Those lately dead include two theater directors, a hockey star, an airline pilot (died mid-flight), two babies (on the same day) and three students (and the editor of Putin's favorite newspaper)
Because politics is not real. Its a Hegelian dialectics play for the "useless eaters" scripted years in advance. All the worlds governments and political puppets are serving the same masters
Although possible - I find it unlikely because the West has pulled out all its stops to present an anti-Russian narrative, & also there are powers in the West who want control of Russia's natural resources...
Just because Russia has it own version of the Great Reset, doesn't mean it's Western affiliated...
If they are doing close to the same thing, it's at least strongly inspired?
Anyway, we don't know how far or deep the show goes. Shows can be expensive. (and the expense of life, if its reduction is a point on the agenda, isn't even a cost, but a benefit)
And the more convincing it is that we have always been at war wth Eurasia, ... well you get the idea.
I am inclined to agree that the Russia/Ukraine war is theater, deadly theater, to be sure, killing and destroying lives, but nevertheless orchestrated on both sides. I would prefer not to think this, but I'm more and more tending to believe that Putin is simply playing the role he has been assigned in this drama. The Ukrainian people and the Russian people, and now Europeans are being, and eventually we all, will be sacrificed to attain the glorious New World Order.
In answer to the popular refrain "they wouldn't do this [whatever it is or was] to their own people," they and we aren't "their people." We are their chattel.
Global predators. They have no loyalty to the people they lord it over. Medieval lords were more compassionate, as a whole, since they interacted with their serfs and peasants and listened to their complaints and pleas for help in person.
and they also were in constant contact with them. They might have to fear for their lives had they done what politicians do now. They depended on their people, for work, food etc. If they offended the cook, god knows, he might have poisoned them Or the linnen woman would put some on his sheets. I got some good ideas for a whodunnit LOL
What's really creepy to me is that one thing is clear about these global and even domestic elites.
They absolutely hate being questioned.
They don't want to hear questions. They don't want to hear disagreements. They don't care about your problems. They want the people to have zero input with the decision makers. And they hope the digital currency will make that a reality. "Question us and you'll beg, but no one can give to you, because we'd shut them off too."
Jonah - is that your real name - or is there something God wants you to do that you dont want to do? Just curious. (...heard a sermon on Jonah last week.)
In "A Tale of Two Cities" one of the "nobles" runs over a child with his carriage...so he tosses a coin to the peasant that was his father. At least that's how I remember it.
Medieval Lords would do unspeakable things to their serfs. In Spain, the Lord could have his way with a woman on her wedding day before the groom could consummate their holy union if he so chose. It was his right.
They were his chattel then, as we seem to be to the puppet masters now.
Harder to hold these guys accountable. At least everyone knew where the lord lived. He couldn't just fly away to escape angry peasants and continue ruling them from afar by proxy.
So his words are nice, but his deeds say otherwise. I thought maybe the Russian jabs were less deadly, but they seem to be just the same as the western ones. I heard Putin has been removed from the WEF website. But has he been 'removed' from their puppet list too? Is it all a charade? Who will tell. We the people will never know exactly what is going on. All we can do is make an educated guess.
The pilot dying mid-flight is the nightmare at 20,000 feet I’ve been fearing for over a year now. This story should be being broadcast on every MSM outlet with an urgent call to #StopTheShots, but that would be in a parallel universe where the media actually cared about humanity and hadn’t sold out whatever integrity it once had (if any) to its corporate paymasters.
Mark, I wanted to make sure you saw my latest post as I know you are working hard to #StopTheTreaty and #StopTheWHO:
And this was what I mentally noted months ago. Why did Putin place congratulatory phone calls and even award medals to the doctors involved in the Russian version of The Science, when continued expansion on this project would undermine his own nation's health. I guess he has to play the game on some aspects.
He certainly accurately describes the actions and intentions of the West, especially toward Russia. The West has been trying to destroy Russia for centuries.
I don't know. Much as we might not want to think of it this way, I think these are two different issues that, as much as we would like to put them together, should be viewed separately. I'm not sure how much Putin is involved in the covid injection business. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation in Russia is, much like it is in the U.S.,, the Russian medical bureaucracy, bought and paid for by the globalist cabal behind this crime, is driving the injection campaign. Think about it, are we to believe that the President of one of the most powerful countries in the world, in the midst of a proxy war against the Western empire, is involved in decisions about who will be injected with experimental gene therapy injections? And even if he is, do we believe that his people are honestly telling him about the mounting evidence of adverse reactions, including deaths, from the jabs?
