The world needs to defend Ukraine and attack Russia. China will not help Russia, no one will. I have been saying it from the beginning. You might not like it, but it is the correct answer.
And what does the Kremlin and Putin (the dictator who arrests protestors, bans words, shuts down independent media, and jails and murders political opponents) want you to believe?
And what does the Kremlin and Putin (the dictator who arrests protestors, bans words, shuts down independent media, and jails and murders political opponents) want you to believe?
You mean like hundreds of Jan 6 protestors sitting in a DC gulag right now in deplorable conditions with no bail, Facebook, Twitter and MSM cancel culture banning speech they don't like labeling it "conspiracy theories?
Definition of a conservative Republican: whining about CAncEL cULtUrE while banning books, banning black history, supporting anti-freedom Putin, enslaving women with forced birth, canceling Liz Cheney and Big Bird, Colin Kaepernick, protecting child groomer Matt Gaetz, and having cocaine orgies.
And crying MAGA tears because sane people won't pretend their right wing meth-addled antivaxxing and science-denying QAnon Boomer bullshit isn't a bunch of deranged, delusional conspiracy theory crap. You people are effing nuts, no wonder youth voters despise the right. #YouAreWhyTrumpLost
Facts, reality and truth always trigger you braindead slaves who worship child-killing war criminal Putin and birther bigot Epstein-bestie Trump, the two biggest pathological liars on the planet.
No I don't mean like QAnon conspiracy theorists and dumb old racist Boomers who think their whiteness places them above the law being held accountable for the first time in their sorry lives, for falling for Dementia Donald's sore loser election lies, beating and killing cops with Nazi and Confederate flags, smearing feces on the walls of the Capitol, and trying to assassinate politicians to illegally overthrow democracy.
Sorry my comments triggered you into spending your Sunday obsessing over me, cry some more.
"Sickening pictures from Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, show the corpses of residents who had been bound, shot and left by the side of the road. The mayor of Bucha said that some 270 people had been found in two mass graves and another 40 were lying dead in the streets."
And yet Trump, Tucker Carlson, and his cocaine orgy cult of radical right QAnon extremist groomers, child rapists, and pedos is siding with this sick butcher Putin over Europe. The Rethugliklan Party is evil and needs to be destroyed.
Did you see with your own eyes how he killed Nemstov? It was not beneficial to Putin. Here the topic is different. Which media do you think is independent?
Nothing but excuses. There is literally not anything Putin has done that you will not support, defend, and make excuses for, like a good little slave.
Which media is allowed to call Putin's war a "war"?
Who killed Putin-critics Nemstov, Litvinenko, Politskovaya, Magnitsky, Berezovsky, Estemirova, Shchekochikhin, and Yushenkov? Who jailed Navalny? Why are antiwar protestors being arrested?
You have no answers. You have nothing to say but what Putin allows you to say. Are you happy being a puppet and a slave?
99% of what Russia claims about Ukraine no one saw with their own eyes..only they are all Putin's claims. 😂😂 What we see however is how Putin is annexing Ukraine and how Putin is denying Ukraine its legitimate statehood. Can't play this game bro.
And yet it was Drama Queen Donnie's administration that turned the Rethuglikkklan Party into a cesspool of insurrection, treason, corporate socialism, and pedo cocaine orgies. Although Republican House Speaker and convicted child rapist Denny Hastert got the ball rolling on that first.
Okay, so you are just taking Q talking points, removed Pizza, changed it from Dem to Rethuglikkklan (bravo, definitely doesn’t reek of brain worms), and what? step 3) profit?
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." - child rapist pedo and Putin-puppet Trump on his child rapist bestie Epstein, following in the footsteps of child rapist House Speaker Denny Hastert. As D.C. Republicans have cocaine orgies led by child groomer Matt Gaetz, according to Madison Cawthorn. Satanic and evil.
You can spend all Sunday crying phony triggered hypocrite tears about comments, and I'm going to keep doing and saying exactly what I want to do. Your opinion is irrelevant and will not change anything. Keep crying!
"Russophobia" = anybody who knows a dictator who has to jail political opponents, arrest protestors, and shut down media outlets is a liar.
Putin murdered Nemstov and Litvinenko, flattened Aleppo and Grozny, pushed white supremacist Trump (who tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020 and praised tiki torch anti-Semites), bombs children, is forcing Ukranians into "filtration camps" -- but Ukraine is the Nazi? 😂 Stupid indeed.
Does "the propaganda faucet" include Putin banning the word "war," throwing Navalny in prison, murdering Nemstov and Litvinenko, arresting antiwar protestors, banning Facebook and Instagram, and shutting down independent media?
Oh lord, another dumb incel who fell for the white male supremacist status quo's anti-Hillary bullshit that elected child rapist pedophile Trump.
Hillary was investigated for 30 years of Rethuglikkklan witch hunts that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and found nothing, but you're too much of a low IQ Tucker Carlson simp to figure it out.
And who killed the journalist Oles Buzina? Who killed Pavel Sheremet? Also Putin? Facebook and Instagram the first start to ban any pro-Russian information. Similarly, Europe was the first to ban Russian TV channels. You look at the world only from one side.
You are not pro-Russian, you are pro-Putin. A pro-Russian person wouldn't support lying, murderous, evil, corrupt dictator Putin destroying the Russian people, robbing the country for his greedy oligarchs, waging war on other Slavs, and sending Russian teenagers to die for his ego.
You don't care about Russia any more than Putin does. You're just another weak, brainwashed Putin slave. Sad!
Recently, my country has faced unprecedented injustice towards ordinary citizens. So don't tell me that you are anti-Putin and not anti-Russian. As for me, I will decide for myself.
No, Facebook and Instagram aren't banning pro-Putin propaganda: Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Lara Logan, Madison Cawthorn, and Marjorie Taylor-Greene all still have working Instagram and Facebook accounts. It's Putin that has to ban alternate ideas, ban media, ban words, arrest protestors, and kill and jail dissidents to control what people think. Because Putin knows that allowing Russians to be exposed to truth and facts would mean the end of his regime of death, lies, and destruction.
