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Re: Stockman: Why The US Should Stop Sending Money To Zelensky

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Is Putin an authoritarian empire builder ?

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https://www.cnn.com › 2022 › 06 › 10 › europe › russia-putin-empire-restoration-endgame-intl-cmd › index.html

Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia's Vladimir Putin
CNN
Jun 10, 2022
Vladimir Putin: Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia's president
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Putin and Peter the Great: Russian leader likens himself to 18th Century tsar

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61767191

Vladimir Putin's admiration for Peter the Great is well known but he now seems to have ideas of "Great"-ness himself.

He has openly compared himself to the Russian tsar, equating Russia's invasion of Ukraine today with Peter's expansionist wars some three centuries ago, and making his strongest acknowledgment yet that his own war is a land grab.

Mr Putin's apparent empire-building ambitions bode ill for Ukraine and have irked other neighbours, including Estonia, which called his comments "completely unacceptable."
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Putin’s desire for a new Russian empire won’t stop with Ukraine

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/25/putin-new-russian-empire-ukraine

Mar 2017
My country has suffered terribly from the Kremlin’s obsession with restoring Soviet hegemony. But the entire security of Europe and the west is at stake.

Over the past decade Europe has sleepwalked into an increasingly precarious and less safe place. The postwar order that provided so much peace and stability across the continent appears to be breaking up.

Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, as much as rejoiced in this at the recent Munich security conference when he spoke of the a new “post-west” era in Europe. Reversing the breakup of the Soviet Union and restoring the Russian empire have now become an obsession for the Kremlin. There are three things central to understanding what motivates Russia, and how Vladimir Putin’s government works.
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Stockman: Why The US Should Stop Sending Money To Zelensky
By: Fiz in 6TH POPE
Sat, 01 Jul 23 4:45 PM 		Msg. 44025 of 60008

http://www.zerohedge.com/political/stockman-why-us-should-stop-sending-money-zelensky

Stockman: Why The US Should Stop Sending Money To Zelensky
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by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jul 01, 2023 - 10:30 AM

Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com,

If the truth be told, we are getting sick and tired of the little piss-ant who runs the cess-pool of corruption, tyranny, delusion and death called Ukraine. This clown—and that’s what he is actually trained as—just can’t seem to stop stridently demanding money, arms and support from the rest of the world and lecturing everyone to fall into line or else.

In his actual clown days, of course, Volodymyr Zelensky was known for the act depicted below. But when it comes to the collective West, the latter seems to enjoy the fact that the Ukrainian president continues to bang away upon it, relentlessly pounding out a melody of me, me and more.

But lately Zelensky has really gone over the top, peddling the hideous canard that if we don’t enable him to fight "them" over there with everything and all that he demands by way of money and weapons, we will soon bleed and die against "them" over here.

That’s the "Putin is going to invade Europe next and maybe America too", nonsense. It’s actually groundless blithering idiocy, and yet Washington treats him as a brave ally and statesman:

"If any candidate thinks supporting Ukraine is too costly, are they ready to go to war? Are they ready to fight? Send their children? Die?" Zelenskyy said.

"They will have to do it anyway if NATO enters this war, and if Ukraine fails and Russia occupies us, they will move on to the Baltics or Poland or some other NATO country. And then the U.S. will have to choose between keeping NATO or entering the war."

Let’s cut to the chase. No American or NATO soldier is going to be fighting Putin’s army in Poland, Berlin or Belgium because the Russian army ain’t going there. Not in a month of Sundays.

Vlad Putin is no prince of men, but his war aims are limited, rational and clear as a bell. To wit, as he warned for 15 years, he does not want NATO missiles on his doorstep in Ukraine, just as President Kennedy insisted about Khrushchev’s missiles 100 miles away in Cuba 61 years ago.

Likewise, he wants the Russian-speaking populations of the eastern Donbas region and the Black Sea rim, historically known as "Novorossiya" or New Russia, to have self-governing autonomy and protection from military attack by the anti-Russian Kiev government, as per the Minsk agreements.

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