I would never minimize the impact of what is being done to the world in the quest for wealth and power. What is being done to us is monstrous beyond measure. I have been surprised more than once about the apparent acquiescence among Russians in this whole debacle. I had thought that, in keeping with the Russians's shunning of all things Western, that they would not involve themselves or their citizens, in the culling of humanity. Regardless, to believe that Pres Putin is either aware of what is going on, or supports it, might be a bridge too far.
I categorically deny the "mad Vlad" narrative by the West & NATO, which seeks to portray a black hat/white hat fiction, and an uncompromising dictator bent on nuclear war.
However, having said that, I see lots of evidence that Putin's thinking has become erratic over the past year or so, and wonder if the jab (or Covid, for that matter) has affected him neurologically. It's clear the spike protein can do that.
I suspect the same with Biden - who has been stumbling for quite some time, but look closely at his speech patterns before & after the jab, he's clearly gotten worse. (Has little or nothing to do with age, I reject that narrative as well)
And, for that matter, both leaders have surrounded themselves with yes men, and billionaire "elites". Putin himself is one of the richest men on earth. Studies have shown being rich affects you neurologically as well, empathy goes away almost entirely.
Where is this evidence and actual confirmation that Putin is that rich? He might well be but no one fronts up with actual undisputed evidence when I ask.
Well, nobody knows for sure what his net worth is. Fortune estimates its $200 Billion (March 2, 2022). We know he owns some ridiculous assets, 58 private planes, a $700 million super yacht, etc.
But "undisputed evidence "? No such thing. Everything can be disputed. Not everyone agrees the world is round, so...
Remember Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia in 1984? Eurasia and East Asia are more traditional than Oceania in some respects (for now) but all are pro shots.
These new "vaccines" are somehow tied to the new economy after the petroleum dollar collapses. Bill Gates is the vaccine king. He also has a new form of cryptocurrency he took a patent out on through his software company Microsoft. It's supposed to measure bodily energy and hook into the Internet of Things.
As far as I know, the Sputnik injection is not much better than the ones "approved" in the West. Anyway, by now, it's quite clear that there are no "vaccines" that are not toxic and offer literally no protection from anything...
Putin has never been a Young World Leader, but he was "on good terms" with Schwab, which might simply suggest the Sun Tzu's idea of "know your enemies" is an evergreen option for all leaders.
Still, Putin's activities raise a number of questions as for his role on the road to the NWO:
I gather that the Russians were chucked out of the WEF. I don't see the Han Chinese taking orders from a bunch of WEF degenerate perverts. Soros has also been attacking China recently.
And no calling out the WEF, why not? He does call out the west in general, but he must know as well we do the power of the LME - London Precious Metal Exchange, world money capital for centuries.
And the Vatican. And Switzerland's fuckerie, and Germany's chemists etc. China's rampant colonization of Africa?
It was hard to hear it all aimed at just the weapons (Pentagon) capital of the world - the USA.
Hard to hear Putin say all the things I've wished an American President would own up to and apologize for my whole life so we could get on with life without the obfuscation.
Really hard to hear him call out the sick wokeism of our nation.
Two years ago I would have thought he was lying, you know, propaganda.....
My Russian is rusty but I was riveted.
Is it possible I can be swayed by political propaganda but not medical?
I suppose so.
Thank you Mark for posting the speech and framing it in the context of "Why the hell hasn't this leader defended his people either?"
Putin is just one of many bad actors in this play. People have long forgotten the FSB maneuvering that first brought Putin to power after Yeltsin. It included apartment bombings and a war in Chechnya.
I judge Russia by what it does, not by what Putin says. Russia has been marching forward with its social credit system and digital agenda as aggressively as China. Meanwhile, humanity is like Poland in the wake of the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact.
The Ukraine SMO is an inexplicable and unnecessary debacle. At most, it has simply exposed the incompetence of the Russian military dating back to the times of Nicholas I. The whole "missile gap" thing was a lie concocted by the CIA to justify defense budgets beginning in the 1950s. Thus, Eisenhower's warning about the MIC.
