Posted on 08/17/2024 11:39:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin is feeling the stress from Russia's invasion of Ukraine - as he is seen wringing his hands in a meeting with his top officials after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops bit back and made a counter-incursion into the country.
The dictator, 71, was in a security council session on the crisis he faces due to Ukraine's dramatic invasion of the border areas of Kursk region.
His very public hand-wringing and fidgeting came as he was told earlier this week about how Russia had lost territory to Kyiv troops and - at the time - more than two dozen settlements, a figure far higher now.
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As he was told the news, Putin was seen with a solemn expression on his face, fidgeting with a pen and absent-mindedly rubbing his wrists. He occasionally appeared to grimace as he was told the worst information.
Such non-verbal gestures are seen by experts as reflecting anxiety, stress, or indecision.
They may show the dictator is facing an internal conflict and a lack of confidence, or feels fear, or insecurity. He may be seeking to calm himself in an act of self-soothing.
Putin is more often seen strongly gripping a table with one hand, which could also be a reflection of tension and anxiety. As such, the hand-wringing is unusual for the Russian leader.
During the meeting Putin showed some strange facial movements, at several points appearing to bite his lip, appearing exasperated at what he was being told by his officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sadly I believe that many of the Russian people are so used to being told what to think and how to live that they prefer it this way, true freedom and democracy is a messy thing
You do know that there are Ukrainians that are actual nazis, right? Russians defeated the nazis. France on the other hand, surrendered to the nazis and practically welcomed them in. Until The Americans got there, facilitated by the Russians keeping the nazis occupied in Russia. So I think You should be thanking the Russians.
A UKRAINIAN nazi!
“You do know that there are Ukrainians that are actual nazis, right? Russians defeated the nazis. France on the other hand, surrendered to the nazis and practically welcomed them in. Until The Americans got there, facilitated by the Russians keeping the nazis occupied in Russia. So I think You should be thanking the Russians.”
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There are Nazi organizations in Russia, Europe and America as we speak - they all use the Swastika as a symbol.
These organizations don’t represent that many people though, they are not represented in any parliaments anywhere.
However, if we look at the Kremlin leadership today (while it’s not being officially Nazi nor using the Swastika symbol), its behavior seem to be following strict Nazi or Soviet history. Example... : In Russia, if a citizen admits there is a war going on, he will be sent to prison for 15 years, just for uttering a word!
Nazism is a socialist doctrine. Just like Communism is.
The methods Stalin and Hitler put in place were exactly the same.
Nazism and Communism = Socialism.
No wonder they signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, pact signed on August 23, 1939.
However... the strong egos of Hitler and Stalin made that pact implode soon thereafter... as we all know.
I will never thank Russia for its so called “help” in fighting Hitler.
Russia / Soviet Union NEVER helped to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation!
What they did is what Hitler did. They INVADED Europe, and forced its horrific commie-tyranny down the throats of half of Europe: They forced occupied Eastern Europe, running it like Russian land - all the way to 1991!
Russia INVADED Europe (the East side), they never helped liberating it.
America on the other hand, came in, and LIBERATED Western Europe!
America never ruled in Western Europe. Its a HUGE difference.
Yawn. Lazy gaslighting. You can just as easily do “Trump supporter = White Supremacist”. Conservatives use to be better than such intellectually impaired “thought”. Apparently, no more.
Nazism emerges in Russia, as Russian neo-Nazis fight in Ukraine:
“Neo-Nazis extremists take part in Russian military invasion of Ukraine : the Russian Imperial Legion, the Russian Imperial Movement and the Rusich.”
Bimboeruption... you stay silent on these facts. Why?
Not lazy gaslighting...FACTS.
But, as we all know, zeepers can't be bothered with FACTS.
BTW, the source for this article is "The Forward", formerly known as "The Jewish Daily Forward", an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience.
https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/
LOL. Cut and paste much? The “fact” is this is an armchair hobby for you. You don’t seem to understand that this is real life for Ukrainians and Russia’s other neighbors. It’s Putin’s bombs raining mass murder on their children today. It’s their relatives buried in Siberia. Murdered by Kremlin policy. They know their history and see it repeating today. But do sit in your comfy armchair thousands of miles away, cut and paste away and enjoy your hobby demeaning those who aren’t as lucky as you.
