Another post I can partially agree with.That's the only rational assessment. And he appeared pretty sane and in control of his brain cells so far (other than having miscalculated a few things which even Churchill and most other long standing statesmen fell pray to, meaning, making mistakes). Compare that with the senile current leader of another superpower who can hardly get a full sentence out of his mouth without confusing the first woman or name of the country the current invasion is taking place in. The second in command is not any better and has pretty much zero intelligence nor experience on any international stage. Putin speaks multiple languages, has served in foreign countries and has run international negotiations for decades.
Of course rational decisions are only made as long as the person remains rational.
Actually, our previous and future president was all about America. The current president hates America.Another post I can partially agree with.
IMO somewhat senile is far better than a stable genius who is anything but stable and not even close to genius. But current second in command is a lewzer for sure.
But as for Putin he is just pure evil. Yes I know he says he just wants what is best for Russia. He doesn't he just wants whatever keeps him in power. Nothing more, nothing less. Like our former Prez 100% egotist, nationalist, all about him.
I will post a video to refute your statement in a separate thread on this forum.So, your claim is that Russia would kill every last Ukrainian if the Ukraine did not surrender? I don't think you seriously believe that. Ukraine did not negotiate in faith at all and is equally to be blamed for the collapse of the "peace talks".
Putin's foreign minister says freezing Russia's currency reserves was 'thievery' and that the Kremlin didn't expect such harsh sanctions
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-fm-freezing-currency-reserves-was-thievery-unexpected-2022-3
Russia's foreign minister called the freezing of Russia's currency reserves in light of its invasion of Ukraine "thievery" and said the country did not expect that level of sanctions.
- Putin's foreign minister called the freezing of Russia's currency reserves "thievery."
- Sergey Lavrov said that the scale of sanctions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine came as a shock.
- He added: "Nobody who was predicting what sanctions the West would pass could have pictured that."
Sergey Lavrov spoke to students in Moscow on Wednesday.
According to The New York Times, he said about the West's freezing of Russia's central bank reserves that "nobody who was predicting what sanctions the West would pass could have pictured that. It's just thievery."
The US and European countries were among those that froze Russian reserves.
Russia has about $640 billion in foreign reserves.
Russia's finance minister, Anton Siluanov, said earlier this month that about $300 billion had been frozen.
Other sanctions on Russia include the blocking the trade of luxury goods and heavy sanctions on Russian oligarchs.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, described the sanctions on oligarchs as "state banditry" earlier this month.