Putin evokes Stalingrad to predict victory in Ukraine

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

STORY: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evoked a famous World War Two victory over the Nazis to rally his nation over the nearly year-long invasion of Ukraine, while officials in Kyiv warned of an ominous new attack.

Speaking in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, where the Soviet army defeated Nazi forces in a pivotal battle 80 years ago, Putin lambasted Germany for helping to arm Ukraine, and said again that he was ready to draw on Russia's entire arsenal, which includes nuclear weapons.

PUTIN: "Those who are betting they will defeat Russia on the battlefield clearly don't understand that modern war with Russia will be quite different for them. We don't send our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond, and it won't end with the use of armored vehicles."

As Putin celebrated, rescue workers in Ukraine Thursday tended to civilians wounded when a Russian missile destroyed apartments in Kramatorsk, killing at least three people and trapping others under rubble, according to police.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-evokes-stalingrad-predict-victory-214324697.html

Problem is Pooty Poot the roles are reversed. The U.S. supported Russia back then.

[ymetca]

1. Example Eleventy Gazillion

demonstrating the axiom: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As your personal power increases, so does your corruption by it. You cannot help it, whether you believe it or not. That's the whole point of the axiom.

It seems to me that our Constitution was largely an attempt to address this very problem --the corruption of power that comes by allowing it to be concentrated into too few hands. It's not just about "no more kings". It's about the wielding of power in general.

How do we prevent one tiny group of assholes from taking over the whole shebang? It's always been that simple.

The fact that so many still yearn for some "Once and Future King" is an indicator of our continued oppression.

[Beastly Boy]

2. Putin must be having memory problems.

He forgot that the invaders lost in Stalingrad the last time around. Someone needs to tell him.

[Backseat Driver]

3. Transgenerational trauma is real:

From the wiki: "His grandfather, Spiridon Putin (1879–1965), was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.[26][27] Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by Nazi...."

Maybe he heard plenty as he sat on Gramps and mama's laps who both likely had glorious Russian tales of power but mom suffered greatly under buried grief. His siblings both died before his birth in early infancy and of diptheria and starvation in war time. In the silence of his own mad paranoid isolation, he now hears their stories of the glorious past, and nutures those stories of power or chaos and takes vengeful actions for mama's grief. His wealth and the storytelling demands it. He's one f'd up dude!

[PortTack]

4. More convenient farcical history tales. Russia would never have won had we..the US not given

Them weapons, and lots of them.

[friend of a friend]

5. They would not have needed as many weapons if the US had not sat back and done nothing.