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Russia's forces are approaching mutiny - and when that happens, Vladimir Putin goes the way of the Tsars
Dailymail.com ^ | 3 October 2022 | DOMINIC LAWSON

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'.

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To: MichaelRDanger
Sorry but our border is entirely different from our European foreign policy. I

Nope.
$70 Billion could entirely close our southern border and stop the massive inflow of illegals and Fentanyl which is killing out youth.
Why waste the massive amount of money on a corrupt, sleazy, Zelensky Ukraine regime?

If China tries to invade Taiwan and is hit with sanctions similar to Russian sanctions it will cripple their economy.

Nope.
It will cripple the US economy.
You need to listen to your leader Dementia Joe, who has kept blaming Putin for super high US inflation which is at 40 year highs, super high food prices, super high energy bills etc etc, even as Russia enjoys low energy and food bills. China is a vastly more mighty economy than Russia is.. They will crush the Dementia Joe American economy in an economic war.

61 posted on 10/03/2022 9:43:01 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Salohcin

Nice trick.
Your link is in Russian.
Do you speak Russian?


62 posted on 10/03/2022 9:47:11 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

The sanctions have been really good for India.

Their economy is growing faster than any other in the world currently.
This is because they are staying out of this conflict. They are buying energy cheaper and prospering off that cheap energy.


63 posted on 10/03/2022 9:48:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: SmokingJoe
For crying out loud, just send it through Google Translate or any of other online translators out there. 🙄
64 posted on 10/03/2022 9:52:49 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: MichaelRDanger
Our borders can be quickly fixed by enforcing the law which, granted, will require an administrative change.

Dementia Joe is busy opening the border wide for illegals and drugs to pour in. The border is not “going to be quickly fixed”.

The threats posed by Russia and China are far more difficult to fix and with much, much greater negative consequences if we ignore them.

Russia has had nuclear weapons for almost as long as we have. China since 1964.
Russia and China have never attacked America as far as I know.

65 posted on 10/03/2022 9:53:41 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Salohcin

Now why would I do that?


66 posted on 10/03/2022 9:54:40 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: woodbutcher1963
The sanctions have been really good for India.

Yup.
And China.

67 posted on 10/03/2022 9:56:02 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Anything can be a tourniquet. A rag, a string, a belt. LOL. That propaganda is even stupider than your usual bilge.


68 posted on 10/03/2022 9:57:34 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

69 posted on 10/03/2022 10:22:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SmokingJoe

I said the border “can” be quickly fixed once there is a change in the administration.

Russia and China are a threat to our allies and to free trade within the world which we are dependent upon for the time being. Russia is already causing energy and fertilizer shortages that effects the world. China threatens the world’s supply of high end semiconductors with their threats towards Taiwan.

You are focusing on one or two issues and not the big picture.


70 posted on 10/03/2022 10:48:17 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: Gen.Blather

——until those actions started to affect them——

No more Big Macs. No more Starbucks. No more IKEA.

No more most everything


71 posted on 10/03/2022 10:53:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: TexasGunLover
For some reason, people have forgotten that the bad guys fight eachother sometimes, and we don't have to take a side.

THIS.

72 posted on 10/03/2022 10:54:02 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Gnome1949

Oh come now.

Your anti Zelensky narrative is now historically archaic.

History will record that Zelensky is the President of The Ukraine that killed Russians by the tens of thousands and drove them back across the borders to the withering arms of Mother Russia.


73 posted on 10/03/2022 10:57:39 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: SmokingJoe

The neo isolationists whine about spending American $$$.

Being economically challenged, the neo isolationists can’t differentiate between expense and investment.

America and other NATO nations are investing in Ukraine. The investments will yield dividends in the form of a permanently weakened and debilitated Mother Russia.


74 posted on 10/03/2022 11:03:01 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

It could not not happened to a nicer guy than Putin.

75 posted on 10/03/2022 11:05:07 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: MichaelRDanger

Let us not forget that Tibet and Hong Kong were given to the Chicoms. Do not forget this.

Taiwan is a free country and they will not be communist.
The Chicoms did not spend one dime getting Hong Kong and Tibet.

They will lose big time if they try to do this to Taiwan.

76 posted on 10/03/2022 11:10:53 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: bert
America and other NATO nations are investing in Ukraine

Terrible “investment” if I ever saw one. Worse than investing in even Afghanistan.

77 posted on 10/03/2022 11:13:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

Fortunately, your investment advice is not only disregarded but not required


78 posted on 10/03/2022 11:22:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: bert
This stupid “investment” in Ukraine will NOT pay off in any way.
Its like the over a Trillion dollar “investment” in Afghanistan and Iraq that never paid off.
79 posted on 10/03/2022 11:30:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

Al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein has not attacked mainland America again

Your focus is way, way too narrow


80 posted on 10/03/2022 11:45:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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