compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion

Search Results - PUTIN

Comment on: Blog Post 'IS VLADIMIR PUTIN MAD, BRILLIANT OR ...': on high alert on Sunday, raising fears that the war in Ukraine could escalate with horrific consequences.…; Added by Michael Grove at 11:33 on March 2, 2022

Blog Post: HOW THE CULT OF THE LEADER THREATENS ...: Added by Michael Grove at 12:13 on May 2, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'SUMMARY OF THE UKRAINE SITUATION TODAY': ia Bureau, as part and parcel of the Digital Network which was [BE]ing installed city-wide at that [TIME]. …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:37 on February 10, 2023

Comment on: Blog Post 'SUMMARY OF THE UKRAINE SITUATION TODAY': nt of silence, then the machine-guns start up, far too close for comfort. The Russian killing machine is in ear-shot but they keep on not taking the city. Hiding in holes in the rubble are a handful of civilians clinging to a half-life. There is no power, light, running water. The stay-behinds are in the large part old, poor, some a little mad and steeped in the Soviet half-myth of its great single-handed victory against the Nazis. They are generally pro-Russian, not for Ukraine. That’s kind of ironic because Bakhmut is Stalingrad 2.0. Adolf Hitler became obsessed with his army capturing the city on the River Volga. That was the start of the end of it and him. Vladimir Putin is obsessed with his army capturing the city on the River Bakhmutovka. …; Added by Michael Grove at 12:04 on December 24, 2022

Blog Post: There was a continuous flow of C-5 Galaxy Starlifters ... through Fairford last night

on their way no doubt to the …

Added by Michael Grove at 6:41 on February 19, 2015

Comment on: Blog Post 'IS VLADIMIR PUTIN MAD, BRILLIANT OR ...': choolboy. Having made it, he was in East Germany when that state collapsed, nervously trying to face off against a crowd besieging the KGB offices in Dresden. Then, he returned to the Soviet Union just in time for that country to dissolve, and found himself no longer a member of a sinisterly powerful elite but desperately looking for work. He seems to have internalised the belief that to be weak is to be vulnerable; to trust is to be weak. He was presumably reminded of this in January. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the dictator of neighbouring Kazakhstan, had granted himself a position that gave him status and immunity from prosecution for life, while he handed over the actual running of the country to a hand-picked successor, who then turned on him, forcing him to step down. That was a lesson Putin would hardly have failed to notice. There is also the question of legacy, something that seems now to obsess Putin. His public appearances, like this week’s television address announcing the recognition, are larded with simplistic and often downright inaccurate historical parallels, all intended not only to justify his actions but to place him within a pantheon of Russian ‘greats’. Yet even he must know that this is a hard sell now. …; Added by Michael Grove at 11:08 on April 8, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'SUMMARY OF THE UKRAINE SITUATION TODAY': ainian civilians as the price of Moscow’s self-induced humiliation—and that Russia must pay a price for these atrocities.Yaakov Kedmi is not some squishy peacenik who was pulled off Tverskaya Street to be a designated talk-show punching bag. He was born in Russia, emigrated to Israel, and returned several years ago as a supporter of the Putin regime on Russian television. He’s said some nice things about that great “statesman” Joseph Stalin, and he warned last spring that Russia could bomb the United Kingdom “back to the stone age” if the British didn’t mind their own business with regard to Ukraine.Why Solovyov and Kedmi were at all having this conversation? [IS] because the Russian war in Ukraine is no longer a “war” in the sense that most people would conceive of a military contest between two states over some discrete or tangible issue. It is not, in any sense, the kind of conflict that academic “realists” would understand as some kind of Russian exercise in power balancing against an external threat. Instead, Russia’s invasion is now an ongoing operation of mass murder. …; Added by Michael Grove at 12:13 on November 22, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'A sinister infection of disinformation was...': le also implying that the Biden-Harris administration was forcing vaccinations as some sort of an evil plot, rather than a life-saving solution to a raging pandemic. As we wrote recently in The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin is Waging a Covert War Against ... Russia is engaged in active measures against the West to cause chaos and destabilization. In particular, Russia emphasizes cognitive warfare, where the human mind is the battlefield. “They know that they can't go to war overtly,” said Keir Giles, author of Russia’s War On Everybody. “And that’s where all of these covert, sub-threshold, grey zone, so-called hybrid attacks come in. Because that is how Russia has been reaching out to harm the West. It knows that if it is in open warfare, the result is a foregone conclusion that it will be disastrous for Russia. “In every single other possible domain of waging war, Russia has already been convinced for a long time that it is in a state of conflict with the West, and it's behaving accordingly. So all of the different levers of power that it can use to attack us, it has been using,” he said. “That's the part which I think has not been sufficiently recognized even after this war on Ukraine started — whether it's economic or cyber or disinformation warfare, or public health campaigns of subversion… it's all been ongoing.”Heidi Cuda - BYLINE Supplement …; Added by Michael Grove at 10:14 on March 18, 2023

Comment on: Blog Post 'YET A.N.OTHER EXAMPLE OUR LORDS & MASTERS'...': Lords & Masters have been working on since the first Earth Conference in Rio three decades and more ago, without an inkling of success !!!??? http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=LORDS+%26+MASTERS#…; Added by Michael Grove at 10:05 on November 12, 2023

Blog Post: The Reckoning Project ...

A brave…

Added by Michael Grove at 10:39 on March 25, 2023

Search Results - PUTIN

About