Kravchuk: "I am 80 years old, but, I'll take arms and defend my land"
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/03/2/7017081/
Shut your mouth, old fart. It would not be necessary if you did your job
20 years ago!
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Pavlo Ivanchenko wrote:
> Nothing to counter such insanity than an independent Ukraine with nukes.
> Since traitor presidents Kravchuk and Kuchma gave all her nukes to a Russia
> now presided by an alleged madman to claim to be proud of one's Ukrainian
> heritage at this point may be somewhat premature. Let us see what the
> future has in store for the nation.
>
> PI
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Only Ukraine & Ukrainians can unhinge such a dictator. I am proud to be of
> > Ukrainian Heritage :) :) :)
> >
> > Only danger is he has nukes and reason will no longer apply. Nothing more
> > dangerous than an insane animal.
> >
> >
> > Putin's Press Conference Proved Merkel Right: He's Lost His Mind
> >
> > http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116852/merkel-was-right-putins-lost-his-mind-press-conference
> > March 4 2014
> > BY JULIA IOFFE
> > @juliaioffe
> >
> > In Sunday's New York Times, Peter Baker reported that German Chancellor
> > Angela Merkel had tried talking some sense into Vladimir Putin. The Russian
> > leader has an affinity for the Germans and Merkel especially: He served in
> > the KGB in East Germany, where Merkel grew up. And yet, nothing:
> >
> > Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama by telephone on
> > Sunday that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was not sure he was in touch
> > with reality, people briefed on the call said. ?In another world,? she said.
> >
> > If you weren't sure of the veracity of that little reportorial nugget, all
> > doubt should've vanished after Putin's press conference today.
> >
> > Slouching in a fancy chair in front of a dozen reporters, Putin squirmed
> > and rambled. And rambled and rambled. He was a rainbow of emotion: Serious!
> > angry! bemused! flustered! confused! So confused. Victor Yanukovich is
> > still the acting president of Ukraine, but he can't talk to Ukraine because
> > Ukraine has no president. Ukraine needs elections, but you can't have
> > elections because there is already a president. And no elections will be
> > valid given that there is terrorism in the streets of Ukraine. And how are
> > you going to let just anyone run for president? What if some nationalist
> > punk just pops out like a jack-in-the-box? An anti-Semite? Look at how
> > peaceful the Crimea is, probably thanks to those guys with guns holding it
> > down. Who are they, by the way? Speaking of instability, did you know that
> > the mayor of Dniepropetrovsk is a thief? He cheated "our oligarch, [Chelsea
> > owner Roman] Abramovich" of millions. Just pocketed them! Yanukovich has no
> > political future, I've told him that. He didn't fulfill his obligations as
> > leader of the country. I've told him that. Mr. Putin, what mistakes did
> > Yanukovich make as president? You know, I can't answer that. Not because I
> > don't know the answer, but because it just wouldn't be right of me to say.
> > Did you know they burned someone alive in Kiev? Just like that? Is that
> > what you call a manifestation of democracy? Mr. Putin, what about the
> > snipers in Kiev who were firing on civilians? Who gave them orders to
> > shoot? Those were provocateurs. Didn't you read the reports? They were open
> > source reports. So I don't know what happened there. It's unclear. But did
> > you see the bullets piercing the shields of the Berkut [special police].
> > That was obvious. As for who gave the order to shoot, I don't know.
> > Yanukovich didn't give that order. He told me. I only know what Yanukovich
> > told me. And I told him, don't do it. You'll bring chaos to your city. And
> > he did it, and they toppled him. Look at that bacchanalia. The American
> > political technologists they did their work well. And this isn't the first
> > time they've done this in Ukraine, no. Sometimes, I get the feeling that
> > these people...these people in America. They are sitting there, in their
> > laboratory, and doing experiments, like on rats. You're not listening to
> > me. I've already said, that yesterday, I met with three colleagues.
> > Colleagues, you're not listening. It's not that Yanukovich said he's not
> > going to sign the agreement with Europe. What he said was that, based on
> > the content of the agreement, having examined it, he did not like it. We
> > have problems. We have a lot of problems in Russia. But they're not as bad
> > as in Ukraine. The Secretary of State. Well. The Secretary of State is not
> > the ultimate authority, is he?
> >
> > And so on, for about an hour. And much of that, by the way, is direct
> > quotes.
> >
> > Gone was the old Putin, the one who loves these kinds of press events.
> > He'd come a long way from the painfully awkward gray FSB officer on Larry
> > King, a year into his tenure. He had grown to become the master of public
> > speaking, who had turned his churlish, prison-inflected slang to his
> > benefit. A salty guy in utter command of a crowd. That Putin was not the
> > Putin we saw today. Today's Putin was nervous, angry, cornered, and
> > paranoid, periodically illuminated by flashes of his own righteousness.
> > Here was an authoritarian dancing uncomfortably in his new dictator shoes,
> > squirming in his throne.
> >
> > For the last few years, it has become something like conventional
> > knowledge in Moscow journalistic circles that Putin was no longer getting
> > good information, that he was surrounded by yes-men who created for him a
> > parallel informational universe. "They're beginning to believe their own
> > propaganda," Gleb Pavlovsky told me when I was in Moscow in December.
> > Pavlovsky had been a close advisor to the early Putin, helping him win his
> > first presidential election in 2000. (When, in 2011, Putin decided to
> > return for a third term as president, Pavlovsky declared the old Putin
> > dead.) And still, it wasn't fully vetted information. We were like
> > astronomers, studying refractions of light that reached us from great
> > distances, and used them to draw our conclusions.
> >
> > Today's performance, though, put all that speculation to rest. Merkel was
> > absolutely right: Putin has lost it. Unfortunately, it makes him that much
> > harder to deal with.
> >
> >
> >
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