Hello, alexander!

Sunday July 28 2024 18:29, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

IMHO President must be a part of a team. He must not be allowed to do whatever he wants.

Like Ukrainians tried to stop Yanukovich, but we never really tried hard to stop our weirdo Putin?

Or do the people of your city not even try to elect their own city mayor because they know that they are not allowed to do so by the mighty Moscovites? :))

Best regards,
dp.

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Hi, Lee Lofaso!
I read your message from 25.07.2024 18:58

LL>>> Joe Biden drops out of race, handing off football to Kamala
LL>>> Harris. You do realize what that means. In every poll, including
LL>>> in Florida (Trump's home state), women come out ahead. Putting
LL>>> two of them together makes them unbeatable. Joe Biden has
LL>>> endorsed Kamala Harris, knowing she will win. That was the first
LL>>> thing coming out of his mouth after he dropped out of the race.
LL>>> Barack Obama has also endorsed Kamala Harris, knowing she will
LL>>> win. But he is one smart cookie, knowing it takes more than one
LL>>> state to win the presidency. That is why Barack Obama did one
LL>>> better, by endorsing another woman to join the ticket. And we all
LL>>> know who that woman is. And being from Chicago, who better than
LL>>> to introduce her

ak>> She has many trumps in her sleeve. How do you like her slogan "Let
ak>> America be free from old farts!" ;-)

LL> Kamala is brat.
LL> Nobody can argue with that.

IMHO President must be a part of a team. He must not be allowed to do
whatever he wants. In this light Biden also submits itself to many
advisers. It makes him more or less safe. ;=) And in general a person
with a great personal power is bad -- practically all wars were started
by them.

LL> Especially those who were at the Essence Festival in New Orleans
LL> last weekend, with her showing us all the right moves.

ak>> Indeed a young person 100 times unlikely will unleash a nuclear
ak>> war than a person who is going to die soon anyway. ;)

LL> Toddlers for President! That should be the world's motto!

A 59 years old is not a toddler at all.

Bye, Lee!
Alexander Koryagin
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Hello Dmitry,

On Sunday July 28 2024 16:38, you wrote to alexander koryagin:

but we never really tried hard to stop our weirdo Putin?

So why did you not vote him out when you still could?


Cheers, Michiel

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Hello, Michiel!

Sunday July 28 2024 18:31, you wrote to me:

but we never really tried hard to stop our weirdo Putin?

So why did you not vote him out when you still could?

The only chance was in 2000, but people were tired of inflation, the civil war in Chechnya, and an ill and drunk President Yeltsin, and they wanted someone "strong enough" to fix the country and show the world that "Mother Russia is great again."

All the media were working to promote him as a Strong Leader because Yeltsin's "Family," together with the most powerful oligarchs, thought they could control him because he was corrupt as fuck (he even helped Russian/Israeli gangsters transfer cocaine for the Cali Cartel via Saint Petersburg to Belgium) and completely loyal to his former master Sobchak (Saint Petersburg's mayor). He was presenting himself as a liberal friend of the West and a Make Russia Great Again populist at the same time.

But they failed because Putin's team, full of former KGB operatives, was even more cynical and brutal than they were. They took control over most of the non-state media, the court system, and oil and gas companies.

They incorporated former Chechen fighters into their system, often using them as hitmen to get rid of political opponents in exchange for large amounts of state support to Chechnya.

After that, it was too late. Even in 2000, in some regions, elections were completely faked (where local governors had enough power to do this). After 2000, all elections were just an "electoral show," with almost zero chance to elect anyone else.

Another problem is that we have really terrible problem that about 30% of our population (mostly men over 50 and women over 40) are dreaming about a new Hitler/Stalin-type creature in the Kremlin. Most of those women are divorced with children, dreaming about some "Strong Man who will care about them" (and not drink vodka regularly like their former husbands did), and men dreaming about military victories over the "weak West" and getting some "fairness" because they are poor, corruption is all around, and they have zero chance to achieve anything in their remaining life.

In such a situation, it's very difficult to get rid of a crazy dictator who thinks that God sent him to our planet to create a New Soviet Union with the Orthodox Church and the KGB ruling the country.



Best regards,
dp.

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Hello Dmitry!

30 Jul 24 00:54, Dmitry Protasoff wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

Glasnost and Perestroyka was a Soviet thing, in late 80s. It was long before
Putin.

Ah, well, yes and no. He was living and working for KGB in (East) Germany back then (1985-1990) and thus got first hand knowledge of what the Russian politics caused. In hindsight I'd say he learned back then what he would never like to see happening again.


Regards,
Gerrit

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