Amazing description of what Vladimir Putin has done.

[ClearSky24]

Came across this post which I think hits the nail on the head on what's been going on in the last 5+ years.

[link:https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-say-that-Vladimir-Putin-is-evil/answers/58558904|

I watch Russian news everyday, in Russian. My family is Russian. Most of my friends are Russians. I am an American but live in Latvia and Italy.

Have you noticed all the chaos in the world? Have you noticed that this chaos has increased tremendously in the past few years? Especially in the Middle East, Europe and the USA? Do you ever wonder why?

I will tell you.

There is a genius living in Moscow who is a former KGB colonel. He decided that he could make his country a world power again, increase its influence and respect and make himself one of the richest men in the world at the same time. His methods are brilliant and extremely well executed. Create chaos everywhere possible and then present himself as the sane and stable world leader who can lead in the absence of other great leaders.

He made sure that Donald Trump was elected president of the USA. He sent out his trolls to create chaos in America, UK, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries. He supported dictators in the Middle East and helped create millions of refugees knowing that they would head for Europe. He did not take any into his country for obvious reasons. Chaos has ensued.

He controls every media outlet in the Russian speaking world. Anyone who runs against him or becomes too powerful in opposition to him ends up dead or in prison. His propaganda machine is rivaled only by the propaganda machine of the American right wing. His is probably better but its reach is not as great since there are fewer Russian speakers than English speakers.

I am watching, the last few evenings, an amazing propaganda campaign on Russian stations against George Soros. Soros hates fascists as much as he hated the USSR. This evil genius has had his trolls spreading propaganda and lies about Soros in America for a couple of years blaming Soros for every anti-fascist, anti Trump protest in America and now his machine has gone full bore on Soros in Russia. He even uses right wing crazies in America to reinforce his propaganda campaign on Russian TV. Soros is now the evil genius behind all the chaos in the world. See how that works?

I could go on and on and on and I would still only be scratching the surface. I am not privy to all the evil and machinations of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. But I can assure you. Everything I have written here is true and is the reason he is despised in so many places in the world and by so many.

I am sure that if the truth ever comes out about this evil puppet master and all the chaos and evil he perpetuates around the world, even the Russian people will hate him.

I have stood face to face with this guy and he is as evil and dangerous as he is purported to be.

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

[PatSeg]

2. Thanks for posting

Great overview of Putin and his objectives. It is like seeing a Saturday morning cartoon villain in real life. He really is that sinister.

[SergeStorms]

3. I don't know if Russia can be a world power again...

but he can certainly tear down other countries who are, and he's been quite adept at doing so.

[DanieRains]

4. Putin Bought The Republican Party For A Few Rubles

It wasn't that hard.

[lastlib]

13. It was certainly for sale....

All he had to do was put up the money and put the ring in its nose, and he could lead it wherever he wanted it to go. Tovarishch tRumpski, MoscowMitch, and Leningrad Lindsey were all too happy to follow Putin's money back to the Kremlin.

All must be removed and imprisoned for treason. They sold out the United States of America for their thirty pieces of silver.

[Raster]

24. Putin* buying the GOP* was the next logical step...

...after all, he was already leasing it on a long-term basis.

Vote. Every. Republican. Out. Of. Office.
None of them deserves re-election.
All of them are guilty of subverting democracy.
Nothing will ever get better in the U.S. until the GOP* is gone.

#VoteEveryRepublicanOut #DeleteTheGOP

[Snoopy 7]

29. yep

First I have been telling people that trump has been running the putin playbook, and he has. Second don't forget and get it spread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

[DENVERPOPS]

5. My Russian Friend

tells me that the Russian People are laughing their asses off at how easily Putin has played Trump, the RepubliCON senators, and the entire ReubliCON party. He has taken down the entire U.S. AND our Democracy without a war or firing a single missile or rocket.....

