RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 10, 2023 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2023 at 11:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
Putin's No 1 enemy Bill Browder says dictator has 'no reverse gear' and war will get worse
Quote:Putin has no reverse gear, he has no ability to compromise, he doesn't negotiate, he just doubles down, triples down, and quadruples down. And so we should expect really nasty stuff in the future. More troops being drafted, more equipment coming in there.
Putin has been in power for 22 years. In that 22 years, he and about a thousand people around him have stolen a trillion dollars from the Russian state. That's money that should have been spent on hospitals, schools, roads, but was spent on private jets, Villas and Swiss bank accounts. You can do that for a year or two or five, but you can't do it for 22 years without people getting angry. And at some point Putin was afraid that people would be angry and say, "Vladimir, we don't want you here anymore."
In Russia, if you get kicked out as a dictator, you go to jail, your money gets taken away, and you probably die. So for Putin, he's scared to death of his own people. And the best way of dealing with that fear and to deal with that anger is to try to get them angry at somebody else. It's Machiavelli 101 to create a foreign enemy, start a war, and so the Russian people will be mad at the enemy not at Putin. That's what this war is all about.
Well, Putin has been losing this war even though he has more troops and more equipment than the ukrainians. The Ukrainians are defending their Homeland. They understand that if the Russians succeed, the men would be killed, the women raped, and the children taken away -- that's a pretty big motivation. and so every time they get any kind of equipment to fight the Russians they use it to its
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