| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Like Putin, like DeSantis! | 2022-11-24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595850313205919744 | 1595850313205919744 |
| Nobody is safe while Putin is in charge! | 2022-11-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594579091310510081 | 1594579091310510081 |
| Collateral damage of Ukraine war. | 2022-11-17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593125701531873281 | 1593125701531873281 |
| "No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime" | 2022-11-14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592062467609591808 | 1592062467609591808 |
| "God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless | 2022-11-12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591322236107239424 | 1591322236107239424 |
| Is the Chef angling for a promotion? | 2022-11-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590879823081373696 | 1590879823081373696 |
| Putin is marketing Putinism to Trumpists and their allies | 2022-10-28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585843019340578817 | 1585843019340578817 |
| Happy days are here again in the Kremlin! Putin watches | 2022-10-26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585329724322037761 | 1585329724322037761 |
| If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, maybe we'll get another | 2022-10-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584315234268766208 | 1584315234268766208 |
| Evidently Putin admires American military technology. | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583549960527544320 | 1583549960527544320 |
| Some friends of Putin have changed their minds. Others | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583533976521539584 | 1583533976521539584 |
| Appeasement doesn't work with narcissistic dictators. | 2022-10-12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580100329986674689 | 1580100329986674689 |
| Russian refugees flood Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. | 2022-10-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579317131183026176 | 1579317131183026176 |
| What Putin's opposition is calling for - an even more | 2022-10-08 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578745146425823234 | 1578745146425823234 |
| Rewriting history became popular in the American South | 2022-10-07 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578522665777627136 | 1578522665777627136 |
| "There is only one cardinal sin in the energy business: | 2022-10-07 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578415539730292736 | 1578415539730292736 |
| Strains among the oligarchs might eventually threaten | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578223252995903490 | 1578223252995903490 |
| This trip is a bigger challenge than a summer cruise from | 2022-10-06 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578173129393811457 | 1578173129393811457 |
| No deep state in Russia! | 2022-10-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578169702748024832 | 1578169702748024832 |
| Russians discover problems with leadership of self-serving | 2022-10-06 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578006555957395458 | 1578006555957395458 |
| Der Untergang | 2022-09-30 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575858512332083200 | 1575858512332083200 |
| Putin's nuclear options. | 2022-09-27 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574618875957694464 | 1574618875957694464 |
| A Very Long Engagement - | 2022-09-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573876932709478400 | 1573876932709478400 |
| In Russia, life at the top has always been hazardous. | 2022-09-23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573325555461652482 | 1573325555461652482 |
| Patriotic Russians - run for their lives. | 2022-09-22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572792392121712642 | 1572792392121712642 |
| Odd how healthy Russian executives tend to untimely deaths. | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569879790655778818 | 1569879790655778818 |
| Getting off light - so far. | 2022-09-11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1569083562753916928 | 1569083562753916928 |
| Putin must be getting desperate! | 2022-09-09 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568084699163283457 | 1568084699163283457 |
| Defenestration was a common Stalinist solution to problems. | 2022-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565392702203498496 | 1565392702203498496 |
| Like DeSantis, like Putin - rewriting history to repeal | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565188222619045888 | 1565188222619045888 |
| Russian IT brain drain to Georgia - for the time being. | 2022-08-29 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1564291584966811648 | 1564291584966811648 |
| Studying American resistance doctrines to discourage | 2022-08-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563906395010768896 | 1563906395010768896 |
| Another Soviet monument goes down. | 2022-08-26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563012326134976513 | 1563012326134976513 |
| Not your father's KGB! | 2022-08-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560625544877617153 | 1560625544877617153 |
| "corruption is the glue that holds the system together, | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560310440139182080 | 1560310440139182080 |
| Want to murder, rape, and pillage, and get PAID for it? | 2022-08-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560305859493711872 | 1560305859493711872 |
| Trumpist or Putinist, it's the same tactics - blame the | 2022-08-16 | 183 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1559610618394554368 | 1559610618394554368 |
| Putin tries to heat up the Balkans to take heat off his | 2022-08-12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558101176943382529 | 1558101176943382529 |
| Putin's neocolonialism in Africa. A century ago, | 2022-08-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553933558250500096 | 1553933558250500096 |
| How prisoner swaps work - we take a high-value Russian | 2022-07-31 | 97 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553611744072724480 | 1553611744072724480 |
| How Putin emulates Stalin by reviving the NKVD to eliminate | 2022-07-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553608975181983745 | 1553608975181983745 |
| Why were the Russians willing to take Americans hostage | 2022-07-31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553608526760579072 | 1553608526760579072 |
| Putin is on the verge of achieving his greatest strategic | 2022-07-11 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546326785343729664 | 1546326785343729664 |
| If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, this is likely his next | 2022-07-05 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544149605901688832 | 1544149605901688832 |
| Putin builds a model for Trumpists everywhere. | 2022-07-05 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544146439873253376 | 1544146439873253376 |
| If you're an oligarch or criminal - thank goodness for | 2022-07-02 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543027211988455424 | 1543027211988455424 |
| Just like everybody else. Except for that odd slight | 2022-06-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540690638772903937 | 1540690638772903937 |
| Putin is biding his time, wearing down Ukraine and more | 2022-06-25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540688835679358977 | 1540688835679358977 |
| The great historian Putin knows that Germany has a greater | 2022-06-21 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539274526655062017 | 1539274526655062017 |
| Putin has achieved his aim of making his mark on world | 2022-06-21 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539242462698414080 | 1539242462698414080 |
| Putin unrepentant about Russkiy Mir. | 2022-06-18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538040643330576384 | 1538040643330576384 |
| He killed with polonium. He died from covid. | 2022-06-05 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533249505650364417 | 1533249505650364417 |
| Is Russian dependence on western parts eventually going | 2022-06-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532960505538617344 | 1532960505538617344 |
| Finally understanding when Putin is saying what he REALLY | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1532729658130649088 | 1532729658130649088 |
| Putin declared war on Europe, and Europe responded with | 2022-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531859676815425537 | 1531859676815425537 |
| Putin gets criticism from both sides, but that won't | 2022-05-29 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530807602673659904 | 1530807602673659904 |
| "Western democracies act as accomplices to Putin, providing | 2022-05-27 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530013438235189248 | 1530013438235189248 |
| Putin builds influence in conflict zones with mercenaries. | 2022-05-24 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528923511267291138 | 1528923511267291138 |
| Trump and Fox are still welcome in Putin's Russia! | 2022-05-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528912346436972544 | 1528912346436972544 |
| When it's all too much! | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528898457372479488 | 1528898457372479488 |
| What it's like when you might be next on Putin's list. | 2022-05-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528607604317954048 | 1528607604317954048 |
| The worst is yet to come for Russian businesses and | 2022-05-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528575408169357312 | 1528575408169357312 |
| What changed Finland's mind? | 2022-05-16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526246858406133760 | 1526246858406133760 |
| Putin's greatest achievement - expanding NATO. | 2022-05-16 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526080976723382272 | 1526080976723382272 |
| How Putin sold Finland and Sweden on NATO. | 2022-05-11 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1524536950387994624 | 1524536950387994624 |
| What would it take to get Putin to stop? | 2022-05-11 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524391421855162374 | 1524391421855162374 |