Don’t tell me stories, Instagram personally deleted my posts with a “wrong” opinion about Ukraine. Zuckerberg considered it normal to call for the killing of Russian soldiers (this was the main reason). And Donald Trump was banned from Twitter even earlier (Vive freedom of speech!).
Extremist Ukranian nationalists killed them. So now that you're done trying to change the subject, who killed Nemstov? Who killed Putin-critics Litvinenko? Who killed Politskovaya, Magnitsky, Berezovsky, Estemirova, Shchekochikhin, and Yushenkov? Who jailed Navalny? Who banned the word "war"? Who's arresting antiwar protestors? Who's shutting down media that won't say exactly what Putin wants them to say?
You can't answer these questions because you are totally owned by Putin. In Russia the only "side" is Putin's side. That's why you'll never do anything but parrot his lies. It's truly pathetic.
No, it's you change the subject! Extremist Ukranian nationalists killed Busina and Sheremat? So, Extremist сhechen nationalists killed Nemtsov and Politkovskaya.
The 'very fine people Hoax' is documented to excess.
When you say "bombs children" are you referring to George W. Bush or Barry Hussein Obama? I think Obama has the record for number of bombs dropped, Bush 2 is always in second place.
Does not matter ! Russia invaded Donbass and invading NOW and killing in thousands. Bottom line Russia INVADED. NO ONE was killed before Crimea invasion. Your comments shows the real criminal attitude of Russia. You want to invade a country and you will try to justify with all kinds of silly outrageous excuses but not look at your own criminal behavior. When the world responds you want to cry victimhood. You have no 'Russian values' , all you have is a tendency to commit crime and not own up responsibility.
Hey Harley, NOBODY outside of your cult of radical right extremist Boomer and incel Trump slaves takes seriously phony lecture about lies from you who support pathological liar Dementia Donald: who launched his toxic political career with racist birther lies, mocked a disabled reporter, helped his bestie Epstein rape children, praised tiki torch Nazis in Charlottesville just like I said, illegally denied Ukraine military aid to blackmail Zelensky and weaken NATO on Putin's behalf, tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020, killed millions and caused record job loss with his coronavirus lies and incompetence, turn incited the deadly Jan 6 QAnon terrorist attack with sore loser election lies.
It's Treason Trump who bombed Syria, bombed Yemen, bombed Niger, bombed Iran, wrote love letters to communist North Korea and saluted its commie generals, turned the GQP into a cesspool of book banning and cocaine orgies, and who is now praising Putin as Putin bombs Ukrainian children. #JailTreasonTrump
I don't understand why you continue to spread lies about the Trump Charlottesville speech. I have to assume you are being willfully ignorant of the actual full-context of Trump's remarks. Given how egregious your error on this matter is, it casts into doubt pretty anything else you have to say.
I fully understand why apologists for Trump, a birther bigot who tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020, keep trying to gaslight Americans about Trump's vile Charlottesville comments: you're liars with no decency or integrity, just like he is. And that's pretty much why Trump lost and why youth voters despise his egregiously amoral cult to the point the GQP is done once Boomers are gone.
Yet even last night, it was you phony, triggered, Trump-apologists incel hypocrites still attending Trump's sore loser Nazi rallies.
When fat, evil, lying, racist, corrupt rapist, pedophile, traitor and Putin slave Trump shuts the fuck up and goes away, then the rest of us will stop trying to save democracy from his cult of unhinged, radical right extremist trash.
Till then, you're just going to have to keep crying triggered tears about my comments that you can't stop stalking. Sucks for you. #FDT #DeathToPutin
You need to ask a simple question. Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine , Latvia , Lithuania why all of them have this so called 'Russophobia' ? There is something in your race , something in your attitude that makes your neighbors scared and angry against you. Now is the time to look at yourself. Nazzi is the country that can not manage a democratic transfer of power for more than 500 years , Nazzi is a country that can not elect a new president for last 20 years , Nazzi is a country that bans saying a simple word called ' war ' , Nazzi is the country that prohibits anyone protesting peacefully , Nazzi is the country that flattens Chechnya or Afghanistan , Nazzi is the country that has millitias like Wagner Group , Vostok Battalion , Eurasianist Union etc etc. Nazzi is a country that worships fascists like Ivan Ilyn. You are nazzi, you are the root cause of the problem in the region. Learn to live peacefully.
In essence, you are confirming that what the author of this article describes, and what most Russians recognize now - its about Russia, not President Putin.
As for your list, you can exchange location and country, and hurl the same accusations against many western countries.
I applaud the author to give a somber assessment of the mood in Russia, thank you for sharing, makes me wonder what another 4 weeks will do......?
The war here is between Ukraine and Russia. No other western country has invaded/annexed Ukraine , no western country banned war demonstration , no western country failed to elect a new president in last 20 years , no western country wants to restore past glory of empire like fascists, no western country has attacked Russia. Russia CHOOSE to attack , invade , annex Ukraine. Russia CHOSE to call Ukraine nazzi despite itself having a enormous nazzi movement lead by Putin and Russia CHOSE to invade Ukraine. If Russian people think some other country some other crime gives them the right to commit crime in Ukraine that is a very weak and feeble excuse. Russia has all the choice NOT to invade Crimea and Donbass and start a conflict. Russia chose otherwise. Therefore sanctions are well deserved.
Time has already told. Russia ruble going up, dollar going down. Gas prices in Russia: .90/gal in USA: 6/gal and climbing more every day. West europe begging for Russian gas. I do not support the Kremlin, but it's pretty easy to tell these sanctions are a complete disaster.
"Sanctions never deter" -Joe Biden bahahahahah
They never deter, so we're just blowing up our own economies for nothing. "Well deserved". Uh huh. Tell me more. Good luck heating your house with no fuel genius.
Fertilizer prices??? Commodities??? Hurr duh durrr guess you'll live off virtue alone???
Ah, yes. Everyone but Russia is wrong. And it is literally illegal for a Russian to say otherwise. What a great time for those who take advantage of people who will believe anything from thieves and liars.
