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[SneakyFrickinRussian]

>Ukraine doesn't count the people there as ethnically Ukrainian or ethnically Russian, they count them as Ukrainian citizens. Only Russia makes a fuss about classifying ethnicity and they count anyone who speaks Russian as Russian ethnicity. And they use that as an excuse to go to war

No, it is not true. ukraine since 2014 was aggresively trying to re-born people as ukrainians - even my step-sister and her husband became self-identified ukrainians, despite having no ancestors of ukranian origin and having basically no working knowledge of ukrainian language. Second, ukraine never identified itself as multi-nation country. It could be easily proved by looking at language laws. For all time of ukraine independence Russian language was opressed as much as it could be for a language of everyday talk for about a half of ukraine population. The first law to cancel by ukrainian parliament after Yanukovich forced exit was law of Russian language status as regional (local) - this was so much important for Western-oriented leaders coming to power after Maidan coup. C'mon, you can distrust me, but Orban talks about the same - ukraine is opressing the right of using people's native language (he talks about Hungarian minority in West Karpathes). No other European country with multiple languages in use by population has so opressing language laws - Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Spain, UK. And yes, the story began before 2014, and yes, no war could excuse it.

>That said, as far as the census went in 2001, 56.9% of people in Donetsk see themselves as Ukrainian, and 38.2% as Russian. Luhansk was 58% Ukranian, 39% Russian

I don't trust even Russian election results, and you are trying to convince me using ukrainian stats - sorry, no way. This question is too political for them to show real statistics. Probably, it is no better thinking, but between 20 to 30 relatives I had/have in Donbass no one was/is speaking ukrainian language - only Russian. The only case of me hearing ukrainian language talk (except from radio/TV) was when some alcoholic man approached me on street asking for money. We had a small talk, and he said he was not local. That's it.

>What nonsense are you talking about?

I'm talking about simple fact - no separatist could win if population doesn't support him. This was main reason why Russia lost first Chechen war. I know for sure Donbass separatists were not angels coming from Heaven, pretty much of them were cruel and violent. But ukranian forces were no better, and Donbass local population rarely saw him as protecters. They were aliens for them. Furthermore, if you still have illusions on what Tornado, Azov, Aydar and other armed nationalistic ukrainian battalions did with local population - google it, you will find many unpleasant surprises. For example, Tornado was so awful that even ukrainian law enforcement couldn't resist to take actions towards them.

>As far as Ukraine is really concerned, as long as Donbas doesn't want to join Ukraine, they would be fine with letting them go if they really wish

No, it is not true. ukraine couldn't afford Donbass to exit, because real rulers of ukraine didn't allow it to happen. If only it was true - we would be living in so much better world now.

>1. Russia doesn't care about Donbas, they only want 2 places, Crimea and Kyiv

In fact, from 2014 to 2022 Putin was trying to return Donbass to ukraine, but under conditions he wanted. In fact, it was a betrayal of all Russian self-identified people of Donbass, but this betrayal is nobody's business except for Putin and Russians. Same time ukraine didn't want to have even more alienated and even more uncontrollable Donbass inside, so lazy war with ocassional artillery bombings and real deaths seemed to be endless.

So is for now.

>2. It would make all agreements worthless between Russia as Budapest already exist under which Russia promised to not to invade Ukraine and guarantee their borders. So it would be like acknowledging any future agreement between Russia can be easily broken by Russia at their convenience

Gorbachev withdrawed Soviet army from East Germany under conditions of NATO not being extended. I know, NATO representatives are cynically trying to convince us that no such agreements and conditions could ever be approved by NATO in that time. But I highly doubt that Gorbachev was so stupid to withdraw without anything for exchange for him. I bet it was unspoken agreement, which Gorbachev sadly refused to write on paper (yeah, I and many other Russians don't count him smart, not only for this reason).

So, it is really ridiculous to hear of broken agreements from you, since almost a half of Europe became NATO members in less than 20 years. And yes, I even didn't start to talk about Serbia bombings in 1999. You have no right to ask Russians to obey agreements except for right of being stronger, but after some not so long time you will loose this right too.

[NikoB]

Another Kremlin bot is pouring lies in buckets. What's new here?
No one promised Gorbachev anything in the form of an agreement. But the Budapest Agreement became the reason for the withdrawal of 3,000 nuclear warheads from Ukraine.

