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I disagree with Riley that the operation has been a failure.

I understand he is upset for other things, but I consider this a myopic position, expecially with the annexations.

Putin is not only dealing with internal diplomatic matters, he's managing hugely important external diplomatic matters with Russian allies [China, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Brazil - to name the main ones].

Consider this: Putin went into a foreign country and annexed 20% of it - arguably in contravention of international law - and none of Russia's allies in the UN voted to condemn this.

This is unheard of - this is a huge, enormous win - and should put paid to the very idea that Putin doesn't know how to manage things.

The man, in my humble opinion, is THE master politician of our age - maybe in the last 100 years.

Yeah, I admit it.

I'm a fan.

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Just a small part of the Putin's speech was about transgender, etc.

"Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.

Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself."

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69465

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Oct 4, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I absolutely loved this discussion! Thank you!

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Oct 5, 2022·edited Oct 5, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I don't agree that who your oligarchs are don't matter. We used to have WASP oligarchs, now we have Jewish oligarchs. There is a difference. At the beginning of the neocon movement every neocon was a zionist, 100%. The whole purpose was to use America's military power to destroy Israel's enemies directly. People like Senator Lieberman, the Senator from Israel. It was obvious while it was happening. Later George W asked his dad .... 'who are the neocons, and he responded, do you want names or a description. A description. Answer: Israel. The goals expanded and others joined but the original purpose remains as well.

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Oct 5, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I think more like Riley, maybe because we are both American. None of Putin’s transgender talk makes sense in reference to Ukraine.

The forced vaccines for military conscripts seals the deal for me, I don’t think Russia is going to save the world lol

But...I sure hope I’m wrong.

Nicotine is good and juice is bad...

There is no dignity in corn syrup...

I’m dying over here lmao.

Rolo, I see you, bro

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Oct 4, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker

I agree with Rolo that Putin is a great speaker.

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Incredible that none of you three in this discussion realize that Putin, and his entire government, work for the globalist cabal!

The purpose of the Ukraine war - ordered by Putin's globalist masters - was to provide a pretext for driving energy prices in the West through the ceiling, to destroy Western economies and living standards, so that when things get bad enough (as they will) , people in their desperation will submit to the only 'solution' offered to them: the Great Reset tyranny.

Putin & Co. did and said exactly the same over the long-planned 'Covid crisis' and the pathogenic Covid clot shots that every globalist Western government did!

And now, Putin & Co. are forcing those mobilized to be injected with the DeathVax, for God's sake!

The global cabal needs Ukrainian victories to try to offset growing popular opposition to the Ukraine war - and in addition, they don't want Russia penetrating any deeper into their Ukraine money-laundering center: Putin will have been ordered to keep the war going - but not to do any more than that.

Putin mobilised because he and his globalist masters feared that if he didn't make that gesture, patriots in Russia might start realizing that he and his entire government is working for the other side.

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Oct 4, 2022·edited Oct 4, 2022

I wasn’t too impressed with these two characters before but at this point I have to question their overall intelligence. Listening to Marko is like listening to a Pole. Oversimplifications, caricatures, and a lack of desire to sympathize.

First of all, Putin didn’t want a war but was forced. So any imperialist angle is false. Questioning Russian intentions is ignorant since they’re reactionary. They make perfect sense. The only thing that is flawed are the individual political choices on specific subjects. Also Putin is not some moron sucking up and imitating the west. Again rational choices but flawed. The world is too big and too complex for impulsive, borderline insane people flipping society upside down because of some far right talking point and I’m far right. I may like nationalism but I can understand authorities clamping down on morons who want to beat up some Central Asian selling tomatoes to make Saint Petersburg Slavic again.

The rhetoric is good, very good. Even the nazi stuff is okay. This is rhetoric for 140 million people, with extra flavor for regular patriots/religious, not for the audience of some dissident political club. The criticisms of the Nazi rhetoric within Russia is mostly to do with a lot of people not caring in general and a confusion from the fact that no one fucking understands what these Ukrainians want and have a problem with so some people just assume, sometimes attributing good intentions.

You can’t make Russia traditional with a stroke of a pen. Borderline retarded take. The anti-gay stuff is political, not grassroot. No one likes gays across the world. No one thinks Russia is planning on defeating the tranny agenda in Ukraine. Negativity just for the sake of it.

There’s nothing stupid about the state media personalities making a big deal of stuff or saying aggressive things, it’s literally their job to talk like that and it’s the reason people watch. The only thing that matters is which way the overtone window shifts, I don’t care if Medvedev sucks cocks in his spare time.

Jewish presence makes a huge difference because they try to control the narrative and when it comes to the narrative it’s a strong river that everyone else can only swim down stream in.

This Russian military disorganization dilemma is like a golden goose for these two.

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Interesting conversation. Thanks guys. The fact that Marco has still not even bothered to listen to Putin' s historic speech is strange to say the least . Riley's frustration with everything in Russia especially in relation to médico pharma corruption is

completely understandable, though his assesment of the SMO is shallow. The references to Soviet times from all three

of you are laced with a negativity that belies the fact that at least 70 percent of the population of Kate 80s did not want their model society of ispravidlivost ( fairness for all ) to be terminated so abruptly at the whim of three globalist pricks.

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Could you please talk about Abramovich role in Stambul, the Grain deal and his giving a lift to British mercenaries in a private jet. 5 D media dunces like Duran won't talk about that. Please do.

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I think that Riley gets it right with the "Washington is winning". But that the Kremlin in also winning. Internally, politically, Russia is more consolidated, and her international allies are showing up. It is the people that are loosing, some more than others for sure, but the economic debacle is only an opportunity for the few. Like most wars.

Many individuals at an international level, but also organizations, including communists of course, have tons of sympathy for the Russians in general. I think that these three's anticommunism blinds them on how much Russia's anti-imperialist rhetoric is getting traction on an international level. There is also lots of regions of the world where memories of positive Soviet interventions and Russia's current smooth diplomatic moves have pooled support for pushing against AngloNATO supremacy.

I think that getting anti trans discourse mixed up in this mess is a huge mistake. It feels like Putin is trying to flirt with western nationalists, which although more powerful that a few years back, are also hated intensely by many in the West. This just feeds the "we need to fight Putin to defend sexual diversity" discourse.

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You guys could make more of an analysis of Putin's hesitation in terms of internal Russian politics. To put it simply, would Russian society have supported a full mobilization back in February?

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A lot of fun about 'boomers' here. I don't know how old Riley is, but if you think he is smarter than your average 'boomer' I think you would be wrong. Sounds like an over-excited teenager.

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Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69465

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