re: Putin Drops Truth Bombs On The West! NPR FINALLY Admits To Ukrainian Corruption

More than mumbling Joe?

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I think the points people are making:

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And Jjdoc, I agree with everything you said. War is brutal and the Ukrainians are not without some serious fault, but my point was to HOW the Russians are prosecuting the war. It’s ugly when cities get razed and so many innocents die.

What are the consequences? The other country falls quickly, Russia installs a puppet government, and the occupation ends relatively quickly. Goods once again resume their normal flow. Nations near Russia’s border seek NATO protection lest they be next, and they get it. NATO draws a red line and says that if Russia invades a NATO nation that all options (including nuclear) are on the table. Russia backs down from brinksmanship in the Baltic and instead focuses on central Asia and the Caucuses. Who cares what non-NATO nations they install puppet governments in over there? We focus on energy independence and weening Europe off of Russian imports, letting the Russian economy slowly slide into irrelevance.

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He lies more than anybody.

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It's easy to accuse someone of not being truthful in an attempt to sully the reputation of a man who means well.

But then, the European Institute apparently agrees with that take.

From its analysis of Putin and how he conforms to the Bolshevik Code:


- Bolshevik self image formed before the October 1917 Revolution did not change even after the Bolsheviks took power. Soviet leaders “have continued to see themselves in the same position as they were in relation to the tsarist government , i.e., out of power and in a dangerous position.” Their self image was that they had no legitimacy."

- To buy his own legitimacy Putin spent a record $51 billion dollars on remont, (refurbishing,) and new building of sites in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics to demonstrate Russian prowess.

- Politics is war.

- Push to the limit in any political encounter, such as a negotiation.

- Assume deception by an adversary.

- Pressure creates opportunities,

- It pays to be rude to one’s counterpart or adversary. Rudeness intimidates and forces an adversary to seek acceptance by compromise.

- Annihilating the enemy and starting anew is better than trying to convert a class enemy.

- Retreat before superior force.

- Lenin’s formula -the destruction of the enemy ---is necessary not only for victory but also for the survival of the Communist Party. In 1919, Lenin wrote, ”if the Party does not use violence against its enemies it lays itself open to violence from them; the question is only who will destroy whom.”

- The doctrine of who-whom was exemplified in Stalin’s mass terrorism and purges, and Brezhnev and Andropov’s selective repression of “enemies of the people” by placing them in psychiatric institutions. Who will destroy whom continues through Putin’s brand of selective repression.

- Perseverance, guile and opportunism are keys to conduct in the Bolshevik Code. “The Party leadership,” according to Leites, “need not be concerned with consistency in its public statements. Again, only effectiveness is important.”

= Under Putin, just as under the Soviet system, when the communist leadership declared a new reality all the forces of the government, police , military and propaganda coordinated their efforts to create a new political line. Putin’s justification for the invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine fits this pattern as do the words and actions of his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.

- In fact, the falsification of reality has an honored tradition in Soviet rule and even before the Soviets. It is doubtful that Putin, in his studies at the KGB’s Higher School Number 1 in Leningrad in the 1970s, ever read Sociologist Margaret Mead’s 1951 study of Soviet character, ......

- As a good student of Lenin, Putin follows Lenin’s definition of compromise as an act which can be exploited as part of a tactical moment and deception to weaken the opposition and create a new favorable reality. Any agreement can be canceled if the balance of forces changes to allow Russian advantage. There are no rules for agreed procedures, only pressure to gain immediate goals. Putin’s scenario for the Russian invasion and seizure of Crimea follow the Bolshevik Code. The invasion of Russian forces (“ little green men in unmarked uniforms and masks”) was denied despite concrete evidence to the contrary. The cease fire of February 15, 2015 is continually being violated.

- The readiness to falsify reality is the keystone of the Bolshevik Code.

- In September 1999 a series of bombings of apartment houses in Moscow, and other cities killed 300 people and wounded hundreds of others spreading a wave of fear across Russia. A similar explosive device was found and defused in the city of Ryazan on September 22. The next day Putin, then Prime Minister of Russia, praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the bombing of Grozny which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War and Putin’s rise to the presidency, succeeding Boris Yeltsin.

- In Ryazan, the three Federal Security Service (FSB) agents who had planted the explosive device were arrested by the local police. The incident was publicly characterized as a training exercise. However, suspicions were raised that the bombings were a “false flag” attack perpetrated by the FSB in order to legitimize the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Putin to power. There has never been a satisfactory public examination of who was responsible for planning and executing the bombings. Putin denied he had any part in the bombings which aroused strong public anger and support for retaliation against Chechnya.

- For a year Putin and his Foreign Minister continued to vigorously deny the presence of Russian troops and heavy weapons in Crimea despite photographic and intercepted signals evidence to the contrary. Only In March 2015, a year later, in a Russian TV documentary titled, Crimea: The Road Back Home, did Putin admit what had been obvious for months. Threatening more force, Putin even said he was willing to arm nuclear weapons if necessary.

- The coup to oust Gorbachev in 1991 that led to the fall of the Soviet Union and Putin’s revival of the Bolshevik Code have brought forth new contradictions of income inequality in Russia between the broad masses and Putin’s allies who have amassed huge fortunes. Russians still claim moral superiority for their system over the evils of capitalism, but the return of the Bolshevik Code under Putin has forced living standards for the average Russian to deteriorate. Putin’s best defense has been to blame it all on the United States. In his March TV documentary Putin openly described the Ukrainian revolution to oust Viktor Yanukovich in February 2014 as an armed coup “masterminded by our American friends.” Putin has retreated to the cover of attacking the United States while defending Mother Russia and its historical destiny to defend and recover Crimea and the former Soviet naval base at Sevastopol.


The above excerpts only reinforce how bolshevism could never have survived without lying.

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I am certain Obama and the intelligence agencies knew,, why did they choose to do nothing

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Seriously??!! How could you possibly be so naive.?

As a veteran of Desert Storm, I kindly reply, "frick off!"

Ukraine is paying dearly in human resources and infrastructure.

CLINTON gave them a guarantee for their sovereignty and Obama led them into civil war in 2014 then sent blankets and non-lethal aid as to not upset Putin.

This war has to be fought, should have been fought in 2014 but Obama, EU, and NATO were chicken shits.

We allowed 8 years of civil war, civilians being killed and their deaths being used for propaganda to brain wash the Russians population into believing the ethnic Russian cleansing lies

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The fricking support for Russia on this board is mind numbing. You frickers have lost your ever loving minds.

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The Bushes, Clintons, Obama, and Biden are more communist one-worlders than Putin ever will be.

Russia certainly isn’t innocent, but let’s not pretend Ukraine isn’t making staged propaganda videos for the sorts of things you mentioned

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This war has to be fought

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Why does America have to pay for it?