Posted on 05/14/2024 10:23:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted Nikolai Patrushev, a Cold War warrior who crafted the Kremlin's national security strategy, to a job overseeing the shipbuilding industry while raising two younger lieutenants to senior Kremlin jobs.
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Patrushev, a former KGB officer from St Petersburg where Putin was born, was moved from the heart of the modern-day politburo, where he had worked for 16 years as secretary of the Security Council, to oversee shipbuilding as a Kremlin aide.
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Patrushev Senior was heavily demoted," a senior Russian source told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of such public remarks.
Although Putin, in good health, is embarking on a new six-year term and is expected to rule for years to come his reshuffles are closely scrutinised by Kremlin watchers to try to discern if he is lining up potential candidates to succeed him.
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Shipbuilding, though, is certainly a demotion for one of the Kremlin's most powerful Cold War stalwarts, a former spy who sees the United States as a declining driver of catastrophic revolution intent on destroying Russia.
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The corpse of The Putin, who has got his own Lenin display case now, where you can see his leg shaking.
Stronk as bull!
What Kharkov minefields doink?
Tell your zElenskyy to give the money for the minefields back.
They’ve got enough on hand to do great damage to other fleets, so you’re point is weak.
I overhead a hardcore Leftist discussing Russia-Ukraine and his arguments sounded just like the pro-war people here, including you. Are you a Lefty?
The Breaking Point | Luk'yantsi Successfully Captured By The Russians! Ukrainians Retreat Non Stop!
Well... If I’m ‘pro-war’ I could hardly be a lefty.
Sometimes war is unavoidable... Because when maniacal leaders like Putin, who is completely pro-war, pro-communist nostalgic and an admire of Stalin, Hitler and Napoleon start wars that are supposed to last a month or two, and they turn into a quagmire... You have no choice but to fight back and kick their ass back to kingdom come. Vlad’s days are numbered and have been since he started this narcissistic escapade. He’s running out of people to blame and his former friends are turning against him... Time will tell.
If Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II were still alive and ruling the world, he would’ve been too wimped out to fight just like the Commie leaders before him were... But sadly, Obama, Trump and Biden have been his adversaries and none of them could hold Pope John Paul II’s jockstrap.
Kharkiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniform!
And now people like you are pushing for more funding and sending more young men to the slaughter in a totally lost cause. It’s over. Ukraine and NATO lost. And Russia became stronger by sanctions backfiring, etc.
Russia has a ship building industry? Their navy is practically non-existent....
https://www.defencestreet.com/most-powerful-navies-in-the-world/
The 10 Most Powerful Navies in the World 2024
Defense Street
By admin - January 1, 2024
#1. United States Navy
#2. People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
#3. Russian Navy
#4. Royal Navy, United Kingdom
#5. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)
#6. French Navy
#7. Indian Navy
#8. Republic of Korea Navy
#9. Italian Navy
#10. Taiwanese Navy
The Indian Navy and Japanese Navy both completely outclass the British navy in everything except SSBN. But other than the British boomer firing try that ICBMs. Their standard Navy is complete crap.
The gift that keeps on giving. 😂🤣
👆 😴🥱
Putin in good health again is good news.
He is one tough cookie to beat all those cancers.👍
Any updates on the egg crisis??🍳
#1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 are allies... Add them together and #2 and 3 together would be annihilated.
And here comes another Canadian 🐷 urging Americans to go to war
The whole lot of Zeepers are clowns with a major disconnect with reality.
“Putin is trying to keep this from becoming a wider general war.”
putin is eager for a wider war. War helps him, he thinks. A dictator is needed in times of war...
“putin is eager for a wider war. “
Really?
What other nations has he attacked?
They just make stuff up, throw it on the wall and hope something sticks.
I know.
If Putin truly wanted to expand the war, it would have already happened.
Something they conveniently forget or ignore.
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