01/15/2023 4:13:02 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 17 replies
https://www.express.co.uk/ ^ | Sun, Jan 15, 2023 | By JOHN VARGA
Posted on 02/26/2023 7:18:46 AM PST by amnestynone
state, a leading Russian opposition politician told Express.co.uk. He also said the only way to remove the Russian President and his "criminal" regime was through the use of force. Andrey Sidelnikov has an extensive background in Russian politics, having initially acted as one of the leaders for Boris Berezovsky's Liberal Party, before going on to help found the Union of Right Forces in 1999 and whose backers included Boris Nemstov and Yegor Gaidar.
Come for us? Across the Atlantic Ocean? Don’t be daft.
Well, there will always be the weak who won’t face the bully. Then they keep getting beaten.
Georgia, no consequence. Crimea, no consequence. So why not invade Ukraine again? Had there been repercussions to the prior two invasions, there just might not have been a third which aid amounts to $200 billion.
Two hundred billion wasted because the weak submissives ran away.
These warmongers like to keep the wars going. Next to be invaded is Moldova and China is watching.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
Thats what we thought about the Soviets and then they just fell apart
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That’s what you thought because you’re an idiot. Smart people knew communism doesn’t work and it would collapse.
No “we” here. Or in my community for that matter.
“We” are the people who hate dicktaters who invade and annex other people’s countries.
You don’t have a soul!
Regards
WE wanted and did everything we could to make this war happen: Fomenting a revolution in Ukraine, installing a government illegally that was hostile toward Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine; funding, arming and building up the largest army in Europe other than Russia's; running biolabs with deadly pathogens in them; trying to expel Russia from a military base in Crimea it had operated since 1783; teasing NATO membership for Ukraine and encouraging Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazis to persecute and kill the ethnic Russian population in Donetsk and Lugansk.
Russia, meanwhile, is the side that has consistently sought peace -- with Minsk Accords, before this war started in December, 2021 and by trying to negotiate an end to war in March of last year. AT EVERY TURN, WE REJECTED PEACE.
You and your ilk are the ones that have pushed us closer to a hot war with Russia, WWIII and nuclear war than we were during the Cold War.
“We” are the people who hate dicktaters who invade and annex other people’s countries.
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At the same time of setting an example for invading countries.
“The only people that support Ukraine’s government are the ones that are brainwashed by the MSM and haven’t looked deep into the background and History of the Ukraine government........or ours under Obugger, Bush,Biden, and Clinton as their foreign policy was to scream patriotism, then destroy countries who were not in like with the petrol dollar.”
Petrodollar rebels like Saddam Hussein, Ghaddafi, and Putin.
“February 2003, Saddam Hussein carried out his “threat” by selling more than 3 billion barrels of crude oil worth 26 billion euros—a month later, the U.S. invasion and total destruction of Iraq, the tragic consequences of which, with the destruction of all infrastructure of the country and the enormous number of civilians killed, are well known. To this day, U.S. authorities strongly argue that the war had absolutely nothing to do with Iraq’s desire to free itself from the petrodollar system.”
2009, as president of the African Union, Muammar Gaddafi proposed to the states of the African continent a real monetary revolution that had every chance of changing the fate of the continent and was therefore met with great enthusiasm—to escape the domination of the U.S. dollar by creating an African currency union in which oil and other African natural resources exports would be paid for mainly in gold dinar, a new currency to be created that would be based on gold reserves and financial assets.
Once the “allies” decided to neutralize the new threat, they did not care much about the strange temporal coincidence in the eyes of observers—more than 40 years of inaction against Gaddafi, who came to power in 1969 and as soon as he presented to the African Union the project of financial revolution, a new civil war broke out in Libya.
At the moment when the new “Arab Spring” in Libya reached the brink of its complete suppression by the forces of the Libyan state, the Americans, remaining in the shadows, used the satellites and vassals—France, Britain and Lebanon—to wrest from oblivion the UN Security Council resolution against Libya of 1973—over 35 years old—to attack and destroy the country.
https://www.thepostil.com/conflict-in-ukraine-genesis/
Truth.
