Thread by @BogushJMann

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Except all Putin wanted was for Ukraine (& small former Soviet Republics around SW borders) to remain independent & NATO to keep out of them

Russia's been saying they were Red Lines for three decades

Putin FOR TWO DECADES

Never mentioned anything else in past

Soviets let...

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Soviets let 1,000s of square miles of former USSR & Warsaw Pact go free without a shot being fired

(At time China was mowing down protesters in #TiananmenSquare & "we" were giving away all our jobs & manufacturing to them)

Neither they nor Putin mentioned any Red Lines except..

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Neither Soviets Russian Federation nor Putin mentioned any Red Lines about anywhere except Ukraine (& other small regions on SW borders)

Putin didn't even want Donbas

Wanted it to be autonomous region of neutral Ukraine

Then when broke away wanted neutral independent state...!

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Putin only FINALLY moved in (with troops already BASED within 300 miles of RUSSIA'S border & up to 500 miles of contact line) or on regular routine exercises

When "Zelensky" moved an ADDITIONAL 60,000 reinforcements into contact zone & was sabre rattling about invading Russia..!

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Putting those 60k REINFORCEMENTS in perspective😯

UK army has been cut down to around 80k😮

And is being cut again to around 70k!😲🤦‍♂️

"Kiev" sniping shelling & bombing Donbas since 2014 as well as cutting off transport power food & water supplies to it & Crimea

Killing 14k!😱

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Regardless of how mad evil thick uninformed & badly advised think Putin is

Or how welcoming he thought "EthnoNationalist" Ukraine with its up to 90 Azov-like units would be

You have to be insane to think he intended to conquer the entire country with around 100k troops..!😱🤦‍♂️

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 However mad evil thick uninformed & badly advised think Putin is

He was clearly doing nothing more than trying to secure & protect the Donbas

Note as many US military experts pointed out it's standard Russian tactics to move into areas to distract & draw in enemy then pull out!

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Worse not only is it standard Russian military tactics to go walkabout in an area just to wind up enemy sow confusion distract & stretch out their forces then pull out

Also standard to trap them in a cauldron then mow them down with artillery as Russians "retreat" under "attack"

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Which is why most of the Ukraine's original army & officers are out of action

All the reserves are in action

Borders are sealed to 16 to 60 year old men

And they're dragging "volunteers" off streets

As well as relying on White Supremacists mercenaries "contractors" "advisors"

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Hope that's "simplified" what that part of this is actually about

Expansionist Imperialist America wants Putin out & Ukraine in its pocket

But The West has already fallen

Its economy depends on trust confidence & Petro$

We've destroyed trust in our contracts courts banking..

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 We've destroyed trust in our contracts courts banking & money transfer systems property rights you name it

We're taking people's money & assets breaching contracts even refusing to take payments then trying to attack people for "not paying"

Even stooped to piracy of yachts..!🏴‍☠️

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Two Thirds of the countries of the World refuse to join in our sanctions

China & Russia are developing & expanding their banking & money transfer systems to the world

Don't forget China is already one of the World's biggest lenders

You might think who'd trust those two...

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 Might think who'd trust Russia & China

But who'd trust the US or rest of West

When "we" continually prove as nations reinforced by "our" corporations that not only will "we" break contracts refuse to pay steal assets refuse to handle transactions...

But without due process...!

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 UK has only just returned money paid by Iran for tanks never delivered (& already resold at start) to free a prisoner

"We" as in our states & corporations even deny our OWN citizens access to their OWN accounts freeze them take money out of them etc on personal or political whim

@madebybadcode @smitty622 @jamespmanley @TaraBull808 "WE" even deny our own citizens right to speak out about financial mistreatment or to go to court to protect their rights

Not that they can access money to pay for it transfer the money or find anyone to accept it

We have ALREADY undermined our basic institutions

We've lost!

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