| Is Putin trapped on a road of no return? | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523890681193762817 | 1523890681193762817 |
| A Victory Day for hackers. | 2022-05-10 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1523881073507151874 | 1523881073507151874 |
| It's hard to make something out of nothing. | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1523856058543865857 | 1523856058543865857 |
| Who's going to get the blame for embarrassing Putin? | 2022-05-08 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1523412450409738240 | 1523412450409738240 |
| "Dwindling Western commitment is part of Putin’s | 2022-05-06 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522687855822213121 | 1522687855822213121 |
| Putin and his pals have stolen Russia's wealth and hidden | 2022-05-06 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522417628618235904 | 1522417628618235904 |
| Wagner Group is Putin's "plausible deniability" terrorist | 2022-05-06 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522414015636418561 | 1522414015636418561 |
| In Putin's Russkiy Mir, nothing is true and everything | 2022-05-02 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521162756061159424 | 1521162756061159424 |
| Yeltsin oligarchs vs Putin oligarchs. | 2022-05-01 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520571565720580096 | 1520571565720580096 |
| Finns have a long memory of Russian aggression. | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520566610565627904 | 1520566610565627904 |
| Putin's men take care of another journalist. | 2022-04-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519844230033674240 | 1519844230033674240 |
| Moldova? Transnistria? Putin wants to make sure that | 2022-04-28 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519819065174286336 | 1519819065174286336 |
| Russian armor was designed for opponents who wouldn't | 2022-04-28 | 93 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1519506849468346368 | 1519506849468346368 |
| Putin tries divide-and-conquer once more - and fails again | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519500870194327552 | 1519500870194327552 |
| It's true - Putin does not intend to stop with Donbas. | 2022-04-23 | 137 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1517707045188689920 | 1517707045188689920 |
| Putin honors excellence in murder, rape, and pillage | 2022-04-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516406579439943681 | 1516406579439943681 |
| Another Putin accomplishment - technology brain drain. | 2022-04-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516239718521868288 | 1516239718521868288 |
| Looking forward to May 9 - originally to celebrate Stalin's | 2022-04-19 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516216733933072385 | 1516216733933072385 |
| Another of Putin's lasting gifts - proving that engagement | 2022-04-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515765053315706883 | 1515765053315706883 |
| Five ways the world has changed - | 2022-04-15 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514759102655737882 | 1514759102655737882 |
| Putin has won hearts and minds in Finland - and in | 2022-04-14 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1514755138279288839 | 1514755138279288839 |
| Like populist kleptocrats everywhere, Russian oligarchs | 2022-04-14 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514436319560175623 | 1514436319560175623 |
| Putin prepares Russians to support genocide in Ukraine. | 2022-04-14 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514420179110821892 | 1514420179110821892 |
| Despite the bad record of | 2022-04-13 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514138066151096320 | 1514138066151096320 |
| Somebody has to take the blame for Putin's mistakes. | 2022-04-13 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514132540168179713 | 1514132540168179713 |
| Why Russians support Putin. | 2022-04-13 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514131908132704257 | 1514131908132704257 |
| Why the Russian army is so ineffective except at murder, | 2022-04-12 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513723687882526721 | 1513723687882526721 |
| How Putin got it wrong - he didn't bother to ask anybody | 2022-04-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513722445227716610 | 1513722445227716610 |
| How oligarchs hide their ill-gotten gains. | 2022-04-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513719782616436741 | 1513719782616436741 |
| Putin is a permanent threat. He is a product of his | 2022-04-11 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513538779679666181 | 1513538779679666181 |
| Did somebody mention rehabilitating Stalin? It's been | 2022-04-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513327535437717504 | 1513327535437717504 |
| Stalinism rebooted. | 2022-04-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513315771681673216 | 1513315771681673216 |
| Did Putin really miscalculate? Or is he progressing | 2022-04-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512421695197351945 | 1512421695197351945 |
| Putin has to go sooner or later. Otherwise he'll keep | 2022-04-08 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512420686454661121 | 1512420686454661121 |
| Expulsion of spy-diplomats reduces espionage and reduces | 2022-04-08 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512261875936886785 | 1512261875936886785 |
| Murdering civilians doesn't work. | 2022-04-07 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1511883632675221507 | 1511883632675221507 |
| Sanctions rarely solve anything by themselves. They | 2022-04-03 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1510642498175004678 | 1510642498175004678 |
| Putin missed the most important lesson of competitive | 2022-04-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510636727752278019 | 1510636727752278019 |
| Putin isn't channeling Stalin after all. It's Hitler. | 2022-04-03 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1510615704298393601 | 1510615704298393601 |
| Life for small business in Russia today. | 2022-04-02 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510253503461015556 | 1510253503461015556 |
| Life in the USSR - resurrected. | 2022-04-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510055986693771266 | 1510055986693771266 |
| Russia's neighbors know what to expect. They want to | 2022-04-01 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509738101169541121 | 1509738101169541121 |
| The only sanctions that matter to the Russian oligarchs | 2022-04-01 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509737171401408517 | 1509737171401408517 |
| Putin and Potter | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509730458069704706 | 1509730458069704706 |
| Taking Swiss banking secrecy too far? | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1509729353004838917 | 1509729353004838917 |
| If anybody acts to remove Putin, it will be in their own | 2022-04-01 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1509714084014436355 | 1509714084014436355 |
| Good advice from Rickover - | 2022-03-31 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509351703744679937 | 1509351703744679937 |
| What makes America strong in a globalized world is not a | 2022-03-26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507750372374241287 | 1507750372374241287 |
| Three steps to increase the survival odds of the Baltic | 2022-03-25 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507386500924997633 | 1507386500924997633 |
| Russian oligarchs calculate where their best advantage | 2022-03-25 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507352461043900416 | 1507352461043900416 |
| More conscientious objectors in the Kremlin than in the | 2022-03-25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507339378217013249 | 1507339378217013249 |
| How Germany is paying for Putin's aggression. | 2022-03-25 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1507217547258564610 | 1507217547258564610 |
| The view from the front lines. | 2022-03-25 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507216462905192449 | 1507216462905192449 |
| Russian history is not kind to leaders who lose wars. | 2022-03-25 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507200383268970504 | 1507200383268970504 |
| Thinking about the unthinkable. | 2022-03-24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507000463522078722 | 1507000463522078722 |
| Putin's psychology. | 2022-03-24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506831038231683078 | 1506831038231683078 |
| Keeping reactionary clergy and voters on Putin's side - | 2022-03-23 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1506734503598780418 | 1506734503598780418 |
| Why would Putin want to stop bombing hospitals? | 2022-03-22 | 51 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506261478470430725 | 1506261478470430725 |
| Full speed back to Stalinism! | 2022-03-22 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506259812094386180 | 1506259812094386180 |
| Putin unleashes his inner Stalin. | 2022-03-22 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506058245978263554 | 1506058245978263554 |
| Putin can hold bigger rallies than Trump. Trump is | 2022-03-19 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1504980313125969923 | 1504980313125969923 |
| Economic sanctions - a powerful counter-balance to nuclear | 2022-03-17 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504582668217774088 | 1504582668217774088 |
| How Putin got so rich! | 2022-03-17 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504580243146698754 | 1504580243146698754 |
| Russian opposition - too little, too late. Most | 2022-03-17 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1504317955223408640 | 1504317955223408640 |
| "How does the next world war begin? " | 2022-03-17 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504316755304321031 | 1504316755304321031 |
| Do you remember when Americans were building bomb shelters | 2022-03-17 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1504304156957286400 | 1504304156957286400 |
| Putin prepares return to Stalinism. It's where his | 2022-03-17 | 98 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1504302026162810881 | 1504302026162810881 |
| What Putin has proved to the world - | 2022-03-17 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1504296301994790913 | 1504296301994790913 |
