Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

I sometimes read a site called Quora, which sometimes contains the most elementary—not to say stupid—questions for others to answer, and sometimes contain special information by informed and often experienced people, with staggering insight, as in the following:.


Putin wants the US to accept his possession of East Ukraine and bases in Syria. His idea is that he wants a Russian dominated sphere of influence and all year access to warm port for the Russian Navy. The idea is to allow Russian power to be projected outside of Russia so he can threaten and leverage the rest of the world to get more respect for Russia. So he basically he is another Hitler.

The fact is Russia has a poor economy that is based on extraction of resources (oil, gold, diamonds, etc)…but no actual market economy because they have no patents and no innovation in their society. They do not “own” any technology of their own (or any technology the rest of the world wants to buy).

So they have to dominate and pillage the rest of the world to feel their power. There is only trouble ahead for Russia led by this guy. Danger! Only a resolute USA and Europe can stop him. And no one in Europe is resolute…they will do anything for peace…and he smells our weak political will.

Heck even Truman let Stalin have Eastern Europe without a fight (at the Potsdam congress in 1945)…(Truman thought he could trust Old Joe to let the Poles vote freely for their own gov….a typical US mistake…trust!).

So where are we? In the deep s&#t. It does not look good for modern (decadent, weak, corrupted, pacifist) US Democrats…who want to avoid any conflict at any cost.

Thats how Hitler became a monster…the West appeased him during the depression…..to avoid any conflicts.
So here we are again. We never learn from history.

Democracy is a sucker!

Mark Chandon, Author, retired Military Pilot



The “new Yalta” agreement is a something that Putin wants the West to accept in order to cement his place in history books.

A set of batshit crazy ideas greatly described in the nearby answers that will make “Russia great again”.

This is 100% in line with his foreign policy: sponsoring corrupt but friendly regimes in Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Iran & Syria, terrorising the Russian neighbours that are the crucial export partners for Russian goods, oppressing the free speech so that the government critics would be either killed or had to immigrate abroad.

Putin wants to be a strong leader, on par with Stalin allegedly that was the only role model he was taught in the KGB school, but times have changed and there's no Comintern to feed his wet dreams.

Michael (Mikhail) Koltsov)


The New Yalta deal (or Yalta 2.0, as we often call it in Russia) refers to the Yalta agreement in 1945 between USSR and Western powers about areas of influence in the post-war Europe.

The idea of New Yalta began taking shape when Putin delivered his Munich speech in 2007. It has been developed during later years and took its present form when Russia entered the war in Syria.

Despite of its pretty specific objectives, New Yalta has never been proclaimed officially, for several reasons:

Putin thinks that keeping open the scope of the deal gives him the extra flexibility

Since every deal of such a scale always involves compromises, Putin does not want anything that reveals concessions on his part. We Russians do not like compromises. Compromises are for liberal softheads. We want victory.

As a seasoned spy, Putin knows: if he reveals to his enemies where he is heading, he makes it easier for them to trip him up.

Putin knows he is punching above his weight. His strategy ever since the start of Russian bombings in Syria is stalling for time in the hope that some Black Swan (kind of a new 9/11 impact) will give him a stronger hand. Then he can ask for more.

The New Yalta deal in its current form must include:

*Recognition of Crimea as Russian territory

*Total freeze on expansion of NATO. No membership for Sweden, Finland, Ukraine or Georgia.

*No NATO bases in the Baltics, Poland, Czech republic and Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Removal of the American anti-ballistic bases in Central Europe.

*Finlandization of Georgia, Ukraine and guarantees of such arrangements for Belarus, in case it gets a pro-Western government in the future.

*Guarantees of unhindered land connection through Lithuania between the Russian heartland and the exclave of Kaliningrad.
Recognition of Russia’s right to permanent military presence in the Mediterranean (through bases in Syria and possibly in Libya or other places)

*Repeal of all sanctions against Russian oligarchs, their companies and sectoral interests.


Dima Vorobiev. I have worked for Soviet propaganda