Interesting. Do you blame the US in the West for provoking all of this. Wouldn’t it have been better to let Ukraine and Russia work this out. And maybe if Russia annexed or reintegrated the Donbas region, things would’ve calm down eventually. But because of the MIC, and Washington DC’s obsession with Russia and Putin now we’re on the brink of another world war
It seems like the west and particularly Washington DC regime is to blame for this after all they’re the ones who helped with the 2014 ukraine coup
It certainly requires a nuanced perspective. It's never "black-and-white" or convenient.
There is no doubt that the "West" has violated every assurance given to Russia starting with James Baker's "not an inch further East" promise to Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War. The West attempted to take full advantage of the Russian kleptocracy during the '90s to permanently control, destabilize and weaken Russia through the IMF. Meanwhile, the entire Warsaw Pact became NATO members.
Putin's initial appeal to Russians regardless of how he came to power was the view that he was a Russian nationalist first and foremost and that he would end actions by Russian oligarchs like Berezovsky to auction Russian sovereignty to the highest Western bidder. He essentially did that between 1999 and 2012.
Putin warned the West in 2007 what would happen if the West further encroached upon Russian's territorial integrity. The war against Saakashvili's Georgia in 2008 was a warning salvo. It stopped Georgia's NATO ambitions in its tracks.
It seems pretty clear what occurred during the 2014 "Maidan Revolution", particularly the West's (CIA, etc.) involvement in bringing Yanukovych's government to an end. The West had every intention of pursuing an anti-Russia agenda with Ukraine being the spear in a proxy war.
I suspect that Putin is just a puppet controlled by darker forces. He was installed by the FSB and has been doing its bidding since 1999. No one knew who Putin was until his name started being thrown around as a successor to Yeltsin.
This begs the natural question: who/what is the FSB? My wife, who is originally from Russia, has this theory about 'perestroika' and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In summary, "perestroika" looks a lot like "Build Back Better" both in theory and practice.
That said, despite Putin's condemnation of Western "evil", Russia is second only to China in advancing digitization and a social credit system justified by COVID response. I defer to Edward Slavsquat (Riley Waggaman) as a Russian resident and actual expert on these subjects but it seems pretty clear that he sees this the same.
As I stated originally, there are no good guys here. Putin, just like Elon Musk, is not our savior but rather just another globalist and I see Ukraine as the means and not the end.
As an aside, speaking of "good guys" thank you for being one of them in the otherwise deeply compromised medical profession.
My sister's brother in law is one of Putin's men. He wrote a book, 'Wladimir Putin. Der Deutsche im Kreml' noting that Putin is quite the Germanophile. This curried much favor for my brother in law's entire expat Russian Orthodox family 22 years ago. So I have an odd, possibly less hostile view of the man than I would have otherwise. But I have not been in contact with that side of the family for years, so have no idea what their current status or views are.
Like you, I also rely on Riley Waggaman for current news. And Putin does remind me of Musk. Creepy. Baby Bush looking into Putin's eyes and "seeing his soul" has also, unfortunately, been imprinted in my memory. ........
That the soulless and intellectually challenged George W. Bush could recognize whether anyone has a soul is remarkable in and of itself.
Your connection to Putin is incredibly interesting. Who knows how Putin's experience in the GDR with Erich Honecker and the Stasi influenced his worldview.
Not exactly my connection, but my brother in law's father was https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/Gleb_Rahr. My sister is with The Chatham House and is a Central Asian analyst. I assume Putin's influences are discussed in the myriad of books written by my sister's brother in law........ but I thought Putin was perhaps interested in the Russian Orthodox Church. I could be wrong, I can't remember the stories I was told third hand 15 years ago clearly. I do know that Putin gave all members of the family their Russian citizenship back after the publication of 'A German in the Kremlin'.
What I know about directly are the deep seated hostilities still held by the Haida indigenous people here in Alaska to the brutal colonization by the Russians over 200 years ago. Possibly the only time the Tlingit and Haida were united over anything. Probably because the Russian saying about their business with the Natives here was, "God is high above, and the Tsar is far away".
thats a very interesting evaluation. Its really complicated. Putin condemns the Western powers for their double standards and hypocrisy while really glossing over the crimes of the soviets. Ukrainian "sovereignty" is really a moving target. it depends on what period of time and what perspective you have . Putin called the US the "empire of lies" and I cant disagree with him. From my perspective living inside this dying bankrupt washed up republic now empire, putins criticisms are spot on. And thanks for the encouragement, as a doc in private practice i know Im not alone and I've felt like ive been living in an insane asylum.
