The Russian commander of the âVostokâ Battalion fighting in southern Ukraine said on Thursday that Ukraine will not be defeated and suggested that Russia freeze the war along current frontlines.
Alexander Khodakovsky made the candid concession yesterday on his Telegram channel after Russian forces, including his own troops, were devastatingly defeated by Ukrainian marines earlier this week at Urozhaine in the Zaporizhzhia-Donetsk regional border area.
âCan we bring down Ukraine militarily? Now and in the near future, no,â Khodakovsky, a former official of the so-called Donetsk Peopleâs Republic, said yesterday.
âWhen I talk to myself about our destiny in this war, I mean that we will not crawl forward, like the [Ukrainians], turning everything into [destroyed] Bakhmuts in our path. And, I do not foresee the easy occupation of cities,â he said.
A democratically elected president and a dictator donât represent their people with the same legitimacy nor do they have the same concentration of powers at their personal disposal.
Putinâs approval in Russia consistently polls extremely high and his decisions generally supported, whereas Bidenâs approval hovers around the high 30s-percentage, breaking records for lowest approval in the history of the country. And you think Putin has even a modicum of the power that the leader of the country that is world hegemon has?
Odd that Putin still has to stop obviously rig his elections considering how support is so high.
It is indeed odd that US propaganda canât make up its mind between âPutin Ebil Crazed Dictator Sole Actor Behind Warâ and âRussian Brainpan Predisposed to Being Big Meanies.â So Which is it? Do Russians actually not support Putin and the SMO or are all of these western sources talking about his soaring approval actually just on Putinâs payroll?
Like how the American democrats put their whole ass on the scale in order to get biden to win their nomination, or how the entire american media apparatus openly collaborated with the democrats in order to drag bidenâs senile corpse past trumpâs bloated corpse to the finish line?
Russia is a product of American interference, and their government is but a reflection of the wretched system of governance that is the American government.
Polls are not trustworthy in a country with no freedom of press and repressed/assassinated political opposition.
Yes, Putin over his decades of authoritarian regime has way more power over his country than Biden or any democratically elected head of state over theirs.
Christ let me go get the fucking qoute. Third time today.
âDuring the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimeâs atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didnât go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.â
When it good country polls good and accurate
When it bad country polls bad lies and falsehoods
Every fucking time.
So the Russian Federation, a republic, built in the aftermath of the dismantling of the largest bureaucratic democracy in the world built under the eye of the West for the purpose of liberty and freedom and economic capitalism, that Russian Federation is so different than the West that we can attribute nearly all bad things done by Russia to Putin, but in the West itâs such a complex and nuanced situation that itâs really the whole system to blame?
Keep huffing cope. You donât know what the fuck youâre talking about.
