It's possible someone of that rank would be on the ground in Ukraine, but I'd say purge is equally likely.
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No mention of, you know, trying to cancel Ukraine.
Or how their government is demonstrably worse in every metric
Or that they declared this war with blut und boden rhetoric
Or that there are literally lists of political enemies and nonconformists to be liquidated
LOOK OVER THERE! BAD PEOPLE!
That's their PR drop in the bucket. According to the end of fiscal year report last year, they made $1.1 billion from 4/20-3/21.
You know you done fucked up when you got even Canada wanting to help kill you.
To everyone saying this:
Those people being arrested aren't going to the war. They will be quietly excuted somewhere in Russia, and their families will be told they went to the front and died fighting in the war.
No, he was a Spetsnaz unit commander so being in the field is probable. We don't know where and how he died though (could've been a rear guard ambush on his convoy).
Is the other the Chechen general? Was that ever hard confirmed or was it debunked?
I noticed a general increasing of pro Russian propaganda on social media today in genral.
I've seen so much pro-Putin commentary on what's usually Trump-heavy platforms that there's little doubt that they're populated primarily of Russian bots and idiots.
This. We're watching Russia turn into North Korea before our eyes.
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I'm not suggesting there is an easy solution but it sure feels like the world is sacrificing Ukraine to a bully because the world is worried what the bully will do to them.
Sanctions are going to hurt Russia but sanctions won't help Ukraine.
What is the world going to do to China when they invade Taiwan? Sanctions against China? I'm not sure that is even feasible because China is key to world supply chains.
Sanctions are going to hurt Russia but sanctions won't help Ukraine.
What is the world going to do to China when they invade Taiwan? Sanctions against China? I'm not sure that is even feasible because China is key to world supply chains.
I too would like to announce that I am donating 2 whole dimes to the fine Ukranian people. You are welcome and now please check out my youtube.
This Portentous Composition: Swan Lake's Place in Soviet Politics | Hazlitt
How the classic ballet has changed—and been changed by—the history of Russia.
In August 1991, Ross writes, when a group of communist hard-liners attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's government, television programs again were interrupted; for days, the only thing on state TV was a continuous loop of Swan Lake. Sergei Filatov, a member of the Russian legislature, was on vacation at the time. "I turned on the TV and saw the swans dancing," Filatov told the Moscow Times. "For five minutes, ten, for an hour. Then I realized that something had happened." He immediately got on a flight to Moscow, where he played an important role defending the city against the attempted takeover. (One of the leaders of the coup, Vasily Starodubtsev, later admitted that the broadcast was a strategic error.)
Send in Snorlax to block the convoys, you cowards.
Quite a few posts on Reddit that I'm spotting trying to both sides the war... Though hard to tell if it's actual bots or edgy teenagers
India already told him that he's full of shit. China knows just as well.
In the supposed logic that that's the real reason, it's not really about having NATO right on their borders, but how close to Moscow those borders are. Ukraine's border, specially Donestk and Lugansk, are way closer than Estonia and Latvia.
So Shapiro would be wrong, as always, don't worry
tl;dw: they are Nazis, Ukrainians and Russians are one, they are Nazis, we will pay if your son dies, they are Nazis using Nazi methods, our plan is being perfectly executed, Nazis again.Skynews with translation of Putin speech
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Pretty sure an earlier source posted was Ukraine taking credit for it.
While i agree that the amount they are donating is not much, i think the gesture and the exposition the humanitarian relief organization is getting will help a ton.
Which isn't exactly new to the Russian army
Mothers and Sons : When Thousads of Recruits Came Home in Sealed Coffins, the Russian Army Blamed 'Accidents.' But the Mothers Call It Murder.
IN A CRAMPED AUTOPSY ROOM IN MOSCOW, with bulky, antiquated equipment, a scruffy workman with a hammer and chisel tears open a soldered zinc box to reveal a slender coffin covered with thin red cotton.
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What I don't understand about this NATO redline/non-interference thing.
Every country is literally advertising that they are sending weapons to help kill Russians. It's not like Vietnam or Afghanistan or even Syria where people could at least have plausible deniability. It's PR announcements by government officials.
Why is that any different from direct engagement? What happens if the Russians decide to blow up a "lethal aid" plane while it's in Ukrainian airspace?
Every country is literally advertising that they are sending weapons to help kill Russians. It's not like Vietnam or Afghanistan or even Syria where people could at least have plausible deniability. It's PR announcements by government officials.
Why is that any different from direct engagement? What happens if the Russians decide to blow up a "lethal aid" plane while it's in Ukrainian airspace?
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Where is a good place to follow the economic aspects of all of this? For whatever reason the economic machinations and the day-to-day impact of the sanctions is more interesting to me than troop movements and the such.
Are there any high-quality outlets reporting on it consistently? No shade to the economics professors writing long Twitter threads, but I'd like to read more on-the-ground reporting with greater depth.
Are there any high-quality outlets reporting on it consistently? No shade to the economics professors writing long Twitter threads, but I'd like to read more on-the-ground reporting with greater depth.
No problem, if someone told me before all of this happened that Germany would aggressively move to help Ukraine in defiance of Russia I wouldn't have believed them.
Yeah, Atlantic articles can be hit or miss. But when they hit they're usually must reads. This isn't a long-form article like a lot of their stuff, it's concise and to the point.
Germany waking up and realizing that the world needs them to stand up and fight for democracy, freedom of association, expression, etc. is the 2nd most important story to come out of all this after the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
I could be wrong but my impression was that once Russia invaded the aid was shifted from giant cargo planes landing in Ukraine to giant cargo planes landing in a neighboring country and then the aid being shipped by land. I'm not sure though. I certainly haven't heard of flights from other countries going into Ukraine with military aid since things started.
Ukraine is still a sovereign country, Russia doesn't get to decide what we send Ukraine just because they started a war. We aren't flying planes into Ukraine to avoid that situation, and if Russia were to cut-off the aid on the ground then it is what it is and we would have to try to find some other means. It's frankly surprising that they haven't
Russia is confused. Russia hurts itself in confusion!
Because there's still a semblance of order in this chaos
A line.
Aid is not direct intervention.
NATO troops are not killing Russian troops
I have no idea if the majority of people here in Germany truly understand what has happened.
Most of what I hear from people close to me is "Why do they want to send our sons to war for whatever it is they are doing?"
Western journalists have mostly fleed Russia and independent sources have been silenced so not really unfortunately
So technically it's Ukrainian truck drivers crossing the border into Poland or whatever to drive the supplies back? That still feels like a very fine difference... like one of those rules lawyering things where the rules are clearly being broken but it's fine because it's technically still legal.
Remember the paratroopers back in day 1?
Seems like they are just glorified riot police.
Seems like they are just glorified riot police.
Damn. I guess I'll just have to keep cruising this thread for Twitter anecdotes, then.
C'mon now. How in the hell do you get Pokemans to speak out?
Driving a civilian truck with military cargo seems pretty different from flying a military cargo plane directly into a war-zone, particularly since I'd almost guarantee that the military cargo plane would have fighter escorts.
The similarities between the Russian government and the GOP is unsettling.
I think NATO will not intervene as long as none of their members gets attacked. Feel like even public executions / millions of civilians dying won't be enough.