<blockquote>'You have to be prepared to take up weapons when dealing with Putin. Don't try to buy peace with weakness..'
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'..Putin is unacceptable to the world..'</blockquote>
'..those in power are greedy and amoral people whose main goal is personal enrichment.
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..Ukraine chose the European way, which implies the rule of law, democracy and change of power. Ukraine's success on this way is a direct threat to Putin's power because he chose the opposite course – a lifetime in power, filled with arbitrariness and corruption.
Now, to make sure he does not end up behind bars for violating the constitution of the Russian Federation because sending troops to a foreign state without the approval of the Federation Council of Russia, as well as the violation of Russia's international obligations on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Putin does not leave himself any maneuvers except to stay in power until his death.
So his behavior looks like madness, but in fact it's a cold strategy for life-long despotism.'<blockquote>'It's easy to brush it off by saying that he is insane. Many people occasionally think so, including this author. But there is also another explanation.
Through his bloody actions though he his fomenting a fratricidal war; one can see his main goal – preservation of personal power and money at any cost. Before the war his popularity rating was crawling down slowly but surely.
Despite censorship, little by little the society started to understand that those in power are greedy and amoral people whose main goal is personal enrichment.
The Party of Thieves (
Editor's note: This is a common derogatory reference to Yedinaya Rossia, the ruling party of Russia) was losing its position and needed a large-scale shakeup, which would reverse the trend and restore popularity and trust.
Ukraine became an example of an anti-criminal revolution, which overthrew a thieving president. Oh so you dared to get out onto the street and throw off a president? Ukraine needs to be punished for it to make sure that no Russian would gets these thoughts.
Moreover, Ukraine chose the European way, which implies the rule of law, democracy and change of power. Ukraine's success on this way is a direct threat to Putin's power because he chose the opposite course – a lifetime in power, filled with arbitrariness and corruption.
Now, to make sure he does not end up behind bars for violating the constitution of the Russian Federation because sending troops to a foreign state without the approval of the Federation Council of Russia, as well as the violation of Russia's international obligations on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Putin does not leave himself any maneuvers except to stay in power until his death.
So his behavior looks like madness, but in fact it's a cold strategy for life-long despotism.'
- Boris Nemtsov,
Why does Putin wage war with Ukraine?, September 1, 2014</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
You can't run away
From these styles I got, oh baby, hey baby
Cause I got a lot, oh yeah
And anywhere you go
My whole crew's gonna know
You can't hide from the block, oh no.
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Ready Or Not.</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
NATO Meets to Approve Strengthening Forces in Eastern Europe, February 5, 2015 (why not 90,000 or more?)
'..appeasement encourages the aggressor to greater acts of violence..' - Donald Tusk 'The Payback Will Be Ruthless..'Evidence proving that flight MH-17 was taken down by a BUK missile (March 19, 2015)</blockquote>