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What happens when the shining city on the hill becomes the home of a felon and a rapist

It encourages others to do the same.
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Svalbard already has some Russian miners living there, but no bases. They are a minority.
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Here's my shocked face. :bored:
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AndyinPA wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:32 pm Svalbard already has some Russian miners living there, but no bases. They are a minority.
Those aren't miners. They are 5th columnists. ;)
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“Russia jails lawyers who acted for late opposition leader Alexei Navalny”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3nnvq7kplo

“Three lawyers who acted for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been given jail terms of up to five-and-a-half years on charges of taking part in an "extremist organisation".
Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023 as Russian authorities intensified pressure on the jailed Kremlin critic, who died suddenly last February in an Arctic prison colony.
They were put on trial behind closed doors in Petushki, a town east of Moscow, and accused of "using their status" to relay messages between Navalny and his colleagues.”

The OSG will be so envious…
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In 2 days he will become a dictator himself and his AG will order all the arrests he wants..
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Russia has wanted mostly ice-free ports since the Tsars. Russia got one, Port Arthur in Manchuria, from China in 1898 but lost it to Japan in 1905.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet has to pass thru Turkey's Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to get to the Mediterranean Sea.

Thus the Russian Naval Base in Tartus, Syria was very important to them. Now they have lost it.

Without any aircraft carriers, Russia is at best a regional naval power.
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As I was saying about Turkey's Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and Russia.

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Stony-Faced Kremlin Propagandists Digest Trump’s Sanctions Threats
“Hooligan” was among the insults thrown at the US president as Russian regime mouthpieces grappled with bad news from Washington.


https://cepa.org/article/stony-faced-kr ... s-threats/
Russia eagerly awaited the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, believing he would lift sanctions and hand Ukraine to the Kremlin on a silver platter. The honeymoon was short-lived.

Trump’s social media post on January 22 threatened Russia with added sanctions and criticized its economy caused shockwaves in Moscow.

Trump wrote: “I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.”

The same propagandists who cheered Trump’s return were left scratching their heads, perhaps remembering the old expression, “Be careful what you wish for.” Ironically, January 22’s broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov started with a video of Russian President Vladimir Putin talking about inflation that had exceeded the levels predicted and anticipated by the government. A segue to Trump’s criticism of Russia’s struggling economy fitted into the show like a missing piece of the puzzle.

Decorated state TV host and leading propagandist Vladimir Solovyov — who often referred to the US president by the affectionate diminutive Trumpushka and repeatedly claimed him as one of Moscow’s own — was grim-faced, as he recited Trump’s threats to impose additional sanctions if Russia rejects his proposal to end its invasion of Ukraine.

The US president had threatened: “If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.”

The rest of the pundits seemed equally dismayed. The same was likely true for the editorial team, who entitled the segment, “Trump resorts to blackmail and threats towards Russia.”

State Duma member Andrey Gurulyov observed: “Any commander will tell you, we won’t be able to achieve anything without an economy.” With anger and frustration boiling over, he said, “Look at what Trump is doing! Let’s be honest, today he stepped out not as the US president, but as the owner of the world . . . He’s acting like a hooligan that hasn’t gotten a beating in a long time. What is he doing? Here we’ve been saying, ‘Trump, Trump,’ but who is he threatening? Is he threatening us? He started with an ultimatum!”

Gurulyov was just getting started. “Is he going to impose sanctions? Is he going to isolate Russia?” He loudly accused Trump of throwing feces at the fan and complained, “You can’t talk to Russia this way!” He urged Putin to start responding to Trump’s posts on X (formerly Twitter), or better yet, to resort to nuclear tests and nuclear strikes. Solovyov eagerly chimed in, once again urging Russia to destroy London, the propagandist’s favored go-to when things are looking grim. But even this time-honored tactic failed to improve the mood in the studio.

