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The Force is With Me
An act of terror was what brought Putin to power .. and terrorism has always been a useful tool in Putin's arsenal.
The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...partment-house-bombings-was-putin-responsible
Putin May Have Bombed His Own Metro
It is not unthinkable. He’s done it before.
excerpt ..
... Putin’s Russia is a terrorist state. For one, it uses Terror internally. The Chechnyan government kidnaps and murders people who are gay.[4] Putin arrested hundreds of protestors on March 26th*—*many of them young, even teenagers. Putin’s system uses bribes, threats of violence, repressive laws, and brute force to control the media and civil society. Those not willfully loyal to Putin are cowed into self-censorship. Even more, oppositional voices are largely ignored, because Putin’s propaganda state has made at least at least 8/10 Russians true believers.[5] Such true believers listen neither to opinions nor facts which contradict their beliefs, and will never change their position.
But Putin’s Russia is not only an internal terrorist state, it is also externally terrorist. He invaded Ukraine.[6] In the occupied areas, the rulers of his colonies use Terror as a governing tactic. The invasion itself — aside from being aggressive, imperialist, et cetera — was a terrorist act because he had the Russian military remove its insignia, thus making their origins unclear. Force by anyone other than a state is terrorism, pure and simple. So when a state’s military pretends to not be from that state as it fights, that is by definition terrorism.
And then there is Syria. Putin’s interventions there have had nothing to do with ISIS. They are all about strategy, the growth of Russian power in the Middle East. In order to accomplish such growth, Putin is supporting what amounts to a Fascist state (Assad’s Syria is a one-party state, and that party is Arab Nazis).[7] By propping up Assad, Putin prolongs Assad’s Terror. Even more, Putin’s own military itself commits acts of Terror within Syria, bombing civilian targets rather than those of armed rebels. The goal of such bombings is to demographically cleanse opposition cities and towns. Putin has killed thousands. During the fall of Aleppo, “the attacks were so frequent, and some key hospitals were struck so many times, that the incidents appear to constitute a systematic attempt to destroy the city’s medical support.”[8] Statements from the Russian government or the military cannot change the reality for the victims, and the reality is that the goal is Terror, to force people to flee. Europe is well aware that this tactic has been a successful one.
The Terror from Putin’s forces in Syria is a literal Holocaust. It is mass, industrial death of people because of their supposed allegiance. The goal is to kill, humiliate, torment, and remove from the country all who may be supportive of the anti-Assad cause. Putin’s intervention is illegal; it props up a Terror state; and the intervention’s method of operation itself is Terror.
As if all of this were not enough, Putin’s Russia has committed similar acts of Terror elsewhere. The same thing has been happening in occupied parts of Georgia since 2008. It just seems that everyone who is not presently in these places, not being raped, tortured, robbed, humiliated, and killed at the moment, has forgotten this fact. And the same is true for Transnistria*— a separatist region of Moldova propped up by Russian troops. And the same for Chechnya, where Putin carpet-bombed cities and put thousands in concentration camps in the early 2000’s.[9] Since then, the region has been a police state.
Putin does all of this because he has an ideology. He has a vision of how the world should be. He thinks he is a good person because he is making the world right. It is the ones who are killed and tortured who are enemies, not him. It is they — the Ukrainians, or the liberal Syrians, or the liberal Russians, or the gays — who are upsetting society.
http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/04/putin-may-have-bombed-his-own-metro/#.WTV_4bpFyCo
Putin can never be trusted.
The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...partment-house-bombings-was-putin-responsible
Putin May Have Bombed His Own Metro
It is not unthinkable. He’s done it before.
excerpt ..
... Putin’s Russia is a terrorist state. For one, it uses Terror internally. The Chechnyan government kidnaps and murders people who are gay.[4] Putin arrested hundreds of protestors on March 26th*—*many of them young, even teenagers. Putin’s system uses bribes, threats of violence, repressive laws, and brute force to control the media and civil society. Those not willfully loyal to Putin are cowed into self-censorship. Even more, oppositional voices are largely ignored, because Putin’s propaganda state has made at least at least 8/10 Russians true believers.[5] Such true believers listen neither to opinions nor facts which contradict their beliefs, and will never change their position.
But Putin’s Russia is not only an internal terrorist state, it is also externally terrorist. He invaded Ukraine.[6] In the occupied areas, the rulers of his colonies use Terror as a governing tactic. The invasion itself — aside from being aggressive, imperialist, et cetera — was a terrorist act because he had the Russian military remove its insignia, thus making their origins unclear. Force by anyone other than a state is terrorism, pure and simple. So when a state’s military pretends to not be from that state as it fights, that is by definition terrorism.
And then there is Syria. Putin’s interventions there have had nothing to do with ISIS. They are all about strategy, the growth of Russian power in the Middle East. In order to accomplish such growth, Putin is supporting what amounts to a Fascist state (Assad’s Syria is a one-party state, and that party is Arab Nazis).[7] By propping up Assad, Putin prolongs Assad’s Terror. Even more, Putin’s own military itself commits acts of Terror within Syria, bombing civilian targets rather than those of armed rebels. The goal of such bombings is to demographically cleanse opposition cities and towns. Putin has killed thousands. During the fall of Aleppo, “the attacks were so frequent, and some key hospitals were struck so many times, that the incidents appear to constitute a systematic attempt to destroy the city’s medical support.”[8] Statements from the Russian government or the military cannot change the reality for the victims, and the reality is that the goal is Terror, to force people to flee. Europe is well aware that this tactic has been a successful one.
The Terror from Putin’s forces in Syria is a literal Holocaust. It is mass, industrial death of people because of their supposed allegiance. The goal is to kill, humiliate, torment, and remove from the country all who may be supportive of the anti-Assad cause. Putin’s intervention is illegal; it props up a Terror state; and the intervention’s method of operation itself is Terror.
As if all of this were not enough, Putin’s Russia has committed similar acts of Terror elsewhere. The same thing has been happening in occupied parts of Georgia since 2008. It just seems that everyone who is not presently in these places, not being raped, tortured, robbed, humiliated, and killed at the moment, has forgotten this fact. And the same is true for Transnistria*— a separatist region of Moldova propped up by Russian troops. And the same for Chechnya, where Putin carpet-bombed cities and put thousands in concentration camps in the early 2000’s.[9] Since then, the region has been a police state.
Putin does all of this because he has an ideology. He has a vision of how the world should be. He thinks he is a good person because he is making the world right. It is the ones who are killed and tortured who are enemies, not him. It is they — the Ukrainians, or the liberal Syrians, or the liberal Russians, or the gays — who are upsetting society.
http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/04/putin-may-have-bombed-his-own-metro/#.WTV_4bpFyCo
Putin can never be trusted.
