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Putin Reappears, Puts 40,000 Troops On Full Alert As Part Of "Snap-Readiness Exercises"
After disappearing for ten days from the public's eye, theories surrounding his absence ranged from the tabloidy (fathering a baby with a Russian gymnast), to the trivial (lower back issues), to the bizarre (another putsch in the Kremlin), to the idiotic (dead). All that can be cast aside when moments ago we learn that the Russian president simply wanted some time away and has now reappeared for his meeting with the Kyrgyz president. From Bloomberg:
- PUTIN ARRIVES FOR MEETING W/ KYRGYZ PRESIDENT IN ST. PETERSBURG
And for those who desperately need photographic evidence here it is:
Putin take on the rumors:
Putin on the #PutinMissing speculation about his health: "It would be boring without rumors."
— Kirit Radia (@KiritRadia) March 16, 2015
That settles that, at least until the next rumor.
But while Putin may have kept a low visibility profile, he was very well heard, and as reported earlier today, the Russian president ordered nearly 40,000 troops in northern and western Russia to be put on full alert early Monday as part of snap-readiness exercises, official news agencies quoted Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
According to the WSJ, the maneuvers are the latest in a series of such checks in recent years and follow dozens of military exercises conducted over the past year since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
The military exercises announced on Monday involve Russia's Northern Fleet, as well as airborne and other troops in the west of the country. The main focus is to test readiness in the Arctic, where Russia has expanded its military presence in recent years, officials said. The exercises are scheduled to continue through to March 21.
"New challenges and threats to military security require further increases in the military capabilities of the armed forces and special attention to the newly formed strategic group in the northern direction, " Mr. Shoigu said.
Many more to come:
- RUSSIA TO HOLD CONSTANT UNPLANNED MILITARY CHECKS: PESKOV
As the WSJ concludes, "western officials have criticized Russia's frequent exercises as threatening and provocative, a charge Moscow parries with its own allegations that military maneuvers near Russia's borders by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are destabilizing." Oddly enough, they have nothing to say about NATO parking tanks and armors and various other weapons just feet away from the Russian border.
In the early hours of today, under op #AtlanticResolve #US tanks and armor arrive in #Estonia @US_EUCOM @USNATO pic.twitter.com/KTEoGILJeW
— estNATO (@estNATO) March 14, 2015
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Health issues? Putin is an iron man, it's good to see him in good shape
Guys, you want war
you need war.
you want to kill us indiscriminatley.
your leaders say so, openly.
a madness on your site, you will get the nukes on your head. nobody is gonna to survive this, or you will kill your mad leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oaL5wCY99l8
I don't want a bloody war, nor does anyone I know.
And our (and your) mad leaders are the only ones who DO stand a reasonable chance of surviving a nuclear exchange...
No one speaks for me especially some festooned self important asshole government prick.
I am not bucking for a war, perhaps the so-called leaders of countries who cannot get along should be placed on a remote island to violently settle their differences.
In that way the rhetoric spewing fuck stains that start wars can be the ones to suffer the results of their big fucking mouths running wild.
Nukes, what comes around goes around, you will see the Nukes raining down on Russia as well
"Our leaders say so", while Russia's dictator is flying nuclear bombers over NATO countries, and putting the north fleet on full alert
So who is war mongering again?
fuckstick? ecoute'?
With U.S. macro-economic data continuing to decline, you have to wonder if the powers to be are using war with Russia as cover for the failure of Keynesian economics.
My biggest fear since quantitative easing was initiated in 2009 that we would fall back on war when it eventually failed.
For once, I truly hope I am wrong.
There aren't enough pretty Russians .... for a good calendar .... Soviet Fascism is so taxing .... there are no resources for family formation .... yet the stupid Russian "Lemming Socialists" prepare to reconquer independent states on their borders .... South America looks more promising !
Wow. Your stupidity has No bounds, keep vomiting BS Monetas.
I think Monetas needs to visit his shrink and recalibrate his meds.
