Posted on 05/02/2023 12:36:09 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
With even nationalist pro-war bloggers criticising Putin’s actions in Ukraine, his desperation and paranoia are growing.
May is traditionally a month for public celebration in Russia, with massive public processions on 1 May for Labour Day and military parades on 9 May for Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Not so in 2023. Russia’s biggest trade union cancelled its traditional Labour Day demonstrations because of the “heightened risk of terrorist activity”, while regions near the Ukrainian border called off Victory Day parades so as to “not provoke” the Ukrainian army.
The Russian government has warned people across the country to stay away from military installations on Victory Day, while the hugely popular Immortal Regiment, an event during which ordinary citizens all over Russia march with portraits of relatives who died in the second world war, has been moved online.
Allegedly the “terrorist” threat comes from Ukraine – Russian media reported on 24 April that a downed Ukrainian drone was found 30km (20 miles) from Moscow – but it seems difficult to accept that Russia’s air defences cannot guarantee the safety of Moscow’s skies during the country’s biggest patriotic celebration of the year, particularly at a time when Putin has been stoking Russian nationalist feelings to garner support for his war in Ukraine.
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Duda’s Poland is the most authentically Christian and conservative country in Europe. Yet still the Putin buttsniffers dream of it being invaded by Russian Nazis.
Orban is wise to what’s going on, and understands the bigger picture. Some of the other Eastern European leaders, not so much.
This aint about being a Putin butt sniffer. It’s about understanding the ideological motives of our evil leaders.
Our evil ruling class is Anti-Christian, anti-family, Anti everything that was once great about the Western world.
The Wolfowitz doctrine to weaken Russia pre dates Putin becoming it’s leader.
I don’t know are you the cretin who said Putin is batman?
I really wonder do you believe the wacky c*** like you post, that Putin is so great and he’s fighting all the Anti-christian forces in the world?
He’s a dictator which I don’t think comports with my American values, hes a direct enemy of the United States of America which I know does not comport with my values, hes pretty much a psychopath or at least a sociopath as well as a thug and a conqueror of peaceful neighbors which he is more than happy to level to the ground many times over.
This is 16 years of Christian education speaking, I am very well certain that Vladimir Putin does not represent Christian virtues. You are an idiot if you have fallen for that propaganda.
And you are immoral and violative of Christian principles if you believe that Vladimir Putin is justified in attacking and killing his neighbors.
You are deluded.
How does it feel making stuff up like a teenage boy makes up dreaming about playboy centerfolds? You have as much chance being right about analyzing the status of an army.
Yeah the Ukrainian army is being destroyed for the 3rd time and there won’t be any Ukrainians left for the 4th time that’s why Russia can’t take over a nothing Burger little town even after focusing all its might there.
You don’t contribute to intelligent discussion you just make up nonsense but we’ll see soon enough.
And whatever happens you will just lie more.
We could argue all day about Putin.
But there’s no doubt what motivates America’s let’s build up China and weaken Russia stance, which goes back 30 years.
And if you can’t figure that one out, then your Christian education ain’t serving you very well.
The real reason is that they don’t have the equipment to have the massive parades with several hundred vehicles and thousands of troops.
“Duda’s Poland is the most authentically Christian and conservative country in Europe. Yet still the Putin buttsniffers dream of it being invaded by Russian Nazis.”
That’s because the resident Putin fluff bois on here are the true “neocons” who get all wet dreaming of a revived Soviet Union.
I have no interest in building up China.
Maybe you don’t, but our leaders do. And there’s a pattern to their behavior.
If our leaders were really committed to America being a beacon of freedom, and they were proud of the Puritan values that led the Founders to want to create a free nation, then one would think that their reaction to the fall of the Iron Curtain would be filled with plaudits for the power and righteousness of religious faith, and it’s ability to shake off the shackles of slavery. You’d think it would animate our foreign policy.
But instead, the rejuvenated religiosity of Eastern Europe is viewed, by many of the very same people who think the Ukraine/Russia war is the great struggle of our time, as troubling and dangerous.
They frown when soccer teams from Serbia refuse to go along with LGBT worship. They frown when Hungary gives tax breaks and other perks to young couples who have several kids. They frown when many of these countries voice opposition to mass immigration.
They hate Slavic Flyover country as much as they hate Flyover country here.
Now contrast that with their supposed rationale for why we should have opened up trade with China. They talked as though money, goods, and pop/fashion culture alone would inspire democratization.
They knew it was BS. It was just a line to sell us to go along with it.
But the fact that they could look at us with a straight face, and make a pitch for trying to bring democracy to China, with zero mention of the role that religious faith played in liberating Eastern Europe, and instead, make the case that designer clothes and a unit in a modern apartment building would inspire people to bring down the CCP, is consistent with both the contempt they have for faith and faith based values, and the unhealthy importance they place on materialism.
You can have your own reasons for hating Putin. But you can be sure our leaders hate him for the same reason they hate those Serbian soccer teams refusing to take the knee for trannies.
I’m sure there are plenty of good religious Christians in Ukraine. But their country has been taken over as a proxy for the worst elements of the modern West.
He’s only mostly dead from what I hear. For tax reasons, you know.
You have to forgive Kazan. He’s trying his best to do his job, but his masters give him very little to work with. It’s hard to build a sturdy castle when all you have is sand.
I just want all this to end so me, my wife, and son can get back to our home in Cheboksary, Russia. We split our time between there and Reno but haven’t been back since the war started.
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