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Byker
Oct 12, 2022, 12:01:55 PM10/12/22
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More mad than Vlad: https://archive.ph/0LuyK
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"‘Everyone who is paying attention feels it. Putin is not a winner any more’"
"But there was one problem with riding the ultra-nationalist tiger. While
the spin doctors who ran the Kremlin’s ideology and media empire had an
essentially cynical, post-modern and consumerist attitude to ideology, the
people they had recruited actually believed the message. More, many of these
Christian ultra-nationalists were unafraid to bite the hand that fed them
and denounce their masters for unpatriotic corruption."
"‘Putin and his circle have recently taken steps which I believe will almost
inevitably lead to the collapse of the system,’ Strelkov, who had served as
the minister of defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic,
told the Guardian as far back as 2016: ‘We don’t know yet how, and we don’t
know when, but we are certain it will collapse, and more likely sooner than
later.’ Strelkov – who openly boasted about executing his own soldiers for
looting – had been instrumental in toppling Ukrainian authority in a series
of towns across the Donbas in 2014. And he openly boasted, too, about doing
the same in Russia. ‘We do not plan to launch a revolution to depose
Vladimir Putin,’ he warned darkly. ‘Having taken part in five wars, I know
very well what it is like when authority and social infrastructure collapse
in big cities. Nobody wants that, including me. But unfortunately, it could
be inevitable.’"
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"‘Everyone who is paying attention feels it. Putin is not a winner any more’"
"But there was one problem with riding the ultra-nationalist tiger. While
the spin doctors who ran the Kremlin’s ideology and media empire had an
essentially cynical, post-modern and consumerist attitude to ideology, the
people they had recruited actually believed the message. More, many of these
Christian ultra-nationalists were unafraid to bite the hand that fed them
and denounce their masters for unpatriotic corruption."
"‘Putin and his circle have recently taken steps which I believe will almost
inevitably lead to the collapse of the system,’ Strelkov, who had served as
the minister of defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic,
told the Guardian as far back as 2016: ‘We don’t know yet how, and we don’t
know when, but we are certain it will collapse, and more likely sooner than
later.’ Strelkov – who openly boasted about executing his own soldiers for
looting – had been instrumental in toppling Ukrainian authority in a series
of towns across the Donbas in 2014. And he openly boasted, too, about doing
the same in Russia. ‘We do not plan to launch a revolution to depose
Vladimir Putin,’ he warned darkly. ‘Having taken part in five wars, I know
very well what it is like when authority and social infrastructure collapse
in big cities. Nobody wants that, including me. But unfortunately, it could
be inevitable.’"
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