Posted on 08/14/2022 8:41:21 AM PDT by libh8er
….. These henchmen – and occasional women — are not just wily, they’re extremely well-compensated thanks to their close proximity to Putin’s kleptocratic machine. Long-serving and devoted, the Russian leader owes this creepy crew a perverse debt of gratitude for helping him achieve his horrifying goals.
Here’s a look at the top seven characters in Putin’s orbit of war.
…. Patrushev is Putin’s evil twin, with both twins, in this case, being evil. Their relationship dates back to 1975, when they worked together in the KGB. Like his boss, Patrushev — who’s served as a spy operative for 50 years — has likely authorized targeted killings of numerous Russian “enemies.” Among his victims are former FSB officer and vocal Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in Britain in 2006, along with Chechen separatist leaders hunted down and killed as part of a counter-terrorism program during the late-1990s.
At 71, Patrushev, like Putin, is a committed athlete who regularly plays volleyball and swims nearly three miles a week. He doesn’t abuse alcohol, which is uncommon for Russian males, favoring the occasional glass of wine over hard liquor. He is a workaholic and never late for meetings. It’s likely Patrushev helped hatch the plan for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and Putin’s attack against the rest of the Ukraine this past February. Patrushev is also a rabid anti-American propagandist who recently accused Washington of running a biological weapons program in Ukraine. Even more outlandish, he’s suggested that the US is planning to drop a nuke on Ukrainian territory and then blame Russia for it.
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You are aware that a “phobia” is an IRRATIONAL fear?
There’s nothing irrational about fearing aggressive, militaristic Russian revanchism when We can see not just what aggressive, militaristic Russian revanchism has been getting up to in Georgia, Chechnya and Ukraine, but can also see what it’s got planned for future adventures in eastern Europe.
Because the aggressive, militaristic Russian revanchism is on prime time television in Russia, on a daily basis.
The term Russophobia is pathetic Russian propaganda. It’s literally as pathetic as the late 30s appeasement lobby in Europe arguing that Jews in Europe were being Naziphobic even after kristelnacht, mass deportations, and the Warsaw Ghetto.
Spam-a-lama-ding-dong.
Richard Pipes—— I met his secretary at a party. In so many words, she said he was a demanding guy to work for. He was a conservative, was one of the principals at Harvard’s Russian research institute. He lived to 94, so must have been doing something right.
More like nihilistic Russian revanchism. Revanchism = Revenge. With Putin, he believes it is the Slavs turn to rule Europe. He got this from his favorite theoretician-historian.
Putin is a depraved Mongol. Nothing Slavic about him.
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*Yawn.*
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