Crowd erupts in laughter at Russia's top diplomat after he claimed the Ukraine war 'was launched against us'

[robosmith]

Crowd erupts in laughter at Russia's top diplomat after he claimed the Ukraine war 'was launched against us'

 

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Sergey Lavrov, Russia's top diplomat and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Thursday at a conference in India that the war in Ukraine "was launched against us," prompting the crowd to erupt into laughter.

Lavrov was a speaker at India's G20 Summit in New Delhi, leading a session that was part of a "Raisina Dialogue 2023" series. He was in discussion with Sunjoy Joshi, the chair of the Observer Research Foundation in India, and took questions from the audience. 

One audience member asked Lavrov: "How the war has affected Russia's strategy on energy, and will it mark a privilege toward Asia? And if it does, how is India going to feature in it?" 

"You know, the war, which we are trying to stop, which was launched against us, using the..." Lavrov began, before being cut off by loud laughter from the crowd. 

^This LIAR reminds me of Trump.

[Perspektiv]

Those are the words of a narssissist.

Its always everyone else's fault but their own.

Sadly, hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost, due to one man's fragile ego.

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, Perspektiv said:

Those are the words of a narssissist.

Its always everyone else's fault but their own.

Sadly, hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost, due to one man's fragile ego.

It's not just Putin's fragile ego; he is first and foremost a kleptocrat, and there are very large gas reserves off the South coast of Ukraine that he has his eyes on STEALING.

[robosmith]

Putin and the Right’s Tough-Guy Problem

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Putin is very much is the subject of a personality cult not just in Russia but also on the American right and has been for years. And it’s a fairly creepy cult at that. For example, back in 2014 a National Review columnist contrasted Putin’s bare-chested horseback riding with President Barack Obama’s “metrosexual golf get-ups.”

Until the invasion of Ukraine, Putinphilia also went hand in hand with extravagant praise for Russia’s supposed military effectiveness. Most famously, in 2021 Ted Cruz circulated a video contrasting a Russian military recruitment ad featuring a muscular man doing manly stuff with a U.S. ad highlighting the diversity of Army recruits. “Perhaps a woke, emasculated military isn’t the best idea,” Cruz declared.

What was the basis for this worship of Putinism? I’d argue that many people on the right equate being powerful with being a swaggering tough guy and sneer at anything — like intellectual openness and respect for diversity — that might interfere with the swagger. Putin was their idea of what a powerful man should look like, and Russia, with its muscleman military vision, their idea of a powerful country.    

It should have been obvious from the beginning that this worldview was all wrong. National power in the modern world rests mainly on economic strength and technological capacity, not military prowess.

But then came the invasion, and it turned out that Putin’s not-woke, unemasculated Russia isn’t even very good at waging war. 

Who knew that LYING made a "tough guy"?

[ironstone]

I took the time to watch this film today about Ukraine. It's been a real mess for the longest time and it gave me a new perspective on what's happening over there.

Ukraine on Fire - YouTube

Sadly, there are just so many outside players involved and not with good intentions.

[robosmith]

On 3/4/2023 at 3:21 PM, ironstone said:

I took the time to watch this film today about Ukraine. It's been a real mess for the longest time and it gave me a new perspective on what's happening over there.

Ukraine on Fire - YouTube

Sadly, there are just so many outside players involved and not with good intentions.

I watched that video almost a year ago. Yanukovych was ONE OF those outsiders and ran away to Moscow AFTER he unleashed his Berkut goons who wantonly killed the peaceful protesters in Maidan.

[robosmith]

Vladimir Putin’s Inhumane Blueprint to Terrorize Civilians

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Vladimir Putin became the prime minister of Russia in August 1999, then president in March 2000. And in the 24 years since, the list of wars conducted on his watch amounts to a catalog of human misery. They stretch from the Second Chechen War to a military incursion into Georgia, from the annexation of Crimea to Russia’s lockstep allegiance with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to destroy that country’s opposition forces. That roster of calamity has culminated, of course, in the war that has mobilized Europe against Putin’s war machine—the devastating invasion of Ukraine, which commenced a year ago this week.

To comprehend Putin’s seeming thirst for territory and his ability to tolerate death and destruction, you have to understand his underlying motives. And from my reporting on military campaigns and the local populations in these three locales, I have come to an unsettling conclusion.

I believe Vladimir Putin is motivated by a desire to retain power, privilege, and leverage at all costs. A former spymaster trained in the Soviet surveillance state, he employs methods for remaining Russia’s supreme leader that are rooted in his background as an intelligence agent. He perceives those around him warily; his paranoia is the handmaiden of his success. He uses fear, brute force, secrecy, intimidation, and complete control to vanquish enemies. Unsettled by the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union (which he has called a genuine tragedy…. the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century, he has apparently come to see some of his neighboring nations as would-be adversaries and, therefore, potentially ripe for the taking.

Because he believes in brute force—and considers fear to be a force multiplier—he attempts to use brute force to instill raw fear in those who are most easily frightened: unarmed innocents. And as a result, he appears to be driven to attack civilians with indiscriminate bombardments, hoping to destroy the essential infrastructures of towns and cities—hospitals, schools, electrical grids, and water supplies—to weaken morale and crush the will of the population. 

He wants the giant gas reserves off the South coast for HIMSELF.

[robosmith]

Heard an interesting comment relevant to the OP. It was said that it was reflexive from the days when the Soviet Block tightly controlled information and could lie with impunity. Now people who WANT TO KNOW, KNOW what is really happening.

Just like non-Fox viewers HERE.

[Rebound]

14 hours ago, Contrarian said:

hahaha

I can tell you some people from the old lands, died thinking the Americans never made it to the moon.

Why?

Because the KGB sent agents to every affiliated country to lie to the people that the Americans are staging a fake moon landing. 

• Now the battle is digital, but it's the same thing. 

And today, people see hundreds of people on video violently breaking their wag into the US Capitol, they see them beating police officers, using chemical agents on police officers and smashing windows… and they get brainwashed into thinking it was a “friendly tourist visit” and that no-one should be prosecuted for it.

[Rebound]

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Edited March 9, 2023 by Rebound