Vladimir Putin

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[Volkonski]

Putin is talking a lot today.

[Atticus Finch]

WMD Russian version.

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Erdogan will tell Putin to stop Ukraine war in call on Sunday -spokesman http://reut.rs/3pGDNcT

[Foggy]

Erdogan may have forgotten who's the boss in that relationship.

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To be clear, RT is propaganda from the Russian government.

Putin explains why Ukraine attack went beyond Donbass
The Russian leader claims Moscow wanted to prevent the West from helping “nationalists”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he chose to attack Ukraine beyond the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) to prevent the West from “endlessly” supplying “nationalists and radicals” with various resources, such as weapons and money. He added that the Russian forces were “practically done” destroying Ukrainian military sites, such as air defenses and weapons depots.

The president stated that he had ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine last week in order to neutralize the “real threat” coming from Kiev and NATO. Moscow has long protested the Western military infrastructure along its borders and Ukraine’s aspirations to join the US-led bloc.

“They began to say more actively that they will admit [Ukraine] to NATO. What will this lead to? All other members of the alliance must back Ukraine in the case of a military conflict,” Putin said. “They will [attack] Crimea, and we will be forced to go to war with NATO. Do you understand the consequences?” The president stated that he wanted Ukraine to become a neutral country.

Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. It was during that time that the DPR and LPR broke away from Ukraine.

“Let’s acquire nuclear weapons, they say [in Ukraine]. We can’t simply ignore it,” Putin said, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s remark last month that Kiev might be forced to reconsider its status as a non-nuclear-weapons state.

Russia invaded its neighbor on February 24, arguing that it was defending the DPR and LPR. Putin also claimed he was seeking the “demilitarization and denazification” of the country.

Kiev said the attack was entirely unprovoked and appealed to the international community for help. Many countries, including the US, the UK, and EU member states, have since imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia.

https://www.rt.com/russia/551314-putin- ... ne-tactic/

[New Turtle]

Check it out, all those women around him were added in digitally. Reflection from the teapot looks like they just stuck a table in some parking garage.


EtA: the microphone thing may be an artifact from video compression and the microphomes are really there.

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[Phoenix520]

[Slim Cognito]

that's gonna leave a mark.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3 ... ed-himself

Just like your Fox News-spewing uncle, Putin has brainwashed himself
After Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told President Obama that she was unsure if Vladimir Putin was “in touch with reality,” and that he seemed to be “living in another world.” This was an unusually frank assessment from Merkel, and to many it suggested she believed Putin was exhibiting signs of insanity. Strategic analysts rushed to point out that Putin was merely fulfilling his vision of Russian nationalism, and however warped and belligerent that worldview might be, it was not a symptom of any mental instability. Likewise, that his aggressive stance toward Ukraine at the time was rooted in his perception that “for hundreds of years, Ukraine was part of the Tsarist and Stalinist empires, and it will remain in Russia’s sphere of influence.” Thus, while possibly erratic and even irrational to Western eyes, Putin’s actions were explainable.

As reported by Eric Levitz, writing for New York Magazine, for example:

Western officials who interacted with Putin before and after COVID’s onset have almost invariably reported a change in his demeanor. After conducting five hours of talks with the Russian leader last month, Macron suggested that Putin was not the same man he had met at Elysée palace in December 2019.

Bernard Guetta, a member of the European Parliament who accompanied Macron in Moscow, said on French radio afterward, “I think this man is losing his sense of reality, to say it politely.”

“All our Russia-watchers, watching his press conferences, think that he’s descending even more into a despotic mindset,” a European diplomat told the Guardian in late February.

Putin has simply brainwashed himself. He is a victim of his own relentless, propaganda, just like your seemingly irrational uncle or brother-in-law who, addicted to a diet of Fox News and right-wing social media, has simply abandoned reality as it exists in favor of his own prejudices and predispositions. Just like that uncle, aunt, or brother-in-law, Putin has reduced his social and political circles to the point where the only people he has contact with are those who agree with him. And just like those addled millions in our own country he will continue to double-down on his propaganda because that is what self-deluded people do. Their own identity is so wrapped up, so committed to their belief system that they cannot fathom its destructiveness to their own interests.

