Russia Preparing for War.

[other one]

Is Russia a democratic country today?

The 1993 constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. State power is divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

 

Gorbachev removed the constitutional role of the Communist party. This led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991. To this day, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation remains the second largest political party after United Russia.  The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ, romanized: Kommunističeskaja Partija Rossijskoj Federatsii; KPRF) is a communist political party in Russia that adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. ... As of 2015, the party has 160,000 members.

[choir loft]

On 2/18/2022 at 10:12 AM, other one said:

Timing is kind of odd, but my daughter spend a year and a half in Russia with Campus Crusade teaching college kids how to start churches.....   I was wondering about all that last week  and checked and discovered that the head of the Orthodox church says that they have started or reclaimed over 30,000 churches.  Most with pleasure of the new Russian government.  Don't have a clue if that fits into any end time stuff but I thought it rather odd.

Orthodox churches generally echo the political policy of their respective governments.

In exchange the government prevents or restrains any new churches or types of churches from insinuating themselves into the culture.   This includes western aberrations such as Roman Catholicism and American protestantism (which is basically Catholic but without a Papal overseer).  

Thus the Orthodox church works hand in glove with political leadership - and survives the changes in the political winds (unlike American protestantism which is being swept away by them).

For instance, Vladimir "the hammer" Putin has expressed his unwavering support for the organization of and preservation of the Russian Orthodox church.

This is why there have been no major substantive changes in Orthodox liturgy or doctrine for the past 900 years.

that's me, hollering from the choir loft...

[WilliamL]

On 2/17/2022 at 3:52 PM, Don19 said:

Russia is not pivoting towards Israel just yet, but I do think they will, in time. An invasion of Ukraine remains highly probable in the very short term.

On 2/17/2022 at 5:41 PM, other one said:

And remember we're not dealing with people like Iraq or Afghanistan, Russia could literally destroy this country very easily.

Any invasion of Ukraine would almost certainly be limited to the eastern part and/or the southeastern coast, e.g. Mariupol. Landwise, Ukraine is huge. The Soviet Union failed to control Afghanistan after they invaded it, and the Soviets finally fled licking their wounds. They also had great difficulties in subduing the much smaller Chechen region. Any long-term occupation of the whole, or even a major part of Ukraine, would be a logistical, military, and economic nightmare for Russia. But if this did happen, you can kiss goodbye any foreseeable invasion of Israel. Russia, for all its strategic weaponry, simply does not have the capability to sustain any major land invasion for very long. That is, if the occupied people were willing to resist, which the Ukrainians most certainly would.

So my prediction is that Russia will simply try to take a few more bites out of the more Russian-friendly areas of eastern Ukraine, just like it did when it took some bites out of Russian-friendly areas of Georgia in 2008.

 

[Don19]

1 hour ago, WilliamL said:

Any invasion of Ukraine would almost certainly be limited to the eastern part and/or the southeastern coast, e.g. Mariupol. Landwise, Ukraine is huge. The Soviet Union failed to control Afghanistan after they invaded it, and the Soviets finally fled licking their wounds. They also had great difficulties in subduing the much smaller Chechen region. Any long-term occupation of the whole, or even a major part of Ukraine, would be a logistical, military, and economic nightmare for Russia. But if this did happen, you can kiss goodbye any foreseeable invasion of Israel. Russia, for all its strategic weaponry, simply does not have the capability to sustain any major land invasion for very long. That is, if the occupied people were willing to resist, which the Ukrainians most certainly would.

So my prediction is that Russia will simply try to take a few more bites out of the more Russian-friendly areas of eastern Ukraine, just like it did when it took some bites out of Russian-friendly areas of Georgia in 2008.

 

Kyiv is definitely part of the invasion plan, so that necessarily includes a lot of Ukraine. I think there's really no question about it. Having gone this far already, Putin will want to acquire the city that he considers an integral part of Russian history. Russia does not have enough of its own forces for a large occupation, but I think they're going to try to take at least 2/3rds of Ukraine. They only need to recruit a small percentage of the local population for an occupation force. I think the Kremlin is confident they can field it, even though the majority of Ukrainians would be against the occupiers. On the other hand, by taking too small a part of Ukraine, they will have a much bigger future problem with the leftover portion of Ukraine, with a people who will be quite hostile to them. As it is, there will almost certainly be guerilla resistance.

[Marilyn C]

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[OneLight]

36 minutes ago, Marilyn C said:

Now Iran has just had its nuclear facility bombed. So that could be the catalyst for Iran saying to Russia, "Let`s go into Israel via the Golan Heights.` And as the International Community see Israel as the `occupying power` there, then they wont retaliate.

Countdown I think......

When I saw your post, I did a search for some time trying to find news about this bombing.  Do you have a link where this is stated?