BECAUSE Russia invaded Ukraine. 😂😂 Ukraine did not invade Russia. Learn to face consequences of your actions and stop claiming a false victimhood . You are not a victim here.
Good work! My comment on the original - If the US government hasn't got a deadly enemy, then it does what it can to create one, preferably one that will start and sustain a long war, for this reason, as noted by James Madison - one of the founders of the US, 235 years ago: "In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke." James Madison, Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 29 June 1787. The legitimacy of the current US elected government is strongly doubted by half of the population, supported by the other half. And to confound things, we have what Professor Michael Glennon, of the Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University, calls a "double government" - where the real power is exercised by - and policy set by - the unelected "efficient" government, and only announced by the elected "dignified" government. For details, see https://fletcher.tufts.edu/sites/default/files/pubs_glennon-michael-national-security-double-government.pdf
By making the sanctions broad and over-reaching, instead of targeted so as to impede or block Russia's military actions in Ukraine, the Western governments, led by the US, have created enemies of people who might be neutral or even sympathetic. My view is that this polarization is deliberate, it's what the ruling political parties in the US - and perhaps the rest of the West do best - they divide people against themselves, to get them to fight each other, than to fight the various sets of oligarchs who are robbing them blind and driving them into poverty - and erecting systems for total social control and surveillance.
The US government forces corrupt killer Putin to bomb civilians, jail and murder political opponents, arrest protestors, ban words, shut down independent media outlets, rob the Russian blind to make himself rich, and force Ukrainians into Nazi camps?
Putin does all of that by himself. I'm talking about the rest of Russian civil society - the group mentioned by Farida whose sentiments now support Putin instead of being neutral or opposing him - as a result of the sanctions.
Hmm, so what is best way to stop Russia? How do you stop an imperialistic country, with citizens who support imperialistic wars, and who support ageing dictator looking for a place in history as a conqueror on top? I would close the borders, refrain from buying selling anything and just try to forget that there is such a country as Russia.
I'd prefer that the West help Ukraine in defending itself against Putin's war of aggression by sending weapons, ammo, aircraft, and so on. No need for the US or NATO to send troops, the Ukrainians are doing an excellent job of it on their own. Whoever heard of stopping the Russian Army dead in its tracks? I never thought I'd see the day. Ukraine probably is superior to US/NATO armed forces in this regard.
Biden and the US bombed civies for 50 years. Biden has jailed around 700 political dissidents and still hasn't charged them with anything almost 2 years later. Biden admin constantly bans words and entire ideologies. They just stole trillions from the American people and you support it HAHAHAHA lol force ukr into nazi camps??? Biden and co. Are literally pictured with and openly support AVOZ hahahahahah I changed my mind, your trolling is hilarious. It's like the exact opposite of reality. Absurdism. Nice job.
HAHAHAHA Lies lies lies and more lies. Still desperately and pathetically trying to change the subject with BuT BiDEN bullshit because you are in 100% lockstep support of Putin's army binding children's arms behind their back and shooting them dead outside of Kyiv. You radical right Putin buttboys are pure evil, really sick.
No word or ideology banned by the US goverment you deranged pathological lying supporter of child murder, but yes, Putin did murder political opponents, jail protestors, and ban the word war. And you support it because you are evil to the core just like Putin.
"I cHANgEd MY miNd" Cool story bro, nobody gives a shit lolololol Nazi, Putin sucking psycho
Keep cracking up because you're evil to the core just like Putin 😂 😂 😂 😂
"Sickening pictures from Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, show the corpses of residents who had been bound, shot and left by the side of the road. The mayor of Bucha said that some 270 people had been found in two mass graves and another 40 were lying dead in the streets.
And Republicans defend, excuse, and support this! #VoteBlue
Excuse me. I am an American, I have no ties to Russia and nothing against the country or the people. I have looked into this whole mess without prejudice. The Russians moaning and groaning about Putin ARE Traitors. I do not support the attack on Ukraine but, in view of the actions of the Zelensky regime, U.S. government, NATO, he had to act. Ukraine was a Globalist cat's paw. I am glad somebody has stood up to Soros, Klaus Schwab, and the queer crowd. These are the same creeps trying to destroy the USA. I feel sorry for the innocent Ukrainians, but not for their government. Trannies and pedophiles prancing down the streets of Kiev? Come on, man.
Listen up, you idiot. I served in the CIA for 30 years. I know these people a bit better than you do. The Globalist scum - the same ones who involved us in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and 20 years in Afghanistan - deliberately provoked this war. The Russians warned us time and again, after we broke our word about not expanding NATO. Zelensky is a puppet of oligarchs who hate Russia for their own ethnic and political reasons. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. Move to Russia? hardly. My ancestors helped create America and they did not mean it to be an empire and bully sticking its nose into every corner of the world. Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the current moron have dragged our country to the edge of the abyss, thanks to people like you who know nothing of the real world.
Notice who a MAGA zealot doesn't mention. Putin's soon to be convicted lapdog himself. Why move to Russia when your dream is to bring their form of government to your own country and establish your own czar?
Well, a comment from the peanut gallery! Hilarious that you should mention Trump being "convicted" (of what?) when Hunter and Joe Biden are obviously about to be indicted for the real crimes of bribery and other forms of corruption. As I said, unlike you, I am a real American and we fully intend to put the Woke traitors in cages, and that right soon. Talk to me after this November, Soyboy. By the way, if you love Zelensky and his crew of Nazis so much, pack your shit and fly to Kiev. You will be coming back with loaded underwear in a day or two, if the Russians have pity on you and don't send your skinny butt to the Gulag. I am sure they have kept at least a few choice camps open for cases like you.
