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Vladimir Putin Health: Questions over the Russian President's health have been raised in recent weeks, especially after he was seen tightly gripping a desk during his meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last month.

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Reminds me of the rare occasions I have over imbibed the fermented fruits of the vine and had to control my dizzy spells by gripping the table.

Maybe this touting of a dramatic May 9 announcement by Putin will be his retirement speech
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Old 03.05.2022, 21:50
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

In the meantime Mr. Lavrov disses the global Jewish community
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61296682.amp
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Old 03.05.2022, 21:57
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Vladimir Putin Health: Questions over the Russian President's health have been raised in recent weeks, especially after he was seen tightly gripping a desk during his meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last month.
These kinds of rumors keep resurfacing occasionally. Last time was at around the time of the invasion, in late 2020 before that, etc.
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Russia has learned some dangerous lessons from the West’s inaction in the past. Here’s how to avoid a grimmer tragedy in Ukraine.
Annexation of the Donbas?
He could use that as justification to declare a state of war and general conscription.
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_0KYUu_6E

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"Even (Russians) living in comfortable and developed countries, they cultivate hatred to civilization they can not build by their own"

Spot on in my opinion.

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Old 03.05.2022, 23:58
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In the meantime Mr. Lavrov disses the global Jewish community
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61296682.amp
I would have expected this from a drunk Maria Zakharova (she seems to get drunk before her public interviews, either that or she's drunk while she's writing them)....but no, it was Lavrov! Someone with his experience..
Yeah, everything gets weirder and weirder.
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Old 04.05.2022, 00:11
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Maybe this touting of a dramatic May 9 announcement by Putin will be his retirement speech
If only...on the other hand Putin has a few hard-liners around him, no big change maybe...?
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Old 04.05.2022, 06:49
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If only...on the other hand Putin has a few hard-liners around him, no big change maybe...?
There won't be, Putin has set up his successors to follow the Putinist line. In fact if you look at who is in the line up I would say that Putin is a moderate.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61296682.amp
lavrov suggesting hitler may have had jewish blood = unacceptable

ukraine having a state sanctioned neo-nazi battalion = acceptable
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lavrov suggesting hitler may have had jewish blood = unacceptable
Slandering millions of Jews and repeating a antisemitic conspiracy theory designed to make the Jews responsible for the murder of six million of their own. Apparently Sweden is also a Nazi country now. I swear Russian propaganda gets more deluded by the day. It's be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

I read an article in the Times yesterday. Ukraine has more tanks than Russia now.
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There won't be, Putin has set up his successors to follow the Putinist line. In fact if you look at who is in the line up I would say that Putin is a moderate.
Who's in the line up?
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lavrov suggesting hitler may have had jewish blood = unacceptable

ukraine having a state sanctioned neo-nazi battalion = acceptable
No, do you think he woke up one morning and had an epiphany "so this Hitler guy was actually Jewish....yeah, it all makes sense now"? He borrowed a vicious anti-semitic theory that it's been around for a while and it is, imo, the most vile and vicious anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Shame on Lavrov who parroted the dirt that has been around for a while and it demonstrates, once more, that anti-semitism is well and alive.
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I like the Australian SIZ∀N.

In other news, Russia is requiring the Eastern cities to provide volunteers to fight. But not cities like Moscow, St Petersburg... that might provoke awkward questions.
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Who's in the line up?
Wrote about that pages ago.
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Slandering millions of Jews and repeating a antisemitic conspiracy theory designed to make the Jews responsible for the murder of six million of their own. Apparently Sweden is also a Nazi country now. I swear Russian propaganda gets more deluded by the day. It's be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

I read an article in the Times yesterday. Ukraine has more tanks than Russia now.
Actually there is cause to suggest that Hitler was at least quarter Jewish.
His father Alois Hitler was born out of wedlock to Anna Schickelgruber and that the father was a Jewish guy. This is the Frankenberger theory, it gets dissed by serious historians, but not too loudly. Putin must know this too.
As I said; truths and half truths spun to fit the agenda.
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I like the Australian SIZ∀N.

In other news, Russia is requiring the Eastern cities to provide volunteers to fight. But not cities like Moscow, St Petersburg... that might provoke awkward questions.
Questions are not the problem. The real issue is that calling for volunteers in St. Petersburg and Moscow will create lots of Russian asylum seekers of an specific gender and age bracket in Western Europe.
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No, do you think he woke up one morning and had an epiphany "so this Hitler guy was actually Jewish....yeah, it all makes sense now"? He borrowed a vicious anti-semitic theory that it's been around for a while and it is, imo, the most vile and vicious anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Shame on Lavrov who parroted the dirt that has been around for a while and it demonstrates, once more, that anti-semitism is well and alive.
it just seems to me that if lavrov suggesting hitler may have had jewish blood is problematic then ukraine having a state-sanctioned neo-nazi battalion would also be problematic...
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Actually there is cause to suggest that Hitler was at least quarter Jewish.
His father Alois Hitler was born out of wedlock to Anna Schickelgruber and that the father was a Jewish guy. This is the Frankenberger theory, it gets dissed by serious historians, but not too loudly. Putin must know this too.
As I said; truths and half truths spun to fit the agenda.
Alois's father is unknown, how is that hard to understand?

With an unknown father, Hitler could not prove he had an unblemished "Aryan" pedigree which destroyed his Master Race claims.
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it just seems to me that if lavrov suggesting hitler may have had jewish blood is problematic then ukraine having a state-sanctioned neo-nazi battalion would also be problematic...
The Azov Battalion has been doing a heroic job under terrible conditions keeping the Russians from taking over Mariupol for over two months which does not stop people like you from making snide comments about their politics.
Have you no shame?
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Alois's father is unknown, how is that hard to understand?

With an unknown father, Hitler could not prove he had an unblemished "Aryan" pedigree which destroyed his Master Race claims.
Now you know why NS propaganda got rid of details.
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