Russia just wrapped up three days of electoral processes which will define the internal direction of that nation for the next six years and, in doing so, serve as the driving force of global transformation for decades to come. Russia has some 112.3 million registered voters. From March 15 through March 17, a little more than 77% of them came out and cast their vote for who would be their president for the next six years. An overwhelming percentage—over 88%—cast their vote for the incumbent, Vladimir Putin.
Good to see Russia doing so well. If only our politicians had the brains to communicate with President Putin in a friendly open manner just imagine the good that could come of it.
It's hard to predict Russia's future and what will happen after Putin. I can only hope that Scott is right, for the sake of world, including the American people, but it's obviously not a done deal. Unfortunately, it's easier to predict America's future as we contemplate the likely results of our own upcoming election contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Not only are both too old and too deeply flawed to lead America, but the nation they aspire to lead is too divided, corrupted, dispirited and confused to be led even by an exceptional leader. Our key economic, civil and governmental institutions have become dysfunctional for all but the wealthiest among us. Too many citizens have lost confidence in our democracy and too many on both sides of the political divide will refuse to accept the results of the upcoming election. I can't predict exactly what will happen, but I can predict that we will come out of this election in even worse shape than we are in now before it plays out. Add to that this is not just about Biden v. Trump, but about the inevitable fact that we are a declining empire in an accelerating historical moment. Fasten your seat belt. Tray table up. Don't expect directions from your flight crew.
I am grateful, Scott Ritter, that you express a different opinion than our government narrative around Putin. I may be somewhat naive concerning Russian and its relationship with the West, but I have a good friend who was raised there and would be there still except that she came to the States to be part of a religious group. She and her Muslim family see Putin as a good leader and I see her perspective verified by you, Alex Rainer and others who make very good arguments for Putin's need to strong arm the oligarchs and the NATO push to get rid of Putin and take over the oil-rich Russian country. I see him now as a man of measured pace and patience as he shows wisdom in continuing to push for the Minsk accord and to call for unifying all world countries to solve the problems that are facing us on a world scale. He seems a wise leader, and though he has probably killed some oligarchs along the way--he lets this be known. They know where he stands and the West knows where he stands. When I see the mess our Western nations are in at present and the push which seems to be to deconstruct world civilization by WEF and other oligarchs, I see Putin as a leader of wisdom--and I would hope that America will be so lucky to have such a leader ascend to power in our next election. I think Bobby Kennedy and Vladimir Putin could work together well.
I envy the people of Russia who have a much to be proud of in their leadership. We in the United States are just short of following a trained bunch of howler monkeys.
Putin seems like a very smart and capable man. Is he mentoring anyone to take his place? He's invested so much, and he seems like someone who would want to see Russia's success continue. Just curious.
NATO mouthpieces have been totally transparent about their hatred of Russians and Putin. What would have happened if Putin’s forces had not counteracted the Ukrainian NATO trained forces poised on the border of the Donbass?
They would have proceeded against the ethnic Russians in the Donbass and then gone on from there against Crimea. That’s the reason NATO trained them. They were there to kill Russians. Who could miss that narrative on MSM in that period? And some still unabashedly say that. Putin’s concern for the welfare of ethnic Russians in Ukraine was totally justified. If you don’t believe that, ask the Russian authorities. They wrote a book about it called the White Book. There were drive-by shootings, roving Banderite militia groups, complete with light armoured vehicles, assassinations, mass murders, threats, extortions, media takeovers, propaganda control and finally civil war. Banderite ideology is totally arrogant and dismissive of Russian culture and ethnicity by nature because they are a tool NATO designed and financed to use against Russia.
Beyond that, Banderism would get an even greater renewal in Ukraine, after the Donbass and Crimea were subdued. The Ukrainian military would steadily strengthen even more under NATO training and tutelage complete with new weapons systems. NATO would become even more arrogant and conceited about its martial abilities and its newly empowered proxy forces. The Baltic states and Poland on Russia’s borders would also have their nascent fascist remnants from World War Two reincarnated to strengthen their militaries with Western and NATO support. Finland would have joined NATO anyway, whether Putin did his SMO or not.
