Showing posts with label post-Soviet. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Krumblin 2 - 2024

24-6-9 Bill Browder: how Ruscia really works & surviving P00tin | iai > .
24-5-12 Shoigu Replaced: Belousov, Shoigu, Patrushev - Mark Galeotti > .24-5-8 Новый срок Путина | [Tsar Runt's Despotic Reign of Horror] | Katz > .
24-5-2 Stephen Kotkin: Russia’s Murky Future | Foreign Affairs Interview > .24-4-21 Путин vs СССР | P00tin vs USSR | Relative Stability? (subs) - Katz > .
24-4-19 Age of Wars:[Karaganov's Bellicose Ode to Axis of Envious Resentment - gtbt > .
24-3-21 'Late P00tinism' - R-U failure as Krumblin 'clings to power' | Galeotti > .
24-3-17 Collapse of R's Arms Exports - Competitors, Ukraine, Future - Perun > .24-3-7 Захват власти силой | Violent Takeover | Odds & Consequences (subs) > .24-3-1 Mikhail Khodorkovsky's advice for Western leaders - CBC > .24-2-29 Why Russia’s Economy is Pathetic - Icarus > .
24-2-27 Opinion Poll | 82% за окончание войны | 82% Against War (subs) - Katz > .
24-2-17 P00’s regime ‘fragile’; risks ‘toppling over’ | Christopher Steele > .24-2-10 Путин у Карлсона | [P00ti & Zucker | Demented Dicktator] (subs) > .
24-1-28 Pillars of Russia. On What Does Russian Success or Failure Rest? - gtbt > .22-8-22 P00ti’s Secret Neo-Nazi Armies | Decade of Hate | VICE > .
"Election" March 15-17, 2024  
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24-3-31 Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers, trends in race to rearm - Perun > .> Drones >> >> Drones >>>
Sudan & Syria 
24-2-4 Zaluzhny Article - New Warfare Doctrine to Beat Ruscia - Ukraine Matters > .
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> Krumblin 2023 >>
> Krumblin 2024 >>Krumblin - αλλο >> .
P00paganda, Krumblin Ruscism - Alētheiai >> .Propaganda, Fake News, Cyberpolitics - Armor >> .
R-U Winter 2023-4 - αλλο >> .



23-11-26 OPINION: Why Ukraine Can and Will Win KYIV POST

23-6-10 Opposition leaders have begun to plan for the end of the regime – and some believe it is now inevitable: "Nearly 300 exiled Russian opposition politicians and activists gathered to discuss these questions in the European parliament earlier this week, the congress coming as news broke of the Nova Kakhovka dam destruction, the latest grim episode in Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. ... The Brussels forum, convened by four MEPs, was the first such gathering to be given official status by a European parliamentary body, as some in Europe start thinking about how the contours of a post-Putin Russia would look.

Pobedobesie (победобесие, 'victory frenzy, victory mania or obsession with victory') is a pejorative term used to describe the "hyperbolic celebrations" of Victory Day in Russia. This has been dubbed the Victory Cult. The term has been extended to refer to the weaponization of the legacy of World War II to justify Russia's aggressive policies and an increase of militarism, using the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany for p00paganda purposes.

"Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, pointed out that the term “Russophobia” is an attempt [by the Krumblin] to justify the Russian Federation’s war crimes in Ukraine. The harm being done to Russians and Russian Federation culture is primarily due to Moscow’s own policies and actions, he countered, spotlighting the emigration of creative Russians due to its invasion of Ukraine; destruction of independent Russian journalism; attacks on culture, books, museums and other landmarks; mass killings [by orcs] of Russian speakers and citizens; and Russian Federation State television proclamations. The claim that Ukrainians are sick with a disease called “Russophobia” is simply colonial rhetoric and part of a larger strategy of hate speech, he stressed."


P00tin "was hella mad at the Ukrainians for this song. Since then we all call this prick as "huilo" (dickhead) and some even call russia as Huilostan."