If they had even 100 of them, Putin would have been helplessly biting his nails in his bunker since 2014.

And these are facts. The Ukrainians (their corrupt or stupid government) really screwed up the country back in 1994 by agreeing to such a pact. It was necessary to demand only one thing - joining NATO even then.

But again, behind the scenes, both the United States and Europe were scared to death of the nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation, and at that time they were 6 times larger than now, and therefore these cowardly two-faced decisions were made, which the Ukrainians of that time bought into. If they had known how it would all end, they would not have returned a single warhead and would have remade all of their control units with new ones; this was not difficult for their scientists then.

The Russian Federation seems to have already secretly transferred this technology to Iran, which is why the United States is now cowardly walking around Iran, while they did not hesitate to invade Iraq, knowing for sure that there are no weapons of mass destruction there and there will be no fatal resistance.

All Ukraine needs now is nuclear weapons. As fast as possible. It is already pointless to rely on the two-faced USA and Europe - patriotic people are lost, time is lost. Conventional weapons no longer solve anything. Only the threat to destroy Moscow will make the Russians falter and withdraw their troops. We must go to the end, just as the Russians went to the end with threats to use nuclear weapons - whoever is more fearless wins, as recent history has proven.

[SneakyFrickinRussian]

So, NicoB, you still didn't answer any of my questions. Okey, okey, I understand, you just have nothing in your pockets to show.

If somebody would pass nuclear weapons to ukraine, it will immediately use it against Russia, even against old Russia territory, there is no doubt, just no, because ukraine is failing this war, and no ordinary ammunition supply from West could reverse it. For now, ukraine is kamikadze, whos solely purpose of existence is to make as much damage to Russia as possible. However, in this case real ukraine rulers (not ukraine population, and of course not zelenski) will certainly receive some Bulavas from Russia with love coming down from sky to their beloved cities. Putin did state it with all certainty. You can bomb Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and Donetsk, but you can't shot every Russian nuclear submarine at one time - there will be always at least one, who will launch some rockets able to wipe out London, New York or Brussel solo. So, I doubt they would do it. They love life too much %-) Don't worry, my friend, you will live a long life, but probably not so longer than mine :-))

[A]

>Ukraine doesn't count the people there as ethnically Ukrainian or ethnically Russian, they count them as Ukrainian citizens. Only Russia makes a fuss about classifying ethnicity and they count anyone who speaks Russian as Russian ethnicity. And they use that as an excuse to go to war

No, it is not true. ukraine since 2014 was aggresively trying to re-born people as ukrainians - even my step-sister and her husband became self-identified ukrainians, despite having no ancestors of ukranian origin and having basically no working knowledge of ukrainian language. Second, ukraine never identified itself as multi-nation country. It could be easily proved by looking at language laws. For all time of ukraine independence Russian language was opressed as much as it could be for a language of everyday talk for about a half of ukraine population. The first law to cancel by ukrainian parliament after Yanukovich forced exit was law of Russian language status as regional (local) - this was so much important for Western-oriented leaders coming to power after Maidan coup. C'mon, you can distrust me, but Orban talks about the same - ukraine is opressing the right of using people's native language (he talks about Hungarian minority in West Karpathes). No other European country with multiple languages in use by population has so opressing language laws - Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Spain, UK. And yes, the story began before 2014, and yes, no war could excuse it.

Sigh, again, the only one who cares about the ethnicity nonsense is Russia. When your step sister says she self identifies as a ukranian she is making a statement that she doesn't want to be a citizen of Russia and is a citizen of Ukraine and doesn't want Russia to use her as an excuse for war

Russian language was not oppressed as much as it could be, that is nonsense. Russian has been long spoken through out Ukraine, even in kyiv. Of course come independence, Ukraine did encourage the take up of the Ukrainian language which was prior suppressed by the Russians. Russia even today suppresses the Ukranian language in the territories they take over from Ukraine

Come Yanukovich, they did remove the Russian language as the official language for legal documents. But your language not being official language is not oppression. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland all did the same thing

You seem to misunderstand why the countries you listed allow for multiple official languages. By EU law, any country that joins official language must become an official language of the EU. If Ukraine were to join with 2 official languages, that means the entire EU would have to add both languages to all legal. Reducing it to 1 makes sense, for both EU and Ukraine. Do understand just because it isn't an official language doesn't mean you can't get translated copies. It just dictates how official documents are communicated

