The year is 2008. Russian/Soviet dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya predicts that after the West allowed Russia to tear apart Chechnya - Russia will keep on going and invade Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Very interesting clip! - ThreadSky

natalkakyiv.bsky.social • 65 days ago

The year is 2008. Russian/Soviet dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya predicts that after the West allowed Russia to tear apart Chechnya - Russia will keep on going and invade Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

Very interesting clip!

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itautra.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well spoken!

itautra.bsky.social•64 days ago

The politicians in the west would have disagreed with her in 2008. It was almost to insult Putin to suggest something like this back then.

natalkakyiv.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well… she knew who he was from the start and they didn't. The moral of the story: don't form opinions based on your own geopolitical analysts’ opinions and always listen to people ‘on the ground ‘.

itautra.bsky.social•64 days ago

They should have been able to understand who he was after his Munich speech in 2007.

Poland/Baltics has tried for years to warn about Russia/Putin, which has been met with criticism from a collective west.

biased45.bsky.social•64 days ago

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biased45.bsky.social•64 days ago

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zpjet.bsky.social•64 days ago

Wow. What a vision.

missmwambe.bsky.social•64 days ago

Arestovych predicted in 2008 that Putin would try to recapture Crimea. He was not the only one who understood this. Various signals could help anticipate the evolution of Putin's policy for those who were willing to open their eyes.

jarda.bsky.social•64 days ago

Most preferred to keep their eyes closed, because business. And then it comes as an incredible surprise that ruZZistan attacks its neighbours or that China has grown from a rural country of people in blue uniforms into a dangerous, technlogically advanced military monster.

missmwambe.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not only business but also lack of realism, self-centered judgment.

jarda.bsky.social•64 days ago

Money always go first. They'd give the latest technologies to the devil, if he smiled nicely and promised profit.