You are making a valiant effort to do exactly what you are accusing us of.
You claim to be in Biden’s head and know what he wants and thinks.
Russia does not have a “ruling class”?
Russia has suffered democratic backsliding during Putin’s and Medvedev’s tenures. Freedom House has listed Russia as being “not free” since 2005.[31] In 2004, Freedom House warned that Russia’s “retreat from freedom marks a low point not registered since 1989, when the country was part of the Soviet Union.”[32] Alvaro Gil-Robles (then head of the Council of Europe human rights division) stated in 2004 that “the fledgling Russian democracy is still, of course, far from perfect, but its existence and its successes cannot be denied.”[33]
The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Russia as “authoritarian” since 2011,[34] whereas it had previously been considered a “hybrid regime” (with “some form of democratic government” in place) as late as 2007.[35] The Russian Federation states that Russia is a democratic federal law-bound state with a republican form of government, which has been proven of not being acted upon today.[36] According to political scientist, Larry Diamond, writing in 2015, “no serious scholar would consider Russia today a democracy”.[37]
Russia does not have a Foreign Security Service?
The SVR RF succeeded the First Chief Directorate (PGU) of the KGB in December 1991.[1] The SVR has its headquarters in the Yasenevo District of Moscow.
Unlike the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the SVR is tasked with intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works together with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Главное разведывательное управление, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel’noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə], GRU), its military-affairs espionage counterpart, which reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the SVR in 1997.[2] The SVR is also authorized to negotiate anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the Russian president.[3]
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Ukraine is in an impossible position.
It can’t start hostilities since US/NATO have already said they won’t back Ukraine.
And what makes you think that Ukraine wants to start hostilities?
What reason would Ukraine have to start a war with Russia???
They can’t do Minsk because Right Wing opposition is too great.
It can’t stay as it is since the economy is crashing.
Does the US have an alliance with Ukraine?
The United States enjoys cordially friendly and strategic relations with Ukraine and attaches great importance to the success of Ukraine’s transition to a democracy with a flourishing market economy. Ukraine–United States relations - Wikipedia
Ukraine has forced the US/NATO to live up to its stated ideals and US/NATO can’t do that.
The Ukraine has only announced it’s intention to join NATO.
Russia won’t allow that and has threatened to invade Ukraine.
As usual, your perspective is exactly the reverse of existing reality.
And that is the mark of a Troll. I just wonder about your motives for spreading false and misleading propaganda. Care to explain your interest in this international affair.
Why do you think the US is evacuating all its US citizens and most of the diplomatic corps. They are preparing for war if Putin tries to invade Ukraine. This is a clear sign the US means business in case Putin is stupid enough to invade the Ukraine and Zelensky is going to cry for help .
I heard an NPR interview tonight, I didn’t catch who it was, other than an American from the Ukraine. She was just settling into an Airbnb in Poland. She seemed quite nonchalant, and unworried.
The world is being psychologically prepared for war and Russian “aggression” by the USA govt, compliant media and her allies
The West is directing the worlds attention to the Russian military and saying nothing about the Ukrainian military positioned near the Donbass (150.000 men according to two sources). Simple, yet perfidious tactics are being employed, ie. the Ukrainian military will attack the Donbass, Russia would certainly respond (directly or indirectly) and in the process be declared an “aggressor”, giving way to additional sanctions, where the intent is to weaken Russia economically and financially and bring Europe closer to the US by having all trade terminated with Russia.
However, as analysts have pointed out, such a course of action would cause more damage to EU countries than to Russia, not to mention Asia, which will see it’s gas supplies diverted to Europe.
You are wrong again. Russia has no business in Donbass, it is a Ukrainian state and any internal political problems in Ukraine are internal to Ukraine.
Russia want Donbass coal. There is your motive for Russia’s aggression.
Where did you dig up this propaganda rag trying to paint Biden and Pelosi as corrupt individuals , while adoring the “righteous” Donald Trump, that arch-criminal who corrupts and destroys everything he touches.
You’re just a shill for the BCG , the Big Con(servative) Game.
So, if Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked…?!
Y’ever listen to them and get that hopey changey feeling that says:
“Whatever you need to believe to get you out of the embarrassing corner you have painted yourself into, you just believe it… Save face by saying whatever you like. We don’t care as long as you back off before you involve lots of people dying in your idiotic world-wheedling schemes.
-Oh and don’t go taking advice from those plucky little Brits either: their ruling elite have had a collective aneurism long ago and are now brain dead."
What??? Your ability to twist a sentence to make it mean the opposite of what it tries to convey is a hallmark of your devious mind.
US tells the world ; " Russians to invade by 3 am tomorrow."
This is the proper presentation of the news flash; “Intelligence sources state Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will begin on Wednesday afternoon with Europe on the brink of war despite Vladimir Putin pulling back some of his country’s forces”
What do you stand to gain by distortion and blaming the US for Russia’s aggression?
Maybe it is time for moderation to intervene in this theatre of the absurd.
Really, we have just gone through five years of lies and personal attacks by the America’s self-assigned elite. The elites highly synchronize delivery of facts are just turning out to be lies. Biden and the military knew that Russia was not going into Ukraine. No doubt Biden moved troops and weapons just hoping that a war would happen. The world is laughing at the stupidity of America’s leadership. Chalk one more up with Afghanistan withdraw, Keystone, Wuhan lab, Covid testing, mask mandate, high gas prices, inflation and the breaking of the rules of laws with immigration by a coordination of the DC swamp.
And the rich get richer.
I see, Russia is not known for those type of tactics in the past.
The Eastern Bloc never existed, right?
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia under the control and influence of the Soviet Union and its ideology (Marxism–Leninism) imposed upon them that existed during the Cold War (1947–1991) in opposition to the capitalist Western Bloc.
Well then, perhaps the Ukrainians should let Russia have military exercises on Ukrainian soil. I’m sure they would withdraw as soon as they had taken complete control of the nation.
