#history on #Putin’s rise to power and the #CIA’s role. #toread
on 02025-07-21#SCMP #news #video on #Xi (#China premier) visiting #Russia to meet with Vladimir #Putin today, for the third time this year. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video about #Putin saying the ballistic missile that hit #Ukraine wasn’t an #ICBM but a medium-range missile. #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21a #video from today about #Putin and #nuclear-war of some dumb fuck talking to a camera (former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges Jamie Shea). He doesn’t think Russia is likely to use tactical nukes because, for example, “their relationship with China would suffer enormously”. #politics
on 02024-08-14#Putin thinks AI is the strategic technology for future #war, due to #drones.
on 02017-09-10#Putin in #Russia favors #Bitcoin and especially #Ethereum, perhaps thanks to the #USA Magnitsky Act imposing sanctions on Russian citizens. #politics
on 02017-08-06#Putin’s youth as a KGB agent in Dresden, East Germany, as the walls fell. #history
on 02016-10-17#Putin did request officials of #Russia to stop sending their kids to schools abroad, claiming that it brings his regime’s schools into disrepute
on 02016-10-14#Putin at #Valdai in #Sochi on #drones in 2014: “Today, many types of high-precision #weaponry are already close to mass-destruction weapons in terms of their capabilities, and in the event of full renunciation of nuclear weapons or radical reduction of nuclear potential, nations that are leaders in creating and producing high-precision systems will have a clear military advantage.” #politics #precision
on 02016-10-11#Trump #politics are largely funded by Russians, perhaps #Putin
on 02016-07-24End of the #petrodollar. #Saudi wanted to crush #Putin? #politics #energy #forex Lots of graphs and data tables on #oil prices
on 02015-08-05