Now was there some discrimination in general of the Russian language in Ukraine due to people being sore from Russia trying to control them? Yes, as the saying goes, bullying leads to more bullying. That said, as they join the EU, EU law forbids discriminating against languages, so these things would have been corected as they grew closer to compliance with the EU

>That said, as far as the census went in 2001, 56.9% of people in Donetsk see themselves as Ukrainian, and 38.2% as Russian. Luhansk was 58% Ukranian, 39% Russian

I don't trust even Russian election results, and you are trying to convince me using ukrainian stats - sorry, no way. This question is too political for them to show real statistics. Probably, it is no better thinking, but between 20 to 30 relatives I had/have in Donbass no one was/is speaking ukrainian language - only Russian. The only case of me hearing ukrainian language talk (except from radio/TV) was when some alcoholic man approached me on street asking for money. We had a small talk, and he said he was not local. That's it.

Just because you identify yourself as Ukrainian doesn't mean you don't speak Russian. The language you speak of has nothing to do with how you identify yourself

The census is done by local regions, why would the Donetsk and Luhsnk regions pretend they have more % people identifying as Ukrainians?

>What nonsense are you talking about?

I'm talking about simple fact - no separatist could win if population doesn't support him. This was main reason why Russia lost first Chechen war. I know for sure Donbass separatists were not angels coming from Heaven, pretty much of them were cruel and violent. But ukranian forces were no better, and Donbass local population rarely saw him as protecters. They were aliens for them. Furthermore, if you still have illusions on what Tornado, Azov, Aydar and other armed nationalistic ukrainian battalions did with local population - google it, you will find many unpleasant surprises. For example, Tornado was so awful that even ukrainian law enforcement couldn't resist to take actions towards them.

The separatists were pretty much lost, Ukraine could have long wiped them out, but Ukraine weakened their assault because they didn't want to p*** off Russia. Russia then used that opportunity to send Russians in pretending to be from Donbas which is when Ukraine ended up being pushed back

On top of that, the reason why the separatists in Donbas got initial support was they also did exactly what Hitler did by spreading misinformation and propaganda to make people panic. By the end, the Donbas people wanted things to end, but the Russians and the separatist didn't let them


As for militaristic nationalists like Azov, Ukraine didn't like them either and would have likely slowly got rid of them. If not for Russia sending their troops into Ukraine. At that point Ukraine has no choice as anyone willing to fight against Russia they had no choice but to accept

>As far as Ukraine is really concerned, as long as Donbas doesn't want to join Ukraine, they would be fine with letting them go if they really wish

No, it is not true. ukraine couldn't afford Donbass to exit, because real rulers of ukraine didn't allow it to happen. If only it was true - we would be living in so much better world now.

I will remind you that prior, Russia sabotaged the joining of EU and tried to force Ukraine to lock with them, then took over Crimea. If Russia was not part of it and Donbas just independently wanted independence, that would be a different story. Because Ukraine's real fear isn't Donbas leaving, but it being used as a precedence for Russia to take Ukraine. Which is exactly what Russia has been doing.

>1. Russia doesn't care about Donbas, they only want 2 places, Crimea and Kyiv

In fact, from 2014 to 2022 Putin was trying to return Donbass to ukraine, but under conditions he wanted. In fact, it was a betrayal of all Russian self-identified people of Donbass, but this betrayal is nobody's business except for Putin and Russians. Same time ukraine didn't want to have even more alienated and even more uncontrollable Donbass inside, so lazy war with ocassional artillery bombings and real deaths seemed to be endless.

Yes, he doesn't care about Donbass. But he does care about taking Ukraine, his so called terms werefor him to take Ukraine easier

>2. It would make all agreements worthless between Russia as Budapest already exist under which Russia promised to not to invade Ukraine and guarantee their borders. So it would be like acknowledging any future agreement between Russia can be easily broken by Russia at their convenience

Gorbachev withdrawed Soviet army from East Germany under conditions of NATO not being extended. I know, NATO representatives are cynically trying to convince us that no such agreements and conditions could ever be approved by NATO in that time. But I highly doubt that Gorbachev was so stupid to withdraw without anything for exchange for him. I bet it was unspoken agreement, which Gorbachev sadly refused to write on paper (yeah, I and many other Russians don't count him smart, not only for this reason).

