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Ukraine crisis exposes Putin's 'isolated, paranoid' world
By Stuart WILLIAMS and Valerie LEROUX PARIS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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itsonlyrocknroll
Has President Putin prior to Ukraine incursion succumbed to some form of delusional schizophrenia?
If so. the global community is up poo creek without a paddle.
RonriiUrufu
Shadows of 1939. Brainwash your people, slip in some racial superiority, some false-flag-operation and there you go with another World War.
You can't make a bargain with psychopaths.
Peter Neil
Trying to insult, alienate or challenge someone right off the bat isn't a very good strategy in a negotiation or a discussion.
There are always different perspectives that drive any disagreement.
Putin and Russia have tried to negotiate this for years, but the US (who appointed itself to be speaking for the world) repeatedly dismissed every one of Putin's points about the squeeze and being surrounded by more and more arms with arrogant waves of the hand.
If your "neighbors" surround you and point arsenals of arms at your house, what would you do?
Peter Neil
zichiFeb. 24 11:33 pm JST
Covid.
Peter Neil
The US has nothing to do with this.
It's the same black flag playbook used by the US to start the Spanish America war ("Remember the Maine!"), the Vietnam War (the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which never happened), to invade Iraq (weapons of mass destruction and wood chippers, according to a NY taxi driver), to invade Syria, Libya, etc.
It's like two neighbors across town are fighting in the yard and you drive there because you think you're the boss of the world.
If you stick your nose into somebody else's fight, you're going to get punched. Russia and Putin have given fair warning that they are not afraid to inflict swift and great damage to those who interfere. The US has been fairly warned.
In WWII, Stalin said, "To the defeat of Nazism, the British gave time, the Americans gave money, and the Soviet Union gave blood."
Strangerland
What's the over/under on America joining the war?
They must be itching to right now. It's got to be taking all of their restraint to hold themselves back from acting in their nature and warring. It's part of the national psyche after all.
bass4funk
I agree 100%
bass4funk
This is just terrible in so many ways.
cleo
Missile strikes in Kyiv, residential buildings hit, dozens dead, more injured.
Not much by way of peacekeeping, anything but rational and reasonable.
Putin is a serial murderer.
Dishonest and detestable does not begin to do him justice. A vile, toxic little man.
WilliB
Kniknaknokkaer
You are right, the warmongers in Nato and the US and the media parrots are not paranoid. They are dishonest and detestable.
WilliB
Putin is not in an "'isolated, paranoid world", he is the leader of a nation that is under constant co-ordinated assault by the US warmongers and NATO. Putin has always been clear-headed and rational in his comments and actions.
Right now he has to respond to the endless warmongering by NATO and the US. Sending peacekeepers into the Dombas was a rational and reasonable decision,
Of course, the daily dribble of warmongering against Russia works great as a distraction from the disastrous policies enacted in the US and Canada. Lets not talk abot Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of critics, lets talk about evil Putin. Yeah!
WilliB
ClippetyClop
Callint the corporate media propagandists "journalists" is a stretch.
ClippetyClop
They are good at typing them journalists.
There is this thing called 'the internet'
You mean the invasion? I can imagine that's a tough word for you to say.
GBR48
Russian Leader's Disease. Gets them all in the end.
Putin has made a lot of Russians very rich, expecting loyalty in return. But when all of those rich people see their access to their foreign assets and lifestyle vanishing, I doubt they will be as loyal as Putin expects.
Russia has a way of transitioning power in these circumstances. It wouldn't surprise me if Putin were to come down with a nasty bout of Covid in the near future.
In the meantime, the US can test some of their weapons against the Russians by proxy and wipe out the Russian mafia in the US. They are no longer gangs subject to due process of law, but agents of a rogue power. Their assets can be seized and they can be deported as a security threat, en bloc.
1glenn
If the Russian dictator used his power for something less harmful, like having a hundred young mistresses, it would be better for the world. Instead, he is feeding his megalomania.
Eastman
just wondering who is really paranoid...