The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

[Bonus]

@RedArmada

@Magnus

Guys, do you remember ??? I half-joked that he would do this !!! And I was right about everything , lol. That is just too funny !

He DID go on about Yaroslav the Wise as I said he might !!!

AND Prince Rurik !!!

On a serious note. There is nothing, absolutely nothing more dangerous than a state leader with high public support and a large military industrial complex behind him, that is obsessed, along with his leadershio-click, with irredentism and historical imperial revisionism.

Continuing the discussion from Drill Baby Drill…the US Politics Thread (Part 3):

Pundits and statesmen are taking for granted that Putin himself is all there upstairs.

The reality is that he is a cold-blooded killer, who from a lowly KGB agent became a dictator, by moving aside by any means necessary anyone who was above him in the food chain. The 2.5 decades of absolute rule that followed and the isolation during Covid did nothing but foster his delusions of imperial grandeur.

In other words, he is far from being as normal and as down to earth as some would have you believe.

you dont get to where Putin is without been those ruthless.

furthermore, during Covid Putin locked himself away and rewrote Russian history as he saw it,

Putins writings were described as his version of Mein kampf!