealand

I don’t need to be lectured by limp-wristed panzies, about how terrible Putin is. The fact is, there is no moral leader in the western world, and the least from the Heretic Pope.


6 posted on 02/25/2022 6:11:38 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Kaslin

Inside the mind of Brandon _________________________


7 posted on 02/25/2022 7:11:33 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin

The perfect storm is Russia, China , and N Korea making a push at once. The US would be overwhelmed.


8 posted on 02/25/2022 7:35:53 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t think Gina Loudin gets it. Almost every major country in the world is at war with its citizens except Russia. Why is that you ask? Well, Gina its because the Satanist cabal called the New World Order doesn’t rule Russia. Putin is not cabal but the Ukraine right on his border is a completely cabal captured operation. They are broke and completely corrupt thanks to being controlled by the EU/NATO/NWO and used as a money laundering machine, child trafficker and drug dealer for this wicked bunch.

Putin isn’t winning any love from anybody including the Russian public for going in to take out the Cesarean mafia rats nest that is Ukraine. He’s not going to make any money doing it either. Ukraine is a welfare state not something to be occupied. It would be a money drain.

Putin is doing the world a favor and is weakening the belligerent force that has captured our govt in Washington DC. They are weeping as they watch the money supply get cut off.

I look for this to be an in and out operation not an occupation. Putin does not need to occupy the Ukraine to control it. It would be too expensive.


9 posted on 02/25/2022 7:42:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: brownsfan
Another poster, I forget who, reminded me that the 2014 coup set this all in motion. In large part, Obama is responsible for this.

Our responsibility began well before Obama, back to the George H. W. Bush administration. Here's a quick timeline:
1990 - SoS James Baker promises Gorbachev that NATO will not move "one inch eastward" if the Warsaw Pact is disbanded and Russian troops are withdrawn from the Soviet satellite countries.
1991 - Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
1992 - NATO air forces enforce no-fly zone over Bosnia until 1996.
1999 - NATO admits Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to its military alliance.
1999 - Two weeks later, NATO begins its 3-month air campaign to crush the Serbian government.
2004 - NATO admits Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
2008 - At its Bucharest Summit, NATO commits to future membership of Georgia and Ukraine.
2008 - Putin declares that neither Ukraine nor Georgia will be allowed to join the hostile military alliance, and months later invades Georgia to end the threat.
2009 - NATO admits Albania and Croatia.
2014 - US-aided coup in Ukraine installs an anti-Russian government.
2014 - Crimea Oblast, containing a majority Russian population and Russia's largest warm-water naval base, votes to leave Ukraine join the Russian Federation. The vote was 96% with 83% turnout.
2014 - Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast declare their independence from Ukraine, beginning a civil war against the Ukrainian Army. Moscow intervenes long enough to establish a stalemate.
2015 - Minsk Agreement signed by Russia, Ukraine and OSCE to end civil war in Donetsk and Luhansk.
2017 - NATO admits Montenegro as a treaty member.
2020 - NATO admits North Macedonia.
2021 - Putin accuses Ukraine of ignoring Minsk Agreement obligations to Donetsk and Luhansk, and insists upon treaty promise that Ukraine cannot be admitted to NATO. Ukraine and NATO refuse.
2022 - Russia invades Ukraine to "demilitarize" the NATO threat to Russia's southern border.

The Monroe Doctrine has been enforced by US presidents since 1823 to keep foreign military alliances from meddling anywhere in our hemisphere, and has been the pretext for invading many our our neighbors.

The Monroeski Doktrine is now being enforced by Russia's president to keep a hostile military alliance away from Russia's exposed southern border -- only 300 miles from Moscow.

What is the difference?

10 posted on 02/25/2022 11:43:44 AM PST by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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