Putin did not. Neither did the CCP. But there were (and still are) other ways to make it hard NOT to get "vaccinated," and such methods have been deployed in both those countries.
Thanks for reminding all that Putin is not the 2nd coming. For the West, he's more like the rider of the pale horse. For Russians, he rides the white horse, but they too may see three more riders.
Because politics is not real. Its a Hegelian dialectics play for the "useless eaters" scripted years in advance. All the worlds governments and political puppets are serving the same masters
The Hegelian Dialectic Process: One and the SAME
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-hegelian-dialectic-process-one
A Staged Russia/Ukraine Conflict Is Part of the Plan To Take Down the Current World Order
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/a-staged-russiaukraine-conflict-is
Although possible - I find it unlikely because the West has pulled out all its stops to present an anti-Russian narrative, & also there are powers in the West who want control of Russia's natural resources...
Just because Russia has it own version of the Great Reset, doesn't mean it's Western affiliated...
If they are doing close to the same thing, it's at least strongly inspired?
Anyway, we don't know how far or deep the show goes. Shows can be expensive. (and the expense of life, if its reduction is a point on the agenda, isn't even a cost, but a benefit)
And the more convincing it is that we have always been at war wth Eurasia, ... well you get the idea.
I am inclined to agree that the Russia/Ukraine war is theater, deadly theater, to be sure, killing and destroying lives, but nevertheless orchestrated on both sides. I would prefer not to think this, but I'm more and more tending to believe that Putin is simply playing the role he has been assigned in this drama. The Ukrainian people and the Russian people, and now Europeans are being, and eventually we all, will be sacrificed to attain the glorious New World Order.
In answer to the popular refrain "they wouldn't do this [whatever it is or was] to their own people," they and we aren't "their people." We are their chattel.
Global predators. They have no loyalty to the people they lord it over. Medieval lords were more compassionate, as a whole, since they interacted with their serfs and peasants and listened to their complaints and pleas for help in person.
and they also were in constant contact with them. They might have to fear for their lives had they done what politicians do now. They depended on their people, for work, food etc. If they offended the cook, god knows, he might have poisoned them Or the linnen woman would put some on his sheets. I got some good ideas for a whodunnit LOL
What's really creepy to me is that one thing is clear about these global and even domestic elites.
They absolutely hate being questioned.
They don't want to hear questions. They don't want to hear disagreements. They don't care about your problems. They want the people to have zero input with the decision makers. And they hope the digital currency will make that a reality. "Question us and you'll beg, but no one can give to you, because we'd shut them off too."
Jonah - is that your real name - or is there something God wants you to do that you dont want to do? Just curious. (...heard a sermon on Jonah last week.)
It's not but a screen name. My real name is in the Bible as well, though not someone who flees from doing what G-d demands.
🤣🤣🤣 Perfect!
I think it's all AI driven, so can't question AI, and also why they don't bicker amongst themselves. Lockstep.
So our politicians and the rest are robots or something? Is that the reason Biden's press secretary cannot answer simple questions?
Funny.
Different topic but:
I didn't see anyone keel over during Putin's address, so that group might have been exempted from the clotshots.
Just a couple of menials wearing nose-cones.
Not saying the old feudal system was ideal or even good. Just a lot better than what the technocrats have planned.
Like button not working Ingrid.
In "A Tale of Two Cities" one of the "nobles" runs over a child with his carriage...so he tosses a coin to the peasant that was his father. At least that's how I remember it.
The novel recounts the French Revolution and what made the peasants pull out Madame Guillotine.
Today's elites are post-geographic, they have no people and belong nowhere. Except maybe at Davos.
Medieval Lords would do unspeakable things to their serfs. In Spain, the Lord could have his way with a woman on her wedding day before the groom could consummate their holy union if he so chose. It was his right.
They were his chattel then, as we seem to be to the puppet masters now.
