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Russia Staged Putin 'Assassination' to Justify Mass Mobilization: ISW
Newsweek, Institute for the Study of War ^ | May 3, 2023 | AILA SLISCO

Posted on 05/03/2023 9:02:36 PM PDT by familyop

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To: BobL

the only one who keeps “escalating” this conflict is that warmonger Putin


21 posted on 05/03/2023 9:40:55 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: BobL

And what did Ma Zel do? He gets out of dodge to hide like the little coward he is.

Little cowardly punk.


22 posted on 05/03/2023 9:43:49 PM PDT by crz
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To: canuck_conservative

“the only one who keeps “escalating” this conflict is that warmonger Putin”

Well, up till now, not very much. Kept most of the fighting at the front, and left the east more or less untouched.

But you are right, things will now escalate. Absolutely IDIOTIC of Ukraine to try that stunt.


23 posted on 05/03/2023 9:46:02 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL
Absolutely IDIOTIC of Ukraine to try that stunt

except they didn't, it's an obvious Russian fake

another clumsy staged stunt by "Vladimir Smollett"


24 posted on 05/03/2023 10:01:13 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: familyop

Not sure I trust the ISW, but I will believe it when we hear from the 51 intelligence officials


25 posted on 05/03/2023 10:01:43 PM PDT by map
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To: kiryandil
What nonsense once again....Putins been mobilizing for a long time and has nothing to do with this event. Once again media drama to rile people up.
26 posted on 05/03/2023 10:05:18 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: BobL
September 21, 2022: Russia announces a mass mobilization.
September 26, 2022: Nord Stream pipeline bombings.
27 posted on 05/03/2023 10:06:12 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: canuck_conservative

Don’t be so sure. There is a third possible player you know. And that would be the deepstate.


28 posted on 05/03/2023 10:07:30 PM PDT by Revel
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To: BobL
Kiev Odesa and another city were hit this morning (their time)....but then Putins been striking Ukraine anyway so who knows on any specific day why the strikes continue other than he wants to continue to waken the country and take out Ukraine military and stockpiles.
29 posted on 05/03/2023 10:08:12 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww
What nonsense once again

Just more spew from Vicky Nuland's crowd of neocon grifters.

30 posted on 05/03/2023 10:08:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil
Such never ending nonsense being reported by media in everything these days - let alone Ukraines war. Most people recognize it's not whats happening over there. At best Ukraine might be trying their hardest to divert attention and buy time as they say they're putting together a counter offensive.....we shall see or not.
31 posted on 05/03/2023 10:14:57 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: familyop
Just like Russia blew up their own Nord Stream pipelines! And, Putin is dead and Russia is using a body double in his place.

The Biden regime, the British government and Ukrainians lie. Repeatedly.

32 posted on 05/03/2023 10:33:35 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: familyop

We have no way of telling what is true in this war.

Several sources are claimed for this but apparently this one is right:

“The first casualty when war comes is truth”

....was coined by Hiram Johnson a Republican US Senator from California who served in the United States Senate for nearly 30 years, beginning in the midst of World War I and concluding with his death in 1945—as it happens, on the same day the U.S. dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.


33 posted on 05/03/2023 10:36:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: familyop

Makes sense only if you believe Russia blew up it’s own pipeline. You probably also believe then Biden actually won the election.


34 posted on 05/03/2023 10:50:47 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: BobL
things will now escalate

When Stoltenberg announced last week that Ukraine will be a member of NATO, he signed Ukraine's death certificate.

35 posted on 05/03/2023 11:04:07 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: familyop

Gee, everybody was hoping Putin was killed or imprisoned. So when somebody tries to actually kill him.... He did it to himself.

So Russia blew up the Nordstream Pipeline, Putin murdered the daughter of his advisor with a car bomb, Putin is killing Russian civilians as well as the Ukrainians (who have never killed Russian speaking Ukrainians), eats Ukrainian babies .....

Putin is also using NATO/US satellite and air assets to cordinate Russian soldiers positions and Putin is letting the US/NATO deliver ammo, equipment and training to get his Russian soldiers slaughtered.

Makes sense to me.

It all is a lie. The Russians are losing 100’s of thousands of men and entire tank battalions, jet squadrons and the entire officer corps is 1st year recruits taken from prisons because of Ukrainian grannies with molotov cocktails, meanwhile Ukrainians are holding on to Bakhmut and all the weapons supplies being sunk or destroyed in convoy.

Well, I think Putin is going to show NATO/US/deep state/WEF/ and the rest of the west that the targeted assasinations doorway goes both ways and if this is a war to the last man.... Ukraine is going to have to kill another 900,000 men and figure out a way to stop hypersonic missles... that don’t have nukes on them......yet.

I’m sure Finland, the Baltics, Moldova, Poland and Germany are stocking up on iodine tablets, solar panels and windmills..... and all the US congress and senate are speed dialing thier brokers to buy Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed, AeroVironment Inc, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, General Atomics that they can get their hands on. ....


36 posted on 05/03/2023 11:12:47 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b><i></I></B><P> <img src=""> )
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Competition for UAVs to land on Red Square announced in Ukraine

Ukraine has announced a competition for a drone that will be able to land on Red Square in Moscow on May 9.

The competition was announced by the co-founder of monobank and developer of the Dovbush drone Volodymyr Yatsenko.

The offer is open for developers of Ukrainian drones with a prize fund of 20 million hryvnias.

“So, I am officially awarding a prize to a Ukrainian UAV manufacturer, whose aircraft, with the help of the military, of course, will fly and land on Red Square in Moscow on May 9,” Yatsenko wrote on social media.

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/competition-for-uavs-to-land-on-red-square-announced-in-ukraine/

37 posted on 05/03/2023 11:23:25 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Yo! Yo! Yo! I b da offishall FR Youkazoid spokes man 'n here b da reel troof:

Youcrane dey b playin' with the drone 'n all dat shizzle not workin' out 'cause dey waste drone 2 kil Hitler V. Putin but he b alreddy dead, yo! Dats b right, yo, Putin he die frum blocked Philopian tube 'n he has uterin canser to, yo 'n he died last yer, yo! Dat mean Youcrayne b winnin', yo!

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38 posted on 05/04/2023 12:54:56 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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You must admit that to stage this drone attack and call it a “terrorist strike” in the context of the illegal entry of Russian forces into Ukraine is both humorous in a macabre way, and sad to think they would expect anyone to believe such a theory (contest aside, it just seems too convenient to spot the drone over the Kremlin at the very last possible second before it did what it came to do, which I presume was to explode very close to Putin, again, a big ask if you send off a drone hours in advance and have no clue where Putin might be).

At some point Putin is going to run out of people he can send off to be killed, or more likely, he will run out of people who want to be in that category. Especially if the ordinary people of Russia begin to perceive that only a handful of people around Putin gain anything from all this, and even there, hard to see what gain this may be. Of the active and noisy pro-Kremlin brigade here, I wonder if any of you can enlighten us as to the actual point of this large-scale killing operation (on both sides). I get the concept of anti-globalism, but I never thought that killing thousands of young Russian men and assorted citizens of Ukraine would make globalism go away. Will it? When?


39 posted on 05/04/2023 1:44:51 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (In leftspeak, "disproven false claim" means fact. "Intolerance" means revulsion. "Progress" =failure)
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To: familyop

Sort of like a staged kidnapping attempt of a state governor?


40 posted on 05/04/2023 2:03:46 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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