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Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

He should hope so. Any of these Russian crooks who turn against Putin have a high probability of being found dead in their mansions.

Navigator wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:57 pm

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

He should hope so. Any of these Russian crooks who turn against Putin have a high probability of being found dead in their mansions.

Analyst says 'Fortress Russia is gone' in face of US sanctions • FRANCE 24 English

The US, EU, and their allies have been announcing measures designed to isolate and weaken the Russian economy. Since 2014, Vladimir Putin has been taking pre-emptive steps to protect the economy from future sanctions. But Brian O'Toole, former US Treasury Official and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, says that in the face of Western sanctions, "Fortress Russia is gone."

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-glGT_kkA[/youtube]

"A blow you cannot prepare for."

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:07 pm

Navigator wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:57 pm

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

He should hope so. Any of these Russian crooks who turn against Putin have a high probability of being found dead in their mansions.

Analyst says 'Fortress Russia is gone' in face of US sanctions • FRANCE 24 English

The US, EU, and their allies have been announcing measures designed to isolate and weaken the Russian economy. Since 2014, Vladimir Putin has been taking pre-emptive steps to protect the economy from future sanctions. But Brian O'Toole, former US Treasury Official and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, says that in the face of Western sanctions, "Fortress Russia is gone."

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-glGT_kkA[/youtube]

"A blow you cannot prepare for."

But, but, I thought Bitcoin would save Russia....

The West will ban Bitcoin. This will be their excuse. Bitcoin is also undermining the price of gold. I would normally expect gold to sky rocket in this case, but Russia might be forced to dump its gold reserves to pay the light bill. That would probably hurt the price of gold in the short run.

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

Total bullshit.

guest wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:24 am The West will ban Bitcoin. This will be their excuse. Bitcoin is also undermining the price of gold. I would normally expect gold to sky rocket in this case, but Russia might be forced to dump its gold reserves to pay the light bill. That would probably hurt the price of gold in the short run.

Good luck with that. Another nail in the coffin.

Cool Breeze wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 1:22 pm

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

Total bullshit.

Why do you say that?

I have been looking into the claim thrown around by Putin and his supporters in the West that NATO "Promised" not to expand into the former WARSAW Pact countries.

Masha Gessen said in an interview that the Soviets had ask that East Germany not be allowed to join NATO when Germany reunited (which they agreed to allow). The West said that was impossible, but a NATO general proposed that no NATO troops would permanently stationed in East Germany. And this was when the WARSAW Pact still existed. No promise or document was ever made to not allow future membership with NATO. NEVER happened. And the agreement was with the WARSAW Pact, not Russia. When the WARSAW Pact ended, the agreement (which only covered East Germany) ended too.

Putin is the one that has pushed this narrative.

Guest wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:17 pm

Cool Breeze wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 1:22 pm

Guest wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:47 pm Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview on FRANCE 24 that Putin fears assassination and is showing signs of senile dementia. He also said that invading Ukraine was suicide.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jxPqeOF5s[/youtube]

Total bullshit.

Why do you say that?

It's not true. And no one can point to the supports of such a claim. I didn't make the claim, so I don't have to support it. It's just obviously not true. He's not demented at all, invading Ukraine obviously (as a matter of fact) isn't suicide, and the assassination part is just pure speculation.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhhQoRbcpk[/youtube]

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