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 ...
Translation: She’s not going to change your mind, and so what?
“The article is from Daily Mail, a notorious pusher of totally made up Ukrainian propaganda and nonsense.”
Piss off and post your own material.
Actually, Al Quaeda HAS attacked the US multiple times.
9/11 wasn't even the first time Al Quaeda attacked the WTC.
Everything with you is abrasive, crabby and contentious, so piss off. Run off and post yr own stuff. Perhaps you don’t know how to.
Putin’s rump needs some swabbing, so run along.
The Express is a full tier below the Daily Mail. All the tabloids seem to hire the same content creators.
Or perhaps all the content creators have been given the same keywords, which you then amplify.
SEO for the win.
The border is a domestic issue and a completely different matter.
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Hardly.
The US-Mexico border is an invasion that serves the goals of the New Liberal Order and their Rules Based Order. This is a global asymmetric war on many simultaneous fronts.
...the constant posting of Ukraine propaganda and disinformation is pissing a lot of Freepers off.
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That is what they want: to fragment the conservative forums.
The same sorts of postings are on other forums, as well.
“The same sorts of postings are on other forums, as well.”
Actually, some Pro-Putin posters have been found posting on other forums!
Free Republic is a community that shares political info.
TIP: Just ignore posts that are not of interest to you.
Simply by-pass Ukraine/Russian topic to another posted article.
I only click these threads to watch the brighter lights school the shills.
I also have personal life events to deal with at the moment, which limits my time here.
PRO TIP: just click the *comments* link and you can enjoy the insights from the rational while still skipping the hysteria that comes from reading created content while wearing blinders.
The REALLY big problem here is Pooty waving around nuclear blackmail, which Trump spotted right away and came down on hard. Well, maybe not right away, Pooty was pushing that even before invading Ukraine (again). But I can’t expect PDJT to have watched every conference Pooty ever spoke at.
It’s bad enough that half(?) of FR doesn’t seem to recognize the repercussions if the US and UK decide to walk away from the Budapest Memorandum (Ukraine agreed to give up its many nukes in return for security guarantees). Russia signed on too, but then who really expects Pooty to keep any such agreement.
THIS present situation, though... If Russia / Pooty succeeds, you better go ahead and put Geiger counters in your will for all your descendants. Maybe siblings and cousins and friends if you are under 60 & healthy. Pooty or his generals likely are not crazy enough to engage the US in MAD. But, when most everybody has nukes for the same reasons the French do, that’s NOT going to stay stable for long.
Well, yeah, but we didn’t freaking DO anything serious about it after the 1st WTC attack.
“We” didn’t fail in Afghanistan. BIDEN failed in Afghanistan. I know of no indications that most Americans were displeased with how Pres. Trump handled Afghanistan or that they think Afghanistan would have fallen if Pres. Trump was still President.
Otherwise, I mostly agree with you. :-)
I look at it as having attributes of both an investment and insurance.
I’ll bet Germany and several other EU countries would really like to see those Ukie gas fields opened up in competition with Russia, too. That’d actually be good for us, too, indirectly. Contrary to some tinfoil theories running amuck, a strong Europe has more benefit to the US (esp. under a Trump level-field trade scenario) than detriment.
Indeed. It’s ruining the forum.
——Insurance——
Now that is a good thought. I’ll go along with it.
It’s just possible that the issue between Ukraine and Russia might allow some increase in the real Euro unification.
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