What a crock of shit. Why did Putin stop invading countries to only start invading them again.
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | Summary & Facts
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, military action carried out in late December 1979 by Soviet troops. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until...www.britannica.com
In 1978, Afghanistan's president, Mohammad Daud Khan, was overthrown in a coup led by left-wing military officers. Power was shared by two Marxist-Leninist groups, the People's Party and the Banner party.
The unlawful new government formed strong ties with the Soviet Union, but the people of Afghanistan rose in rebellion. So in December1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on the pretense of rescuing the illegitimate Marxist government. The Soviets then installed the Banner Party's leader, Babrak Karmal as their puppet president.
With U.S. backing, the mujahideen were able to resist the invasion and the Soviets finally withdrew in February 1989 after suffering around 15,000 dead and many more injured (as compared to 2,401 US military deaths in Afghanistan later).
We saw the same pattern in Czechoslovakia in 1968. A hardcore Marxist-Leninist president was replaced by a reformer, and the Soviet Union invaded and installed a puppet.
Ahead of that invasion, Russia placed military forces under the pretense of "military exercises".
This is the playbook being used by KGB Putin.
In 2010, Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych was elected president of Ukraine. In 2013, under intense economic pressure from Putin, Yanukovych rejected solicitations by the EU to enter into a political and economic agreement which was a preliminary step toward joining the EU. He chose instead to forge closer ties with Russia.
During this period, Paul Manafort was a consultant to Yanukovych and was raking in millions. Yanukovych's party was against joining NATO and "spouted anti-Western rhetoric that once helped fuel violence against American marines."
The people of Ukraine rose up in protest, and in February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament held an emergency session and unanimously voted the puppet out in a vote of 380-0.
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is who KGB Putin intends to install as his puppet in Kyiv once again.
It was the ouster of Yanukovych which delayed Putin's takeover of the Ukraine.
With his puppet ousted, Putin invaded Crimea the same month of Yanukovych's downfall in a fit of anger.
With his cash cow out of office, Paul Manafort wandered aimlessly for the next year and a half. Most of his employees fell away with the exceptions of GRU-trained Konstantin Kilimnik. and Rick Gates.
When Trump announced his candidacy for president, Paul Manafort offered his services for free! He clearly had ulterior motives. No one who charges what Manafort charges for his services works for free unless he had an angle.
During Trump's campaign, Manafort had access to internal polling data which he then directed Rick Gates to pass to Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
Kilimnik's name appears 156 times in the Mueller report. The Mueller report goes into excruciating detail about the level of Russian interference in the 2016 election. While I have always doubted Trump personally colluded with Russia, there is evidence members inside the Trump circle did. Manafort was obviously one, as was Rick Gates.
I am fairly certain Trump was aware of the collusion but maintained his distance for plausible deniability.
During the campaign, Trump was in business negotiations with Russia to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and he intended to gift KGB Putin with the penthouse, valued at $50 million.
However, Trump denied, denied, and denied he had business relations with Russia all during the campaign. He flat out lied, and he had his man Michael Cohen lie to Congress about it.
1. July 26, 2016: "I mean, I have nothing to do with Russia. I don't have any jobs in Russia. I'm all over the world but we're not involved in Russia," Trump tells CBS4.
2. July 26, 2016: "For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia," Trump tweets.
3. Oct. 6, 2016: During the second presidential debate, Hillary Clinton says Russia is trying to help elect Trump, "maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow." Trump calls this assessment "so ridiculous," adding, "I know nothing about Russia ... I don't deal there."
4. Oct. 24, 2016: "I have nothing to do with Russia folks, I'll give you a written statement," Trump says at a campaign rally.
5. Jan. 11, 2017: Trump tells reporters that he has "no deals that could happen in Russia because we've stayed away," adding that he could "make deals in Russia very easily" but "I just don't want to because I think that would be a conflict."
6. Jan. 11, 2017: "Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!," Trump tweets.
7. Feb. 7, 2017: Trump tweets, "I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy."
8. May 11, 2017: Trump tells NBC News that he has "nothing to do with Russia," other than the fact that he "sold a house to a very wealthy Russian many years ago" and hosted the Miss Universe pageant there once.
