Vladimir Putin Makes Bizarre and Desperate Appeal for 'Normalized Relations' and the End of Sanctions

Red State ^ | 03/04/2022 | Streiff

[SeekAndFind]

Imagine you are a ruthless despot who miscalculated in launching an unprovoked war against a small and non-threatening neighbor, and the military operation is going pear-shaped. Not only is the military operation bleeding you to the tune of a couple of hundred men per day (Russia Releases the First Official Casualty Count From Its Ukraine Adventure), and a dozen or so countries sending large quantities of very capable weapons to the country you invaded, Western sanctions are throttling your country. More importantly, the oligarchs who keep you in power are seeing their personal balance sheets hammered. Your ability to find a way out is limited because you’ve successively upped the ante until now you need total possession of the country you attacked and the eradication of its government to claim you won. You are also grimly aware that a strongman is only a strongman as long as he wins.

What do you do?

Well, if you are Vladimir Putin, you try to gaslight the world into believing that you justifiably attacked Ukraine because they were “unfriendly” to you and that the sanctions slapped on you by governmental and private actors are irrational, unfair, and uncalled for.

)Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for the “normalization” of relations with other states, saying Moscow has “absolutely no ill intentions with regard to our neighbors.”

Speaking via video link at a ceremony raising the Russian flag on a Kaliningrad ferry, Putin called for global coordination, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its second week.

“I think that everyone should think about normalizing relations and cooperating normally,” he said.

He said Russia saw no need to aggravate tensions with other countries, claiming that Moscow’s actions in Ukraine came only “in response to unfriendly actions toward Russia.”

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“There is no need to escalate the situation, impose restrictions. We fulfill all obligations,” he said. “If someone does not want to cooperate with us within the framework of single cooperation, and by doing so harms themselves, they will, of course, harm us, too.”

Mind you, this all takes place in the context of a phone call with French President Macron where Putin told him he intended to pursue the war in Ukraine until the last dog is dead (see After Putin Phone Call, Macron Fears ‘the Worst Is yet to Come’ in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine). And where he also claimed that the imagery we’re seeing of devastated Ukrainian cities and dead Ukrainian children is just “disinformation.” (Sounds like he’s taking lessons from Fauci and the Branch COVIDians in calling anything he doesn’t like “disinformation.”)

My assessment is that this plea is very much like the rather bizarre speech he gave a week ago where he encouraged the Ukrainian military to forget about their oath of allegiance and mutiny (Putin Shows Signs of Panic, as He Calls on Ukraine Military to Mutiny). It is a sign that the sanctions imposed on Russia have hit in a way he did not anticipate and that he’s trying to find a way of getting out from under them. The timing indicates that his financial gurus have evaluated the situation and determined that it will be very difficult for Russia to operate with these sanctions in place. It is also a sign that he’s not about to enter into a major economic partnership with China and throw off the dollar as the international reserve currency.

An acquaintance of mine was on CNN tonight. He believes that the longer this war lasts, the greater the chance Ukraine will “win.”

"I do not think the Russians have the capacity to successfully carry out this new approach […] if it does turn into a war of attrition Ukraine is going to win out in the end." @general_ben talks to @CNN about how Ukraine's forces are successfully countering Russian war tactics. pic.twitter.com/drfadnGP9J

— CEPA (@cepa) March 3, 2022

I have to admit I’m doubtful, but if Putin is already trying to get out from under sanctions after only a small scale military success, it is a sign that things are going much worse than we know. In the meantime, we can relax and enjoy a classic song by War.

[the_daug]

Life extension drugs have addled Putin’s brain?

[Sarcazmo]

Why?

After the last two years, it seems (to me at least) that there is something afoot. And it’s a lot bigger than Russia.

[Pilsner]

If anyone did that in one of our conflicts, it would be considered an act of war.

The Iranians supplied weapons and IEDs to Iraq. Pakistan armed the Taliban in Afghanistan.

[Ceebass]

The truth is that the globalists are setting up the Ukraine to attack and destabilize Russia...

Because it’s absurd that a country the size of Ukraine would invade a county the size of russia!

Duh!

[Revel]

On that you have look to the future. First NATO then military bases. But truthfully we don’t really know what is already hidden there. What we do know is that forces hostile to Russia are controlling/using Ukraine. The Bidens are on the short list. It is not wise to wait until it is too late.

[Sarcazmo]

I think the last 2 years has demonstrated that there is something to the globalist threat.

Also, I believe the population of the world can be completely enslaved without a single nuke.

I think that can be done in the 6th dimension of warfare. The mind. COVID and the vax passport was a major battle. I believe we lost, but don’t know it yet.