So, it is really ridiculous to hear of broken agreements from you, since almost a half of Europe became NATO members in less than 20 years. And yes, I even didn't start to talk about Serbia bombings in 1999. You have no right to ask Russians to obey agreements except for right of being stronger, but after some not so long time you will loose this right too.

An agreement is something that is made on paper, there is no such thing as an unspoken agreement because there is no way anyone can prove it existed. Even secret agreements are done on paper, they just aren't released publicly but you always want to have proof in the off chance the other side does not honor it

Trying to claim that an non-existent figment of imagination being broken is same thing as an actual signed agreements is nonsense

On top of that, the translator for Gorbachev confirmed that no such thing existed and that Gorbachev didn't think there was an agreement related to no expansion of NATO

It is just Russian propaganda to create that myth

The reality is that with the end of the cold war, NATO didn't really care as much about Russia. In fact, things were moving more towards Russia eventually joining NATO with multiple joint councils, partnerships and cooperation signed between the two in the years

The problem was that with Putin gaining power, he wanted to bring back the soviet union which would be difficult if they all joined NATO, he also needed a public enemy for the Russian people, the big bad wolf. Of course before he gained power, he was fine with joining NATO as there were accounts of him being open to it and NATO open to it as well. But as the saying, power corrupts. As he gained more and more power he became greedy

[NikoB]

The language you speak of has nothing to do with how you identify yourself

Language partly shapes the way of thinking and mentality; there are many scientific works proving this, and in practice it is obvious. Very few people manage to break out of the shackles of one language, especially if a person does not know several languages.

How much do you personally know, huh? How many mentalities have you absorbed with them?

The problem is not national identity - its escalation always leads to Nazism and fascism (although fascism can exist without Nazism (it was Nazism that bloomed in the Russian Federation, and then an outright form of fascism) - the latest example is the USA/EU since 2020 in open form, although this was a long process of the collapse of democratic institutions and civil liberties, which I described in much more detail above in this thread and in even more detail in many comments on the state of civilization in different threads here - all this is easy to find by searching by year). The problem is how rational a person is, adequate and adheres to justice and integrity towards others. When everyone treats everyone else with respect. In Russia this does not exist even at the everyday level - everyone secretly (but this often manifests itself openly) hates each other. Everyone understands this. This radically distinguishes Russian society, which is rotten to the core (which essentially has not been healthy for centuries), from other societies. Which are in more favorable conditions. Some are still there, but are already rapidly falling, like the EU/USA, and some are trying to develop, but now this is increasingly rare.

In fact, today the Kremlin's crazy machine accuses Ukraine of fascism/Nazism in propaganda, just like the USA/EU, but they are just 100% fascists, it's just that they are also Nazis (albeit as bad, atamorous and disunited as the "Russian "the majority, probably not a single nationality lives in Russia anymore - that is why the "Russians" do not hate themselves and other nationalities so much, which, unlike them, even at the smallest everyday level literally stand for each other like a "mountain"), as the most fanatical part of the Ukrainians, who for many centuries actually did not have normal independence from other nationalities, hence so much hatred towards the Russians, who absorbed them a long time ago as part of the Russian empire, although it was Russia that became a derivative of Kievan Rus. Ukraine was the chicken, not Russia - it is its derivative and the egg. Rotten egg, unfortunately.

The problem is that fascism has now flourished everywhere on the planet. Fusion of corporations with the criminal power of populists/demagogues/liars. And somewhere in this there is also varying degrees of Nazism mixed in.

For example, the Japanese are definitely Nazis, even if they try to disguise this topic. Can anyone dispute this? Or the Chinese (with all their dialects of languages and ethnic groups) are also certainly Nazis. A fairly united group, but the value of human life in their society is clearly not in the first place, and this has been historically for centuries, millennia, the communists, or rather those who pretended to be communists, simply threw grains into fertile soil. Just like in Russia.

India is a caste country, and within castes, Nazism is commonplace. And in general, it was not for nothing that Hitler himself considered the Hindus an Aryan nation. They clearly felt close in spirit...

