Showing yet again that he can go in depth in a way that others in the media can’t or won’t, Mark Levin on Sunday night unloaded the long — and bloody — history of Vladimir Putin’s murderous hold on power. On his Fox Show Life, Liberty and Levin, the radio star warned of what he called a “Putin wing in the media.”
Levin began, “So Putin came to power and has held power through assassination. Now, how do we know that? Because it is very, very well-documented.” He explained, “He has killed diplomats. He has called 122 journalists whose deaths were arranged by operatives of Putin and his regime.”
Citing various sources, Levin detailed just a few of Putin’s victims. (Click "expand" to read more.)
I'll just give you a few examples.
"Boris Nemtsov, 2015. In the 1990s, he was one of the leaders to post Soviet Russia's "young reformers." He became Deputy Prime Minister and was for a while seen as possible presidential material, but it was Putin, who succeeded Yeltsin in 2000. Nemtsov initially supported the choice, but he grew increasingly critical, and was pushed to the margins of Russian political life."
"In February 2015, military involvement in Ukraine, Nemtsov was shot four times in the back by an unknown assailant within view of the Kremlin. Putin took personal control in the investigation into the murder, but the killer remains at large."
Boris Berezovsky, 2013. A self-styled tycoon who was a member of Yeltsin's inner circle in the late 1990s. He was instrumental in Putin's rise to power including a media campaign that smeared Boris Nemtsov who was upcoming with Putin to succeed Yeltsin."
"But Berezovsky soon fell out with Putin and left Russia for a comfortable self-exile in the U.K. The distance from Russia emboldened him, and he declared that he would devote his and his considerable wealth to bring down Putin. He was also leading a campaign to investigate the November 2006 killing in London by the radioactive substance polonium in 2010 of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who became a leading critic of Putin. In 2018, a British Intelligence investigation established that two agents of the FSB, the KGB successor group killed Litvinenko by slipping the radioactive material in his tea." You remember this?
Anyway, "Berezovsky was found dead inside a locked bathroom at his home in London, a noose around his neck and what was at first deemed as suicide, but the coroner's office could not determine the cause of death."
And it goes on and on and on.
Levin slammed, “We have a Putin wing in the media. We have a Putin core in the Democratic Party and in academia. And you'll hear them and you'll see them and they talk about how the United States may escalate war against Putin.”
He scolded anyone, in the media, or in politics, who would blame America for all this: “But why does this matter? Because ladies and gentlemen, I personally am sick and tired of hearing the excuses for Putin and the attacks on the United States that we somehow are going to escalate something.”
Levin closed with a warning: “What does this have to do with the United States? Do you think Putin is going to be happy with Ukraine any more than he was happy with Crimea any more than he was happy with Georgia? He has told us what he wants to do.”
A partial transcript is below. Click “expand” to read more.
Life, Liberty and Levin
3/7/2022MARK LEVIN: I infrequently agree with Lindsey Graham on a number of issues -- judges, immigration and so forth -- but he said something the other day on brother Sean Hannity's program, which has said to be controversial, and he is taking a lot of incoming from the Putin wing of the Republican Party, from the Putin Pravda related American press, and of course, from the American Marxist and the Democratic Party.
And what is it?
He suggested in so many words that it would be nice if a hero would step up, who is in Putin's inner circle and take him out. And that created controversy. I'm not exactly sure why that created controversy.
And so Lindsey Graham, for that has taken more hate than Vladimir Putin has for actually using assassination and murder, in order to stay in power, in order to gain power, and in order to try and take out the President of Ukraine.
Here we have a piece in "The Daily Mail," "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has survived three assassination attempts in the past week: Plots were filed by double agents within what is the old KGB and now the new FSB."
It turns out that the Wagner Group, which I'll get to in a second and I've talked to about on radio is behind two of the attempts and a Chechnya hit squad is behind one of the attempts, obviously, they were all sent there by Putin.
There are said to be 400 members of this Wagner Group, which is based in Africa, which is a mercenary secretive hit group, a quasi-military arm of Putin's army in Kyiv, that were placed there in advance of this war, and they were " ... foiled by subversive antiwar members within Russia's Federal Security Service." This According to "The Daily Mail."
"The successor to the KGB, who alerted Ukrainian officials, Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense confirmed the attempts. One group that reportedly tried to kill him was the shadowy Wagner Group, which has 400 members located in Kyiv." They infiltrated Ukraine with a 24-name kill list.
So they have a hit list of assassinations that they are supposed to undertake on behalf of Putin.
"The other group was Chechnyan which our elite soldiers as part of the Russian National Garden are known for their brutal tactics." And of course, Zelenskyy is the number one target.
So Putin came to power and has held power through assassination. Now, how do we know that? Because it is very, very well-documented. In fact, our country has warned the United Nations and the United Nations is well-aware that Russia has a kill list of Ukrainians to be detained or killed should they capture any of these individuals including Zelenskyy, his Cabinet, Members of Parliament, journalists -- on and on and on.
And in fact Homeland Security Newswire, yes, I do my research, has put together way back in August of 2020, the list is longer now, Putin's victims, a long list of people who've been disappeared or murdered who dared to question Putin.
