Posted on 06/06/2022 9:00:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Moreover, he wasn’t Joe Stalin.
People really didn’t love Stalin, they feared him.
That source is nothing more than a telegram account that does nothing but post about Putin health
It’s assumed to be a uke propaganda account
So far
Putin has a nervous breakdown
Putin has schizophrenia
Putin has cancer so bad he’s days from death
Putins chemo isn’t working
On and on completely unsubstantiated
I listened to Larry Johnson who in the past ran propaganda campaigns for the CIA discuss this yesterday
Says the level of effort and coordination over this by corporate media etc is unprecedented
Mostly directed by our state department and White House shot callers
Why
Putin is unwoke and in the way and allows zero foreign control of his abundant natural resources
Russia is essentially self sufficient
And Putin is no question in the way of globalism Inc
And he doesn’t suffer queers
That is a major burr for globalists
They want a Russia acts like Germany 2022
LOL!
Most people try to become a better person before they die.
Putin is setting the bar very high for the most evil person of the 21st century.
Khrushchev wasn't ruthless enough so the party didn't feel threatened by him. He was sort of like Gorbachev but he didn't want to change the status quo. Gorbachev knew that the status quo was failing so he attempted to overhaul it and the rest is history.
Interesting thoughts.
Putin (only now, February 2022!) becomes the high holy evil because he opposes the homosexual agenda, because his Russia can be energy independent, and because Biden’s racist-enviro-homosexual-New World Oder globalist agenda has associated Putin and Trump together so long that they cannot think.
But that misses the tens of millions of dollars that the Cheney McCain-Romney Gropelite party is getting from their Ukrainian corruption and connections. Remember always that Pelosi-Biden-Romney sons are “employed “ by Ukrainian oil and gas companies.
Sounds like Putin is looking to have one more victory in this world. He can annoint the first WOMAN leader of Russia. “Take that you US pukes”” We beat you again. /sark
https://www.aol.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-latest-nato-141504898.html An interesting report on a major NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea with many participants.
He knows by spring of next year what a mess Russia will be in, selling less oil and gas at heavily discounted prices when oil prices are much lower, and the full effects of the sanctions wreaking havoc in full measure. A RAT JUMPING OFF A SINKING SHIP.
Yeah, Russia...we’re just having war games. You know, ‘exercises’. That’s all. It’s no threat to you guys at all.
*wink*
The change in how the markets value the ruble has kicked in today. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) no longer gets to set the value for the ruble so it’s going to float freely on the international market where for much of that market the effective value of the ruble is zero (due to sanctions).
The market is already starting to devalue the ruble:
“The Russian currency is still significantly weaker in banks. VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, proposed selling cash dollars and euros for 84.00 and 89.00 roubles, respectively.”
I’m taking a short position on the ruble 120 to $1 for June 13 close of market. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
Thinking some more about this article, I believe this is Putin getting ready to soften his demands, and maybe, maybe, even pull out of East Ukraine (not Crimea).
My view is that anything we can do to demonstrate that blatant aggression has catastrophic consequences for the aggressor is the policy we should be pursuing. So unless the ukrainians decide they want to give in, we should continue helping them bleed the Russians as much as possible.
“The Russian currency is still significantly weaker in banks. VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, proposed selling cash dollars and euros for 84.00 and 89.00 roubles, respectively.”
That says it all.
The only reason I did not include Crimea in my previous comment is that while the people and land are currently being destroyed in East Ukraine, I don’t think that is happening to a great extent in Crimea. Therefore if Putin would pull out of the area he is totally destroying, Ukraine and the west could deal with Putin or his successors next year in Crimea if he is really in failing health and turning over some of the power. My hope, and my goal if I had power, would be to help Ukraine get it all back without a lot more death and bloodshed.
There might possibly be some negotiating room on Crimea. Ukraine to get all the oil and gas reserves for exploration and development. Posibly giving Russia some satisfaction for its century old quest for warm water port access. Enough for commercial shipping, no warships (no need to make Assad happy). A travel corridor outlined for commercial transport between Crimean shipping and Russian land. Some kind of supervisory capacity over what is transported in this corridor, no weapons, no drugs, no human trafficking. Perhaps multinational supervision and policing of the corridor. Just playing with possible ideas. Remembering my days when I helped negotiate some labor agreements successfuly. The bosses were macho Neanderthals, but we woman won our goals after a year of stalling settlment.
I would hope there might be some negotiating room for Crimea, Ukraine getting back the oil and gas resources for exploration and development. Possibly giving some satisfaction to
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