• Russia's Persistent Influence

    From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 17 18:30:48 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    The widening gulf between Russia and the West is undeniable. But
    elsewhere in the world, another trend has become clear: Moscow has
    increased its influence and leverage in many important countries ..

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    ...

    Let American malefics feel unhappy.

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  • From Const@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Fri Nov 17 16:59:29 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    Oleg Smirnov <os333@netc.eu> wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    The widening gulf between Russia and the West is undeniable. But
    elsewhere in the world, another trend has become clear: Moscow has
    increased its influence and leverage in many important countries ..

    .
    -.

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    Const

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  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Fri Nov 17 22:06:24 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa, alt.politics

    On 11/17/23 10:30 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    The widening gulf between Russia and the West is undeniable. But
    elsewhere in the world, another trend has become clear: Moscow has
    increased its influence and leverage in many important countries ..

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    ...

    Let American malefics feel unhappy.


    American SHOULD be unhappy - but to a large extent this
    issue is ITS OWN FAULT. After the USSR, America largely
    just IGNORED Russia, and occasionally shit on Russia.
    "No longer a problem ...". Putin put on a good show of
    being "civilized".

    Thing is, Putin was a BUSY MAN - and filled with those
    old Imperial ambitions. The USA barely noticed. Effort
    might have been required.

    As a result Russia has created its own little universe
    which includes perhaps the west's two greatest rivals,
    China and Iran. He brought them in, set up the money
    and trade and military ties. He also got India to be
    rather friendly, the most populace nation on earth
    and a tech/space/nuke power. THEN he invaded Ukraine,
    twice. As a result of his work, western 'sanctions'
    had essentially NO impact.

    The USA did barely anything about the first invasion
    of Ukraine. Easier to just let Putin have it ...

    The aims of the USA are no worse than Putin's or
    Iran's ... by many measures "better". But the USA
    has always been a CLOD, too self-focused to grasp
    how anyone else in the world thinks, to notice
    what they want. The famous line in the Kubrick
    movie ... "Inside every gook is an American trying
    to get out" ... kinda sums it up.

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 19 07:54:33 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>
    wrote:

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    The widening gulf between Russia and the West is undeniable. But
    elsewhere in the world, another trend has become clear: Moscow has
    increased its influence and leverage in many important countries ..

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.

    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.

    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.


    --
    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
    Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
    E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 19 09:23:22 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.

    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.

    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But
    it's the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated
    something. The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent,
    unlawful and anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

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  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Sun Nov 19 18:40:00 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't recognize
    the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.


    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    And quickly the little line on an old map became a
    dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
    is really going to be a "winner" here.

    Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
    usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?0JLRg9C70Lph0L0=?=@21:1/5 to Dmitry Krivitsky on Sun Nov 19 19:55:46 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On 11/19/2023 7:30 PM, Dmitry Krivitsky wrote:
    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those strange newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to all his crap.

    fellow coprofagi

    Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё, здесь-то
    ты зачем?

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  • From Const@21:1/5 to 56d.1152@ztq9.net on Mon Nov 20 00:53:02 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    56d.1152 <56d.1152@ztq9.net> wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.


    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big

    That's just bs.
    Russian propaganda plain and clear.

    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    Even the most pro-russian regions by 2014 were 50:50 at best.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    Industry that was not really NEEDED.
    Dying industry.

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    Const

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  • From Dmitry Krivitsky@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 19 19:30:03 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's
    the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something.
    The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

      I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
      coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
      ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
      Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

      All this started with something very small and simple ...
      a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
      assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
      didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

      Until "forever" arrived ....

      East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
      most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
      like the coup.

      However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
      did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
      MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

      And quickly the little line on an old map became a
      dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
      is really going to be a "winner" here.

      Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
      usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those strange newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to all his crap. Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё, здесь-то
    ты зачем?

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 20 07:09:24 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    Dmitry Krivitsky, <news:d91cbff7-006e-4f60-84fa-d5bfce84b499@fido.fw.nu>
    On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it >>>> was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's the >>> result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. The
    Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't recognize >>> the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    And quickly the little line on an old map became a
    dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
    is really going to be a "winner" here.

    Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
    usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those strange newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to all his crap. Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё, здесь-то ты
    зачем?

    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?0JLRg9C70Lph0L0=?=@21:1/5 to Dmitry Krivitsky on Sun Nov 19 23:23:31 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On 11/19/2023 11:17 PM, Dmitry Krivitsky wrote:
    On 11/19/2023 11:09 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?

    Правильно было бы "Is it not", а не "Is not it", идиота кусок.

    да ланна, "кусок"
    *целый* идиот

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  • From Dmitry Krivitsky@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Sun Nov 19 23:17:49 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    On 11/19/2023 11:09 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Dmitry Krivitsky, <news:d91cbff7-006e-4f60-84fa-d5bfce84b499@fido.fw.nu>
    On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives .. >>>>>
    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it >>>>> was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia >>>>> should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought >>>>> you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's
    the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something.
    The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

     I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
     coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
     ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
     Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

     All this started with something very small and simple ...
     a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
     assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
     didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

     Until "forever" arrived ....

     East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
     most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
     like the coup.

     However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
     did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
     MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

     And quickly the little line on an old map became a
     dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
     is really going to be a "winner" here.

     Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
     usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those
    strange newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to
    all his crap.
    Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё,
    здесь-то ты зачем?

    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?

    Правильно было бы "Is it not", а не "Is not it", идиота кусок.

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 20 07:47:47 2023
    XPost: alt.russian.z1, talk.politics.misc

    56d.1152, <news:-umdnXscLdxMAcf4nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's the
    result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. The
    Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't recognize
    the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.


    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    Yes. Pre-2014 statistics showed for the Ukraine's east higher
    salaries and more cars per capita and so forth. The Ukraine's
    west always was predominantly agrarian.

    And quickly the little line on an old map became a
    dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
    is really going to be a "winner" here.

    Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
    usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    The "democracy" agenda is basically based on the idea that it's
    natural that interests of people / factions of the society may
    differ, but a compromise can be agreed in a civilized way.

    In the Ukraine case, the Atlanticism encouraged the Ukraine's
    "pro-west" faction to usurp power without hesitating to use
    strong, armed violence, and, moreover, the propaganda machine
    (the MSM) mendaciously misrepresented it as a kind of noble
    "revolution" and "liberation".

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 20 09:00:09 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.politics.republicans

    56d.1152, <news:AFidnWoR7YiWbMf4nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 11:09 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Dmitry Krivitsky, <news:d91cbff7-006e-4f60-84fa-d5bfce84b499@fido.fw.nu>
    On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives .. >>>>>>
    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because >>>>>> it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia >>>>>> should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought >>>>>> you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's >>>>> the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. >>>>> The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    And quickly the little line on an old map became a
    dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
    is really going to be a "winner" here.

    Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
    usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those strange
    newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to all his
    crap.
    Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё, здесь-то
    ты зачем?

    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?


    What an odd set of sentences ...

    HOW many vodka's tonight Oleg ??? Clearly
    you can't hold your liquor ... shameful,
    juvenile, for a Russian :-)

    Oh well, Putin is gonna get one in the back
    of the head pretty soon now. He's ruined Russia
    for the next 25 years fer sure. The question is
    whether he'll be replace by a sensible non-
    imperialist or an ultra-dangerous ultra-nationalist.

    If the latter, none of us will have much to worry
    about soon after .........

    There's in the news that most of Americans nowadays use
    various substances in order to cope with depression etc,
    so it makes them mentally unstable.

    American decline is in progress.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Mon Nov 20 00:39:23 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, soc.culture
    XPost: alt.politics.republicans

    On 11/19/23 11:09 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Dmitry Krivitsky, <news:d91cbff7-006e-4f60-84fa-d5bfce84b499@fido.fw.nu>
    On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives .. >>>>>
    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it >>>>> was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia >>>>> should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought >>>>> you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's
    the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something.
    The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

     I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
     coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
     ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
     Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

     All this started with something very small and simple ...
     a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
     assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
     didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

     Until "forever" arrived ....

