Posted on 03/20/2022 10:59:11 AM PDT by delta7
This nonsense that Ukraine can defeat Putin is propaganda and it seems to cheer every death of a Ukrainian to justify hating Putin and all Russians even more. This is not just reckless, but highly dangerous for the world. It ensures that you will lose. Read Putin’s biography, “Vladimir Putin. Life History” where he states: “I just understood that if you want to win, then you have to fight to the finish in every fight, as if it was the last and decisive battle…you need to assume that there is no retreat.” Zelensky is a fool who is too caught up in his own celebrity to make rational decisions for his own people. This has become a media blitz for him and you can see he is enjoying it. This is not the quality you want in a leader. But we seem to be plagued with the worst crop of world leaders in human history. There was much hope when Zelensky was elected that the inherent corruption would come to an end. The leadership was either the puppet of Russia or the United States and both sides had an interest in playing. The people did not share this entrenched idea that the Donbas had to remain Ukrainian. There was a deep resentment toward Russia from the days of Stalin who starved Ukraine to pretend Communism was succeeding. I suggest you watch the film, Mr. Jones. Most Ukrainians were raised and knew how to speak Russian as well as Ukrainian. When Yanukovich became President, he was corrupt and his sons were running protection rackets. But he was Russian ethnically and could only speak Ukrainian with an accent. He pushed the language law to make the official language both Russian and Ukrainian. Zelensky push the opposite view and passed the Ukrainian ONLY law which was a slap in the face to Donbas. Zelensky is a puppet. He has done NOTHING to avoid war. All he has done is poke the bear intentionally. He knew well that the Belgrade Agreement required Ukraine was to remain neutral. It gave up its nuclear weapons when it was the 3rd most powerful nuclear power for it had more nukes than even China. The deal was that it would neither join NATO and for the first time, it would become an independent nation free of Russia. By pushing to join NATO Zelensky KNEW that it was breaking the Belgrade agreement of 1991 and he was refusing to allow the Donbas to vote to seek its own independence since that region was Russian. So Zelensky was playing empire claiming to hold that territory which was created by Kruchev in the first place along with Crimea which was always Russian territory. Clearly, Zelensky has not done what he was elected for and he has constantly been trying to create World War III demanding NATO action. He is more concerned about his image than his people. Some feel that if enough Ukrainian blood is spilled, then perhaps NATO will respond and all of this for what purpose? To keep the Donbas when he has even outlawed Russian as an official language? He is either a puppet taking orders or a complete egotistical fool enjoying the world stage and not thinking about the end game. There is no defeating Putin. Putin does not believe in retreat. If he retreats it is only leading to a trap. There must be negotiation and the surrender of Donbas and Crimea and the Belgrade Agreement must be maintained – UKRAINIAN NEUTRALITY. Many in Ukraine feel that he is taking orders from some master. Is it the World Economic Forum, the EU, NATO, or the CIA? There are plenty of rumors flying around. In the end, the truth will surface. Until then, all we are left with are our opinions. We must be careful that we are not driven to conclusions that are being fed to us by the media to achieve a particular goal determined by those who pull the strings behind the curtain. What I can say is this demonizing Putin is highly dangerous and it is a physiological war tactic that is necessary to get the people hating the opposition so they will rush in to kill them without remorse where they themselves will be just lambs for the slaughter on the altar of political power. It is propaganda that Putin wants to restore the old Soviet Union. In 22 years, he has not taken one step in that direction and he even denounced Lenin. He is no more interested in returning Russia to Communism nor retaking Eastern Europe. His complaint is that NATO has been the one to constantly move eastward because they NEED Putin to be the enemy or else NATO is no longer relevant. Judge Putin by his actions – not the claims of others. Only then will you understand your enemy.
Not a good read, more regurgitated nonsense.
Martin Armstrong certainly seems like someone whose judgment can be relied upon... /s
Paragraphs are our friends.
Good , but it’s an unreadable mass without any breaks:
This nonsense that Ukraine can defeat Putin is propaganda and it seems to cheer every death of a Ukrainian to justify hating Putin and all Russians even more. This is not just reckless, but highly dangerous for the world. It ensures that you will lose.
Read Putin’s biography, “Vladimir Putin. Life History” where he states: “I just understood that if you want to win, then you have to fight to the finish in every fight, as if it was the last and decisive battle…you need to assume that there is no retreat.” Zelensky is a fool who is too caught up in his own celebrity to make rational decisions for his own people. This has become a media blitz for him and you can see he is enjoying it. This is not the quality you want in a leader.