24-7-22 Comment: 
A few things about the Russian economy that are largely ignored: 
1. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have stopped buying Russian electricity. 
2. Gazprom (the Russian state energy supplier) went bankrupt 3 months ago and needed to be bailed out by the Russian government. 
3. Ukraine has continually been targeting Russian oil infrastructure since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The Russians have described some oil refineries as "total losses" with "irreparable damage." 
4. Russia has made its oil output a state secret, so that economists can't work out its GDP with any accuracy. 
5. 45 European nations have agreed to tackle Russia's "shadow fleet" (used to skirt around sanctions) of old uninsured, unregistered and questionably seaworthy oil tankers, with a proposal currently sitting on the desk of the White House. 
6. Russian civilians in the Krasnodar region are currently protesting at electricity rationing, with many arrests taking place. The atmosphere on the streets is described by locals, as "like an unstable artillery shell, ready to explode at any moment." 
7. The Russian Ruble exchange rate to USD has tripled since 2014 (meaning the value of the Ruble has plunged ~66% in that time). 

Russia is slowly being starved of its oil production capacity, oil refining capacity, and the ability to export oil to foreign countries. Over 30% of Russian GDP is currently used to fund its military. 30% of GDP to fund the military is untenable for any economy to sustain, especially considering Russia's economic losses and sanctions since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine just needs to continue destroying Russia's military-industrial complex, while Europe and the US slowly strangle the Russian economy. 

8. Russia has lost over 3 million people, mostly young and educated, who have fled Russia, since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. 
9. The Russian army has suffered over half a million dead, or severely wounded men (lost limbs, permanently paralyzed, or hospitalized long-term). These severely wounded soldiers will be a long-term burden to the Russian state, as they will never be able to work again, and will instead drain the economy through drawing disability pensions. These injured men will also depend on long-term medication and care. Family dependents such as young children may also have to be looked after by the Russian state, as they no longer have anyone to provide for them. 

Ukraine Forever!
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Monday, July 24, 2023

Navalny versus P00tin

Алексей Навальный против Владимира Путина ... Alexei Navalny versus Vladimir P00tin
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23-3-13 Navalny's Oscar | Award's Implications for Ruscia (subs) - Katz > .
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Monday, December 26, 2022

1991-12-26 Krumblin 1 □

Happy USSR-Collapse Day! 31 years of continued menace, regression, and paranoia ...

24-11-17 Strange Curriculum of Soviet Universities: Ideological - Setarko > .
23-3-16 Former SSR countries escaped USSR, joined NATO - Researcher > .

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991. 

On the 26th of December 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union met for the
last time to formally dissolve itself and the Soviet Union. 

The origins of the dissolution of the Soviet Union can be traced back to the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party on March 11 1985. He came to office intending to revive the USSR’s economy but his reforms, of which the policies of glasnost and perestroika are probably best known, laid the foundations for the enormous popular demands for change that were to follow. 

By August 1991, the Iron Curtain had fallen as a result of the toppling of Communist governments in former satellite states. This increased the pressure on Gorbachev to grant greater autonomy for republics within the Soviet Union. 

A failed coup by hard-line members of the government who wanted to oust Gorbachev and reverse his reforms failed to derail the independence movements within the republics. With some having already declared their independence from the USSR, a further ten republics did so between August and December. 

As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President. That evening the Soviet flag on the Kremlin was replaced by the Russian tricolour. The USSR was formally dissolved the next day. 

Declaration no. 142-Н formally recognised that the Supreme Soviet announced that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist as a state and subject of international law. It further stated that the former Soviet republics were independent, and established the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The dissolution brought an end to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's (later also President) effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism. Although highly centralized until its final years, the country was made up of fifteen top-level republics that served as homelands for different ethnicities. By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics already departing the Union and the waning of centralized power, the leaders of three of its founding members declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed. Eight more republics joined their declaration shortly thereafter. Gorbachev resigned in December 1991 and what was left of the Soviet parliament voted to end itself.

The process began with growing unrest in the Union's various constituent national republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between them and the central government. Estonia was the first Soviet republic to declare state sovereignty inside the Union on 16 November 1988. Lithuania was the first republic to declare full independence restored from the Soviet Union by the Act of 11 March 1990 with its Baltic neighbours and the Southern Caucasus republic of Georgia joining it in a course of two months.

