REEEeeeeeing Intensifies!
Posted on 05/04/2023 8:38:48 PM PDT by Kazan
Yesterday's drone attack on the Kremlin (and other installations) mark the end of the Zelenski regime. While Russia had so far refrained from regime change in Kiev it will now have to pursue it.
The former prime minister of Israel Naftali Bennet had reported that president Putin had promised him not to hit Zelenski:
“I knew Zelensky was under threat, in a bunker… I said to [Putin], ‘Do you intend to kill Zelensky?’ He said, ‘I won’t kill Zelensky,’” Bennett recalled in the interview, which was published on his own YouTube channel.
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Bennett said he called the Ukrainian president immediately after the three-hour encounter with Putin, and told him, “I’ve just come out of a meeting — [Putin] is not going to kill you.
“[Zelensky] asked me, ‘Are you sure?’ I said 100 percent. [Putin’s] not going to kill you.”
Bennett recalled: “Two hours later, Zelensky went to his office, and did a selfie in the office, [in which the Ukrainian president said,] ‘I’m not afraid.’”
Well, now he has very good reason to again be afraid, very afraid. As former ambassador MK Bhadrakumar writes:
Make no mistake, this is a tipping point; the clumsy attempt on Putin’s life jolts the kaleidoscope beyond recognition. The only comforting thought is that the Kremlin leadership is not going to be driven by emotion. The considered Kremlin reaction is available from the remarks by the Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov:
“How would Americans react if a drone hit the White House, the Capitol or the Pentagon? The answer is obvious for any politician as well as for an average citizen: the punishment will be harsh and inevitable.”
The ambassador went on to draw the bottom line: “Russia will respond to this insolent and presumptuous terrorist attack. We will answer when we consider it necessary. We will answer in accordance with the assessments of the threat that Kiev posed to the leadership of our country.”
I agree with Bhadrakumar that there will be no knee-jerk reaction from Moscow. But public opinion in Russia demands that there will be payback for the attack and against anyone involved in it.
Putin’s hands are tied beyond a point when the country is in rage and demanding retribution, as evident from the comments by former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev: “After today’s terrorist attack, there are no options left except for the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique.”
That Zelenski fled to Finland, then to the Netherlands and Germany after the drones hit the Kremlin is a sure sign of his complicity in the act.
When (if?) he comes back to Kiev it will be bunker life for the rest of his reign.
Zeepers, put on your green t-shirts, come slither out now and under-appreciate the truth here.
IBTAN
Best joke I’ve seen all day...thanks ‘Moon of Alabama’!
Except that Putin lied, as usual.
Flashback to March 2022:
Assassination plot against Zelensky foiled and unit sent to kill him ‘destroyed,’ Ukraine says
A recent alleged assassination plot against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was foiled over the weekend and the Chechen servicemen sent from Russia were “destroyed,” a Ukrainian security leader said Tuesday.
Sooner the better. But the world will lose a talented dancer.
Except that Putin lied, as usual.
And of course uncle Joe and the ones pulling his strings are the poster boys for honesty and truth.
REEEeeeeeing Intensifies!
So NOW its reliable. I’m noticing a pattern
i might be mistaken,,oi do not remember Hitler attacking the Kremlin.
“Moon of Alabama”
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I no longer care who wins. I just want it over. For some reason, everything pro Putin is the truth and everything pro Ukraine is misinformation. Both sides lie
You all treat this like some sorta baseball game.
Refrained from regime change? Are you joking? That’s the whole point of the Russian invasion?
What a stupid article. Putin told somebody he wouldn’t kill Zelensky. Putin who bothers to murder reporters and throws his former friends out windows.
But now ... after that ridiculous video of a bottle rocket going off over a dome ... Putin will just have to kill Zelensky.
Putin who has leveled cities and slaughtered men women and children.
But no more Mr. nice guy.
Screw murderous Putin and his pathetic brutal Russia.
Ukraine should have learned from Mexico. Never try join enemy camp living next doors from a super-power. Too bad Zelensky relied on promises by Western powers to defend it’s borders from Russia. Who is paying the price? Ordinary Ukrainians.
What? Again?
Putin has been “finished” quite a few times as well in the last 14 months.
One of my favorite gifs.
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