Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
There is a big difference between a dollar a liter in Russia where average income is 500-1200 per month.
Paid 2.23 for a gallon 2 days ago😂
Watched this thread for months now, without comment. Here's one. based on your citation above.
Kostiantyn Hoholenko
@KHoholenko
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Feb 24
In two months, the United States has gone from a world leader of democracy to a club of dictators and terrorist supporters. Good job, orange marauder.
President Trump is now the "orange marauder." Is that your view? Or of some of those who populate this long thread?
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸Evil is as evil does and Putin and his invasion are 24/7/365 evil.
@RepBrianFitzAny absurd attempt at drawing a moral equivalency between Russia and Ukraine defies all logic and common sense, and it must stop.
If someone invades your home, murders your family, kidnaps your children, and burns down your house, no one should expect the homeowner to “get along” with the home invader and “make a deal.” There is only one “deal.” Good, honorable, and decent neighbors come to the aid of the homeowner, the home invader is removed, isolated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Not just to achieve justice in that individual instance, but also to send a clear message to all other would-be home invaders that they will never, ever be rewarded for their bad behavior. Not now. Not ever.
This is basic Patriotic Common Sense. This is basic law enforcement. This is basic Peace Through Strength. There is no moral equivalency between good and evil. We need moral clarity, both at home and abroad, now more than ever.
Trump’s plan to reward Putin by letting him keep his ill gotten gains in Ukraine in exchange for a temporary “peace” is just as evil.
Lemner (Russian: Лемнер) is a 2025 novel by the Russian writer Alexandr Prokhanov, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Prokhanov published by AST in 2025, which alludes to Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group.
In the novel's plot, the Russian president Leonid Leonidovich Troevidov is accused of having blown up the Nord Stream pipelines, severing Russia from Europe and drawing it closer to China. Among other assertions, the novel claims that the Russian president keeps the bodies of his enemies in his office and rejuvenates himself with the blood of virgins.
The novel contains allusions to recognizable Russian public figures such as Vladimir Putin (President Troevidov), Anatoly Chubais (Anatoly Chulaki), Nikolai Patrushev (Anton Svetlov), Vladislav Surkov (Ivan Surlönis), Dmitry Utkin (Vavila Stukov), Ksenia Sobchak (Ksenia Sverchok), Alla Pugacheva (Alla “Marilyn”), Vladimir Solovyov (TV-host Alfimov), Alexandr Dugin (Philosopher Klavdiev), Kirill Serebrennikov (Director Serebryakovsky), Vladimir Mau (Professor Leo), Igor Shuvalov (Vice Premier Apollinariev), Vladimir Pozner (Publicist Former), Sergey Lavrov (Foreign Minister Klyonov), Zakhar Prilepin (Writer Voisky), and Sergey Karaganov (Political Scientist Surovin). Allusions to Boris Yeltsin (Boris Lebyodushkin), Anatoly Sobchak (Anatoly Sverchok), Boris Nemtsov (Boris Stumm), Sergei Shoigu (unnamed defence minister), and Sergey Sobyanin (unnamed Moscow mayor) are also mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemner
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Vladimir_Putin_at_award_ceremonies_%282025-06-12%29_10.jpg/500px-Vladimir_Putin_at_award_ceremonies_%282025-06-12%29_10.jpg
Alexander Prokhanov and Vladimir Putin in June 2025
Alexander Prokhanov: 4OCT2025 My public position is very clear: I am a statesman, I see in Russian President Putin the personification of Russian history on its upward spiral, when by the will of the president, Russia ascends from great upheavals to greatness.
https://zavtra.ru/blogs/lemner_sut_skandala
Кремлевская табакерка
7OCT2025 The writer Prokhanov wrote a novel defaming Putin for a reason. Ukraine, the West or Azerbaijan could pay for this, this opinion was expressed by our source in the Kremlin.
“Prokhanov is now trying to justify himself for his vile book and for the way he showed Vladimir Vladimirovich there. I read this opus, made an effort on myself. Therefore, I can clearly say that the attempt of the disrespected writer failed. Prokhanov showed himself to be an enemy. Now the question of whether he will be declared a foreign agent is being studied. Other methods of punishment are not ruled out, we'll see,” the channel's interlocutor said.
He is also sure that Prokhanov wrote “such a disgusting novel” for a reason. “He was almost definitely paid. Now an investigation is underway to find out who exactly. These could be our enemies in Ukraine, in the West and even in Azerbaijan. Let's figure out who it was,” the source said. He added that excerpts from Prokhanov's book were shown to Vladimir Putin. The president was “extremely disappointed and offended.”
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6265
Alexander Andreevich is 87 years old.
TBC
Interesting analysis one of my early predictions was that the biggest winner out of all of this would be China and apparently now North Korea as well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJLXXUhZNPA
It the graphic correct or not, bill maher is still a leftist but I will give him credit when he finds and acorn
Notice that neither Venezuela nor China are on the list ... was the list compiled in China and part of their multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign?
I can’t think of any possible definition whereby you could consider that Trump is a friend of Venezuela.
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