It's like talking to your grandparents. 'it's not our fight/war's and then pearl harbor happened. Ok, fine, it might not be. But don't dare to come and tell me from your island between 2 oceans how the west is bad and poor Russia had nothing else to do. Because it wasn't your grandmother who was raped by 'patrotic liberating Russian soldiers'. It's not your country's elite who died executed or in work camps by the soviets. You enjoyed all the percs of democracy throughout your entire lifetime and no one in your country had to die at the hand of russians to defend or win basic human rights. You didn't have to endure 40 years of communism. All of the above we, Europeans, had to go through. And all that after somehow surviving WW2. If it's not your fight, then please spear us the speech of poor cornered Russians. Your view of russians formed in dark cigar rooms is completely different from the real, heartacking one we had to face under their suppression. And you're telling me we should have not asked and got our right at a peaceful, secure life, just like yours, by asking and joining NATO? Oh...the hypocrisy
Bonjour mon frere. Please do not confuse him with what Americans think who are not enamored with Trumpism and follow Fox News religiously. Like you most of us are not stupid. That all said, please also don't forget we currently have 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe under the NATO umbrella. In the nuclear age we are all in this together. My father fought the Chinese and NKs in the Korean War or South Korea would not be free. My Uncle was shot down over Germany in WW2 or much of Western Europe would not be as free. They believed it was all worth it till their last day. Hopefully all who love freedom will ultimately come together long enough to extinguish the threats to its existence because as we love to say here as a reminder to those who may not yet realize it: Freedom is not free! We pay for it in blood and treasure.
I am very aware and grateful of the sacrifice and commitment of the USA in WW2 and beyond, up to the present point. Please don't take my comment as against Americans in general by no means. It's against this ivory tower view that Russia had no choice. They've always been like this and we felt it first hand.
No worries and I do understand. I clearly remember being astounded at the failed hardliner coup attempt in Moscow in 91-92 and Yeltsin taking over in a desperate grasp at maintaining their freedoms. Maybe someday they will collectively try once more to join the civilized world and established some form of democracy that is sustainable. One thing we know is it will not happen under their current regime. Navalny and his team could do it if he's ever again on the outside of a gulag.
Fantastic article! super insightful, balanced, interesting and well written, a rarity in this day and age. You have yourself a new subscriber!
(The only thing that raised a slight eyebrow; was Abramovich ‘owner’ of channel one until very recently? I thought he was only a minority shareholder since 2010…)
Really terrific read. I’d like to hear more about the “squeezed” boyar clans sitting around the meager fire in the palace, deciding who gets eaten first, either by Peter the Not So Great or by each other.
Interesting article & insight into Russian elites. But the author underestimates the reality of the Nazi influence in Ukraine & that they were planning a military invasion of the Donbas which Russia preempted. Also that refugees from Mariupol taking of the Azov battalions massacring civilians for daring to leave & the torture of Russian POWs near Kharkov by other Nazi battalion officers has galvanised the Russian people bringing back all the memories of Nazis in WW-2 / The Great Patriotic War.
You realize you are just spouting propaganda that has no basis in fact? I mean...there's video of what is going on in Mariupol. There are mountains of evidence for every war crime. And every Russian humiliation.
You are also literally just repeating propaganda with no skepticism whatsoever. What's the difference? There are mountains of evidence of Ukrainian and NATO war crimes. Let me know when you care?
Bullshit, Russian army are behaving precisely as they usually do, destroying, killing and stealing. The road of retreat of these barbarians is strewn with civilian corpses. There is a market in Belarus where ruskies are selling looted things.
The goal of the sanctions is (or should be) to weaken the apparatus by which Putin operates his war of aggression. The point is not punishment of the Russian people, even if that happens to be a side effect.
As for the elites that rally behind the unchosen dictator, they had no power to influence him anyway, and it’s not clear there’s anything the free world could do to avoid impacting them, even if it were worthwhile to do so.
The elites don’t see a future without Putin? Boo hoo. Tell that to the kids buried under the Mariupol theatre. Meanwhile, Ukraine has no future under the unchosen dictator.
Novachuk works on him also, right? Lets get it together people. We as a free world can work together and build a better world rather than needless killing fields and destruction. What good has come from this "special operation"? Ukraine has western weapons? That would not have happened if they were not attacked. No one wants to attack Russia. No one is out to get you in Russia accept from within. The free world can be a peaceful prosperous happy place. Come join us, the water is nice!
What a good and useful job of reporting! Would it be fair to say that the younger a Russian is now (the less invested), the more likely he/she is to emigrate?
The world needs to defend Ukraine and attack Russia. China will not help Russia, no one will. I have been saying it from the beginning. You might not like it, but it is the correct answer.
No.
Absolutely not. Are you crazy?
that's exactly what CIA want you to believe in
And what does the Kremlin and Putin (the dictator who arrests protestors, bans words, shuts down independent media, and jails and murders political opponents) want you to believe?
And what does the Kremlin and Putin (the dictator who arrests protestors, bans words, shuts down independent media, and jails and murders political opponents) want you to believe?
You mean like hundreds of Jan 6 protestors sitting in a DC gulag right now in deplorable conditions with no bail, Facebook, Twitter and MSM cancel culture banning speech they don't like labeling it "conspiracy theories?
Definition of a conservative Republican: whining about CAncEL cULtUrE while banning books, banning black history, supporting anti-freedom Putin, enslaving women with forced birth, canceling Liz Cheney and Big Bird, Colin Kaepernick, protecting child groomer Matt Gaetz, and having cocaine orgies.
And crying MAGA tears because sane people won't pretend their right wing meth-addled antivaxxing and science-denying QAnon Boomer bullshit isn't a bunch of deranged, delusional conspiracy theory crap. You people are effing nuts, no wonder youth voters despise the right. #YouAreWhyTrumpLost
Literally everything you just wrote is a lie. Hahah
Facts, reality and truth always trigger you braindead slaves who worship child-killing war criminal Putin and birther bigot Epstein-bestie Trump, the two biggest pathological liars on the planet.
That was an act of sedition to overthrow a democratically-elected government. The US does not have "gulags".
You would not understand this because you do not have access to fair elections.
You speak in propaganda buzzwords and phrases that have been chosen for you.
PG you just lied. ZERO evidence of "an act of sedition". NONE.
The FBI investigated and said so. Why don't you believe the FBI?
OH, and "fair election"? Ask Bernie Sanders and his supporters that took the DNC to court about a "fair election".