| US needs to increase permanent forces in eastern Europe | 2022-03-15 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503593102472216578 | 1503593102472216578 |
| As a former KGB colonel, Putin is no more religious than | 2022-03-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503535391365734402 | 1503535391365734402 |
| Economic sanctions punish ordinary Russians alike, | 2022-03-15 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503532870782005250 | 1503532870782005250 |
| To avoid nuclear war, a messy compromise might be necessary | 2022-03-15 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1503522507470499841 | 1503522507470499841 |
| Putin's dream is to revive the Soviet Union, if not the | 2022-03-14 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503377134420516870 | 1503377134420516870 |
| Russia took four bites out of Poland from 1772-1939, | 2022-03-14 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503352481740308482 | 1503352481740308482 |
| Back to the future or forward to the past? | 2022-03-14 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503223404635189249 | 1503223404635189249 |
| Russia took four out of Poland from 1772-1939, then after | 2022-03-14 | 105 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1503221367260409857 | 1503221367260409857 |
| Putin will not accept defeat, no matter how much it costs | 2022-03-14 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503219628285124620 | 1503219628285124620 |
| Those who can, get out while they still can. | 2022-03-14 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503177464465412096 | 1503177464465412096 |
| Russia can't keep technologists in the dark for long. | 2022-03-14 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503174042643140608 | 1503174042643140608 |
| How is today like and different from the previous cold war? | 2022-03-14 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503168152938590210 | 1503168152938590210 |
| Working for Putin is dangerous. When a narcissist | 2022-03-13 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1503018194193190917 | 1503018194193190917 |
| Don't book Aeroflot! | 2022-03-11 | 89 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1502278747084316677 | 1502278747084316677 |
| "not only will they do it, but that other people are weak | 2022-03-11 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502130435647684609 | 1502130435647684609 |
| Oppressive strong men are often very weak - because they | 2022-03-11 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1502097866977726476 | 1502097866977726476 |
| Where does truth come from? | 2022-03-11 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1502074654428598272 | 1502074654428598272 |
| Sanctions and oppression might be a big win for Putin - | 2022-03-11 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502073676136529922 | 1502073676136529922 |
| Putin thinks he can survive sanctions. | 2022-03-11 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502072466931281920 | 1502072466931281920 |
| Putin pals have some explaining to do. | 2022-03-10 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1502064858942124077 | 1502064858942124077 |
| Buddhism and Putin? | 2022-03-10 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501953615501529090 | 1501953615501529090 |
| Who's next after Ukraine falls? | 2022-03-10 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501936446965309453 | 1501936446965309453 |
| "Wagner comes in, further destabilizes the country, ravages | 2022-03-10 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1501761763506679813 | 1501761763506679813 |
| Putin lies about everything - so this is hardly news. | 2022-03-10 | 83 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501716153596448769 | 1501716153596448769 |
| Putin's new iron curtain - far more effective than the | 2022-03-09 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1501581686848749570 | 1501581686848749570 |
| Putin is a traditional Russian - dictator. He can't | 2022-03-09 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1501577123584442368 | 1501577123584442368 |
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========== Like Putin, like DeSantis! https://apnews.com/article/putin-europe-gay-rights-e518bbdddd9d2af2b7a1e1b7008aa5d1 #PS1putin ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-24 18:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595850313205919744 ========== Nobody is safe while Putin is in charge! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/20/kazakhstan-vote-sets-stage-for-putin-ally-to-move-past-riots-3/ #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-21 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594579091310510081 ========== Collateral damage of Ukraine war. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/uk/mi5-chief-russia-spying-iran-china-threats-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-11-17 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593125701531873281 ========== "No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/opinions/after-putin-power-health-regime-galeotti/index.html When a personality cult falls, it tends to happen almost overnight. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 50% expands 2 impress 6 time 2022-11-14 07:50 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592062467609591808 ========== "God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/opinion/putin-russian-military-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-11-12 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591322236107239424 ========== Is the Chef angling for a promotion? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-2cd23245b4bd5251db9c3677fcb49dad #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-11 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590879823081373696 ========== Putin is marketing Putinism to Trumpists and their allies worldwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html It's still Putinism - dedicated to nobody's interests except Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-10-28 03:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585843019340578817 ========== Happy days are here again in the Kremlin! Putin watches with glee as American legislators fight his war for him. He knew they would eventually. He didn't invest so heavily to support them for nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/us-ukraine-aid-skepticism-putin-analysis/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-10-26 17:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585329724322037761 ========== If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, maybe we'll get another chance in Alaska. https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-ours-billboards-appear-russia-after-threat-reclaim-state-1722761 It will be a lot more expensive there. #PS1putin ===== impress 11 time 2022-10-23 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584315234268766208 ========== Evidently Putin admires American military technology. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/russia-justice-department-foreign-nationals-military-technology/index.html Russian technology doesn't seem to meet even Iranian standards. #PS1putin ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583549960527544320 ========== Some friends of Putin have changed their minds. Others have just pretended to. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/opinions/putin-far-right-fans-west-europe-ghitis/index.html They could forgive him for being a dictator, but not for being an incompetent one. #PS1putin ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583533976521539584 ========== Appeasement doesn't work with narcissistic dictators. It just increases their appetites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/12/baltics-poland-russia-warnings-nato/ #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-12 07:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580100329986674689 ========== Russian refugees flood Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Rents are rising! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/europe/russia-draft-dodgers-kazakhstan-intl-hnk/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-10-10 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579317131183026176 ========== What Putin's opposition is calling for - an even more brutal war. Putin is allowing, if not encouraging, them to speak. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/russia-war-criticism-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-10-08 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578745146425823234 ========== Rewriting history became popular in the American South after Reconstruction. But it's always been popular with Russian dictators, and Putin won't change that. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/07/world/nobel-peace-prize#for-years-memorial-has-fought-efforts-to-rewrite-russias-history There is no way to rehabilitate Stalin by facts - so Putin has to do it by decree. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-10-07 23:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578522665777627136 ========== "There is only one cardinal sin in the energy business: Never, ever make yourself an unreliable supplier. No one will ever trust you again." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html In this big game of chicken, will Putin swerve or will Europe? Can Russia become a North Korea? #PS1putin ===== impress 23 time 2022-10-07 16:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578415539730292736 ========== Strains among the oligarchs might eventually threaten Putin. If some criticism is allowed, where will it end? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/europe/putin-russia-army-criticism.html #PS1putin ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578223252995903490 ========== This trip is a bigger challenge than a summer cruise from Cuba to Florida. The Russians will probably make sure it doesn't happen again. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-immigration-coast-guard-lisa-murkowski-alaska-d6df61f70056645283b0b384087d7486 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-06 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578173129393811457 ========== No deep state in Russia! "Autocrats who put their cronies into key positions, control the media to crowd out discordant voices are able to command their subordinates to follow the most foolish orders.