Posted on 03/01/2022 6:13:55 AM PST by lward99
First, I don’t view Russian President Vladimir Putin as a hero or victim, but as a pawn. Western intelligence agencies puppeteered Putin into invading Ukraine.
So, how did KGB Putin get outplayed by the West?
Sure, Putin once lived and breathed spy vs. spy, but he has been a politician in charge of a world power for the last 20 years. Politics attracts ass kissers, inflates one’s self worth, and gets people believing the caricature the world sees them as.
For Putin, it’s the strongman.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldtribune.com ...
It’s not my blog. World Tribune has been around since the early 2000’s. Buy a clue.
Reassemble Imperial Russia (1914 borders) not the USSR!
Get out of the Cold War schtick, an aggressive Imperial Russia can be a problem too.
Guessing you just read the excerpt. Reading is fundemental.
God willing, the war will end quickly somehow.
But do you think that a Russia that has spent 20 years under Putin, and remembers Yeltsin before him, is really ready to submit to the Western world order? This is what is at stake by having a NATO member bordering the heart of Russia. Will the Russian nation go quietly into the night, or would a coup be the start of an even bloodier Russian civil war between globalist and nationalist factions?
And that’s not even from Humblegunner.
Truly, many of that perceive themselves as “in charge” have more self interest than home country interests, and play on their countrymen to join along.
There are no Good Guys in this conflict. We are being drawn in because of the big money interests at the top.
LOL. The media makes people’s brains melt nowadays.
The Ukrainian military has between third to a half of all manpower locked in a pincer between Donetsk and Mariupol without a slight chance of relief.
In Kiev they released violent criminals from prisons and gave away 18,000 guns without IDs to absolute strangers, who are currently engaged in robberies, but....Russia is losing because it didn’t win in four days!
While Russian boys are dying on Ukrainian land, Little Pukin is hiding in a bunker from the big bad Covid.
Imagine you are in a big city and are concealed carrying. A big man walks towards you, pulls out a knife that is moved towards your throat.
Putin’s Russian Federation has NATO knife moving towards its vital parts.
Putin’s request that NATO knife not be moved closer was refused.
Who is President today? Do you think Biden had 80 million enthusiastic supporters? Who do you think pulled that off?
I didnt say Russia were going to lose, just that Russia was ill-prepared.
The smaller country who’s the target of aggression, will take all necessary steps to defend itself.
Putin is the aggressor here… in time, he’ll be held to account, regardless how enthusiastic his supporters are.
According to the legend, the war is taking place since 2014, except it was Ukraine killing civilians, while claiming the Russian invasion. Now, it finally takes place and everybody is furious. How queer is it? I am sure that about 80% of the Ukrainian population is indifferent.
Not sure where you’re coming up with that 80%.
First off, there were no definitive moves to include Ukraine in NATO.
Second, Russian paranoia is not justification for invading and annexing a neighboring country.
The Russian objectives for the operation aren’t secret. They are almost a match of 2019 Zelensky’s election promises which made him elected by 73%.
“Assassinate Putin, today.
He’s a mass murdering madman.”
That you, Klaus?
He thought the West was decadent and divided. Now with China dumping him, he’s all alone, his personal credit cut off, banks on the verve of insolvency, and a war with Ukraine that he started that will not have much value after he’s destroyed it.
Yes he is. He’s violated international law, invaded a sovereign country, and killing civilians.
I must disagree with Larry Ward’s analysis.
It is simply too complicated & convoluted.
People never act & react as most plans expect them to.
All my adult life, I have read & heard;
“At the first gunshot, the beast plan goes out the window and a new one must be formulated”
I think he was played by the CCP, not Western Intelligence, but he’s also been hamfisted and has gotten embarrassing for the Chinese. I also think he’s gone native to some extent with the places that he has meddling in, in the Middle East and Africa, making him all enamoured with headgames and not so much with being an actual administrator.
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