Right, the hairy legs, arm pits and moustaches aren't quite cover girl quality
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/nato_countries.htm
In reviewing the NATO website of member nations Ukraine doesn't appear on the 28 member list.
This generates three questions on my part;
1. Why is NATO inserting itself into the affairs of a non member country?
2. Who stands to benefit from this action?
3. Just who the fuck is the aggressor then?
It seems to me that NATO has outlived is usefulness and is trying to remain relevant and funded.
All that one needs to ask, when it comes to who the agressor is in Ukraine, are two questions:
only one question from me: is NATO really involved? or just some of the NATO partner countries? specifically, their intelligence services and covert operations?
It is interesting. I would have thought that if any NATO people were caught, say in the cauldron, that we would have heard about it.
No matter what people think about Russia, your last point should always be in the front of the brain no matter the government (quasi or not) body being discussed. There is NO INCENTIVE WHATSOEVER to fix any problems once a bureaucracy set up to manage it or fix it or go to war with it or whatever. You can't trust any information that comes out of that bureaurocracy ever...ever! It has no incentive to to admit it isn't needed anymore. And while we are talking about NATO here, extrapolate to other things like ACA for example or other large charities. What happens to the people who make a living working for ACA if cancer is cured...or even just a few forms of it if they are the forms that kill the great majority of cancer sufferers? What happens to DHS if al qaeda is eliminated (you create ISIS probably;-). But you get the point?
Humans and the systems they create act upon incentives. Why would any of these human organizations be any different?
You know, it takes time to replace one worn out clone with another, transfer memories etc, so a little delay is understandable.
The good news is Putin 17 will be just as goos as Putin 16 and there are still thousands left in storage.
Putin Justifies Russia's Annexation of Crimea (with English subtitles)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8hbmoc15c
When Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated in Sarajevo by a Muslim .... Christian Europe suicided 10 million of their babies .... one of Islam's best leveraged terror actions .... to kill 1.8 million Christian Armenians .... they had to work hard .... now, Russia wants to suicide more babies .... what madness !
Small detail:
Princip was born a Jew. He was a passionate proponent for the very Orthodox Christian Serbia; and appeared to have no religious convictions of any sort that could have significantly altered his political convictions and led him to assassinate the archduke.
Princip, however, did display the same type of frustrations and desires to strike a blow against the established regime that Moslem youth in the United Kingdom display today.
Gavrilo Prinzip was plan B .... for "Backup" .... or even plan C (he was kind of a loser even amongst terrorists) .... the plan A assasin was a guy named Mohamed Mehmedbasic .... possibly a Muslim .... Ottoman Turk .... the Turks, of course don't like Orthodox or Roman Catholics !
You really shouldn't talk about stuff of which you obviosly know very little.
Muhamed Mehmedbasic was a Bosnian Muslim and a proponent of south slavic unity. Bosnian Muslims are NOT Ottoman Turks, but rather a slavic people (of mostly Serbian origin) whose ancestors converted to Islam during Ottoman rule. Bosnian Muslims were among the biggest supporters of Yugoslavia (while it lasted).
"You really shouldn't talk about stuff of which you obviosly know very little".
Calling a Bosnian Muslim an Ottoman Turk, given that the Ottoman empire that the Bosniacs were part of lasted over 400 years and given the close relations between the groups at that time, is an understandable/minor mistake imho.
Calling this specific Bosnian Muslim an Ottoman Turk is a major mistake.
Well, this specific Bosnian Muslim did NOT kill the archduke, somebody else did it. If I had done everything in my life I ever thought of doing...
One hundred years after the facts we do not even know who was really behind this Black Hand group, have you got proof this specific Bosnian muslim really (co-)planned the murder, was committed to it and was determined to carry it out ?
You mean like the U.S. Who has suicided fifty million unborn children since the 1970's?
