Vladimir Putin: Terrorist

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.thebulwark.com/vladimir-putin-terrorist/

For four gruesome weeks, Vladimir Putin’s military has bombarded schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and other civilian targets across Ukraine. These attacks, documented in photos, videos, and reports from Human Rights Watch and the United Nations, have killed or wounded thousands of civilians. Last Wednesday, the United States classified the Russian atrocities as war crimes. But they’re also part of Putin’s larger strategy: state terrorism.

Russia’s conduct in Ukraine fits its own definitions of terrorism. As originally enacted in 1994, Russia’s criminal code defined terrorism as “bombings, arson, and other acts causing a threat to human life, major property loss, and other negative consequences committed against public safety or with the aim of influencing decision-making of the government authorities.” The law was revised in 1997 to include reference to “the aim of spreading fear among the population.” It was revised again in 1998 and 2006, after which it defined an “act of terrorism” as “perpetrating an explosion, arson or other actions connected with intimidating the population” to influence public officials.

That’s exactly what Russia is doing in Ukraine, and what it has done in other wars.

Yet Putin has always seen himself as an anti-terrorist. When al Qaeda struck the United States in 2001, a year after he became president, Putin saw the attack as an opportunity to rally the world around Russia. He called on America and other nations to join him in a global coalition against terrorism. He embraced the American slogan, “war on terrorism,” and he urged governments of all kinds to form an “international [coalition] of law and order” against the jihadist menace.

Putin vowed that the anti-terrorist coalition would never sink to the level of the terrorists. Two months after 9/11, in a speech at Russia’s embassy in Washington, D.C., he boasted that nations opposed to terrorism had refused to “use the same cruel methods” as their enemies. Four years later, in another speech commemorating 9/11, he condemned terrorists who had killed “hundreds of my fellow citizens” in “bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow and other Russian cities, in attacks against infrastructure facilities and transport.”

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[SheltieLover]

3. This!👆

[SWBTATTReg]

2. The world has seen the ugly lies and mistruths spoken by the Russians and Putin, and it's not

pretty. All lies, to the world, to the Ukrainians, and to their very own people. Before long, if not already, what is true and what is not? It'll get to the point that Putin and his cronies will no longer recognize the truth, even if it hits them in the face.

Fortunately, the Ukrainians have proven themselves to be more than capable foes, and the World believe it or not, has united behind the Ukrainians, despite what our former worthless president has claimed, that Z of Ukraine is a thug, and that Russia is smart, etc. (break time for me, to barf).

Z is a hero of the highest magnitude. Putin and tRump, on the other hand, are pure and simple, thugs. Common street thugs that will eventually die by their own hands in some manner when they piss off their own people somehow and be blown away, or thrown into jail, finally on charges that actually stuck for once. For once I feel that the trashcans are not big enough to shovel this crap into.