comment: >
  
  “The call is coming from inside the house”
context: "You have done that yourself" >
  
  "Don't make me kill you" >
  
  “I will do what i must” >
  
  You will try >
  
  It's over, Putin. I have the (Moral) high ground. >
  
  You underestimate my (nuclear) power. >
  
  Don't try it >
  
  I have a bad feeling about this... >
  
  Then Putin himself is wests best spy. >
  
  Wouldn't it be funny if it was trump that was going to destroy america, and turns out it was putin that is gonna unify NATO and destroy russia instead... >
  
  Putin sought to put Donald Trump and Boris Johnson in power as part of his plan to annex Ukraine and to repopulate a dying Russia. His plan started out fine but fell part piece by piece. >
  
  Imo he really needed Trump in the white house for his plan to work. I suspect Covid delayed his invasion of Ukraine initially. So he basically had to wait until after the 2020 elections to invade.
  Russia probably wasn't able to invade until after Covid too. Which is how he got to February 2022. Then he had to delay again so as to not anger China during the Olympics. >
  
  It's pretty obvious the Chinese knew the invasion was going to take place ahead of time. They sat there buying as much grain as fucking possible for months and months, then banned the export of phosphate fertilizer all shortly before the invasion. Two parts of agriculture that were going to be severely impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. >
  
  Also Putin made several visits to Xi in the months prior, including just a few days prior to the invasion. They clearly wanted to be sure they’d have Chinese backing at the UN. >
  
  Or at least for the Chinese to stay out of it and act as if nothing is happening. >
  
  Remember trump infamously withholding aid Ukraine desperately needed? >
  
  Ahh yes when Donald fired the ambassador and tried to replace her with Rudy Guiliani, then had a recorded conversation with high level Ukrainians saying "I need you to do me a favor, find the information on Biden" while holding up arms shipments, then tried to cover it all up and failed miserably because he is a derp criminal, then got impeached.
  Just a regular day in the Trump presidency. >
  
  The crazy thing is that that's how Zelenskyy's presidency began: with an almost immediate intimidation attempt by Trump. >
  
  I did not invade Ukraine, It's a special operation, I did not invade it, I did nooooot!
  ...oh, hi Xi >
  
  “So anyway, how’s your sex life?” >
  
  "Special Operation, its not gay. NOT GAY!" >
  
  The balls didn't touch and I said no homo! >
  
  So Xi and Vlad, whose penis opens up to accept the other's? >
  
  Vlad is definitely the bottom in that relationship. >
  
  It's true, our first act was to force Putin to activate his military and invade another country. >
  
  
  It's true, our first act was to force Putin to activate his military and invade another country.
  
  You'd be surprised how many people truly and unironically believe this reasoning, and they justify it with the whole "but NATO was on Russia's doorstep" line
  This, of course, ignores that NATO might've actually been repurposed or dissolved in an alternate timeline where democracy in Russia actually prevailed. It's literally all Putin's fault. >
  
  NATO was at its weakest before Russia started messing with Ukraine, all the members did not realistically feel threatened. People thought Putin was a selfish, narcissistic asshole, but they also thought he made rational decisions in seeking self aggrandize.
  At this point Russia itself has been the single most effective agent for raising NATOs negotiation power. Most countries were against joining, but now basically everyone who is threatened wants in, and those who do not feel threatened likely will the moment Russia starts saying anything about them.
  So Russia has simultaneously proven they are both much, much weaker than the average person thought, and also much, much more unstable. So everyone wants back on the EU and US boat, as while it is bad, it is not "sit outside your cities with millions of rounds of artillery in an attempt to murder all your civilians" bad. >
  
  
  NATO was at its weakest before Russia started messing with Ukraine, all the members did not realistically feel threatened.
  
  There literally was a time under Gorbachev when some serious-minded people were talking about Russia joining NATO. That would be unthinkable today. >
  
  Turkey was already a mistake, Russia would be even worse. >
  
  Turkey has a geography that is so advantageous it's difficult to gain leverage against them. >
  
  This guys a fucking joke >
  
  At least jokes make me laugh >
  
  He fell down the stairs and shit himself recently if that helps? >
  
  Nice. Now let's see how he shits himself when he falls out of a window. >
  
  Staircases and a slight incline on a ramp are fascists biggest nemesis. >
  
  Especially fascists in 6" elevator shoes. >
  
  Prick invades a country, commits war crimes and is then somehow a victim. >
  
  if I ever get hemorrhoids I know exactly how to call them >
  
  Corruption is tearing apart Russia. The west just has to stand back and let it happen. 
  Russia is a gas station run by a mob. And the mob model is to give an oligarch crony a billion dollar tank maintenance contract and then wonder why all your tanks got a spray paint overhaul and your oligarch got a $900M yacht in Monaco. 
  This dumb bastard has isolated himself into a world of sycophants that are stealing from his mighty military as a matter of National pride. He couldn’t have created a better recipe for extinction if he tried >
  
