Putin On Presidents

[fender62]

this is an interesting take on putin..

[ichkeria]

Hmm over an hour long and I’m not going to watch the whole thing - btw when this journalist Julia Ioffe asserts early on that “if this weren’t a conflict between America and Russia then the US would not have led the sanctions” that is highly questionable.

“I think Putin doesn’t like liberal reformers” - if that’s her biggest insight then I’ll leave others to it ;-)
But it is as most I think accept the underlying reason for his war in Ukraine. He sees Ukraine as a threat to his criminal empire. Throw a bit of cod history into it and there you are.

So I’m sure it’s interesting but I’ve got to 17 mins and I’ve not heard anything new

[fender62]

i like the part when she says putin is a specialist communicator and used that to manipulate and how.

[ichkeria]

I’ll try and watch a bit more but IMO we’re past the stage of analysing Putin.


I’d need to see what was said in context but if Putin is a good communicator I’m the ayatollah

[fender62]

ichkeria, in a nutshell as an ex-kgb he learned to spot weakness in talk
and as a youth felt inferior as he was short in stature, had to learn the ropes, and came from poverty, and take the russian ideal as what is strong, on a basic level he is smart, think of a gangster but has nukes
and x kgb, so what do you have.

[ichkeria]

He was actually plucked from obscurity by more powerful figures in the FSB to front their takeover of the country.
Just a gangster who was probably an agent for the Red Brigades when in the Stasi.
He has nukes he won’t use.
All he really has is our fear of him.
Time we wised up and shed that

[ichkeria]

All that stuff was what got him where he is.
But he messed it all up on Feb 24.
Someone who could be so wrong about the country next door hasn’t really got his finger on the pulse of anything much.
The other day he claimed that Russia was actually trying to stop conflict.
He maybe even believe that who knows

[fender62]

i think pooter thinks inside every ukrainen is a russian trying to get out, quote from full metal jacket film, deluded.