Yeah, well - I just did. You'll recognize the proof if you're as well-read as you say you are. 
Posted on 06/09/2024 11:06:47 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
VLADIMIR Putin's new despicable pal has bizarrely dubbed the despot "God's child" who was sent to Earth to save humanity from World War Three.
Professor Sergei Karaganov, Putin's new right hand, claimed the tyrant is the saviour of the world who will not only win against Ukraine but will also thwart a global war.
Putin, who has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers as well as civilians in his illegal war in Ukraine, was also compared to Russia’s most famous emperor, Peter the Great.
In an address scripted by the Kremlin, Karaganov chillingly told Putin: "I clearly remember 1998-99 when our country was on the edge … of falling apart.
"The situation was dire. I remember me and my comrades fighting without any hope left.
"And at some point, God Almighty took pity on us [and sent Putin].
"Now Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] you have a difficult task. Not only to win but also to save the world which is sliding and being pushed into a World War."
The bizarre comments made by the professor show how the Kremlin is pushing delusional propaganda to justify its meatgrinder war against Ukraine.
Putin has pushed the world to the edge of a global war after invading Ukraine - and has been making chilling threats to attack Nato states in Europe.
Still, somehow Kremlin has been able to weave religious imagery around Putin convincing Russians that he is doing the right work and has "God's support" in wreaking havoc in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
On April 8th., I asked you if you were going to vote for Trump...a question that you’ve frequently sidestepped.
Now that your two month suspension is over and you’ve had time to think about it, what’s your answer?
Perhaps the factor that separates us is that everything I post about Russia and Ukraine is informed by my lifelong obsession with reading books, rather than watching videos and absorbing snippets of internet propaganda. Not to mention my rejection of television, which I haven't owned one since 1977. Warped my entire life, that has. And I GTFO of Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor) in 2009, which eliminated another source of distorted thinking.
I have little doubt that I've read more books than you in my lifetime, by a factor of at least two.
I went to university for free on my youthful indulgence in book-reading.
I read. Everyone else played sports and did school garbage.
After college, I read.
I haven't watched TeeVee since 2004, when I got rid of my required cable [telecommuting] after I left my last corporate job.
Don't make assumptions about the literacy of your debate opponents here.
My entire analysis hinges on the hidden Ukrainian casualties.
I'm either right or wrong on that.
Everything else on the Special Military Operation flows from there.
How shall we add them up? By weight or by volume? Counting would take a week.
Which you postulate but can't verify. Like the Climate Hysterics.
Which is why I don't take you seriously.
Like the last one - you postulate but can't verify.
Yeah, well - I just did. You'll recognize the proof if you're as well-read as you say you are.
The first time I ran across them in the university library, it was like getting a glimpse of heaven.
Even The Mysterious Stranger - but I'm not sure if you can get ALL the versions of that one.
I've seen at least three different versions. Very intellectually stimulating.
Shook me out of my Catholic religion. Ma mère was displeased, to put it mildly.
Clemens was boring. Got over LOTR in my ‘30s. Last 30 years or so it’s been history, current events, and STEM (for work), with a leaven of sci-fi for lubrication. Patrick O’Brien I liked well enough to keep them out of dead storage. William Gibson ditto. But generally fiction doesn’t do much for me. I relate better to reality.
I thought you were in to history.
Clemens is one of the best American writers, unless you have no sense of humor.
Probably never read any of the follow-ups by CJR Tolkien.
I have the entire hard-copy collection [24 volumes of his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth - best is Unfinished Tales], I also include The Road Goes Ever On, the Donald Swann song cycle [that's worth a nice chunk of change!].
The Web returns a bunch of travelogues for “Green Books”. I’ve traveled plenty, but not as a tourist. Except I would have liked to see more of Germany when I was there. But that was business, not much time.
All the Frank Herbert novels, Heinlein's stuff, Roger Zelazny, Asimov's Foundation series, Clarke, Gabaldon for time travel and Scots history.
That was a test.
You claim to like history.
"The Green Books" Goolag search only returns the Woke bullsqueezins, nowadays.
Try Goolaging the green books world war two [no quotes - the Woke gets you with quotes] in order to arrive at heaven, which sheds the Commie goggles.
I found heaven forty five years ago.
AKA "U.S. Army in World War II Series"
I have the whole shebang on my hard drive. :)
I've just got better things to do these days than argue with a bunch of pro-Kremlin trolls.
U.S. Army in World War II Series
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