Guest wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:38 pm
The Kremlin might control the TV and Internet (to an extent), but it does not control short wave radio broadcasts. The idea that the Russians can jam the frequencies at will is not true. I listened to a lot of short wave radio stations while in the ex-USSR and it was easy to hear what was really happening in the outside world. Russia is a vast place. it's impossible to block everything.
Russians know what is happening in Ukraine---> and they support it overwhelmingly. Such an unpleasant truth. How despicable most Russians really are. Another Putin figure will rise in the future. Russia will not be a democracy as long as ethnic Russians dominate. Russia is a land of Czars and dictators. That's it. Maybe when the Chechens and Georgians, the Latvians, the Buryats, the ethnic minorities with different mentalities take over, it will be better. But it will not be a good place as long as Russians control Russia. The mentality of a people must be considered.
Moscow is a relatively liberal city that hates Putin, but that is not Russia.
After Putin is destroyed, everyone in Russia will say, "I never supported Putin!"
Russians blow with the wind. The majority of Russians support brute force only.
Andrew Sullivan agrees with you.
The Strange Rebirth Of Imperial Russia
And why it could be here to stay.
There is a tendency to talk of Russia as if Putin has hijacked the country, wresting it away from the West, and from being a “normal country.” I wish that were true. Putin is closer to many Russians’ view of the world than we’d like to believe; his popularity soared after the seizure of Crimea; his mastery of modern media manipulation means his war propaganda can work at home — at least for a while.
Most Russians see Ukraine as indelibly Russian, and they certainly don’t support a fully independent nation-state allied with the EU and NATO. This was the view of figures as disparate as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, George Kennan, and Joseph Brodsky in their time. And if you want to grasp the power of nationalism in Russia, remember that Alexei Navalny, Putin’s greatest potential foe, has built his career on it.
Ukrainian MP says world should 'not be silent' about sexual violence against women during the Russian invasion
Ukrainian MP Maria Mezentseva said the country will "not be silent" about the "horror" of sexual violence being committed against women during the Russian invasion.
Mezentseva told Sky's Sophie Ridge on Sunday programme that one shocking case involved a woman being "raped several times in front of her underage child" after her civilian husband was shot dead in their home near Kyiv.
While that case has been publicly spoken about, she said there are "many more victims" who will require support in the future.
She added that details of sexual violence must be recorded as they happen because "justice has to prevail".
Zelensky warns Putin that war is sowing deep anti-Russian hatred
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky angrily warned Moscow that it is sowing a deep hatred for Russia among his people, as constant artillery barrages and aerial bombings are reducing cities to rubble, killing civilians and driving others into shelters, leaving them to scrounge for food and water to survive.
"You are doing everything so that our people themselves leave the Russian language, because the Russian language will now be associated only with you, with your explosions and murders, your crimes," Mr Zelensky said in an impassioned video address late on Saturday.
Russia wants to split Ukraine in two, says intelligence chief
Russia is trying to split Ukraine in two to create a Moscow-controlled region after failing to take over the entire country, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence said on Sunday.
"In fact, it is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine," Kyrylo Budanov said in a statement, adding that Ukraine would soon launch guerrilla warfare in Russian-occupied territory.
Wolf359 wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:43 pm
Do you visit Chinese restaurants? Do you drink green beer on St. Patrick’s day? Is eating Tex / Mex food any different? Immigrant cultures have been coming to the US throughout our history, and eventually their cultures are absorbed as a natural part of the US. It is what we do.
This used to be true when immigrants had no choice but to assimilate if they wanted to survive. Now they can cross over the border and immediately get free healthcare and government handouts. They can take jobs away from Citizens and send all the money back home. They are not coming here anymore for the freedom, they are coming for the free stuff.
And they can rape and rob and be granted immediate bail, and if they are convicted (a big if now), they will be out of jail in less than a year.
The American biolabs in Ukraine are real and funded by the crime syndicate who stole their way into the White House. Russia may be exploiting it for propaganda purposes, but that doesn't change the fact the Biden regime and their cronies must be forcibly removed from power. https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/hunter-bi ... e-e-mails/
Wolf359 wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:43 pm
Do you visit Chinese restaurants? Do you drink green beer on St. Patrick’s day? Is eating Tex / Mex food any different? Immigrant cultures have been coming to the US throughout our history, and eventually their cultures are absorbed as a natural part of the US. It is what we do.
This used to be true when immigrants had no choice but to assimilate if they wanted to survive. Now they can cross over the border and immediately get free healthcare and government handouts. They can take jobs away from Citizens and send all the money back home. They are not coming here anymore for the freedom, they are coming for the free stuff.
And they can rape and rob and be granted immediate bail, and if they are convicted (a big if now), they will be out of jail in less than a year.
Affirmative action hiring now ENSURES that every single Western institution is shambolic, confused, obsessed with social justice, feminized, without clear goals, and on a generally downward trajectory in every sense.
- The US and the EU actually defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its reserves - now everyone knows that the reserves of the state can simply be stolen
- Western sanctions are a lesson for the national business of the Russian Federation. There is nothing more reliable than investing in your country
