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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Wow an inner circle of evil?? Can they defeat the Legion of Doom?
Doesn’t compare to Biden’s inner circle of evil.
Have you a list of evil perverts and scum around Joe Bidan? Including pig face?
Dude(ette), you’re supposed to ping the Uke neo-clown posse or your thread dies.
Himmler, Goring, Borman, Goebbels ........
Zelensky has imprisoned opposition leaders, shutdown all opposition parties and banned opposition media outlets. He's relied on neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment to do the country's fighting.
There are more 150 monuments and/or streets named after Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera in Ukraine.
Ukraine in this war has used civilians as human shields. Amnesty International has even admitted it. Presently, the Ukraine military is targeting civilians in Donetsk with missiles and butterfly mines. Battalions that surrendered are being targeted by the Ukrainian military. And, most recently, the Ukrainians have resort to launching missile attacks on a nuclear reactor not caring that they are risking another Chernobyl.
The Russians look like white, fluffy angels compared to scum running this war in Ukraine and in the Biden regime.
Ukraine doesn't come close to resembling a democracy or free country. It isn't worth spending a single tax dollar on.
They look like nicer people than our leaders. It is a safe bet that they are smarter as well.
“It is a safe bet that they are smarter as well.”
Probably a reflection of their population. FR has become a haven for bloodthirsty, warmongering dummies.
Newt Gingrich said, “Conservatives eat their own”. That is clearly demonstrated at FR. As you have observed, they are a warlike tribe.
My thought also!
Comparing Biden and Putin is like comparing Hitler to Stalin...
Russia is evil, historically. Or perhaps one can say its suffered from a collective socio-cultural psychopathy. Its never recovered from the Mongol invasions, especially not the aftermath of the entrenchment of despotic elites, most of which had Mongol ancestry. Muscovy crushed the first flowerings of commercial cities in the region, such as Novgorod.
Ever since Russia has been a nation of slaves, vulnerable to every predatory gang that came along. One such gang has periodically replaced another, but the basic structure has always been the same.
Ref - Richard Pipes, “Russia Under the Old Regime”
Biden vs Putin is the epitome of “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx
They're a bunch of thugs with nukes. If not for nukes, their country would have been broken up into pieces by now.
The “ white, fluffy” Russian angels keep up a continuous bombardment against numerous Ukrainian cities, eaving some of them urban wastelands. Notably Kharkiv, to name the biggest one, which has been continuously bombarded at random for six months.
On the sheer scale of destruction perpetrated, the Russians have done vastly worse than anything the Ukrainians can be accused of.
Your opinion on this is simply bizarre.
The Russians have even left the power and cell phone towers in Ukraine.
The Russophobia is a threat to our national security. It's our outrageous interference in Ukraine that turned it into a national security threat to Russia and pushed it into this war and into an alliance with China.
And the Ukrainians should thank the Russians for being nice, just because they destroyed, oh, 30% of what they could have. Huh.
Ethically, the Russians are still devils that, collectively, deserve eternity in hell.
You totally clueless about what has been going on in Ukraine and our role in setting it off.
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