On his radio show Full Contact Thursday morning, Solovyov shifted his stance from previous years with a complete 180-degree turn, where the beloved Trumpushka was suddenly a sworn enemy.
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alternate rumour:
Unconfirmed reports that Putin rushed to hospital in Moscow.
Likely means that he was outside of Moscow (dacha?). Could be that he has a specially protected hospital infrastructure at the Kremlin.
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More buyer's remorse. ;)

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Russian spy ship fire exposes poor state of Mediterranean fleet, say experts
Incident reveals Russia’s maritime presence in the area is in a state of disrepair and disarray, argue western sources

Julian Borger
Sat 1 Feb 2025 07.00 CET

A fire onboard a Russian spy ship off the coast of Syria has underlined the poor state of the Russian navy as its toehold in the Mediterranean hangs in the balance, analysts and western security services say.

The 55-year-old Kildin got into trouble off the Syrian coast last Thursday, when flames and thick black smoke could be seen billowing from its funnel and it hoisted two black balls up its mast, signifying that the crew no longer had control of the vessel.

The ship notified a nearby Togolese-flagged cargo freighter, the Milla Moon, that it was unable to steer and warned it to stay at least 2km away. The Russian crew assembled on the Kildin’s aft deck and uncovered the lifeboats, but did not ask for help, and after five hours fighting the fire the Kildin restarted its engines and got under way again.

According to western security services, the ship was in the eastern Mediterranean to monitor events in Syria after the fall in December of the Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad, as the Russian navy began to move military equipment out of the part of the Tartus port it controls.

The western sources argued that the Kildin fire, after another blaze two months earlier on the Russian missile frigate the Admiral Gorshkov, revealed Russia’s maritime presence in the area to be in a state of disrepair and disarray. They said that, at the same time that the Kildin was in distress, two other Russian naval vessels, the landing ships Ivan Gren and the Aleksandr Otrakovsky were also adrift temporarily without control of navigation.

Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that mishaps on Russian naval vessels were nothing new, and not confined to the Mediterranean.

“The Russian navy has historically struggled with maintenance and readiness issues. Fires are not uncommon. Operations are undoubtedly taking a toll on an ageing Russian fleet, which lacks sufficient maintenance and support facilities,” Kofman said.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ay-experts
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Hmm. Let's shift the geography:

Putin's Trump's Weak Hand
President Putin Trump rules a land where oppressed minorities and others who have good reason to loathe the Kremlin White House.
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Volkonski wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:59 am https://bsky.app/profile/cepa.org/post/3lh7c6ihwtl2e Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org‬
“By focusing on Putin’s vulnerabilities, the United States can counter his aggression and hasten the day when the Russian people — including its long-oppressed minorities — can build a future based on freedom and equality.” Mitzi Perdue
Putin’s Weak Hand
President Putin rules a land of oppressed minorities and others who have good reason to loathe the Kremlin.
February 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Except that is not how Russia has ever worked, there is no ingrained concept of "equality" of "freedom" in the sense of western democracies. The "long oppressed minorites" have not sufficient power even when the head of the central power in Moscow gets overturned, the new head will be just another head of the power. There is no inherent discontent and hidden leadership that could trigger a renewed Russian Revolution. The only thing that may happen is that some peripheral vasall states will retain some extra independance.
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RTH10260 wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:48 pm
Volkonski wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:59 am https://bsky.app/profile/cepa.org/post/3lh7c6ihwtl2e Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org‬
“By focusing on Putin’s vulnerabilities, the United States can counter his aggression and hasten the day when the Russian people — including its long-oppressed minorities — can build a future based on freedom and equality.” Mitzi Perdue
Putin’s Weak Hand
President Putin rules a land of oppressed minorities and others who have good reason to loathe the Kremlin.
February 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Except that is not how Rusia has ever worked, there is no ingrained concept of "equality" of "freedom" in the sense of western democracies. The "long oppressed minorites" have not sufficient power even when the head of the central power in Moscow gets overturned, the new head will be just another head of the power. There is no inherent discontent and hidden leadership that could trigger a renewed Russian Revolution. The only thing that may happen is that some peripheral vasall states will retain some extra independance.
Careful there. You're getting close to the line of thought that got me in BIG TROUBLE back in the 60's. I made the mistake of describing the Soviet Communist Party Secretary as simply a direct replacement for the Czar, same power, same behaviour, same stupidity, same unelected, etc.

