Posted: 11/3/2015 Updated: 12/10/2015, 12/1/2015
Update Of 12/10/2015
Update Of 12/1/2015
Today, I read Has Putin Met His Match In Russia's Truck Drivers? We read: “Russia’s long-haul truck drivers have disrupted the country’s federal highways for more than two weeks to protest a new road tax (platon in Russian) collected (with a 20% commission) by the Putin-associated Rotenberg oligarchs. The protesters threatened a full blockade of Moscow today unless their demands for a radical restructuring of the government are met. Russia’s riot and traffic police have not been able to halt the convoys, and the Russian government has refused good-faith talks. Putin’s propaganda machine cannot brand three million ordinary citizens as traitors and CIA agents. ... Russia’s long-distance truck drivers use social media to thwart the Kremlin’s security countermeasures. Unless their demands are met–lifting of the platon, firing those responsible including the transport minister and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and a half billion dollar fine for the Rotenbergs–the truck drivers intend to paralyze the traffic of the nation’s capital.”
I support the truck drivers of Russia protesting against Putin the Terrible!
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After all the previous criminal and hegemonic acts and acts of war, Vladimir Putin the Terrible may have finally overreached with his intervention in Syria.
If it turns out to be true that e.g. the Russian civilian plane that crashed on 10/31/2015 over Egyptian Sinai peninsula killing all 224 passengers (mostly Russian tourists) over Egypt was a deliberate attack by e.g. Isis, I would bet that Russian public opinion may turn on Putin.
I am pretty sure, the former KGB officer remembers what was like the Vietnam War for the former USSR.
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