Harder to hold these guys accountable. At least everyone knew where the lord lived. He couldn't just fly away to escape angry peasants and continue ruling them from afar by proxy.
So his words are nice, but his deeds say otherwise. I thought maybe the Russian jabs were less deadly, but they seem to be just the same as the western ones. I heard Putin has been removed from the WEF website. But has he been 'removed' from their puppet list too? Is it all a charade? Who will tell. We the people will never know exactly what is going on. All we can do is make an educated guess.
The pilot dying mid-flight is the nightmare at 20,000 feet I’ve been fearing for over a year now. This story should be being broadcast on every MSM outlet with an urgent call to #StopTheShots, but that would be in a parallel universe where the media actually cared about humanity and hadn’t sold out whatever integrity it once had (if any) to its corporate paymasters.
Mark, I wanted to make sure you saw my latest post as I know you are working hard to #StopTheTreaty and #StopTheWHO:
• “What If They Threw a Pandemic and Nobody Came?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/what-if-they-threw-a-pandemic-and)
Because he’s part of the globalist WHO/WEF agenda too? Make it make sense
And this was what I mentally noted months ago. Why did Putin place congratulatory phone calls and even award medals to the doctors involved in the Russian version of The Science, when continued expansion on this project would undermine his own nation's health. I guess he has to play the game on some aspects.
He certainly accurately describes the actions and intentions of the West, especially toward Russia. The West has been trying to destroy Russia for centuries.
Yes, he's right about that. So he should just continue letting Russians—even children—get injected?
I don't know. Much as we might not want to think of it this way, I think these are two different issues that, as much as we would like to put them together, should be viewed separately. I'm not sure how much Putin is involved in the covid injection business. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation in Russia is, much like it is in the U.S.,, the Russian medical bureaucracy, bought and paid for by the globalist cabal behind this crime, is driving the injection campaign. Think about it, are we to believe that the President of one of the most powerful countries in the world, in the midst of a proxy war against the Western empire, is involved in decisions about who will be injected with experimental gene therapy injections? And even if he is, do we believe that his people are honestly telling him about the mounting evidence of adverse reactions, including deaths, from the jabs?
I would never minimize the impact of what is being done to the world in the quest for wealth and power. What is being done to us is monstrous beyond measure. I have been surprised more than once about the apparent acquiescence among Russians in this whole debacle. I had thought that, in keeping with the Russians's shunning of all things Western, that they would not involve themselves or their citizens, in the culling of humanity. Regardless, to believe that Pres Putin is either aware of what is going on, or supports it, might be a bridge too far.
Putin says much that is true, so we don't notice his omissions.
I categorically deny the "mad Vlad" narrative by the West & NATO, which seeks to portray a black hat/white hat fiction, and an uncompromising dictator bent on nuclear war.
However, having said that, I see lots of evidence that Putin's thinking has become erratic over the past year or so, and wonder if the jab (or Covid, for that matter) has affected him neurologically. It's clear the spike protein can do that.
I suspect the same with Biden - who has been stumbling for quite some time, but look closely at his speech patterns before & after the jab, he's clearly gotten worse. (Has little or nothing to do with age, I reject that narrative as well)
And, for that matter, both leaders have surrounded themselves with yes men, and billionaire "elites". Putin himself is one of the richest men on earth. Studies have shown being rich affects you neurologically as well, empathy goes away almost entirely.
Where is this evidence and actual confirmation that Putin is that rich? He might well be but no one fronts up with actual undisputed evidence when I ask.
Well, nobody knows for sure what his net worth is. Fortune estimates its $200 Billion (March 2, 2022). We know he owns some ridiculous assets, 58 private planes, a $700 million super yacht, etc.
But "undisputed evidence "? No such thing. Everything can be disputed. Not everyone agrees the world is round, so...
We don't know what he owns. A lot of the info is western disinformation and much has been debunked but I doubt that he is hard up.
In Memoriam, July 19, 1914 (the day Germany declared war on Russia)
By Anna Akhmatova
Translated by Stephen Edgar
We aged a hundred years and this descended
In just one hour, as at a stroke.
The summer had been brief and now was ended;
The body of the ploughed plains lay in smoke.
The hushed road burst in colors then, a soaring
Lament rose, ringing silver like a bell.
And so I covered up my face, imploring
God to destroy me before battle fell.
