My hit with @SRuhle this morning on these US-Russia meetings, as hostage negotiations. It's completely backwards. The free world should be making the demands of the terrorist Putin, invader Putin. msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhl…
The White House said they have prepared an “overwhelming response” if Putin further invades Ukraine. Why wait? He’s already there, kick him out. He'll keep doing this whenever he needs a distraction otherwise.
The West still acts like they’re dealing with a normal nation in Russia. But while every country has a mafia, in Russia the mafia has its own country. It’s Godfather Putin and his gang, and their personal interests, not Russia's.
Look at Putin and his propagandists' attempts to frame this as about Ukraine, NATO, or the EU "threatening Russia." It's a joke. He invaded Ukraine in 2014. Putin is escalating now because dictators always need more conflict.

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11 Jan
We know what they decided, sealing Russia's slide into dictatorship. Even after Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014, even now in 2022 with Germany pressing for Nord Stream 2, with the White House's support. Putin's gas and cash over everything.
The only proof you need that the myth of Russian humiliation by the West is just scapegoating lies is how much money they poured into Putin's pockets. All while welcoming him at the G7, all smiles. Even after he invaded Georgia in 2008.
Putin had every opportunity to improve relations with the free world but he chose conflict abroad and repression at home to solidify personal power, like every dictator. He's been in charge for 21 years; his track record isn't a mystery. Murder, invasion, oppression.
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7 Jan
There are terms for "expanding influence" by sending tanks across the border. Ask Hungary, ask the Czechs. Tokayev has gone from being Nazarbayev's pet to being Putin's to try save his own skin. The free world looks on with "deep concern" as usual.
Let's hear from Tony Blair, long on Nazarbayev's payroll, and the rest of the Western appeasers taking lobbyist money from dictatorships. They'll probably be quiet for a while now, but should be dragged into the light.
Now Blinken says he's confused why Tokayev invited Russian troops to take over? It's because he didn't trust his own security forces to murder their protesting countrymen efficiently enough. Putin's won't hesitate. They already have experience in Ukraine.
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5 Jan
The Kazakhstan regime's answer to the EU's pathetic statement about a peaceful resolution. Body bags and inviting Putin in to help, as he did in Belarus.
Putin is happy to invade another neighbor, of course. To prop up another dictatorship and secure energy deals. Note it's not just neighbors, as he used this model in Syria and Venezuela to support murderous thugs.
An additional disgrace, Pashinyan, the only democratically elected leader in the CSTO, announcing Putin's invasion of Kazakhstan to rescue the dictatorship from its angry citizens.
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5 Jan
Statement on Kazakhstan protests a classic example of the EU's feckless collusion with dictatorships. Calling now for "responsibility and restraint" as the oppressed citizens of a dictatorship rise up.
Nonviolence should always be the first way, and sometimes it is the only way. But brutal dictators in power for decades aren't often swayed by peaceful marchers waving ribbons.
Now calling for "all sides to show restraint," where were the EU statements & policies to help the people of Kazakhstan free themselves from repression that is anathema to supposed EU values? Dictatorship is violence. It is illegitimate.
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29 Dec 21
Free world leaders giving dictators the status and attention they crave doesn't deescalate or avoid conflict, but the opposite. Apparently Biden also craves a status boost, but this is also the opposite.
For those who still don't understand, Putin stays in power by keeping the cash flowing & his oligarchs happy. To do this, he needs to be irreplaceable, the big boss. No better way than 1 on 1 talks with the US president.
With no legitimacy via real elections, dictators must rule by force, propaganda, and de facto legitimacy engendered by things like talks with foreign leaders. Denying them these status symbols has real power. It dents their aura of being essential.
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23 Dec 21
Putin's press event today was very aggressive, a terrorist leader issuing demands with a gun at Europe's head. He wants direct talks with US which would be the betrayal of Ukraine & E Europe and the demise of NATO.
There can be no "negotiations" starting from Putin's absurd demands. Return Crimea and leave Donbas and then talk about "security concerns". Leave Georgia and Moldova.
Putin is waging war and seizing European territory by force. If Jake Sullivan wants to "negotiate" he should first read some history books about what happens after you reward a dictator's aggression with negotiations.
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