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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin facing revolt as soldiers refuse to deploy to Ukraine
https://www.rawstory.com/putin-ukraine-2656959595/According to a Ukrainian diplomat speaking on the Daily Beast's "The New Abnormal" podcast, Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has multiple problems hampering his attempt to take over the country and now it is being compounded by soldiers refusing to take part in the war against their neighbors.
Speaking with host Molly Jong-Fast, Ukraine's Olexander Scherba explained Putin is now facing some harder choices as the invasion drags on.
With host Jong-Fast stating the invasion seems like a "humongous miscalculation" on the part of Putin, Scherba replied, "The goals he is trying to reach here are unreachable. The people in this country hate him and during this war he will realize the people of this country will hate him even more."
"One should understand the context of the Russian Ukrainian relations for centuries. Russians always saw Ukrainians as a part of the Russian people who choose to speak these funny dialects, who are peasants, "he explained before saying Putin "fell victim to his own propaganda."
Claiming that young soldiers who have entered the country are "extremely demotivated" he added, "I think, pretty much, everybody outside of his very closed circle around Putin knows that this campaign is going down the drain...
Speaking with host Molly Jong-Fast, Ukraine's Olexander Scherba explained Putin is now facing some harder choices as the invasion drags on.
With host Jong-Fast stating the invasion seems like a "humongous miscalculation" on the part of Putin, Scherba replied, "The goals he is trying to reach here are unreachable. The people in this country hate him and during this war he will realize the people of this country will hate him even more."
"One should understand the context of the Russian Ukrainian relations for centuries. Russians always saw Ukrainians as a part of the Russian people who choose to speak these funny dialects, who are peasants, "he explained before saying Putin "fell victim to his own propaganda."
Claiming that young soldiers who have entered the country are "extremely demotivated" he added, "I think, pretty much, everybody outside of his very closed circle around Putin knows that this campaign is going down the drain...
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Putin facing revolt as soldiers refuse to deploy to Ukraine (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Mar 2022
OP
Putin picked a "brand": Z; Trump picked a leadership style: authoritarian.
Backseat Driver
Mar 2022
#5
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)1. Vlad ignored the Obama Doctrine
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)3. Perfect tweet.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)2. We were all afraid Trump would turn into Putin
but it turns out Putin has turned into Trump. Everything this guy touches, fails and dies.
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)5. Putin picked a "brand": Z; Trump picked a leadership style: authoritarian.
Not meaning anything offensive, but as Forrest Gump said about himself and Jen: "Me and Jenny were like two peas in a pod", an intimacy with a need for privacy and without the need of a translator in the room.
The West's view that chooses the powers of democratic redemption as an individual's time-on-earth limited path to global peace and contentment that recognizes grief as opposed to (here's the thing)...
the other couple's MO (Donald Vlad) as forced discrimination and greed that support powerful control and a harmful effective brand as the only means for a globally timeless and addictively drugged rave of chaotic disaster.
Sorry about the edits. I'm holding down my worse angel (lack of patience).
The West's view that chooses the powers of democratic redemption as an individual's time-on-earth limited path to global peace and contentment that recognizes grief as opposed to (here's the thing)...
the other couple's MO (Donald Vlad) as forced discrimination and greed that support powerful control and a harmful effective brand as the only means for a globally timeless and addictively drugged rave of chaotic disaster.
Sorry about the edits. I'm holding down my worse angel (lack of patience).
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. Can somebody explain the "Z" on the tanks?
I thought they were just acknowledging that Zelensky would soon grab all their tanks, and they were labeling the tanks for him.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)7. Putin just backrupted the Russian Federation. That might be what breaks up the federation.
Why should the Ural, Siberian, and Far Eastern republics pay for Putin's war.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)6. Who would want to work for the world's biggest, most hated gangster?
He doesn't care a bit about the front line troops.
One gets killed, Putin just moves another one up in his place.