     East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
     most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
     like the coup.

     However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
     did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
     MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

     And quickly the little line on an old map became a
     dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
     is really going to be a "winner" here.

     Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
     usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those
    strange newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to
    all his crap.
    Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё,
    здесь-то ты зачем?

    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?


    What an odd set of sentences ...

    HOW many vodka's tonight Oleg ??? Clearly
    you can't hold your liquor ... shameful,
    juvenile, for a Russian :-)

    Oh well, Putin is gonna get one in the back
    of the head pretty soon now. He's ruined Russia
    for the next 25 years fer sure. The question is
    whether he'll be replace by a sensible non-
    imperialist or an ultra-dangerous ultra-nationalist.

    If the latter, none of us will have much to worry
    about soon after .........

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Mon Nov 20 01:09:29 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.politics.usa
    XPost: alt.defense

    On 11/19/23 11:47 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    56d.1152, <news:-umdnXscLdxMAcf4nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on
    Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because it >>>> was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia
    should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought
    you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice.

    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's the >>> result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. The
    Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and
    anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't recognize >>> the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.


      I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
      coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
      ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
      Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

      All this started with something very small and simple ...
      a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
      assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
      didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

      Until "forever" arrived ....

      East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
      most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
      like the coup.

      However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
      did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
      MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    Yes. Pre-2014 statistics showed for the Ukraine's east higher
    salaries and more cars per capita and so forth. The Ukraine's
    west always was predominantly agrarian.


    Both are good ... but "industry" IS a big plus.
    Kyiv does NOT want to give that up.

    However this war ... there seems to be more industry
    in the west now, a necessary reaction. Maybe the
    east rim of Ukraine won't be as important now.

    In the end, I think Russia gets to keep eastern
    Ukraine. It will be a bitter "win" though. Russia
    SHOULD have migrated those industries and those
    people 50km east while it had the chance.


      And quickly the little line on an old map became a
      dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
      is really going to be a "winner" here.

      Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
      usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    The "democracy" agenda is basically based on the idea that it's
    natural that interests of people / factions of the society may
    differ, but a compromise can be agreed in a civilized way.


    Greek/western "democracy"/republics may not be the most
    appealing solution for everyone. However, as Churchill
    once remarked, it may be the "best" crappy solution.


    In the Ukraine case, the Atlanticism encouraged the Ukraine's
    "pro-west" faction to usurp power without hesitating to use
    strong, armed violence, and, moreover, the propaganda machine
    (the MSM) mendaciously misrepresented it as a kind of noble
    "revolution" and "liberation".

    Depends. If you were in WESTERN Ukraine then it WAS the
    desirable, "noble", solution. If you were in EASTERN
    Ukraine, not so much. Ethnic/ideologically divided
    nation = NO PEACE.

    CAN'T please all of the people all of the time. Trying
    to deal with humans is like trying to herd cats.

    Alas there's also the CRIMEA question. Russia HAS to
    control it for defense/trade/investment reasons.
    It COULD rebuild just on the other side of the strait,
    I've looked at the maps, but that'd be a LONG term
    project. No matter what, I think Russia keeps most of
    Crimea. Sure, sure ... a "joint control" solution is
    theoretically possible, but such "theories" rarely
    work out. Too much bad blood now for that to work.

    Unless the Space Aliens show up and totally upset
    the existing global paradigm, expect problems like
    Ukraine to persist.

    Um ... Space Aliens ... NOW is the time ........

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Mon Nov 20 01:33:12 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.politics.republicans

    On 11/20/23 1:00 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    56d.1152, <news:AFidnWoR7YiWbMf4nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 11:09 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Dmitry Krivitsky, <news:d91cbff7-006e-4f60-84fa-d5bfce84b499@fido.fw.nu> >>>> On 11/19/2023 6:40 PM, 56d.1152 wrote:
    On 11/19/23 1:23 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    Steve Hayes, <news:qg8jli9bb4lal56fe0fgd9h7546hoo7tin@4ax.com>
    On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:30:48 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>

    <https://tinyurl.com/ywwfrr7l> foreignaffairs.com

    Publics in [these] countries were receptive to Russian
    narratives ..

