Well…less than a day after it started, the coup in Russia ended with whimper instead of a bang…the leader of the Wagner mercenaries agreed to call it off and leave Russia for Belarus…and I guess what he got from Putin was a promise to not murder him…but if I were him, I’d stay away from high windows since lots of oligarchs and generals have fallen out of them over the past few years….I really do wonder what the whole thing was about? Was it just to show Putin’s weakness since Wagner got within 20km of Moscow before they stopped…and the Wagnerites shot down 5 helicopters, too, that Putin couldn’t afford to lose so why make a deal? I guess it’s just the inscrutable Russians that no one can figure out…I’ll follow up on this once someone gets the truth out there…
Tag Archives: Russia
Did you really need any more evidence?
Well…no matter how many times the idiot trump screams “no collusion” about putin’s efforts to get him elected, there is overwhelming evidence that he and his campaign worked with Russia to steal the 2016 election…and that Russian help continues to this day with the release of new “sanctions” being put on some Americans by Russia…and the list reads like a trump enemies list…I mean Letitia James who is prosecuting trump in NYC? Or Brad Raffensberger who wouldn’t go along with idiot boys scheme to “find” votes in Georgia…and the list goes on and on…man, Russia used to be subtle with it’s interference but now they don’t care who sees it or how ham handidly they do this stuff…if you needed any more evidence…and I don’t think you do, that trump is still in the bag for Putin, this is it…geez…
Let 7 million of them go…
Well…this is pretty damn funny…read an article this morning where Putin is offering any American right wing asshole 25 acres of land if they move to Russia…and all I have to say is “let them go”…let’s get rid of this cancer on our country and send them somewhere they already support…if you listen to them, they all want Russia to win in Ukraine, and they all support whatever Putin is doing…like hate on LGBTQ people, trans people, indigenous people, women…you get the point, it’s just what the right wingers here do so go to Russia…oh, but leave your guns here since they are outlawed in Russia…oh, and you better take everything you need to homestead since there is nothing available to build a house or any electricity or water or even toilets…why do you think the Russian thugs are stealing everything they can in Ukraine? No fridges are available in Russia…as there are no other things that big mouth right wingers here take for granted…no comfy couch, no high fat foods, no nothing…but, I so want them to go since they think they are so tough…and then have them slink back here…or even better, throw them into the illegal war in Ukraine…and you know that will happen if any of these loud mouths go…good riddance….
Boycott Heineken…
Well…just read an article on Mastodon that even though Heineken promised to withdraw from the Russian market, they have continued to invest in Russia and have launched 61 new products there along with building bottling and distribution plants, supporting Putin and his murderous war in Ukraine…so any time you buy a Heineken, you are helping Putin kill more Ukrainians…so boycott Heineken…they don’t deserve your support if they support Putin…
The Saudis and Russia need to pay…
Well…damn, I am so tired of the Saudis and the Russians meddling in our elections…and they are at it again for the mid-terms when yesterday they announced that they are going to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day which will send oil prices soaring and give the repubs a huge talking point for the next month…now, I wonder, did the repubs even talk to the Saudis and ask them to do it? They’ve done everything else treasonable so that is not much of a stretch, is it? Let’s remember that trump and his cronies actually did work with the Russians to steal the 2016 election and I’m sure they still have the “backchannels” the the idiot kushner established with both the Russians and the Saudis…and they are still joined at the hip as evidenced by jared getting 2 billion dollars from the Saudis after the 2020 election that has still never been explained. Let’s remember that there needs to be conspirators here in the US or none of this would work…and you can guess who that would be…no, you don’t have to guess…it’s the damn repubs..cheating, cheating, and cheating…it’s the only way they can win….geez…
Putin looks like he’s going to lose this war…
Well… I have been trying to avoid commenting on the point that Putin is going to lose in Ukraine as there are still untold war crimes he and his troops are committing there by targeting civilians and continuing to kill thousands of them…and it seems to be disrespectful to sit here on my soft warm couch and opine while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives…but, it does appear that with the latest round of support for the Ukrainians from across the globe, the tide is turning as they start concerted counterattacks on the Russian invaders. One of the things I find most stunning is that the Russian military, once thought to be one of the best in the world appears to be a hollowed out shell of itself…incapable of the things that normal armies do as a matter of course…I mean they are even using cell phones and commercial walkie talkies to try to talk to each other and even those aren’t working to coordinate attacks like a normal army does….and it is clear they can’t supply the army with even the basics of food and water as the videos of Russian soldiers stealing chickens and looting grocery stores show….and this just supports what I proposed in an earlier post, that 2 squadrons of A-10 attack jets could defeat this whole Russian invasion all by themselves…and if a NATO army was brought to bear on the Russian forces with all the force that entails, it would take a day or less for Russia to be defeated and driven from Ukraine….one last thing to remember is that Putin is now going to be isolated in Russia and will never be able to leave there again or he will be arrested and taken to the Hague for trial on the war crimes his troop have committed…this is a far cry from the superpower that he postured Russia to be…and maybe this will be his end…we can only hope…
Let’s get this straight…
Well…it looks like the movement of Russian troops away from the border with Ukraine was a lie and there is still a real chance that they are going to invade before the week is out…and with that, I will admit I was wrong to think that Putin has any thought about anything but himself and playing the tough guy on the world stage…and when sanctions are imposed, the Russian people are going to pay for his stupidity while he and his oligarch buddies sit there and count their money that China is going to guarantee keeps flowing into their corrupt hands….and let’s get this straight…no matter what fox news says, the only one responsible for the deaths and carnage that is going to happen is Putin…it is not Biden’s fault, it is not NATO’s fault, it is not Ukraine’s fault…it is all on Putin and I really hope that the UN and the rest of the world hold him accountable and make sure Russia no longer has the capability to threaten it’s neighbors…we need to remember that Russia is a third rate economy and Putin is doing this to distract from all of his theft of anything that is not nailed down…geez….
