Thread: How dangerous is Vladimir Putin?

Doesn't really matter what they do while they are sourcing alternative suppliers.

The damage has been done.

Clare Daly, MEP for Dublin, speaking in an EU debate.

5:38 PM · Apr 7, 2022

"The EU economic war against Russia does nothing to help innocent Ukrainian citizens, victims of this illegal war. Russia is undeterred, while EU citizens face disastrous inflation, rocketing energy costs, and a historic decline in living standards. This is madness…"

https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/sta...16960690823170

Oh dear, not content with sanctions, NaGastan will now illegally steal some Russians citizens wealth.

White House unveils plan to sell Russian oligarchs' houses and yachts to help Ukraine

Sinéad Baker and Ben Gilbert

19 hours ago

• The White House proposed a new system for selling seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine's defense.
• The proposal allows for the sale of "property linked to Russian kleptocracy" seized due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• It's the latest step from the Biden administration to financially pressure Russia.

"The White House revealed plans on Thursday intended to enhance the US's ability to seize mansions and yachts owned by the wealthiest and most powerful Russians — and sell them to help fund Ukraine's defense.

The White House said the proposal would create new authorities that can seize "property linked to Russian kleptocracy" and "allow the government to use the proceeds to support Ukraine."

The plan targets Russia's oligarchy — a small group of influential and wealthy Russians, many with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin."

White House Plans to Sell Russian Oligarch Assets to Help Ukraine

No news of finding, to date, despite the demise of Swiss and Austrian bank secrecy thanks to FATCA pressure, a trace of THE LORDS, alleged by our TD financial experts, 50,000,000,000 .... stash.

Another TD "informed" experts/NaGastan failure.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Clare Daly, MEP for Dublin, speaking in an EU debate.

Hoohoo try and keep up, we've already established she's as thick as fucking shit (or sabang, take your pick).

In late January 2022, Daly described the Russian troop build up on the Ukrainian border as being "clearly defensive" and believed there is "no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them".

Originally Posted by OhOh

Oh dear, not content with sanctions, NaGastan will now illegally steal some Russians citizens wealth.

Russia bombed Ukraine. It's only fair Russia pays for the damage.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Russia bombed Ukraine. It's only fair Russia pays for the damage.

Every last penny that can be taken from those Russian bastards should be taken.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been invited to attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in November by host nation Indonesia.

Indonesia Invites Zelenskiy To G20 Summit In November That Putin Plans To Attend

Empire of Lies Eager to Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business Card

Pepe Escobar


April 29, 2022

"The only antidote to propaganda dementia is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed.
Especially since the onset of GWOT (Global War on Terror) at the start of the millennium, no one ever lost money betting against the toxic combo of hubris, arrogance and ignorance serially deployed by the Empire of Chaos and Lies.

What passes for “analysis” in the vast intellectual no-fly zone known as U.S. Think Tankland includes wishful thinking babble such as Beijing “believing” that Moscow would play a supporting role in the Chinese century just to see Russia, now, in the geopolitical driver’s seat.

This is a fitting example not only of outright Russophobic/Sinophobic paranoia about the emergence of peer competitors in Eurasia – the primeval Anglo-American nightmare – but also crass ignorance about the finer points of the complex Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership.
As Operation Z methodically hits Phase 2, the Americans – with a vengeance – have also embarked on their symmetrical Phase 2, which de facto translates as an outright escalation towards Totalen Krieg, from shades of hybrid to incandescent, everything of course by proxy. Notorious Raytheon weapons peddler reconverted into Pentagon head, Lloyd Austin, gave away the game in Kiev:

“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”

So this is it: the Empire wants to annihilate Russia. Cue to War Inc.’s frenzy of limitless weapon cargos descending on Ukraine, the overwhelming majority on the road to be duly eviscerated by Russian precision strikes. The Americans are sharing intel 24/7 with Kiev not only on Donbass and Crimea but also Russian territory. Totalen Krieg proceeds in parallel to the engineered controlled demolition of the EU’s economy, with the European Commission merrily acting as a sort of P.R. arm of NATO.

Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed. The West ignores them at their own collective peril.

Patrushev goes Triple-X unplugged

Let’s start with President Putin’s speech to the Council of Legislators in St. Petersburg celebrating the Day of Russian Parliamentarism.

Putin demonstrated how a hardly new “geopolitical weapon” relying on “Russophobia and neo-Nazis”, coupled with efforts of “economic strangulation”, not only failed to smother Russia, but impregnated in the collective unconscious the feeling this an existential conflict: a “Second Great Patriotic War”.
With off the charts hysteria across the spectrum, a message for an Empire that still refuses to listen, and doesn’t even understand the meaning of “indivisibility of security”, had to be inevitable:
“I would like to emphasize once again that if someone intends to interfere in the events taking place from the outside and creates threats of a strategic nature unacceptable to Russia, they should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning fast. We have all the tools for this. Such as no one can boast of now. And we won’t brag. We will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know about it – we have made all the decisions on this matter.”

Translation: non-stop provocations may lead Mr. Kinzhal, Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat to be forced to present their business cards in select Western latitudes, even without an official invitation.
Arguably for the first time since the start of Operation Z, Putin made a distinction between military operations in Donbass and the rest of Ukraine. This directly relates to the integration in progress of Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkov, and implies the Russian Armed Forces will keep going and going, establishing sovereignty not only in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics but also over Kherson, Zaporozhye, and further on down the road from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea, all the way to establishing full control of Nikolaev and Odessa.

The formula is crystal clear: “Russia cannot allow the creation of anti-Russian territories around the country.”

Now let’s move to an extremely detailed interview by Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, where Patrushev sort of went triple-X unplugged.

The key take away may be here: “The collapse of the American-centric world is a reality in which one must live and build an optimal line of behavior.” Russia’s “optimal line of behavior” – much to the wrath of the universalist and unilateralist hegemon – features “sovereignty, cultural and spiritual identity and historical memory.”
Patrushev shows how “tragic scenarios of world crises, both in past years and today, are imposed by Washington in its desire to consolidate its hegemony, resisting the collapse of the unipolar world.” The U.S. goes no holds barred “to ensure that other centers of the multipolar world do not even dare to raise their heads, and our country not only dared, but publicly declared that it would not play by the imposed rules.”

Patrushev could not but stress how War Inc. is literally making a killing in Ukraine: “The American and European military-industrial complex is jubilant, because thanks to the crisis in Ukraine, it has no respite from order. It is not surprising that, unlike Russia, which is interested in the speedy completion of a special military operation and minimizing losses on all sides, the West is determined to delay it at least to the last Ukrainian.”

And that mirrors the psyche of American elites: “You are talking about a country whose elite is not able to appreciate other people’s lives. Americans are used to walking on scorched earth. Since World War II, entire cities have been razed to the ground by bombing, including nuclear bombing. They flooded the Vietnamese jungle with poison, bombed the Serbs with radioactive munitions, burned Iraqis alive with white phosphorus, helped terrorists poison Syrians with chlorine (…) As history shows, NATO has also never been a defensive alliance, only an offensive one.”

Previously, in an interview with the delightfully named The Great Game show on Russian TV, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had once again detailed how the Americans “no longer insist on the implementation of international law, but on respect for the ‘rules-based world order’. These ‘rules’ are not deciphered in any way. They say that now there are few rules. For us, they don’t exist at all. There is international law. We respect it, as does the UN Charter. The key provision, the main principle is the sovereign equality of states. The U.S. flagrantly violates its obligations under the UN Charter when it promotes its ‘rules’”.

Lavrov had to stress, once again, that the current incandescent situation may be compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis: “In those years, there was a channel of communication that both leaders trusted. Now there is no such channel. No one is trying to create it.”
The Empire of Lies, in its current state, does not do diplomacy.

The pace of the game in the new chessboard

In a subtle reference to the work of Sergei Glazyev, as the Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union explained in our recent interview, Patrushev hit the heart of the current geoeconomic game, with Russia now actively moving towards a gold standard: “Experts are working on a project proposed by the scientific community to create a two-circuit monetary and financial system. In particular, it is proposed to determine the value of the ruble, which should be secured by both gold and a group of goods that are currency values, to put the ruble exchange rate in line with real purchasing power parity.”

