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[DaKardii]

Military exercises take a couple of weeks at maximum. Putin has Russian soldiers in the field for months which costs a lot of money, makes the troops unhappy and disrupts normal schedules. There is NO way that Putin was not planning to invade another country.

Why did it take him so long? Why didn't he invade as soon as the troops could get there?

You too have a good point there, Tom.

[DaKardii]

Now it's emerging that the US shared intelligence about Ukraine... with China. And that China shared that intelligence... with Russia. WTF!?

https://www.axios.com/china-russia-us-i ... bacfd.html

[Cool Breeze]

Actually, no. It is hard power.

The very concept of soft power is that it is used to persuade rather than coerce. Putin has been using both persuasion and coercion in his wielding of power, while Hitler only used coercion. An example of Putin using soft power is setting up Russo-centric free trade agreements such as the Eurasian Economic Union.

Yes, and he played the "democracy" game until the US and NATO coup'd the elected Ukrainian leader. I find it funny that most people conveniently forget this. I think most actually don't know. To act like NATO are good guys is silly. They are just as power mongering, if not, worse. Ukraine has been a shadow government to pay US politicians' families. How many people know that Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney have kids on Ukrainian "energy" business boards? LOL, it's an obvious scam and Putin knows it, and is putting an end to it. As he should.

The idea that Ukraine is more corrupt than Russia is laughable. let's not forget that As soon as he was kicked out of office, Gerhard Schroeder, former German chancellor, went to Russia for a job at Gazprom and is currently on the Nordstream 2 board.

As to US politician families, yes, there were members working in Ukraine during the Obama administration. In the years since then Ukraine has become less corrupt and more transparent.

Suggesting that NATO is the bad guy in a comparison to Russia is not just false but blatant stupidity. Either that or the work of paid Russian trollery.

When did I say that Ukraine is "more corrupt than Russia"? Why do people quote others with things they haven't said before? You are laughable for posting stupid crap like that. Stop it. It's deceptive and bad faith.

[John]

** 25-Feb-2022 World View: Putin illness?

I keep hearing speculation that Putin is ill.

I felt the same way on Tuesday, when I watched Putin give his speech
to the nation, and I described the speech as "extremely vicious and
vengeful."
viewtopic.php?p=68989#p68989

Various reporters and analysts have been using words like "unhinged,"
"crazy," "angry" and "isolated" to describe him.

The following remarks are typical of what I've been hearing:

> "Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled Russian businessman
> and Putin opponent, has said he believes the Russian President is
> “capable of anything”, even, he said potentially “pressing the red
> button” to launch a nuclear war. ...

> Asked if there was evidence that Putin was suffering from an
> illness, or was simply playing on the “crazy man strategy”,
> Khodorkovsky responded:

> “He has found himself in an information bubble which forms a very
> distorted picture of the world in his eyes.... what does that mean
> for the rest of us? It means he’s very dangerous. Does it mean
> that he’s capable of pressing the red button? The nuclear button?
> I hope that he hasn’t gone that far yet in his understanding of
> the world, but one could never be confident about this.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... 9c41a727e8

[Silenced S]

** 25-Feb-2022 World View: Putin illness?

I keep hearing speculation that Putin is ill.

I felt the same way on Tuesday, when I watched Putin give his speech
to the nation, and I described the speech as "extremely vicious and
vengeful."
viewtopic.php?p=68989#p68989

Various reporters and analysts have been using words like "unhinged,"
"crazy," "angry" and "isolated" to describe him.

The following remarks are typical of what I've been hearing:

> "Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled Russian businessman
> and Putin opponent, has said he believes the Russian President is
> “capable of anything”, even, he said potentially “pressing the red
> button” to launch a nuclear war. ...

> Asked if there was evidence that Putin was suffering from an
> illness, or was simply playing on the “crazy man strategy”,
> Khodorkovsky responded:

> “He has found himself in an information bubble which forms a very
> distorted picture of the world in his eyes.... what does that mean
> for the rest of us? It means he’s very dangerous. Does it mean
> that he’s capable of pressing the red button? The nuclear button?
> I hope that he hasn’t gone that far yet in his understanding of
> the world, but one could never be confident about this.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... 9c41a727e8

Fake news bullshit, John. The MSM clearly wants a nuclear war to happen.

[Guest]

> "The MSM clearly wants a nuclear war to happen."

You're as unhinged as Putin is.

[Silenced S]

> "The MSM clearly wants a nuclear war to happen."

You're as unhinged as Putin is.

Oh joy, another commie shill. How much were you paid to type those six words? Why am I even wasting a minute of my life dignifying this with a response, anyway?

[Guest]

"Oh joy, another commie shill. How much were you paid to type those six words? Why am I even wasting a minute of my life dignifying this with a response, anyway?"

How does calling you as unhinged as Putin make me a commie shill?

And why are you wasting your time?

[utahbob]

Here is today operations brief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2JsCrNaAE
Best quote: "You can't sanction your way out of an invasion." He must have stood at the back of a briefing room

[Navigator]

Military exercises take a couple of weeks at maximum. Putin has Russian soldiers in the field for months which costs a lot of money, makes the troops unhappy and disrupts normal schedules. There is NO way that Putin was not planning to invade another country.

Why did it take him so long? Why didn't he invade as soon as the troops could get there?

They put the troops in place before they started moving the ammunition (especially the tank and artillery ammunition) out of the storage depots and to the troops in the forward areas. Logistics takes a while, especially for the Russians.

You don't move artillery ammunition out of the depots unless you have troops around the forward supply points to protect it. You also don't start moving it unless you are actually going to use it, which is most probably why the Russian high-level dissenters, as well as US/NATO intelligence, knew that the war was going to start once the ammunition distribution was done.

BTW, most people don't know this, but the vast majority of soldiers are involved in logistics, not actual combat. For the US, its roughly 9 out of 10, while for the Russians it is maybe half that.