Posted on 10/03/2022 7:32:55 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Few nations have as deep a sense of their own history as the Russians. On the basis of this tendentious tract about historic 'unity' of Russians and Ukrainians that President Putin justified his invasion of an independent neighboring state.
But another word, also with great resonance in Russian history, now hangs over the Kremlin's flailing military campaign. And that word is: MUTINY.
Remarkably, it was raised on Moscow's main TV channel by the woman described as Putin's propagandist-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, on the state of the 'special military operation' to a Russian audience.
She was raging about the incompetence which Putin's 'partial mobilisation' was carried out, and the gross inadequacy of the provisions being supplied to the hundreds of thousands being called up to fight: 'Students, people with serious illnesses, single mothers, people as old as 62 . . . and being handed rotten things, no helmets or body armor.'
CRITICISM
She warned the heads of the armed forces: 'Comrade Commanders: don't anger the people!'
And now came the reference to historic precedent. Simonyan told the 'commanders' to remember the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin during the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, provoked by the fact all the meat available to the crew had been maggot-infested.
'Let me remind you that in 1905, small things like that led to the first mutiny of an entire military unit in the history of our country. Is that what you want?'
The Potemkin mutiny was put down, but privations and humiliations linked to that conflict led to uprisings in Russia — known as the 1905 Revolution. Lenin and the Bolsheviks saw the Potemkin mutiny as inspiration for their own seizure of power in 1917.
She exempted Putin from all criticism praising her boss for taking 'the very heavy load of responsibility solely upon himself'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Every “friggin” day for months and months...we hear that Putin has reached the end of his rope.
The meme is getting a bit old.
Putin should have been thrown out months ago...yet, here he is.
Of course Putin will never go the way of the Tsars.
The last Tsar, Nicholas II was a weak ineffective fellow who had never been elected. Putin has been elected several times and he has sky high approval ratings. And he is much, much tougher.
“You are yet to change anyone’s mind”
Not my intention to change anyone’s opinion. Free Republic is about sharing news information. Freedom of thought & freedom to hold your own viewpoint.
I understand, if you don’t want to hear about the current status of the Russian invasion or related information then just skip the article.
Then they sit in the middle of the road, licking their nuts, until a car comes along and runs them over.
Yup.
According to these Ukraine trolls, Putin was supposed to be dying from cancer or whatever several moths ago.
Turns out he as strong as ever and shows no sign of dying anytime soon.
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Why else would you be constantly posting patently false Ukraine propaganda morning, day and night every single day?
I'm told that the Emperor Commodus got away with his atrocities until the danger started hitting close to home, at which point the plot was fomented to assassinate him.
Now that you mention it, I come here every day, and increasingly find myself asking the question "am I really a conservative?" I mean, the principles I used to think I believed in no longer seem to be relevant.
Hopefully a more mentally stable hard ass.
1- Putin faces mutiny from top commanders after Generals say Ukraine war goals ‘unachievable’
2- ‘We’re not insane!’ Russian Duma member ridicules Vladimir Putin’s nuclear weapon threat
Vladimir Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling was debunked by a Russian MP who revealed he would only deploy that type of weapon if the country came under attack.
3- ‘We have to stop him’: Putin now has his eyes on another European region, expert claims
Russia will attack other parts of Europe if Putin gets what he wants out of Ukraine, retired US Army officer Ben Hodges tells Express.co.uk.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1676871/putin-attack-transnistria-georgia-ukraine-russia-spt
My wife spent five years dying of cancer, and you'd never know by looking at her that she had it. But when the end came, it didn't take more than a week. Processes have a way of accelerating toward the end.
“Which way the US and UK are coming in this case?”
Word salad. Are you related to our Vice President?
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Very well said.
My logic tree on this is:
1.) Biden's actions are not in the best interest of America and Americans
2.) Biden supports Ukraine
3.) Biden's support of the Ukraine is anti-American
President Depends isn't going to spend a dime on our border, no matter what is going on in the world.
—”MUTINY”
Such an ugly term.
The men are a bit misguided.
They were attacking in the wrong direction.
“An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe.”
And their leaders were incapacitated...
Tragically, many of the conscripts were recently “pressed” into service from what is Ukrainian territory.
Many are not pur sang Russian and Putin is more than happy for some ethnic cleansing.
NB: very few conscripts come from Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
Most are coming from far-off states of the Russian Federation.
In the state of Dagestan, they had sound trucks calling for ALL MALES to report to the military commissariat!!
Also, a video of the President of Dagestan PISSED about this; Taking even a small percent of the male population will push the economy further into the abyss.
“Russia Has NO PLAN For Their Soldiers After Mobilization”
The article was quoting a pro-Putin commentator on the main Moscow TV station. Please explain how this is “patently false Ukrainian propaganda?”
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