That is how I thought you'd react, but you did say you supported Putin 100% in this, and the arresting of protestors is part of it. Hence the modicum of doubt.
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That is how I thought you'd react, but you did say you supported Putin 100% in this, and the arresting of protestors is part of it. Hence the modicum of doubt.
I don't see how Putins domestic policies, which appear to be even more authoritarian than our own, are meaningfully connected to the situation in Ukraine. You might say if those protests grew large enough they might put pressure on Putin to withdraw from Ukraine, or accept some settlement that failed to secure Russian objectives? The trouble with that argument is you'd then have to concede Putin listens to the public. Which, in turn, destroys the narrative he's gone mad and is the next Hitler. Or, you could say you don't believe in the western propaganda, in which case Putin is not insane, is not Hitler and therefore might have legitimate (not legal, but legitimate) reasons for the actions he's taken. Not that he has taken these actions alone, of course. There's more than one centre of power in Moscow, unless you revert to the western propaganda. And around it goes.
Unfortunately, given the bad faith and track record of the west in such matters, sometime protests are not protests at all but rather a prelude to externally sponsored revolution, as we saw in Ukraine in 2014. I scan read a report the other day that suggested the US has directly intervened in the overthrow of 50 foreign governments since WWII. Which puts the Facebook ads that supposedly swung the 2016 US election into a suitably ridiculous light. So I'm not for the suppression of protest, not even the brutal and highly illegal suppression of the Canadian protest, but I can understand why an authoritarian like Putin might be. Because I don't agree with it doesn't mean Putin pays a blind bit of notice to what I believe or think. This is the mistake (deliberate in many cases) western observers are making. They are judging Putin's and Russia's actions based on our political systems (or the theatre we play out, at least), our military doctrine (for example, Shock and Awe - or mass murder to call it what it is) and our (not Russia's) economic and geopolitical interests.
A funny thing I saw this morning. Several "news" papers were running a shock story about Russia attacking military installations "just a few miles from the NATO border". Do you see how it works? The "NATO" border? Not Poland, not Hungary, not any supposedly independent nation, but the "NATO" border. Which NATO has continuously expanded up to the borders of Russia. By this logic, had Ukraine been absorbed by NATO, Russian exercises inside their own territory might be "just a few miles from the NATO border".
If you look at Lenin's strategy in 1917 you'd realise why the authoritarian regime in Canada was so panicked by the truckers. Lenin understood you don't need to confront the enemy on the battlefield to win a revolution. You just need to seize and control the vital chokepoints of a nation, like railway stations, factories, farms. Trudeau and his fascists understood this, as the truckers who move essential goods paralysed a city. And did you hear them complaining about "foreign funding" as they froze and tried to steal donations made by US citizens? I'm sure Putin appreciates the same threats, particularly as the west has openly called for his overthrow and are undoubtedly pouring funds into the effort.
Of course if the Russian and western governments actually represented their people none of this would be happening. But, for some reason, people want to be led by criminals and sadists. They even queue up to vote for shit like this. I can't figure it out, but each to their own.
Musk is a cunt.
I don’t know about that.
He’s a bloody loony
Maybe, maybe not. But he's certainly making you and your kind look like the laughing stocks you are.
https://yt3.ggpht.com/2mc1GMHb9vfHBC...lQ=s1600-nd-v1
In the future people will write books about your lot - all of them cautionary tales.
£350 a month to take some Ukrainians into your home. :lol:
I think I’d be needing a lot more than that…
Why not stick them all in Buckingham Palace?
Eastern Europeans :bow: