One of the best snipers in the world, Wali (from QC!!!), now hunting in Ukraine...
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Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent, BBC reports
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If you want a really informed military analysis of the war, check this video out. It explains in detail of what's going on in the frontlines and why Russia is not successful as they hoped to be.
Yes and he is telling everyone who he is, when he is arriving in Ukraine and what he plans to do there.One of the best snipers in the world, Wali, now hunting in Ukraine...
Way to stay stealthy, pal.
War not going well, so Putin is getting twitchy and needs to blame somebody.
Attention KKKonvoy truckers: this is what a REAL tyrant looks like.
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It's incredible at 1:55 of the clip Holt asks Zelynsky a simple question about the USA's concerns about getting dragged into the war with the likelyhood of triggering WWIII and this clown can't give Holt a straight answer because he knows that crying to the US to join the war would be admitting that WWIII would be his fault! Someone should shut this guy up ASAP...the more he talks the more dangerous he becomes!...he's a dangerous freak of nature!
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NBC News Exclusive: One-on-one with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
After delivering a virtual address to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke exclusively with NBC News’ Lester Holt about the “fairly difficult” negotiations with Russia, whether he believes the U.S. will reverse its decision not to supply fighter planes, and President Biden’s...
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Putin & the dictator trap (excerpts below)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-dictator-trap-russia-ukraine/627064/
In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine’s little-known president into a global hero, wreck Russia’s economy, and solidify his legacy as a murderous war criminal.
How did he miscalculate so badly?
To answer that question, you have to understand the power and information ecosystems around dictators. I’ve studied and interviewed despots across the globe for more than a decade. In my research, I’ve persistently encountered a stubborn myth—of the savvy strongman, the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game because he (and it’s typically a he) doesn’t have to worry about pesky polls or angry voters. Our elected leaders, this view suggests, are no match for the tyrant who gazes into the next decade rather than fretting about next year’s election.
Reality doesn’t conform to that rosy theory.
Autocrats such as Putin eventually succumb to what may be called the “dictator trap.” The strategies they use to stay in power tend to trigger their eventual downfall. Rather than being long-term planners, many make catastrophic short-term errors—the kinds of errors that would likely have been avoided in democratic systems. They hear only from sycophants, and get bad advice. They misunderstand their population. They don’t see threats coming until it’s too late. And unlike elected leaders who leave office to riches, book tours, and the glitzy lifestyle of a statesman, many dictators who miscalculate leave office in a casket, a possibility that makes them even more likely to double down.
But to stay in power, despots have to worry about more than just their advisers and cronies. They have to win over, intimidate, or coerce their population too. That’s why dictators invest in state-sponsored media. In Russia, the state goes so far as to present fake presidential candidates who pretend to oppose Putin in rigged elections. The whole system is a Potemkin village, an illusion of choice and political debate.
Again, that mechanism of control comes with a cost. Some citizens brainwashed by state propaganda will support a war that is sure to backfire. Others privately oppose the regime, but will be too afraid to say anything. As a result, reliable polling doesn’t exist in autocracies. (Russia is no exception.) That means that despots like Putin are unable to accurately understand the attitudes of their own people.
Clearly, Putin is no fool. But as we debate possible endgames to the war in Ukraine, we shouldn’t kid ourselves. Putin, like many despots, isn’t behaving fully rationally. He inhabits a fantasy world, surrounded by people who are afraid to challenge him, with a mind that has been poisoned by more than two decades as a tyrant. He’s made a catastrophic mistake in Ukraine—one that may yet prove his downfall.
Democracy isn’t perfect. It’s messy. It can be shortsighted. Many powerful democracies, including the United States, are dysfunctional. But at least our leaders face real constraints, real pushback for their miscalculations, and real criticism from their population. And, crucially, there’s a built-in mechanism to replace our leaders when they start to behave irrationally or irresponsibly.
That’s why it’s time to jettison the myth of the “savvy” strongman, or the dictator who’s a geopolitical “genius.” Putin has fallen victim to the dictator trap and proved that he is neither.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-dictator-trap-russia-ukraine/627064/
In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine’s little-known president into a global hero, wreck Russia’s economy, and solidify his legacy as a murderous war criminal.