But we seem to be plagued with the worst crop of world leaders in human history. There was much hope when Zelensky was elected that the inherent corruption would come to an end. The leadership was either the puppet of Russia or the United States and both sides had an interest in playing. The people did not share this entrenched idea that the Donbas had to remain Ukrainian.
There was a deep resentment toward Russia from the days of Stalin who starved Ukraine to pretend Communism was succeeding. I suggest you watch the film, Mr. Jones. Most Ukrainians were raised and knew how to speak Russian as well as Ukrainian. When Yanukovich became President, he was corrupt and his sons were running protection rackets. But he was Russian ethnically and could only speak Ukrainian with an accent. He pushed the language law to make the official language both Russian and Ukrainian. Zelensky push the opposite view and passed the Ukrainian ONLY law which was a slap in the face to Donbas.
Zelensky is a puppet. He has done NOTHING to avoid war. All he has done is poke the bear intentionally. He knew well that the Belgrade Agreement required Ukraine was to remain neutral. It gave up its nuclear weapons when it was the 3rd most powerful nuclear power for it had more nukes than even China.
The deal was that it would neither join NATO and for the first time, it would become an independent nation free of Russia. By pushing to join NATO Zelensky KNEW that it was breaking the Belgrade agreement of 1991 and he was refusing to allow the Donbas to vote to seek its own independence since that region was Russian. So Zelensky was playing empire claiming to hold that territory which was created by Kruchev in the first place along with Crimea which was always Russian territory.
Clearly, Zelensky has not done what he was elected for and he has constantly been trying to create World War III demanding NATO action. He is more concerned about his image than his people. Some feel that if enough Ukrainian blood is spilled, then perhaps NATO will respond and all of this for what purpose? To keep the Donbas when he has even outlawed Russian as an official language? He is either a puppet taking orders or a complete egotistical fool enjoying the world stage and not thinking about the end game. There is no defeating Putin. Putin does not believe in retreat.
If he retreats it is only leading to a trap. There must be negotiation and the surrender of Donbas and Crimea and the Belgrade Agreement must be maintained – UKRAINIAN NEUTRALITY. Many in Ukraine feel that he is taking orders from some master. Is it the World Economic Forum, the EU, NATO, or the CIA?
There are plenty of rumors flying around. In the end, the truth will surface. Until then, all we are left with are our opinions. We must be careful that we are not driven to conclusions that are being fed to us by the media to achieve a particular goal determined by those who pull the strings behind the curtain.
What I can say is this demonizing Putin is highly dangerous and it is a physiological war tactic that is necessary to get the people hating the opposition so they will rush in to kill them without remorse where they themselves will be just lambs for the slaughter on the altar of political power. It is propaganda that Putin wants to restore the old Soviet Union.
In 22 years, he has not taken one step in that direction and he even denounced Lenin. He is no more interested in returning Russia to Communism nor retaking Eastern Europe. His complaint is that NATO has been the one to constantly move eastward because they NEED Putin to be the enemy or else NATO is no longer relevant.
Judge Putin by his actions – not the claims of others. Only then will you understand your enemy.
Ukraine doesn’t have to defeat Russia, just hold them off for a few weeks/months
Russia is running out of money and equipment, while Ukraine keeps getting re-supplied ... every day this drags on, Russia gets poorer and weaker
Russia has an economy the size of Italy’s ... how long do you think Italy could support a field army of 70,000 before it ran out of money?
Hitler said much the same, and that turned him into one of Stalin's best generals. If Putin wants to fight to the last Russian private in Ukraine, let him.
The Russian army seems to no longer have any capacity for war on the operational level, probably because their operational war doctrine inherited from WWII rests on the assumption of masses of men and armor to which Putin simply does not have access. So the conflict is a slog, with the Ukrainians able to field almost as many men as Russia. As long as weaponry and supplies continue to flow in from the West, there is little hope for Russian victory.
Good read, if you want to hear Putin’s propaganda.
He doesn’t want to restore the Soviet Union, just the Russian Empire of the late 19th century, which was, for its subject peoples, almost as brutal as the USSR.
Be careful since you are only allowed to see Ukraine propaganda offered up as news, you’re likely to mislead yourself. Think “Hunter’s Laptop”.
