Posted on 12/31/2022 6:00:01 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Megalomania induced by cancer drugs was a factor in Vladimir Putin's decision to launch his disastrous war in Ukraine, new Western intelligence analysis claims.
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The analysis comes as the Kremlin yesterday admitted that concerns over Putin's health are now a matter of 'state security' amid Covid mutations and emerging flu strains.
This means the Russian leader may retreat even further from public gaze in early 2023 after having cancelled a series of events and appearances in recent months.
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The Kremlin has paved the way for Putin to retreat for health-related reasons soon after his annual prerecorded New Year message to Russian citizens.
His spokesman Dmitry Peskov yesterday indicated there were now 'state security' concerns in Russia over Putin's medical condition.
'You see virus mutations, you see strong epidemiological waves of flu of various strains,' he said.
'All of this, given the lessons from the pandemic, obliges those responsible for the security of the president and for his health to take precautions, because in such conditions the health of the president is a matter of state security.'
Peskov said there would be no return anytime soon to Putin's modus operandi before the pandemic, when he regularly held public events and spoke with the media.
'To be honest, it is unlikely that [communication with journalists] will be quite the same as it used to be before the pandemic in the foreseeable future,' Peskov said.
'To expect things to return to what used to be would be a mistake. I would say - no it won't be [back to the same].
'But as these waves subside to their lowest points, then it would be possible to communicate in a freer mode.'
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Travis McGee forgot more than you will ever know.
Funnier is that Tucker is in a big panic right now since his private text messages from November and December 2020 trashing President Trump will be released in April in the Dominion trial. It will be funny to see how the Tucker Cucks react.
He’s hasn’t been this panicked since Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell appeared and Tucker and his wife’s emails and photos were found on it.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Putin launched Ukraine invasion while suffering with 'megalomania' brought on by cancer drugs, Western intelligence source claims - as Kremlin admits his health is 'a matter of state security', vladimir998 wrote: “He also saw 8 million or so Russian speakers about to be ‘cleansed’ in Ukraine...”
No, he didn’t. And you know he didn’t.
Angela Merkel recently admitted that the only reason Germany, France etc. participated in the MINSK agreements was to stall long enough to build an army to take on Putin, which they did. It's a proxy war many warned against for decades so there's no point in claiming this suddenly came about like a brain tumor. The Ukraine would not stop harming the Russian speakers and a few of our own FR Ukrainian trolls get kinda rabid when they talk about Russians like they are genetically inferior and must be exterminated. Beyond politics, some really believe the genetics must be wiped from the Earth.
I understand your thoughts on this, however Putin’s approval rating in Russia in the same survey before the “invasion” was around 60%. So your theory does not really hold up, although I am sure that Old Joe appreciates your efforts.
Putin’s approval has also gone up in other non-Western countries throughout the world over the past year.
The propaganda part of the war is winning in the West but not in other places. Why do you think that 80% of the world’s population is completely ignoring the “sanctions” and have lined Russia’s pockets with an additional $100 Billion in oil revenues alone as compared to last year. If they were buying into the same nonsense this wouldn’t be happening.
Unfortunately Putin’s popularity in Russia and other countries representing approximately 80% of the world’s population is real and playing mental gymnastics to enable yourself to believe otherwise is a fruitless pursuit. The situation in Ukraine has a long history and is far more complicated than the propogandists in the West are trying to portray and most of the world is not buying into it.
Strangely, Putin is actually a more popular figure in some other countries than he has been in Russia. In Vietnam his popularity continues to hover around 89%. Who knows why.
You really need to examine your vindictive obsessions with people you hate. It looks pretty sick.
Yes, it’s just embarrassing.
Tucker was a collaborator in The Steal.
Cold War is over Boomer.
It is. I had a front row seat.
However, Hillary needed a diversion for her private server scandal and crimes so she selected a country that opposed globalism and picked an easy villian. She targeted and triangulated “Putin”.
The left, in typical fashion, went into hysterics and the media elbowed each other to get at the front of the line. They continued the lies pretty effectively to weaken the Trump administration and impact the midterm elections giving us Pelosi.
Despite the fact that there was “no there there” to use their words, a sizeable portion of our nation still believes Trump is a Russian stooge. They effectively crippled the ability of the last administration to work with Russia and we will never know if that would have prevented what we now witness. I am pretty confident that this would not have occurred with Trump in office because “energy” certainly played a role in this as well.