Preach it
The U.S. won’t end the weapons deliveries because Joe Biden is afraid of losing face and his closest advisors such as Victoria Nuland have an irrational hatred for Russia and are total warmongers.
Now, we can add a new danger, resulting from desperation. This is the fact that the U.S. itself may be the biggest loser in the war.
As Ukraine disappears under a massive Russian onslaught, the U.S. will grow increasingly desperate. Its credibility is on the line after committing so much money, materiel and moral weight to Ukraine’s defense.
The Biden administration has essentially turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO, when it never should have been. Ukraine has never been a vital U.S. interest. But the war is existential for Russia, and won’t give up.
Is the U.S. just going to throw up its hands and concede Russian victory? NATO may actually disintegrate in the face of such spectacular failure. So, we’ll probably double down.
Maybe a desperate Biden orders troops into western Ukraine as a buffer against a complete Russian takeover of the country. You can imagine what could go wrong. That situation may quickly devolve into a direct war between the U.S. and Russia rather than the proxy war that it is now.
The American people and investors in particular are not prepared for any of this. They should be. It’s becoming increasingly likely.
https://dailyreckoning.com/the-horrifying-endgame-in-ukraine/
Concerning the fall of the Soviet Union.
Here are the popular reasons Everyone Knows:
1) Reagan pursued the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Soviets went bankrupt trying to keep up. (that wasn’t much money, and SDI never worked to stop much of a % of incoming ICBMs, and still doesn’t)
2) Communism always fails so it was destined to fail! (except it had been in place about 70 years, multiple generations, and had not failed)
3) Oil in Alaska arrived and the price of oil plummeted from $140 to $30 in 5 yrs of the early 1980s and spent most of the next 10 years sub 50. (Except Russia always had enough for its own consumption including tractors and food transport and no one was starving)
All are wrong. The reason the Soviets fell was because they had the bad judgement to presume money meant something and had to behave logically. Their central bank was Gosbank and it was not authorized to create money outside the structure of their 5 year economic ministry plan.
And so they never were permitted to do any QE, the whimsical creation of rubles (the way our Fed creates dollars), and thus the economy could not function when bad times arrived.
Make no mistake. It was that and only that. If their Gosbank had been empowered to create baseless money, as the Fed is and as the Central Bank of the Russian Federation now is, we would still face a Soviet Union, powered by $80 oil and a superior space/missile technology.
Threat to the whole world?
How many failed wars, deficits, money wasted, lives wasted, and civies killed has this “threat to the world” created over the past decades?
You might want to qualify which “threat to the world.”
Man, these FR Ukraine supporters spend their days Virtue Signaling about some other country’s border problems, don’t they?
And I opposed our actions in Serbia, Libya, and Syria.
The Revolutionary Act, proposed by Mr Ponomarev, called for the dissolution of the Russian Federation along with the removal of all powers from President Putin and government institutions.This is a proposal that has had no vote held, by someone who has no power to carry out a vote on it. These are former law makers, they have no real authority. Their effective opposition to Putin is none.The Congress presently consists of 76 former national and local deputies who gathered between them some 5 million votes in previous Russian elections that were still deemed competitive and free.
Shoigu's daughter, grandchild and son in law are safely in Dubai.
I've begun to suspect that Shoigu and the Russian MOD realize what a clusterfark this war is and are deliberately slow walking any offensive in order to keep enough Russian military alive to actually defend the country, waiting for Putin to die or be replaced. It's telling that neither Prigozhin nor Kadyrov were present at Putin's big speech. I wonder if Shoigu isn't letting Prigozhin take the lead to bleed out his private army and, when it fails, to take the blame.
Well the guy is right about one thing.
The only way to remove a sitting president whose policies have 75% approval is by violence.
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