Boy did I cop it from the school 'glitterati' that were a "bit soft" on Soviet behaviour.
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keith wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:47 am Careful there. You're getting close to the line of thought that got me in BIG TROUBLE back in the 60's. I made the mistake of describing the Soviet Communist Party Secretary as simply a direct replacement for the Czar, same power, same behaviour, same stupidity, same unelected, etc.

Boy did I cop it from the school 'glitterati' that were a "bit soft" on Soviet behaviour.
You certainly should have been intellectually shunned for such an ignorant, counterrevolutionary viewpoint.

Under the old regime, it was "I am the tsar. You are a peasant. Off to Siberia with you!"

But communism was a completely and utterly new form of government that was obviously way better. There was tons of flowery, clever revolutionary rhetoric about the proletariat, revolutionary struggle, bourgeoisie and all sorts of other intellectual terms. It made it sound like there was some actual science behind the system. All that rhetoric and "science" proved that peasants somehow magically were in control, not the tsar, the bourgeoisie or some faceless comissariat. Totally different and way more enlightened! Never mind that the result was the same for those who dared to disagree with the powers that be: Siberia.

I went to school at one of those US schools famous for exuberantly Marxist leanings. Even though it was in the 1980s, well past the glory days of trying to run the city government on communist principles, there was so much of this nonsense that I was halfway expecting to be bombarded with seminars in the English department (my major) like "Shakespeare as Proto-Marxist." I wonder how many people at my alma mater still believe in "the historical inevitability of Leninism-Marxism" these days.

Fortunately, I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut and avoid getting sent to the academic equivalent of a political reeducation camp. I fought back against the system rather passively-aggressively by writing my senior thesis on how the 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer was actually a harbinger of upper-middle class (i.e., bourgeois) economic insecurity as expressed by the three relationship between the three different personas of Chaucer: his behavior in his actual life, how he portrayed others in his poetry and as the fumbling, bumbling caricature of himself who is one of the pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."

In other words, which I wisely didn't put into print, my thesis was a protest of Marxist nonsense that could easily have been titled "Chaucer as Proto-Capitalist."
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My view on Marxist philosophy has always been along the lines of "explanatory power: excellent; predictive power: negative."

Didn't Marx predict that the industrial working class of Germany would lead a revolution, but it was actually the peasant working class in Russia? Big miss.
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Not a window..

So probably not Putin..

probably Ukraine

But possibly criminal gang related

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/ ... /104892800

In short:
Pro-Russian paramilitary leader Armen Sarkisyan has been killed in a bomb explosion at a luxury apartment block in Moscow, according to Russian media.
The bomb detonated as the eastern Ukranian entered the basement of the complex, in what Russian investigators have described as a 'carefully planned' assassination.
Ukraine's security service previously described Mr Sarkisyan as a crime boss who was officially suspected of participating in and aiding 'illegal armed groups'.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/ ... rts-a87886
A well-known St. Petersburg musician fell to his death from the window of his 10th-floor apartment during police searches over his alleged donations to the Ukrainian military, media reported Thursday.

Vadim Stroykin faced up to 20 years in prison if charged and convicted of participating in a terrorist organization for his alleged support of the Ukrainian army, according to the Mash Telegram channel, which is believed to have links to Russia's security services.

The St. Petersburg-based news website Fontanka reported that police searched Stroykin’s apartment in the central Admiralteysky district as part of the criminal case on Wednesday.

“He was last seen alive on the 10th floor when he stepped out into the kitchen to drink water,” Fontanka said.

Stroykin then “hastily opened the window and committed the irreversible act,” according to Mash.

It was not possible to independently verify the reports, which did not indicate what time of day the death occurred. :snippity:
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Stroykin then “hastily opened the window and committed the irreversible act,” according to Mash
And if you buy that, I've got a bridge for sale that spans two New York Burroughs.
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