>>>>LOL. Cut and paste much? The “fact” is this is an armchair hobby for you. You don’t seem to understand that this is real life for Ukrainians and Russia’s other neighbors. It’s Putin’s bombs raining mass murder on their children today. It’s their relatives buried in Siberia. Murdered by Kremlin policy. They know their history and see it repeating today. But do sit in your comfy armchair thousands of miles away, cut and paste away and enjoy your hobby demeaning those who aren’t as lucky as you.<<<<
The reason I copied and pasted it is because I knew you zeepers are too lazy to click on a link.
I made it the easiest I possibly could for you all to read FACTS, but as usual, you’re not interested.
Yes, I’m sitting in a comfy chair just like you, but unlike you, I’m not pushing for a war I have no intention of fighting in or sending my kids to fight in.
When are you extracting your dupa out of your comfy armchair, hopping on a plane to Kiev, grabbing a rifle and heading to the front lines to fight for your globohomo god, Zelensky, and your beloved, corrupt, hellhole Ukraine?
Let me know.
I support President Trump and his policies. Good American job producing US energy supplying Europe instead of Russian and those jobs in Russia, strong sanctions on Russia, etc. Making Russia Great Again has never been a MAGA issue. If you don’t want to support President Trump on that it is ok, too.
Actually, I got out of my “lazy” armchair here in Florida and spent some time this summer in Europe. Spoke directly to people who have family members still buried thousands of miles from home, in Siberia, for the crime of “having too much land”. I’ve also been to Russia in the past few years. I’ve heard the delusions of grandeur and denial of historical realities directly from brain washed Russians. I’m quite confident I have a firm grasp of the issues at hand. You are out of your league here, champ.
Or maybe you are an American who has self deported to Russia, has gone native and is playing for the other team? That would explain the fantastical cut and paste gaslighting fairy tales that no honest and knowledgeable observer would postulate.
>>>>Or maybe you are an American who has self deported to Russia, has gone native and is playing for the other team? <<<<
Or maybe I’m an American who couldn’t care less about a civil war between slavic tribes. My only interest is the fact that unaccounted for US taxpayer dollars are being poured into that corrupt crap hole.
>>>>Actually, I got out of my “lazy” armchair here in Florida and spent some time this summer in Europe. I’ve also been to Russia in the past few years. I’ve heard the delusions of grandeur and denial of historical realities directly from brain washed Russians. I’m quite confident I have a firm grasp of the issues at hand. You are out of your league here, champ.<<<<
You were SO CLOSE to the UKE front lines and passed on the once in a lifetime opportunity to kick some “brainwashed Russian” butts? One would have thought that someone who hates Russia with your rabid passion would have jumped at the chance. I can’t believe a tough guy like you, would do that.
Tell me it ain’t so, champ.
“Actually, I got out of my “lazy” armchair here in Florida and spent some time this summer in Europe. Spoke directly to people who have family members still buried thousands of miles from home, in Siberia, for the crime of “having too much land”. I’ve also been to Russia in the past few years. I’ve heard the delusions of grandeur and denial of historical realities directly from brain washed Russians. I’m quite confident I have a firm grasp of the issues at hand. You are out of your league here, champ.
Thank you for Comment #152
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4259036/posts?page=152#152
Kursk Update:
Kursk: HIMARS Destroys a Pontoon, Russian Friendly Fire on Column in Korenevo, T-90M Captured
Suchomimus
273K subscribers
6-21-2024 8:00 a.m. EDT
Minutes 11:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGWN4GcPChU
You are fighting a battle of wits with an unarmed person sir.
Not worth it.
INTERESTING RUSSIAN NAZI INFO:
RUSSIAN NAZI VOLUNTEERS
https://newslanc.com/tsukerman-russian-nazi-volunteers-in-donbas/
State-run TV slams Russian neo-Nazis brainwashing Belarus teenagers in ‘Orthodox’ camps
https://naviny.belsat.eu/en/news/ant-raskrytykavau-pravaslaunyya-patryyatychnyya-letniki-yakiya-ruskiya-natsysty-ladzyats-u-belarusi/
About Those ‘Neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine...
