Why are there then sanctions for Russia if the people overhelmingly wanted Russia to annex them ?
I am just asking.
That is a very good question, considering that Crimea as a matter of fact has been looking something like this ever since the fact:
It’s fairly interesting to keep tabs on it by following Crimean discussion forums, photoblogs, vloggers and so on. Needless to say it sorta clashes real good with the widely held beliefs outside Crimea. This discrepancy has taken on quite bizarre proportions, to be honest.
Another good question is why there are Crimea-specific sanctions on business, transactions and so on, that don’t apply to Russia as a whole but only affect Crimean residents. Are the Crimeans punished for being forcibly annexed, or punished for making a democractic choice? Because that’s what it boils down to, both equally absurd.
Putin: making being a Russian politician cool since midnight 1999
What’s gone down recently is really mostly a “rally ’round the flag”-effect. Good comparisons would be Thatcher and the Tories right around the Falkland crisis, or indeed the POTUS (for whose popularity ratings the term was originally coined) every time the US gets involved in something that spurs patriotism.
Case in point (G.W. Bush approval ratings):
Then you have three other main factors pertaining to V.V. Putins general popularity – namely the abysmal job his predecessor did, the very tangible improvement of peoples lives in Russia under Putin and the lack of any credible alternatives. In other words, it’s no wonder he’s heaps popular and there’s no need to ascribe it to propaganda or personality cults or anything like that.
I guess Russia didn’t get enough trouble with Chechnya. Ukraine would be Chechnya many times over if they decide to fully invade that country. Meanwhile likenesses like this are appearing all over Moscow as Putin builds on his cult of personality.
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Donbass is more of a Chechnya to Ukraine than what Ukraine is to Russia – just saying. Essentially a local separatist insurrection supported by foreign powers, that sprung into life during a highly unstable period of the parent country, with the parent country trying to stop it with crude and destructive methods. That’s pretty much a carbon copy of Chechnya #1.
Chechnya #2 was a tad different, since they had by then morphed into mad islamists (not Chechen separatists anymore, but islamic caliphate people supported by the Gulf countries) with an affinity for terrorism against civilians, and on top of it all they actually attempted to invade the rest of Russia, like an actual military invasion.
And I’m sure Putin personally instructed everyone to make t-shirts and what have you. I guess the reason for him visiting Mongolia the other day was to market this particular line, too:
Nah, overly popular politicians are always a bit eerie since politicians are just general swine and typically it comes across as a tad uncanny when people like them “too” much. But this is in no way unique and does not constitute a personality cult, not until he unveils a monument to himself or his name starts popping up in school curriculums. I know loads and loads of Russians and they tend to think he’s a pretty good president (and crucially, unfathomably much better than the drunkard Eltsin, which you must put into perspective), but they have no issues acknowledging his many faults and failed policies.
When I asked them if they’d wear one of those silly t-shirt some said “hell yeah, if only to **** off the rest of the world”, since they know it’s such a flippin eyesore to some. There you go. :p
RF code =/= serial
True, and the machine lacking an RF code is yellow 47.
From same event (Torzhok helicopter base, Tver Oblast, June 29th) with loads of choppers including the codeless yellow 47 to the far right:
In other words there’s nothing fake or PSed about the photo TR1 posted.
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