Arnold Schwarzenegger

2022 - 3 - 17

Lviv

Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to show Russians a different kind of strongman (unknown)

In a video, Schwarzenegger suggested that opposing the war in Ukraine is a feat of strength.

“Let me close with a message to all of the Russians who have been protesting in the streets against the invasion of Ukraine. The world has seen your bravery. Schwarzenegger seems to anticipate this, saying he’s sending the message through “various different channels,” and encouraging viewers to share it with their Russian friends. He knows these citizens have the power to do strong things again. He also seems to anticipate something else: that his international celebrity might count for something here. He explains that Ukraine is not riddled with Nazis as the Kremlin has told Russian citizens — Ukraine’s president is Jewish. His words are intercut with news footage from recent weeks: buildings destroyed, people killed. Why would ordinary Russian people listen to the former Governator when there have been news stories of them refusing to believe even their own relatives in Ukraine about what’s really happening during the invasion?

Arnold Schwarzenegger Invokes His Nazi Father in Emotional Message to Russia (unknown)

"I don't want you to be broken like my father," the actor and former California governor said, in part, in a nine-minute address attempting to punch through ...

“We know that you’ve suffered the consequences of your courage. That is why I have to tell you the truth. “[My father] was injured at Leningrad, and the Nazi army he was part of did vicious harm to the great city and to its brave people,” he said. “The world has seen your bravery,” he said. “I’m sending this message to various different channels to reach my dear Russian friends and the Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine,” Schwarzenegger said in a nine-minute address embedded below. “The destruction that Russian bombs are raining down on innocent civilians has so outraged the world that the strongest global economic sanctions ever taken have been imposed on your country.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Gives A Master Class In Persuasion (unknown)

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger began as a champion bodybuilder, global movie star and governor of California, he was a kid growing up in post-war Austria.

“And to the Russians who have been protesting on the streets against the invasion of Ukraine: The world has seen your bravery. Remember that 11 million Russians have family connections to Ukraine. With every bullet that you shoot, you shoot a brother or a sister. “I know that your government has told you this is a war to de-Nazify Ukraine. This is not true. “I spoke to the American people this way last year on January 6, when a wild crowd was storming the U. S. Capitol trying to overthrow our government. Neither did nationalists or Nazis. Those in power in the Kremlin started this war; this is not the Russian people’s war.” Your lives, your limbs, and your futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war, condemned by the entire world. When he left Leningrad, he was broken physically and mentally. All of a sudden, a 14-year-old boy was standing in front of the strongest man in the world. With the confidence of an actor, Schwarzenegger invites them hear his message. “No one likes to hear something critical of their government. He relates a story from his boyhood when he saw Yury Petrovich Vlasov win a world weightlifting title. It balances facts with notes of friendship and unity.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Putin in video: Stop this war (Cleveland 19 News)

In the nine-minute video, Schwarzenegger said Russian soldiers were told they'd be fighting Nazis in Ukraine, or to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine or that ...

Schwarzenegger described his long ties to Russia, having traveled there as a body builder and film action hero. “This is an illegal war,” Schwarzenegger said, looking straight into the camera while seated at a desk in a study. You can stop this war.” He said many of the troops now know those claims were false. It was subtitled in Russian. You are leading this war.

Hackers, nurses and Arnold: Inside the struggle to get information on ... (CNN)

The information campaign over Russia's invasion of Ukraine is in full swing as a wide cast of characters -- from the US State Department to Ukrainian ...

Stacey McCue, a Florida nurse, has sent roughly 100 text messages and hundreds of emails to Russians using the platform. Americans are among the many people who have sent text messages to Russians using a website built by an international group of volunteer programmers known as Squad303. Analysts say it is unlikely that any single platform or messaging campaign is going to break through with the Russian public in a significant way. Stop making such calls!" We should bring real news to them." "And I trust and hope that we are doing something along those lines."

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger told Russia to stop the war in Ukraine (The Washington Post)

In it, the “Terminator” and “Kindergarten Cop” star pleads with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop this war” and invokes his father's wounds while ...

And they want to put together blockbuster televised hearings that the public actually tunes into, according to people with knowledge of the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly.” While the rollout marks a glimmer of good news, the program continues to face intense criticism over costs and its aging technology,” our colleague Christian Davenport reports. That year, he also ran on the Democratic, Independence and Working Families Party ballot lines. “In a high-stakes video call, President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping spoke Friday morning for the first time since November amid concerns that China will help Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine,” ABC News's Libby Cathey reports. “Brase finds himself at the center of a movement that has swollen to include not just parents concerned about vaccine mandates for their children, but also involves men associated with violent extremist groups and people who falsely believe government leaders are running satanic child sex trafficking rings. He shows he visited Russia, and has pride in filming the first movie allowed to shoot in Red Square,” said Singer. “The question, though, is does it actually reach the target, from a technology standpoint,” Singer said. The man who will forever be Ah-nuld to many a Gen X-er also drew motivation from something his late father said. “Let me tell you the truth about the war in Ukraine.” That campaign aims to erode support for the military operation and his regime more broadly, although it’s too soon to quantify how much of an impact it's having. Ketchell estimated they accounted for a quarter of the people interacting with him. That is why I have to tell you the truth.

Arnold Schwarzenegger draws praise for message to Russia and ... (The Boston Globe)

In an emotional video posted Thursday morning and watched by millions, Schwarzenegger sought to shed light on the “harsh realities” of the invasion of ...

You have the strength of Yury Petrovich Vlasov. You have the true heart of Russia.” We are not just witnessing a brutal, violent Kremlin-led attack on the Ukrainian people, we are witnessing a war of the truth vs. He lived the rest of his life in pain: pain from a broken back, pain from the shrapnel that always reminded him of those terrible years, pain from the guilt that he felt,” he said. tyranny. As— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) @Schwarzeneggerexplains, we do not blame the people of Russia, and we need you to know what your government is hiding from you. “Those who don’t deserve it on both sides of the war will suffer,” he said. He invoked the memory of his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, who was a Nazi during that war, to convey the lasting price he paid for believing the falsehoods his government perpetuated. Later, as a politician, the Austrian-born star would continue to forge those ties with leaders there. “The strength and the heart of the Russian people have always inspired me. That is why I have to tell you the truth. “When he left Leningrad, he was broken physically and mentally. “You are my new heroes. I love the Russian people.