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Russian tycoon denounces 'Moscow's crazy war'
Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/19/22 | Reuters

Posted on 04/20/2022 5:14:00 AM PDT by bert

"I don't see a single beneficiary of this crazy war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying," Tinkov, who founded Tinkoff Bank, Russia's second-biggest credit card issuer, wrote in an Instagram post

Wealthy Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov on Tuesday condemned what he called Moscow's "crazy war" in Ukraine, saying 90% of his countrymen did not support it and calling on the West to offer Vladimir Putin a dignified way to withdraw.

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"The (Russian) generals, waking up with a hangover, realized that they had a shit army," Tinkov wrote. "And how could the army be good if everything else in the country is shit and mired in nepotism, sycophancy and servility?"

Switching to English, Tinkov wrote: "Dear 'collective West' please give Mr. Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian."

Tinkov owns around 35% of Cyprus-based TCS Group Holding whose stable of companies under the Tinkoff brand span sectors from banking and insurance to mobile services. The company's share price has plummeted this year.

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----"The (Russian) generals, waking up with a hangover, realized that they had a shit army," Tinkov wrote. "And how could the army be good if everything else in the country is shit and mired in nepotism, sycophancy and servility?"----

The voice of one who knows presenting truth

I have been preaching this thought for a long time but alway out come the Russiaphiles declaring the greatness of Russia and Putin

The Russian population is less than the Indonesian island of Java. The Russian GDP is less than Canada and barely above Australia

1 posted on 04/20/2022 5:14:00 AM PDT by bert
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To: bert

Bottom line: “Dear ‘collective West’ please give Mr. Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian.”

Biden could do this. Why doesn’t he?


2 posted on 04/20/2022 5:17:32 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: bert

But, the GDP is higher than it was a hundred years ago, so there has been progress!


3 posted on 04/20/2022 5:19:31 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Prolixus
Biden could do this. Why doesn’t he?

Biden is in cognitive decline. His calculation (if he does any calculation) is, does this help me keep power or not?

If you have a strategy for a graceful pullout by Russia, please share it.

4 posted on 04/20/2022 5:21:32 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Prolixus

Because his handlers use the crises to their advantage.


5 posted on 04/20/2022 5:27:25 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: bert

Their Army sucks but their missiles and bombs seem to work.


6 posted on 04/20/2022 5:29:10 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: bert

I vote for a quick and peaceful death for Vlad Putin. He won’t need face saving when he’s dead.


7 posted on 04/20/2022 5:30:22 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: bert

Java has 152 million people. You say it like it’s tiny because it’s an island.
Purposely disingenuous comment.

Russia sucks and Putin is a tyrant. The Ukraine sucks as well.
That said, this war should end. There’s no endgame in its perpetuation.


8 posted on 04/20/2022 5:32:27 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Cecily

You have no vote, and who’s his successor?
Is he better or worse?
If Putin is killed by a non Russian, what retaliation occurs?


9 posted on 04/20/2022 5:34:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: bert

Russia has a lot of talented scientists, engineers, programmers etc., yet their economy has languished the whole time Putin has been in charge. They have no globally important tech companies afaik, despite all that talent. It remains one of the most corrupt countries.


10 posted on 04/20/2022 5:37:34 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: marktwain

Withdraw from Donbas and Crimea, then resign gracefully.


11 posted on 04/20/2022 5:42:32 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: bert

The US Army won’t be much better once the puppet master Obama is done filling it with woke transsexuals and kicking out those soldiers who refuse the HIV jab. Only difference is that we don’t have a draft, yet.


12 posted on 04/20/2022 5:44:15 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Prolixus

Because he’s POTUS and he doesn’t want to.


13 posted on 04/20/2022 5:56:39 AM PDT by OKSooner (Don't buy anything from China if there's any alternative available.)
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To: EEGator

I don’t care about these details. I just want Putin the longtime (and getting worse) murderer gone. Why does the world tolerate these people being in power and causing havoc year after year?


14 posted on 04/20/2022 6:06:40 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily
Why does the world tolerate these people being in power and causing havoc year after year?

He has nukes. Which is why Iran never should.

15 posted on 04/20/2022 6:07:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Cecily

“Why does the world tolerate these people being in power and causing havoc year after year?”

So you want the “world” assassinating nation’s Presidents?
Countries with 6000 nukes?
What could go wrong?

You should try thinking deeper and more long term.
Obama, and NATO, bombed Libya for largely no reason.
Should Obama and all the other NATO countries’ leaders have been assassinated?


16 posted on 04/20/2022 6:09:43 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Lisbon1940

Zero chance ever, and you know it.


17 posted on 04/20/2022 6:10:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Cecily
I vote for a quick and peaceful death for Vlad Putin. He won’t need face saving when he’s dead.

Only problem is you lose one 'strong man' and who is the next to step into the box? It's the Russian way, after all.

There's always an option that you can go from bad to worse.
18 posted on 04/20/2022 6:12:53 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: larrytown

Here is her “genius” response to me for posing the same question:

“I don’t care about these details. I just want Putin the longtime (and getting worse) murderer gone. Why does the world tolerate these people being in power and causing havoc year after year?”


19 posted on 04/20/2022 6:15:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: larrytown

So, continue the problem and the whining while it exists. That is a basically chicken shit existence

Dead Putin will create chaos. Enjoy the chaos


20 posted on 04/20/2022 6:17:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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