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God bless Russia and its freedom loving allies, The West is clearly demonic on its intent to subvert freedom and liberty loving states with absolutely evil outcomes. Hope God has his crosshairs for judgement on these corrupted interlopers.

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No State is holy, and by the nature of its existence cannot be “freedom loving”. But we need opposing forces in order for us to survive in between i.e. not one master.

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I think people don’t understand Russia’s natural drive to secure unity and common cause (for better or worse) due to their sheer size. Cultural containment per se. The variation of straight ethnicities is insane, east to west and north to south.

Anyone who thinks Russia is alone, and does not possess the statecraft to unite other countries, is missing the assignment.

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Russia 17 million km² vs United States 9 million km².

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Do you know who Herman Gref is? Evil is everywhere

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Inform me.

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I don’t expect Putin to be too receptive to Ukraine being occupied. I think he’s about had his fill of being lied to. Also I think there are beginning to be louder voices on his right. No one remembers that Russia has its neocon contingent too. I never understood why the desire to push him out. The replacement might not exert the discipline Putin has.

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Russia has neocons and radicals, so it’s a helluva balancing act for a successor to follow.

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I think what has made Putin so popular is the strides he has made to bring Russia back from the economic disaster it was in. He didn’t have much to work with when he started.

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That's the main reason why I respect him. I shared those Adam Curtis videos here, a helluva reflection on the awful state Russia was in after the West tried to take it over, and internal greed constantly ejaculated on the People. His successor won't have that platform, that support from the middle aged and older folk who remember standing in a snow queue for bread.

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The thing that has impressed me most about VV Putin is his apparent love for Russia, his country.

Nothing of the sort do we get from our leadership in the west. From them, we get lectures on freedom and misinformation and why them actively destroying our countries should be lauded.

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I've seen a lot of videos of him the past two years and his interaction with the Public is totally different to what we're shown on MSM.

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Exactly, he took a ruined shell of a superpower and gradually restored it first to a regional one, and now back to a global actor.

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In the 30 years of our South African democracy, our government devalued the rand and made almost half the population unemployed.

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Russia has no choice but to take all of Ukro-Nazistan and fold it back into the Empire of the Rus where it belongs. It all began in Kiev with the Kievan Rus!

Yaroslav Forever! Nevski Forever! Long live the Empire of the Rus!

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That would be problematic as that would mean a Ukrainian resistance within Russia. The Russian-speaking regions, which voted for inclusion, make more sense. And then a big buffer line. I've never wanted Ukrainians gone except for the radicals, and they should be gone for the sake of Ukrainians. Take away the madness caused by propaganda, and most Ukrainians will think clearly, as they did before the war (and undoubtedly many are now, but are too afraid to speak). But, a Western Ukraine, becoming Ukraine, would then have to contend with their 'allies' wanting to gobble them up further.

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Complicating that is that the hardline faction of the ruling power centers in Russia wanted to roll tanks into Ukraine back in 2014 when Maidan happened.

Russia likely would have faced a much easier time doing it then than they experienced 8 years later against a NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian army.

Long story short, the hardline faction points to the decision to not go all in back in 2014 as evidence that they were right then, which means they’re also right now.

Personally, I think Putin is wise to avoid making the kind of emotional decisions the hardliners want him to make.

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Retrospect is a bitch, but in that Putin was correct because he wouldn't have favourably changed the opinion of half the world as he's done now. It's a terrible game, and he faces many Western traps, such as what's happening in Georgia, Syria, Armenia and Moldova, and another backstab from Turkey. I so fucking hope that Ukraine doesn't hit Transnistria.

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Also, Russia was less strong militarily in 2014 than it is now. The suite of new-generation weapons that we have been hearing so much about dates, I believe, to 2018 approximately.

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2014 was the catalyst.

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“NATO is already deploying training centers in Ukraine, through which it is planned to drag at least a million mobilized Ukrainians.”

Where are they getting a million Ukrainians? most of their conscripts are over 40 yo, women? Whatever centers nato builds Rusia will destroy with an oreshnik.

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I will never think that way.

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Despite losing a third of its population, there are millions of age left. They're being pressured to drop the conscription rate from 24 to 18, and kill another generation.

The side effect is that with every person taken from the work force makes Ukraine struggle economically. Plus most mothers with a 17-year-old will emigrate if they can. Plus some countries want NATO troops in there.

Kill, kill, kill. Profit, profit, profit.

Any NATO upping of the ante gets met with a Russian upping. Just terrible.

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I must say that from my own military experience, and conscription in South Africa, the Ukraine approach has been somewhat Backward from the very beginning.

The conscription action should have targeted 18 to 21 year olds from the get go, who are most pliable, generally the fittest, make the least contribution to the economy and generally don't have wives and children.

What has now occurred in the Ukraine is that the 25+ year olds who generally have wives and young children, and have settled in to contributing effectively to the economy, are being killed, this causing a loss of skills in the workplace and to society, the loss of an important family breadwinner, and leaving behind scores of widows, and single parent children, which all become a burden in society and the state.