    Until quite recently both Russian and US narratives were based on >>>>>>> Realpolitik, and the US one was less likely to be effective because >>>>>>> it
    was based on a zero-sum game -- they were more concerned that Russia >>>>>>> should lose than that the US should gain.
    Then came the invasion of Ukraine.
    As one Canadian diplomat is said to have put it: Mr Putin, I thought >>>>>>> you were a master chess player, but now you're just throwing dice. >>>>>>
    If Putin really was a master 7D chess player then the situation
    requiring a drastic action probably would not arise at all. But it's >>>>>> the result of a joint effort where all have miscalculated something. >>>>>> The Atlanticist-backed 2014 coup in Kiev was violent, unlawful and >>>>>> anti-democratic, raised destructive extremist forces
    that led then to destructive consequences, and those who don't
    recognize the latter have no say to criticize the Kremlin action.

    All this does not change the point noted above.

    I've no doubts 'the west' DID sponsor the de-facto
    coup in Ukraine ... it was an offshoot of their big
    ill-fated "arab spring" adventure. However a LOT in
    Ukraine LIKED the coup - but it was largely geographical.

    All this started with something very small and simple ...
    a line on a map drawn in the 50s when it was just
    assumed the USSR was going to be "forever". As such it
    didn't really MATTER exactly what was defined as "Ukraine".

    Until "forever" arrived ....

    East Ukraine really IS pretty much "Russia" - that's how
    most of the people there see themselves. THEY did NOT
    like the coup.

    However east Ukraine has a lot of INDUSTRY, and Kyiv
    did NOT want to lose that. There's money in ag, but
    MORE money and POWER if you also have industry.

    And quickly the little line on an old map became a
    dick-measuring contest between super-powers. Nobody
    is really going to be a "winner" here.

    Politics is "forever" - but bear in mind that it's
    usually FUCKED. It's just the "Id" dressed in a tux.

    Wow. That explains why Smirnov keeps cross-posting to all those strange >>>> newsgroups. Must have finally found an audience receptive to all his
    crap.
    Смирнов, иди нахуй в свой talk.politics.misc или куда там ещё, здесь-то
    ты зачем?

    Sectaries got alarmed.
    Outer world brings an uneasy feeling into your bubble of delusion.
    Is not it?


      What an odd set of sentences ...

      HOW many vodka's tonight Oleg ??? Clearly
      you can't hold your liquor ... shameful,
      juvenile, for a Russian  :-)

      Oh well, Putin is gonna get one in the back
      of the head pretty soon now. He's ruined Russia
      for the next 25 years fer sure. The question is
      whether he'll be replace by a sensible non-
      imperialist or an ultra-dangerous ultra-nationalist.

      If the latter, none of us will have much to worry
      about soon after .........

    There's in the news that most of Americans nowadays use
    various substances in order to cope with depression etc,
    so it makes them mentally unstable.

    American decline is in progress.


    Like all 'old empires' - including Russia.

    Things move faster these days.

    "The Future" is gonna be the Islamics and
    probably India. Africa and S.America can't
    get their shit together

    But you ain't gonna LIKE it .....

    China ... ya know ... despite the propaganda I think
    it's NOT in such good shape as it appears for The
    Future. I'm gonna predict a serious recession/depression
    and then a break-up. Xi will be the Last Emperor.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 20 12:45:06 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.politics.usa

    56d.1152, <news:jjidnbOK7OL_Zcf4nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 11:47 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:

    The "democracy" agenda is basically based on the idea that it's
    natural that interests of people / factions of the society may
    differ, but a compromise can be agreed in a civilized way.