Now we have a new “Cold War” with a corrupt nation that possesses the most nukes on Earth attacking one of the most corrupt nations on Earth that had become a playground for Western intel and “diplomatic” missions AND a proxy war by the globalist left against Russia.
If you “unwind” all of this, it is difficult to ignore the importance of the Russian collusion delusion in the conflict. It’s not a conspiracy. Go back and read the idiocy we saw every day in the media throughout the West about “Russia”. It gave the “deep state” in the West the new foe they wanted and justification for budgets.
Your use of “boomer” is spot on. The same people shaped by the “Cold War” transitioned seamlessly to the “War on Terror” and after that never fully materialized and the money pit in the sandbox dried up they needed another “purpose” and here we are..... Cold War II with a decaying Russian Federation that is but a mere shadow of the USSR.
Putin is just as flawed and corrupt on “the other side” (as is Zelensky), but never forget the role that many people in the West played (in our name) in this disaster, especially Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Because everyone gives a shit what Vietnam thinks about anything but Pho.
I don’t believe anything you say. Nor am I obsessed with these people the way you are.
I picture you in a dirty house, sitting unwashed at your computer, fueled by bad coffee and cigarettes, obsessively hunting pictures, videos and articles about Putin, Tucker Carlson and anybody else who criticizes Zelensky, then regurgitating whatever you find, no matter how sensational, onto sites like FR.
All day. Every day.
And that’s gross.
Tucker did it to himself. Pretty embarrassing for him that more people are watching Geraldo than Tucker on Fox these days.
Thank you for the post and analysis.
I find it amusing how your mind works. Do you think the Russian media was any more open before they invaded? Putin puts his political adversaries in their graves or he poisons them almost to death.
I am not sure why you brain cannot comprehend that a person can hold both Putin and Biden in contempt. Your logic is typically Slavic. Inflexible and fixated. And so wrong.
But keep quoting what some barely significant southeast Asian country thinks about Putin. I am curious what they think of him in Laos. It’s just as relevant. How about Surinam?
And I am hardly a huge supporter of Ukraine, other than feeling sorry that they have to endure having Russians in their country. This could end tomorrow with putting the tanks in reverse and going home.
As I said: Gross.
Your obsession is sick.
Valid points above. Few people understand that “Russia” has never been an ethnically “pure” country. There are many races and cultures that form “Russia”. There are over 30 common languages in “Russia” although almost everyone also speaks “Russian”. There are about 20 common languages in the Ukraine with about a 1/3rd of the nation speaking Russian as their primary language.
Both Russia and the Ukraine are complex nations with many “tribes”. They have always suffered from “ethnic tensions” that most in the West do not understand. Factor in “corruption” and “power politics” and there is and always has been a simmer of animosities beneath the surface (quote from Gorbachev I believe).
This is not a phenomenon unique to Vietnam, they were used only as an example. Despite Western media and big tech's 24/7 propaganda campaign the population in countries outside the West are not buying into it. This is quite amazing.
https://tfipost.com/2022/04/why-is-putin-a-cult-figure-in-india/
Your dismissive attitude toward countries which contain approximately 80% of the world's population is amusing but completely misses the point. And your oversimplification of a situation that had been brewing for decades is a little sad. I doubt that I could explain much of it to you in a way that would change your beliefs, but things are not as they seem.
None of this would have happened if the election in 2020 had not been allowed to be stollen
But, according to your sources, Putin has been either dead or has had blood, thyroid or stomach cancer since the spring and been taking miracle cancer drugs all while participating in five-hour press conferences, chairing meetings, visiting the frontlines in Bakhmat and dressing up as Santa in this video:
https://youtu.be/OLCMj0tSWxI
“I see you’re being attacked by the FR idiots and garbage humans over their fantasies of genociding ethnic Russians.”
In thinking about that a bit more, it reminds me of college. Back then my opponents supported the Soviet Union because they were Communist, and I supported the US because it wasn’t. Seems like they have changed, as they’re once again supporting the Communist side (the West, at this point).
“Your source is Wikipedia? What a joke.”
Wikipedia just posted the results of the studies by the groups mentioned. If you don’t like the numbers, bitch about it to those who conducted the studies.
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