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What an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting Reveals About Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/arti ... cumentary/

Three days before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine, he presided over a meeting with his security council that struck seasoned Western observers as an alarming piece of political theater.

Sitting alone, far across the room from his council, Putin asked its members whether he should recognize two pro-Russia separatist regions in Ukraine as independent — a move some Western observers saw as a prelude to a full-scale invasion.

“It was unhinged — having his national security team, one by one, press him to invade Ukraine,” Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, observes in the opening scene of Putin’s Road to War, a new FRONTLINE documentary premiering Tuesday, March 15 at 9/8c on PBS and online.



“[Putin] seemed to go off the rails, angry and berating his intelligence chief,” recalls Schake, who previously served at the U.S. State Department, the Department of Defense and the National Security Council. “It was such a strange and such an orchestrated performance, that that’s the moment when I realized that Putin was actually going to attack Ukraine.”

Frontline videos in full will be available on your pbs.org.

[Chilidog]

And????????

[MN-Skeptic]

So it was a bad thing that Eliot Ness did not have a “great relationship” with Al Capone?

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Via Banksy

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Wow. Even copying Trump's logo style.
Can't get much further up that orange ass..

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https://www.insideedition.com/fearing-p ... taff-73847

Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian state TV today to denounce Russians who opposed his war with Ukraine as “scum” and “traitors.”

But behind the scenes, the dictator is increasingly paranoid and fears that someone in his inner circle will poison him, a new report says.

Daily Beast contributing editor Craig Copetas says he’s been told that Putin has people tasting his food before he eats it and that last month, he replaced his entire personal staff of 1,000 people.

“Laundresses, secretaries, cooks — to a whole new group of people. The assessment from the intelligence community is that he's scared,” Copetas said.

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

Anyone know Russian and happen to have built up an immunity to iocane?

[Volkonski]

https://www.insideedition.com/fearing-p ... taff-73847

Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian state TV today to denounce Russians who opposed his war with Ukraine as “scum” and “traitors.”

But behind the scenes, the dictator is increasingly paranoid and fears that someone in his inner circle will poison him, a new report says.

Daily Beast contributing editor Craig Copetas says he’s been told that Putin has people tasting his food before he eats it and that last month, he replaced his entire personal staff of 1,000 people.

“Laundresses, secretaries, cooks — to a whole new group of people. The assessment from the intelligence community is that he's scared,” Copetas said.

Windows, he needs to stay away from windows.

He replaced 1000 people from his personal staff who presumably had been vetted and proven loyal with strangers?

[Lani]

Frontline had episodes about Putin earlier this week. It claims Putin was a mediocre KGB person. Somehow he got in with people rising to power, including the man who would next lead the country. When Russia was in a deep depression and people were starving, Russia received a huge amount of money to buy food. Putin made sure that press raved about it. He worked closely with the business/department/whatever received the money. Then nothing else was done. There was a brief period during which there were calls to find out happened to the money. Then silence.

And that was when his "career" took off. Fascinating information. (Also, depressing.) The two episodes are on PBS.

[Danraft]

https://www.insideedition.com/fearing-p ... taff-73847

Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian state TV today to denounce Russians who opposed his war with Ukraine as “scum” and “traitors.”

But behind the scenes, the dictator is increasingly paranoid and fears that someone in his inner circle will poison him, a new report says.

Daily Beast contributing editor Craig Copetas says he’s been told that Putin has people tasting his food before he eats it and that last month, he replaced his entire personal staff of 1,000 people.

“Laundresses, secretaries, cooks — to a whole new group of people. The assessment from the intelligence community is that he's scared,” Copetas said.

Windows, he needs to stay away from windows.

He replaced 1000 people from his personal staff who presumably had been vetted and proven loyal with strangers?

Exactly my question. Doent pass the smell test.