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Russia's President Dmitri Medvedev and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before the visit to the Rodina farm in Shpakovsky District.
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October 25, 2011
Russia's President Dmitri Medvedev and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before the visit to the Rodina farm in Shpakovsky District.
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Io sonni tranquilli non li ricordo e non li prospetto, ma di scavare non si finisce mai oh
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The Russian president has pegged his political survival to a continuous confrontation with America and its allies.
Putin is NOT interested in peace. He essentially wants a sequel to the Cold War of his youth. Unless we want another 45 year Cold War, we need to undercut Putin in the here and now.
Far from being ready to strike a peace deal with Ukraine under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Putin has pegged his political survival to a simmering conflict with the United States and its allies. “Putin is the president of war,” said Nikolai Petrov, a senior analyst at the London-based New Eurasian Strategies Center. “He has no interest in ending it.” Having fashioned himself as a wartime leader, going back to being a peacetime president would be tantamount to a demotion. “No matter what the conditions are, he cannot give up that role,” Petrov said. [ ... ] “There’s a desire among the hawkish part of the military-political establishment to destroy NATO,” Alexander Baunov, a former Russian diplomat now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, told DW’s Russian service. “To show NATO is worthless.” Since Putin met with Trump in Alaska last month in what the U.S. president had touted as a summit dedicated to striking a ceasefire, Moscow has ramped up its campaign of hybrid warfare against Europe, according to military analysts.
The chronically drunk former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, is currently making threats against NATO member Finland.
In an opinion piece published two days before the drones crossed into Poland, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, accused Helsinki of planning an attack, threatening that any assault “could lead to the collapse of Finnish statehood — once and for all.” Analysts noted the article’s rhetoric resembled the Kremlin’s talking points ahead of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
As usual, Trump is totally clueless – presuming he is not already compromised by former Soviet secret police Lt. Colonel Vladimir Putin.
On Thursday, Trump echoed Moscow’s talking points, telling reporters that “it could have been a mistake.” The Kremlin has dismissed accusations that the drones were a deliberate provocation. The Russian defense ministry said there “had been no plans to target facilities” in Poland. [ ... ] “This is typical Putin-style trolling and probing,” said (Director of the Re:Russia Project Kirill) Rogov. “He likes things to be ambivalent so that they can be interpreted either as deliberate or accidental.”
Plausible deniability suits Western dupes of Putin like Donald Trump.
Russia is not as strong as it wishes the world to think it is; see our next post later today.
The only way to achieve peace is to defeat Putin. Ukraine is currently engaged in an offensive which will play out over the course of months. It's a drone and missile offensive aimed at Russia's oil refineries.
Dominic at the Kyiv Independent explains what's happening.
As he mentioned towards the end, Ukraine is currently hitting Russian refineries with drones which carry relatively small warheads – about 10 to 40 kg. Russia can repair such damage in a matter of weeks, though it is inconvenient and distracting for them.
But Ukraine's new Flamingo missile can carry a payload of about 1,000 kg. That's enough destructive power to put a refinery out of commission for almost half a year. And spare parts needed to repair those refineries come from the West which has sanctions on them.
So bleeding Russia dry of oil is the strategy and it is slowly beginning to work. That is why Putin has suddenly ramped up his provocations against NATO as petty forms of intimidation.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev when he was young, 1986.
Not sure how many of you remember Dmitry Mevedev, but the man has the kind of name that if I saw it in a story, I'd be telling the writer they need more subtlety.
Even if Ukraine surrenders the territories we claim and renounces NATO aspirations in exchange for a peace deal, sooner or later we would still have to put the nail into the coffin of Ukrainian statehood and return the rest of the country’s lands “into the bosom of Russia.” — Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson
(Sources: Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal
Dmitry Medvedev, Telegram
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