TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
I bet if one of those judges gives him 30 days with the warning that next time its 90, he will straighten up and fly right
https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/imagine-being-rudy-giulianis-judge?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The Z-regime refuses to remove Navalny from the list of terrorists and extremists even after his death.
Rosfinmonitoring refused to exclude politician Alexei Navalny from the list of terrorists and extremists after his death. This follows from the response of the department, which was published by the wife of the oppositionist Yulia.
The document says that the grounds for Navalny to be on the list still remain, since "information about the termination of the criminal case (criminal prosecution) in accordance with the procedure established by law was not received by the Federal Financial Monitoring Service."
"The death of a person is an unconditional basis for exclusion," Navalnaya commented on this information. This, in particular, is stated in the (still valid
?) federal law "On Countering the Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and the Financing of Terrorism".
"Why does Putin need this? Obviously, not to prohibit Alexei from opening bank accounts. This is no longer possible. Putin is doing this in order to scare you. He wants you to even mention Alexei to be afraid and gradually forget his name. But no one will forget. Of course, we will appeal the ministry's response," Navalnaya wrote.
The fact that 11 months after Navalny's death was not removed from the list is "a serious violation of one of the most repressive laws in the country," said Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer with the First Department project.
But laws and justice are as opcional in Putinistan as basic human rights, freedom of speech and the truth.
@freerussia_report
"Control and intimidation". CIA Director assessed the state of Putin's psyche
Putin is very suspicious and constantly looking for opportunities to intimidate others, CIA Director William Burns said. Therefore, you cannot be weak with him, says the official, who has communicated with the Russian leader for at least 20 years.
"A lot of experience with Putin" Burns worked for four years as director of the CIA under President Joe Biden. Prior to that, he had a career at the State Department and served as ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008. In the fall of 2021, Burns personally traveled to Moscow to dissuade Putin from invading Ukraine, and was one of the initiators of an unprecedented campaign to make public information about the Kremlin's preparations for war. Burns will leave his post with the change of administration in the White House.
In an interview with NPR, he said that Putin "has a lot of faith in control and intimidation. He is extremely suspicious of others and is always looking for vulnerabilities that he can take advantage of." Therefore, the new administration, needs to think about how to provide it and President Volodymyr Zelensky with enough leverage so that these negotiations are conducted not only on Putin's terms.
"Putin is very sensitive to what may seem arrogant to him, in his mind, he is more important," Burns advised Obama in 2009 when Putin was the real power behind then president Medvedev. "Maybe you should start the meeting by asking him for his opinion on the state of U.S.-Russian relations and letting him talk."
"Burns wasn't kidding when he said Putin was willing to talk," Obama wrote later. "Before I could finish the question, Putin launched into an enthusiastic and seemingly endless monologue, which listed all the cases of alleged injustice, betrayal, arrogant attitude that he and the Russian people had to endure from the Americans... In Putin's view, Americans are arrogant, contemptuous, don't want to treat Russia as an equal partner, and are constantly trying to dictate their terms to the rest of the world."
Putin spoke non-stop for 45 minutes (the meeting was supposed to last an hour). Obama did not interrupt him: "It was clear that Putin had rehearsed all this, but his sense of resentment was real."
Obama noted "the carelessness of his movements, the feigned indifference in his voice, which spoke of a man accustomed to being surrounded by subordinates and intercessors, a man accustomed to power." He found him "remarkably familiar, kind of like a boss in the neighborhood, only with nuclear weapons and a veto in the UN Security Council."
In 2023, clinical psychologist Nirit Pisano of Cognovi Labs presented an analysis of Putin's speeches before and after the invasion of Ukraine. Anger, disgust, and contempt (these emotions identified as basic in Putin), but no fear, was her conclusion, on the basis of which she tried to explain why the containment strategy was not working with Putin.
Time that someone listen. You can't deal with bullies and Mafia bosses by appeasing them.
@freerussia_report
Supposed to get a storm on the 20th. Can hope Trump will make like William Henry Harrison. Give a long speech, get pneumonia, and be dead in the first month.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-frozen-out/59422/
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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