  Yeah! I bet that spray paint overhaul didn’t really cost $100M either! 
  Hey! The painter ripped us off! >
  
  They made a deal for the paint with India and then didn’t pay but threatened their Potash supply if they complained. >
  
  Remember when he personally ordered his government to mess with the western world's elections?
  Turns out the western world wasn't too happy about that and doesn't mind seeing Russia get torn apart as they so very much deserve. 
  Let me pull out my tiny violin for ya Vlad. >
  
  🎻 <- actual size >
  
  I prefer this one (You might need to zoom in)   
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^🎻 >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 62%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the West for trying to "Tear apart" Russia, in extracts from an interview to be aired on national television later Sunday.
  "At the core of it all is the policy of our geopolitical opponents aiming to tear apart Russia, historical Russia," Putin said.
  Putin has used the concept of "Historical Russia" to argue that Ukrainians and Russians are one people - undermining Kyiv's sovereignty and justifying his 10-month offensive in Ukraine.
  
  
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  “Historical Russia”? Putin, my brother in Christ, that’s like saying the Nazis had a right to invade Poland because it was “Historical Germany”. >
  
  That's not for us, that's for the people of Russia. Everyone else knows what's up. >
  
  Right.  The point people are missing is that Putin knows we don't believe him, but he's not saying this for our benefit.
  As long as his people keep believing it, nothing we say can force him to stop what he's doing as long as he maintains their support. >
  
  By grabbing a bucket of popcorn and watching Putin tear apart Russia >
  
  Putin: Kherson is part of Russia!
  Putin: [shells Kherson back into the stone age]
  Putin: “Why would the West do this?” >
  
  It's like the meme of the guy on the bike who sticks a stick through his own tire, falls and then blames the West for making him fall. >
  
  Well yeah... Why wouldn't we at this point? 
  Since the fall of USSR, Russia has 
  
  Invaded Ukraine 2x
  Invaded Georgia 
  Invaded (sorta) Moldova
  Invaded Chechnya
  Routinely assassinated its opposition even in other countries
  Routinely violates other countries airspace 
  Routinely threatens west with nuclear war 
  Responsible for a large portion of cyber security threats to West 
  Attempts to fracture the US and allies through radicalizing their politics with online troll farms and other methods 
  Assists US enemies and authoritarians around world 
  Up to some shady shit in Africa (not super well versed on this, just know Wagner Group is in Africa doing coups and shit) 
  Hold gas and heat over Europe head 
  
  I could probably keep going but pretty obvious Russia is not the Wests friend or Ally. If Russia didn't have nuclear weapons it would probably have been dismantled ages ago. Why would the West want a strong Russia? >
  
  Invaded Chechnya 2x* >
  
  I mean at this point? Yes. >
  
  As if Putin's Russia hasn't been trying to tear the West apart for the last 20 years. The Russian IRA, their botnets, funding the NRA, and so on and so forth were all done to sow discord in the West, and they were incredibly successful in a lot of ways. And now Putin is on the receiving end of it and he's upset? He can go fuck himself with a cactus. >
  
  Sure, why not? They only care about Moscow anyway, they don't need the rest of it. >
  
  They need the rest of it to exploit for the benefit of Moscow >
  
  Russia is really just land owned by the city state of Moscow, isn't it? >
  
  Can’t discount St Petersburg. That city has a lot of power stemming from being one of Russia’s only major ports. >
  
  The west wishes beyond anything that Russia would just operate like a decent country so we could all prosper. Russia refuses. >
  
  Seriously, I would enjoy not thinking about Russia/what goes on there. If they would just stop being belligerent/evil/fuckingwithourelections we would happily ignore them and they could get up to whatever shenanigans they like behind their own closed borders. Same goes for the Chinese. >
  
  This just sounds like setting up the scenario in the public's head that when everything falls apart they can just blame "the west" for it all. What a blatant shit show >
  
  Haha, Putin did that all on his own. >
  
  I know! He is such a big boy now! "Whoooes A Big Boy? " >
  
  I would like to see Mr. Putin meet a rather quick demise and the Russian people to have chance at a real representative government that can work with the rest of Europe. I have zero interest in tearing Russia apart, aside from them giving back the occupied bits of Ukraine they have stolen. >
  
  Well said! How can one man ruin the safety and future of so many Russians? This is nuts.  Russia has so much potential to be a great place to live if it wasn't for such a high level of corruption and mismanagement. >
  