Sedition with no weapons? Strange!
No I don't mean like QAnon conspiracy theorists and dumb old racist Boomers who think their whiteness places them above the law being held accountable for the first time in their sorry lives, for falling for Dementia Donald's sore loser election lies, beating and killing cops with Nazi and Confederate flags, smearing feces on the walls of the Capitol, and trying to assassinate politicians to illegally overthrow democracy.
Speaking of smearing feces, you have managed to achieve much the same by revealing the contents of your mind.
Icky.
Sorry my comments triggered you into spending your Sunday obsessing over me, cry some more.
"Sickening pictures from Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, show the corpses of residents who had been bound, shot and left by the side of the road. The mayor of Bucha said that some 270 people had been found in two mass graves and another 40 were lying dead in the streets."
And yet Trump, Tucker Carlson, and his cocaine orgy cult of radical right QAnon extremist groomers, child rapists, and pedos is siding with this sick butcher Putin over Europe. The Rethugliklan Party is evil and needs to be destroyed.
INDEPENDENT media, are you serious?
Where were you when Putin had Boris Nemstov shot?
Did you see with your own eyes how he killed Nemstov? It was not beneficial to Putin. Here the topic is different. Which media do you think is independent?
Nothing but excuses. There is literally not anything Putin has done that you will not support, defend, and make excuses for, like a good little slave.
Which media is allowed to call Putin's war a "war"?
Who killed Putin-critics Nemstov, Litvinenko, Politskovaya, Magnitsky, Berezovsky, Estemirova, Shchekochikhin, and Yushenkov? Who jailed Navalny? Why are antiwar protestors being arrested?
You have no answers. You have nothing to say but what Putin allows you to say. Are you happy being a puppet and a slave?
99% of what Russia claims about Ukraine no one saw with their own eyes..only they are all Putin's claims. 😂😂 What we see however is how Putin is annexing Ukraine and how Putin is denying Ukraine its legitimate statehood. Can't play this game bro.
That the joey obiden administration is not to far behind Russia and earlier Ukraine administrations re corruption.
And yet it was Drama Queen Donnie's administration that turned the Rethuglikkklan Party into a cesspool of insurrection, treason, corporate socialism, and pedo cocaine orgies. Although Republican House Speaker and convicted child rapist Denny Hastert got the ball rolling on that first.
Okay, so you are just taking Q talking points, removed Pizza, changed it from Dem to Rethuglikkklan (bravo, definitely doesn’t reek of brain worms), and what? step 3) profit?
You have become what you claim to hate. Congrats.
Brain worms.
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." - child rapist pedo and Putin-puppet Trump on his child rapist bestie Epstein, following in the footsteps of child rapist House Speaker Denny Hastert. As D.C. Republicans have cocaine orgies led by child groomer Matt Gaetz, according to Madison Cawthorn. Satanic and evil.
You can spend all Sunday crying phony triggered hypocrite tears about comments, and I'm going to keep doing and saying exactly what I want to do. Your opinion is irrelevant and will not change anything. Keep crying!
that looks of being mostly censored by CIA, you can find it with difficulties
Nah.
Media propaganda = Russophobia! And the World needs to defend NAZI UKRAINE? Anno Domini 1941-1944! What a stupid time! 😅
"Russophobia" = anybody who knows a dictator who has to jail political opponents, arrest protestors, and shut down media outlets is a liar.
Putin murdered Nemstov and Litvinenko, flattened Aleppo and Grozny, pushed white supremacist Trump (who tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020 and praised tiki torch anti-Semites), bombs children, is forcing Ukranians into "filtration camps" -- but Ukraine is the Nazi? 😂 Stupid indeed.
Turn off the propaganda faucet. please.
Does "the propaganda faucet" include Putin banning the word "war," throwing Navalny in prison, murdering Nemstov and Litvinenko, arresting antiwar protestors, banning Facebook and Instagram, and shutting down independent media?
Grow up, please.
Who killed all those Hillary critics? Was that Putin too?
Oh lord, another dumb incel who fell for the white male supremacist status quo's anti-Hillary bullshit that elected child rapist pedophile Trump.
Hillary was investigated for 30 years of Rethuglikkklan witch hunts that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and found nothing, but you're too much of a low IQ Tucker Carlson simp to figure it out.
Stupid yt men were and are the problem.
I am entirely certain that I have a higher IQ than you. How many books have you read?
And who killed the journalist Oles Buzina? Who killed Pavel Sheremet? Also Putin? Facebook and Instagram the first start to ban any pro-Russian information. Similarly, Europe was the first to ban Russian TV channels. You look at the world only from one side.
You are not pro-Russian, you are pro-Putin. A pro-Russian person wouldn't support lying, murderous, evil, corrupt dictator Putin destroying the Russian people, robbing the country for his greedy oligarchs, waging war on other Slavs, and sending Russian teenagers to die for his ego.
You don't care about Russia any more than Putin does. You're just another weak, brainwashed Putin slave. Sad!
Recently, my country has faced unprecedented injustice towards ordinary citizens. So don't tell me that you are anti-Putin and not anti-Russian. As for me, I will decide for myself.
No, Facebook and Instagram aren't banning pro-Putin propaganda: Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Lara Logan, Madison Cawthorn, and Marjorie Taylor-Greene all still have working Instagram and Facebook accounts. It's Putin that has to ban alternate ideas, ban media, ban words, arrest protestors, and kill and jail dissidents to control what people think. Because Putin knows that allowing Russians to be exposed to truth and facts would mean the end of his regime of death, lies, and destruction.
Don’t tell me stories, Instagram personally deleted my posts with a “wrong” opinion about Ukraine. Zuckerberg considered it normal to call for the killing of Russian soldiers (this was the main reason). And Donald Trump was banned from Twitter even earlier (Vive freedom of speech!).
Extremist Ukranian nationalists killed them. So now that you're done trying to change the subject, who killed Nemstov? Who killed Putin-critics Litvinenko? Who killed Politskovaya, Magnitsky, Berezovsky, Estemirova, Shchekochikhin, and Yushenkov? Who jailed Navalny? Who banned the word "war"? Who's arresting antiwar protestors? Who's shutting down media that won't say exactly what Putin wants them to say?
