Hellfire

Not sure if I can post it here, but the guy understands and explains everything pretty well

Apart from Azov, there is one more organization which is demonized by Putin media machine - Praviy Sektor (The right sector). In fact, this is also , same as Azov, a small radical organization that never succeeded to make it to the Ukrainian parliament. Together with Azov it is mentioned almost daily on Russian TV as a true face of the Ukrainian government (to which they have NO any connection). Stupid and primitive propaganda that, unfortunately, worked well on the minds of the millions of Russians. 
 

2 hours ago, Saanim said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

"In September 2016, founder and former commander of the Azov Battalion Andriy Biletsky said that he would be leading a new political party.^[30] In early October 2016, Biletsky stated that the new party would use neither names nor symbols of the Azov Battalion.^[55] On 14 October 2016, this political party called National Corps (Natsionalnyi Korpus) held its first congress.
National Corps formed a coalition with three other right-wing parties during the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but failed to have any candidate elected to the Verkhovna Rada, and the coalition failed to achieve official party status as it only won a combined 2.15% of the nationwide electoral list vote, short of the required 5%"

——

So you seriously compare a marginal organization who only got 2% of votes to the 23 years old fascist regime of Putin? This is one of the typical methods of Putin’s propaganda: taking things out of proportion.

13 minutes ago, Saanim said:

Do you think that they should ban their elected цар from the media?

 

And how do you explain that they “без царя в голове» have achieved such development and progress after they were nearing a state bankruptcy 30 years ago, despite the numerous sanctions?  (they have got more sanctions that all other sanctioned countries cumulated)?  

 

And, at end of the day, supplying and forwarding to space the sanctioning powers (not only by gas and oil)   

 He was not elected. It was proved many times that the presidential and parliamentary elections in Russia were totally rigged. Putin was supposed to stay in power for 8 years at max. He then played with the law and put his puppet Medvedev in power for 4 years, then changed the constitution to be a president for 12 more years. And then, when even this was not enough, he changed the constitution again, now letting him to stay in power until he dies.  Elections??? There cannot be fair elections when there is no freedom of press and there where separation of powers does not exist.

42 minutes ago, tgw said:

Max Seddon is the Financial Times bureau chief in Moscow

 

This is from his Twitter:

Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium, which hosted the World Cup final in 2018, is packed out for a pro-war rally on the anniversary of Russia’s Crimea annexation. Lots of reports of state employees being bussed in. They’re watching a video with Ukrainian flags being thrown to the ground

 

 

 This nation is sick.  Russians, as a whole, even after 30 years of so called “freedom”, still have no any idea about the democratic values, freedom of speech, personal rights and so on. For them, those are the empty and hypocritical words used by the Western propaganda to impose its power on their country. There is an old Russian proverb describing someone confused about his own thoughts and actions - “без царя в голове”, literally meaning “someone who has no Tsar in his head”.  Russians still fully rely on their Tsar to solve all their problem and they are still living in the dark medieval world where everything is based on Power. This should be well understood by anybody in the West who tries to get an idea who exactly they are dealing with: the power worshiping slaves.

3 hours ago, Saanim said:

In all fairness, he also said:

“I want to say this for the first time: at the very beginning of the operation in Donbass, to avoid bloodshed, we asked the Kiev authorities through various channels to not engage in hostilities but simply withdraw their troops from Donbass. They didn’t want to,”  

 I find some logical flaws in Putin’s words. If it was enough for him to de occupy Donbas only (the East part of the country) - then why did he start a full scale attack on the North and South of Ukraine? And what about his words right at the start of the aggression that his purpose is to demilitarize the whole Ukraine? Putin and his endless KGB-style lies. 
 

1 hour ago, Saanim said:

In all fairness, he also said:

“I want to say this for the first time: at the very beginning of the operation in Donbass, to avoid bloodshed, we asked the Kiev authorities through various channels to not engage in hostilities but simply withdraw their troops from Donbass. They didn’t want to,”  

WOW… This alone makes him the main candidate for the Nobel peace prize this year.

On 3/14/2022 at 8:18 PM, Kwasaki said:

All I see is Ukraine's resistance is futile and will just cause great loses of life on both sides and the destruction of cities for not just considering there unprotected position at this present time in there history, it's voluntary emotional suicide.

The pressure and sanctions on Putin & Russia could still continue to be inforced and with patients he will be replaced.

Don’t know what your genuine motives are, but one thing is obvious to me: you have no idea about who the Ukrainians are and you also know nothing about what the Putin’s Russia really is.  If necessary, Ukrainians will fight the aggressor with only sticks in their hands. Don’t send them any of your weapons - they will still fight on. This is not a Banana republic that chooses to fight just because they got some exotic weapon from the West - this is a nation of brave and proud warriors - historically! And they produce their own high quality and technologically sofisticated weaponry too.

Regarding the Russian military “power” - it is one of the biggest fakes of the modern world.  Corrupted and technologically retarded with the degenerate generals and their mentality of the Soviet era. A lot of primitive propaganda and nothing beneath it.  I find most of your posts being cowardly and disgusting. Glad to see most of the posters here sharing my position on your views.

Ps. Btw - I am half Russian and my wife is Ukrainian