Moral high ground that's hilarious. You're a funny mofo
As horrible as it sounds that's 50M less mouths to feed and 50M people who won't have to try to find non-existent jobs.
Suicide yourself before you extol the virtues of having others get murdered. Funny how this is one area where no one wants to lead by example.
And presumably 25 million approx babies who wont have to have their penis,s mutilated by psycotic child abusing parents , doctors, rabbis ,imams etc
Have you consulted with any of those 70 million babies that were murdered?
They might not agree with your premise.
It's one thing to arm and send young men to war but at least they have some form of self defense.
Not much that poor baby can do trapped in the womb of a selfish, crazed mother and surrounded by men with knives and vacuum cleaners.
Killing babies in the womb have to be at the top of the cowardly list. There are not words in any language that can properly describe the despicable act of babycide.
I'm not pro-abortion .... I believe parents have a right .... to kill their "mistakes" .... until they reach the age of 21 ! LOL
They missed one...
Says something about Christians, no?
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the tripwire to ignite WW1 which was meticulously planned by central bankers years earlier. There were 8 Black Hand masonic assassins in Sarajevo that day, and they kept shooting and missing AFF for two hours. By the sheerest coincidense AFF did not have his regular driver that day, so instead of his driver seeking shelter after the first volley he kept driving around.
Princip was just a punk who came along with the others, but he was armed. He came out of a cafe just as AFF's car passed and was astonished to see him still alive. He drew and shot, and the war was on. He was caught but in a twist of irony he was not hanged because AFF forbade any underage criminal to face capital punishment.
Uuuhhh, the Duke was killed by an christian orthodox although his group also had muslims and catholics.
Putin played the rumor mill like a fiddle. With rampant speculation about everything from his sudden death to a coup with essentially no basis, the hawks got themselves all lathered up. He comes back and non nonchalantly dismisses it and kicks off some exercises.
I just can't tell if the USGOV's media arm is going off script or if the teleprompter in chief is so out of his depth that he's telegraphing.
Huh? It was not even reported here in the U.S. Probably 3% of this country is even paying attention to Putin. He and Russia are a non entity to us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/world/europe/russia-putin-seen-in-public.html?_r=1
Sorry to tell you but even, The New York Times got in on it! Them plus many many more from the west...
To all the Putin "lovers" on ZH :
I find a strange that you all engage in this personality cult. Don 't you guys think a country puts itself in a very vulnerable position by relying so much on one man ? One heartbeat away from chaos. The decision making emanating from such a rather totalitarian system is also much more likely to vary in quality.
It should always be about the group, never about an individual.
HAHAHA! Better like Russian and not like US ruled by dual-citizens who don't give a dime about you or this country.
maybe the comparison to make is not so much between Russia and USA, rather between a "totalitarian" Russia or a more deliberative Russian democracy.
neither applies
Russia is a Federal Republic
The name of a country ( Russian Federation ) or the nominal structure of the state ( a federal republic ) does not give any information on the degree of democracy. In fact, most countries with the word democratic in their name ( DRC, DRK, DDR ) are/were generally not considered democratic. Do you not agree Russia is more or less a totalitarian state in fact ? Anybody from Chechnya on ZH ?
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Get back to earth. This is not 1978. Communism kicked the bucket and that is fine.
US citizens though miss those days when they could blame communism with some credibility.
It is all part of the restore a fabled past operation. Claiming communism/totalitarianism sends them back to the glorious days of their fabled past.
Never consider that Russia might be more democratic than the US of A? Funny that you never see this option on ballots here:
http://rt.com/politics/161084-duma-none-vote-russian/
Do you have a point? Chechnyans voted in a referendum to be a part of the Russian Federation. Is that too democratic for you?
Hey thanks for voicing your opinions and thanks for the link.
I agree, interesting to have the option "none of the above", coupled to a possible rerun of elections. But it only seems to be at the municipal level.
I care little about comparisons with the USA. Compare Russia that is to what it could be, please. The USA -USSR dichotomy was possibly a large scale deception in any event. And USA possibly one of the obstacles preventing Russia to become more democratic.
