Posted on 03/02/2022 4:40:48 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
On Feb. 23, Razil Malikov, a tank driver in the Russian Army, called his family and said he would be home soon; his unit’s military drills in Crimea were just about wrapping up.
The next morning, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Mr. Malikov hasn’t been heard from since. On Monday, Ukraine published a video of a captured soldier in his unit, apologizing for taking part in the invasion.
“He had no idea they could send him to Ukraine,” Mr. Malikov’s brother, Rashid Allaberganov, said in a phone interview from the south-central Russian region of Bashkortostan. “Everyone is in a state of shock.”
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“The Russian International Affairs Council, a government-funded think tank, published an article by a prominent expert describing the war as a strategic debacle. The expert, Ivan Timofeev, said Ukrainian society would now “see Russia as an enemy for several decades to come.” He added a veiled warning directed at government officials who were now cracking down on people speaking out against the war.”
“Some feared that Mr. Putin could go even further, repressing dissent to an extent unseen in Russia since Soviet times. Tatiana Stanovaya, a scholar who has long studied Mr. Putin, wrote it was “more than logical” to expect that lawmakers this week would approve the imposition of martial law in order to block the open internet, ban all protests and restrict Russians from being able to leave the country.”
Well, at least they try to follow good OPSEC.
Historically, it was always the Democrats who led the USA into War. This again, validates this axiomatic truth.
Wow Putin will do to his people what that turdo in Canada did to the truckers. Interesting.
The Ukrainians won’t ever forgive them now. Stalin starves millions and now Putin slaughters people and destroys their homeland.
It was probably pretty easy to inspire the boys to fight Muslims. Going against their Tinder chicks in Ukraine may be a different challenge.
Easy to fight fanatical Muslims huh?
Go ask Dementia Joe about how that worked out in Afghanistan.
War? What war? Who told you that? There is no war comrade. Now go stand in the toilet paper line.
“Are these the same Russians who not long ago, fought and won a brutal war against the suicidal, super tough Chechens?”
Perhaps that is why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard to keep the Russian hordes at bay: They fear another Grozny, another Chechnya.
No they wont at all. They still remember the Holodomor.
Vladimir Putin arrives at an airport, gets in line at customs desk.
Customs officer: Occupation?
Putin: No, just visiting.
FVP !
That’s not what he said.
[Little Pukin is F. ]
No one handed Putin his job. He clawed his way to power. He knows a thing or two about how to appoint men he can trust with his life to key positions and keep them from conspiring against him individually or in collusion with each other. If he loses and withdraws from Ukraine, he will likely continue to rule Russia until the end of his natural life just like his North Korean counterpart.
Look at Maduro, Saddam and Gaddafi. They tanked their countries’ economies despite tremendous amounts of oil resources. It took foreign intervention/invasion to remove two of them.
Exact quote from post #9:
“It was probably pretty easy to inspire the boys to fight Muslims”
[Little Pukin is F.]
“Ukraine published a video of a captured soldier “ -— Why does the good guy, Ukraine, ignore the Geneva Conventions?
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