ABC News’ Byron Pitts reports on the information crackdown in Russia and how many Russians at odds with the regime are choosing to leave their country.
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Putler will threat with nuclear weapons soon, Pentagon said. Why are we so afraid how Putin understands something we eventually do, how he interprets our steps so that we don't accidentally offend him? To the hell with Putin's opinions. Kremlin has only one policy. To LIE. Kremlin power comes from lying. Lying big, and getting the whole damn world to play along with them. Once they got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, they've got us by the neck.
In these very moments there are children in Mariupol who dies from dehydration. 90 percent of this city is razed to the ground. There is NO water now, no supplies. Russians not let anyone in or out. All ways from the city are mined and shelled. Shelters in numerous cities are now deliberately shelled and bombed. It is russian pattern. Encircle the city and shell it with Grad and Smerch rocket artilery, conventional artilery, airstrikes… salvo after salvo. You saw it in Grozny, you saw it in Syria, now you can see this in Mariupol and Khariv. Purpose is one and only – to inflict TERROR, to break morale, by ruthless killing of women and children alike. The most barbaric way to wage a war. It is genocide. Another of long line of war crimes made by Putin. Recent reckless attacks on civilians, blatant cynical violations of the Geneva Conventions show us clearly, that Putin's Russia is terrorist state, unpredictable, lying, deceptive and dangerous to humankind. It is war against western world.
Putin is liar and faker, who rules trough fear. Atomics? Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Putin can not launch them by himself, he needs both Shoygu and Gerasimov to do so and they are not mad.
Unless Russia is defeated in Ukraine NOW, before Mariupol, Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa and other cities are razed to the ground by thermobaric weapons, if the west will not confront Putler now, then soon enough will world watch how Putin invades Moldova, Georgia and finally, Baltic states – NATO members. And then NATO will again do nothing serious for the same fear of russian nuclear weapons. Risk WW3 for such a little state? Pff. Maybe it is only civil war, better not meddle in it. That day will be the end of NATO as failed phony alliance. Dear NATO, you talk the talk, but do you walk the walk? I doub it. But what matters is that tsar Putin doubts that too. To break NATO and west by lies is long term target of Kremlin. Mark my words. Putin's kleptocracy, aka Russian federation is now the same that once was Hiltler's nazi Third reich. World will find out that to be true, sooner or later. History repeats itself.
If ordinary russian to this day DON'T even KNOW that there is war in Ukraine, then Putin will not stop. You think that after Putin prevails in Ukraine he will crawl back to his bankrupt Mordor and behave, suddenly being a good boy? Stop imports of gas and oil EU. ONE MONTH and Russia will bankrupt. Russian federation MUST IMMEDIATELY feel the consequences of their barbaric war, that is the only way.
It is dire need of actual power projection in Ukraine. For God sake give them already fuel, long range sams, ciws, iron dome, bring in anything, airdrop food and supplies. Make some air bridge like in cold war Berlin.
How long will be just keep watching. Must Chornobyl, where russians now cut of power for cooling, again leak radiation. Must the biggest european nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia became another Chornobyl dissaster? Must we see radioactive cloud overe Europe again, and only then we maybe seriously assist Ukraine or what? Do you know that russians there allowed only skeleton crew to hold them as hostages and that russians rigged this facality with explosives? This is nuclear terrorism. Pure and simple.
After all "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" as Lord Acton said already in 19th century. Quite accurate description of tsar Putin the Bloody .
Putin understands only power and determination. Everything else is sign of weakness for him. Do everything what is in your power to drive Putin's kleptocracy to the end. God bless you.
"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject."
– John Stuart Mill, 1867
"Appeasement policy, the policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, operating jointly at that time, during 1937 and 1938 by continuous concessions granted in the hope of reaching a point of saturation when the dictators would be willing to accede to international collaboration. … It came to an end when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939, in defiance of his promises given at Munich, and Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had championed appeasement before,
decided on a policy of resistance to further German aggression."
– Walter Theimer (ed.), The Penguin Political Dictionary, 1939
George Orwell would be impressed………..
Hitler left a poorly made copy of himself called Putin. Mediocre dictator, who shames the Russians, and all Russia, can equal Fidel, Chaves, Sadam, Kim. North Korea sends famine greetings to the people of Russia.
Sonin is lying: information is not blocked in Russia. But fakes about army and actions are under the new law, thus you cannot see any report by CNN/BBC etc from the war regions: any fake report can cause a penalty or prison for the journalist. So, you can watch fakes only by Ukrainian trolls and large fake agencies, transmitting Ukrainian fakes.
Thus one can see no journalists with fresh material in Donetsk or Russia.
Gooooood….
If NBC (for example) will send a journalist there, he must tell truth or go to the prison.
Better leave by land or sea
I feel so sorry for all Russians who're now having to live under these restrictions EVERY DAY as it just gets worse and worse. Please stay strong and RESIST, and if you can, fight back. The future is in your hands just as much as Ukraine's.
Russia is failing so badly.
How could these Russians STAND for this ugly lifestyle but yer you have such beautiful lifestyle soooooo crazy RUSSIAN stand for you CHILDREN future if not yours.no more putin.
I'm scared for the thousands of people who've already been arrested for protesting. Their future is uncertain. Will they all be jailed for more than a dozen years? I've seen people of all ages be arrested. The young and elderly. When will this end? How can we be sure they're being taken care of and eating? What if they're being abused? What if they get sent to some reeducation camps.. 🙁
Squad 303. Help Ukraine from home
That man should be out their fighting with the rest of the Ukraine natives
Wow! These must be the good Russians. Years ago, I and my family fred my country, it wasn’t that we are not loyal to our country. It was because of the government cruelty system too.
I thought the USA cut them off of everything not Putin idk
HAHA. Cracking down on free press? We get lying propaganda all the time from the western fascist media! Where is RT News on youtube presently? Why are countries banning RT News? Tell me more lies!
Now where is the western media on Israel destroying Palestine? Tell me!
Why did we forget our southern border?
Why did no one help Armenia when they were at war with Azerbaijan?
Do the would still remember somalia 🇸🇴 libya 🇱🇾 syria what USA did there and other parts of the world ,the games USA r playing to the world.one day the world will come together to fight u mama fucks .USA makes wars for money
I'm a Swedish woman I'm disabilied wheelchair bound and I am searching utube the internet for anyone who is disabled and wheelchair bound but the SCARY part I do NOT see 1 wheelchair bound person under the age of 65 what has been done with US we can not jump run down the stairs we can not do a thing and the world does not CARE as we are the INVISIBLE people we can not speak up for our selves and not one person CARES
The face of the autocrat Putin is beginning to break.
Why does Russia's less than 150 million people occupying the largest country in the world need more territory???
At least Putin is cleaning up his own sh**t but the US and the EU is punishing the whole world with st**pid sanctions. If Zimbabwe can be resilient enough to withstand these actions, how then do you expect Russia to adhere to them? The 'civilized' west has the most uncivilized brains in the history of humankind. They don't even realize that the actions are going to have a fliped effect on them by arrogantly thretenning India and China. Ahhh.
Cowards! Stand up and protest instead! Democracy doesn’t come for free, it costs courage and determination to achieve it. But never expected that anyway from a people which has never fought to live in it.
Man this is turning into the iron curtain again just like stalinism, I think that's wants he wants complete and total control it's scary hes starting to throw his own people in the gulag or people that dont agree with him it's just like hitler I really hope they get Putin out of there either by a coup or his generals and military just stop taking orders from him