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That would be normal procedure, use the more easy to brainwash youth and keep the elders to run the economy. I don't know if that was done to make the war more tasty to parents, or because we live in a Playstation generation, or because it was part of the plan to weaken Ukraine.

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I think it was done because of the serious problems Ukraine has with its birth rate. There are way too few Ukrainian men between 18 and 24. Press ganging this group into the military, especially given the complete lack of training they would receive, would turn a demographic nightmare into a demographic apocalypse. Not that such a scenario for the Ukrainian nation bothers the Ukrainian puppet government’s ‘deciders’ in Washington.

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Birth rate was only 1.26 in 2022, and the country's since lost a third of its population to emigration, and over half a million killed.

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It's not going to survive long term, is it?

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Humans survive, but as something diminished is unkind living.

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Well they've just made it effectively worse, having gone arse about face.

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I was often struck by the fact that the Ukrainian military conscription eligibility was almost the exact inverse of U.S. Selective Service registration (18-26 only). I have never properly understood why.

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Maybe there was immediately consideration for the low birth rate and that without new members of the work force, the country would be in economic trouble later. However, like Russia with its "SMO", they were probably trying to make it more palatable. After all, Zelensky was elected on the peace ticket, and then did the opposite which required mass 'friendly' propaganda.

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America is a Hydra that needs to not only be beheaded but burnt thoroughly in order to cleanse the Planet of its Evil stench... Peace is anathema to this filthy nation and most of the people in there are so bloody ignorant that it's fucking repulsive

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Freeze the conflict would be a defeat for Russia - short and long term

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Yes. It offered peace repeatedly, but now it’s strategically impractical unless on its terms.

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It's totally unacceptable to Russia. Nothing less than the end of NATO is acceptable.

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Empires do not die easy. For NATO to end, Eastern Europe would need to rise against it, and Germans need to get control of their government. Turkey needs to be put in a situation where it makes a choice rather than its, so far, clever straddling.

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I think it'll eventually go that way once sanity prevails. Germany is a major issue they're really screwing the pooch.

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Turkeye like Egypt and Saudi are playing both ways. Even some BRICS nations are. It's a gradual process as you say.

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Erdogan knows how to dance, but Egypt's dictatorship can only exist with American weapons.

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And Israel is supplying Egypt gas.

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Not necessarily. Russia understands this is a war to the end with NATO. A temporary ceasefire would allow NATO to move forces and materiel now under NATO nation protection into Ukraine where it would be under no protection from Russian missiles and nukes. In fact, Russia allowing such a move could be very closely compared to the many cauldrons and kill zones Russians have created throughout the war to ensnare and obliterate Ukrainians..

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Possible, but I doubt it. Putin offered peace many times, and was prepared to let territory go. He didn't want this war. He wanted NATO as far away as possible. Allowing them up to his border to create a "cauldron" is only useful for a first strike, and that's meaningless when the majority of his enemy will have time, from afar, to react. Putin's not a nut. He doesn;t seek unnecessary risk.

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The West simply doesn't have the weaponry or the manpower to pull it off. Their CIA/M16 campaigns only work on the unintelligent, the uninformed, or the easily bought. Russia knows the game now and there's no more pie in the sky delusions. As Putin said, we are now a sovereign country.

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Ukraine still gonna lose territory even in the best possible scenario.

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I wrote they’d already lost, maybe year and a half ago. Any ‘President’ who cared about their country would have made a deal then, which was on offer, saved half a million lives and lost zero territory, just given the Donbas federalism, like the USA.

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This would have been the sane route

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Most folks do what they're told. How many do you think never read my post because of my header image?

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😂 I have a habit of ignoring signs.

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May the other cars miss you every time :)

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Oh, I pay attention to cars, rubber chickens too! I saw Chappie!;-)

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Ha ha. I couldn't finish 'Chappie', but the South African director's 'District 9' was great.

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Yeah, I liked District 9 too. You should have watched Chappie to the end. The concept is pretty cool.

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So the US Empire wants to turn Ukraine into a giant Korea, complete with DMZs, peacekeepers, and a huge budget for the Western MIC to grift off of, tying Russia and every Western country down in a neverending but very profitable stalemate.

Somehow I don't see the Russians accepting that situation.

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Don't worry. Ain't gonna happen.

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That would be seen as continuation of the existential threat.

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The challenge is for Russia to keep control of its overheating economy.

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The propaganda machine is in full swing, still.

Russia has been exceedingly clear about what was needed for them to agree to peace in Ukraine. And this plan, of course, does none of these things.

NATO is smart enough to know that they'd be completely overwhelmed by Russia if they went to war. So they're showboating and manufacturing consensus. What morally bankrupt leadership the west has.

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Russia's problem is that it hasn't figured out here to present its case to the general population of the West where propaganda remains effective.

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That’s right. I’m in Moscow now, and unfortunately Russians are pretty clueless about marketing and propaganda. For example, most bars/restaurants here have ugly and rude waitresses despite many beautiful women all over the place. They still haven’t figured out that ‘sex (and cools stuff) sells.’ Look at Russian cars: same thing. Everything is done here in a quick and spontaneous (not fully thought through) manner just like cooking spaghetti: throw some against a wall and see what sticks.

