Understanding Ukraine and Russia From George H.W. Bush’s CIA Briefer

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by Larry Johnson

You can’t ask for better than this. My old friend (and I do mean he’s really old but sharp and pithy as ever), Ray McGovern, provides an engaging and stimulating hour briefing on the current situation between Russia and Ukraine and, more importantly, gives you the critical history essential to understand what is going on today. The video lasts a little more than an hour and you will be happy you took the time to watch.
 
Ray was the CIA briefer for the first President Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and helped President Bush understand Mikhail Gorbachev. Watch the video and you will appreciate why President Bush listened to this man (sort of).
 
https://youtu.be/sY9KAp97z58

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07/18/22 – Putin Ally Waiting for Order to Smash West to ‘Smithereens’

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader and top ally of Vladimir Putin, said Sunday that he is waiting on an order from the Russian president to blast Western countries to “smithereens.”

Kadyrov made the declaration in a Telegram post that announced the completion of a new Chechen regiment called “North-Akhmat,” which was one of four that the Chechen leader announced was being formed last month to help replenish Russia’s troops during its ongoing war with Ukraine. He wrote that Russia is the only country in the world to “speak out against the infernal abomination that the West spreads,” and that he is grateful that Putin “made such a correct decision and gave us the opportunity to take part in this sacred struggle against Satanism.”

“We are ready to go further on orders, to easily take Kyiv and the NATO countries,” the post read. “Our units, hardened in real battles, will not be able to resist any army in the world. We have experience, arsenal, faith, patriotism, idea and TRUTH! The West does not yet understand how strong WE are!”

Kadyrov added that with one order from Putin, “we are ready to smash the false-democratic, pseudo-liberal and military-barbaric campaign of Western states, which are corrupting the world community in an attempt to subdue the entire globe under them, to smithereens.”

Russian officials have repeatedly threatened Western countries, particularly those in NATO, against direct interference in the war in Ukraine. Putin has even warned of “retaliatory strikes” against countries that “create a strategic threat to Russia,” leading to fears that the conflict could spread beyond Ukraine’s borders. Experts told Newsweek in May that NATO has already crossed the line that Putin has said would justify such an attack.

The Chechen leader has publicly stated Chechnya’s readiness for a large-scale military mobilization against Ukraine and other Western countries for months as the Russia-Ukraine war has raged on.

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Putin is a mass murderer who has turned Russia into a terrorist state.

Do nothing? The good guys didn’t respond in Uvaldi, either.

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Without idiot Biden and his stupid energy policies and incompetence, there would be no war in Ukraine.

Do nothing? The good guys didn’t respond in Uvaldi, either.

Then they weren’t the good guys. The CBP were, those officers you leftists want to destroy.

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07/20/22 – Russia is ‘About to Run Out of Steam,’ MI6 Chief Says

…“Epic fails” is how Richard Moore described the Russian invasion’s three main goals: remove Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, capture Kyiv, and sow disunity within NATO. Moore, who is chief of UK’s Secret Intelligence Service—better known as MI6— spoke at the high-powered Aspen Security Conference here on Thursday.

While U.S. officials have recently called the Russia-Ukraine war a “stalemate,” Moore argued Ukrainians can still win, especially if they are able to strike as Russia regroups after recent territorial gains. Moore argued that those advances were only “some incremental progress over recent weeks and months…It’s tiny amounts.”

Yet those advances depleted the Russia army, which now occupies cities it leveled and earth it scorched to push back Ukraine’s Western-armed resistance, he said…

US and UK intelligence services correctly predicted Putin’s invasion months in advance, despite the repeated denials of Vladimir Putin and Putin-friendly propagandists, foreign and domestic. Russia can’t sustain their effort for months. They’ve lost an estimated 15,000 of their military forces. Separatists in the occupied territories are now relying on forced conscription to cover their losses, which wins no friends for their cause.

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