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/about_those_neonazis_in_ukraine.html
VERY INTERESTING: Putin is running a “special military operation”, in his own words. He is freeing the people of Ukraine by death.
Putin ‘Plan of Action’ for the establishment of a control system over the economic and political processes in Ukraine
BANKING SYSTEM
1. Establishing control over the National Bank of Ukraine and suspending operations on money withdrawal, imposition of currency control.
2. Establishing external monitoring over commercial banks to prevent asset embezzlement and transfer of depositors’ funds abroad.
3. Safeguarding banks’ storage facilities in order to prevent looting cases.
4. Connecting banks to the Russian inter-bank data exchange, payments and settlements.
5. Introduction of 100 per cent repatriation and compulsory sale of foreign exchange earnings of exporters to the National Bank.
6. Termination of currency exchange operations (excluding payments for received import), freezing of all foreign currency deposits.
7. Introduction of bank holidays in order to prevent withdrawal of assets.
8. Introduction of a moratorium on: servicing and repayment of foreign loans, transfer of profits from enterprises and property income abroad, export of capital.
9. Introduction of external management in banks that stop servicing the population and issuing deposits.
10. Introduction of temporary moratorium on currency exchange operations, except for the current trading operations of legal entities.
TRANSPORT
1. Renewal of railway communication between Ukrainian cities and Russia.
2. Establishing control over air navigation and organize a Russian-Ukrainian airline for regular air traffic.
3. Port nationalization.
4. Ensuring smooth operation of railway transport.
ENERGY
1. Establish control over nuclear power plants, restore normal operation on Russian fuel elements.
2. Nationalization of electric grids and strategic electricity generation facilities: hydroelectric power stations, large thermal power stations.
3. Establishing control over the natural gas transmission system of Ukraine.
TRADE, LOGISTICS, INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE
1. Safeguarding large trading hubs / shopping centers, food bases, grain storages; nationalization of the latter.
2. Introduction of a temporary card system for the distribution of basic food supplies among the population in need, with the establishment of pools of interested producers.
3. Ensuring oil and fuel, fertilizers, seeds for the planting season.
4. Temporary freezing of prices on basic agricultural goods and food commodities.
SOCIAL SPHERE
1. Freezing tariffs on housing and communal services.
2. Ensuring the normal functioning of public transport.
3. Denazification of the education system:
– the removal and destruction of all educational literature distorting history, promoting Nazism and Russophobia;
– restoration of compulsory Russian language and literature classes in schools;
– organization of training courses for secondary-school and high-school teachers in humanitarian disciplines (those who refuse to do so are to be discharged);
– significant increase of the quotas for admission of Ukrainian applicants to Russian universities.
4. Granting the Russian language the status of the state language, along with Ukrainian.
5. Ensure the normal functioning of hospitals and polyclinics with the preservation of free medical care with guaranteed coverage of the deficit of funds at the expense of the state budget.
FOREIGN TRADE
1. Promoting Ukraine’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union:
– carrying out economic impact calculations;
– legal analysis;
– justification of Ukraine’s withdrawal from its Association with the EU (economic and legal findings on non-legitimacy);
– development of a road map for accession.
2. Lifting of mutual economic sanctions.
3. Re-establishment of free trade.
4. Resumption of co-operative relations.
5. Imposing a ban on the export of grain and other critical goods to ensure food security.
FISCAL SPHERE
1. Inclusion of a limited emission financing regime for the state budget deficit.
2. Revision of the state budget for 2022 with zeroing of expenditures on defense, state security, functioning of the Constitutional Court, Verkhovna Rada, functioning of the Foreign Ministry and diplomatic representations of Ukraine abroad.
3. Monitoring tax payments of structure-forming / important enterprises, excises and VAT; temporary exemption from taxation of enterprises which were destroyed or suspended their activities due to military actions.
POLITICAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT
1. Dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada, the Government, the Constitutional Court and possibly the Supreme Court as illegitimate bodies after the usurpation of power through an anti-constitutional coup d’état in 2014
2. Recognition of all legislative acts adopted after the coup d’état in 2014 invalid if they contradict the Constitution and the laws of Ukraine, which had been in force until February 21, 2014
3. Maintaining the legitimacy of local self-government bodies elected directly by the population. Transfer powers of regional state administrations to local self-government bodies, with the dissolution and liquidation of the former.