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Fulgurite, you lucky bugger.

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There is a total blackout of Russian news in the mainstream media, in all of the west. And, for reasons I cannot understand, completely absurd narratives, or at best narratives replete with irreconcilable contradictions, are gobbled up without fail by almost everyone. The ‘oh, come on’ moment for me was the branding of the Hunter Biden laptop ‘Russian disinformation’. The vast majority of Americans have the critical thinking capacity of jackrabbits. And I may be disrespectful to jackrabbits in saying this. There is nothing Russia can do to improve its communication with western audiences. Better to aim at the so-called global south.

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The Jackrabbits are forgiving creatures, and told me that they don't mind you taking their species name in vain.

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With the new military offensive by "anti-government groups" in Syria and possibly the occupation of Aleppo, the West, Israel and Turkey have moved their military proxy units in Syria to force Russia into a second military front. For the West they are hoping to weaken Russian militarily into Ukrainian negotiations and weaken Iran for a possible US-Israeli military strike. The West and NATO is attempting to strike in all directions with a new company headed by Eric Schmidt in Ukraine making inexpensive drones and new hypersonic missile research and development in Lithuania and Latvia. And the United States' terror network has not even ignored South America with the recent assassination attempt against the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales and new attempts to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela. The real aim of the new Trump administration is to disengage from Ukraine to provide more financial and military support in Asia against China. His new administration is not to end wars but to focus on a target they think are a real threat. China is their obsession.

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I agree with you on everything, with the only quibble being that they will find a way to make more money out of countries against Russia, and maybe simply hand it over to Schmidt and his kind.

For readers who don't know, Eric Schmidt is Google's former CEO, and he has gained a licence as an arms dealer so he can supply AI war drones to Ukraine.

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By the way Mike, I have had the same browser problems 15 years ago using Mozilla. The same message would come up trying to go to rt.com. Less problems with Chrome but the real problem has been with search engines and I use Yandex almost all the time.

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I tried several years ago and found them so uncomfortable I went back to Mozilla. Maybe I should try Duck 'n Go again.

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The North Atlantic Terrorist Organization wants a "freezing" so that they can redo the same crap they've done since 2014... Keep giving Billions to the USofT Billionaires (mainly) with a new rearmament of Ukrainistan.

Because you know "Peace and Democracy are our Western Values"!

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Peace, Democracy and Propaganda! I should make the t-shirt.

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Why do GEORGIANS (Minority backed by WESTERN FASCIST NGOS)want to be part of FASCIST EUROPEAN UNION,USA,NATO? All they offer are PROXY WARS INITIATED BY USA/NATO so AMERICANS AND WESTERN EUROPEANS DONT DIE . Georgians will be enslaved by DEBT AND DEATH to keep USA FASCIST HEGEMONY ALIVE. Georgians deserve Sovereignty,Territorial Integrity that WESTERN DEMOCRATIC FASCISM will not give them. After Ukraine Proxy War is settled (will be). American Fascist investors (Blackrock,JP Morgan Chase,IMF,WORLD BANK(both controlled by USA GOVERNMENT etc) will own what’s left of Western Ukraine AND THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE. Only Eastern Ukrainians in the RUSSIAN FEDERATION WILL KNOW WHAT SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY REALLY MEANS.

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Just note that Russia supports the IMF, WEF, World Bank and UN.

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You are absolutely right. They are going to make money no matter what. For almost for free, Blackrock Equity Fund was practically given control of major industries in the Ukraine in 2023 and is expected to profit almost 1 trillion dollars in a post reconstruction of Ukraine. This all looks like the Marshall Plan of post World War Two 2.0. Romania is already complaining about military and economic aid from the US and NATO and the massive strings attached to it. A populist candidate for president in Romania has already disturbed the nest of Western vipers. Also a huge influx of cash entered countries who just became members of NATO.

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When a business has a blueprint that works, it will be repeated. Zelensky is more an estate agent than a president.

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“It remains to be seen how, if at all, Washington's foreign policy will change under Trump. However, I am confident that the American fixation on undermining integration processes on the Eurasian continent will remain unchanged.”

I fully agree!

https://open.substack.com/pub/fulgurite4779/p/trumps-silence-on-the-atacms

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I consider Trump a mid-level figure, and only believe his actions and not his words. I'm curious to see what happens.

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Europe on the other hand is collapsing, in France Michelin, Arcelor Mittal, Bosch, Auchan, Renault and Air France financed by the state and 1000 other firms broke, the government is not able to agree on the new budget, 3000 billion in debt, Macron is no longer a legitimate President and the future is all black. Germany 2 Volkswagen assemblies closed, continental, their former cheap Nord stream gas new imported indirect from India, 40% more expensive, the R. Koch scandal, Sweden Saab, Volvo and steel Hugh problems. Are Russian satellite states so keen to go a pro western economic bankrupt course? Are M16 and the CIA capable to bring light in this darkness, when China in the end will take it all and be the winner without ever going to the battlefield?

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French govt will collapse, Romania's 1st election round results confirmed in contrast with Western propaganda, and Germany's VW workers to go on strike etc.

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