Chechnyans voted in a referendum to be part of the Russian Federation ? After some of them had been killed in a war for independence ? How cynical can it get ? Was the referendum free and fair ? And what was the outcome of that referendum ? More than 98 percent ? ( like the to me not very credible result in Crimea ? ). I know little about Chechnya, so please educate me. As a matter of a fact I was speaking to a Chechnyan recently. He said the current leader in Chechnya is completely bought by Putin. Is that not the case ? ( serious question )
Fuck you and your collectivist group bullshit.
The individual first, last and always
You cannot exist as an individual. It is physically impossible for a human baby to survive on its own after birth. This dependence remains into adult life. Think of all the tools you use, every day and ask yourself, did you make them? Did you invent them? Did you teach yourself how to use them? Did you create your own language to understand the world? That means you rely on others to survive... from birth. Now, I am all for individual rights and I value the importance of individual effort and inspiration to further the self and society, but it is as groups that we survive and prosper. I know this will likely cause you some discomfort and you will likely lash out at me but... I do what I can to help you understand the world :)
All animals cannot survive at birth... that is why the parant(s) take care of them until they can.
Yes man invented tools, and not for the collective.
Man does not rely on others, but does enjoy their company, talent and their skills.
The individual forms what you call the collective,,, the collective does not form the individual.
Your premise is wrong and dangerous and is why this society is so screwed.
1million up arrows
I like your individual appreciation of the bias confirming collective understanding of indivisualism.
You have the following quote only half right:
I like how you call my premise wrong... and dangerous (apparently, in your mind, I cannot hold my individually formed opinion because it messes with the collective reality of individualists... how's that for a mind fuck?).
The individual and the collective are part of the same whole, one cannot exist without the other, like ying and yang. I know this is a difficult thing to perceive as they appear to be opposites.
It's a false argument. Did Indians invent the bow, the spear or fire? Did the Chinese or Egyptians or Romans? These things simultaneously occurred throughout the world which would indicate that everyone has the ability to think critically and problem solve, though not all choose to.
Further the child is the result of a willful joining of individuals to form a family. Are you equating the government or society as a whole as my parents or family?
I don't owe ANYTHING to anybody nor is my life somehow inexorably joined to everyone on earth. My parents taught me and they were actually married to each other and they actually were responsible for the raising and nurturing and training and educating of their creation not the state its organizations or its citizens.
Further your statement is wholly dangerous and asinine on its face. The next thing you'll say is I didnt build it etc. Allow me to ask you some questions do you own a home?
Does the door lock?
Why?
Why not throw the doors open and welcome everyone in, you didn't build it did you?
Do you know how to build anything?
Do you save money or have retirement account?
If so why?
Wouldn't it better serve the collective "group" to give your possessions to the collective that don't have as much as you?
As I said fuck you and your collectivist bullshit.
Your passion for the subject clouds your comprehension of my message. You are nothing without the collective, language, knowledge, everything. The collective is nothing without the individual desires and talents of it members. Read Adam Smith (the paragon of economic individualism). He is talking about collectivism, for indivisualist reasons. You fail to see that individualism and collectivism are like ying and yang, they are two parts of the whole and completely insepearable from each other.
You, also, falsely interpret my statement to mean that I seek collective control over the individual but no where in my original statement did I call for more government or even less individual rights. There is power in both individualism and collectivism, the trick is to find the balance.
So humans created all that stuff...and rear children...out of the kindness of their collectivist hearts? Not out of incentives for them individually? Even if that incentive, for a parent to raise a child, is just to enjoy the baby because they like babies...it's still an incentive (when actually there has long been a sort of "cupport me when I am old" incentive to having children anyway).
All of the things you cite benefited the people who created them at the time they did it and didn't stop then but are still being refined today...out of personal incentives. How do you not see that and what fairy and rainbow land of collectivist utopia do you imagine we exist in (and have existed in forever apparently) on this earth?
