Posted on 12/12/2022 3:19:09 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Dec 12, 2022 Russian leader Vladimir Putin made the biggest mistake of his life by invading Ukraine! Reactions against Putin's rule in Russia are growing every day! Soldiers in the Russian army have also started to revolt. Russia is experiencing the most chaotic period in its history! Experts say Russia is in grave danger!
So how did the process turn out like this? How is Putin, who wanted to bring about the end of Ukraine, bringing about the end of Russia? What danger is Russia in?
Let's answer these questions one by one!
First of all, we need to rewind our calendars a little bit and take a look at the situation in Russia before the war started. Russia entered this war in a crisis. In February, just before Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation figures started to rise. Reactions against Putin in Russia were increasing day by day. It was thought that Putin had reached the end of his political career. Russia was failing in other countries too!
Russia was the loser in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. In Syria, the Assad regime, backed by Russia, was losing power. In Crimea, demands for freedom were rising again. Russia was losing in all regions.
The Eastern bloc, led by Russia, was allegedly in collapse. Putin wanted to show his own people and the whole world that he was still strong. In this way, he planned to regain popular support in Russia. But it was a very bad plan.
Putin did not realize that this plan was a very bad plan because he was very confident in the strength of his army. He could not have predicted that the Ukrainian army would have such a great success.
Putin's faulty plan was the beginning of the end. Mistakes followed one after another.
The Russian army was completely unprepared for this war. Russian soldiers were suddenly sent to fight this war. But most of the soldiers did not want to fight! The Russian soldiers were terrified. Russian generals could not manage this fear. The Russian soldiers began to revolt!
At the beginning of the war, these mutinies were small and individual. But as the war continued, the rebellion of the soldiers grew. Because the Russian army was not ready for a long war. The needs of the soldiers could not be met.
First, the salaries of the mercenaries started to be withheld. The soldiers who could not get their salaries in this war where there were so many deaths became very angry. Dozens of Russian soldiers said they would not fight anymore. Russian soldiers protested by burying their weapons in the ground! The speech of the soldiers who buried their weapons in the ground attracted great attention in Russia. Because the speech of the Russian soldiers was very striking. In this video, Russian soldiers say the following:
"This war is not our war, it is Putin's war. Putin started this war only to increase his own wealth and maintain his power! Too many soldiers are dying here. But none of our needs are being met. Our salaries are not paid, we cannot send money to our families. We are treated very badly here too!"
Excellent points. I’d bet they had some chaos-inducing plagues along the way too. Another poster suggested that this article reads like it was translated into English from another language. Solid theory.
Panic is setting in among the FedGov propagandists as winter freezes the ground in Ukraine. The Russians are on the move. Have a nice day.
what a steaming pantload.
Probably a bit overoptimistic but one can hope it is not.
The Russian state may not yet have formed in the 1200’s, but Russians were definitely around. The Teutonic Knights learned about them during the Battle of Lake Peipus in 1242. The depiction of that battle in Sergei Eisenstein’s movie Alexander Nevskii is one of the greatest battle scenes that I have ever seen.
You need help.
Fine . Ping me when the Ukrainians start revolting against their tyrant .
I’m on the side of the Ukrainian people with this war, but this article sounds like it was written by a 4th grader.
Can't we just outsource munitions production to China?
Complete B.S.
This is nothing like the He!! Russia went through in the years following the Bolshevik revolution, during and just after WWI.
Not a Putin fan and fully support Ukraine in repelling the invaders, but this article stinks like yesterday’s diapers.
Something odd is up with Putin, but fact free speculation with exclamation points won’t tell us what’s going on.
You can do better.
Got a local buddy who does a lot of business with Russian companies. Back in the 80’s he had the forethought to learn Russian so he could be an American corporate lawyer in - at that time - the USSR. When the wall came down he found himself in high demand. I wouldn’t say he likes the Russians - he thinks they are as a group a tad nuts - but he does see where they are coming from and has insights.
Needless to say we have had some interesting Ukraine conversations. He says that, like here in the US during just about any war, there are those that agree with it and those that don’t. He thinks Putin’s health is more of an issue than his popularity. Russia is a little surprised at the extent of support Ukraine has received from the US. He thinks Russian hackers are working overtime messing with our cyber infrastructure and that there are more problems going on here in the us with tech disruptions than we are being told about.
Too many exclamation points in that headline to be taken seriously.
—”Islam TV? Okey dokey.”
Interesting, yes.
You might want to dig into the relationship between pur sang Russians and the muzzies.
Most of the oil and gas are in the muzzie neighborhoods.
The boundaries of the Stans were Gerrymandered to thin out the muzzies and MILLIONS of undesirables were brought in to also thin them out. Sending Ukrainians to the Stans was SOP.
Look at the location of the Gulags, not all but many.
Putin would like to remove the muzzies from Russia and conscripting them in large numbers is his start.
And the lion’s share of the revenue from oil and gas goes to Moscow and St Petersberg.
The muzzies would like to even it out a bit.
Beat me to it
Seriously reads like elementary school report on some made up event
I appreciate the posting of news about the war, but this goes right into the “unverifiable propaganda” bin for me.
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