It's almost like Republican propaganda. Hmm....More Day 4:
"A so-called expert on America is produced to diagnose Hillary’s early years: “She wore big glasses, she had terrible teeth, and then she threw herself at Bill Clinton.” But Hillary is just the appetizer to the entrée of evil that really controls the strings of world government. That man is of course George Soros. “He helped the Gestapo arrest his own co-religionists and then take away their own possessions,” an announcer says to chilling background music. “George Soros. The spider.”
Of course, the image of Jew as vermin or as a spider holding the world in its web is typical and, frankly, not even very imaginative anti-Semitic propaganda. But as I watch Butina’s show, I remember that my own grandfather was a Jew born in Ukraine who died fighting Germany’s fascist armies during the siege of Leningrad. A decade after his death, another fascist named Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in the city my grandfather died defending. Watching Butina and her garden-variety anti-Semitism feels like a terrible desecration of his memory.
Meanwhile, on NTV’s news program, Elon Musk declares in a clip, “All news is propaganda. People have to decide for themselves.” Russian state television could not have said it better."
^^^ Virulent, bedrock sexism and even more virulent anti-semitism. I veer wildly between ROTFWLMAO moments and deep disgust.
The one all the traffic passes through at Istanbul.
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Insane how many republicans want us to become Russian Part 2.Day 5:
"I watch a show called For Men / For Women, in which a woman is attacked on the street by her ex-husband, who, with the aid of his relatives, also kidnaps her little son. “I fell on the asphalt, and he is holding me down and beating me,” the woman says. “I lost my breast milk. I went to the police. The police didn’t do anything.”
“Nikolai drank a lot and still drinks a lot,” the woman continues. “He gets aggressive and he takes it out on people. I was his victim and had to obey him.”
The poor woman’s lament reminds me of the show I watched a few days prior (it now seems like a lifetime ago) about women being stalked and beaten by their ex-lovers. “He has a very aggressive nature,” a woman said of her former lover, the professional boxer. As does Russia in 2023. So many of the shows I’ve watched during the past five days were obsessed with the West, with our Clintons and Soroses and Von der Leyens. Russia is the spurned lover with the “very aggressive nature” taking out his inhumanity on the innocent neighbor next door. Despite all the posturing and doublespeak, Russian television announces as much to the world. Whether on the airwaves or, perhaps someday, at the Hague, the evidence has been clearly presented."
^^^ The "bolded by me above" kind of says it all.
Well it just shows the Republicans are the party of anti-law/anti-morals/anti-common-sense.....Insane how many republicans want us to become Russian Part 2.
Russians are worried about the situation near Bakhmut:"At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are demolishing our positions in the Bakhmut direction with cluster munitions. The counter-battery fight does not work. Everything is burning all around. The men are holding on, waiting for aviation. The General Staff has not yet handed over cluster bombs and rockets with cluster munitions to our guys for answers. It remains only to believe in our guys and our pilots."
This old post made me so mad I am compelled to reply.I am tired seeing everyone expecting US to be world police. This is really Europe problem, it's in their back yard, they should deal with it.
Article 5.What would stop the Grasshoppers from parking a ship across the channel and blocking it?
I’m not sure if having to arrest one of the war’s biggest boosters for turning against you and calling for your removal is a sign of strength.Everyone who thought Putin was in serious, immediate trouble as leader majorly underestimates the servile Russian pysche, say I, a noted international observer (in my own mind.)
Being able to kind of is. Ex KGB and one time non-entity Putin knows how to maneuver -- stealth and timing. Just who do you think is going to come for the effing Tsar?I’m not sure if having to arrest one of the war’s biggest boosters for turning against you and calling for your removal is a sign of strength.
I’m not sure if having to arrest one of the war’s biggest boosters for turning against you and calling for your removal is a sign of strength.
Someone from the military or internal security services.Being able to kind of is. Ex KGB and one time non-entity Putin knows how to maneuver -- stealth and timing. Just who do you think is going to come for the effing Tsar?
^^^ This. Exactly!eh, it's the Russian way. What you and I call strength isn't the same as how Russians see it. See: history.
For one, consider the coup against roundly unpopular, perpetually inebriated Boris Yeltsin. The tanks were in Red Square, and all it took to calm down the internal invaders was for some aid to prop a stumbling Yeltsin up onto one of the tanks and for him to simply tell them to go home. Suddenly, he was the leader again, and Russians everywhere cried. Or whatever.
See: Wagner insurrection. We look at this as weakening Vlad. The Russians likely don't see it this way.You[We] can pretend you understand this and that what you are saying is correct, but it simply isn't true in Russia. It defies common understanding.
You simply can't understand Russia from a western perspective. You can't. There's a reason that dozens of similar phrases like this have endured for generations.
Nah - I don’t buy any of this. For example the Wagner rebellion absolutely weakened Putin significantly. It taught people that you can lead an armed rebellion that kills numerous Russian soldiers and marches on Moscow and get away with it. It encourages more of the same. Even worse, people in the streets were cheering Wagner on!eh, it's the Russian way. What you and I call strength isn't the same as how Russians see it. See: history.
For one, consider the coup against roundly unpopular, perpetually inebriated Boris Yeltsin. The tanks were in Red Square, and all it took to calm down the internal invaders was for some aid to prop a stumbling Yeltsin up onto one of the tanks and for him to simply tell them to go home. Suddenly, he was the leader again, and Russians everywhere cried. Or whatever.
See: Wagner insurrection. We look at this as weakening Vlad. The Russians likely don't see it this way. You can pretend you understand this and that what you are saying is correct, but it simply isn't true in Russia. It defies common understanding.
You simply can't understand Russia from a western perspective. You can't. There's a reason that dozens of similar phrases like this have endured for generations.