  Yup.
  It could have been a chonky Norway. >
  
  Upvoted for "chonky Norway", like some sort of Scandinavian chungus. >
  
  Oh btw Vlad, Patriot Missiles are not ground to ground and more like S-700 to your scale as you can comprehend. >
  
  Russia has been a demographic failure since the end of the Soviet Union.  They are still in a population decline, brain drain is still an issue, their per capita GDP is about to fall behind the Maldives, life expectancy keeps dropping, they have fewer working age people to support their retired population, etc.  So of course it's time to blame external factors for 30 years of bad governance. >
  
  But on the brightside for Russia, the yacht industry is doing well. >
  
  no you are doing a great job yourself..... >
  
  I hope he creates and receives his nation's highest award: The Federated Medal of Grandiose Hubris. >
  
  Putin lies again is a better and more accurate headline. >
  
  Basically he's saying Russia is losing the war >
  
  He's the living "Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" meme. >
  
  Yes. Russia needs to be broken up so it can never cause trouble again. Kick putin! >
  
  He is doing that himself. >
  
  lol
  1.) invade country
  2.) get ass kicked
  3.) proclaim yourself as the victim in the situation
  4.) ???
  5.) profit >
  
  Hes stuck on step 4 >
  
  Na man.  We just don’t want Russia to be dickheads.  It’s not that hard, is it? >
  
  History doesn't bode well for your wishes.
  Russia has always been a dickhead to the Russian people, so much so that common Russian sayings are "and then it got worse" and "beat your own so others will fear you."
  Russia was recently a dickhead to Georgia and Chechnya.
  Russia was such a cluster of dickheads that the USSR collapsed.
  Russia was a huge dickhead during WWII, first allying with and then fighting against Nazi Germany, and committing a mind-boggling amount of atrocity for both sides.
  Russia was a dickhead to all the nations that joined the USSR, so much so that some of the staunchest anti-Russian nations today are ex-soviet countries (Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Lithuania).
  That's all in the last century, and is far from an exhaustive list. There are many, many other dickhead moves Russia has pulled in the last 100 years, and if you go back further it only gets worse.
  Wanting Russia to stop being dickheads is like wanting everyone in your family to get a billion dollars for Christmas. It'd be nice, but it's not going to happen. >
  
  Last 30 years west has been helping Russia to avoid total collapse into a Somalia* styled failed state. As a thanks Russians have nurtured stab-in-the-back conspiracy theories,     submerged the whole nation in the bath of self pity and hatred, and lastly launched full war against a peaceful neighboring country.
  If Russians themselves wanted to tear apart the shitshow they are used to call a country, and start over, it would be the best what have happened in the perimeters since the Republic of Novgorod fell in 1478.
  
  Comparision is probably unfair to Somalia. >
  
  I think you did a good job destroying Russia entirely by yourself >
  
  As an American I don't want to see Russia fall apart, i just want to see Putin gone. >
  
  As someone from post communist Europe I want both >
  
  The irony is that losing this war will likely break up the Russian Federation into smaller states, as other states reject Moscow’s domination.   Exactly the opposite of what Putin had intended. >
  
  The interesting thing to me is that Moscow and StP areby far  the most liberal/western parts of Russia.  I worked in Russia for years and everyone I met basically hated Putin and was fairly liberal (they get weird about LGBT stuff though).  One could see a day when Moscow/StP actually integrate with the west and the rest remains kind of backwards like the 'stans >
  
  
  One could see a day when Moscow/StP actually integrate with the west and the rest remains kind of backwards like the 'stans
  
  So, like many rural areas in the US. >
  
  Same exact political/propaganda tactics as well. "You are poor and stupid because of , be a strong  and reject them!" >
  
  If only.. 
  Sad fact has been that 'the west' have spent more than 20 years bending over backwards to cater for Russia's increasingly troubling views and policies.
  Even now, many still want to cater for Russia's by-now utterly insane world view as if it has any legitimacy whatsoever. >
  
  Literally and unironically: "You have done that yourself!" >
  
  "YOU'RE TEARING ME APAART, URSULA!" >
  
  I did not invade Ukraine, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not invade Ukraine! >
  
  No, not the west... Ukraine is going to tear you apart, by making sure you pay for every taken inch of Ukrainian land. >
  
  Whyyyyyyy did you invade Ukraine?
  Just stop dude. >
  
  I'll take dictatorial gaslighting for 500, Alex.
  What is, coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons? >
  
  I read the perspective of his statement more like:  
  “hahahaha look at the pathetic West ‘aiming’ to tear apart Russia! I did that all on my own! In 3 days!!” >
  
