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Putin Acts Like He's on 'Planet of the Pink Ponies': Ex-Russian Commander
Newsweek ^ | April 15, 2023 | FATMA KHALED

Posted on 04/15/2023 5:18:55 PM PDT by familyop

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To: Forward the Light Brigade
the more shrill the pro-Ukrainian propaganda is getting

actually, it seems just the opposite ... you Russian shills are more strident and desperate than ever ... it's almost like you really want this over, now

still haven't got Bahkmut after what, 8 months?


21 posted on 04/15/2023 6:19:19 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
"Have you noticed, the more Ukraine loses the more shrill the pro-Ukrainian propaganda is getting"

Igor Girkin is not a Ukrainian propagandist. He is a Russian ultra-nationalist. The pro-Ukrainian Freepers are seeing that the hard core Russian nationalist are looking in their crystal balls for the next few months and not liking what they are seeing.

"Sacred Baklmut is slowly falling "/i>

We have known since the beginning of the year Bakhmut would likely fall. Ukraine decided to make it as costly as possible for Russia. That plan has worked. Wagner has run out of conscripts and prisoners, now it is the core of the Wagner group taking more casualties. Those Wagner would have been senior NCOs to middle level officers in a NATO army. Indirectly, that is causing a preemptive brain of experienced soldiers for future Russian operations.

they can talk about is one of several topics:

All of which is slowly coming true, it will take a year or more for the reality to sink in. Look at the Russian cruise missile attacks. The pro-Russian faction was saying Ukraine would surrender before the end of winter. Now Russian attacks are smaller, less frequent, and mostly shot down. After the cruise missile plan failed, the famed Russian Winter Offensive (™) was supposed to win the war. Now its hoping the Ukrainian Spring Offensive never happens.

Pray for the war to be over soon. Too many lives have been lost. Give peace a chance.

Then pray Putin comes to his senses and withdraws. He started this. He can end it tomorrow by withdrawing.

22 posted on 04/15/2023 6:23:33 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“War of the Roses”

Wow. That’s loaded. There were civil wars in England known by that name. I had a look to see if there’s more. Yes. A book, a film, several sports,... It’s been used much.


23 posted on 04/15/2023 6:25:10 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: canuck_conservative
actually, it seems just the opposite

Dude, no...the shrillness is TOTALLY on the Ukraine propagandists' side. Take the L.

you Russian shills

We're not Russian shills, we just don't want to die in a nuclear inferno by hacks trying to protect their corruption racket.

are more strident and desperate than ever ... it's almost like you really want this over, now

Why aren't you guys basking in victory then? Putin's on his deathbed and Russian troops are getting PWNED. Why write the hysterical pro-Ukrainian articles then.

still haven't got Bahkmut after what, 8 months?

Putin is using a fraction of his resources. If he really wanted to, the entirety of Ukraine would have been under his command in March of last year.

24 posted on 04/15/2023 6:25:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: familyop

Yeah since it was kinda funny I thought of the film, not the actual wars.


25 posted on 04/15/2023 6:39:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: familyop

The Planet of Pink Ponies? That’s where our demented pedophile lives!!


26 posted on 04/15/2023 6:51:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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To: Widget Jr

believe me widget any info spilled is disinfo


27 posted on 04/15/2023 6:52:18 PM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“”Putin is using a fraction of his resources. If he really wanted to, the entirety of Ukraine would have been under his command in March of last year.””

On March 1st of that year (2022) Col. Douglas Macgregor did proclaim “So this is a — this is the beginning, frankly of the end of Ukrainian resistance.”


28 posted on 04/15/2023 6:55:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; frank ballenger
Putin, a Brony?


29 posted on 04/15/2023 6:55:06 PM PDT by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suites. )
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To: familyop

News Week and a Blogger. His approval is over 70 %.

Almost like our dear leader who probably does like playing with and riding pink ponies.


30 posted on 04/15/2023 7:17:26 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He is being railroaded, but none of the leaked documents show what you claim. He’s being railroaded because the leak embarrassed the regime.


31 posted on 04/15/2023 8:03:40 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15
The leaks proved that US special forces were on the ground and Ukraine KIAs were 7:1 vs Russia.

The regime got embarrassed which is why with unusual speed they took him down, while the J6 pipe bomber and Dobbs leaker remain free.

32 posted on 04/15/2023 8:06:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Putin is using a fraction of his resources. If he really wanted to, the entirety of Ukraine would have been under his command in March of last year

"oh, we could have ended it last year, but instead deliberately choose to drag it out and incur more losses of troops, equipment, and money"

riiiiiiiightttt .....


33 posted on 04/15/2023 8:06:53 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative
"oh, we could have ended it last year, but instead deliberately choose to drag it out and incur more losses of troops, equipment, and money"

Contrary to corporate Western media lies and propaganda, Putin never wanted Ukraine or to destroy the country. He had specific objectives outlined and most of those objectives have been met. Putin took great care in minimizing civilian casualties and Ukrainian POWs were treated like royalty unlike Russian soldiers who were captured and subjected to torture and executions.

34 posted on 04/15/2023 8:22:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Spot on.


35 posted on 04/16/2023 3:26:46 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Contrary to corporate Western media lies and propaganda, Putin never wanted Ukraine or to destroy the country. He had specific objectives outlined and most of those objectives have been met.

Right, that Russian army sent to take Ukraine's capitol was just a mirage. Idiocy

36 posted on 04/16/2023 3:30:39 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
and Ukrainian POWs were treated like royalty

LOL, royalty? There is a video of a Ukrainian captured soldier smoking a cigarette before being gunned down.

There is a video of a Ukrainian soldier being castrated.

There is a video of a Russian soldier cutting the live Ukrainian soldiers head off.

Russian propagandists have admitted there are Russian units that take no prisoners.

37 posted on 04/16/2023 3:38:02 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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