“People Overestimate The US War Machine And Underestimate The US Propaganda Machine”
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w
good read,thanks
The NWO/WEF/China(?) will use this slimy actor douche to get the Deep Staters to join in so they can have a way to cover up/distract from their corruption.
2. The corporations have been told of the plan. Or they are part of the plan. Or they, like all leftist entities, think alike, and will virtue signal their hatred for Russia, while ignoring the other markets they enjoy getting rich from. They divest from Russia. Including financial institutions.
3. This "forces" Russia to move to China for assistance, and by coincidence, their financial systems, and there they can convince more and more countries to join them, and ditch the USA, with its paper tiger condition, open borders, pants crapping senile weak corrupt leader and obese population of morons with their garbage ghetto/homo/CGI fantasy culture of nothing.
4. Saudi Arabia stops trading oil in $. China and Russia as well. Maybe Trump's good friend Modi will, too. Iran, and who knows how many more countries will follow.
That alone would be enough to collapse us. But we have a wide open border and a bunch of incompetent trannys and weaklings and traitors leading the military--I have no confidence in our ability to survive a surprise attack, especially if it is asymmetrical. 23000 Chinese snuck across the border in 2021. 13K Russians. added to the how many 100s of thousands/millions already here. Waiting... They would be stupid not to burn every field, dump fentanyl in every drinking water supply, blow up every gas station and power grid substation. Fred Upton and Lisa Murkowski outright refused to bolster the power grid when they had the chance. We literally are defenseless. The only thing stopping them is the chance of our submarines retaliating, maybe? I doubt, with this leadership, there would even be a counterattack. At this point a compromise would be to let Russia have the "russian" parts of Ukraine. Anyone there who doesn't want to be under Russian rule can move. Then NATO agrees not to expand, but they need to bolster their forces as a show of force and to show they are not capitulating. Then, Europe should force the US to start supplying them with Natural gas, and start producing energy again. but that won't happen, "They" are SO close to a one world government. This is why I think China is behind this. The europeans are too scared to fight China, and we are already Dead Man Walking--we just don't know it. So the WEF and China have agreed to this ruse and it will play out. It may already be too late. They are not going to risk a USA 2022 midterm bloodbath--not that the republic-nts did anything to secure the election.
“He doesn’t want to restore the Soviet Union, just the Russian Empire”
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I didn’t post the article, I just added some line breaks to make it readable.
But to that claim you’d have to come up with where he’s said that or admit it just’s something based on your feelings. (Insight Ben Shapiro observation here)
Why only place that type claim has any steam is for propaganda use.
There are still people who don’t realize the USSR fell apart and disbanded in 1991, they are obviously the mostly likely to fall for the “Russians are coming!” (i.e. Putin) panic.
Then there are people like me who went through the Red Scare and used desktops to save me from Cuba’s missles.
So the propaganda has a template to build on, but I’m bright enough to say “this smells of BS” when presented with claims of great glory/devastating defeat. Besides, I find the realities much more interesting anyway.
Other people have been heavily trained for 2+ to trust and obey. Many will likely be wearing masks - by choice - for the rest of their foreseeable lives out of fear and/or obedience.
When you control all communication it’s pretty easy to not only train people in what they should think, but also get them to reinforce the propaganda internally to the point where all independent and critical thought is gone.
“Kruchev” (sic)?
It would be like the US claiming the UK as the source of American civilization. And when people talk about "ethnic Russians" in Ukraine it's similar to saying all English speakers are "ethnic Britons." It doesn't work that way as political affiliation is often separate from language among dispersed people.
LOL the US is far stronger than you think, and the "globohomo" culture is mainly the preserve of predatory elites who finance themselves off globalism, so if the USD reserve currency status is lost, they would lose out and we'd have to extract our own resources and manufacture here again.
The financial WW3 has been started by ridiculous sanctions….they work both ways. The USD is now in the slow steady but inevitable downward process. Yuan for oil, paper currency major historic shifts.More famine, food shortages, commodities dislocations, credit dislocations, ….stay tuned.
“It would be like the US claiming the UK as the source of American civilization.”
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I’d go along with that claim. There’s a reason we’re not speaking Thai or Swahili, y’know. The country wasn’t establised by Martian colonists.
Kill the Russian invaders.
Agreed. As long as people keep in mind that he is a convicted felon for scamming his own investors, it's reasonable to question - "what's his angle"?
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