President Putin is worried about a revolution in Russia, tells people that Russia has already reached its "limit of revolting" last century | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 86121607 ![]() 08/05/2023 02:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: President Putin is worried about a revolution in Russia, tells people that Russia has already reached its "limit of revolting" last century he's not afraid of NATO, he is afraid of his own people revolting "It’s not NATO expansion that concerns Putin, but what an alliance of largely democratic nations may bring with it: the prospect of “colour revolutions”, in which populations seek to wrest control from the hands of corrupt dictators. By invading Ukraine, Putin has actually succeeded in enlarging NATO further, with Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. He has prompted Germany and other overdependent European states to wean themselves off Russian oil and gas. And he’s ensured Russia will remain a Western pariah for the foreseeable future, while bequeathing Russia’s next generation the lasting hatred of Ukrainians. Russia now faces an uncertain future. Instead of Putin’s vision of a Euro-Pacific great power, it seems destined to be little more than a nuclear-armed raw materials appendage of China. Even worse for Putin, his rule now looks increasingly tenuous. His failures in Ukraine have proven impossible for Russia’s compliant state media to fashion into a story of triumph. Putin’s response to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic mutiny in June added to the perception of weakness. It initially took him several hours to appear in an emergency broadcast, in which he spoke of a potential civil war and promised to liquidate the Wagner traitors. But once a hasty deal with Prigozhin was struck, that strong statement was walked back only hours later by Putin’s press secretary, who was forced to paint the Wagner forces simultaneously as both heroes and enemies of the state. Later, in an address to Russian soldiers, Putin thanked the military for saving Russia, even though it hadn’t confronted the revolt. The equally apathetic response by the general public (indeed, nobody tried to lie down in front of a Wagner tank to protect Putin) was also telling. So, too, was the fact Wagner operatives were able to escape the mutiny unpunished, while ordinary citizens face jail terms for even short silent protests. Putin’s Russia is starting to look like Tsarist Russia: a state that collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions, as British historian Orlando Figes put it. Russia in 2023 now looks even more fractured than it did when Putin took over, ostensibly to save it from turmoil. Perhaps the greatest irony of Putin’s near-quarter century at the helm, then, is that he has come to personify the chaos he has long professed to abhor. [link to theconversation.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 86159516 ![]() 08/05/2023 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: President Putin is worried about a revolution in Russia, tells people that Russia has already reached its "limit of revolting" last century he's not afraid of NATO, he is afraid of his own people revolting Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86121607 "It’s not NATO expansion that concerns Putin, but what an alliance of largely democratic nations may bring with it: the prospect of “colour revolutions”, in which populations seek to wrest control from the hands of corrupt dictators. By invading Ukraine, Putin has actually succeeded in enlarging NATO further, with Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. He has prompted Germany and other overdependent European states to wean themselves off Russian oil and gas. And he’s ensured Russia will remain a Western pariah for the foreseeable future, while bequeathing Russia’s next generation the lasting hatred of Ukrainians. Russia now faces an uncertain future. Instead of Putin’s vision of a Euro-Pacific great power, it seems destined to be little more than a nuclear-armed raw materials appendage of China. Even worse for Putin, his rule now looks increasingly tenuous. His failures in Ukraine have proven impossible for Russia’s compliant state media to fashion into a story of triumph. Putin’s response to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic mutiny in June added to the perception of weakness. It initially took him several hours to appear in an emergency broadcast, in which he spoke of a potential civil war and promised to liquidate the Wagner traitors. But once a hasty deal with Prigozhin was struck, that strong statement was walked back only hours later by Putin’s press secretary, who was forced to paint the Wagner forces simultaneously as both heroes and enemies of the state. Later, in an address to Russian soldiers, Putin thanked the military for saving Russia, even though it hadn’t confronted the revolt. The equally apathetic response by the general public (indeed, nobody tried to lie down in front of a Wagner tank to protect Putin) was also telling. So, too, was the fact Wagner operatives were able to escape the mutiny unpunished, while ordinary citizens face jail terms for even short silent protests. Putin’s Russia is starting to look like Tsarist Russia: a state that collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions, as British historian Orlando Figes put it. Russia in 2023 now looks even more fractured than it did when Putin took over, ostensibly to save it from turmoil. Perhaps the greatest irony of Putin’s near-quarter century at the helm, then, is that he has come to personify the chaos he has long professed to abhor. [link to theconversation.com (secure)] https://twitter.com/_/status/1665601979366637568 |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 86121607 ![]() 08/05/2023 03:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: President Putin is worried about a revolution in Russia, tells people that Russia has already reached its "limit of revolting" last century do you believe that? coz it says that President Putin and Russia want to genocide the J people, obviously Russia is copying off the Nazis. but it also says that the J people already left Ukraine 1200 years ago! So the Nazi Russian Genocide of the J people is attacking the wrong country! wow Russia is so bad at geography! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 86121607 ![]() 08/05/2023 05:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: President Putin is worried about a revolution in Russia, tells people that Russia has already reached its "limit of revolting" last century The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum is an organization that is planning color revolutions all across the Russian Federation. They want to decolonize, de-occupy, decentralize, de-Putinize, denazify and demilitarize Russia. And they want to get independence and derussify their countries. Russia has declared them to be an "undesirable organization". "The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum (FNRF or FSNR; Russian: romanized: Forum svobodnykh narodov Post-Rossii) is a forum founded by opposition activists, regional and separatist movements in Russia, as well as foreign sympathizers, which advocates for the disintegration of the Russian Federation. It was registered in Poland. According to its own statements, the forum aims to fight for the "decolonization, de-occupation, decentralization, de-Putinization, denazification and demilitarisation of Russia". Some Proposed States also Include Derussification. On 17 March 2023, the forum was designated an "undesirable organization" in Russia. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] |
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