I am for a united world and united approaches to rights and freedoms. With a single global parliament (and not a fucking president-tsar), because the efficiency of fighting nations is almost zero. Only a united planet, where minimum standards of rights and freedoms, living standards have been established, excluding wild social stratification with billionaire oligarchs (00% of whom, no matter how deep you look, should have been in prison for a long time, because many times 100% violated the established rules (laws)) can move further in its development.

The strife of nations is a vestige of the past, dragging human civilization into the abyss and a fatal ending.

All this can be solved only through comprehensive education, with the broadest possible horizons, critical and rational thinking towards everything and in everything. But obviously, such a task with such social stratification, even to a first approximation, cannot be solved with 8 billion souls on the planet. And it is even more unsolvable when the cletopcratic castes in each individual country (and clearly already well united on the planet on critical issues of their survival) try to dumb down and fool the population as much as possible, to create such approaches in public education systems that new generations will go out into independent life with the most stereotyped thinking, which is extremely convenient for the manipulation and control of these masses by the klepctoratic castes.

I don't know where civilization will turn in the next 100-150 years, but if it cannot solve these problems, its death or at least a reduction in population by 10-15 times is already a foregone conclusion. Because such a huge population requires ever more subtle and coordinated management in all areas - the slightest error in the system and a general collapse will begin, which, like a fire, will burn out the majority of the population in the instantly arose ruthless feuds for the remains of still available resources with a complete failure of all mechanisms for their extraction and creation and distribution.

[NikoB]

Human civilization since the end of 2019 is clearly in an artificially initiated transformation into a concentration camp totalitarian regime of control in the vast majority of countries (which has nothing to do with a single civilly responsible government and the institutions of its civil control with the complete erasure of rudimentary state borders), where civil institutions of control are weak or weakened presumptuous politicians and officials of all stripes. So far they have managed to keep the colossus of the human community from complete collapse (not because they are smart, rather they think that they are smart, but in reality they are idiots playing with a grenade), only thanks to a certain reserve of "survivability" in the global system and the still sufficient autonomy of each of them its plots. But when the system hits somewhere the last (critical) element of "survivability", everything will be over, a real uncontrollable collapse will begin, which no one will be able to stop.
Perhaps for some reason these kleptocratic circles believe that they and their descendants will be able to build some kind of working model of concentration camps/zones for the majority of the population and special "oases" for themselves. At the same time, they (already partly globally united kleptocratic circles of all countries) undoubtedly understand that the unproductive (albeit often well-educated, but not for creation, but for the ability to take away/redistribute the results of the labor of others, the productive stratum, in their favor) overhang of the population ( even though it is the main soil and electoral base for the emergence of criminal populist politicians and the possibility of prosperity for these same kleptocratic circles) will have to be somehow reduced significantly, and since in this case, the electoral base is lost, it will be obvious to do away with the remnants of "democracies" in all countries (one cannot allow that somewhere there is an excellent pattern of governance or behavior, mentality, civil liberties and rights), because otherwise, with a sharp drop in unproductive part of the population (especially urban) in comparison with the productive (which is no more than 25-30% left on the planet), they will undoubtedly begin to lose all elections under "democracy", i.e. will lose power and influence in society.
Consequently, concentration camp regimes, social ratings, etc. the mechanisms of explicit control, on the basis of which rights and freedoms are formed, according to patterns convenient for the ruling kleptocrats, will only strengthen, and all remnants of "democratic" institutions, and especially civil institutions, control of the ruling layers will be suppressed and destroyed in every possible way.

