Posted on 03/01/2015 11:54:08 PM PST by elhombrelibre
Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia with three things: money, propaganda and terror. When the Russian economy was booming and the oil price was over $100 a barrel, Putin ruled Russia almost entirely with money – throwing cash at the elites and at the people – with a small dose of propaganda and a tiny injection here and there of terror. Now the money is running out, the equation has shifted. Today, Russia is ruled mostly through propaganda and terror.
Boris Nemtsov took not a step nor a breath that wasn't under the intense surveillance of the FSB. Just like all opposition leaders in Russia. Nothing Boris Nemtsov did was not bugged, tailed, filmed or monitored by the secret police. It is quite simply impossible that this man could have been shot dead without the Kremlin knowing there was a plot afoot to kill him.
This means the murder of Boris Nemtsov was either ordered or allowed to happen: which come to exactly the same thing. That he could be killed like this has shaken the oligarchs and the officers of the Russian elite to their core.
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Given the level of surveillance, a false-flag op which got past Russian security would flip them out.
kind of sounds like someone we know.
Yeah, Putin’s sins are no different than Obama’s.
Learned from watching Obola.
Putin’s big sin was threatening the bankers.
Tyrants don’t do things “because the have to”.
Tyrants do things because they can.
Putin and the Klown are different HOW? Remind me again. I keep forgetting.
If they’re the same, then I hope you oppose them both for the same reasons.
I wouldn’t put anything by President Facelift myself, the emperor has no clothes and the same old lies don’t work. http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/did-russian-president-vladimir-putin-have-facelift-because-olympic-gymnast-a ; have to be an idiot to buy the Russian prop line.
His girlfriend was Ukrainian. Probably no connection there. /s
re:Boris Nemtsov murder: Putin now governs mostly through terror and propaganda
What do you expect, from the former head of the nastiest intelligence organization in the world, and who is also a Stalinist?
Joseph Stalin Putin lives.
Anything any government, even our own, does is through the threat of deadly force for non-compliance.
Liberals never want to admit this, but it’s a truth that needs to be kept in mind whenever anyone says
“there oughta be a law”, or in the case of liberals,
“the gov’t should DO something!”
Ask again in 23 months.
The Russian opposition (the two percenters) are saying that Putin was not involved.....
Security cameras turned off for maintenance???
I see a few similarities between this case and Princess Diana’s car accident. For example, it was also reported that CCTV cameras were not functioning in the Alma Tunnel on the night of the accident. Her bodyguard couldn’t remember much at all due to massive injuries, only that he, for some reason, fastened his seatbelt before impact. The woman walking with Nemstov on the night can’t even ID the car because of massive shock.
The person(s) who did it obviously were not amateurs. But, somehow, I don’t think we gonna get to the bottom of Nemstov’s assassination; though there will be an ‘official’ story, eventually.
I just blame the annoying CCTV cameras; seems at critical moments they just have a mind of their own & refuse to cooperate!
Security camera videos are with the FSB while investigation continues....we’d do likewise and not put them out there until determined by authorities.
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