[Marilyn C]

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[OneLight]

8 hours ago, Marilyn C said:

Hi OneLight,

I got it from Amir who posted it at midnight last night, wherever he was. He said the communications were down around the Iranian nuclear facility. He said 2 towns/villages nearby were evacuated and there was a strong odour.

I should have saved his link sorry. Will try and find it.

Sorry, looks like it was an old video.

From my research, that would of been around April of 2021, almost a year ago.  May I suggest you edit your previous post so it does not look like it just happened as you claim?

[JoeCanada]

WHAT IS PUTIN PLANNING....

I have no idea!  You and I have the same credibility as our state media, as they echo Biden spokepeople and Biden himself, who also have absolutely no idea what Putin is planning.

This is what we do know:

• The war in Ukraine will be completely televised,packaged, and presented for your consumption.
• While filmed in Ukraine, it is all about Germany, and more specifically, the American effort to  eliminate the already constructed and ready to flow Nordstream 2.
• Ukraine doesn’t matter to average Americans, but isn’t it frightening how little regard for Ukrainian lives that Biden has?  Did Ukrainians not pay their 10% to the Big Guy? Are they nothing more than expendable extras?
• Employees of NATO, the US CIA and State Department, and US businesses are all pulling out of Ukraine, by edict or because of the breathless news of yesterday’s today’s tomorrow’s invasion from the east.
• Members of Ukraine’s crony government and their beneficiaries are leaving the country in droves.
• Germany is getting a reminder of how subordinate the US government believes Germany is, as if 1945 were only yesterday.  Most Germans today just want to have some affordable clean energy and get back to global trade.  But that is not what the US leadership wants, so Germany be damned.
• The US Government is feverishly approving US arms sales to nearby NATO countries.

When you look at the facts above, while we don’t know what Putin is planning, it may not turn out that badly for him after all.

Ukrainian despots are leaving the country, while eastern territories gratefully looking for help from Russia proper.  NATO countries are wasting money on weapons that won’t be used, but will continue to drain their coffers for decades of US upgrades and maintenance.  US callous abandons their Ukrainian stooges, cultivated for decades by the likes of Biden, McCain, and the neocons. Germany, politically held together by a new coalition, is a Germany that just wants affordable energy and a little respect.  If anyone must tell Germany what they must suffer and what Germans must do, is it to be a strange little man across the Atlantic and his barking neocons?  Well, is it?

This movie is going to be a flop, and may not make it to the big screen at all. While it is being broadly promoted in the US and parts of Europe, it turns out that – just like the movie industry itself – what used to be a US-dominated creative enterprise has long outgrown the US.

Maybe it was inevitable.  When wars became theater, people would critique the actors, write bad reviews, not buy tickets, and pay attention to other things.

American wars have certainly become bad theater, with each new sequel worse than its predecessor.  Who can argue that Iraq II was far less entertaining than the Persian Gulf War circa 1991? Afghanistan the Occupation wasn’t nearly the patriotic draw as when the US helped Freedom Fighter Osama bin Laden beat back the Russians in the 1980s.  Heavily US-funded NATO has also offered us a worsening series of shows since the heady days of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, ad nauseum.  “NATO War:  Ukraine” won’t be anyone’s bonanza.

If Ukraine’s Zelensky actually talks to Putin and they decide – under the threat of a disastrous war and NATO-US funded destabilization  – to correct and implement Minsk II, or make a new agreement, one that allows all parties freedom to prosper, and allows neighbors to be neighborly, this could very well be what Putin is planning.

NATO has no place in the modern Europe, and it will have no place in Ukraine – despite Anthony Blinken’s assertion to the contrary.   Only a few years ago, when Trump demanded they pay their fair share, NATO members should have looked at their own books, and started figuring out their own exit strategies. Perhaps some did, like Denmark, and then discovered this wouldn’t be allowed.

Putin has presided over a Russia that has become economically independent, militarily modern, debt-free, and moving into a future of Euro-Asian trade that blesses and enriches both seller and buyer.  He must be intimidating to many western leaders, who envy his power, his leverage, and his good luck.

Biden, on the other hand, is a lifelong and decaying crony of the US political establishment.  He presides over a divided country that owes its lenders and its citizens over $30 Trillion.  He shrieks about an imminent Russian invasion 6 time zones away with the certainty of the insane.  His proudest role seems to be as commander in chief of the world’s most bloated and under-performing military, a military now demanding nearly a trillion dollars a year from an empty treasury, and without a real war in sight.

We don’t know what Putin is planning.  We can’t know what the US President is planning, because his advisors haven’t settled on a story yet.  Strategic geniuses they are not.  Maybe Putin is just trying to enjoy the show, knowing – like so many in the United States and around the world – that this franchise has finally jumped the shark.

