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Putin’s absurd, angry spectacle will be a turning point in his long reign
The Guardian ^ | 21 Feb 2022 | Shaun Walker

Posted on 02/21/2022 3:32:30 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Sitting alone at a desk in a grand, columned Kremlin room, Vladimir Putin looked across an expanse of parquet floor at his security council and asked if anyone wished to express an alternative opinion.

He was met with silence.

A few hours later, the Russian president appeared on state television to give an angry, rambling lecture about Ukraine, a country that in Putin’s telling had become “a colony with a puppet regime”, and had no historical right to exist.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bushies4war; ccpbots; lezcheney4war; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; russianaggression; russiantrolls; shaunwalker; translation; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/21/2022 3:32:30 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If anything, you may start seeing some serious protest marches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the question is will Putin go “Full Trudeau” on them?


2 posted on 02/21/2022 3:34:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Absurd, angry. Biden more nearly fits the description.


3 posted on 02/21/2022 3:35:43 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Is there ANYTHING that Lefty Guardian twinkies like Shaun Walker don't know?

Pinhead.

4 posted on 02/21/2022 3:37:14 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Pukin was angry.

Invasion coming.

Kill the Russian Invaders!


5 posted on 02/21/2022 3:37:31 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

BREAKING VIDEO: Massive amount of Russia military equipment being deployed into Ukraine

https://rumble.com/vvikje-massive-amount-of-russia-military-equipment-being-deployed-in-ukraine.html


6 posted on 02/21/2022 3:37:59 PM PST by janetjanet998 (ev)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They always accuse their enemy of what they are doing.


7 posted on 02/21/2022 3:38:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: dfwgator

What are you expecting them to protest?


8 posted on 02/21/2022 3:38:24 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This article is what’s absurd.


9 posted on 02/21/2022 3:38:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Did Putin officially thank the Canadian Prime Minister for enabling Russian action?


10 posted on 02/21/2022 3:38:44 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Watching the speech tonight you have to wonder what Russia’s generals are thinking.

Something has broken in Putin and he has become unhinged. The most likely outcome now is that the Russian elite will have to escort him to a padded room somewhere.


11 posted on 02/21/2022 3:41:12 PM PST by Renfrew
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be interesting what the Russkies think when they see Biden go off on one of his old man rages, which is often.


12 posted on 02/21/2022 3:45:40 PM PST by Tipllub
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To: Renfrew
Something has broken in Putin and he has become unhinged. The most likely outcome now is that the Russian elite will have to escort him to a padded room somewhere.

If the elite didn't do it to Stalin, who most certainly was "unhinged", why would they do it now to Putin?

;>)

13 posted on 02/21/2022 3:46:30 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I think not. Putin is a well educated. He is meticulous. He is seen by his people as not being corrupt. His rise in the KGB occurred at a time when corruption was rampant. He has not enriched himself through government. He is a nationalist. He is not PC. He is not woke. Putin is eff'n smart and a strategist. If I were a Russian, I would love him.

This is not a negative turning point for Putin. Quite the contrary. Putin will be more popular than ever and have a better world standing than say, the illegitimate resident Biden or Trudeau or Macron or Scholz end even mask and shutdown vacillating Boris Johnson.

14 posted on 02/21/2022 3:47:42 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
...appeared on state television to give an angry, rambling lecture about Ukraine, a country that in Putin’s telling had become “a colony with a puppet regime”, and had no historical right to exist.
The left said the same thing about Kuwait when their hero Saddam invaded, and have said, are saying, and will continue to say the same about Israel, and for that matter, the United States of America.

15 posted on 02/21/2022 3:50:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Says the libtard worshipping Guardian of corruption 🤪


16 posted on 02/21/2022 3:51:03 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY seems to understand the absolute unmitigated damage that has been done to the relations between Russia and the West/America after 5 solid years of trying to depose Trump with RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

Well, I think about a billion people are going to see the LIGHT real soon.


17 posted on 02/21/2022 3:56:24 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for Righteousness...)
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To: dfwgator

Beat me to that one. Putin is jealous.


18 posted on 02/21/2022 3:57:21 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Where do you get, he hasn’t enriched himself through corruption?

Evidence available seems to say he did!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-27/putin-s-wealth-may-be-unreachable-but-russia-s-isn-t

https://foreignpolicyi.org/vladimir-putins-net-worth/

https://money.com/vladimir-putin-net-worth/

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-reveal-hidden-wealth-vladimir-putin-inner-circle

and there are other links.

Salary is supposedly $131k in US dollars.


19 posted on 02/21/2022 3:57:57 PM PST by Reily
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Any you believe those bought and paid for Commie publications. The important thing is Russians do not think so.


20 posted on 02/21/2022 4:00:06 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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