The Aegis missile systems in Rumania and Poland would remain ambiguous in function, with either offensive missiles directed towards Russia and/or defensive ABM systems in place to counteract Russian capabilities. NATO states removed from Russia’s borders would become supply depots, if they could be counted upon for logistical support of NATO forces, special forces, intelligence and other proxies on Russia’s borders.
Putin would be facing conventionally armed encampments on his borders. The Russian minorities in the neighbour states would be so repressed, it would be harder to get usable intelligence for Russia about even more new American made multi-use missile emplacements on their borders. These newly made fascist militarist states could play shell games with American and NATO made mobile missile batteries on Russia’s border.
They could play war games on the border like what already happens in Korea where entire exercises are based on the premise that special combined forces of South Korea and the USA can covertly cross the border and assassinate Kim Jong Un. They could practice combined arms, assassination plans, infiltration and espionage exercises on Russia’s borders.
Putin had no reason whatsoever to believe that the NATO expansion leopard had changed its spots.
Putin would look weak. Everyone would think he was a coward and a fool to allow NATO to expand that far, to allow all the human rights abuses, and to allow them to combine that with a Russian colour revolution, assassination and infiltration.
With Russians persecuted in neighbouring states by the neighbours and him doing nothing, starting in the Donbass and Crimea, there would be a lot of Russian citizens who wouldn’t know who to follow any more. Then border infiltrations could start by assassination and espionage teams. They might even enlist some of the Russians they had formerly persecuted by promising to spare their relatives. That would be the long term plan made for Russia by NATO. Even if only a few people could see parts of the plan, some in the deep state and shadow government would know it all.
I thoroughly believe Putin foresaw all that. With NATO expansion, Putin saw the possibilities but I think he saw it all. He knew it would have to stop somewhere, so it was the sooner the better. He first made every effort to make peace, with Lavrov, but was rebuffed at every turn. He said he was forced into it. He even admitted some kind of desperation and being backed into a corner.
We have disinformation and misinformation logs of enmities in our eyes and we propose to remove a few flecks of dust from theirs. The dust, motes, logs and beams are hatred, enmities and anger.
Matthew 7:3-5 (KJV) 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
They will say that they don’t hate Russia. They say that NATO is a peaceful alliance. But how is it that they love Russians? The Russians simply don’t feel the love in NATO rhetoric. It’s hate, so they vote Putin, because most of them know what he is up against.
The few of them in NATO that are honest might have a hard time saying they have any love for Russians, if they have any conception of love. NATO expansion is, was and remains a threat. NATO expansion is not love. And it could very easily lead to nuclear war, nuclear winter and global extinction. Nuclear war is not love. It’s most likely global extinction.
The most disappointing, to me, aspect of events related to the SMO is the fact a number of native Russians have succumbed to the same western propaganda, related to the relationship between the western nations and Russia, that a large number of citizens of said western nations have bought into. Just as Sméagol's eyes caught the faint glimmer of the ring, gullible Russians seem to have caught the faint glimmer of western mythology.
Russia probably has a number of problems, but every nation does. It's a shame Russians abandon the potential of their homeland for the propaganda they have consumed. Such Russians would have never succeeded in the western US of the 1800's.
So US commentators say that the Russian election was a sham do they? This from a divided country ruled by gangster-like ‘families’ where the electorate is asked to pick between the least-worst candidates. Half of the US electorate firmly believe that their elections are not credible.
Your assessment fits my own, and embellishes it as well. Good thinking and good writing both, a not unexpected satisfaction of continued reading your work.
And congratulations to the people of Russia---and the Federation.
Time will tell if your prescription for Russian leadership is accepted by patient Vladimir Putin. There is much to gain but there’s also much to lose. It would be historically tragic if he swallowed the recipe before training younger leaders how to properly care for and lead the bear.
A “temporary” pier US is building in Gaza is -- to export intentionally starved and utterly desperate Palestinians to, perhaps St. Helena or northern Pakistan – but out of Palestine. A Nakba-2 horror.
The ones who remain will – die, according to Nazi-dominated Israeli government.
US-Israel cabal is implementing Hitler’s “Final Solution” – we are watching it in real time on TV.
Good to see Russia doing so well. If only our politicians had the brains to communicate with President Putin in a friendly open manner just imagine the good that could come of it.