Biden is doing it right…
Well…damn, what a difference a real president makes on the world stage…as Putin rattles his sabers and threatens Ukraine with an invasion if they don’t roll over for him and stop working with the west to guarantee their sovereignty, can you imagine what would be happening if the idiot boy was still in office? Yep, he would be rolling over for Putin and half of Ukraine would be Russian territory by now…but, Biden is not taking any of Putin’s bullshit and is working with NATO to respond to his threats with the only thing he understands…power…and we are making it clear what the cost will be if he does invade…the Russian economy will be crashed and it will cost him billions personally…and he won’t have a reconstituted USSR that is his real aim. I understand the people who are protesting and have sent letters to Biden opposing war in Ukraine, but appeasement of people like Putin just doesn’t work…and I think that Putin is thinking in terms of the previous guy who was so scared of everything and his administration was so incompetent that he could basically do whatever he wanted anywhere in the world with no consequences…and that is no longer true when you have a competent president who truly values our allies and works with them as a team to meet Putin’s blustering…no matter what China says….why they are supporting Putin on trying to stop NATO expansion, I don’t know but I think it is more a sharp stick in the eye to a newly muscular American foreign policy…and it costs China nothing as they try to extend their influence across the world…so, I think Biden is doing it right and I hope he keeps it up…
Why is this not treason?
Well…let’s start this one with the definition of treason and then maybe someone can explain to me why what trump and his repub cronies are doing is not treason. “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason…” Now, yesterday’s spectacle where trump invited the foreign minister of Russia into the WH where he spouted Putin’s lies that Russia was not involved with attacking the 2016 election, and which all of the repub party is pushing seems to me to be the definition of giving aid and comfort to our enemies…and as such is damn treason against this country….and every repub who is involved is committing treason…from Lindsey Graham to William Barr, they are all helping Russia to attack this country and are ensuring that Russia will have a free hand in trying to cheat to elect trump in 2020. I am so damn pissed that the only option we have left to hold these traitors accountable is winning the election in 2020 and then it will be left to the dems, as always, to come in and repair the damage that repubs gleefully do to our country just for power or money…never thought I’d see this in my lifetime…
No Olympics for you….
Well…hey, I am finally going to get at a topic that is not politics…or, on the surface it’s not about politics but the idiot trump is going to make it about politics. Just Sunday, the world anti doping agency announced that Russia and it’s athletes will be banned from all international competitions including the Wold Cup and the Olympics due to widespread institutional cheating led by the Russian government. The ban is going to be for 4 years pending the obligatory appeal the that the Russians will request, or if the idiot trump gets involved and tries to strong arm WADA into looking the other way…after all it is Russia involved and we all know that trump lives to please Putin. The bottom line is that Russia and it’s supposedly impartial athlete testing lab spent the past few years hiding positive results and were even involved with helping Russian athletes cheat at every competition they were in….just like the East Germans did in the 60′s through the 90′s when that tiny little country won every medal in sight. Look, this crap has been going on forever and Russia needs to pay some price for their blatant cheating…I do feel for the clean Russian athletes…if there are any, but the solution from Rio and Korea where individual Russians were allowed to compete but not under the Russian flag is not acceptable…we know that Russian athletes are under the thumb of Putin and can’t be assured they are not dirty…so while I feel for these athletes, it is time for their entire system to be penalized for their government’s cheating….that continues to this day…