You can't answer these questions because you are totally owned by Putin. In Russia the only "side" is Putin's side. That's why you'll never do anything but parrot his lies. It's truly pathetic.
No, it's you change the subject! Extremist Ukranian nationalists killed Busina and Sheremat? So, Extremist сhechen nationalists killed Nemtsov and Politkovskaya.
Hey David, you just lied. TWICE. Hence you are either too stupid to know the truth OR you are EVIL.
"praised tiki torch anti-Semites), bombs children,"
The 'very fine people Hoax' is documented to excess.
When you say "bombs children" are you referring to George W. Bush or Barry Hussein Obama? I think Obama has the record for number of bombs dropped, Bush 2 is always in second place.
Not a SINGLE children was killed in Ukraine before Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbass. So what is your excuse now ??? Shameless troll ! 🤣
Russia invaded Crimea and not a single person died. Ukraine started a civil war in the east. Government troops were the first to fire on civilians.
Does not matter ! Russia invaded Donbass and invading NOW and killing in thousands. Bottom line Russia INVADED. NO ONE was killed before Crimea invasion. Your comments shows the real criminal attitude of Russia. You want to invade a country and you will try to justify with all kinds of silly outrageous excuses but not look at your own criminal behavior. When the world responds you want to cry victimhood. You have no 'Russian values' , all you have is a tendency to commit crime and not own up responsibility.
So, who died on the Maidan, in Odessa - not worthy of your calculator?
You should call things by their proper names.
Not a single person died before the revolution (anti-Russian in fact) in Ukraine.
And now ukraine, retreating, continues to use peaceful buildings for firing points and bomb cities, including Tochka-U.
Hey Harley, NOBODY outside of your cult of radical right extremist Boomer and incel Trump slaves takes seriously phony lecture about lies from you who support pathological liar Dementia Donald: who launched his toxic political career with racist birther lies, mocked a disabled reporter, helped his bestie Epstein rape children, praised tiki torch Nazis in Charlottesville just like I said, illegally denied Ukraine military aid to blackmail Zelensky and weaken NATO on Putin's behalf, tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020, killed millions and caused record job loss with his coronavirus lies and incompetence, turn incited the deadly Jan 6 QAnon terrorist attack with sore loser election lies.
It's Treason Trump who bombed Syria, bombed Yemen, bombed Niger, bombed Iran, wrote love letters to communist North Korea and saluted its commie generals, turned the GQP into a cesspool of book banning and cocaine orgies, and who is now praising Putin as Putin bombs Ukrainian children. #JailTreasonTrump
I don't understand why you continue to spread lies about the Trump Charlottesville speech. I have to assume you are being willfully ignorant of the actual full-context of Trump's remarks. Given how egregious your error on this matter is, it casts into doubt pretty anything else you have to say.
I fully understand why apologists for Trump, a birther bigot who tweeted a White Power video on June 28 2020, keep trying to gaslight Americans about Trump's vile Charlottesville comments: you're liars with no decency or integrity, just like he is. And that's pretty much why Trump lost and why youth voters despise his egregiously amoral cult to the point the GQP is done once Boomers are gone.
Glad you have used the past year to evict Trump from some of the miles and miles of worm tracks in your head.
Putting your own healing first is the right choice and I applaud your obvious progress.
Yet even last night, it was you phony, triggered, Trump-apologists incel hypocrites still attending Trump's sore loser Nazi rallies.
When fat, evil, lying, racist, corrupt rapist, pedophile, traitor and Putin slave Trump shuts the fuck up and goes away, then the rest of us will stop trying to save democracy from his cult of unhinged, radical right extremist trash.
Till then, you're just going to have to keep crying triggered tears about my comments that you can't stop stalking. Sucks for you. #FDT #DeathToPutin
You need to ask a simple question. Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine , Latvia , Lithuania why all of them have this so called 'Russophobia' ? There is something in your race , something in your attitude that makes your neighbors scared and angry against you. Now is the time to look at yourself. Nazzi is the country that can not manage a democratic transfer of power for more than 500 years , Nazzi is a country that can not elect a new president for last 20 years , Nazzi is a country that bans saying a simple word called ' war ' , Nazzi is the country that prohibits anyone protesting peacefully , Nazzi is the country that flattens Chechnya or Afghanistan , Nazzi is the country that has millitias like Wagner Group , Vostok Battalion , Eurasianist Union etc etc. Nazzi is a country that worships fascists like Ivan Ilyn. You are nazzi, you are the root cause of the problem in the region. Learn to live peacefully.
In essence, you are confirming that what the author of this article describes, and what most Russians recognize now - its about Russia, not President Putin.
As for your list, you can exchange location and country, and hurl the same accusations against many western countries.
I applaud the author to give a somber assessment of the mood in Russia, thank you for sharing, makes me wonder what another 4 weeks will do......?
The war here is between Ukraine and Russia. No other western country has invaded/annexed Ukraine , no western country banned war demonstration , no western country failed to elect a new president in last 20 years , no western country wants to restore past glory of empire like fascists, no western country has attacked Russia. Russia CHOOSE to attack , invade , annex Ukraine. Russia CHOSE to call Ukraine nazzi despite itself having a enormous nazzi movement lead by Putin and Russia CHOSE to invade Ukraine. If Russian people think some other country some other crime gives them the right to commit crime in Ukraine that is a very weak and feeble excuse. Russia has all the choice NOT to invade Crimea and Donbass and start a conflict. Russia chose otherwise. Therefore sanctions are well deserved.
Kievan Rus'
Talk about that.
What would you like to know?
The sanctions that literally only harm the west. Lol. Well deserved. Ya that's true people like you deserve to be harmed by their own insanity.
Well , time will tell who is harmed. You can calm your t**s down for now Kremtroll. 😂😂
Time has already told. Russia ruble going up, dollar going down. Gas prices in Russia: .90/gal in USA: 6/gal and climbing more every day. West europe begging for Russian gas. I do not support the Kremlin, but it's pretty easy to tell these sanctions are a complete disaster.