And from my memory the shadows vanished
Of songs and passions—burdens I'd not need.
The Almighty bade it be—with all else banished—
A book of portents terrible to read.
Remember Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia in 1984? Eurasia and East Asia are more traditional than Oceania in some respects (for now) but all are pro shots.
These new "vaccines" are somehow tied to the new economy after the petroleum dollar collapses. Bill Gates is the vaccine king. He also has a new form of cryptocurrency he took a patent out on through his software company Microsoft. It's supposed to measure bodily energy and hook into the Internet of Things.
As far as I know, the Sputnik injection is not much better than the ones "approved" in the West. Anyway, by now, it's quite clear that there are no "vaccines" that are not toxic and offer literally no protection from anything...
Putin has never been a Young World Leader, but he was "on good terms" with Schwab, which might simply suggest the Sun Tzu's idea of "know your enemies" is an evergreen option for all leaders.
Still, Putin's activities raise a number of questions as for his role on the road to the NWO:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/whose-hero-is-putin
I gather that the Russians were chucked out of the WEF. I don't see the Han Chinese taking orders from a bunch of WEF degenerate perverts. Soros has also been attacking China recently.
As far as I can see, the three are allies and work towards the NWO.
The rest of it are side shows, as is always the case in politics.
Once that's done, the surviving entities will sort it out among themselves. :)
Don't agree but we are all entitled to an opinion.
You know, the main problem is that it doesn't even matter what you are I think... :)
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/who-is-right-and-who-is-wrong
True. Not going to influence the outcome.
Too bad putin has a blind spot for the murderous crimes of the soviet era. He minimizes and glosses over decades of terror murder despotism
I noticed that too. Lies of omission.......
And no calling out the WEF, why not? He does call out the west in general, but he must know as well we do the power of the LME - London Precious Metal Exchange, world money capital for centuries.
And the Vatican. And Switzerland's fuckerie, and Germany's chemists etc. China's rampant colonization of Africa?
It was hard to hear it all aimed at just the weapons (Pentagon) capital of the world - the USA.
Hard to hear Putin say all the things I've wished an American President would own up to and apologize for my whole life so we could get on with life without the obfuscation.
Really hard to hear him call out the sick wokeism of our nation.
Two years ago I would have thought he was lying, you know, propaganda.....
My Russian is rusty but I was riveted.
Is it possible I can be swayed by political propaganda but not medical?
I suppose so.
Thank you Mark for posting the speech and framing it in the context of "Why the hell hasn't this leader defended his people either?"
Putin is just one of many bad actors in this play. People have long forgotten the FSB maneuvering that first brought Putin to power after Yeltsin. It included apartment bombings and a war in Chechnya.
I judge Russia by what it does, not by what Putin says. Russia has been marching forward with its social credit system and digital agenda as aggressively as China. Meanwhile, humanity is like Poland in the wake of the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact.
The Ukraine SMO is an inexplicable and unnecessary debacle. At most, it has simply exposed the incompetence of the Russian military dating back to the times of Nicholas I. The whole "missile gap" thing was a lie concocted by the CIA to justify defense budgets beginning in the 1950s. Thus, Eisenhower's warning about the MIC.
Agree. Thank you for the historical framing of Putin's rise to power - and the current agenda going forward.
I used Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address in my 2002 Christmas cards.
Interesting. Do you blame the US in the West for provoking all of this. Wouldn’t it have been better to let Ukraine and Russia work this out. And maybe if Russia annexed or reintegrated the Donbas region, things would’ve calm down eventually. But because of the MIC, and Washington DC’s obsession with Russia and Putin now we’re on the brink of another world war
It seems like the west and particularly Washington DC regime is to blame for this after all they’re the ones who helped with the 2014 ukraine coup
It certainly requires a nuanced perspective. It's never "black-and-white" or convenient.
There is no doubt that the "West" has violated every assurance given to Russia starting with James Baker's "not an inch further East" promise to Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War. The West attempted to take full advantage of the Russian kleptocracy during the '90s to permanently control, destabilize and weaken Russia through the IMF. Meanwhile, the entire Warsaw Pact became NATO members.
Putin's initial appeal to Russians regardless of how he came to power was the view that he was a Russian nationalist first and foremost and that he would end actions by Russian oligarchs like Berezovsky to auction Russian sovereignty to the highest Western bidder. He essentially did that between 1999 and 2012.
