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Putin: Strongman or sucker?
World Tribune ^ | February 28, 2022 | Larry Ward

Posted on 03/01/2022 6:13:55 AM PST by lward99

First, I don’t view Russian President Vladimir Putin as a hero or victim, but as a pawn. Western intelligence agencies puppeteered Putin into invading Ukraine.

So, how did KGB Putin get outplayed by the West?

Sure, Putin once lived and breathed spy vs. spy, but he has been a politician in charge of a world power for the last 20 years. Politics attracts ass kissers, inflates one’s self worth, and gets people believing the caricature the world sees them as.

For Putin, it’s the strongman.

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; clickbait; larryward; ltard99; putin; putinfanbois; putinpuffers; russia; sorosfanbois; sorospuffers; ukraine; worldtribune
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Thoughts?
1 posted on 03/01/2022 6:13:55 AM PST by lward99
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To: lward99

Assassinate Putin, today.

He’s a mass murdering madman.


2 posted on 03/01/2022 6:15:08 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

And then what? That really is no solution.


3 posted on 03/01/2022 6:16:06 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: lward99

“ Western intelligence agencies puppeteered Putin into invading Ukraine.”

BS conspiracy theory.


4 posted on 03/01/2022 6:16:33 AM PST by libh8er
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To: lward99
Western intelligence agencies puppeteered Putin into invading Ukraine.

I don't believe this. Western intelligence agencies are not that smart. Look at the botch job the tried on Trump.

5 posted on 03/01/2022 6:19:15 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: lward99

Woke guilt is the greatest threat to western civilization


6 posted on 03/01/2022 6:19:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: lward99

“ Thoughts? ”

That you are using FR to push your own blog that no one would otherwise read.


7 posted on 03/01/2022 6:20:05 AM PST by libh8er
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To: lward99

He’s both. And he wouldn’t be the first.


8 posted on 03/01/2022 6:20:37 AM PST by LuxAerterna (/)
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To: lward99

You have to remember WE set the expectation for a quick Russian victory.

Russia set no public expectations. Russia knew about the Javelins, that was public knowledge back in 2019. Now Putin did make a play for the airports to ferry in troops, and that was rebuffed, but it’s like Day Seven and we expect the country to have fallen? Even Baghdad took 20 days, and we had superiority from day one.

Most wars take years. I suspect this one will as well.


9 posted on 03/01/2022 6:21:19 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: lward99

“Strongman or sucker?”

The term “war criminal” is more appropriate.


10 posted on 03/01/2022 6:23:02 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: FlyingEagle

Another George Soros fanboy.


11 posted on 03/01/2022 6:23:24 AM PST by Godebert
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To: lward99

By some measures all politicians share a lot of the same traits. They are all scared little children who need to tell others what to do. They all need to have some power to feel safe and worthy. They may be as powerful as Mao or as inept as Hillary but they all need to be reminded that they are in charge.


12 posted on 03/01/2022 6:24:15 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: libh8er

“ Western intelligence agencies puppeteered Putin into invading Ukraine.”

BS conspiracy theory.


Exactly. That POS wants to reassemble the USSR and his first act in that regard to was to take advantage of a weak, leaderless US and attempt to annex Ukraine.


13 posted on 03/01/2022 6:24:28 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: lward99

Hunter Biden appeared to be bag man to buy Obama government.

Anti-Russian talk from Hillary and Congress proved to Putin that Democrats were bought.

In 2021 Hunter’s father became President. Russian Federation in great danger.

All due to possible violation of emollments clause by son of Vice President Biden.


14 posted on 03/01/2022 6:24:36 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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That’s weak shit there. So in your “mind,” anyone opposing Putin is a Soros fanboy?

Grow up.


15 posted on 03/01/2022 6:25:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: cmj328

And the longer the Ukrainians hold out and stall the Russians, the more pissed off the Russian populace will become. God willing, Putin will experience a “Ceausescu moment.”


16 posted on 03/01/2022 6:26:59 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: Magnum44
Woke guilt is the greatest threat to western civilization

That, and invading other sovereign countries.

17 posted on 03/01/2022 6:28:22 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: lward99

Thoughts? One basement dwelling paranoid conspiracist’s opinion.


18 posted on 03/01/2022 6:28:22 AM PST by chuckee
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To: frogjerk
Western intelligence agencies are not that smart. Look at the botch job the tried on Trump.

And look at how they managed Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, the Arab Spring, etc. etc.

Now they are engaging in an even more destructive and dangerous game in Ukraine.

19 posted on 03/01/2022 6:28:24 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ScottinVA

Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virginia were largely destroyed by Union shelling in the Civil War.

The Taliban asked Afghan mayors to surrender their cities and the mayors did.


20 posted on 03/01/2022 6:29:16 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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