    Greek/western "democracy"/republics may not be the most
    appealing solution for everyone. However, as Churchill
    once remarked, it may be the "best" crappy solution.


    In the Ukraine case, the Atlanticism encouraged the Ukraine's
    "pro-west" faction to usurp power without hesitating to use
    strong, armed violence, and, moreover, the propaganda machine
    (the MSM) mendaciously misrepresented it as a kind of noble
    "revolution" and "liberation".

    Depends. If you were in WESTERN Ukraine then it WAS the
    desirable, "noble", solution. If you were in EASTERN
    Ukraine, not so much. Ethnic/ideologically divided
    nation = NO PEACE.

    CAN'T please all of the people all of the time. Trying
    to deal with humans is like trying to herd cats.

    Alas there's also the CRIMEA question. Russia HAS to
    control it for defense/trade/investment reasons.
    It COULD rebuild just on the other side of the strait,
    I've looked at the maps, but that'd be a LONG term
    project. No matter what, I think Russia keeps most of
    Crimea. Sure, sure ... a "joint control" solution is
    theoretically possible, but such "theories" rarely
    work out. Too much bad blood now for that to work.

    Unless the Space Aliens show up and totally upset
    the existing global paradigm, expect problems like
    Ukraine to persist.

    Um ... Space Aliens ... NOW is the time ........

    Your rants have no value.

    You're a mentally and emotionally unstable babbler.

    The point is that "democracy" doesn't imply a violence
    as a solution when there's a conflict of interests
    between factions. The Atlanticism *encouraged* violence
    in the Ukraine case, under "democracy" slogans. And any
    violence tends to produce then more violence.

    The American scum of your kind are not only stupid but
    also believe that something "pro-American" must also be
    "democratic", and vice versa, - automatically.

    This mistake contributes to American decline, too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From 56d.1152@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Mon Nov 20 09:51:17 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.politics.usa

    On 11/20/23 4:45 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    56d.1152, <news:jjidnbOK7OL_Zcf4nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@earthlink.com>
    On 11/19/23 11:47 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:

    The "democracy" agenda is basically based on the idea that it's
    natural that interests of people / factions of the society may
    differ, but a compromise can be agreed in a civilized way.


      Greek/western "democracy"/republics may not be the most
      appealing solution for everyone. However, as Churchill
      once remarked, it may be the "best" crappy solution.


    In the Ukraine case, the Atlanticism encouraged the Ukraine's
    "pro-west" faction to usurp power without hesitating to use
    strong, armed violence, and, moreover, the propaganda machine
    (the MSM) mendaciously misrepresented it as a kind of noble
    "revolution" and "liberation".

      Depends. If you were in WESTERN Ukraine then it WAS the
      desirable, "noble", solution. If you were in EASTERN
      Ukraine, not so much. Ethnic/ideologically divided
      nation = NO PEACE.

      CAN'T please all of the people all of the time. Trying
      to deal with humans is like trying to herd cats.

      Alas there's also the CRIMEA question. Russia HAS to
      control it for defense/trade/investment reasons.
      It COULD rebuild just on the other side of the strait,
      I've looked at the maps, but that'd be a LONG term
      project. No matter what, I think Russia keeps most of
      Crimea. Sure, sure ... a "joint control" solution is
      theoretically possible, but such "theories" rarely
      work out. Too much bad blood now for that to work.

      Unless the Space Aliens show up and totally upset
      the existing global paradigm, expect problems like
      Ukraine to persist.

      Um ... Space Aliens ... NOW is the time ........

    Your rants have no value.

    You're a mentally and emotionally unstable babbler.


    Translation : "Your conclusions do not serve
    my agenda ..."


    The point is that "democracy" doesn't imply a violence as a solution
    when there's a conflict of interests between factions. The Atlanticism *encouraged* violence
    in the Ukraine case, under "democracy" slogans. And any
    violence tends to produce then more violence.

    The American scum of your kind are not only stupid but
    also believe that something "pro-American" must also be
    "democratic", and vice versa, - automatically.

    This mistake contributes to American decline, too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)