Reminds me of pre war speech by Josef Goebbels in Kroll opera house:
BBC News - World faces most dangerous decade since WW2 - Putin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63417487
If you think about it this way Vix: Russia is more like an "old feudal European" state, isolated and on the edge of the European world. The renaissance never really got that far, they never had a reformation, nor an enlightenment, even when Peter the Great tried to impose more "western" stuff, they resisted, nor any anti monarch/aristocracy movement like most of Europe and the industrial revolution came very late compared to other European nations and was tiny by comparsion. Pretty much all of their great thinkers and artists were from the cities in the western part and they were very small in number. Beyond lay the agrarian land of serf and lords and the wastes where the banished resided and often died. They had serfdom into the middle of the 19th century and old style feudal attitudes to their peasants long after that. And throughout they were invaded by the Mongols which changed them and later the Poles and all the while they were expanding their colonial empire across land all the way to the Pacific.
Communism for all its faults was a real lifeline for a good while and made real differences to the common man and woman and indeed amomg other things was more farsighted in gender equality than most Western nations, and why it was extremely popular among the common Russian and pretty popular among thinkers and working people beyond Russia's shores,. They went from scary levels of illiteracy to near full literacy within a few decades with free education and healthcare and it pulled them from the early modern type state into the 20th century with a bang. Not without serious problems but it did it.Even turned them into a superpower and industrial nation vying for position with the US, which was the biggest industrial base and most powerful nation in history. They went from serfs and god kings to the space race in he span of a lifetime.
But they also reverted to type in many ways with a new different god king in Stalin and the gulags of their wastelands never went away, nor did their imperial ambitions. After him people like Khrushchev did dial that back somewhat and at least tried for more. Then by the 80's it was on the wane and it all fell down around them and back to their biggest fear(other than invasion) chaos. Putin came out of that and it's easy to see why he was so popular, but again the reversion to type wasn't far away and here we are.
For me the real pity is that Russia with all her resources and a people that could be extremely inventive and hard working might have turned out like a Scandi country, or better, but the reversion to type their need for a "strong king" with imperial ambitions sabotaged that time and time again.
Only ones who can guarantee the sovereignty and state integrity of Ukraine
Is us Russia.....
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Putin
'when the lights went out, they blamed Russia, everything is Russia''
I think Moscow Mick is very bitter about his business empire going down the plughole a few years back and hates the west because of that. Most people with personal hate seem to blame the west and Europe for all their ills and side with Russia for the same reason. they kind of fancy a lawless society of bedlam and chaos by ways of making up for their bitterness and hate. He will be in the history books in 20 years as a misguided yahoo.
Yeah but its about as relevant to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the US's actions in WWII.
Sooner the better this muppet Wallace gets the boot.
Actually 50,000 people survived the siege and subsequent street battles of Carthage. They were sold into slavery. Most of the women and children had fled before the final siege.
They wiped the city off the map out of revenge and trauma of 2 previous Punic wars. Everyone remembers Hannibal to this day. Romans had a hatred and fear of the Carthage power/challenge.
Putin: "We never said anything proactively about possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia. We have only hinted in response to statements made by western leaders."
What has the world come to? A despot can't even hint at nuclear annihilation any more without the threat of retaliation. The west never plays fair!
Remember, this was one of their "hints".
Why did Rome burn Carthage to the ground, no point to it, they did it to kill civilians.
Because something bad happened in the past does not excuse something bad happening now
Sometimes in an F-15 yeah.
AC7 was fun. I hope 8 comes to PC as well.
Have to say I'm still not that up and up on MiG and Sukhoi families.
Was this you ?
Putin, I hate the west and everything it stands for.
Also Putin, I am not any enemy of the west.
Why did US bomb Japan, no point to it, they did it to kill civilians
There’s two things going on here;
(1) Trying to convince the Russian public that everything is in hand, going to plan and Russia.
(2) Crying out that he is open to negotiations. It just feels like this is him trying to open that without explicitly asking
One of the strangest things I’ve seen
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Putin 2022: "Russia fight a civil war in Ukraine"
How does one fight a civil war between two sovereign countries?
This must be the most open discussion we have seen public-ally with Putin since the start of all of this?
His take on history is very mangled and he is contradicting himself at every turn.
Georgia, Belarus...
But then, he doesn't consider the former Soviet republics as nations or some such weasel words.
The hypocrisy is laughable; he is talking about allowing nations to determine their own destiny. Wha? Like Ukraine?
Think we are closer to April '45
Funny I was just playing some Ace Combat and taking out SU-30SMs
No need to thank me.
And talking about freedom and Democracy
Putin ranting against the West like the raving lunatic he is. No surprises today....
Putin impression-
There's going to be some amount of dead Russians from the cold in this war. Crap gear, crap shelter, píssed off their heads so no real feel for just how cold their body is. I reckon we'll see thousands die and others so desperate for food they'll turn to eating them. This will be as bad as anything they faced in WW2 and that's before the drones start picking them off as they huddle for warmth.
Im actually at the point now where its hard to even put words on the ridiculousness of the rubbish that these morons are now spouting.
Its like the whole country, its culture and its mindset hadn't actually evolved or modernised or become civilised whilst the west has, for the most part, evolved into the modern society we live in today.
The fact that the powers that be in russia actually publicly publishes the likes of this "desatanisation" rubbish and that some of the people reading it will actually believe in it and want to act accordingly.
The actual levels of hypocrisy is absolutely insane, yet they spew it out unblinking.
Russia has and continues to slaughter innocent civilians including kids, their scum military rape and murder civilians and this is turned a blind eye to and is not at all classed as satanistic behavior because they're doing it, so its all ok then.
Its like they're whole psyche is almost juvenile in nature, keep telling lies, keep denying the obvious, keep pretending Ukraine is about to do this or do that when its they themselves are thinking about doing do, this is primary school yard politics and strategies, putin and his minions expect us "soft westerners" to just believe their utterings and lies, and still, after multiple examples of them trying to lay the ground work for a possible false flag operation (dirty bomb etc) and after being globally called out on them, they go and try the same tactic again.
Is this now just pure desperation because they're options are diminishing or are they actually that insanely dumb that they think they can pull the wool of the collective western nations and that we'd seriously fall for any of their horse sh*t ?
Before 24th Feb. I had a completely different view of Putin and Russia as a whole.
I knew they were a bit behind the west but were doing their best to get a bit "westernised" with their consumer habits and tastes etc.
I believed the russian military was 2nd only to the US in terms of power, strength and tech.
Since Feb though its become clear that the undercurrent in the russian psyche is so backward, theyre still living it the 70s and 80s.
I've worked with a number of russians over the years and russian men are judged by their peers on how many woman they can pull even though they've a wife and kids waiting for them at home or how much alcohol a man can drink on a night out, this too is a measure of how much of a man they are.
I know this can sometimes happen with western lads but its way more prevalent amongst the russians I've worked with.
As for their military, I too believed the russian military would sweep Ukraine out of its way in days after the invasion, but it so quickly became apparent that their conventional military was just a rag tag shambles of old soviet equipment, rusty rifles, untrained alcoholic child raping men with big egos led by commanders who couldn't command a ride in a whore house.
Russia truly is no longer a world "Superpower" like it was once believed to be, its now shown itself to truly be nothing more than a terrorist state on the border of eastern europe, led by a gangster with nukes in his pocket.
How the mighty have fallen in the eyes of the world with their true colors shown to the world.
Putin wants an out,sounds like it. A deal, but it will be his way or no way.
Never...
Putin late for his own meeting again. Probably because his watch is slow. It's stuck in 1933.
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