Posted on 02/13/2022 5:23:08 AM PST by dennisw
Putin 'doesn't give a s**t about sanctions' and 'the more the West pushes him, the stronger his response will be', Russian ambassador to Sweden says as US staff begin withdrawing from eastern Ukraine amid warning of 'imminent' invasion Viktor Tatarintsev said 'the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian response will be'
He claimed Russia had become more 'self-sufficient' amid the threat of sanctions and had increased exports
Dramatic photos today showed U.S. staff members of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) packing up and leaving the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine Were fleeing as Britain's Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said Russian invasion could be 'imminent'
Vladimir Putin 'doesn't give a s**t' about the risk of Western sanctions if his country were to invade Ukraine, Russia's ambassador to Sweden said as US staff began withdrawing from eastern Ukraine amid warnings of an 'imminent' invasion.
In an outspoken interview, Viktor Tatarintsev told the country's Aftonbladet newspaper that 'the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian response will be'.
He claimed Russia had become more 'self-sufficient' amid the threat of sanctions and accused the West of not understanding his country.
'We are more self-sufficient and have been able to increase our exports. We have no Italian or Swiss cheeses, but we've learned to make just as good Russian cheeses using Italian and Swiss recipes', he said.
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His comments came as dramatic photos today showed U.S. staff members of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) packing up and leaving the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
They were fleeing as Britain’s Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said a Russian invasion could be ‘imminent’.
He told Sky’s Trevor Phillips On Sunday: ‘We have to be realistic about Russia having 100,000 troops now roughly on the border that an imminent incursion by Russia is entirely possible.’
He was echoing warnings by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who said last night that millions of refugees could flee Ukraine if an invasion takes place and warned Vladimir Putin could strike ‘at any time’.
Speaking in an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Wallace added that there is a ‘whiff of Munich in the air’ - an apparent reference to the 1938 agreement that allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland in the hope that it would prevent the outbreak of war.
..... I don’t think he was talking about “cheese” either.
“Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t give a s**t’ about the risk of Western sanctions if his country were to invade Ukraine”
The Russian people will pay the price. These are not sanctions. They are next level economic restrictions, involving the use of western banking.
Putin doesn’t give a shit, because he doesn’t give a s**t about the Russian people.
This is what Russian Collusion looks like, folks.
They are rolling out the Red carpet into Ukraine.
So, why is the eastern and Russian region of Ukraine Ukraine and not Russia?
It would seem that Putin’s objective is to reclaim that which is essentially Russian.
My thought is that he will succeed and there will be some diplomatic falderal and nothing will actually come of it. Putin will achieve his objective.
The second phase of a Russian Ukraine controlled government is a different story. Since there is no effective government or governments in Europe with the means or will to resist, Putin may succeed there as well.
Then, so what?
Through hard work and dedication, Putin has maneuvered Russia from an underdog 20 years ago to a position of strength today. Meanwhile, the west has slid all the more down the rabbit hole of post-modernism and National Socialism to a position of complete weakness.
Simple summary of phone call between President Biden and President Putin.
Biden: “You’ll be sorry if you invade Ukraine. We’ll unleash all of our sanctions on you.”
Putin: “Is that all you’ve got? Go ahead because I’ll have Ukraine.”
It took them an hour.
Bad Vlad is very bold and pushy these days due to oil being at $90 per barrel and Natural gas rising as much. So he has the money for hypersonic missiles and billions in reserve to mass Russian troops for months on the Ukraine border. Other mischief too. Hence his name - Bad Boy Vlad.
Who wants to recreate the old Slavic oriented USSR, minus the Muslim states in the south. Like Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Who needs the headache! That the sons of Allah bring.
He sees the Western European leaders as a rotating cast of silly-arse pushovers. Who revile Putin for many reasons, including his anti-gay policies. The personnel in our pathetic State Department are 40% on up gay and lesbian. Flying the rainbow flag in our embassies to third world nations and lots more. Same for the Brits. They are playing with fire here
ADVANTAGE — Vlad!
