Posted on 02/26/2022 5:03:02 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Russian President Vladimir Putin is “furious” that his invasion of Ukraine hasn’t been “easy” after Russian troops have been unable to take even one major city in three days of fighting, according to a member of the European Union Parliament who said he was citing Ukrainian intelligence reports.
“Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days,” tweeted Riho Terras, who is also the former defense chief of NATO member Estonia, said in a lengthy thread on Twitter.
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After JFK, they've all sucked. Bill Clinton had some economic sense but he had a Republican Congress to work so to survive politically, he went with the program. He was not an ideologue, that was good. But his foreign policy was not good. We should have stayed out in the Balkans. The long term effect was to aggravate Russia and we didn't have to do that. Don't poke the bear when he was wounded!
Reagan advocated a Marshall Plan for Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed.
That would have been perfect. Potentially, Russia may have turned out more like Poland today. What if.....
A brilliant man talked about plans for the Soviet Union even before it fell, sadly he died not long after it fell
Frank Zappa on the Soviet Union 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCUVHEKpjQ
The well informed Ukrainian I spent a couple hours with yesterday said exactly this. That Putin was threatened by Ukraine become part of NATO and getting nukes, with their western paid and propped corrupt govt. He chose invading now to prevent the nukes no matter what the current cost over the cost of having to do it after the nukes.
Why didn’t the west play chess with this thing and realize of course Putin would attack???? Why are we blaming him when it was our “oligarchs” of the west ignoring this inevitability and playing with fire? It’s like we climbed into a lion’s den and are shocked the lion attacked.
Marco Rubio just now on twitter:
#Russian military leaders should think very carefully before following the orders they recently received
#Putin is 2 years shy of the life expectancy of a Russian male and you will spend the rest of your lives evading an international tribunal for committing his crimes
10:32 PM · Feb 26, 2022·Twitter for iPad
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I gotta think he is talking about thermobaric weapons against Kharkiv, probably Kyiv too.
I think Putin really thought that the Ukrainian troops assigned to Kharkiv would just immediately collapse because of the huge force he had assembled at Belgorod and brought against them, and that then Kharkiv would welcome him as a liberator.
Then once Kharkiv opens its arms to Putin, he probably thought all the Eastern Ukrainian cities (which Yanukyvich won in elections) would then follow suit.
Is Yanukyvich still alive in his Russian exile? Maybe he is the one who filled Putin’s head with this long-obsolete nonsense.
With this horrible attack on a people with whom many Russians (including Russians in the army) have personal family and other ties, there must be a river of intel coming in to Ukraine, Poland, the UK, the US and other sources about what orders have been given and what is going on within the Russian forces.
Marco needs to STFU, this crap isn’t helping.
This is nonsense. A meaningless report by someone that either knows nothing and is just making it up or dutifully reporting cia talking point propaganda.
Putin didn’t want nukes on his border. That was in the works with nato and the globalists (incl Americans) propping up the corrupt govt. This could easily have been predicted by those who know the political situation there. What did the globalists think would happen?
or perhaps they have been ordered to carry out a massive false flag attack against civilians by “Ukrainian” forces in order to shore up public opinion within Russia about the war
So much propaganda. How easily the entire world believes the wrong things. Pandemic, now this.
Thanks, and I’m trying to imaging what NEO-NAZIs in the
Ukraine had to do with the safety of Russia.
If he didn’t like something like that, mention it at an
international level, and let folks bounce the thoughts of
each other until it all could shake out.
You don’t amass 150,000 troops without so much as a whimper
before hand, then invade.
Why would Kiev need to be occupied to fix a problem that
could have been address by the leaders of both nations?
He seems quite intelligent and thoughtful.
Interesting video. Seems like a blown opportunity there, in retrospect.
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“Russian President Vladimir Putin is “furious” that his invasion of Ukraine hasn’t been “easy” after Russian troops have been unable to take even one major city in three days of fighting, according to a member of the European Union Parliament who said he was citing Ukrainian intelligence reports.”
Hilarious.
It took the US over 3 weeks to take Baghdad, after bombing Iraq for 40 days. And that was a bigger Army in a smaller country.
Yet there are dozens above who believe Russia is bogged down...and Putin furious...because they have not put this away in THREE DAYS lol
There is only one nation responsible for the shortcomings of Russia since the fall of the USSR, and that nation is Russia.
They could have easily integrated into the west. Doors were open for them, they joined the G-8, they could have integrated economically. But they chose this path of half-communism based on gangsters instead of ideologues.
Some of the Russian people saw this but were unable to stop the forces that eventually consolidated around strongman Putin and whatever slim hope there was for the west to welcome Russia into the fold has now evaporated completely.
Ukraine wanted to be the new Russia and that must have made Putin very angry, given that Russians have always looked down on Ukrainians (calling them little Russians). Ukraine was moving forward while Russia stagnated. Putin tried to disguise this with big shows like Olympic games and World Cup of football, but it didn’t really work.
And now he has lashed out to try to destroy the forward path of Ukraine and force them to plod along with Russia and the other lame duck, Belarus. Even Kazakhstan has probably done better since the fall of the USSR.
My fear is that Putin will get so angry and humiliated in this fiasco that he will lash out at other targets and perhaps seek to plunge the whole world into crisis. He needs to be taken out by the Russian military as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a huge global crisis and possibly a terrible war. We would technically win that war, but at a greater cost than the Second World War. Nobody needs that, least of all the Russian people (who must be generally scared to death now because I’m sure they realize that as far as superpowers invading Russia, they may not be third time lucky, they beat back Napoleon and Hitler, barely, but NATO? I don’t think so.)
Why would Kiev need to be occupied to fix a problem that
could have been address by the leaders of both nations?
The invasion was 2 fold. Neo NAZIs are running a huge criminal enterprise within Ukraine. Russia knows all too well what happens when you just leave NAZI’s alone and don’t confront them. As bad as WWII was for the US, 400k dead, Russia paid the highest cost with 16 million deaths. The other thing is that Ukraine was littered with bio-weapons labs. One of the first objectives was to secure Chernobyl. Why? Not one of the major land grabs one would try to capture first. Kiev would be my choice to focus on. My thought was that they wanted to make sure neo NAZIs weren’t going to make the worlds biggest disaster into a bigger one to endanger both Russia and Ukraine. Putin under-estimated the forces he was up against. Amazing how history repeats itself. I personally think it was a deep state cleanup operation.
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