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/opinions/putin-make-russia-weak-history-bergen/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 13 time 2022-10-06 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578169702748024832 ========== Russians discover problems with leadership of self-serving opportunists selected for professed loyalty rather than competence. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-6ef2407371c67f0736459378833fab7a The knives are out for the Russian military leadership. Putin has to keep the focus there rather than on himself. #PS1putin ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-06 12:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578006555957395458 ========== Der Untergang When fate and facts go against them, delusional narcissistic leaders become MORE delusional, not less. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/europe/russia-ukraine-annexation-analysis-intl/index.html Putin, Trump, Hitler, .... #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-09-30 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575858512332083200 ========== Putin's nuclear options. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/26/putin-nuclear-threat-bluff-us-biden-response/ But before embarking on them, he has to wonder if all the Russian armed forces are as corrupt and decrepit as those invading Ukraine. #PS1putin ===== impress 55 time 2022-09-27 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574618875957694464 ========== A Very Long Engagement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement come to life - "Google searches in Russia for 'How to break your arm' have skyrocketed" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/putin-trump-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== impress 26 time 2022-09-25 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573876932709478400 ========== In Russia, life at the top has always been hazardous. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/europe/russia-official-anatoly-gerashchenko-death-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-23 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573325555461652482 ========== Patriotic Russians - run for their lives. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-fleeing-mobilization-dbe01d0c9be45a8c479565501a2a8f32 There's nothing uniquely Russian about draft dodging! #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-22 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572792392121712642 ========== Odd how healthy Russian executives tend to untimely deaths. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/business/ivan-pechorin-death-russia-intl/index.html But it's an ancient Russian tradition. #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569879790655778818 ========== Getting off light - so far. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/europe/russia-officials-fined-for-putin-impeachment-call-intl/index.html The mild response suggests Putin's hand is weaker than we thought. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 19% impress 16 time 2022-09-11 22:00 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569083562753916928 ========== Putin must be getting desperate! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-seoul-moscow-491ad47f3d26b441953a7319838817b9 #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-09 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568084699163283457 ========== Defenestration was a common Stalinist solution to problems. Putin would love to restore Stalinism. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62750584 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-01 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565392702203498496 ========== Like DeSantis, like Putin - rewriting history to repeal the modern world. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/world/europe/russia-putin-schools-propaganda-indoctrination.html #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565188222619045888 ========== Russian IT brain drain to Georgia - for the time being. Sort of like Californians to Idaho. The locals aren't thrilled. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-07-06/russian-refugee-tech-workers-make-georgia-a-stepping-stone-for-global-career #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-08-29 16:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564291584966811648 ========== Studying American resistance doctrines to discourage Russian invasion. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/politics/russia-ukraine-resistance-warfare/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-28 15:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563906395010768896 ========== Another Soviet monument goes down. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-soviet-union-denmark-riga-6b841105e8fb8bc8310b053ae1d9f40a The Austrians can't take down theirs - it's part of the Austrian State Treaty - so they obscured it with fountains. #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-26 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563012326134976513 ========== Not your father's KGB! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/19/intelligence-war-fsb-ukraine/ Too much cronyism, not enough competence. #PS1putin ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-19 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560625544877617153 ========== "corruption is the glue that holds the system together, not the catalyst to bring it down" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/russia-putin-corruption.html Like Trump, Putin has so soiled everybody close to him that none can risk stepping out of line. #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560310440139182080 ========== Want to murder, rape, and pillage, and get PAID for it? Sign up for the Wagner orchestra! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/17/ukraine-russia-wagner-group-mercenaries/ #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-18 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560305859493711872 ========== Trumpist or Putinist, it's the same tactics - blame the other side for what you're doing. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-united-states-moscow-5cc322a7ef3b0407c529ebf8bb1fbfd2 Nobody ever planned to invade Russia or China, but they've had plans to invade Ukraine and Taiwan. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 2% impress 183 likes 3 time 2022-08-16 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559610618394554368 ========== Putin tries to heat up the Balkans to take heat off his Ukraine invasion. He has plenty of local enablers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/europe/serbia-vucic-russia.html WWI started in the Balkans. Why not WWIII? #PS1putin ===== impress 33 time 2022-08-12 14:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558101176943382529 ========== Putin's neocolonialism in Africa. A century ago, the other European empires raped Africa. Now it's Russia's turn! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/africa/sudan-russia-gold-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html As always, plenty of local quislings to help. #PS1putin ===== impress 17 time 2022-08-01 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553933558250500096 ========== How prisoner swaps work - we take a high-value Russian agent, the Russians take an average tourist and offer to trade. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/opinion/brittney-griner-prisoner-swap.html One conclusion - average tourists should not go to Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, lest they become handy hostages. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% hashclicks 1 impress 97 time 2022-07-31 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553611744072724480 ========== How Putin emulates Stalin by reviving the NKVD to eliminate domestic and foreign opposition. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putins-new-police-state #PS1putin ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-31 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553608975181983745 ========== Why were the Russians willing to take Americans hostage to get this guy back? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/29/victor-bout-gru-sechin/ He knows too much? #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-31 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553608526760579072 ========== Putin is on the verge of achieving his greatest strategic goal! More important than conquering Ukraine is spreading instability and conflict throughout the world, especially in the democracies that oppose him. https://buffalonews.com/skyrocketing-global-fuel-prices-threaten-livelihoods-and-social-stability-worldwide/article_fae4464b-16c6-569f-8eed-c53ab2f7276e.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705836243094221 #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 21 time 2022-07-11 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546326785343729664 ========== If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, this is likely his next target - https://www.politico.eu/article/suwalki-gap-russia-war-nato-lithuania-poland-border/ #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-05 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544149605901688832 ========== Putin builds a model for Trumpists everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/world/europe/russia-putin-arrests.html #PS1putin ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-05 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544146439873253376 ========== If you're an oligarch or criminal - thank goodness for the no-questions-asked British Virgin Islands. https://washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/offshore-putin-russia-oligarchs-pandora/ Putin doesn't like it either, but uses similar schemes himself to protect his ill-gotten gains. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656251181386061 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-07-02 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543027211988455424 ========== Just like everybody else. Except for that odd slight accent. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/russian-spy-johns-hopkins-classmates-accent-suspicious/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-25 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540690638772903937 ========== Putin is biding his time, wearing down Ukraine and more importantly, wearing down western will to resist. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/world/g7-summit-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-25 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540688835679358977 ========== The great historian Putin knows that Germany has a greater claim to Konigsberg than Russia to Crimea. But Stalin demanded it and got it anyway as spoils of war. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/europe/kaliningrad-explainer-russia-lithuania-sanctions-intl/index.html It would be hard for Russia to defend in a major war. #PS1putin ===== impress 26 time 2022-06-21 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539274526655062017 ========== Putin has achieved his aim of making his mark on world history - insuring that a nuclear WWIII happens sooner rather than later. But will there be anybody left to remember him afterward? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-africa-south-korea-persian-gulf-tensions-8c6bd3929ee3fe407ea9627168fc6132 #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 likes 1 time 2022-06-21 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539242462698414080 ========== Putin unrepentant about Russkiy Mir. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/europe/russia-president-vladimir-putin-speech-spief-intl/index.html Like Trump, he doesn't recognize the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders as distinct from America's narrow political and economic interests. #PS1putin ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-18 06:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538040643330576384 ========== He killed with polonium. He died from covid. KGB is better at poisons than vaccines. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-covid-health-london-c9303aced131fa50613f4046cbf2e14d #PS1putin ===== impress 25 time 2022-06-05 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533249505650364417 ========== Is Russian dependence on western parts eventually going to matter? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/business/economy/russia-weapons-american-technology.html #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-04 05:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532960505538617344 ========== Finally understanding when Putin is saying what he REALLY thinks. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/opinions/russia-vladimir-putin-true-intentions-dougherty/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 50% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-06-03 14:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532729658130649088 ========== Putin declared war on Europe, and Europe responded with unforeseen unity. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/putin-europe-ukraine.html But some European leaders are still willing to give him the Sudetenland if he'll just quit shooting for a little while. #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-01 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531859676815425537 ========== Putin gets criticism from both sides, but that won't bother him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/28/putin-russia-ukraine-war-censorship/ #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-29 07:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530807602673659904 ========== "Western democracies act as accomplices to Putin, providing him with a lifeline access to Western financial systems — a lifeline the Kremlin uses to challenge the West’s own interests.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/vladimir-kara-murza-columns-truths-putin-russia/ There is Russian opposition, but can it survive? #PS1putin ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-27 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530013438235189248 ========== Putin builds influence in conflict zones with mercenaries. And profits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/23/mali-russia-west-africa-wagner/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 replies 1 time 2022-05-24 02:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528923511267291138 ========== Trump and Fox are still welcome in Putin's Russia! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/21/russia-bans-963-americans-ukraine-biden/ #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-05-24 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528912346436972544 ========== When it's all too much! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/23/russia-diplomat-resigns-united-nations-ukraine-war/ Hopefully his family is safe from Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 replies 1 time 2022-05-24 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528898457372479488 ========== What it's like when you might be next on Putin's list. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/opinions/putin-georgia-ukraine-war-mitchell/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-23 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528607604317954048 ========== The worst is yet to come for Russian businesses and consumers. https://www.vartahub.com/odia/2022/05/19/in-russia-as-prices-soar-the-outlook-for-its-economy-grows-especially-gloomy/ #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-23 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528575408169357312 ========== What changed Finland's mind? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/opinions/finland-nato-russia-invasion-heinonen/index.html Security through peaceful trade proved a false god. #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-16 17:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526246858406133760 ========== Putin's greatest achievement - expanding NATO. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-finland-public-opinion-3b04a7217c8aa11ffb925885b1c3ca8a Moldova and Georgia have expressed interest too. #PS1putin ===== impress 47 time 2022-05-16 06:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526080976723382272 ========== How Putin sold Finland and Sweden on NATO. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/europe/finland-nato-putin-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 59 time 2022-05-11 23:48 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524536950387994624 ========== What would it take to get Putin to stop? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/putin-biden-jfk-russia-ukraine/index.html And would he stop for any other reason than to rearm and reorganize for an encore? #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-11 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524391421855162374 ========== Is Putin trapped on a road of no return? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/putin-victory-day-russia-ukraine-quagmire/ #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-10 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523890681193762817 ========== A Victory Day for hackers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/09/russia-tv-hack-victory-day-ukraine-war/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 time 2022-05-10 04:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523881073507151874 ========== It's hard to make something out of nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/opinions/putin-may-9-victory-day-speech-ghitis/index.html But it's not as hard if you control all the media. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2022-05-10 02:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523856058543865857 ========== Who's going to get the blame for embarrassing Putin? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/08/russia-ukraine-shoigu-putin/ #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% impress 19 time 2022-05-08 21:20 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523412450409738240 ========== "Dwindling Western commitment is part of Putin’s calculus" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/russia-ukraine-propaganda.html When GOP controls Congress, they will stop aid to Ukraine, since Trump opposes everything Biden does. Putin will do whatever he can to help Trumpists and Trump win elections. #PS1putin ===== impress 40 time 2022-05-06 21:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522687855822213121 ========== Putin and his pals have stolen Russia's wealth and hidden it carefully all around the world in friendly jurisdictions like Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, maybe South Dakota and Wyoming. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/doj-kleptocapture-task-force-russian-assets-putin-oligarchs/index.html Can the US unravel it all? #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-06 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522417628618235904 ========== Wagner Group is Putin's "plausible deniability" terrorist special operations force. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/africa/russian-forces-executions-car-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2022-05-06 03:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522414015636418561 ========== In Putin's Russkiy Mir, nothing is true and everything is possible. https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-jewish-hitler-had-jewish-093816649.html What else would you expect from the people that published the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Anti-semitism is a Russian tradition, and Putin is a very traditional Russian. #PS1putin ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-02 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521162756061159424 ========== Yeltsin oligarchs vs Putin oligarchs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/29/russia-oligarchs-ukraine-invasion-dissent/ But NOBODY criticizes Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 time 2022-05-01 01:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520571565720580096 ========== Finns have a long memory of Russian aggression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Finnish_wars Now Putin has accomplished the one thing he hated most - expanding NATO. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/finland-join-nato/ #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-01 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520566610565627904 ========== Putin's men take care of another journalist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/28/russia-ukraine-muratov-attack-intelligence/ #PS1putin ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-29 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519844230033674240 ========== Moldova? Transnistria? Putin wants to make sure that you hear a lot more about them as he establishes his idea of Russkiy Mir. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/europe/transnistria-moldova-ukraine-russia-war-explainer-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 176 time 2022-04-28 23:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519819065174286336 ========== Russian armor was designed for opponents who wouldn't resist. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/europe/russia-tanks-blown-turrets-intl-hnk-ml/index.html The west learned from the Iraq war, but Russia did not. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% impress 93 likes 1 time 2022-04-28 02:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519506849468346368 ========== Putin tries divide-and-conquer once more - and fails again - so far. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-bulgaria-moldova-2505307f5dcc882d38bab642ffce649f #PS1putin ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519500870194327552 ========== It's true - Putin does not intend to stop with Donbas. He does not intend to stop with Ukraine. And nobody thinks he intends to stop with Moldova and Transnistria. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/22/russian-ambition-beyond-ukraine/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 137 time 2022-04-23 03:28 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517707045188689920 ========== Putin honors excellence in murder, rape, and pillage of civilians. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/europe/russia-bucha-brigade-honorary-title-putin-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-19 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516406579439943681 ========== Another Putin accomplishment - technology brain drain. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/13/business/russian-tech-industry-faces-brain-drain-workers-flee/ #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-04-19 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516239718521868288 ========== Looking forward to May 9 - originally to celebrate Stalin's victory over Nazis - now to celebrate neo-Nazi Putin's victory over Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/opinions/vladimir-putin-may-9-deadline-ghitis/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 49 time 2022-04-19 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516216733933072385 ========== Another of Putin's lasting gifts - proving that engagement with kleptocratic dictators does not work as advertised. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/16/us-nato-isolate-russia/ #PS1putin ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-17 18:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515765053315706883 ========== Five ways the world has changed - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/russia-ukraine-war-50-days-economy-sanctions-refugees/ So much for globalized trade, neutrality, and nuclear non-proliferation. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1642711099406736 #PS1putin ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-15 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514759102655737882 ========== Putin has won hearts and minds in Finland - and in Sweden - for NATO. Finns had thought they were safe from another Stalinist invasion like 1939's. They've reconsidered. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/opinions/finland-nato-russia-invasion-heinonen/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 77 time 2022-04-14 23:59 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514755138279288839 ========== Like populist kleptocrats everywhere, Russian oligarchs and their families like to spend as little time in Russia as possible. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/us/kremlin-kids-in-the-west-invs/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 likes 1 time 2022-04-14 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514436319560175623 ========== Putin prepares Russians to support genocide in Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russias-war-ukraine-founders-ominous-rhetoric-gains-ground/ #PS1putin ===== impress 60 time 2022-04-14 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514420179110821892 ========== Despite the bad record of Grossdeutschland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Germanism Putin wants to create Russkiy Mir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world And that makes everybody who was once part of the Soviet Union or Russian Empire nervous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/12/putin-ukraine-aggression-nato-obligation-to-baltic-states/ #PS1putin ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-13 07:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514138066151096320 ========== Somebody has to take the blame for Putin's mistakes. https://news.yahoo.com/putin-purges-more-100-fsb-043240239.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-04-13 06:45 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514132540168179713 ========== Why Russians support Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/opinions/russians-view-putin-post-soviet-journalism-kucher/index.html Expect no change from within. There are still plenty of Russians that admire Stalin, and Germans that admire Hitler. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2022-04-13 06:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514131908132704257 ========== Why the Russian army is so ineffective except at murder, rape, and pillage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/trump-war-ukraine-russia-brutality-wokeness/ It's as if it were run by Trump! #PS1putin ===== impress 49 time 2022-04-12 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513723687882526721 ========== How Putin got it wrong - he didn't bother to ask anybody who knew and would tell him what they knew. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/11/putin-misjudged-ukraine-hubris-isolation/ #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-12 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513722445227716610 ========== How oligarchs hide their ill-gotten gains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/russia-oligarchs-sanctions-pandora-papers/ #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-12 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513719782616436741 ========== Putin is a permanent threat. He is a product of his background. Any of his other KGB veteran pals will be the same. Don't expect any of them to change. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/understanding-putin-worldview-london/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-11 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513538779679666181 ========== Did somebody mention rehabilitating Stalin? It's been Putin's project for years. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/vladimir-putin-russia-rehabilitating-stalin-soviet-past Now it's on the front burner. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/10/russia-war-dissent-opposition-crackdown/ #PS1putin ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-11 01:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513327535437717504 ========== Stalinism rebooted. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/09/spurred-by-putin-russians-turn-on-one-another-over-the-war/ #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-11 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513315771681673216 ========== Did Putin really miscalculate? Or is he progressing well toward his real goal? https://www.twincities.com/2022/03/31/bret-stephens-what-if-putin-didnt-miscalculate/ #PS1putin ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-08 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512421695197351945 ========== Putin has to go sooner or later. Otherwise he'll keep regrouping and coming back, while repressing Russia and sowing dissent within the western alliance. https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/07/bret-stephens-biden-is-still-right-putin-has-to-go/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2022-04-08 13:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512420686454661121 ========== Expulsion of spy-diplomats reduces espionage and reduces communication. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/07/russis-spies-expulsions-europe/ #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-08 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512261875936886785 ========== Murdering civilians doesn't work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/putin-indiscriminate-bombing-ukraine-plain-bad-strategy/ But Putin will keep trying. Nobody's going to stop him. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-04-07 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511883632675221507 ========== Sanctions rarely solve anything by themselves. They reinforce dictators in power. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia.html They do function as a multiplier to military force. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 50 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 15:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510642498175004678 ========== Putin missed the most important lesson of competitive sports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/30/putin-does-not-understand-hockey/ To be your greatest self, you must respect your able honorable worthy opponents. #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-04-03 15:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510636727752278019 ========== Putin isn't channeling Stalin after all. It's Hitler. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/world/putin-invasion-mistakes-hitler-blake-cec/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 33 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 13:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510615704298393601 ========== Life for small business in Russia today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/02/russia-economy-small-business/ #PS1putin ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-02 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510253503461015556 ========== Life in the USSR - resurrected. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-war-russia-occupation-disappearances-detention-cmd-intl/index.html It only gets worse. #PS1putin ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-02 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510055986693771266 ========== Russia's neighbors know what to expect. They want to fight back now rather than later. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/nato-russia-poland-europe.html #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-01 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509738101169541121 ========== The only sanctions that matter to the Russian oligarchs are those that affect oil and gas, and those that affect military technology - economic and military power are all that matter in Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/russia-ukraine-putin-sanctions-oligarchs.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 time 2022-04-01 03:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509737171401408517 ========== Putin and Potter https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/opinions/putin-harry-potter-jk-rowling-borenstein/index.html He seems to get very bad intelligence advice. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-04-01 03:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509730458069704706 ========== Taking Swiss banking secrecy too far? https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/business/credit-suisse-oligarch-probe/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 likes 1 time 2022-04-01 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509729353004838917 ========== If anybody acts to remove Putin, it will be in their own self interest, but proclaimed to be for the salvation of Russia. Those with the power to act have no interest in western democratic ideals - and Biden's statements are unhelpful. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/opinions/russia-elite-putin-opinion-london/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-04-01 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509714084014436355 ========== Good advice from Rickover - "I require frequent reports from many key people, directly to me. This provides a way to communicate to me without having them filtered through others. https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm Putin would benefit from that! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-europe-00716c99579afeff701af31b32ef7c8c #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-31 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509351703744679937 ========== What makes America strong in a globalized world is not a weapon or geography or internal unity, but its alliances of purpose with democracies around the world. This is what Biden understands and Putin hoped to fracture - with Trump's help. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/opinions/biden-europe-trip-ukraine-russia-goal-ghitis/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-26 16:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507750372374241287 ========== Three steps to increase the survival odds of the Baltic democracies against Putin. https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-ukraine-russia-baltics-aggression-20220321-wseik4uhcvhjlga4gos7qly54u-story.html #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-03-25 15:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507386500924997633 ========== Russian oligarchs calculate where their best advantage lies. So far most are silent to preserve their options. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/world/russian-oligarch-statements/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 27 time 2022-03-25 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507352461043900416 ========== More conscientious objectors in the Kremlin than in the US Senate. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-europe-sustainable-development-aff6614f63d6d4805430cd1a659b3bbb #PS1putin ===== impress 32 time 2022-03-25 12:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507339378217013249 ========== How Germany is paying for Putin's aggression. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/opinion/why-is-europe-still-buying-oil-from-putin.html It's time to really put a crimp in Putin's oil hose. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 time 2022-03-25 04:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507217547258564610 ========== The view from the front lines. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/opinion/nato-russia-putin-estonia.html Estonia is not a Slavic country, but it knows what it's like to be forcibly dominated by Russia. To give Putin any kind of victory is to invite him to try again. Only an unambiguous defeat can end the fear. #PS1putin ===== impress 50 time 2022-03-25 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507216462905192449 ========== Russian history is not kind to leaders who lose wars. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/opinions/russian-troops-ukraine-war-putin-at-risk/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 23 time 2022-03-25 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507200383268970504 ========== Thinking about the unthinkable. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/us-planning-on-how-to-counter-putin/index.html Nothing's unthinkable for Putin, except losing power. #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-03-24 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507000463522078722 ========== Putin's psychology. https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-personality-20220321-7rlrzfvdvvcsrit2vmmej7o63i-story.html He's no Khrushchev! #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-03-24 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506831038231683078 ========== Keeping reactionary clergy and voters on Putin's side - https://news.yahoo.com/why-russias-church-backing-putins-121428935.html Putin invented "don't say gay". It's handy for creating hostages to bargain with. https://news.yahoo.com/granderson-dont-gay-putin-regime-035133746.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 likes 1 time 2022-03-23 20:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506734503598780418 ========== Why would Putin want to stop bombing hospitals? It worked in Grozny and it worked in Aleppo, so it will work in Ukraine. His goal is to exterminate opposition, not win a peace prize. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/opinions/syria-aleppo-doctor-russia-hospitals-ukraine-al-kateab/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1625756491102197 #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 2 impress 51 time 2022-03-22 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506261478470430725 ========== Full speed back to Stalinism! https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/europe/alexey-navalny-fraud-conviction-russia-intl-hnk/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 54 time 2022-03-22 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506259812094386180 ========== Putin unleashes his inner Stalin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/europe/russia-vladimir-putin-z-fifth-columnists-intl-cmd/index.html Not to mention his inner Hitler. #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-22 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506058245978263554 ========== Putin can hold bigger rallies than Trump. Trump is probably jealous that he can't order government employees and contractors to attend his. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/18/putin-russia-speech-ukraine/ #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 41 time 2022-03-19 00:37 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504980313125969923 ========== Economic sanctions - a powerful counter-balance to nuclear weapons - but only to a point. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/opinion/us-russia-sanctions-power-economy.html Push a nuclear state too hard and who knows what it might do? #PS1putin ===== impress 41 time 2022-03-17 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504582668217774088 ========== How Putin got so rich! https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/business/putin-wealth-sanctions-invs/index.html He always blamed Hillary Clinton for the Panama Papers, and so intervened against her in 2016. But now he's just obsessed with power and historical legacy. #PS1putin ===== impress 61 time 2022-03-17 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504580243146698754 ========== Russian opposition - too little, too late. Most Russians believe and support Putin. Nobody else can save Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/opinion/russia-ukraine-putin.html Don't let it happen in America! #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2022-03-17 04:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504317955223408640 ========== "How does the next world war begin? " The great empires were primed for war in 1914. Germany and Russia were primed for war in 1939. In 2022, Russia appears to only be primed for murdering civilians. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opinion/russia-ukraine-world-war-iii.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1622109454800234 #PS1putin ===== impress 44 time 2022-03-17 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504316755304321031 ========== Do you remember when Americans were building bomb shelters in their basements? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-nuclear-war.html Tactical nuclear response is part of Russian military doctrine. What happens next? #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 41 time 2022-03-17 03:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504304156957286400 ========== Putin prepares return to Stalinism. It's where his heart has always been, as a KGB colonel. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-protests.html #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 98 retweets 1 time 2022-03-17 03:42 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504302026162810881 ========== What Putin has proved to the world - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/15/ukraine-war-proves-russia-no-longer-a-superpower/ It really is "Upper Volta with nuclear weapons". #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 40 retweets 1 time 2022-03-17 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504296301994790913 ========== US needs to increase permanent forces in eastern Europe to deter Putin. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-business-nato-5f084c3bde893b44dd087ec69de8c02c #PS1putin ===== impress 40 time 2022-03-15 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503593102472216578 ========== As a former KGB colonel, Putin is no more religious than Trump. But each can spot a political ally as well as anybody. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/europe/patriarch-kirill-putin-spiritual-battle-intl-cmd/index.html The history of Christianity is schism upon schism, usually due to political considerations pretending to be theological. #PS1putin ===== impress 41 time 2022-03-15 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503535391365734402 ========== Economic sanctions punish ordinary Russians alike, those that support Putin, and those that oppose Putin. But will that translate into Putin changing behavior? https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/politics/russia-economy-sanctions-ruble-what-matters/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 37 time 2022-03-15 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503532870782005250 ========== To avoid nuclear war, a messy compromise might be necessary - if it's offered. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/13/biden-us-ukraine-lessons-cold-war/ But whether Putin conquers Ukraine or backs down even an inch, most of Europe will want to join NATO and EU for protection against his next move. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 74 time 2022-03-15 00:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503522507470499841 ========== Putin's dream is to revive the Soviet Union, if not the Russian Empire. He's making good progress, as long as the oligarchs and military support him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/14/putin-taking-russia-back-to-soviet-union/ #PS1putin ===== impress 73 time 2022-03-14 14:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503377134420516870 ========== Russia took four bites out of Poland from 1772-1939, then after the war Stalin moved the whole country west, keeping parts for Belarus and Ukraine. Being nervous about Russia (and formerly Germany and Austria) is part of the Polish psyche. https://nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/poland-russia-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== impress 105 time 2022-03-14 12:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503352481740308482 ========== Back to the future or forward to the past? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia.html Putin brings a 18-19th century imperialist mindset to nuclear weapons and economic and information globalization. Something has to give. #PS1putin ===== impress 67 time 2022-03-14 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503223404635189249 ========== Russia took four out of Poland from 1772-1939, then after the war Stalin moved the whole country west, keeping eastern parts for Belarus and Ukraine. Being nervous about Russia (and formerly Germany and Austria) is part of the Polish psyche. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/poland-russia-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 105 time 2022-03-14 04:07 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503221367260409857 ========== Putin will not accept defeat, no matter how much it costs Ukraine or Russia. So NATO is now planning how to respond to chemical, biological, or nuclear attacks, either in Ukraine or neighboring countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/us/politics/russia-ukraine-us-endgame.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1620019545009225 #PS1putin ===== impress 133 time 2022-03-14 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503219628285124620 ========== Those who can, get out while they still can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/europe-russians-leaving/ #PS1putin ===== impress 62 time 2022-03-14 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503177464465412096 ========== Russia can't keep technologists in the dark for long. But for the average citizen, the internet is completely under government control. For now. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/tech/russia-internet-censorship-circumvention/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 73 time 2022-03-14 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503174042643140608 ========== How is today like and different from the previous cold war? Just ask Kruschev's great grand-daughter! https://apnews.com/article/cold-war-echoes-russia-us-ukraine-0050dd806e5f8748bf59b5e84d15b959 Putin mourns Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire. #PS1putin ===== impress 84 time 2022-03-14 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503168152938590210 ========== Working for Putin is dangerous. When a narcissist fails, somebody else must take the blame. https://news.yahoo.com/russian-spy-chiefs-under-house-163301889.html And a third Russian general has been killed in Ukraine. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 106 time 2022-03-13 14:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503018194193190917 ========== Don't book Aeroflot! https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/business/russia-airlines-sanctions/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 89 time 2022-03-11 13:42 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502278747084316677 ========== "not only will they do it, but that other people are weak for following the rules" A fundamental tenet of Putinism - and also Trumpism. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/sport/ukraine-russia-putin-sports-sanctions-intl-spt/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 81 time 2022-03-11 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502130435647684609 ========== Oppressive strong men are often very weak - because they don't get unfiltered information from anybody. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia-usa.html Whenever Hitler personally took command of a military situation, the Allies rejoiced. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 82 likes 1 time 2022-03-11 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502097866977726476 ========== Where does truth come from? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law Putin is creating the future he wants to see - and Trumpists are enviously taking notes. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/opinion/russia-ukraine-fake-news.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 78 likes 1 time 2022-03-11 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502074654428598272 ========== Sanctions and oppression might be a big win for Putin - it drives the undesirables out of the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html Russians expect oppression and corruption from government, so most don't hold it against Putin. #PS1putin ===== impress 85 time 2022-03-11 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502073676136529922 ========== Putin thinks he can survive sanctions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/world/europe/russia-economy-ukraine.html But stern measures might be required. #PS1putin ===== impress 88 time 2022-03-11 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502072466931281920 ========== Putin pals have some explaining to do. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/europe/putin-loses-his-european-friends-intl-cmd/index.html Like part of the American GOP, they would rather talk about something else. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 68 likes 1 time 2022-03-10 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502064858942124077 ========== Buddhism and Putin? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/10/photos-vladimir-putin-pal-steven-seagal-gets-7-million-for-remote-northern-california-ranch #PS1putin ===== impress 70 time 2022-03-10 16:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501953615501529090 ========== Who's next after Ukraine falls? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-georgia-estonia-bc7d887d4a8bb59f58906459543b1fbe Putin will exploit divisions within each of his target countries. #PS1putin ===== impress 79 time 2022-03-10 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501936446965309453 ========== "Wagner comes in, further destabilizes the country, ravages the mineral resources and makes as much money as they can before they choose to leave" It's a Russian tradition, and Putin is a traditional Russian. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/mali-russia-wagner/ #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 77 likes 1 time 2022-03-10 03:28 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501761763506679813 ========== Putin lies about everything - so this is hardly news. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/europe/russia-conscripts-fighting-ukraine-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 83 time 2022-03-10 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501716153596448769 ========== Putin's new iron curtain - far more effective than the Trump wall. It's built cooperatively with western sanctions and domestic oppression. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/09/ukraine-russia-iron-curtain/ #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 56 likes 1 time 2022-03-09 15:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501581686848749570 ========== Putin is a traditional Russian - dictator. He can't imagine that there is any other kind of system. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/09/putin-miscalculation-ukraine/ Instead his enemies have discovered who they really are and who he really is. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1616942791983567 #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 likes 1 time 2022-03-09 15:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501577123584442368