How did he miscalculate so badly?
To answer that question, you have to understand the power and information ecosystems around dictators. I’ve studied and interviewed despots across the globe for more than a decade. In my research, I’ve persistently encountered a stubborn myth—of the savvy strongman, the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game because he (and it’s typically a he) doesn’t have to worry about pesky polls or angry voters. Our elected leaders, this view suggests, are no match for the tyrant who gazes into the next decade rather than fretting about next year’s election.
Reality doesn’t conform to that rosy theory.
Autocrats such as Putin eventually succumb to what may be called the “dictator trap.” The strategies they use to stay in power tend to trigger their eventual downfall. Rather than being long-term planners, many make catastrophic short-term errors—the kinds of errors that would likely have been avoided in democratic systems. They hear only from sycophants, and get bad advice. They misunderstand their population. They don’t see threats coming until it’s too late. And unlike elected leaders who leave office to riches, book tours, and the glitzy lifestyle of a statesman, many dictators who miscalculate leave office in a casket, a possibility that makes them even more likely to double down.
But to stay in power, despots have to worry about more than just their advisers and cronies. They have to win over, intimidate, or coerce their population too. That’s why dictators invest in state-sponsored media. In Russia, the state goes so far as to present fake presidential candidates who pretend to oppose Putin in rigged elections. The whole system is a Potemkin village, an illusion of choice and political debate.
Again, that mechanism of control comes with a cost. Some citizens brainwashed by state propaganda will support a war that is sure to backfire. Others privately oppose the regime, but will be too afraid to say anything. As a result, reliable polling doesn’t exist in autocracies. (Russia is no exception.) That means that despots like Putin are unable to accurately understand the attitudes of their own people.
Clearly, Putin is no fool. But as we debate possible endgames to the war in Ukraine, we shouldn’t kid ourselves. Putin, like many despots, isn’t behaving fully rationally. He inhabits a fantasy world, surrounded by people who are afraid to challenge him, with a mind that has been poisoned by more than two decades as a tyrant. He’s made a catastrophic mistake in Ukraine—one that may yet prove his downfall.
Democracy isn’t perfect. It’s messy. It can be shortsighted. Many powerful democracies, including the United States, are dysfunctional. But at least our leaders face real constraints, real pushback for their miscalculations, and real criticism from their population. And, crucially, there’s a built-in mechanism to replace our leaders when they start to behave irrationally or irresponsibly.
That’s why it’s time to jettison the myth of the “savvy” strongman, or the dictator who’s a geopolitical “genius.” Putin has fallen victim to the dictator trap and proved that he is neither.
Would you call a 90lb - 90 year-old midget a coward when, against his will, he is thrown into a boxing ring with Klitschko and begs for help?
Protesting Journalist: Russians Have Been Zombified By Propganda
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Marina Ovsyannikova: Protesting journalist says Russians zombified by propaganda
Marina Ovsyannikova, who interrupted a broadcast to protest against the war in Ukraine, speaks to the BBC.
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Schwarznegger Anti-War Video Trending on Russian Twitter:
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Ukraine: Arnold Schwarzenegger's anti-war video trends on Russian social media
In the video the actor warns Russians they are being fed misinformation over the Ukraine war.
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I vote for the Klitschko brothers as President and Vice President of Ukraine!...Now those are real men..."a man's man"...they have the proverbial "balls of steel" to go out and fight in open war!
They don't hide in a bunker like Zelynsky eating matzo balls and opening his big mouth like a cry baby!
I have absolutely no idea how this incompetent trouble maker was allowed to be president of Ukraine! An utter disgrace!
They don't hide in a bunker like Zelynsky eating matzo balls and opening his big mouth like a cry baby!
I have absolutely no idea how this incompetent trouble maker was allowed to be president of Ukraine! An utter disgrace!
Somehow I think the only real disgrace to humanity here is Putin and his close cronies.
Not only is he destroying the Ukraine but Russians will be living in misery also for the next 30-40 years as the world will not forgive or forget and unfortunately the ordinary Russian who has nothing to do with this will be the one to suffer the most.