"Sanctions never deter" -Joe Biden bahahahahah
They never deter, so we're just blowing up our own economies for nothing. "Well deserved". Uh huh. Tell me more. Good luck heating your house with no fuel genius.
Fertilizer prices??? Commodities??? Hurr duh durrr guess you'll live off virtue alone???
Ah, yes. Everyone but Russia is wrong. And it is literally illegal for a Russian to say otherwise. What a great time for those who take advantage of people who will believe anything from thieves and liars.
BECAUSE Russia invaded Ukraine. 😂😂 Ukraine did not invade Russia. Learn to face consequences of your actions and stop claiming a false victimhood . You are not a victim here.
Good work! My comment on the original - If the US government hasn't got a deadly enemy, then it does what it can to create one, preferably one that will start and sustain a long war, for this reason, as noted by James Madison - one of the founders of the US, 235 years ago: "In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke." James Madison, Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 29 June 1787. The legitimacy of the current US elected government is strongly doubted by half of the population, supported by the other half. And to confound things, we have what Professor Michael Glennon, of the Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University, calls a "double government" - where the real power is exercised by - and policy set by - the unelected "efficient" government, and only announced by the elected "dignified" government. For details, see https://fletcher.tufts.edu/sites/default/files/pubs_glennon-michael-national-security-double-government.pdf
By making the sanctions broad and over-reaching, instead of targeted so as to impede or block Russia's military actions in Ukraine, the Western governments, led by the US, have created enemies of people who might be neutral or even sympathetic. My view is that this polarization is deliberate, it's what the ruling political parties in the US - and perhaps the rest of the West do best - they divide people against themselves, to get them to fight each other, than to fight the various sets of oligarchs who are robbing them blind and driving them into poverty - and erecting systems for total social control and surveillance.
The US government forces corrupt killer Putin to bomb civilians, jail and murder political opponents, arrest protestors, ban words, shut down independent media outlets, rob the Russian blind to make himself rich, and force Ukrainians into Nazi camps?
Putin does all of that by himself. I'm talking about the rest of Russian civil society - the group mentioned by Farida whose sentiments now support Putin instead of being neutral or opposing him - as a result of the sanctions.
Hmm, so what is best way to stop Russia? How do you stop an imperialistic country, with citizens who support imperialistic wars, and who support ageing dictator looking for a place in history as a conqueror on top? I would close the borders, refrain from buying selling anything and just try to forget that there is such a country as Russia.
So you would prefer that the West responds to Russian aggression and war crimes by doing to Russia what it is doing to Ukraine?
I'd prefer that the West help Ukraine in defending itself against Putin's war of aggression by sending weapons, ammo, aircraft, and so on. No need for the US or NATO to send troops, the Ukrainians are doing an excellent job of it on their own. Whoever heard of stopping the Russian Army dead in its tracks? I never thought I'd see the day. Ukraine probably is superior to US/NATO armed forces in this regard.
Biden and the US bombed civies for 50 years. Biden has jailed around 700 political dissidents and still hasn't charged them with anything almost 2 years later. Biden admin constantly bans words and entire ideologies. They just stole trillions from the American people and you support it HAHAHAHA lol force ukr into nazi camps??? Biden and co. Are literally pictured with and openly support AVOZ hahahahahah I changed my mind, your trolling is hilarious. It's like the exact opposite of reality. Absurdism. Nice job.
HAHAHAHA Lies lies lies and more lies. Still desperately and pathetically trying to change the subject with BuT BiDEN bullshit because you are in 100% lockstep support of Putin's army binding children's arms behind their back and shooting them dead outside of Kyiv. You radical right Putin buttboys are pure evil, really sick.
No word or ideology banned by the US goverment you deranged pathological lying supporter of child murder, but yes, Putin did murder political opponents, jail protestors, and ban the word war. And you support it because you are evil to the core just like Putin.
"I cHANgEd MY miNd" Cool story bro, nobody gives a shit lolololol Nazi, Putin sucking psycho
I am legit cracking up at your comments 🤣 "ur evil to the core just like putin!!!" Hahahahah
Keep cracking up because you're evil to the core just like Putin 😂 😂 😂 😂
"Sickening pictures from Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, show the corpses of residents who had been bound, shot and left by the side of the road. The mayor of Bucha said that some 270 people had been found in two mass graves and another 40 were lying dead in the streets.
And Republicans defend, excuse, and support this! #VoteBlue
Evil to the core!!! But... I'm a democrat??? How could I be evil and a democrat??? #Imwithher #clintons #hangtrump #avozbattalion #groomchildren
Excuse me. I am an American, I have no ties to Russia and nothing against the country or the people. I have looked into this whole mess without prejudice. The Russians moaning and groaning about Putin ARE Traitors. I do not support the attack on Ukraine but, in view of the actions of the Zelensky regime, U.S. government, NATO, he had to act. Ukraine was a Globalist cat's paw. I am glad somebody has stood up to Soros, Klaus Schwab, and the queer crowd. These are the same creeps trying to destroy the USA. I feel sorry for the innocent Ukrainians, but not for their government. Trannies and pedophiles prancing down the streets of Kiev? Come on, man.
You should just move to Russia and get it over with.
Listen up, you idiot. I served in the CIA for 30 years. I know these people a bit better than you do. The Globalist scum - the same ones who involved us in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and 20 years in Afghanistan - deliberately provoked this war. The Russians warned us time and again, after we broke our word about not expanding NATO. Zelensky is a puppet of oligarchs who hate Russia for their own ethnic and political reasons. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. Move to Russia? hardly. My ancestors helped create America and they did not mean it to be an empire and bully sticking its nose into every corner of the world. Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the current moron have dragged our country to the edge of the abyss, thanks to people like you who know nothing of the real world.
Notice who a MAGA zealot doesn't mention. Putin's soon to be convicted lapdog himself. Why move to Russia when your dream is to bring their form of government to your own country and establish your own czar?