In August 1991, communist hardliners and military elites tried to overthrow Gorbachev and stop the failing reforms in a coup, but failed. The turmoil led to the government in Moscow losing most of its influence, and many republics proclaiming independence in the following days and months. The secession of the Baltic states was recognized in September 1991. The Belovezh Accords were signed on 8 December by President Boris Yeltsin of Russia, President Kravchuk of Ukraine, and Chairman Shushkevich of Belarus, recognising each other's independence and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to replace the Soviet Union. Kazakhstan was the last republic to leave the Union, proclaiming independence on 16 December. All the ex-Soviet republics, with the exception of Georgia and the Baltic states, joined the CIS on 21 December, signing the Alma-Ata Protocol. On 25 December, Gorbachev resigned and turned over his presidential powers—including control of the nuclear launch codes—to Yeltsin, who was now the first president of the Russian Federation. That evening, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolour flag. The following day, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR's upper chamber, the Soviet of the Republics formally dissolved the Union.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, several of the former Soviet republics have retained close links with Russia and formed multilateral organizations such as the CIS, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and the Union State, for economic and military cooperation. On the other hand, the Baltic states and most of the former Warsaw Pact states became part of the European Union and joined NATO, while some of the other former Soviet republics like Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova have been publicly expressing interest in following the same path since the 1990s.

comment: "The collapse of the Russian Federation is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st Century" ~ Tsar Runt, "Posthumous Regrets from Hell."

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

China-Iran Deal - Geopolitics of Indebtedness

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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Bessarabia - Moldova, Romania, Transnistria, Ukraine

22-5-22 Could Moldova & Transnistria end up like Ukraine? - VisPol > .
24-12-13 Pooti Using Romania to Shake NATO’s Foundations | VisPol > .
24-4-25 [Innacurate Depictions of] "Eastern Europe" - Kraut > .
24-3-29 MOLDOVA | Time to Retake Transnistria? - Prof J K-L > .
24-2-2 Romania, After America || Peter Zeihan > .
24-1-9 Volga River - History, Importance; Volga-Don Canal - Animation > .
23-9-17 How the Rich Ate Moldova - Asianometry > .
23-8-20 NATO's Rearmament & Spending - NATO's R-U Response - Perun > .
23-7-8 R-U War could unite Moldova & Romania - Perspective > . skip > .
23-4-18 Why Ruscia wants [weak, impoverished, pro-EU] Moldova - T&P > .
23-3-8 Tensions mounting in Moldova amid war in Ukraine | DW > .
23-2-25 Why Moldova Is Important in the Russia-Ukraine War | WSJ > .
22-12-16 Moldova’s frozen conflict c R-backed breakaway Transnistria - BBC > .
22-12-2 Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia - Danube & Europe's Future - Kraut > .
22-7-21 Why Every NATO Member Joined (Why Others Haven't) - Spaniel > .
22-4-27 Trans-Dneister | DW > .
22-4-22 Romania-Moldova | Could They Really Unite? - Prof J K-L > .
22-4-15 Russia’s Disinformation Spreads Beyond Its Borders | Russia-Ukraine War > .
22-4-10 Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective - CaspianReport > .
22-4-7 Russian attacks on Ukraine → Former Soviet republic of Moldova's fears > .
22-3-29 (full Transnistria) Moldova: Putin's Next Target? | SBS Dateline > .
1:45 - Frozen in amber 
5:25 - Lines on map 
8:55 - ad
10:25 - Forged in fire 
14:15 - Old battles re fought
15:26 - Gaugauz - Pridnestrovian Moldavian SSR - Transnistria War
16:18 - Collapse of USSR
18:41 - Mafia State

A senior Russian commander has said that Moscow is planning to seize Ukraine's south and open a route to Moldova's Transnistria. The Russian commander said that Moscow plans to establish full control over the Donbas and southern Ukraine. As per Gen Rustam Minnekayev, control over southern Ukraine will give Moscow direct access to Transnistria. The Russian commander also claimed there was evidence of "oppression" of the Russian-speaking population there. Russia had previously used claims of oppression of Russian minorities in eastern Ukraine as grounds for military action.

(DW 22-4-29) The Russian military said it plans to seize all of southern Ukraine and open a route to the breakaway Moldovan region of Trans-Dniester. Major General Rustam Minnekayev, acting commander of Russia's Central Military District, said on Friday (22-4-22) that Moscow plans to establish full control over the Donbas region and southern Ukraine, as part of the "second phase" of its military operation. He also claimed that control of southern Ukraine would give Russia a gateway to the breakaway Moldovan region of Trans-Dniester, where there are "facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population." The announcement has sparked concern that Russia could use the territory to launch attacks on western Ukraine, or move in on Moldova.