4. Delegation (by local self-government bodies) of people’s representatives to participate in the Constitutional Assembly to draft the new Constitution of Ukraine, with a national referendum afterwards.
5. Option. Hold referendums (organized by local self-government bodies) on the secession of respective regions from Ukraine. The creation of Federations of such areas with the participation of the LDPR.
PROPERTY RELATIONS
1. Seizure of assets of the persons accused and suspected of crimes.
2. Freezing of assets owned by U.S. and NATO residents, as well as offshore zones.
3. External supervision over structure-forming and strategically important enterprises, with the aim of controlling asset preservation and ensuring good management.
4. Introduction of external management on enterprises owned by persons whose assets have been seized or frozen or which have been left without director generals.
5. Introduction of external management on military industrial complex, nuclear power and industry, as well as metallurgical, chemical and other industries which pose a threat to the environment and the population.
TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION
Prior to the constitutional reform, the elections to the Verkhovna Rada and the formation of a legitimate government, provisional authorities should be established. It is proposed to retain local self-government bodies and district courts on the basis of existing ones. Transitional public authorities should be formed in the order as follows:
1. Within a week, hold an election to the local self-government bodies of the liberated towns / cities (the former national authorities that were formed after the 2014 coup are to be found non-legitimate) and elect representatives to the People’s Assembly, that will convene to form new national executive bodies and draft the new Constitution.
2. Form the People’s Self-Government Committee at the first meeting of the People’s Assembly, which will be entrusted to perform the functions of the Ukrainian government until the election of the Verkhovna Rada takes place.
3. The People’s Self-Government Committee (KNS) is to appoint the ministers (except for the ministers of security forces and the foreign minister, who are to be eliminated), heads of departments, the National Bank of Ukraine, directors of structure-forming, strategically significant and environmentally hazardous enterprises (that will have external management).
4.The KNS appoints the acting heads of regional administrations, whose functions will be limited to ensuring law and order as well as the operation of regional life support systems, fiscal and other republican bodies.
5. Police units and the support systems of towns / cities will be transferred to local self-government bodies.
6. In Donetsk and Odessa, people’s tribunals – that will review the committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, political repressions, acts of genocide on the territory of LDPR and Ukraine, respectively – will be launched. The members of the tribunals shall be appointed via a general public assembly; charges shall be passed on to courts located in the areas where the crimes had been committed.
7. The People’s Assembly will impose a moratorium – for any leadership positions and participation in elections – on persons who participated in the 2014 coup and then worked for state authorities and law enforcement agencies, as well as those who are accused or suspected of committing crimes.
8. The martial law, introduced by Zelensky, will be maintained until the election of a new Verkhovna Rada. Representatives of the Russian armed forces, stationed in the respective localities, are to monitor the observance of martial law.
9. At the request of the population of Ukraine’s liberated regions, referendums will be held on secession and the creation of sovereign people’s republics.
In the future, they can unite to form new state entities (Novorossiya, Malorossiya, Slobozhanshchina …) or rejoin Russia (the reserve option).
Similar to what they did to Germany in the early 1940s...go figure.
Why Ukraine must resist Putin invasion: it matters
The people of Ukraine deserve to live free. Russia desires to crush them, exterminate them and steal their country for its resources. In every way, Ukraine matters to the free world. That is why its independence is important to the rest of the free world. Every free country fights to defeat Putin’s Rashist army to keep Ukraine free.
For those who ask:
“Why does Ukraine matter to the world?“
Why does Putin want Ukraine for himself?
This is why Ukraine matters:
It is the second largest country by area in Europe and has a population
of over 40 million - more than Poland.
Ukraine ranks:
1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world’s reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
Ukraine is an important agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world’s volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
5th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
8th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
16th place in the world in cheese exports.
Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.
Ukraine is an important industrialized country:
1st in Europe in ammonia production;
Europe’s 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;
3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
3rd largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world’s largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
4th place in the world in clay exports
4th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).
ALSO
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March 11, 2022 10:37 AM EST [Updated 2 years ago]
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-ukraine-halts-half-worlds-neon-output-chips-clouding-outlook-2022-03-11/
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