[Revel]

And the US is ultimately threatened too by those that want to bring us into the NWO.

[Sarcazmo]

No, I know, but that’s conventional analysis.

We are in a place we have never been before. We’re fighting wars in a way we never have before.

Gosh, the last two years... somehow a majority of the planet got talked in to taking some bunk injection no one knows anything about. The psyop was beyond anything I ever imagined possible.

Companies with massive social analysis, modeling, and actual shaping capability became state players. We’ve never been here before.

Forget a country being a threat, hell the WEF is a global player it seems. Twitter and Facebook are behaving like state assets... and not even necessarily our state!

[piasa]

Sounds more like he is echoing what always works for the Clintons when they get caught in a scandal, “Let’s move on.” The press then moves on, scandal a nothingburger. Putin is just not Clinton... so until a Clinton agrees with him and says “Let’s move on,” the press won’t stop.

[sport]

I believe that you are correct. More importantly than what I believe. The facts bear it out. It is all over but the crying.

[Varsity Flight]

“Imagine you are a ruthless despot “

No we will not!

our image is of The Father Son and Holy Spirit.

I Timothy 4

[A strike]

Agree.
KGB thug PUTIN is foremost a Russian nationalist, by definition opposed to NWO/WEF world government.

[windsorknot]

Thanks.

[windsorknot]

Thanks for your reply and assessment.

[Ceebass]

No, I know, but that’s conventional analysis....

Simplicity is one of the principles of war.

I happen to think the most obvious answer to a question is the simplest one.

Regarding Ukraine putin simply wants to conquer it.

Regarding the vax, follow the money.

Big companies are only state players, at the pleasure of the state, they can be taken down anytime.

I don’t watch any news, nor do social media. I feel fine. Recommend the same for everyone.

[bagster]

A nukeless, militarily disadvantaged Ukraine was on the verge of attacking Russia on its own, urged by “the globalists”. Ok.

What? No, not on its own. The endgame is to get NATO, the EU, and America (and everybody else) to come into the conflict. That is the entire purpose of Ukraine and why the derps took it over, not to mention the side benefit of money laundering, human sex trafficking, and other profitable ventures.

Ukraine is now being used to take down and neutralize the deep state's number 2 adversary (Trump was #1), Russia/Putin. The evidence of that is the list of obvious derps who are beating the drums of war.

Ukraine is a puppet state and tool of the derps, completely. These are the facts and they are not in dispute.

[patriotfury]

Oh my friend, nothing could be further from 20th Century war history...

Without getting into the wars in Europe, Southeast Asia, or South America, Latin America, or Cuba, I can tell you from my own experience (in this case not anecdotal), we had thousands of casualties in both Afghanistan and Iraq, not due to ied’s, but high tech Russian anti-armor and personnel mines.

In two occasions, we were sent links to sites, where the Russians had recorded their own engineers watching and studying live, the destruction of our MRAP’s.

Beside the mass produced shaped charge mines they smuggled into Iraq from Iran, they also had Russian engineers experimenting from Iran.

In the cases above, everyone was vaporized, and sucked out 2-4” inch penetration holes, which were created by 3 phase liquified copper and nickel shaped charges. Literally just a bit of pink mist found inside the MRAP’s. The kevlar and body armor found in pieces inside.

In another video link, from our C2 SCIF, we watched a third take place within minutes after it happened.

One night on my way in, I literally dozens of rockets fly right over head, which we learned later that night, had come from one of several MRL’s recently smuggled in from Iran, and which had been set up to use remotely, to see how we would react. Again, we were sent a video link, where the Russian personnel had recorded themselves remotely firing the MRL’s. Those particular rockets hit Camp Liberty near BIAP.

These were not rare insulated incidents at all.

[patriotfury]

I watched a video in the past few days, (should have taken the url), where Putin is speaking (supposedly from the Kremlin), where he indicates Macron is right there just off camera angle.

That was very interesting.

[Terry L Smith]

i had heard that the Russian ruble has come down in worth TO A PENNY!!!

All the oligarch’s super yachts have been seized by the governments where they are docked.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Hmmm, Putin may well have cause to be worried.

How many of these “oligarchs” that are having their luxury yachts, bank accounts, and other resources around the world seized are actually “rossiyskaya mafiya”? Chances are, most of them.

Now you have US congressmen publicly calling for Putin’s assassination?

Putin is a tough guy and a KGB trained operative, yes. But, as dangerous as he probably could be on an individual level, there are others in Russia who are far more dangerous. And, while his invasion of Ukraine may illustrate a level of instability, he ain’t stupid.