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The World Vladimir Putin Wants: How Distortions About the Past Feed Delusions About the Future
Foreign Affairs ^ | 10/02/2022 | Fiona Hill and Angela Stent

Posted on 10/02/2022 9:54:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Cathi

The ‘glasses’ too many are wearing cannot see the bigger picture due to being fixated on the violent clashes. The thirty thousand foot view is unsettling since it reveals too much truth against the homglobalist agenda.


41 posted on 10/02/2022 10:42:45 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Travis McGee

Who are these 4 women?


42 posted on 10/02/2022 10:43:57 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: Justa


43 posted on 10/02/2022 10:53:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not to mention that we built the Ukrainian army into the largest army in the NATO zone besides us, and it was for deployed massing in the area of the Donbass. It was obvious they were about to attack.


44 posted on 10/02/2022 10:56:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Justa

You’ve got it backwards. The 1938 Sudetenland parallel is exactly the other way around. We were on the march, pushing further and further, and finally met resistance.


45 posted on 10/02/2022 10:58:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Justa

And what year were those photos taken in? There was a brief period of time when they hoped they would be treated like any other nation in the global economy. They attended a WEF conference. That’s far in the past, he is far from a WEF disciple. But nice try sport.


46 posted on 10/02/2022 11:01:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another view of Russia’s intent and why Ukraine is losing

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-war-has-just-begun

Attention Zeepers:

Please do not read. Any harmful effect fro cognitive dissonance are entirely your own responsibility.


47 posted on 10/02/2022 11:01:30 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Jim Noble

Well, Belorussian and Ukrainian are actually closer to Polish than to Russians. Both languages have more vocabulary common with Polish than with Russian.
Like I mentioned before, there is a movement trying to reunite (by peaceful means) the former Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia.
It will probably never happen, except if Putin forces it!
Together it will be the country close to Russia in population and can stand up to any Putin’s endeavors.
I guess, if Putin keeps going, the situation for him will get even worse!


48 posted on 10/02/2022 11:02:04 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks for the added information.


49 posted on 10/02/2022 11:05:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: SeekAndFind

5000 word treatise ?? Sounds like Putin Version of Mein Kampf

Note: When an evil dictator lays out his plans like this , you better believe him


50 posted on 10/02/2022 11:17:34 AM PDT by njslim
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To: bravo whiskey

Appear to be the four horse faces of the apocalypse.


51 posted on 10/02/2022 11:21:55 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hill_(presidential_advisor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Stent


52 posted on 10/02/2022 11:24:24 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

That’s really fixing her little red wagon.


53 posted on 10/02/2022 11:25:13 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: mylife

RE: dude, take a smell

Dude, this thread is intended for elaboration, not one liners


54 posted on 10/02/2022 11:28:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: mylife
dude, take a smell

What does that mean?

55 posted on 10/02/2022 11:29:20 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: DesertRhino
That’s far in the past, he is far from a WEF disciple.

Putin addressed remotely the WEF in 2021.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin:

“Mr. Schwab, dear Klaus, Colleagues,

I have been to Davos many times, attending the events organized by Mr. Schwab, even back in the 1990s. Klaus just recalled that we met in 1992. Indeed, during my time in St Petersburg, I visited this important forum many times. I would like to thank you for this opportunity today to convey my point of view to the expert community that gathers at this world-renowned platform thanks to the efforts of Mr. Schwab.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to greet all the World Economic Forum participants.

It is gratifying that this year, despite the pandemic, despite all the restrictions, the forum is still continuing its work. Although it is limited to online participation, the forum is taking place anyway, providing an opportunity for participants to exchange their assessments and forecasts during an open and free discussion, partially compensating for the increasing lack of in-person meetings between leaders of states, representatives of international business and the public in recent months. All this is very important now when we have so many difficult questions to answer...

Indeed, judging by the statistics, even despite the deep crises in 2008 and 2020, the last 40 years can be referred to as successful or even super successful for the global economy. Starting from 1980, global per capita GDP has doubled in terms of real purchasing power parity. This is definitely a positive indicator.

Globalization and domestic growth have led to strong growth in developing countries and lifted over a billion people out of poverty. So, if we take an income level of $5.50 per person per day (in terms of PPP) then, according to the World Bank, in China, for example, the number of people with lower incomes went from 1.1 billion in 1990 down to less than 300 million in recent years. This is definitely China’s success. In Russia, this number went from 64 million people in 1999 to about 5 million now. We believe this is also progress in our country, and in the most important area, by the way...

Of course, as I mentioned earlier, developing countries benefitted a lot from the growing demand for their traditional and even new products. However, this integration into the global economy has resulted in more than just new jobs or greater export earnings. It also had its social costs, including a significant gap in individual incomes...

Meanwhile, globalization led to a significant increase in the revenue of large multinational, primarily US and European, companies...

But then again, in terms of corporate profits, who got hold of the revenue? The answer is clear: one percent of the population...

In this context, I would like to mention the second fundamental challenge of the forthcoming decade – the socio-political one. The rise of economic problems and inequality is splitting society, triggering social, racial and ethnic intolerance. Indicatively, these tensions are bursting out even in the countries with seemingly civil and democratic institutions that are designed to alleviate and stop such phenomena and excesses...

Colleagues, despite this tangle of differences and challenges, we certainly should keep a positive outlook on the future and remain committed to a constructive agenda. It would be naive to come up with universal miraculous recipes for resolving the above problems. But we certainly need to try to work out common approaches, bring our positions as close as possible and identify sources that generate global tensions...

We must now proceed from stating facts to action, investing our efforts and resources into reducing social inequality in individual countries and into gradually balancing the economic development standards of different countries and regions in the world. This would put an end to migration crises...

https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russian-president-putin-s-speech-at-the-world-economic-forum-complete-english-translation.html/

56 posted on 10/02/2022 11:43:21 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Justa

Not all them are still Schwab followers. Schwab invited many. Some are still Schwabettes, some are not. Trump went to Davos too. That does not make him a Great Reset or NWO guy.


57 posted on 10/02/2022 11:44:25 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Under Putin’s logic, we had no right to independence from Great Britain.

Well, it is Sunday, so...


58 posted on 10/02/2022 12:03:50 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
B.S. Putin's argument is that Ukraine is ethnically close to Russia, and was part of Russia for much of its history. Therefore, Ukraine has no right to exist as an independent country.

That logic would be directly applicable to our (by "our", I mean those of us here who are Americans) own right to exist as an independent country.

It's also an argument that makes the status of Kaliningrad being part of Russia a complete joke.

59 posted on 10/02/2022 12:14:00 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Yes, I see you believe it... but


60 posted on 10/02/2022 12:21:48 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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