Posted on 10/08/2022 7:38:26 AM PDT by FarCenter
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year, the Kremlin has sought by every means to minimize the reality of war.
The description of the invasion as a “special operation” and persecution of anyone who dared call it by any other name is intended to underline the supposedly temporary and limited nature of the armed conflict. It seeks to blur the boundary between war and peace.
This principle continued in Vladimir Putin’s speech on September 21, in which he announced a “partial mobilization.”
But Ukraine’s fierce resistance has turned the tables. While some Russians have opposed the attack on Ukraine from the outset and publicly protested against the mobilization that has just been declared, others, on the far-right, feel that Russia is holding back too much and are increasingly calling for total mobilization, the carpet-bombing of Ukrainian cities, and even the use of nuclear weapons.
Understanding who these ultranationalists are and what they stand for is essential if were are to decipher the Kremlin’s war strategy.
The men behind Russia’s far-right
Although almost no one in Russia openly claims to be “far-right”, there is nevertheless a “heterogeneous coalition” on the right of Vladimir Putin’s regime comprising orthodox fundamentalists, various shades of opposition nationalists (ranging from “national-democrats” to neo-Nazis), so-called “patriotic” militias, military bloggers (milbloggers) and Donbas veterans.
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Neo-nazis? In Russia? The term has lost all meaning.
What makes us think Putin’s replacement would be an improvement, especially since we don’t know who that might be?
That article is chilling. Is it any wonder Ukrainians hate Russia after what Stalin did to them? But wow some very dangerous factions in Russia to be sure.
—> What makes us think Putin’s replacement would be an improvement, especially since we don’t know who that might be?
Moderates don’t survive the ascent to power in Russia.
They are weeded out like the weaklings they are.
Meet your new leader! Worse than your last leader!
That is why they need to be isolated and can not be allowed to have a monopoly on Europe’s energy supply. This war is about the resources in eastern Ukraine.
You see Putin is really a moderate despite the hundreds of thousands of “Russian speakers” his regime has killed. Articles like this are such blatant gaslighting.
“Is it any wonder Ukrainians hate Russia after what Stalin did to them?”
But but I thought a reporter for the New York Times said that did not happen. He won some type of award for “honest” reporting. /s
Terms like left, right, far left and far right or meaningless when applied to Russia.
Yeah. What was his name? Jimmy Durante, if I recall.
Putin seems to want to deflect blame and satisfy them by giving them army command scalps, but that is of course causing serious disaffection in the army, especially when the army blames the failures on Putin for his micromanagement.
Very unstable situation.
Oh come on. The Wagner Group, Putin's mercenary army, was founded by an honest-to-God Nazi named Dmitry Utkin. The name "Wagner" is his Nazi call sign.
The lying bastard’s Pulitzer still hangs in the NYT Building.
Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who received Pulitzer Prize for his reporting And what is even more shameful than awarding him the prize is the fact that in 2003 Pulitzer Prize committe refused to revoke the reward, after they claimed that"there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this case."
I know that, I was being funny. Jimmy Durante (comedian) versus Walter Duranty (apologist for a brutal dictator, all around swine, and a model for all NYT reporters).
I wonder why Russia’s neighbors want to join NATO. /s
It turns out that Walter Durante was a bigger clown than Jimmy.
In the Russian Scale of Hard Line Leadership, I'd call Putin a moderate hardliner.
Stay tuned for a true hard-liner. They will not sit by and see Putin fail in Ukraine without taking action - at least I do not believe so.
IIRC, his name was Duranty or something close to that.
That plaque should be destroyed.
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