It's hard to predict Russia's future and what will happen after Putin. I can only hope that Scott is right, for the sake of world, including the American people, but it's obviously not a done deal. Unfortunately, it's easier to predict America's future as we contemplate the likely results of our own upcoming election contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Not only are both too old and too deeply flawed to lead America, but the nation they aspire to lead is too divided, corrupted, dispirited and confused to be led even by an exceptional leader. Our key economic, civil and governmental institutions have become dysfunctional for all but the wealthiest among us. Too many citizens have lost confidence in our democracy and too many on both sides of the political divide will refuse to accept the results of the upcoming election. I can't predict exactly what will happen, but I can predict that we will come out of this election in even worse shape than we are in now before it plays out. Add to that this is not just about Biden v. Trump, but about the inevitable fact that we are a declining empire in an accelerating historical moment. Fasten your seat belt. Tray table up. Don't expect directions from your flight crew.
I am grateful, Scott Ritter, that you express a different opinion than our government narrative around Putin. I may be somewhat naive concerning Russian and its relationship with the West, but I have a good friend who was raised there and would be there still except that she came to the States to be part of a religious group. She and her Muslim family see Putin as a good leader and I see her perspective verified by you, Alex Rainer and others who make very good arguments for Putin's need to strong arm the oligarchs and the NATO push to get rid of Putin and take over the oil-rich Russian country. I see him now as a man of measured pace and patience as he shows wisdom in continuing to push for the Minsk accord and to call for unifying all world countries to solve the problems that are facing us on a world scale. He seems a wise leader, and though he has probably killed some oligarchs along the way--he lets this be known. They know where he stands and the West knows where he stands. When I see the mess our Western nations are in at present and the push which seems to be to deconstruct world civilization by WEF and other oligarchs, I see Putin as a leader of wisdom--and I would hope that America will be so lucky to have such a leader ascend to power in our next election. I think Bobby Kennedy and Vladimir Putin could work together well.
I envy the people of Russia who have a much to be proud of in their leadership. We in the United States are just short of following a trained bunch of howler monkeys.
Putin seems like a very smart and capable man. Is he mentoring anyone to take his place? He's invested so much, and he seems like someone who would want to see Russia's success continue. Just curious.
NATO mouthpieces have been totally transparent about their hatred of Russians and Putin. What would have happened if Putin’s forces had not counteracted the Ukrainian NATO trained forces poised on the border of the Donbass?
They would have proceeded against the ethnic Russians in the Donbass and then gone on from there against Crimea. That’s the reason NATO trained them. They were there to kill Russians. Who could miss that narrative on MSM in that period? And some still unabashedly say that. Putin’s concern for the welfare of ethnic Russians in Ukraine was totally justified. If you don’t believe that, ask the Russian authorities. They wrote a book about it called the White Book. There were drive-by shootings, roving Banderite militia groups, complete with light armoured vehicles, assassinations, mass murders, threats, extortions, media takeovers, propaganda control and finally civil war. Banderite ideology is totally arrogant and dismissive of Russian culture and ethnicity by nature because they are a tool NATO designed and financed to use against Russia.
Beyond that, Banderism would get an even greater renewal in Ukraine, after the Donbass and Crimea were subdued. The Ukrainian military would steadily strengthen even more under NATO training and tutelage complete with new weapons systems. NATO would become even more arrogant and conceited about its martial abilities and its newly empowered proxy forces. The Baltic states and Poland on Russia’s borders would also have their nascent fascist remnants from World War Two reincarnated to strengthen their militaries with Western and NATO support. Finland would have joined NATO anyway, whether Putin did his SMO or not.
The Aegis missile systems in Rumania and Poland would remain ambiguous in function, with either offensive missiles directed towards Russia and/or defensive ABM systems in place to counteract Russian capabilities. NATO states removed from Russia’s borders would become supply depots, if they could be counted upon for logistical support of NATO forces, special forces, intelligence and other proxies on Russia’s borders.
Putin would be facing conventionally armed encampments on his borders. The Russian minorities in the neighbour states would be so repressed, it would be harder to get usable intelligence for Russia about even more new American made multi-use missile emplacements on their borders. These newly made fascist militarist states could play shell games with American and NATO made mobile missile batteries on Russia’s border.