Not only is he destroying the Ukraine but Russians will be living in misery also for the next 30-40 years as the world will not forgive or forget and unfortunately the ordinary Russian who has nothing to do with this will be the one to suffer the most.
It may be so! It's not as if this invasion was a total shock since Putin has been telegraphing his intentions since 2014 in regards to Ukraine!
However, the bigger disgrace is Zelynski knowing that eventually one day soon this would happen! And he as the so-called leader of Ukraine and the West doing fuck all to prevent this invasion from happening and sweeping everything under the rug by one ruling administration after another! This is what happens when you have incompetent clowns running the show!!!
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Russian Cosmonauts Arrive at ISS Wearing Ukrainian Colors:
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Russian cosmonauts spark speculation after arriving at International Space Station in Ukraine's colors | CNN Politics
A trio of Russian cosmonauts arrived Friday at the International Space Station wearing bright yellow flight suits trimmed with blue, raising questions about whether the three were showing solidarity with Ukraine by wearing its national colors and rebuking their own government's invasion.
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I would agree with you that you have incompetent people running things Sleepy Joe and Cackling Kamala front and centre, but the leaders of NATO don’t seem to get it either that Putin doesn’t understand anything else except brute force. What will they do when he continues this to the Baltic countries or Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Romania who is next.
As far as Zelynski yes he could see this coming so could the rest of Europe and the US what else could he have done. He hasnt deserted his people he is still in the Ukraine, I doubt him going out into the streets with an automatic weapon would make the difference. The Klitschko brothers, yes they have now proved that they are not only formidable opponents in the ring but on the streets of Kiev also.
This is history repeating itself the West stood by and watched this happen in the 50s 60s and 70s also.
I was also inferring about the leaders of the Eurozone and NATO.
That's just speculation!...In my opinion that's quite far fetched!
As I mentoned in Post #18, Putin's pretext is to reintegrate Ukraine into Russia as they are all brothers in arms!...with the same East Slav root language! Russian Cossacks, Ukrainian Cossacks...a cossack is a cossack!...Although, I am sure Putin's real pretext for the invasion is different and more economic related.
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Funny I don’t remember any Cossacks in Hungary or Check Republic, or Slovakia, Hungarian is defiantly nothing like a Slavic language or any other for that matter.
What were the Russians uniting then.
No Putin wants to revive the former Soviet Union and Ukraine is just a stepping stone, he will use the same threat of nuclear war as long as it works for him and the West is too chicken shit to call his bluff and Sleepy Joe and Cackling Kamala are just clowns stumbling over their big feet that keeps landing in their mouth.
Fradi the only language Hungarian is similar to is Finnish .
Magyar has also incorporated many Tukish words since the time they were occupied by the Ottoman empire.
Russia may move on tiny Moldova but not on any NATO affiliated countries. Unless Zelynskyi and his Ukrainian "cossaks" drive the invading rus back into their hell hole.
Magyar has also incorporated many Tukish words since the time they were occupied by the Ottoman empire.
Russia may move on tiny Moldova but not on any NATO affiliated countries. Unless Zelynskyi and his Ukrainian "cossaks" drive the invading rus back into their hell hole.
Not really at least not anymore it was originally yes and legend has it that 7 tribes settled the Danube where Hungary now is and the 8th travelled all the way up to Finland.
Over centuries Finish has become closer to Scandinavian influences with very limited likeness to Hungarian. I have met many Finns and can’t understand a word they are saying.
Yes Hungarian has incorporated many Turkish words there are still many remnants of Turkish architecture in Hungary left over from the Ottoman occupation and now many English as well.
I don’t agree with you that Putin will stop with Ukraine and Moldova he wants to make Russia great again like good old Soviet times.
Over centuries Finish has become closer to Scandinavian influences with very limited likeness to Hungarian. I have met many Finns and can’t understand a word they are saying.
Yes Hungarian has incorporated many Turkish words there are still many remnants of Turkish architecture in Hungary left over from the Ottoman occupation and now many English as well.
I don’t agree with you that Putin will stop with Ukraine and Moldova he wants to make Russia great again like good old Soviet times.
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