  No, Russia is tearing Russia apart - we’re just holding their beer. >
  
  Canada has been relegated to "the world's second largest country" for far too long! >
  
  I mean, we've kind of been restraining ourselves, is this an invitation? Our military is kind of free at the moment and if we can fit you in before this whole Taiwan situation that'd be great.
  I realize asking you not to commit genocide in an act of territorial conquest that's actually veiled vanity is nuke-level infuriating, so again, if this is an invitation we'll be happy to let you be factually accurate in your speeches while acting out your anger on the battle field briefly before you tragically get all the young men in your country killed. >
  
  The rampant, breathtaking corruption and rot of kleptocracy, poverty, dropping life expectancy, lack of production, lack of hope, white supremacy backing Russian Orthdox leaders, and a land war with 100,000 dead conscripts handed shite provisions, paper mache helmets, dragging their own bedding and maxi pads as bandages, has exposed all of this to the world.
  This is Russia now: Invaders. Rapists. War criminals. Kidnappers. Bombers of hospitals. Theives. Killer of children. 
  They had it coming. If they collapse its their own fucking fault.
  And yes, the US is also guilty of these crimes, but we're actively trying to make it better. >
  
  Mostly agreed, except for the whole "white supremacists". Racial dynamics in Russia are fucking weird. 
  There's a good reason Putin's first hardcore crackdowns (in 2012-2014) were aimed at Russian Nationalists. And I mean "get jailed on fake accusations and killed in the cell" level of hardcore. Liberal Opposition only had a taste of it much later, around 2021. >
  
  Yeah, sure, much later. Let's forget about Nemtsov assassination >
  
  He said tear appart "historical russia". Which means that he is saying that belarus and Ukraine are literally russia. Which means that he will never stop >
  
  That would be a pretty good Christmas present. >
  
  This coming from the psychopathic, genocidal warmonger that's doing his very best to do the exact same to Ukraine... >
  
  Putin is delusional of he thinks "the west" could give two shits about Russia. Of course, he's not delusional, he's just saying those words to drum up nationalist sentiment in support of his failed invasion. >
  
  The west doesn't need to do this.  Putin is doing a wonderful job of it himself. >
  
  I mean at this point it sounds like a good idea after you invaded another country and then bungled due to years of corruption….I mean how much value for the citizens has been lost because the oligarchs hoarded the money from their natural resources. Imagine if they were not the “nation of apartments” and they used all that space to build houses. Imagine the economic boom….The regular citizens are wonderful and they deserve REAL prosperity. Not death in an insane man’s meat grinder. The current power structure is based on corruption. So yeah let’s do it! >
  
  Not really. We just want Putin to fall and crap his pants again. >
  
  I mean… we weren’t. Now we’re wondering if we need to. We’d really like to avoid it. >
  
  Like this is new, Russia had been like the existential enemy #1 since the end of the second world war. What do they think changed? Especially with Putin's aggressive moves and inflammatory rhetoric? Congratulations, Vlad, you managed to ruin years of diplomacy from the past and brought your country back to Western enemy #1 >
  
  Good.  Russia deserves it after the horrible things they've done. >
  
  r/putinsays >
  
  Putin: "Fine I'll do it myself" >
  
  Turnabout is fair play.
  We got Trump up our ass, Putin got HIMARS up his. >
  
  Well, if you would stop calling random parts of other countries "Russia" it would be nice. >
  
  Correct, dumbass.  You’re invading your neighbors for no reason beside vainglory, we want your ass gone >
  
  Looking back now. What a useful idiot Drump was.  Seems like we dodged a bullet   “Kompromat “ >
  
  All he had to do at this point was enjoy his fortune and die when his time came. Nobody was interested in Russia. All the west wanted was a reliable supply of gas & oil and was willing to overlook the human rights disaster that is Russia. 
  Now he's completely fucked it. His military has been exposed as a joke. Europe has been giving the kick up the ass to move away from reliance on Russian energy. The tragedy of Russia is that they've always held a chip on their shoulder regarding the west. Putin has fanned the Russian peoples hatred towards the west as he robs them blind. >
  
  One thing that protects Russia, is that other than fossil fuels, there’s nothing there anyone wants. And even that won’t be worth shit in 30 years. >
  
  Oh nooooo. Anyways. >
  
  So clever of us to have tricked him into invading his sovereign neighbor. >
  
  He’s not totally wrong - he behaves like a child and gets hundreds of thousands of people killed for no reason, so we’re trying to keep him from being able to do that anymore. Russia wouldn’t need tearing apart if Vlad were gone. >
  
  I think eventually they’ll do a good job on their own. A new North Korea on the borders of NATO/EU.