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Putin's opposition is about to take over the Russian Federation from Poland (I miss the clown emoji):

Poland organizes “Congress of People’s Deputies of Russia”

Russian Revolutionaries Prepare for Post-Putin Future

Some 65 former Russian lawmakers are to convene for a congress on Friday to establish what organizers say will be the first legitimate alternative parliament to the Federal Assembly of Russia, which critics say is no more than a rubber stamp for President Vladimir Putin.

The First Congress of People's Deputies of Russia will begin on Friday in Jablonna, a suburb of the Polish capital of Warsaw. By Sunday, organizers hope, the new body will have agreed a draft constitution to guide Russia through a future transition to democracy and elected an executive committee to lobby for international support and recognition.

Moscow's war in Ukraine—now in its ninth month with no end in sight—has galvanized the Russian anti-Putin movement abroad. For some, the quagmire conflict signals the beginning of the end of what they see as Putin's neo-imperial kleptocratic regime. Now, various would-be successor movements are positioning themselves to take the reins.

Ilya Ponomarev—a member of the Russian parliament from 2007 to 2016 and the only deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea in 2014—is one of the congress organizers. Now based in Ukraine, he told Newsweek the new body hopes to create a roadmap for Russia to follow after Putin's ouster.

The congress, he said, is intended as a big-tent event. "We have invited everyone," he said. "We will even pass a special resolution calling for all the different political groups to join forces and to send their representatives...It's an assembly of deputies, and the deputies decide where to go."

"It's not about personalities," he said. "Yes, I was one of the authors of the idea, but I don't intend this to be my private show...I will very much try to influence and present my position. But at the end of the day, it will be the decision of the majority."

Fellow organizer Mark Feygin—a former Russian lawmaker and a human rights lawyer who has represented high-profile defenders including the Pussy Riot punk band—told Newsweek that he, Ponomarev, and former Russian deputy Gennady Gudkov will likely join the congress's executive committee.

But even within that group, there will be divergence, he explained from France, where he now lives. "There is no single strategy for interacting with all the different centers of power," Feygin said of advocating for international support—primarily in Ukraine, the European Union, U.K., and U.S.—once the congress is formed.

Ponomarev said there are figures from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and the European Parliament attending the congress to observe. "People will be watching and looking at how it goes. After we are done, then we'll start actual talks and negotiations."

Anna Fotyga, a Polish member of the European Parliament and a former foreign minister, is one of those foreign politicians who will be attending. Fotyga told Newsweek that widespread support for the war within Russia necessitates systemic political change.

"Putin and the Russian parliament have lost their legitimacy many years ago, not only with stolen elections, but also fake constitutional referendums," she said. "Those people and this system have no future.

"But it cannot be changed without an active role of Russians themselves. I am glad that finally there is a movement ready to take this responsibility. There is a long way to go, but it is good to be ready when the time comes."

The congress's international outreach will begin in earnest after this weekend's plenary. But convincing foreign governments to drop official recognition of Russia's Federal Assembly is an ambitious goal, even with the Kremlin's war on Ukraine.

Moscow would likely consider such a step a severe escalation of a conflict, which Western leaders are already wary of spiraling into a broader confrontation with Russia.

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Someone get Juan Guaidó in there as well.
 
supercat

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Overbom said:
Some tweets by Scholz
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1588569064716537856
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I'm glad Scholz find these shared values with China: "reliability and trust – these two values play an important role in German and Chinese culture", instead of some other kind of modern "Western values" such as these:
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Decoupling from China is easier said than done.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1588873157020385280

It seems that Japan is no longer willing to put all its eggs in the U.S. basket. Asking the help of U.K., a country itself is in deep trouble, also reflects Japan's own isolation in Asia.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589015517222035456
 
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sndef888

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News is coming out that Japan and UK are signing a security pact.

Any takes on how China would respond to such a provocation?
 
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Western PR again.

Its just a co-logistics deal. Although it is not insignificant, I dont think there is a need to overreact. AFAIK Japan has the same deal with the US already.
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One must realise that if Japan starts a fight (or even Taiwan for that matter) China would already have enough missiles to basically light Japan up within half a day given the number of missiles and the speed it would take to hit them and the fact that the USA simply doesn’t have the ability to arm Japan up for a real fight anymore (because if that was true then how come Ukraine lost four territories and are currently on the verge of winter and are now begging the west to do all of the fighting now, while Russia is still shooting hundreds of missiles a day and the USA most importantly is looking to run out of diesel by the end of November or at least be so short of supply that a fight simply cannot happen). Really the only thing saving Japan from China giving Japan the WW2 treatment is simply because China doesn’t fire first and the fact that Japan has already become a nation of pussies that simply isn’t worth destroying atm. I mean just from China showing active restraint, the EU economy is on the verge of collapse the the USA is on the verge of an impact event simply because of mid elections, so really the west is doing a good job of killing themselves without Chinas input, in fact input from China would’ve helped them but really since the west doesn’t want help, well who cares?
 
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