Posted on 03/01/2015 11:54:08 PM PST by elhombrelibre
Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia with three things: money, propaganda and terror. When the Russian economy was booming and the oil price was over $100 a barrel, Putin ruled Russia almost entirely with money – throwing cash at the elites and at the people – with a small dose of propaganda and a tiny injection here and there of terror. Now the money is running out, the equation has shifted. Today, Russia is ruled mostly through propaganda and terror.
Boris Nemtsov took not a step nor a breath that wasn't under the intense surveillance of the FSB. Just like all opposition leaders in Russia. Nothing Boris Nemtsov did was not bugged, tailed, filmed or monitored by the secret police. It is quite simply impossible that this man could have been shot dead without the Kremlin knowing there was a plot afoot to kill him.
This means the murder of Boris Nemtsov was either ordered or allowed to happen: which come to exactly the same thing. That he could be killed like this has shaken the oligarchs and the officers of the Russian elite to their core.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I can’t think of a rational reason for Putin to have done this or been involved in it in any way. Smells like some sort of a false flag op.
I mean, it isn’t like the guy wasn’t capable of something like that if there WAS a reason for it, there just doesn’t seem to be.
A politician with 85% popular support doesn’t need to murder political opponents...
Glad I don’t live in Russia.
So this ex-KGB colonel and ex head of the FSB, which replaced the KGB, and now president for life, is just a typical politician worrying, about losing the next election?
“Nothing Boris Nemtsov did was not bugged, tailed, filmed or monitored by the secret police. It is quite simply impossible that this man could have been shot dead without the Kremlin knowing there was a plot afoot to kill him.”
Whatever the facts here, that leap is simply not logical. That if the victim was under constant surveillance, that any plot to kill him would have been known. Presidents are watched universally, but it does not mean they know about the Squeaky Fromme, The Hinkley, or the Oswald.
It simply does not logically follow that watching him 24/7, means any polt would be revealed. Also, the article states that, but does not even attempt to prove why they think that is the case.
“I don’t believe the FSB would both have this critic under surveillance at all times, yet not see or stop the murder.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, rises to a point of order,,,
As I’ve read it, the guy has 85% appropval and of the 15% who don’t approve, 13% disapprove because they don’t think the guy is being hard-line ENOUGH with the West and something like 2% disapprove because they believe anything coming from the West. The last guy who ever had numbers like that was Jesus and no politician would do anything which had any chance at all of jeopardizing anything like that or rocking whatever boat was involved. You have to be looking at something the wrong way.
With 85% popularity, there should be free elections too.
Zero opportunity for a gain for Putin on this one. I think it’s more likely that one of his hundred-odd supporters (the ultra rich/Russian mafia class) set this up and wants a chance of government...pushing Putin out. Execution style situation....not a minor-league deal or some thug-robbery episode.
Last guy with numbers like that? Ever hear of Saddam or Gaddafi. They had high numbers too. I think the annexation of Crimea is largely thought of being the reason for the rise in popularity, it isn’t a lack of inflation.
Your theory is the best one I’ve heard yet.
Obama is envious. Putin doesn’t have to contend with armed peasants.
Obama taking notes...
Isn’t it odd, then, that so many of his opponents end up murdered? You do know that most of these types want 100% approval, right?
The FBI bugged Dr. King. I’m not sure - having never seen or read anything alleging that - that the FBI ever had the type of surveillance of Dr. King that is routine for the critics of Putin.
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