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This article fits in exactly with what my Russian friends have told me.
1 posted on 02/28/2022 8:20:47 AM PST by datura
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Bkmrk


2 posted on 02/28/2022 8:21:57 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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What Putin wants?

Who are the immediate players behind Putin in Russia?

What do they want?
3 posted on 02/28/2022 8:26:02 AM PST by indthkr
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Reconquista.


4 posted on 02/28/2022 8:26:15 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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One of the questions asked over and over about Putin’s callous invasion of an inoffensive neighbor,...

Stopped reading right there.

Fortunately it was the first sentence.

5 posted on 02/28/2022 8:26:54 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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The article says the two sides are “still shooting at each other”, it just makes the leap to assuming Russia will prevail.


7 posted on 02/28/2022 8:28:07 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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So Putin sees himself not as an imperialist, but as the Abe Lincoln of greater Russia.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 8:28:50 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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an invasion that is mysteriously rationalized by an amazing number of people on the right

I keep seeing references to Putin's supposed support from the right, but I haven't actually seen people on the right supporting Putin's move into Ukraine. What's going on here?

10 posted on 02/28/2022 8:31:32 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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The following is just my opinion as well as a hunch of mine. Russia and the US have always been on opposite sides of the spectrum and needless to say an outright war to settle any scores is obviously not an option. I further believe hat Putin has never warmed up to the idea to “The New World Order” or the idea of a “World Government” Some people who have never heard about it think that’s crazy, but that’s been in the works for decades and finally those people behind the scenes are going full bore and giving it all the push they can with Klaus Schwab as one of the main leaders, along with many leaders in industry, as well as technology following right behind, of course one of them being Bill Gates, as all those big wigs stand to gain should this scheme become reality, I hope for your as well as my sake it never will.

The push for this so called “New World Order” could also be seen, at least by some careful observers; how many governments world wide almost acted in “Unisom” and fell in line one by one as if all were singing the same song, originating from the same songbook when it came to responding to this Chinese created virus. Following up with draconian restrictions, new rules, forfeiture of civil rights as well as curtailing freedom etc. No doubt, some of you may have gotten a taste when they saw what crap Justin Trudeau tried to inflict upon his constituencies and how ruthless he and his cohorts went about to enforce it. That’s what dictatorship is all about.

In other words it was more or less just what you may call a “Dry run” for “The Powers to be” to find out how the public would respond and then tailor any further actions accordingly. Of course Putin had a mind of his own and did not fall for this “Crap”, call it scheme and for this reason they decided to punish him as he was the person who would NOT CONFORM TO THEIR WISHES. And the people of the Ukraine are being used as poor pawns to be used in this power struggle. I may be wrong, as I have been many times before, but in this case I don’t think so.


12 posted on 02/28/2022 8:31:47 AM PST by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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Very interesting!


13 posted on 02/28/2022 8:33:08 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Hitler took over Austria because he believed it to be part of Germany same with Czechoslovakia the following year. When will it end for Putin?


14 posted on 02/28/2022 8:34:07 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Back in my philosophy days, a read a lot of books by Nikolai Berdyaev, a Marxist in his youth who converted to Orthodoxy. After the Revolution, he fled to France where he spent the rest of his days. He claimed that even in the days of the Soviet Union, Russia was motivated by a kind of messianic vision of itself as the light of the world.

After the fall of the Soviet Union (long after Berdyaev's death), there has been a revival of Orthodoxy, and Putin has used this to fuel his own ambitions for a restoration of Russian influence. The ongoing moral decline of the West (from an Orthodox perspective), coupled with the increasing influence of secular globalism, has enabled him to get popular support that might have been lacking due to his personal thuggery and wealth. But the invasion of the Ukraine may have been a clumsy and premature effort, and may drastically weaken his support.
18 posted on 02/28/2022 8:36:15 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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It also follows very closely quips from Putin in the past ten years. If so, whatever the “discussions” lead to, the result in Putin’s mind will be Ukraine in my fold. The blather of buffer state was BS, Ukraine is not the only area where Putin abuts NATO.

And China views Taiwan (formosa) as a breakaway province. Hum.


19 posted on 02/28/2022 8:36:26 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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an invasion that is mysteriously rationalized by an amazing number of people on the right who were apoplectic over Trudeau’s brutality with the Freedom Convoy, is what was his objective.

What is this amazing number and what does a democratically elected leader acting like a tyrant have to do with Ukraine? We all know Putin was not democratically elected.

26 posted on 02/28/2022 8:41:00 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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Not exactly groundbreaking news to anyone whose been paying attention to Ukraine for the past ten years. Talk of establishing Novorossiya have been circulating since at least 2014 in various forms, and the take described in Red State seems like another variation of the theme.


39 posted on 02/28/2022 8:49:44 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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Bkmk


49 posted on 02/28/2022 9:06:07 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians.

This is EXACTLY what Hitler tried to do, just substitute German for Russian.

Putin himself told us the same thing in his bizarre rant about history he gave the world several days ago, claiming Ukraine doesn't even have the right to exist as a country.

What is Putin? Putin is a fascist. Putin is a Nazi.

That the Ukrainians and not Putin are the ones constantly called fascists and Nazis is just brazen deceitfulness and abuse of language, like when a black racist on MSNBC sputters that only white people can be racist.

50 posted on 02/28/2022 9:06:27 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
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Isn’t it already known that he wants the USSR back. The glory days of the Soviet Union.


51 posted on 02/28/2022 9:20:07 AM PST by qaz123
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Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians.

Putin's "Mein Kampf"

54 posted on 02/28/2022 9:33:24 AM PST by tlozo
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Biden not only underestimated Putin (brilliant question by Doocy), he didn’t have a clue to begin with to even make an estimation of anyone. Putin underestimated the Ukranian will to fight. Now, he will have to kill a lot more of them (and he will) and perhaps even just about completely depopulate the Ukraine of Ukranians and move in Russians. If he doesn’t do that, he will have a permanent boil on his forehead from the hatred he will have created. Some problems are never solved, really.


55 posted on 02/28/2022 9:35:36 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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I mean, this is silly. Putin gave a long-azz speech exactly a week ago and he said it out loud, not in some tiny erased-from-internet article.
"In view of the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, the Leninist principles of state-building were not only a mistake, but far worse than a mistake. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 this became absolutely obvious.

Of course, the events of the past cannot be changed, but we must at least speak about them directly and honestly, without reservations and without political coloration. I can only add that the considerations of the current political conjuncture, however spectacular and advantageous they may seem at a given moment, should not or cannot under any circumstances form the basis for the fundamental principles of statehood.

This is neither the time nor the place to discuss issues of state or constitutional law and to define the concept of citizenship. Nevertheless, the question arises: why did the country have to be shaken even further under these already difficult circumstances?"

Putin says it out loud, in black and white: 'You have no 'state', you have no 'sovereignty', and you have no 'citizenship' -- other than what I grant you of all of those 3 -- so, I'm going to Kiev'.

People in that thread didn't want to believe it he was going to invade then (or now!).

62 posted on 02/28/2022 10:02:23 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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