Karen Kwiatkowski.... LewRockwell.com

Edited February 21, 2022 by Alive
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38 minutes ago, JoeCanada said:

WHAT IS PUTIN PLANNING....

I have no idea!  You and I have the same credibility as our state media, as they echo Biden spokepeople and Biden himself, who also have absolutely no idea what Putin is planning.

This is what we do know:

• The war in Ukraine will be completely televised, scripted, packaged, and presented for your consumption.
• While filmed in Ukraine, it is all about Germany, and more specifically, the American effort to  eliminate the already constructed and ready to flow Nordstream 2.
• Ukraine doesn’t matter to average Americans, but isn’t it frightening how little regard for Ukrainian lives that Biden has?  Did Ukrainians not pay their 10% to the Big Guy? Are they nothing more than expendable extras?
• Employees of NATO, the US CIA and State Department, and US businesses are all pulling out of Ukraine, by edict or because of the breathless news of yesterday’s today’s tomorrow’s invasion from the east.
• Members of Ukraine’s crony government and their beneficiaries are leaving the country in droves.
• Germany is getting a reminder of how subordinate the US government believes Germany is, as if 1945 were only yesterday.  Most Germans today just want to have some affordable clean energy and get back to global trade.  But that is not what the US leadership wants, so Germany be damned.
• The US Government is feverishly approving US arms sales to nearby NATO countries.

When you look at the facts above, while we don’t know what Putin is planning, it may not turn out that badly for him after all.

Ukrainian despots are leaving the country, while eastern territories gratefully looking for help from Russia proper.  NATO countries are wasting money on weapons that won’t be used, but will continue to drain their coffers for decades of US upgrades and maintenance.  US callous abandons their Ukrainian stooges, cultivated for decades by the likes of Biden, McCain, and the neocons. Germany, politically held together by a new coalition, is a Germany that just wants affordable energy and a little respect.  If anyone must tell Germany what they must suffer and what Germans must do, is it to be a strange little man across the Atlantic and his barking neocons?  Well, is it?

This movie is going to be a flop, and may not make it to the big screen at all. While it is being broadly promoted in the US and parts of Europe, it turns out that – just like the movie industry itself – what used to be a US-dominated creative enterprise has long outgrown the US.

Maybe it was inevitable.  When wars became theater, people would critique the actors, write bad reviews, not buy tickets, and pay attention to other things.

American wars have certainly become bad theater, with each new sequel worse than its predecessor.  Who can argue that Iraq II was far less entertaining than the Persian Gulf War circa 1991? Afghanistan the Occupation wasn’t nearly the patriotic draw as when the US helped Freedom Fighter Osama bin Laden beat back the Russians in the 1980s.  Heavily US-funded NATO has also offered us a worsening series of shows since the heady days of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, ad nauseum.  “NATO War:  Ukraine” won’t be anyone’s bonanza.

If Ukraine’s Zelensky actually talks to Putin and they decide – under the threat of a disastrous war and NATO-US funded destabilization  – to correct and implement Minsk II, or make a new agreement, one that allows all parties freedom to prosper, and allows neighbors to be neighborly, this could very well be what Putin is planning.

NATO has no place in the modern Europe, and it will have no place in Ukraine – despite Anthony Blinken’s assertion to the contrary.   Only a few years ago, when Trump demanded they pay their fair share, NATO members should have looked at their own books, and started figuring out their own exit strategies. Perhaps some did, like Denmark, and then discovered this wouldn’t be allowed.

Putin has presided over a Russia that has become economically independent, militarily modern, debt-free, and moving into a future of Euro-Asian trade that blesses and enriches both seller and buyer.  He must be intimidating to many western leaders, who envy his power, his leverage, and his good luck.

Biden, on the other hand, is a lifelong and decaying crony of the US political establishment.  He presides over a divided country that owes its lenders and its citizens over $30 Trillion.  He shrieks about an imminent Russian invasion 6 time zones away with the certainty of the insane.  His proudest role seems to be as commander in chief of the world’s most bloated and under-performing military, a military now demanding nearly a trillion dollars a year from an empty treasury, and without a real war in sight.

We don’t know what Putin is planning.  We can’t know what the US President is planning, because his advisors haven’t settled on a story yet.  Strategic geniuses they are not.  Maybe Putin is just trying to enjoy the show, knowing – like so many in the United States and around the world – that this franchise has finally jumped the shark.

Karen Kwiatkowski.... LewRockwell.com

=Of course you must believe that Canada would be much better off with Czar Putin and the Russian military in control there. 

Why don't you just let him take over Canada?

Are you a Russian troll?

A supporter of Czar Putin?

Too late to answer, your post makes in clear that you support the invasion and the war and the deaths of innocent people who live in Ukraine.

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How soon people forget the recent past. 

Putin is just another Hitler, with the same Satanic Spirit behind him.

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