Well, a comment from the peanut gallery! Hilarious that you should mention Trump being "convicted" (of what?) when Hunter and Joe Biden are obviously about to be indicted for the real crimes of bribery and other forms of corruption. As I said, unlike you, I am a real American and we fully intend to put the Woke traitors in cages, and that right soon. Talk to me after this November, Soyboy. By the way, if you love Zelensky and his crew of Nazis so much, pack your shit and fly to Kiev. You will be coming back with loaded underwear in a day or two, if the Russians have pity on you and don't send your skinny butt to the Gulag. I am sure they have kept at least a few choice camps open for cases like you.
Puck Futin and his mouthpieces like you Igor. War criminals all.
It's like talking to your grandparents. 'it's not our fight/war's and then pearl harbor happened. Ok, fine, it might not be. But don't dare to come and tell me from your island between 2 oceans how the west is bad and poor Russia had nothing else to do. Because it wasn't your grandmother who was raped by 'patrotic liberating Russian soldiers'. It's not your country's elite who died executed or in work camps by the soviets. You enjoyed all the percs of democracy throughout your entire lifetime and no one in your country had to die at the hand of russians to defend or win basic human rights. You didn't have to endure 40 years of communism. All of the above we, Europeans, had to go through. And all that after somehow surviving WW2. If it's not your fight, then please spear us the speech of poor cornered Russians. Your view of russians formed in dark cigar rooms is completely different from the real, heartacking one we had to face under their suppression. And you're telling me we should have not asked and got our right at a peaceful, secure life, just like yours, by asking and joining NATO? Oh...the hypocrisy
Bonjour mon frere. Please do not confuse him with what Americans think who are not enamored with Trumpism and follow Fox News religiously. Like you most of us are not stupid. That all said, please also don't forget we currently have 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe under the NATO umbrella. In the nuclear age we are all in this together. My father fought the Chinese and NKs in the Korean War or South Korea would not be free. My Uncle was shot down over Germany in WW2 or much of Western Europe would not be as free. They believed it was all worth it till their last day. Hopefully all who love freedom will ultimately come together long enough to extinguish the threats to its existence because as we love to say here as a reminder to those who may not yet realize it: Freedom is not free! We pay for it in blood and treasure.
I am very aware and grateful of the sacrifice and commitment of the USA in WW2 and beyond, up to the present point. Please don't take my comment as against Americans in general by no means. It's against this ivory tower view that Russia had no choice. They've always been like this and we felt it first hand.
No worries and I do understand. I clearly remember being astounded at the failed hardliner coup attempt in Moscow in 91-92 and Yeltsin taking over in a desperate grasp at maintaining their freedoms. Maybe someday they will collectively try once more to join the civilized world and established some form of democracy that is sustainable. One thing we know is it will not happen under their current regime. Navalny and his team could do it if he's ever again on the outside of a gulag.
You should just cut off your genitals and get it over with.
you're Putin's ball liker just like trump
Suck off Soros and Biden yum yum yummmm
Thank you for the work you put in. This article helped fill in a lot of context, which will be useful in discussion.
Fascinating & important report. Thank you!
Fantastic article! super insightful, balanced, interesting and well written, a rarity in this day and age. You have yourself a new subscriber!
(The only thing that raised a slight eyebrow; was Abramovich ‘owner’ of channel one until very recently? I thought he was only a minority shareholder since 2010…)
Really terrific read. I’d like to hear more about the “squeezed” boyar clans sitting around the meager fire in the palace, deciding who gets eaten first, either by Peter the Not So Great or by each other.
Interesting article & insight into Russian elites. But the author underestimates the reality of the Nazi influence in Ukraine & that they were planning a military invasion of the Donbas which Russia preempted. Also that refugees from Mariupol taking of the Azov battalions massacring civilians for daring to leave & the torture of Russian POWs near Kharkov by other Nazi battalion officers has galvanised the Russian people bringing back all the memories of Nazis in WW-2 / The Great Patriotic War.
You realize you are just spouting propaganda that has no basis in fact? I mean...there's video of what is going on in Mariupol. There are mountains of evidence for every war crime. And every Russian humiliation.
You are also literally just repeating propaganda with no skepticism whatsoever. What's the difference? There are mountains of evidence of Ukrainian and NATO war crimes. Let me know when you care?
How stupid are you? YES, there is video of residents of Mariupol SAYING that Avoz did all that.
You are either a moron or a shill. Probably both.
That's exactly what Russian shill like you, Harley would say. And I know residents of Mariupol and they are saying what Russians did and are doing.
I'm looking forward to seeing you on the front lines in Kiev
Bullshit, Russian army are behaving precisely as they usually do, destroying, killing and stealing. The road of retreat of these barbarians is strewn with civilian corpses. There is a market in Belarus where ruskies are selling looted things.
Very important article, thanks. Our world need to read more like this...
thank you so much... Great Article... so detailed informative, no wonder Iuliia Loffe is such a fan.
The goal of the sanctions is (or should be) to weaken the apparatus by which Putin operates his war of aggression. The point is not punishment of the Russian people, even if that happens to be a side effect.
As for the elites that rally behind the unchosen dictator, they had no power to influence him anyway, and it’s not clear there’s anything the free world could do to avoid impacting them, even if it were worthwhile to do so.
The elites don’t see a future without Putin? Boo hoo. Tell that to the kids buried under the Mariupol theatre. Meanwhile, Ukraine has no future under the unchosen dictator.
"Sanctions never deter" -Biden
Novachuk works on him also, right? Lets get it together people. We as a free world can work together and build a better world rather than needless killing fields and destruction. What good has come from this "special operation"? Ukraine has western weapons? That would not have happened if they were not attacked. No one wants to attack Russia. No one is out to get you in Russia accept from within. The free world can be a peaceful prosperous happy place. Come join us, the water is nice!
No sedition charges have beef levied against the mostly peaceful protesters.
Thanks so much for the insights Farida!
What a good and useful job of reporting! Would it be fair to say that the younger a Russian is now (the less invested), the more likely he/she is to emigrate?