This can only be resisted by the productive layer of the population, which creates the results of labor useful for the development of civilization and which (the results of labor) are for the most part taken away from them (the productive layer) more and more, in their favor, by kleptocrats of all stripes and that unproductive stratum of the population that today in "developed" countries and those close to them clearly exceeded half of the population or more, which is the electoral base of populists and kleptocrats, because they feed them through the redistribution of the results of labor productively through unfair taxation and various other forms, supposedly to eliminate social stratification. But at the same time, this unproductive stratum (which is supposedly being helped to get out of the vicious circle of lumpenization) for some reason only grows and grows in all countries, which proves only one thing - this stratum in the transition period to a completely concentration camp totalitarian government is a convenient and necessary accomplice of populist politicians , representatives of kleptocratic circles. This vicious circle can only be broken by force, stopping the unjust flow of redistribution without any responsibility. Just like now with student loan forgiveness, people have to take responsibility for the choices they make. By them or their parents. If there is no responsibility, it instantly corrupts or allows one to shift personal responsibility from one (the real guilty) social group to others.
You cannot take out loans for a good life and education without paying your bills. Or think about why the system is designed in such a way that you, in principle, cannot get out of poverty, even if you make an effort. It's the same with education - if you choose the easiest path - you shouldn't be surprised that in the future you won't find a job and therefore will get bogged down in credit bondage. This means that you are still guilty by definition that you yourself or your parents could not predict which specialty would pay well (for a normal life with 2 children, also well-mannered and educated, no worse, but better than their parents) and at the same time have the least competition in society. Obviously, such specialties are given with extreme difficulty in learning, so most weak students go where it is easier, gaining expensive loans and not thinking at all that since they go where it is easier, then when starting an independent life they will quickly face great competition among those who also chose the easiest path in education and professions.

What does a lot of competition for a place lead to? That's right, bingo! To a fall in labor compensation! Those. if a weak "higher education" and a bunch of competitors for the same easy place are incomprehensible to a 17-year-old young man (or parents, who should be much more experienced in life) - then who is the moron if not this student himself? Pay the bill! Otherwise, write-off eliminates natural selection and filtering of the weak. A society that encourages a weak layer of the population (who doesn't even try, just goes with the flow) is doomed. And there is no pity for these young people and their parents.

[NikoB]

Naturally, the banking mafia attaches itself to this topic with loans on the side of the law, but in reality it is these scoundrels who are in collusion with false institutions of a non-competitive and non-productive (for civilization in general, or even worse - education specially tailored for the formation of parasitic survival skills (and castes of such people), which has long been placed on a pedestal as a "correct" education), education has created a system that has led to a layer of poorly educated (low-value) graduates with non-repayable (at their own wild rates) loans, and the banksters have the least responsibility in the built system, i.e. .To. all systemically important banks have access to a "printing press" and can easily generate credit money, receiving fiat currency at minimum rates from the Central Bank (whose beneficiaries also share).

One has only to completely block this vicious system of creating a false money supply (not covered by the results of labor) from the Central Bank to the systemically important banks, as the issuance of student loans (and mortgages to weak groups of borrowers) and, even more so, the even more depraved model of consumer loans will immediately collapse significantly, by order. Because Banksters will have to carefully weigh each potential borrower. Now these scoundrels know for sure that they will be protected from the wrath of depositors (their creditors) when cash gaps appear due to the issuance of risky loans by the state-mafia, and the Central Bank-mafia, i.e. representatives of precisely kleptokartic circles.

If banks have only money clearly tied to the commodity (and productive services) content of the real economy and the savings of the productive layer of the population and there will be no lifeline from criminal corrupt officials, politicians and the Central Bank mafia, they will be in the event of cash gaps due to credit losses either they will imprison you or literally hang you. And these creatures understand this well, how the thoughtless issuance of unsecured loans will end for them if no one saves them, including their skins.

This system of lending interest on fiat money is criminal from the very beginning if cash gaps due to the fault of banksters are covered by the money of productive taxpayers or they simply print the money supply for the purpose of evading direct responsibility for what they did in the past.

The solution here is clear and simple - do not even allow system-forming banks to get away with it. But it is precisely this decision that criminal populist politicians, criminal corrupt officials and bankers, as well as the beneficiaries of "system-forming" zombie corporations (with a real negative flow) are hindering as much as possible. And they will do anything that no one could cut the branch on which they sit and thanks to which they live comfortably at the expense of others, without bearing any real cruel responsibility.

It is these creatures, sensing the smell of something fried under their own asses, who quickly divert (channel) the anger of the crowd away from themselves.

This is exactly what Putin did. That's what Biden is doing. Naturally, this is a generalized image of those who stand behind them. And all populist politicians or obvious representatives of some kleptocratic caste systematically do the same thing. Putin was a representative of the KGB, which really entangled all of Russia like an octopus for 90 years. Biden, at the moment, is a representative of the kleptocratic caste in the United States, the very "uniparty". Because of his mental problems (Putin already has them in all their glory), his puppeteers have to increasingly correct public flaws, thereby more and more clearly showing to adequate people who and how really controls these puppets, who pulls the strings behind the scenes.