Putin thru the years

[Barbara]

A moving glimpse from sometime in the past.
One can SEE Putin's EYES here much better than anywhere else I have seen in my short time on X [!]

This thread is to help people make up their minds about the Russian leader.

"When a person loses their temper, they show weakness. A person in my position has no right to show weakness.

Do you know how to forgive?

Yes... but not everything.
And what is unforgivable? — Betrayal.

Have you ever been betrayed in your life?

You know— I can't really say I've ever experienced anything so serious that it could be called betrayal. I've never experienced anything like that in my life.

They were simply afraid of betraying you.

It's hard to say. Maybe I chose people who weren't capable of it."

https://x.com/SgforgoodStella/status/20 ... 2725600469

[Cyprian]

There is only one reasonable and rational conclusion, for Orthodox Christians exercising discernment, to come to: Putin is a manifest enemy of Christ and Christians. All his many deluded defenders and supporters, including new calendarists such as Met. Neophytos of Morfou and Fr. Peter (Heers), are in prelest. God help them.

Putin insulted the Holy Russian Tsar Martyr, calling him "Nicholas the Bloody"

Putin put on the skull-cap, participated in the reading of psalms at the Worthless Wall in Jerusalem, and expressed his desire that the temple be restored.

Vladimir Putin read psalms at the Western Wall.
Владимир Путин прочитал псалмы у «Стены Плача»
https://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2012/06/27/ ... ny_placha/

Then, a Hasidic Jew who spoke Russian approached them and asked Putin to pray for the restoration of the Jerusalem Temple. In response, Putin, shaking the Hasid's hand, said: "May God grant that the Lord hears you."

Затем, подошедший к ним хасид, знавший русский язык, попросил Путина помолиться за восстановление иерусалимского храма. В ответ В.Путин, пожав руку хасиду, сказал: «Дай Бог, чтобы Господь вас услышал».

Putin’s Jews
https://momentmag.com/putins-jews/

Here is Putin, on the official Kremlin website, posing with the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, with the Babylonian Talmud (photo 7) clearly in view on the table.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/58500

Here is Putin posing in front of a picture of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the (false) "moshiach" (messiah) of the Lubavitchers.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-j ... son-texts/

Here is Putin (on the official Kremlin website) participating in the dedication of a mosque, citing the Koran on September 23, 2015:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50351

Here is a video of Putin kissing and venerating the Koran more recently in August 2024:
https://yandex.kz/video/preview/9596057049448420753

[Barbara]

Let me look thru those later, Cyprian.
I certainly agree about the Jerusalem stuff ! I complained about it for years.
Hopefully Putin can not do any more of that unbecoming pro-is not real stuff and make up for past actions in that regard by withdrawing support from Tel Aviv.

I'll write more about this later on. I have to go out now.

There are also OTHER things in Putin's favor. I have seen many clips over the past year or so that I was on X - it took me so long to learn how to use it that I didn't know how to find anything for a year or so.

You know how the posts show up, and when one looks at them, more of the same show. I guess they call it the 'algorithm' or whatever. I hate that kind of term !

Anyway, I have seen admirable qualities from looking at MANY of these posts. I have to find them again, though !

Here is a new one that popped up right now. One needs to watch the video to appreciate the point made :

"Watch closely.

A soldier nearly collapses Macron walks past without a glance.
A guard falls the president keeps moving.
At fallen soldiers’ funerals, Biden checks his watch.

Now compare that with Putin:
he stops, he stands in silence, he touches the coffin, he stays until the end.
He even pauses a parade to pick up a fallen cap and place it back on a soldier’s head.

Leadership isn’t about ceremonies.
It’s about never looking away from those who serve."

https://x.com/SilentlySirs/status/2016214380606533912

[Barbara]

Putin's daughter trapped by a pro-Ukrainian journalist who harasses her with questions that could only irritate.

I was just looking up to see what the possible name of the daughter pictured here is > either Maria or Katerina. Both are fluent in English, German and French ; both have highly responsible jobs in their fields.

Too, both were sanctioned by the US government in 2022, a move which could only be vindictive as neither would have any dealings in America.

This rare scene took place in Paris at an undated time.

It's said that the two are almost never seen in public.

Notice that Maria or Katerina remains composed and collected despite the stupid things the reporter says to her. Instead of shouting bac at him, she laughs in a modest way - and ... tries to get away !

Note the several bodyguards accompanying her. These 3 are not random Frenchmen strolling down that street.

[Commenters ask why is it that no one thinks to pester the daughters of US presidents with aggressive questions like these ?
Nobody would say a word to Ivanka T r um p for example.]

https://x.com/Saffron_Sniper1/status/20 ... 0057246172

[Barbara]

"Putin Says The Western World's Order is not FREE.

It is, HYPOCRITICAL and FULL of LIES.

U.S. Was Only Nation to Use Nuclear Weapons in WW2

The U. S. Is the only nation in the world that used nuclear weapons twice destroying the towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let me remind you that together with the U. K.

The U. S. in World War two annihilated Dresden, Hamburg and Cologne and that there was no rationale behind that.
There was no need to destroy with air bombardment these great cities. They wanted to do that to intimidate the soviet union. That was their only goal.

They left the west left a horrible history in Vietnam where they used napalm and other horrible tactics.

Remember the Republic of Korea and their actions there.

They [the US and UK] keep calling the Koreans their own allies.
But what kind of allies are these ?

We know that the leaders of the many of the countries perceived as allies of the West are followed ; there are various devices used to listen to them and spy on them.

And the leaders of these countries tolerate all that.
And all of that is branded as transatlantic solidarity !"

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2015480557136732466

Comment [i agree, tho there may have been many other reasons involved - still the US and UK's endless firebombing of Dresden particularly, and the carpet bombing of other German cities has always been shockingly inexplicable by any civilized standards] :

"'air bombardment of these great cities, they wanted to do that to intimidate the soviet union.'

I've always thought this was done so the US could profit from it once Germany's reconstruction began (Marshall Plan).

The more broken, the more aid, the greater the dependence on US"

[Suaidan]

[Commenters ask why is it that no one thinks to pester the daughters of US presidents with aggressive questions like these ?
Nobody would say a word to Ivanka T r um p for example.]

https://x.com/Saffron_Sniper1/status/20 ... 0057246172

You sure about that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38409836

[Barbara]

Thanks, let me check tomorrow at the library !