Posted on 02/24/2022 8:37:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Authorities in Russia are acting quickly to breakup widespread protests against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Thousands of protesters have been seen in Moscow following Russia’s offensive against Ukraine, with smaller protests springing up in other cities across the country. Russian state media warned citizens that those who participate in unsanctioned protests will be “arrested and brought to responsibility.”
About 1,000 people at this anti war protest right now. These are taking away protesters indiscriminately. I was briefly detained even though I was saying repeatedly I’m a journalist. pic.twitter.com/C8ZdMLDWON
— Nataliya Vasilyeva (@Nat_Vasilyeva) February 24, 2022
The vibe in Moscow pic.twitter.com/2uuiNjfjfI
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 24, 2022
A large crowd was recorded on video gathering in Pushkin Square in Moscow, not far from the Kremlin, in an anti-war demonstration. Demonstrators were reportedly being indiscriminately detained, with some journalists also detained by law enforcement. A large crowd in St. Petersburg also gathered before law enforcement ordered them to disperse. (RELATED: Former Boxing Superstar Vitali Klitschko Says He Will Take Up Arms To Fight Against Russia)
Pushkin Square, maybe less than 1000 meters from Red Square and the Kremlin, is the cite of a significant protest. These people know the risks of challenging the regime. They’re on the street in-spite of major personal costs. pic.twitter.com/bYEfbO91xG
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) February 24, 2022
Anti-war solo pickets like this are popping up in cities across Russia. It’s not much but they’re arrested almost immediately, often upon leaving their homes when the cops know to expect them. Here’s Sofya Rusova, co-chair of Russia’s Trade Union of Journalists. pic.twitter.com/5NVqdGyhFy
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) February 24, 2022
❗️St. #Petersburg now pic.twitter.com/ppYjyPWVhe
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 24, 2022
“Arrest Putin, Not Me” – A protester in Russia said during arrest.pic.twitter.com/JSlxNchUCd
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 24, 2022
According to protest monitor OVD-Info, nearly 2,000 people have been detained across 52 cities by Russian police. One protester being detained was seen on video saying “arrest Putin, not me.”
Russian popular sentiment appears to match that of Ukraine and the United States. An AP-NORC survey released Wednesday found that only 26% of Americans think the U.S. should play a “major role” in the conflict.
“ Sounds like the USA.
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Like the FBI 🤫
Ditto for Belarus and Lukashenko.
Russia is an authoritarian country. As long as it does not get out of hand, it's nothing Putin can't handle. Sure. The Russian population might get pissed off. But that'll be about it. You'll have to get the Army and the FSB to turn on Putin and that won't happen.
Still a lot of dead people. Too many.
If Putin feels that he is no longer theatened by deterence, you bet he will take the Baltics.
“I suppose next you’ll be giving them Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia?”
Theirs for the taking.
NATO will not put up a fight. And that is because the US has no essential interests in any of the Baltic countries.
The American people will not support existential war over countries they can’t spell, pronounce or find on a map. And it would require the support of the vast majority of the American people to go to war with Russia.
The same applies for Romania and Bulgaria.
Never its own?
I see you agree with Biden on this one, at least the 2001 Biden that still lurks underneath the dying edifice. Make USSR revanchism great again?
They took it back today.
And nobody will take it from them.
So it’s theirs. And will remain so.
And what is it Biden agrees with me on?
Yep.....war does that....sadly too is those in the break away areas believe what they’re doing is fighting for their survival as do Ukrainians. Sad state of affairs.
What happened last time there was war in Europe . . . ? Oh yes.
We were warned about not learning from history from people like Churchill. What’s going on right now is the result of a new Molotov-Ribbentrop that was essentially sealed with Gerhard Schröder becoming head of Rosneft, and things getting stickier under Obama . . .
It’s the other way around.
Hope not! My brother-in-law works in one of those buildings.
Well, just yesterday a henchman ordered his people to kill
a number of innocent people in a foreign nation.
They’re dead now, and they won’t be alive again.
Your comments are absurd. His actions are not justified.
Brute force does not make anyone right, including Vladimir
Putin.
The Ukraine broke away from Russia when the iron curtain
fell. By now 30 years later, it is a fait accompli.
Putin is a rogue, and his actions are illegal on the
international stage.
For Russian standards, it is big, considering it is a guaranteed way to get yourself placed in jail, put on a list, and possibly disappeared in the future. That's 1,000 people willing to throw their lives away.
You've really gone off the deep end.
Thanks. I doubt very seriously anything like that will
happen. Best wishes for your family member.
Thank you for pointing out the historical obvious fact that it seems most do not understand. The CIA installed our stooge to replace a Russian stooge and Ukraine turned into a money laundering machine for the neo-marxist Demorats (as well as plenty of dirty GOPers as well).
Putin knew as soon as China let him know they would be installing a puppet as US POTUS that now was the time to plan for his legacy. He, like China knew they could do what they want without much repercussion from a weak US. He wants a Christian nation (Russia is 14% muslim at this point and growing). He wants to be remembered as the leader who fixed the Minsk agreement. He clearly doesn’t give a SH8T about world opinion.
I don’t see Putin going further than taking back Ukraine. He knows the money he will lose from sanctions he will make back in the gold, oil and mineral reserves from Ukraine - not to mention he controls the oil to Europe and a lot to the US. He holds all the cards in this situation.
Taiwan is next, that we can be sure of.
China owns Biden and we can probably assume blackmail via Hunter’s laptop falling into Russian hands helped a bit with this.
Biden is sitting right now in his dirty diaper wondering if the big guy still gets his 10%.
Are you talking about the break away areas of the Ukraine?
Can you tell me why they think they are fighting for their
survival?
Who was going to kill them?
You must have been listening to Levin today or Levin was reading you. He was ridiculing people who say "I can't even spell Czechoslovakia, what is our interest there!?" as you are now.
Levin made the point that the isolationists in America during WW2 were making the same arguments as you were until the Japanese hit us. IOW, you are hopelessly clueless about what would happen if we let Russia reconstitute itself into the USSR. It can and WILL lead to aggression against the USA, even if we sat by and just did nothing.
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