Putin Can't Stop

[JohnDearGreen]

the people's court

[JohnDearGreen]

Nicholas Kozitsyna, who appeared in one of the recent Vice News videos, was arrested 11/28 by Russian FSB spetsnaz.  his colleagues were killed. As per Girkin, "he will not return to Ukraine".
http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4248060-glavar_boevikov_antratsita_kozitsyn_zaderzhan_i_vyvezen_v_rf_smi.htm

[Boethius]

Interesting blog piece about the Kremlin's backing of EU political parties.


http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/globally-local/2014/11/26/is-putin-trying-to-buy-up-europes-nationalists/

[Gator]

Nicholas Kozitsyna, who appeared in one of the recent Vice News videos, was arrested 11/28 by Russian FSB spetsnaz.  his colleagues were killed. As per Girkin, "he will not return to Ukraine".
http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4248060-glavar_boevikov_antratsita_kozitsyn_zaderzhan_i_vyvezen_v_rf_smi.htm

I remember him from one interview in which he did not categorically deny that the rebels shot down the Flight 17.  Perhaps that was a clue as to why he will never return. 

[AC]

I remember him from one interview in which he did not categorically deny that the rebels shot down the Flight 17.  Perhaps that was a clue as to why he will never return.

And as I already posted, the guy who I believe was the triggerman behind the shooting down of MH17 has been assassinated, as well as his bodyguards.


http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/07/terrorist-bezler-reportedly-eliminated-by-russian-security-services/


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118770/who-igor-bezler-russian-rebel-implicated-malaysia-flight-17

[fathertime]

I found this article today.  It basically has mentioned that if Russia goes no further and the EU and US decide to reluctantly accept what has happened, the European sanctions could be lifted next year.   Here is that part:

Now consider Russia. Assuming that Kiev and the West reluctantly accept the status quo in Crimea and Donbas — and nobody seems to have any ideas about how to wrest this territory back from Moscow — President Vladimir Putin seems unlikely to attempt any further territorial expansion, at least without some new geopolitical pretext. In that case, the EU sanctions against Russia may well expire automatically in March and July. They have been set for a one-year term, and a consensus to extend them will be hard to muster if the fighting in Ukraine dies down.
[/size]In response, Russia is starting to restructure its economy. It is moving away from the classical free-trade model that it adopted in the 1990s, which encouraged Moscow to export raw materials and import industrial goods because that was implied by the [/size]Ricardian law of comparative advantage[/size]. The alternative development model, which Russia will now favor, is the one followed by other big emerging economies, including China, India and Brazil, and before them, South Korea and Japan
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[/size] It goes on to explain how the Russian economy is going to transform....no talk of them collapsing, which I believe is useless optimism on many people's part. [size=78%]
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/12/12/ukraines-frozen-war-brings-dramatic-changes-to-world-economy/


Fathertime! 

[sleepycat]

Looks like an article written for a target audience of the gullible and the uneducated...

[fathertime]

Looks like an article written for a target audience of the gullible and the uneducated...

In your always 'astute' analysis, you forgot to mention that the author was a midget!


Fathertime! 

[lordtiberius]

We will NEVER accept the status quo.

[Boethius]

Russian soldiers who claimed to have fought for the Russian army in Ukraine -


http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/97_Ct4bLw4bt0rK.webm?_=1

[AkMike]

perhaps Putin suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He certainly has some of the signs.

•a small head
•a smooth ridge between the upper lip and nose, small eyes, a very thin upper lip, or other abnormal facial features
•below-average height and weight
•hyperactivity
•lack of focus
•poor coordination
•delayed development and problems in thinking, speech, movement and social skills
•poor judgment
•problems seeing or hearing
•learning disabilities
•mental retardation
•heart problems
•kidney defects and abnormalities
•deformed limbs or fingers
•mood swings
http://ask.healthline.com/heal...l-syndrome#Symptoms3

[sleepycat]

Now, now, you're going to get Doll all upset if you start describing her idol the Supreme Leader like that!
 

On a more serious note have you noticed that none of our American forum members care to react to posts mocking Obama, whereas as soon as there is a post mocking Putler then certain Russian forum members immediately start getting agitated and take it personally.

According to Moderator we are allowed to make fun of that midget...

Are we allowed to insult the eminently insultable cretin V. V. Putin? 

Until he starts posting here, yes.