You did not answer my question. Did you create any of the tools you use on a daily basis? Individual incentive is a fantastic motivator and no where did I claim we should live in a communist utopia (as such a thing cannot exist, due to human nature).
I have clarified my position above to your individualist comrades, perhaps you can let go of emotion and obtain an open mind.
There is not one politician who I trust. They are all vermin.
There is a group.
Team existed before Yeltsin handed power.
Well your beloved bank run group think pretend democracies are trying their best to start a major war which could easily go nuclear. If you really are the collectivist you claim to be you should thank Russia and Putin for the patience they have demonstrated toward the tantrum throwing paranoid war mongering West.
I agree, we need to get rid of the cult of Obama.
In short, No.
Pirate...its hard for these Russian propgandists to "form" an "opinion", or be able to articulate the same
Its all orchestrated propaganda, with the same group of paid posters using identifiable screen names...quite laughable actually
Seen a lot combat with from mothers basement..have you? I know call of duty can seem very real tough guy/gal.
Maybe, some of you have noticed .... I use the words Socialism and Fascism interchangeably .... it's the same shit .... therefore, to economize words for Global Warming .... I propose .... "Sascism" .... or .... "Focialism" .... maybe Algore will weigh in on this !
At least he did not have a cold.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=14f6Myygrk0
Cut to 12Min 40Sec mark
This answers the question of Cui Bono
That video 11 month ago....
this happen since:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-17/chevron-shale-exit-shreds-ukraine-s-hope-of-energy-independence
and oil price drop cripples fracking
When all else fails at the FED, just ask for MOAR WOAR.
Just this morning, on Fox & Friends, I heard Bartiromo say that the FED is manipulating the markets!
Who would've thought?
Yea, all those PhD's, BS's and AS,s and other alphabetical paper holding assholes have done such a fine job with the money system.
After disappearing for ten days from the public's eye
I think it's pretty obvious that the zionists finally assasinated Vlad were just doing final testing of his cybernetic replacement before they the finalalize the NWO.
That's not the real Vlad.
This guy is an imposter.
Zeroes, of all people, you should be the first to recognize that this is a massive conspiracy, the real Putin having already died by his own hand.
Obviously, Putin was busy causing Hillary's email problems, shooting cops in Ferguson, testing his typhoon 'weather gun' in the Pacific, eliminating soda from kids meals at BK, injecting formaldehyde into Lumber Liquidators flooring, and destroying the hoop dreams of dozens of American colleges...
You don't suppose he just took a small vacation...
I mean trying to deal with the insane nations of the west might wear one out after awhile.
He was setting charges at the next Bilderburg venue.
Are you sure it's Full Alert this time and not Super Full Alert?
How Alert can you get get before it becomes ridiculous?
Bottom right picture is an American Hemmt fuel tanker truck. WTF! We sold them our shit?
Edit: I'm on Pacific time, no coffee yet.
Fergason cops didn't bid on it.
He knows NATO is now 100% rogue. He also knows this...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/15/coup-plotter-list-in-post-netany...
"He knows NATO is now 100% rogue. He also knows this..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/15/coup-plotter-list-in-post-netany... "
And this:
https://youtu.be/w0mimIp8mr8
The Millennials better put some weight on. It’s going to be cold for them fighting Russians in Siberia, so their grandparents can keep the debt ball rolling.
LOL
They'd rather storm the gates of Fedeal Reserve banks and murder real enemies of the Republic.
Joy sticks and quick thumb texting isn't going to get them even within mortar range.
Putin: The last best hope for multipolarity, like it or not.
Welcome back and thank you for disappointing the US trolls and her NATO allies with your continued existence.
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Unable to remain the top dog in international politics, the United States deliberately destabilizes its potential competitors by creating conflicts and fueling existing disputes in other parts of the world.