Putin warned the West in 2007 what would happen if the West further encroached upon Russian's territorial integrity. The war against Saakashvili's Georgia in 2008 was a warning salvo. It stopped Georgia's NATO ambitions in its tracks.
It seems pretty clear what occurred during the 2014 "Maidan Revolution", particularly the West's (CIA, etc.) involvement in bringing Yanukovych's government to an end. The West had every intention of pursuing an anti-Russia agenda with Ukraine being the spear in a proxy war.
I suspect that Putin is just a puppet controlled by darker forces. He was installed by the FSB and has been doing its bidding since 1999. No one knew who Putin was until his name started being thrown around as a successor to Yeltsin.
This begs the natural question: who/what is the FSB? My wife, who is originally from Russia, has this theory about 'perestroika' and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In summary, "perestroika" looks a lot like "Build Back Better" both in theory and practice.
That said, despite Putin's condemnation of Western "evil", Russia is second only to China in advancing digitization and a social credit system justified by COVID response. I defer to Edward Slavsquat (Riley Waggaman) as a Russian resident and actual expert on these subjects but it seems pretty clear that he sees this the same.
As I stated originally, there are no good guys here. Putin, just like Elon Musk, is not our savior but rather just another globalist and I see Ukraine as the means and not the end.
As an aside, speaking of "good guys" thank you for being one of them in the otherwise deeply compromised medical profession.
My sister's brother in law is one of Putin's men. He wrote a book, 'Wladimir Putin. Der Deutsche im Kreml' noting that Putin is quite the Germanophile. This curried much favor for my brother in law's entire expat Russian Orthodox family 22 years ago. So I have an odd, possibly less hostile view of the man than I would have otherwise. But I have not been in contact with that side of the family for years, so have no idea what their current status or views are.
Like you, I also rely on Riley Waggaman for current news. And Putin does remind me of Musk. Creepy. Baby Bush looking into Putin's eyes and "seeing his soul" has also, unfortunately, been imprinted in my memory. ........
That the soulless and intellectually challenged George W. Bush could recognize whether anyone has a soul is remarkable in and of itself.
Your connection to Putin is incredibly interesting. Who knows how Putin's experience in the GDR with Erich Honecker and the Stasi influenced his worldview.
Not exactly my connection, but my brother in law's father was https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/Gleb_Rahr. My sister is with The Chatham House and is a Central Asian analyst. I assume Putin's influences are discussed in the myriad of books written by my sister's brother in law........ but I thought Putin was perhaps interested in the Russian Orthodox Church. I could be wrong, I can't remember the stories I was told third hand 15 years ago clearly. I do know that Putin gave all members of the family their Russian citizenship back after the publication of 'A German in the Kremlin'.
What I know about directly are the deep seated hostilities still held by the Haida indigenous people here in Alaska to the brutal colonization by the Russians over 200 years ago. Possibly the only time the Tlingit and Haida were united over anything. Probably because the Russian saying about their business with the Natives here was, "God is high above, and the Tsar is far away".
thats a very interesting evaluation. Its really complicated. Putin condemns the Western powers for their double standards and hypocrisy while really glossing over the crimes of the soviets. Ukrainian "sovereignty" is really a moving target. it depends on what period of time and what perspective you have . Putin called the US the "empire of lies" and I cant disagree with him. From my perspective living inside this dying bankrupt washed up republic now empire, putins criticisms are spot on. And thanks for the encouragement, as a doc in private practice i know Im not alone and I've felt like ive been living in an insane asylum.
Amen!!
Check out Whitney Webb's two-part book series. It goes back a century, if not longer:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/08/resources/one-nation-under-blackmail-info/
Playing both ends against the middle? We are the middle? Living in interesting times is getting really old!
THANK YOU for the complete Putin speech----I was crying by the end.
Did Putin MANDATE the covid vax?
Putin did not. Neither did the CCP. But there were (and still are) other ways to make it hard NOT to get "vaccinated," and such methods have been deployed in both those countries.
Thanks for reminding all that Putin is not the 2nd coming. For the West, he's more like the rider of the pale horse. For Russians, he rides the white horse, but they too may see three more riders.