03-25-2022, 11:10 PM
Putin was a pinup student for the KGB and loved the cloak and dagger stuff in East Germany. He speaks perfect German and was in charge of funding and inciting neo Nazi groups and terror organisations like the Baider Meinhoff gang. He has employed a lot of his old buddies from those days who also want the old Soviet ways to return.
I have been to Ukraine and it's one of the breakaway states that was quick to tear down old Russian monuments, mosaics, houses of culture and cut the eternal flame sites.Putin really hates that lack of respect and will want to flatten Ukraine completely even if he can't control the country. He has a lot of support in Russia from the older folk who loved the old Soviet days when they were well fed and had jobs. Very hard to live on the pension in Russia and when I was there you could see lines of old people getting on buses at 6.30am to go and work in community gardens to grow vegetables so they could eat properly. The Gopniks might hate Putin and uni students but many are blinded by the media and see the "special operation" as part of protecting Russia from the USA and NATO.
While McDonald's, Ikea and other big well known stores have closed over in Russia, many others haven't like Burger King are still open, petrol has gone up but is still cheap compared to here.
No sanctions on Putin's gas supplies to Europe because they don't want to freeze to death and now he wants to be paid in rubles to help fix his money woes.
Going to be a long hard slog in Ukraine and the West will need to give Putin a face saving way out to end this imho..
I have been to Ukraine and it's one of the breakaway states that was quick to tear down old Russian monuments, mosaics, houses of culture and cut the eternal flame sites.Putin really hates that lack of respect and will want to flatten Ukraine completely even if he can't control the country. He has a lot of support in Russia from the older folk who loved the old Soviet days when they were well fed and had jobs. Very hard to live on the pension in Russia and when I was there you could see lines of old people getting on buses at 6.30am to go and work in community gardens to grow vegetables so they could eat properly. The Gopniks might hate Putin and uni students but many are blinded by the media and see the "special operation" as part of protecting Russia from the USA and NATO.
While McDonald's, Ikea and other big well known stores have closed over in Russia, many others haven't like Burger King are still open, petrol has gone up but is still cheap compared to here.
No sanctions on Putin's gas supplies to Europe because they don't want to freeze to death and now he wants to be paid in rubles to help fix his money woes.
Going to be a long hard slog in Ukraine and the West will need to give Putin a face saving way out to end this imho..