The United States is quickly losing its dominance in the international arena and that is why Washington deliberately tries to destabilize and crush any potential competition in other parts of the world, Lena Lio, a former Swiss politician and diplomat, expert on Russian studies, told newspaper 24 Heures.
© AFP 2015/ PETRAS MALUKAS Washington’s War Agenda Toward Russia Unnerves German LeadersThe United States can no longer remain the only hegemon in the world, the position it has become so used to since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Cold War.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150316/1019556397.html
According to The New York Times, the CIA wired $1 million to Al-Qaeda.
In the spring of 2010, Afghan officials concluded a deal with special services of the United States to release an Afghan diplomat, who had been held hostage by Al-Qaeda militants. The amount of the ransom was unaffordable - $5 million.
To obtain the money, the Afghan officials first looked into the secret fund, from which the US Central Intelligence Agency was funding Kabul on a monthly basis. Within a few weeks, they raised $4 million. The militants agreed to accept the remaining amount from the CIA through similar funds in other countries, the article says.
Noteworthy, the former leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, confirmed that the CIA was funding the presidential palace in 2013, Pravda.Ru reports.
PUTIN CHANGES NAME TO ESCAPE US SANCTIONS
Vladimir is now called Ras and should be addressed as President Ras Putin.
Source: www.financialpaparazzi.com
Ra's al ghul is cool.
Listen, when you put songs in my head, it's hard to get them out. ;)
A 2010 Washington Post article authored by former Army Intelligence Officer Jeff Stein features a detailed account of how the CIA admittedly filmed a fake Bin Laden video during the run up to the 2003 Iraq war.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-beheadings-of-journalists-cia-admitted...
Never understand why so many people pull their pudding over Putin.
And I can't understand why so many AmeriKans have hatred for him, other than the fact that this week the State propaganda organs affectionately known as the MSM tells them to.
Blow up the one in the chair
Long skinny legs,pot belly and double chin
And slouching and an uneasy look
I don't think that is Vlad...Tin Foil Hat Off
Let's start another rumour..... the man you see in the pictures is a double!
Everyone knows that Crimea is Russian. Crimea has been Russian longer than California has been American. The majority of people in Crimea are Russian and overwhelmingly 97% voted to join Russia, which they wanted to do even back in 1994, but the government in Kiev prevented them from doing so. Of course they didn’t want to be controlled by the illegal, U.S.-funded junta in Kiev, instituted by political organizations given five billion dollars by Washington, as revealed by “fuck the EU” Victoria Nuland. Ukraine was broke, and political parties and organizations were vastly financed by foreign nations, (US & EU) which then encouraged them to foment a coup. The junta in Kiev then illegally deposed the democratic president, and then illegally deposed all of its governors. The Crimean’s had every right to secede.
Crimea was detached from the Russian Republic in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev after a drunken dinner and given as a grand (but then empty) gesture to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Khrushchev was a Ukrainian Communist party boss who had participated in Stalin’s murder of 6-7 million Ukrainian farmers.
just in case, if someone i inetersted, he has been seen last week in Ticino (Switzerland) where is girlfriend gave birth ! ; )
PUTIN: "It's Alive It's Alive--It's ALIIIVVVE!!!" http://prestonclive.whotrades.com/blog/43076327042
Belicoff.
Sigh of relief. He is back :)
I was hoping that the zionist khykes didn't take him out. He is the worlds only hope to stop the incessant march of these insidious social and financial parasites.
No. There is another.
:-)
anyone who places one's trust in politician, renders that other person you are talking about immediately useless, as one becomes an idle idiot and therefore can't and won't take any action or personal responsibility for any matter necessary to bring about any change in the status quo.
Sorry to be confusing. That was supposed to be a sarcastic joke, by means of a famous phrase from Star Wars.
Do you have to be so gross.
I meant this for theguythat used the word bitches. I guess I am just getting tired of the comments on zerohedge..
I meant this for theguythat used the word bitches. I guess I am just getting tired of the comments on zerohedge..