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The truth about Vladimir Putin? He’s boring
National Post [Canada] ^ | Feb. 9, 2024 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 02/09/2024 5:18:44 PM PST by canuck_conservative

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To: USA-FRANCE

That Friendship Treaty was signed 2 years before Putin came to power

That was when Russia was still a sort-of normal country that actually could get along with its neighbors ... then the warmongering monster took over ...


21 posted on 02/09/2024 5:46:12 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

So are you. So what?


22 posted on 02/09/2024 5:46:42 PM PST by dforest
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To: big bad easter bunny

Most peoples and tribes of the world do not have a significant sense of humor.

Quebec-ers and French are one example.

German Scotts Italians most Arab tribes...


23 posted on 02/09/2024 5:47:21 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Boy, the excuses for Putin’s lousy performance are flying thick tonight!

lol


24 posted on 02/09/2024 5:51:16 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: DoodleBob

One day Canada will take over the world and you’ll all be sorry. :)


25 posted on 02/09/2024 5:52:22 PM PST by xp38
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To: Prince of Space

I agree with your assessment it was a great interview.

What would things be like if Russia HAD been allowed into NATO?

Now we might not ever know….


26 posted on 02/09/2024 5:53:20 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

-I’m surprised Tucker forgot to ask Puting about the Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty...-

Did you hear the interview or read the transcript?

Putin did address the issues you noted. I don’t know if what he said is true, but he did address them.

I heard the interview and read the transcript. The transcript is a little easier to follow and go through.


27 posted on 02/09/2024 5:53:56 PM PST by bosco24
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To: canuck_conservative

Quotes above and below the link:

Because the Rus were the Slavic peoples who lived in the part of eastern Europe that is (mostly) Russia and Ukraine today. Until the 9th century these peoples weren’t organized together politically. When they got together they made their capital Kiev—or Kyiv, as it’s known today. They were the Rus united under the government in Kiev. Kiev/Kyiv did not remain the center of power for this political union, but it’s where things started. Kievan Rus thus refers to a specific time in the history of the region. Kievan Rus included most of the Rus, who were Slavic, as well as Finns and some Norse peoples.

Kievan Rus was the dominant state until the 13th century when the Mongols invaded and destroyed Kiev, and established the Golden Horde, who ruled the area for a while. Later on, a new Slavic state pulled the Rus together under the “Caesar of all the Rus”, or “the Tsar of all the Russias.”

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Kievan-Rus-have-an-official-flag-or-coat-of-arms

Rus was not a unite state but rather a federation of several principalities.

Besides it is necessary to note that the central elements of the statehood were not the principalities (as territories), but the princes.

I mean that every prince usually ruled different principalities during his lifetime. All the princes were member of one family. The goal of every prince was to posess the Kyiv principality and become the Great prince. At first the question of Kyiv ruler had been resolving due to heriditary rules. For example, the elder son of a current Great prince usually took the Kyiv throne after his father. Such elder son usually took the Pereyaslav principality, that was next to Kyiv. Possession of the Pereyaslav principality was kind of a sign that the prince was going to become the Great prince.


28 posted on 02/09/2024 5:57:12 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: USA-FRANCE

Putin is a psycho and you can see every single one of the Putin Stooges is a deranged idiot.


29 posted on 02/09/2024 6:00:34 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: canuck_conservative

The truth about Canadians:

They have very short attention spans.


30 posted on 02/09/2024 6:01:06 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: canuck_conservative

Lousy performance?

I enjoyed it, especially the part where Tucker asked him about why denazification was so important and Vlad gave the example of the Canadian parliament still honoring Nazis.


31 posted on 02/09/2024 6:04:03 PM PST by CapandBall
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To: canuck_conservative

Putin’s performance wasn’t lousy.

It was geared higher than many Americans can grok.

Read much Russian literature? Great authors. None intellectually sparse.

Read Solzhenitsyn? The Gulag Archipelago?


32 posted on 02/09/2024 6:06:13 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: canuck_conservative

“That Friendship Treaty was signed 2 years before Putin came to power

That was when Russia was still a sort-of normal country that actually could get along with its neighbors ... then the warmongering monster took over ... “

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Indeed.
Actually the Russian deep-state (the old sovietoïds) took over... and they selected their favorite obeying deep-state-KGB guy : Putin.


33 posted on 02/09/2024 6:06:19 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: Chickensoup

Russian literature is like the Russia in general—it just sucks your soul out trying to plod through it; 35 words to say what could be said in 5.

I guess there is no Russian word for Editor.


34 posted on 02/09/2024 6:08:26 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: canuck_conservative

WIKI

The region of the Kievan Rus’ fragmented in the early 12th century and a number of semi-autonomous successor states arose. Kiev remained the core of the country and was the center of the spiritual life with the office of the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kiev.

Following the death of Mstislav I of Kiev in 1132, the semi-autonomous states were de facto independent and so led to the emergence of the Principality of Kiev as a separate state.

The importance of the Kievan Principality began to decline. In the years 1150–1180 many of its cities such as Vyshhorod, Kaniv, and Belgorod sought independence as individual principalities. The emergence of the principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal and Galicia-Volhynia resulted in the transition of the political and cultural center of Rus’ as well as the migration of citizens to cities like Vladimir and Halych.

The Mongol invasion of Rus’ left the Principality of Kiev in a severely ruined state. Following the invasion, it was now under the formal suzerainty of the Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, Alexander Nevsky, who in turn was a vassal to the Mongols. After the Battle of Irpen in 1321, Kiev was the object of desire for the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, and it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1362. The Principality formally existed as a distinct entity until 1471, when it was converted into the Kiev Voivodeship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Kiev


35 posted on 02/09/2024 6:11:38 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: mass55th

Biden is an Fing pos.

Your mistake seems to be that you think we are choosing between Biden and Putin.

We are choosing between Biden and Trump.
Putin is a foreign enemy and a lying mass murderer.


36 posted on 02/09/2024 6:14:48 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: big bad easter bunny

“He is serious as are most Russian men. They also don’t have much of a sense of humor.”

Brezhnev Era Russian Joke:

What has four legs and forty teeth? An alligator.

What has forty legs and four teeth? The Politburo.


37 posted on 02/09/2024 6:15:06 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Chickensoup

I read the Gulag Archipelago when it came out which is when I was in university. It was a tough slog to start but I knew it was an important book so I kept going and it got easier the further I got into it. It made me staunchly anti communist and one of the most important works of the 20th century.


38 posted on 02/09/2024 6:15:42 PM PST by xp38
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I saw a man speak for 2 hours on various topics that he was well informed about and then I saw our president screw up a 5 minute press conference.


39 posted on 02/09/2024 6:17:29 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: canuck_conservative

40 posted on 02/09/2024 6:19:19 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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