Posted on 02/27/2022 11:00:41 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
FURIOUS Russians have turned on Vladimir Putin with mass protests taking place across St Petersburg.
According to Moscow based news outlet Novaya Gazeta, several thousands of people attended the anti-war protest, which took place near Gostiny Dvor, a square in St Petersburg. 850 people have reportedly been detained during the protests. Footage from the protests shows large numbers of people standing arm in arm, while riot police can be seen dragging demonstrators away from the crowds.
The demonstrators can be heard chanting "No to war!".
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One protester, Olga Mikheeva, told the Guardian that the invasion is a "crime against Ukraine and Russia".
She added: "I think it is killing both Ukraine and Russia.
"I am outraged, I haven’t slept for three nights, and I think we must now declare very loudly that we don’t want to be killed and don’t want Ukraine to be killed."
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Perhaps Putin's propaganda wall in the Russian media is being breached.
In Russia, media are limited to reporting about the war based only on "official sources" - in other words, repeating what Putin's officials tell them is happening.
Putin expected he would achieve victory and install a new puppet government over Ukraine in 72 hours, beating the 100 hours Bush and Powell needed to defeat Iraq in the first Gulf War. Putin seems obsessed with the US operations in Iraq, even mimicking the "deck of cards" used by US troops, only with faces of Ukrainian leaders.
But Putin may well achieve 5,000 dead Russian troops by 100 hours of the invasion.
He can't hide that level of casualties from the Russian people for long.
Putin looks like a cornered rat. That is when the rat can go berserk. Hope he does not start a nuclear war.
Been watching the truckers in Canada last week.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
There are 1 million Ukrainians in Russia. That’s a big fifth column if he starts destroying Ukrainian cities.
Slavs Unite!
I think he made a massive error of judgment over what he thought he would achieve quickly, and I strongly suspect that it was because of his hubris, in that his superior Russian troops surely could one-up what the US military did in Iraq.
Other posters have dismissed my suspicion, but no one should be surprised when the history of all this is written and interviews with people close to Putin have been done, that he wanted to show the world that he could out-do the US.
It looks to me like Putin is obsessed with the US and with the US military like some kind of crazy stalker, always obsessing over how he looks compared with us.
Russian people need to take him out, hang his body in public square like Mussolini.
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If they were going to do anything, they better act soon.
“There are 1 million Ukrainians in Russia. That’s a big fifth column if he starts destroying Ukrainian cities.”
Yup.
Right after the Belarussians do the same to Lukashenko.
There are millions of people in Russia, a few thousand is nothing, when you start to see 500k+ ... wake me up
What I take from this is that public opinion, both in Russia and the world at large, still plays a big role in formulating military strategy. Can anyone have any doubt how this conflict would be playing out if, say, Hitler or Stalin, or even Lincoln, had been in charge?
Surely he must understand that Ukraine is not Iraq?
It’s the cops. They’re worse. Just look at what they’re doing in Ottawa.
Having looked around on Russian social media and reading what people say in comments it may well be that the next card Putin will play is to try to rally public opinion around hatred of Americans.
IMO it’s not out of the question for the crafty old career KGB officer to attempt a false flag op using the American flag.
Kind of like Hitler did claiming the Jews were behind everything bad that was happening in Germany, Putin may try to place us in the same role.
You didn’t say what the gist of those comments were.
I think maybe there has been emotion clouding Putin’s judgment
When Russian nationalism and slavic solidarity come into play, I think he gets really emotionally invested
the unstable situation in Donbass over so many years and the killing by both sides has really elevated the passions in Ukraine and Russia including for Putin
Putin should have been more of a statesman to work to nip the Donbass conflict in the bud, because when such conflicts go on and on each side gets more of their ‘holy martyrs’ and it just spirals out of control
But when he saw extremist Russian nationalists flowing into Donbass to fuel the conflict, Putin’s heart was with them and he couldn’t help himself from fueling the fire, in fact being the major source of the fuel of the fire, rather than working to extinguish the flames
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