They could play war games on the border like what already happens in Korea where entire exercises are based on the premise that special combined forces of South Korea and the USA can covertly cross the border and assassinate Kim Jong Un. They could practice combined arms, assassination plans, infiltration and espionage exercises on Russia’s borders.
Putin had no reason whatsoever to believe that the NATO expansion leopard had changed its spots.
Putin would look weak. Everyone would think he was a coward and a fool to allow NATO to expand that far, to allow all the human rights abuses, and to allow them to combine that with a Russian colour revolution, assassination and infiltration.
With Russians persecuted in neighbouring states by the neighbours and him doing nothing, starting in the Donbass and Crimea, there would be a lot of Russian citizens who wouldn’t know who to follow any more. Then border infiltrations could start by assassination and espionage teams. They might even enlist some of the Russians they had formerly persecuted by promising to spare their relatives. That would be the long term plan made for Russia by NATO. Even if only a few people could see parts of the plan, some in the deep state and shadow government would know it all.
I thoroughly believe Putin foresaw all that. With NATO expansion, Putin saw the possibilities but I think he saw it all. He knew it would have to stop somewhere, so it was the sooner the better. He first made every effort to make peace, with Lavrov, but was rebuffed at every turn. He said he was forced into it. He even admitted some kind of desperation and being backed into a corner.
We have disinformation and misinformation logs of enmities in our eyes and we propose to remove a few flecks of dust from theirs. The dust, motes, logs and beams are hatred, enmities and anger.
Matthew 7:3-5 (KJV) 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
They will say that they don’t hate Russia. They say that NATO is a peaceful alliance. But how is it that they love Russians? The Russians simply don’t feel the love in NATO rhetoric. It’s hate, so they vote Putin, because most of them know what he is up against.
The few of them in NATO that are honest might have a hard time saying they have any love for Russians, if they have any conception of love. NATO expansion is, was and remains a threat. NATO expansion is not love. And it could very easily lead to nuclear war, nuclear winter and global extinction. Nuclear war is not love. It’s most likely global extinction.
Can you (or one of the commentators) recommend a reliable book in English which explains events in Russia after the fall of the USSR?
The most disappointing, to me, aspect of events related to the SMO is the fact a number of native Russians have succumbed to the same western propaganda, related to the relationship between the western nations and Russia, that a large number of citizens of said western nations have bought into. Just as Sméagol's eyes caught the faint glimmer of the ring, gullible Russians seem to have caught the faint glimmer of western mythology.
Russia probably has a number of problems, but every nation does. It's a shame Russians abandon the potential of their homeland for the propaganda they have consumed. Such Russians would have never succeeded in the western US of the 1800's.
So US commentators say that the Russian election was a sham do they? This from a divided country ruled by gangster-like ‘families’ where the electorate is asked to pick between the least-worst candidates. Half of the US electorate firmly believe that their elections are not credible.
Your assessment fits my own, and embellishes it as well. Good thinking and good writing both, a not unexpected satisfaction of continued reading your work.
And congratulations to the people of Russia---and the Federation.
Scott is the voice of sanity and reason, a true son of democracy and free speech. Thank you from St Petersburg, Scott!
Time will tell if your prescription for Russian leadership is accepted by patient Vladimir Putin. There is much to gain but there’s also much to lose. It would be historically tragic if he swallowed the recipe before training younger leaders how to properly care for and lead the bear.
who did the other 12% vote for if not Putin? The communist party?
Did that 77% receive fair & balanced news such that they were able to make a well reasoned judgment?
Is there a possibility that a significant % of that 77% felt compelled to vote, or else?
Just trying to present some balanced questions here.
Putin is like Odysseus, Russia, Circe, loves him, and he loves her back ... https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/circes-magick-spell-on-odysseus
Think about it – A Genocide in YOUR Name !!
A “temporary” pier US is building in Gaza is -- to export intentionally starved and utterly desperate Palestinians to, perhaps St. Helena or northern Pakistan – but out of Palestine. A Nakba-2 horror.
The ones who remain will – die, according to Nazi-dominated Israeli government.
US-Israel cabal is implementing Hitler’s “Final Solution” – we are watching it in real time on TV.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-trojan-horse-read-by-eunice?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2