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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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.
Nice trick.
Your link is in Russian.
Do you speak Russian?
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.
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.
Now why would I do that?
Yup.
And China.
Anything can be a tourniquet. A rag, a string, a belt. LOL. That propaganda is even stupider than your usual bilge.
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.
——until those actions started to affect them——
No more Big Macs. No more Starbucks. No more IKEA.
No more most everything
THIS.
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.
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.
Terrible “investment” if I ever saw one. Worse than investing in even Afghanistan.
Fortunately, your investment advice is not only disregarded but not required
Al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein has not attacked mainland America again
Your focus is way, way too narrow
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