[benld74]

6. Russia has ALWAYS played the long game

[CrispyQ]

28. The GOP has been playing their own long game, while our side has been in reactionary mode.

They are this close to one party rule. They are going to pull out all the stops this election & do whatever it takes to install their dictator.

[Wicked Blue]

7. My father was born in Latvia. People in the Baltics are very worried about Russia's ambitions.

Putin has openly said he wants to recapture former conquered territories like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and others. Now that the Orange Traitor has done to much to weaken NATO, there may be less protection for these small democracies from a Russian invasion.

What Putin has done to promote Brexit, weaken the EU and cause chaos in many parts of the world is all part of his plan to "restore Russia's former glory."

He's got Trump as his useful idiot. Among so many other things, Trump won't lift a finger to stop Putin from paying bounties to kill American soldiers in the Middle East. It will be interesting to find out precisely what kind of hold he has on Trump, that Trump does all his bidding.

[IronLionZion]

8. Russian emigrants and policy analysts have warned of this going back 10-15 years

or more. That Putin's long time plan to make Russia great again through destabilizing the rest of the world somehow.

Russia was a bit too eager to jump into the Syrian war and maintain their long term Navy base in Tartus. And how they decided to take Crimea from Ukraine and then support rebels in the east. Those assholes shot down a civilian airliner with a Russian anti-aircraft missile and paid no consequences for it.

Much of the "Antifa" social media is from Russian trolls.

[BadgerMom]

9. K/R

[ancianita]

10. Putin, along with his 'Eurasian Project,' are studied in even greater depth

in Timothy Snyder's The Road To Unfreedom(2018). He explains how Trump, in his travels to Russia, learned what "fake news" is from Putin. He claims it as his own, but he uses the Putin playbook now.

[Ponietz]

11. US entities must face RICO charges for enabling

[link:https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals|

[OMGWTF]

12. Thank you for sharing -- it all makes sense now.

[donkeypoofed]

14. Estimate: Fascism has cost 100 million lives

Staggering

[live love laugh]

15. You mean the Russians don't hate him? I'm surprised.

But propoganda is spellbinding. Sadly.

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. I have zero doubt that this is absolutely true.

None.

A great, if horrifying, little read. Thank you!

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Maybe the most dangerous person alive atm.

[Karadeniz]

18. His shifty, lying nature is etched in his face...repulsive to look at.

[smirkymonkey]

26. He is such a hideous little troll.

Obama knew exactly who he was and what he was about.

[1plus1equals1]

19. Genius is right

I for one have to say that I underestimate him and seeing some of the RNC crap just proves he is very cunning. I'm definitely spinning up my radar to keep aware.

[rlegro]

20. The far right has taken George Soros ...

... and turned him into the real-life version of the fictional, anointed, chief enemy of the state whom Big Brother and his regime often trotted out when they needed to blame bad news on someone. Notice that both Goldstein and Soros are Jewish. How likely is it that Putin somewhere along the way read George Orwell's "1984," complete with its Goldstein references, and decided the novel isn't a cautionary tale against authoritarian dictatorship but an operating manual.

[Captain Zero]

21. Trump recently has ramped up on "middlemen"

Which is an old trope for antisemites.

[BigmanPigman]

22. I watched a program on MSNBC about Putin in 2017...

Scary as Hell! He is KGB through and through and he will not be stopped until he personally is destroyed.

[jimlup]

23. Putin is the enemy we must worry about November 3rd ...

Keep that in mind. tRump couldn't pull of a coup in the United States. He doesn't have the intelligence nor the power, but Putin does.

Vote and support our democracy!

[lordsummerisle]

25. k&r n/t

[niyad]

27. KNR

[czarjak]

30. Not to mention...

Evangelical's devotion to Satan's ally in the final showdown battle between good and evil. Look. It. Up. Rubes.

[GoneOffShore]

31. It's not enough to read the piece, but read the comments under it.

And if you're a Quora member, report them as being factually untrue.

[BSdetect]

32. He is controlling drump for sure