Wednesday, March 30, 2022

If Putin's generals are moving troops away from cities...

 ...there is a good reason to believe they are preparing to use illegal weapons or worse. There is absolutely no reason to believe Putin. He carried out an invasion in what seems an impulse of his own desires and fears.

NATO needs to prepare for the worst case scenario.

China and North Korea need to be evaluated for aggression as Russia carries out war with Ukraine. Both those countries as well as Iran have proven to be interested parties in Russia's war.

I think assessments of Venezuela would be prudent.

NATO isn't policing their own members. Orban is beginning propaganda stating Ukraine is interfering in it's elections. Why does NATO allow such propaganda? Either validate it or discipline it. Orban is a member of NATO, but, he is also in Putin's back pocket. There is no reason to trust the liars in the world and Orban is one of them.

29 March 2022
By Stephen Pogany

Hungary's Viktor Orban (click here) (right) will have to balance business interests with geopolitical tensions in his talks with Putin

Viktor Orban should be asking his business interests to leave Russia.

...Hungary’s long-serving ‘strongman’, (click here) Viktor Orbán, has dominated his country’s politics since 2010. According to Mary Kaldor, Orbán and Putin—as with Narendra Modi in India and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil—expertly combine crony capitalism, ethnic nationalism and authoritarianism.

Orbán, who quickly established cordial relations with Putin after returning to office (he was previously prime minister between 1998 and 2002), has bestowed lavish patronage on relatives, friends and a clutch of compliant oligarchs. He has also expended considerable time and effort stoking the fires of ethnic nationalism, warning his countrymen of the supposed threat to Hungary and its ‘Christian culture’ from Muslim migrants, international financiers (ie Jews) and members of ‘deviant’ sexual minorities. The strategy proved effective in bolstering support for Fidesz, particularly in the provinces and among the less educated, as well as among members of ethnic Hungarian minorities in neighbouring states (many hold Hungarian citizenship and vote in Hungarian elections)....

Russia is an enemy of NATO. What has Orban done to contribute to sanctions? Is he working behind the scenes to assist Russia in disregarding the sanctions?

I don't listen to Trump. He is a traitor and I can say that legally as a judge has already made judgement about him. He is at least as much a liar as Putin. The mayor of Moscow's wife? Why the money, IF the money? Why? Just so Trump can say what is saying now. The facts are known about the right wings conflagration of Hunter Biden. There isn't anything else to know and it is harassment to revisit it. End of discussion.

Missing White House phone logs? Ask the plumber. The January 6th committee needs to go forward realizing records have been removed from the White House to Mar-a-lago. There is no finding those records. They have been destroyed. We know from information already available that records were regularly flushed down the toilets in the White House. 

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