Posted on 08/19/2025 3:34:43 AM PDT by libh8er
Bwahahaha! Nothing like a little fantasizing and Euroweenie/leftist/globalist exaggeration to start the day!
Yup. They are describing Zelensky.
I am definitely not a Putin fan but this is pure B.S.
Reports of Putin’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Putin has his anti-globohomo fan boys here. They worship the ground he walks on. I was fooled by Putin and had a positive view of until he invaded Ukraine Feb 2022/
I disagree, Russians accept a lot, but failure is not one of them.
According to Russian law all four oblasts ARE legally part of Russia. Putin made that happen.
If any “peace” agreement results in anything less than all of these oblasts under complete Russian control that will be failure.
Add to that the massive losses Russians, severe damage to the Russian infrastructure, and losses of equipment, accepting say just the Donbas as the fruits of Putin’s SVO and I don’t see putin surviving the aftermath.
Speculation sure, “pure B.S.” no
Let’s see how this works out.
William Browder (the author of this article:
The Realist Review
The Realist Review
Conman: The Story of William Browder
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning journalist Lucy Komisar takes on the Myth of Magnitsky
Lucy Komisar
Jul 08, 2025
An Introduction
TRR is grateful to the award-winning investigative journalist Lucy Komisar for her groundbreaking two-part series which destroys the 11 myths behind “Sir” William Browder’s tale of Sergei Magnitsky—a man whose death he cynically weaponized in order to shield himself from prosecution and in the process turn himself into a “human rights” crusader.
Browder, a man who disavowed his American citizenship to evade paying taxes, made a fortune in the Wild West Russia of the 1990s. He came under scrutiny there for tax fraud in the mid-2000s. Seeking a way out, he went to Capitol Hill and there, with the help of former Maryland Senator Ben Cardin and the staff of the Helsinki Commission, launched a brilliant PR strategy that resulted in the “Magnitsky Act”—a bill that sanctioned the Russians who allegedly murdered his lawyer Magnitsky (He was not a lawyer, as we will see). These sanctions—initially opposed by President Obama and the Clinton State Department, which knew Browder’s checkered history and was skeptical of his tale— helped kick off Cold War 2.0.
Komisar is the only American journalist to have uncovered the lies at the heart of this sordid tale. But others later came to know the truth but were too frightened by Browder’s money and power. One such reporter who was cowed by Browder and his team of lawyers at Kobre and Kim in Washington, DC is NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian who was threatened with legal action by Browder’s expensive legal team (Komisar and TRR are in possession of a letter sent by the firm to NBC). The threats (or even the mere possibility of legal action—Browder is famously litigious and had his lawyers shut down the filming of an unflattering documentary about him, which I covered for The Nation magazine some years ago) have worked against other US media outlets—but that trick has worked less well in Europe where Browder’s tale has come under the microscope, including by the estimable Der Spiegel in Germany.
But no one has matched Lucy’s encyclopedic grasp of the case. And I suspect no one will.
—James W. Carden
***
In 2012 an explosive story resulted in a U.S. law which blocked visas and froze the assets of dozens of Russians accused by William Browder, a U.S.-born investment fund manager in London, of having organized or abetted the murder of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who he said had accused Russian government officials of complicity in the theft of $230 million from the Russian Treasury.
But investigations show Magnitsky was not a lawyer but was instead Browder’s accountant who was linked to the scam. And he hadn’t been murdered—he died of a badly treated illness during a nearly year-long term in prison where he was detained thanks to an investigation into his managing a multi-million-dollar tax evasion scheme for Browder’s companies.
At the time, and despite his later claims, Browder organized no campaign to free him, admittedly having no contact with him or his lawyers.
Browder, as will become clear, is a brilliant conman. He has gotten the Western media, particularly in the US and UK, to tell his story. He has been invited to speak to the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament. And in its way, the Browder hoax set the stage for Russiagate, itself a complex web of disinformation.
Here is Browder’s story, a litany of scams and corruption.
Making money in Yeltsin’s Russia
More:
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/conman-the-story-of-william-browder
“Yup. They are describing Zelensky.”
My first thought too. Zelensky live ONLY at the pleasure of the Azovs (Ukrainian Nazis), and the Azovs only live to kill Russians. Once that stops, Zelensky has served his purpose.
Bill Browder. Need anybody say more?
It’s amazing to me how these people actually think they’re smart.
I’m not a writer or historian, but common sense tells me that Putin is going to be a hero after this is over.
Russia will have regained land.
Zelensky let this happen. He didn’t need this war, in fact they had a peace agreement early on but Biden and Britain knocked it down.
Zelensky is the guy who is in danger.
puffer
You do believe that Putin will be killed if he pulls out of Ukraine.
Here comes the Daily Mail, your one-stop shop for Ukraine hysteria and recycled saber-rattling! Every day, it’s the same glorious formula: splash a photo of some far-off explosion on the front page, slap on a headline like “Putin Marching to Paris” and fill the pages with speculation about why we’re all one geopolitical sneeze away from Armageddon. It’s one big money grab by the lucky Usuals. Sources? Pfft, who needs ‘em when you’ve got “anonymous insiders.” Grab your bunker-ready popcorn folks, this rag has us perpetually at war, and they’re loving every clickbait second of it.
Yawn.
I don’t see any possible way for an uprising. If and when this thing gets settled, Putin will be universally viewed as a hero, even if parts of Zaporozhia and Kherson are compromised on. I would feel pretty bad for the residents there though. It would be as if America took over a piece of Mexico, added it as a state, gave everyone US passports, then later said “sorry, gotta do taksies backsies”. Hopefully at least those residents will be able to keep their Russian citizenship and not be forced to lose it.
It is going to take months for the MSM to change their narrative to catch up with reality
“You do believe that Putin will be killed if he pulls out of Ukraine.”
He’s said so himself, which is why the Neocons look like ABSOLUTE IDIOTS when they claim they can make it too costly for him to stay there (especially when the Neocons weapons don’t even work).
FO C
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