‘the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian response will be’.
That’s exactly why this illegal administration is doing the pushing. The commie left has been angling for war with Russia since 2015. Only God knows why.
The “West”, led by the Biden regime, is more evil and corrupt than Russia. They talk about the “West” as the “free” world. It’s not. The citizens of the USA are being occupied by an evil, illegitimate Quisling.
The filthy putrid Biden regime is making Putin look good.
All true and the current high oil/nat gas prices allow Vlad to carry out the policies he has been been dreaming about. Mainly reuniting the old USSR, but this time around, excluding the Muslim states of the old USSR. Smart!
Putin wants a redo, but a modernized pan-Slavic version of the old USSR.
Not when Russia can still get access to western banks through China and Iran. If Rissia attacks, sanctions need to be brought against China, Iran, North Korea, and the entire CSTO, including a blockade. Same goes for any Chinese incursion onto Taiwan or bad actions by Kim Jung Un.
I could be proven 100% wrong, but I don’t think Putin has any intention of invading Ukraine, I believe his plan all along was to threaten an invasion to squeeze Ukraine and to cause division within NATO, which he has done.
Biden OTOH is acting like he’s standing up to Putin and when/if Putin backs off, the media and Democrats will hail Biden a strong POTUS by forcing Putin to back off and contrast that with Trump who they have claimed was a Russian Puppet.
Russia has offered 300,000 refugee spots for American Orthodox Christian
“Putin doesn’t care because he is worth 70-200 billion and lives in a billion dollar mansion.”
His defense minster looks very rough and tough. He has a 10 million dollar mansion that was featured in the UK Daily Mail. Putin and Shoigu get their billions (Putin) and millions (Shoigu) via skimming from Russias oil and gas companies. My educated guess. You are in oil/gas in Russia? You must pay Putin his 1% skim.
“Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu” —— Go see his images at google, Bing, DuckDuckGo.
Biden's stupid bluffing amounts to Obama's stupid "red line in the sand" bluff.
Half the people in America--and this includes all Democrats, leftists, and their lackeys--are so stupid they cannot see how they are being manipulated when the truth is slapping them in the face.
Everyone in the world (except the half of Americans who are too stupid) knows that Biden is a figurehead--cannot think for himself--and is the puppet of a cabal of extremely dangerous people who intend to destroy the USA.
Corrupt politicians and their lackeys support this cabal and its objective--the destruction of America--expecting that they will profit from it.
Stupid Americans support these corrupt politicians, serving as a Fifth Column--too stupid to comprehend what's going on and the heavy price they will ultimately pay for their stupidity.
Foreign leaders and people in foreign lands comprehend this all too well--though the stupid Americans are willfully blind to it. They watch aghast as the once indestructible USA crumbles under the corrosion of the stupidity of its own citizens.
Even America's adversaries recoil in dread at the specter of an unstable, disintegrating USA; its moral compass lost; plagued with crime, drugs, sexual promiscuity; invaded across open borders; parasitized by corrupt politicians and their henchpersons; its once powerful military corrupted by stupid and corrupt leaders, its fighting men replaced by clowns, its stated objective not national defense but the dangerous nonsense of diversity and inclusiveness--all to empower the corrupt Fifth Column parasitizing the American People--and half of whose citizenry is too stupid, too trusting in corrupt politicians, too morally corrupt, too brainwashed, and too brain-dead to see what's going on when it is right before their eyes.
It nauseates me to listen to some that talk like America can just win every battle with the bad guys. Hell, we haven’t won a war against a powerful well equipped opponent in years.
Right now on display is a US military run by perverts and buffoons. We have fighter jets crashing all over the place. Warships and subs running into things.
A CIC that is a cognitive disaster with a cabinet of trannies and sexual deviants with whips.
Noe sane American except those in Congress want that Ship Of Fools getting us involved in anything nor do we trust any negotiations made by total idiots.
You could be right about that!
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