Originally published at: PUTIN'S TENDER FOR THE UKRAINE
When C.A.F. sends you an email that says “you can tender for a company, you can also tender for a country,” you tend (no pun intended) to sit up and take notice, especially if the email is accompanied with another article containing a history lesson on how the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl tendered for…
“All this to say, it’s Mr. Putin’s clever way of integrating the everyday Ukrainian economy into the Russian federation’s; no “regime change” necessary”
Ahh, yeah! first you bomb and destroy half of the country, then on that rubble you offer peace and prosperity Russian style. Problem is that all countries and nations from former Soviet bloc are way to familiar with so called Ruskij Mir, translation Russian world/peace. No, thank you but thank you Mr. Putin.
My friend tells me that he wears his turban to be his “buriel” shroud/coffin just in case he passes away, he has a turban handy to wrap his body in. A very respectable religious practice that is vitally important to him. And I’m thankful to be awarded the gift of understanding this. I’m told by a literary colleague that William Shakespeare wore a gold hoop ear ring !! Very strange even for the 1500’s. Why? No idea, however at the time, in writings, sailors had to have a pierced ear holding a golden ring of enough value to cover his funeral costs and death documentation. Isn’t reality actually more interesting than bullschlitz. So many “tales” no common sense yet some answers ring of truthfulness. If it looks like a Putin tool …. Personal gain almost always trumps allegiance, love conquers war, individuals who belong to separate sides of a war yet marry, are not uncommon granted some at war are not supporting the war without knowing the facts, all of them, we are guessers, we are “baffoons” yet most won’t admit it and apparently folks are in denial and childish in emotional attachment to a fraud, a lie, in the mirror. Bufoine or “jester” lol now Shakespeare was definitely a jester and oh powerful in his coallating of information events and outcomes… wisdom for the ignorant royals lol lol we see it today
At the same time, Putin is reducing the number of conscripts into the Ukrainian forces as they are pretty much rounding up everyone, men and women, ages 16-60 to become cannon fodder. Clearly, as Americans we can not imagine the constraints of the Russian social system-- or have we almost gotten there with this current Fascist regime?