I thought the whole personality cult thing only exist in North Korea.

[lordtiberius]

That is a good point.

We have a supine opposition party.  Long live comrade Sotero.

[Boethius]

Igor Trunov, the head of the Moscow city office of the Russian Red Cross, says that the Russian government used what it called “humanitarian convoys” to “most likely” ship arms to pro-Moscow fighters in Ukraine, in direct violation of international humanitarian law and practice.

Trunov said December 25 that he doesn't like to "cast stones" at the Russian government.  But "there is international law,," and Moscow has violated it.  Using humanitarian convoys to send arms across an international border is "an invasion" and "a violation" of the law.

Given the way in which Russian officials oversaw these convoys, it was possible for them to carry whatever Moscow wanted, including arms and military personnel, the Red Cross official said. Such actions, he said, make it far more difficult to ensure the delivery of real humanitarian assistance of the kind his organization provides to people in Ukraine who need it.

Trunov's declaration follows confirmation by Russian activists that they sent armed militants into Ukraine via these convoys  And his words suggest Moscow may very well continue to do so even as it talks about its support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

http://www.interpretermag.com/red-cross-official-says-moscow-used-humanitarian-convoys-to-ship-arms-to-militants-in-ukraine/

[lordtiberius]

I hate to interrupt people dancing on the grave of Russian economy but in case you haven't notice, things in Ukraine aren't that great EITHER

[Boethius]

You must be in the wrong thread.

[lordtiberius]

Maybe, but tell me what I written is false?

[Boethius]

I think most posters recognize that things aren't great, economically, in Ukraine.

[RoboCop]

perhaps Putin suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He certainly has some of the signs.

•a small head
•a smooth ridge between the upper lip and nose, small eyes, a very thin upper lip, or other abnormal facial features
•below-average height and weight
•hyperactivity
•lack of focus
•poor coordination
•delayed development and problems in thinking, speech, movement and social skills
•poor judgment
•problems seeing or hearing
•learning disabilities
•mental retardation
•heart problems
•kidney defects and abnormalities
•deformed limbs or fingers
•mood swings
http://ask.healthline.com/heal...l-syndrome#Symptoms3

He's a black belt in judo, so I doubt his motor coordination is impaired, nor could he do well in such a sport with deformed fingers.

He's head size is avergae for his body.

[AC]

Trunov's declaration follows confirmation by Russian activists that they sent armed militants into Ukraine via these convoys  And his words suggest Moscow may very well continue to do so even as it talks about its support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

http://www.interpretermag.com/red-cross-official-says-moscow-used-humanitarian-convoys-to-ship-arms-to-militants-in-ukraine/

In keeping with the title of the thread I've highlighted the part that reminds all of us that Putin indeed cannot stop.  The only way he will be stopped is if Nato and the USA give Ukraine sufficient weapons to defend their territory.  An analyst on Fox I was watching today stated that it might take another two years to fully collapse Russia's economy.  So those dancing on it's grave are premature.  Sanctions alone will not work.

[lordtiberius]

I think most posters recognize that things aren't great, economically, in Ukraine.

Things are getting worse and this blaming Putin for everything is getting old.

[Boethius]

Do you believe there would have been a war in Donbas without Moscow's direct involvement? 


Do you believe there would be a war now if the Donbas were not being supplied with weapons by Russia?

[AC]

Things are getting worse and this blaming Putin for everything is getting old.

Okay.  I will bite.  Who is at fault?  The Oligarchs in Ukraine are apparently well entrenched and expert at stealing IMF funds and other funds for themselves.  Who or what will stop them?

[lordtiberius]

Ahh Poroshenko, Yatseniuk, the elected representatives of the Ukrainian government - the West particularly the EU, US and IMF in that order . . .

[JohnDearGreen]

Ekatinburg policeman fired for taking a 20000 ruble bribe.   Beautiful girlfriend.  But then went haywire and ends up in Donetsk airport battle.  Link says his body was in Ukraine morgue for 18 months, but I don't think that is correct time.  Body finally retrieved just before being placed in an unmarked grave.
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-408222.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-414092.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-413961.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-416479.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-414638.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-413982.html
Probably sent there by this guy:
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/head-of-sverdlovsk-special-forces-veterans-union-i-help-to-send-volunteers-to-war-in-ukraine-376160.html


Donetsk guerillas gaining momentum:
http://www.0629.com.ua/news/698156