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Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine
Lviv, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally in Moscow and praised his countrys troops Friday as they pressed their lethal attacks on Ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles.
Moscow police said more than 200,000 people were in and around the Luzhniki stadium for the rally and concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russias annexation of the Crimean peninsula, seized from Ukraine.
The event included well-known singer Oleg Gazmanov singing Made in the U.S.S.R., with the opening lines Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, Its all my country.
As Putin prepared to take the stage, speakers praised him as fighting Nazism in Ukraine, a claim flatly rejected by leaders across the globe. ............(more)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/03/18/russian-strikes-hit-outskirts-ukraine-capital-kyiv-and-lviv/7088399001/
ffr
(22,671 posts)It might explain his spiraling downward mental health.
TFG is more bi-polar narcissist.
Both are qualities unsuitable from anyone who should be in a position of power.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,481 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,136 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)whatever his limitations (he's likely a psychopath) and whatever's happening now, his rise to control of Russia shows he's been ferociously competent, ruthless, and brave.
tRump's mental disorder does not allow any dreams that aren't about "I," "me," "my," "mine." If his dad didn't leave him ultrawealthy, he might well have grown old destitute and shunned by all who'd known him. I believe he's severely lacking in the qualities that would allow him to rise to become manager of a Walmart, but not those that could have lead to a series of incarcerations for fraud and theft, and. who knows, maybe sexual assaults.