Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 20, 2019
The idea of Putin retiring scares me.
He did his annual marathon press conference this week, and he seemed to suggest again that he might retire in 2024. Or he might not. I don’t understand Russia, and there is no English transcript yet.
He sidestepped a direct question about his future plans, while raising the possibility that Russia’s Constitution, which bars him from seeking another term, might be changed.
Moscow has been abuzz for months with speculation about whether Mr. Putin, who has been in power for 20 years, will step down at the end of his current and supposedly final term in 2024.
Wary of declaring himself a lame duck and triggering a destabilizing succession struggle, Mr. Putin has kept his plans secret. His comments on Thursday were so ambiguous that they set off another round of Kremlin tea-leaf reading.
His musing publicly about revising the Constitution, which bars a president from serving more than two successive terms, raised the possibility that he may want to run for a third consecutive term — which would keep him in office through 2030 — and possibly more.
But it could also mean that he wants to remove only the reference to consecutive terms, which would actually strengthen the two-term limit. That would prevent future presidents from repeating his own controversial maneuver in 2008, when he stepped down after two terms to become prime minister — while holding onto most of his power — only to return four years later for a third presidential term. He also found another way to extend his grip on power, lengthening the terms from four years to six.
In an interview with state television after the news conference, Mr. Putin played down the significance of his comment, saying that he had simply answered a question put to him about the Constitution, adding, “I can’t say this was something prepared from my side.” He said he was open to the idea of increasing the powers of Russia’s Parliament, which has become little more than a rubber stamp and cheerleading squad for the Kremlin.
The NYT’s language has become cartoonishly vitriolic, I just want to note yet again. This was not published in the op-ed section, yet we’re hearing about power-grips and cheerleading squads. I’ve read the NYT since I was a teenager and they never used this kind of loaded language really until the Trump era.
He is 67 now, so in 2024, he’ll only be 71.
In America, Joe Biden is the Democrat frontrunner, trying to get his first term at 78.
Dis nigga talkin bout cornpop.
I don’t know all that much about Russia’s internal politics, but if there was a rising star ready to take over from Putin, I think I’d know who he was.
Putin is a very important leader on the world stage, because Russia is such an important country as a counter-balance to the West.
Putin is the best leader, not only because of his foreign policy, but also because of much of his domestic work.
He is the only white leader in the world who will raise another issue he raised at the press conference.
RT:
He also referenced Russia’s demographic problems (the population fell this year after a decade of small rises), noting how the number of potential young mothers, aged 21-29, has fallen by four million. This is the effect of the 1990s economic carnage which crushed birth rates, as many people worried about basic survival.
Again: no other white leader says it.
The only thing other white leaders say is that you have to have infinity immigrants to replace our populations.
Putin has not moved to ban abortion. Even though the topic is a big one in Russia, as it has a large Christian population.
Foreign Policy, October 3, 2017:
On a recent windy afternoon, members of a prominent Russian religious group were busy laying out 2,000 pairs of children’s shoes in the corner of a park — each representing an abortion performed on an average day in Russia.
Fighting the elements to keep the tiny slippers and rubber boots in place, the organizers from “For Life” took to loudspeakers to reel off the reasons why Russia should make abortion illegal. Simultaneously, two men unfurled a long red-and-white banner with a quote by President Vladimir Putin, reading: “Demography is a vital issue… Either we’ll continue to exist, or we won’t.”
“If we don’t illegalize abortion, we cannot grow our population, and how can Russia retain its strength and greatness without that?” asked Maria Studenikina, an organizer from the Moscow faction of “For Life.” The group’s shoe project, called “If Only They Could Go to School,” has been staged in recent months in 40 cities across Russia. The shoes are accompanied by blackboards, cheery children’s backpacks, and squishy fetus dolls.
Russia’s anti-abortion movement has gathered momentum in recent months, as activists — usually devout members of the influential Russian Orthodox Church — have started seizing on the country’s demographic crisis as an urgent reason for banning the practice. They have also started citing Russia’s newfound commitment to a more forward-leaning posture on the global stage, from the wars in Syria and Ukraine to the diplomatic crisis over North Korea.
Both reasons seem designed to appeal to Putin, who, despite a growing alliance with the church — which critics say he uses as an extension of his administration — has yet to speak out about the abortion debate gripping the country. But he may soon be obliged to take a stand.
That was 2017, and as far as I know, he hasn’t taken a stand.
He probably could ban abortion, I would think. But he seems to be worried about giving fuel to the US-backed revolutionaries operating in the country.
The country has an extremely high abortion rate, but it is mainly just because of the stupidity of women. I guess it is that reason everywhere, but what I mean to say is that they don’t have some gigantic political machine talking about “my body my choice” or any of that. It’s just an issue of the convenience of women, combined with the same sexualized culture we all deal with.
Putin did ban a lot of pornography, which is a step in the right direction in terms of fertility, but ultimately, abortion is what keeps the population down.
2,000 abortions a day, 730,000 people a year dead. And I’m sure that it is all white girls doing it. The Islamic republics inside of Russia do not have abortion clinics and Moslems don’t do abortion. Abortion was restricted to the first trimester in 2011, but that’s when almost all abortions happen anyway. You’ve gotta be deranged to have an abortion after the first three months.
The USSR banned abortion. So there is still the memory of it being illegal. It could be done.
I hope Putin does not retire.
China is doing well as a counter to the West, but you kind of need both countries for this to work. And it is really, really difficult to do what Putin has done and kept Russia free from the West in a white country that has free speech, Jews, Moslems and white women.