I'd love to psychoanalyse the insecurities that drive people to admire someone like that. But let's not be unkind.

Hasn't Putin learnt anything?
He needs to jazz things up a little bit.
If he wants to gain any sort of legitimacy he needs to start throwing about a few slogans like, [i'The War on Terror'[/i, or 'WMD's'.
Easy innit.

The news here does have a slight bias against Russia but, the output from Russia is pure propaganda, quite increddible in this day and age

'NATO aggression' and 'NATO expansion' are the Russian equivalent of WMDs in Iraq. Both are nonsense.

This situation is a total and utter failure of Western leadership and Diplomacy
The arrogance and chest thumping of the west in totally dismissing Russia’s legitimate security concerns
There was no way President Putin would allow the second largest country in Europe to be stuffed full of American nukes and cruise missiles. Have you seen the length of the Ukraine border with Russia?

Sadly the Ukraine people are now understanding the internationally accepted American definitions of terms such as “collateral damage” and “enemy combatant” , derived to legitimise American and UK atrocities in the likes of Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.
The ICC is an American joke.

Unlike the American and UK imperialistic Illegal invasion of Iraq WMD lies , Russia has found WMD’s nukes in Ukraine.

And I don’t see the Donald Rumsfeld levels of Shock and Awe inflicted on the civilian population of Baghdad?, nor any sightings of the “Mother of all Bombs” dropped with impunity on the brown skinned populations of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan

This is creeping to a nuclear WW3

If only Putin had his own hotline to God like Dubya and Phoney Tony then everything would be hunky-dory.

France and Germany sieze super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs and are seizing their other goods . In Britain meanwhile we are telling Russian oligarchs we are going to sanction tem in a few weeks. Meanwhile they are selling their assets off in Britain. Why is Britain acting so slowly ? https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/how-russian- ... in-the-uk/ https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/23/has- ... by-russia/ Work it out for yourself then someone can explain it to Chissit

France and Germany sieze super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs and are seizing their other goods . In Britain meanwhile we are telling Russian oligarchs we are going to sanction tem in a few weeks. Meanwhile they are selling their assets off in Britain. Why is Britain acting so slowly ? https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/how-russian- ... in-the-uk/ https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/23/has- ... by-russia/ Work it out for yourself then someone can explain it to Chissit

The point I'm trying to make is if a large percentage of russians aren't aware that they're being fed propaganda, why would we be any more aware if the same was happening to us?

Care to elucidate?

Because we have a free press and access to news from around the world. In Russia you can only get the news provided by the government unless you can get access to the internet. Putin has blocked a lot of it though.

They’ve literally closed down every independent paper, radio and tv station. Then today the Russian duma (government) have passed a law making it an offence to criticise the Russian military or operations involving them. Punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

I've stated this on other threads. Responses need to be about the post NOT the person posting.

Don't be surprised if posts which don't comply are removed.
(One has been already).

After watching that crap Putin came out with today it’s clear he’s going to take over the whole of Ukraine. Every reason he’s come up with is total garbage.

It’ll get worse before it gets better but I’m sure this is the undoing of Putin. The Ukrainians aren’t going to lie down they’ll keep fighting and the Russians will have to spend resources and blood to control it. That coupled with the sanctions I can’t see it being long before the oligarchs and military get sick of Putin and Medvedev and eliminate them.

Russia have no legitimate security concerns.
Ukraine gave up their nukes along with Kazakhstan and Belarus in the 1990s after they signed the Budapest memorandum along with the US, UK, and Russia, in return for the other nations respecting their borders... guess which country broke the agreement.
The Eastern European countries that joined NATO chose to do so themselves, and were free to do so in line with the Helsinki accord, which the SU also signed in the 70s. There was never any agreement made with Russia that guaranteed NATO wouldn't expand. Those countries joined NATO peacefully. What did Russia do when Hungary wanted out of the Warsaw pact?

What is it with far left tankies who bend over backwards to criticise western (primarily US and UK) imperialism, but then make all the excuses in the world for the atrocities of fascist dictators like Putin, Asaad,, and commie dictators like Ping, Chavez, and Castro?