Putin Reset

[KingOrfeo]

Bullshit KO and you know it. Even welfare types, if they're literate, vote their pocketbook.

Most welfare recipients are white and rural and, when they vote at all, usually vote Pub, for cultural reasons.

How did we get from Putin to this?

 

[phrodeau]

Back to Putin... oopsy.

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[KingOrfeo]

Hmmm . . .



Provoking whom to what, I wonder?

More on that story. Apparently Nemtsov was preparing to release proof of Russian armed forces being involved in the Ukrainian conflict.

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

You brought it up.

No, Grandpa Alzheimer's. You brought it up.

It actually points to Obama's allocation of taxes from national defense to vote buying welfare largess. Remember Obama is collecting historic revenues.

Now, you know that's bullshit; public-aid recipients (other than Social Security recipients) are nowhere a voting bloc, and people that poor usually don't vote even if eligible. "Buying votes" that way is simply not a factor in policymaking.

Bullshit KO and you know it. Even welfare types, if they're literate, vote their pocketbook.

Most welfare recipients are white and rural and, when they vote at all, usually vote Pub, for cultural reasons.

How did we get from Putin to this?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Most welfare recipients are white and rural and, when they vote at all, usually vote Pub, for cultural reasons.

How did we get from Putin to this?

You brought it up.

No, Grandpa Alzheimer's. You brought it up.

to vote buying welfare largess.

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[TheGreatZoltar]

I predict escalation in the Ukraine.

 

[KingOrfeo]

More on that story. Apparently Nemtsov was preparing to release proof of Russian armed forces being involved in the Ukrainian conflict.

But, there is another theory.

As usual, the warring sides have not listened to one another, and have shown little interest in discovering the real reasons for the killing. In this setting the remarks of St Petersburg blogger Anatoly Nesmeyan, known on the net as El-Murid, are especially notable. In his view those who ordered the murder were not “sworn conspirators” from among opposition activists and liberal westernizers, but high-ranking figures from within the Russian establishment. In other words, a pretext was being prepared in Moscow for a palace coup.

It is such a coup in the top echelon of the authorities, and not marches by the opposition intelligentsia, that poses the only real threat to Putin, who despite everything enjoys the support of a large majority of Russians. Unless the president decides for some reason to hand over power ahead of time, as Boris Yeltsin did in 1999, no one but his own innermost circle can remove him. The growing crisis in relations with the West is not bringing any joy to the Russian elite, and the economic mess is not giving its members cause for optimism. Government organs are constantly refusing, publicly, to implement decisions of the president, as occurred for example in the well-known case of the tax that Putin tried to levy on oligarchs who had grown rich on the privatizations of the 1990s. In such a situation the question of replacing the leader inevitably arises, and precisely in the top ranks of the administration.

If we go on to examine the events from the angle of the distribution of power within the government, there is every reason to suspect that the shooting of a well-known politician and personal acquaintance of the president, literally within a few steps of the Kremlin, amounts to a sort of message whose target is particularly obvious. There is not the slightest doubt that the “national leader” understands the significance of this message, but what conclusions Putin will draw concerning his own options is less clear. We shall find out in the coming months.