Trump spit right into the faces of the rube herd and lied to them. That's how much contempt he has for them. But his contempt for the rubes rises to a whole new level when he is caught in a lie or disgracing himself in public.
Trump does not backpedal when caught in a lie or disgracing himself. He never backpedals.
In a scene right out of Orwell's 1984, Trump fabricates a completely new reality and feeds it to the rubes and they turn on a dime and swallow his fantastical new lies like sheep!
After Trump's lie about his business dealings with Russia were outed, this is the fantasy Trump fabricated:
"[a project] we were looking at in Moscow. Everybody knew about it. ...it was a well-known project. It was during the early part of '16"
And the rubes bought it. Just like when Trump disgraced himself by praising Putin for invading Ukraine, he invented a fantasy a day or so ago that he had told Putin when he was President that he would bomb Putin if he invaded Ukraine.
And once again, the rubes have swallowed that bullshit and are parroting it far and wide!
Amazing.
And then, while Paul Manafort was whispering in his ear for free, Donald Trump suddenly starts talking about breaking up NATO!
Donald Trump is dismissing NATO as 'obsolete' — and he might be playing right into Russia's hand
Donald Trump Tells Crowd He Would Be Fine if NATO Broke Up
Is it any wonder Putin put so much effort into getting Trump elected?
Putin Endorses Donald Trump For President
After invading Crimea, the U.S. and other nations inflicted economic sanctions on Russia. However, they were not painful enough to deter KGB Putin from keeping Crimea.
But he must have done the calculus of what it would cost in sanctions if he invaded the rest of Ukraine. And so he started building up his foreign reserves so he could withstand whatever sanctions followed such an action.
However, Putin miscalculated. He did not count on Biden and the West going after those reserves and locking him out of SWIFT.
Putin must have also assumed Trump was going to get re-elected.
There is no way the American people would have supported Trump if he pulled out of NATO before the 2020 election. And there is no way the American people would have tolerated Trump waving Putin into Ukraine before the 2020 election.
Everything had to wait until after Trump's re-election.
When Trump lost, Russia's propagandists went into full gear promoting the Big Lie that Trump had won. Putin must have been incredibly pissed.
But after all these years of planning, he wasn't going to let Trump's loss be his loss. And so, with his foreign reserves finally at a level he felt would withstand sanctions, Putin made his move.
And Traitor Trump and Comrade Carlson stood on the sidelines cheering him on.
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China reportedly asked Russia to hold off on Ukraine invasion until after Winter Olympics
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Ukraine’s parliament votes to oust president; former prime minister is freed from prison
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation - Wikipedia
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Who is Viktor Yanukovych? The ousted Ukrainian president that Putin hopes to put back in power
Ukrainian media have reported that Russia has flown Yanukovych to Belarus and plans to install him as Ukraine's leader if its troops take Kyivfortune.com
Paul Manafort Was Deep in Debt. He Saw an Opportunity in Trump. (Published 2018)
Prosecutors in Mr. Manafort’s bank and tax fraud trial say he was desperate for money. Why, then, did he volunteer to work unpaid in a top post in the Trump campaign?www.nytimes.com
What did ex-Trump aide Paul Manafort really do in Ukraine?
Trump's former campaign chief worked for an anti-NATO party and a politician who fled the country amid charges of corruption and collusion with Russia.www.nbcnews.com
Donald Trump's NATO Remarks Stuns U.S. Allies
Estonia's president said not only did his country meet its commitments to the alliance, but, "we are equally committed to all our NATO allies."www.theatlantic.com
Donald Trump Says NATO is 'Obsolete,' UN is 'Political Game'
Trump, whose foreign policy qualifications have recently been under fire, on Saturday reiterated his criticism that NATO countries were “not paying their fair share.”www.nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Didn’t Putin Invade Under Trump? It Wasn’t Personal.
Trump wanted to be friends with Putin. But it was his policies, not his friendship, that mattered.www.politico.com
