Russian soldiers rape, torture, kill and roll over people with tanks, because the Russian soldiers simply have guns and tanks. And they have tons and tons of Russia-above-all propaganda bullshit fed into their heads in the past 20 or so years, practically, for as long as they live. Perhaps, this is how the Russian soldiers see the true “Russian World,” the central construct of the Putin nazi “ideology.”
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Isn’t this a legitimate question? Yes, for us too, here in the West. What have we done? We have been watching him mocking democratic freedoms and the rule of law in his own country, turning it into an absolutely corrupt monarchy. We have been watching him brainwashing, zombying the Russian society and millions of people
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Putin’s coterie. Photo: Associated Press “The indifference to the fate of international air passengers was an echo of Russian events in the not so distant past,” David Satter writes in the American Interest here. Why should it stop? Why should Putin change his mind and start respecting other people’s lives? What would make his callous
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Messages from Captain Obvious. What good is supposed to come about through tonnes of deliberate lies and utter lawlessness taking advantage of violent thugs and their addiction to harass, bully and humiliate the weaker? How’s capturing buildings and the act of civil defiance in Kiev different from that in Donetsk and other East Ukrainian places?
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“Any further buildup from Nato’s side can lead to a tenser military situation between the countries [Russia, Ukraine and the US], says Kristian Gerner, a history professor at Lund University. “The Nato will draw a line and say, now it’s for real. This is, however, a more defensive move, rather than a buildup. What’s next
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To understand Putin’s intentions with the Ukraine crisis, one needs to crack the riddle what exactly makes the EU and Nato—or the West—a party in the crisis. I keep asking this question because I think it is really essential. Since the very outset of the new Maidan, Russia has been very emphatic on blaming “the
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Discussing defence. A discussion on FB was triggered by the alarmist interpretation of the warnings offered by Andrei Illarionov, a former advisor to Vladimir Putin. Mr Illarionov suggests his former boss may target the Baltics, Finland and Poland in his “strategy” to “restore” the “empire”. This speculation has captured the imagination of many people, and
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The local maidanist vigilantes captured and obviously incapacitated the head of the Ukrainian-Slovak/Hungarian border customs, who, tied to a poll and surrounded by a crowd, confessed “all corrupt schemes”. Yes, it does look like lynching; the medium, however, is emphasising it in bold that “no tortures or beating” or in fact lynching, “self-made justice,” was involved. See the
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