That was inevitable after the outright theft of over $300 billion in Russian foreign reserves. It may have taken a few days for Moscow to be fully certified it was facing Totalen Krieg. The corollary is that the collective West has lost any power to influence Russian decisions. The pace of the game in the new chessboard is being set by Russia.

Earlier in the week, in his meeting with the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, Putin went as far as stating that he’d be more than willing to negotiate – with only a few conditions: Ukrainian neutrality and autonomy status for Donbass. Yet now everyone knows it’s too late. For a Washington in Totalen Krieg mode negotiation is anathema – and that has been the case since the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine meeting in Istanbul in late March.

So far, on Operation Z, the Russian Armed forces have used only 12% of its soldiers,10% of its fighter jets, 7% of its tanks, 5% of its missiles, and 4% of its artillery. The pain dial is set to go substantially up – and with the total liberation of Mariupol and the resolution one way or another of the Donbass cauldron there is nothing the hysteria/propaganda/weaponizing combo deployed by the collective West can do to alter facts on the ground.

That includes desperate gambits such as the one uncovered by SVR – Russian foreign intel, which very rarely makes mistakes. SVR found out that the Empire of Lies/War Inc. axis is pushing not only for a de facto Polish invasion to annex Western Ukraine, under the banner of “historical reunification”, but also for a joint Romanian/Ukrainian invasion of Moldova/Transnistria, with Romanian “peacekeepers” already piling up near the Moldova border.

Washington, as the SVR maintains, has been plotting the Polish gambit for over a month now. It would “lead from behind” (remember Libya?), “encouraging” a “group of countries” to occupy Western Ukraine. So partition is already on the cards. Were that ever to materialize, it will be fascinating to bet on which locations Mr. Sarmat would be inclined to distribute his business card."

https://www.strategic-culture.org/ne...business-card/

Originally Posted by OhOh

Were that ever to materialize, it will be fascinating to bet on which locations Mr. Sarmat would be inclined to distribute his business card."

Oh, so edgy. Yawn.

I can't tell who pays Mr. Escobar the most, the chinkies or Puffy.

'Cos he seems to have his nose stuck up both arseholes.

He was also totally right about the Syrian rebellion, and it's outcome. No wonder you hate him 'arry.

Originally Posted by sabang

He was also totally right about the Syrian rebellion, and it's outcome. No wonder you hate him 'arry.

He was kissing Putin's arse while Putin was bombing Syrian civilians.

Predicting the outcome of that is about as useful as you predicting Puffy wouldn't invade Ukraine.

If you look closely you can see Puffy's hand under the table, going up his arse.

Putin will be remembered as the man, who shook the West out of it's deep sleep. With Russia effectively gone, we wll now deal with China. Hopefully without war.

Originally Posted by Looper

I wish they could get a wireless USB camera on the nose.

It actually does have a camera on the nose. They just need to sort out the wifi link for the YouTube channel and OnlyFans live stream...

Originally Posted by sabang

He was also totally right about the Syrian rebellion, and it's outcome.

Oh dear . . . something you'd best steer clear of, in terms fo an argument . . . too late

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Predicting the outcome of that is about as useful as you predicting Puffy wouldn't invade Ukraine.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

Putin will be remembered as the man, who shook the West out of it's deep sleep. With Russia effectively gone, we wll now deal with China.

Hopefully so

Originally Posted by Backspin

How the system works against persons it doesn't like
. I hate trump but this is the example they used. Same has a aid about Kim in N Korea

All of which proves nothing, apart from the FACT that you are as stupid as a stupid person can be.

You manage to shoot yourself in both feet more often than both of the barking mad schitzoids.

^ I knew you were gonna like that one Ch-ass

Originally Posted by Backspin

^ I knew you were gonna like that one Ch-ass

Oh no you didn’t. The back end of a pantomime horse knows less than nothing. A bit like you in fact.