Vehicle from Russian president’s fleet explodes and burns as locals dash out to try to help
Ukraine has been accused of attempting to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin, after a limousine from Putin’s official transport fleet exploded and burned in Moscow on Saturday evening:
Putin reportedly ordered searches of sewers in the area after the £200,000+ Aurus limousine exploded just north of the headquarters of Russia’s FSB security service. Workers from nearby buildings ran into the street to help extinguish the flames until firefighters arrived.
The explosion is being seen as an attempt by Ukraine to force the US to abandon its push for a peace deal forcing Ukraine to stand down, to accept that it will not join NATO and to cede Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine in return for peace. The insistence of Britain and the EU on continuing to fund and equip Ukraine to continue war may well have emboldened Ukraine’s regime to try to prolong the fighting despite reportedly catastrophic losses in military personnel that have seen Ukrainian men abducted from the streets and press-ganged into army service.
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Hmm in the sixties we’re did America buy it’s wheat from when theirs harvest failed let me thinks now it’s not hard golly gosh wasn’t it Russia who helped them out with wheat from their Ukrainian wheat fields oh dear me how foolish of me to forget that
‘Buying’ stuff in not in the lexicon of a culture based on plunder of other peoples resources which that culture regards as its own by self-defined right.
Can someone explain why it is generally frowned upon to assassinate war criminals who order the murder of women and children?
Probably for the same reason that Netanyahu, Trump, Starmer + co are in no danger.
Would it be possible to be more specific, please?
Perhaps most people think it is better & more legal to bring an accused to trial which perhaps demonstrates most people are civilised.
Yet some seem believe in the “Great Man (or Woman) of History Thesis.” (?)
Chey Anderson in The New Left Review (Nov 2023) showed the cable from the Moscow Ambassador to the US Defence Secretary (Feb 2012) warning what would happen if NATO encroached on Ukraine and “It was the reddest of red lines for the Russian elite, including Putin.”
So you see, though we may not like it Putin represent a large Nationalist Movement in Russia, so get rid of him & someone will step into his shoes as “Movements make history.” Oh and Anderson further argues the USA Neo-Cons wanted a Polish/Ukraine corridor to the Caucuses & the riches beyond.
Zelensky of Panama Papers fame as well as curbing rival political parties & trade unions also Privatised Ukrainian land with much of it being bought up by US Corporations, so perhaps this is how it is done?
So tragically it could be argued Ukrainians are being slaughtered for US profits.
And the USA knew what would happen 13 years ago!
Some of the Left have been consistent, we criticised Putin over Chechnya whilst shorty afterwards Blair rushed to Moscow to congratulating him on being elected President then gave him a UK state visit. Why there’s Cherie Blair kissing Putin on both cheeks outside No 10 & there’s Putin in a gold carriage with the Queen on his way to a state banquet at Buckingham Palace with MPs of all parties fighting to get in!
Some of us called for a Ceasefire from Day
1 & still do!
Mark Curtis put it thus: Keir Starmer’s plan for UK growth – the Ukraine war
He has many more incisive insights on the dangerous politician currently serving as leader of Labour and King Charles’ PM on his declassifieduk.org site.
Enough of the kid gloves treatment. Putin should just go all in and take out the corrupt little cocaine clown in Kiev, advance to Odessa and annexe everything bar a rump state around Lvov! Cue collective west freakout. Let’s see Starmer & Macron maintain careers after that!
Clearly, this is what the coke head dick piano playing Court Jester meant the other day when he publicly went on record with a statement that the President of the Russian Federation has not got long to live.
Does anyone with a working brain cell think that this was the work of the Ukrainians alone?
Like the March 28th HIMARS rocket attack at the Sudzha GIS, which was carried out through French satellite systems with the input of coordinates and launch carried out by British specialists and the command given from London, it is a better than even bet that this has London’s (The British Oligarch Establishment’s) fingerprints all over it in terms of planning, training, logistical and probably even personnel support.
A typical British Establishment Bodge job.
Wonder if Lord Ali (of clothesgate fame) will be providing brown trousers for the Oligarch’s pet politicians?
Ukraine or the CIA? This is a proxy war. The Russian government needs to up its intelleigence and make sure this is duly punished and prevented in future. This is an inside betrayal, being in Moscow?