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gilliam said:
**Don’t call it chess: **Kasparov, the opposition politician, and world chess champion posted on Twitter: Less than Putin’s skill, it’s that he is not playing by the rules the free world feels obliged to follow. So again, not like chess at all.
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Haha! Earlier he wrote:
Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 3h
Since you ask, no, Putin is no chess master. He is a good tactician playing against very weak opposition. He doesn’t need strategy.

When I was there, I saw that he also said that that “Prominent history prof wrote article making the comparisons to 1938 & Sudetenland. He was just fired from uni post.” :eek: Wow. I often think we tolerate anti-Western professors in the West a bit too much, but this is too extreme the other way.

lenta.ru/news/2014/03/04/zubov/
Professor of philosophy at MGIMO Andrei Zubov was fired from the school a few days after the newspaper “Vedomosti”, he published an article harshly criticizing the possibility of Russian troops in the Crimea. …
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The article by Zubov, entitled “It’s already happened,” appeared on the website of “Vedomosti” on March 1. It compared the possible deployment of troops in the Crimea with the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to the Third Reich), 1938.
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tomarin said:
I would be more afraid of the situation if I thought Obama had an inner “John Wayne” to channel.
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He has a bit of inflated ego himself, could be why he and Putin don’t get along. Could be its themselves they see in each other which they don’t like. Mirrors. 🙂
 
GaryTaylor said:
He has a bit of inflated ego himself, could be why he and Putin don’t get along. Could be its themselves they see in each other which they don’t like. Mirrors. 🙂
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Huh?

Fun house mirrors maybe, the images would otherwise be so different. Putin beats up on Chechens, Georgians, Ukrainians and the U.S. Obama beats up on…well…the Little Sisters of the Poor.
 
20:12: A TV presenter working for the Kremlin-funded broadcaster Russia Today earlier denounced her country’s “military intervention” in Ukraine as “wrong”.
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“Just because I work here doesn’t mean I don’t have editorial independence,” Abby Martin declared on-air. Watch what else she had to say.
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bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26428296

Hmm…rather strange for RT…I can’t deny that I am suspicious. They are sending her to Crimea to get a more “close-up” view of the situation.

Full story:

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26440556
 
GaryTaylor said:
He has a bit of inflated ego himself, could be why he and Putin don’t get along. Could be its themselves they see in each other which they don’t like. Mirrors. 🙂
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I don’t think anyone really gets along with Putin, they get in line behind him. What happens when you put a bunch of alpha males in a room together?
 
GraceSofia said:
Haha! Earlier he wrote:
Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 3h
Since you ask, no, Putin is no chess master. He is a good tactician playing against very weak opposition. He doesn’t need strategy.
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That’s a fascinating quote. Learning tactics are the best way to quickly improve at the game of chess. But strategy is ultimately more important. So a strategy-minded opponent of Putin’s can beat him, according to Kasparov.
 
tomarin said:
I don’t think anyone really gets along with Putin, they get in line behind him. What happens when you put a bunch of alpha males in a room together?
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The “his people” theory gets more exclusive for sure. It already has. But, so is Obamas, and his stealth attacks are a bit alarming also. Putin seems to have a very traditional approach to this military movement. Hey the guy is a world power and his borders really are his business.
 
Some may thing the word “virile” is a compliment but feral dogs, cats, hogs are verile. When the world is being affected by possibilities and realities, it would be very ignorant to
evaluate Putin’s intake of viagra.

Does one (1) missile get your attention? How many will it take and where may they go?
Putin does not have exclusive use of missiles and it is very bad timing to be “testing”.
How would Putin say “Ooops!” in Russian?
 
Now this may end up being interesting:

A TV presenter working for the Kremlin-funded broadcaster Russia Today earlier denounced her country’s “military intervention” in Ukraine as “wrong”.

“I will not sit here and apologise for, or defend, military aggression,” she said.
Ms Martin also criticised press coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, calling it “rife with disinformation” and “disappointing from all sides of the media spectrum”.

“Just because I work here doesn’t mean I don’t have editorial independence,” Abby Martin declared on-air. Watch what else she had to say.

Since this received international press attention, Russia Today responded that they don’t hold what she says against her, but since she admitted not knowing a lot about the Crimea they would be sending her there. With “handlers” no doubt. :cool:
 
gilliam said:
Now this may end up being interesting:

A TV presenter working for the Kremlin-funded broadcaster Russia Today earlier denounced her country’s “military intervention” in Ukraine as “wrong”.

“I will not sit here and apologise for, or defend, military aggression,” she said.
Ms Martin also criticised press coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, calling it “rife with disinformation” and “disappointing from all sides of the media spectrum”.

“Just because I work here doesn’t mean I don’t have editorial independence,” Abby Martin declared on-air. Watch what else she had to say.

Since this received international press attention, Russia Today responded that they don’t hold what she says against her, but since she admitted not knowing a lot about the Crimea they would be sending her there.
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I just checked her Twitter and she states that regardless of that statement by RT she isn’t going to the Crimea:
Abby Martin ‏@AbbyMartin · 1h
Hi @Josiensor, thanks for your article. But I am not going to Crimea despite the statement RT has made. Please update accordingly.
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twitter.com/AbbyMartin

They can’t make her go surely? She lives in Washington 🤷
 
grotto said:
Putin does not have exclusive use of missiles and it is very bad timing to be “testing”.
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According to him all his military exercises were pre arranged scheduled testing, and went off and ended as expected. The USA is about to do Navel maneuvers in the Black Sea region as scheduled. I’m not sure what your saying? We are more restrained in our military actions?
 
gilliam said:
Now this may end up being interesting:

A TV presenter working for the Kremlin-funded broadcaster Russia Today earlier denounced her country’s “military intervention” in Ukraine as “wrong”.

“I will not sit here and apologise for, or defend, military aggression,” she said.
Ms Martin also criticised press coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, calling it “rife with disinformation” and “disappointing from all sides of the media spectrum”.

“Just because I work here doesn’t mean I don’t have editorial independence,” Abby Martin declared on-air. Watch what else she had to say.

Since this received international press attention, Russia Today responded that they don’t hold what she says against her, but since she admitted not knowing a lot about the Crimea they would be sending her there. With “handlers” no doubt. :cool:
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  • In response to the journalist’s on-air statement, the Russian TV channel said: “Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn’t beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air.”
The broadcaster added that it would send Ms Martin to Crimea to “give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story”.*
 
gilliam said:
What maneuvers would those be?
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Scheduled maritime security, they were just there CNN had a military advisor on last night talking about cancelling the upcoming.

The US confirmed the missal launch was scheduled by Russia also before the crisis. .
 
Putin said what about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, he said its a double standard.

foxnews.com/world/2014/03/04/putin-defends-his-course-on-ukraine-seeks-to-turn-tables-against-west/

“We have to remind them about the U.S. action in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, where they acted without any sanction of the United Nations Security Council, or wilfully interpreted its resolution as in the case of Libya,” he said. “Our partners, particularly in the United States, always clearly formulate their geopolitical and state interests and aggressively pursue them. They try to pull the rest of the world under them and start hitting those who put up resistance, eventually finishing them off, as a rule.”
 
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