What is Trans-Dniester? Trans-Dniester is a narrow strip of land on the east bank of the Dniester River, sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova. The breakaway region seceded from Moldova after a brief military conflict in 1992. In this conflict, separatists were supported by Moscow. Russia still has about 2,000 soldiers, as well as around 300 peacekeepers, stationed in the region and regularly conducts military maneuvers there. The separatists dubbed the region the "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" (PMR), but not even Russia recognizes it as a sovereign state. In 2006, the region held an independence referendum, but the results were not recognized by the international community.
  

Bessarabia (Russian: Бессарабия, Bessarabiya; Ukrainian: Бессара́бія, Bessarabiya; Bulgarian: Бесарабия, Besarabiya) is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Ukrainian Budjak region covering the southern coastal region and part of the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast covering a small area in the north.

In the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812), and the ensuing Peace of Bucharest, the eastern parts of the Principality of Moldavia, an Ottoman vassal, along with some areas formerly under direct Ottoman rule, were ceded to Imperial Russia. The acquisition was among the Empire's last territorial acquisitions in Europe. The newly acquired territories were organised as the Governorate of Bessarabia, adopting a name previously used for the southern plains between the Dniester and the Danube rivers. Following the Crimean War, in 1856, the southern areas of Bessarabia were returned to Moldavian rule; Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878, when Romania, the result of Moldavia's union with Wallachia, was pressured into exchanging those territories for the Dobruja.

In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, the area constituted itself as the Moldavian Democratic Republic, an autonomous republic part of a proposed federative Russian state. Bolshevik agitation in late 1917 and early 1918 resulted in the intervention of the Romanian Army, ostensibly to pacify the region. Soon after, the parliamentary assembly declared independence, and then union with the Kingdom of Romania. However, the legality of these acts was disputed, most prominently by the Soviet Union, which regarded the area as a territory occupied by Romania.

In 1940, after securing the assent of Nazi Germany through the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union pressured Romania, under threat of war, into withdrawing from Bessarabia, allowing the Red Army to annex the region. The area was formally integrated into the Soviet Union: the core joined parts of the Moldavian ASSR to form the Moldavian SSR, while territories inhabited by Slavic majorities in the north and the south of Bessarabia were transferred to the Ukrainian SSR. Axis-aligned Romania recaptured the region in 1941 with the success of Operation München during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, but lost it in 1944 as the tide of war turned. In 1947, the Soviet-Romanian border along the Prut was internationally recognised by the Paris Treaty that ended World War II.

During the process of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Moldavian and Ukrainian SSRs proclaimed their independence in 1991, becoming the modern states of Moldova and Ukraine, while preserving the existing partition of Bessarabia. Following a short war in the early 1990s, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was proclaimed in the Transnistria, extending its authority also over the municipality of Bender on the right bank of Dniester river. Part of the Gagauz-inhabited areas in southern Bessarabia was organised in 1994 as an autonomous region within Moldova.

An enclave is a territory (or a part of one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. Enclave is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that is only partly surrounded by another state. The Vatican City and San Marino, both enclaved by Italy, and Lesotho, enclaved by South Africa, are completely enclaved sovereign states.

An exclave is a portion of a state or territory geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory (of one or more states). Many exclaves are also enclaves, but are not necessarily so; an exclave can be surrounded by several states. The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan is an example of an exclave that is not an enclave (bordering Armenia, Turkey and Iran).

Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing an unsurrounded sea border (a coastline contiguous with international waters), would otherwise be enclaves or exclaves.  Enclaves and semi-enclaves can exist as independent states (Monaco, The Gambia and Brunei are semi-enclaves), while exclaves and semi-exclaves proper always constitute just a part of a sovereign state (like the Kaliningrad Oblast).

A pene-exclave is a part of the territory of one country that can be conveniently approached—in particular, by wheeled traffic—only through the territory of another country.  Pene-exclaves are also called functional exclaves or practical exclaves.  Many pene-exclaves partially border their own territorial waters (i.e., they are not surrounded by other nations' territorial waters), such as Point Roberts, Washington and Minnesota's Northwest Angle. A pene-exclave can also exist entirely on land, such as when intervening mountains render a territory inaccessible from other parts of a country except through alien territory. A commonly cited example is the Kleinwalsertal, a valley part of Vorarlberg, Austria, that is accessible only from Germany to the north.

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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Europe vs Russia

23-9-5 Strategic Autonomy: Will Europe Ever Be Able to Defend Itself? | Waro > .
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