We have -- " ... his intelligence operatives have killed many domestic critics, opposition politicians, journalist investigative reporters, academicians, and artists and more than a dozen Russian defectors like Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Russian intelligence operatives have also killed Russians who are not outspoken critics of the regime, leading Russian experts to speculate that Putin has adopted a milder version of Stalin's tactics of random killings in order to instill a generalized sense of fear and insecurity in the Russian elite."
And they provide a list -- again, this list is a year and a half old -- of 16, politicians, opposition politicians, business people who wouldn't go along with Putin's ideology, and also such as it is and wouldn't give him a piece of their action.
He has killed diplomats. He has called 122 journalists whose deaths were arranged by operatives of Putin and his regime, and it goes through the list, who they are, why he targeted them, and how they were murdered.
Seems pretty serious to me. I'll just give you a few examples.
"Boris Nemtsov, 2015. In the 1990s, he was one of the leaders to post Soviet Russia's "young reformers." He became Deputy Prime Minister and was for a while seen as possible presidential material, but it was Putin, who succeeded Yeltsin in 2000. Nemtsov initially supported the choice, but he grew increasingly critical, and was pushed to the margins of Russian political life."
"In February 2015, military involvement in Ukraine, Nemtsov was shot four times in the back by an unknown assailant within view of the Kremlin. Putin took personal control in the investigation into the murder, but the killer remains at large."
Boris Berezovsky, 2013. A self-styled tycoon who was a member of Yeltsin's inner circle in the late 1990s. He was instrumental in Putin's rise to power including a media campaign that smeared Boris Nemtsov who was upcoming with Putin to succeed Yeltsin."
"But Berezovsky soon fell out with Putin and left Russia for a comfortable self-exile in the U.K. The distance from Russia emboldened him, and he declared that he would devote his and his considerable wealth to bring down Putin. He was also leading a campaign to investigate the November 2006 killing in London by the radioactive substance polonium in 2010 of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who became a leading critic of Putin. In 2018, a British Intelligence investigation established that two agents of the FSB, the KGB successor group killed Litvinenko by slipping the radioactive material in his tea." You remember this?
Anyway, "Berezovsky was found dead inside a locked bathroom at his home in London, a noose around his neck and what was at first deemed as suicide, but the coroner's office could not determine the cause of death."
And it goes on and on and on.
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We know that Putin is a killer. We know his assassins. We know his interests in the countries that surround Russia. We know he wants to rebuild the old Soviet Union, actually the Russian Empire. He wrote a long essay about it over the summer. What does that have to do with us? Everything.
We have a Putin wing in the Republican Party. We have a Putin wing in the media. We have a Putin core in the Democratic Party and in academia. And you'll hear them and you'll see them and they talk about how the United States may escalate war against Putin.
Now, it's they, Lavrov and other lapdogs of Putin who have talked about nuclear war. It is Putin himself who has talked about nuclear war, we're not, and they rarely ever criticize Putin or they do it in a passing way in order to say something about the United States and how stupid we are and how stupid our generals are and so forth.
Now, there may be that, I mean, Biden is the so-called Commander-in-Chief. He is a disgrace in a disaster. He actually has the Russians negotiating with the Iranians on a nuclear deal with us.
What kind of a fool does that? I will never know.
He puts more sanctions on the American oil industry and no sanctions on the Russian oil industry as I speak. What kind of a fool does that when we can use oil to debilitate the Russian economy, the Putin economy and war machine rather than debilitate you, Mr. and Mrs. America. We do have a damn fool in the White House. There is no question about that and we should be muscling up our military for any possibilities and we're not. Despite spending trillions and trillions of massive debt, we are not muscling up the United States military.
Russia, China, Iran, the axis of evil, the real axis of evil now that exists.
But why does this matter? Because ladies and gentlemen, I personally am sick and tired of hearing the excuses for Putin and the attacks on the United States that we somehow are going to escalate something.
We have been incredibly passive in the face of what Putin is doing. Diplomacy? Diplomacy? Look who the diplomats are. Look at the Secretary of State, he is pathetic. Look at the National Security Adviser. He is pathetic.
We've never had such a pathetic team in modern American history up against true vile, genocidal maniacs.
Xi, the regime in Tehran and yes, the fascist Putin, who is busy running around and calling the Jewish leader, President of Ukraine, a Nazi. Think about that.
The bad guys, the evil guys are the Russians. They're not the Ukrainians. They're not the Americans. They're not the NATO forces. But what does bother me is the Ukrainians need weapons to defend themselves. They were promised MiG 29s and their pilots can fight in MiG 29s. That's what they use.
All of a sudden, they were pulled back. I don't favor sending American infantry into Ukraine. Does anybody? I don't think even Lindsey Graham does. I don't favor a no-fly zone with American Air Force jets and so forth. But can we at least give these freedom fighters the right to defend themselves?
They are now being brutalized, they're being slaughtered, they're being shot in the streets. Their women are being raped. There is torture taking place.
What does this have to do with the United States? Do you think Putin is going to be happy with Ukraine any more than he was happy with Crimea any more than he was happy with Georgia? He has told us what he wants to do.
