Dead right. It also makes it harder for Russian propaganda to deny there's a war going on when the 400,000 inhabitants of that city see massive explosions lighting up their night sky - there's no way Putin will be able to stop news of this spreading rapidly across Russia,
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Dead right. It also makes it harder for Russian propaganda to deny there's a war going on when the 400,000 inhabitants of that city see massive explosions lighting up their night sky - there's no way Putin will be able to stop news of this spreading rapidly across Russia,
They’ve already done a couple. What are they supposed to do?
I don't know but with Putin you just never know and that was my point.
Basically, I don't have experience dealing with a lunatic.
Hopefully that depot was stuffed to the gills with fresh supplies of shells and missiles that Putin was hoping to bring into Ukraine.
Those actors, man.
I'd also be laughing my ass off even more if I'm working in the blood special effects department in the movie industry.For as long as that's a hit on a military target far away from civilians, it's very fair game. I'm sure that target came from intel sharing between Ukraine and NATO, and the Ukrainians wouldn't hit it unless there's a confirmed safe distance from civilian areas.
A look at Daleep Singh's sanctions on Putin
The Pentagon Press Secretary claims that weapons (etc) are being supplied - "pouring in" - to the defenders of Mariupol. How that can be true, given that the city is besieged on all sides, with only some of the central areas still holding out?
Please don't assume that Putin is a lunatic, he most likely isn't. He is following outdated philosophies about reasons and justifications for war that are better suited to Europes 18th/19th century and he was most likely heavily misinformed about the state of Russia's and Ukraine's military, but that doesn't make him a lunatic.
Ukraine has to flatten a few Russian cities and cause over 3 million Russian refuges, inside Russia ... and only after that we could say that the two countries are even.
Actually they would still not be even, because Russia started all this.
Not sure how saying someone using tactics from two centuries ago disproves the point about being a lunatic (at least in the loose sense of the word).
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To be honest, a country leader who reads too much into stuff from old centuries with no lessons worthy for the current modern reality has to be lunatic to an extent. It's quite the total opposite of John F. Kennedy, who read The Guns of August as his source of inspiration behind every single decision in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in order to not bungle into a war.
I didn't say anything about tactics. My point was that he sees war as a legit extension of diplomacy in true Clausewitz tradition. That isn't even uncommon, most US military actions follow the same philosophy. It's only unusual to see them applied in Europe again.
Putin is the proto-typical fecked-up macho-man. He lives in a fantasy world, completely lost in fantasies of what he imagines "strength", "masculinity" and "glory" to be.
Hence, for instance, the Russian law of 2017 that decriminalised some forms of domestic abuse, even though Russian interior ministry statistics showed that 9,800 women died as a result of a serious assault in 2015, and that a quarter of murders and serious assaults take place in the home.
You are right, just saw it was posted 6 hours ago, guess it would have been a bigger news if it was something very remarkable.
Why? Are Russia going to declare war on them after this?
Please notice that Nord Stream is a different pipeline than Yamal. Yamal actually fluctuates a lot, a few weeks ago it even operated backwards, pumping gas from Germany to Poland. So while it is concerning when nothing flows through Yamal, it is not unusual to happen.
Kennedy handling that well is a myth. He did plenty of bungling apparently. I remember reading a really in depth article about how it actually went a few years ago.
In the middle of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have this. Anyone still think that Trump is not a Russian intelligence asset?
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If they wanted to use chemical/biological, I’m sure they’d bomb a few Russian civilians themselves, military targets are fine , there people are starving/dying, if they go further we all understand.
I mean yeah he always looks like shit, but he somehow looks even worse here.
Trump is just a miserable nasty hateful individual.
And that is the nicest thing I can say about him.
More like a sociopathic person who doesn’t experience any empathy towards different people and uses literally anything for his individual advantage.
A cnut you mean?
Yeah.
The de-escalation doesn't seem to concern the Eastern front.
Russian-backed separatists claim that UA is shelling civilians. He is talking like they are not part of the RU-UA negotiations, and somewhat not bound by its results so far.
Russian-backed separatists claim that UA is shelling civilians. He is talking like they are not part of the RU-UA negotiations, and somewhat not bound by its results so far.
I don't think he's anyone's asset per se. Not in his mind, anyway. He's just a dumb, self-serving, immoral, deluded, narcissist who cares only for himself. I doubt he recognises that he furthers the interests of Putin (I reckon he truly believes he is being tough on Russia), but even if he does somehow recognise it deep down he clearly has no capacity for caring for America. It just doesn't matter to him at all.
The biggest irony of all is the idiots who vote for him thinking he's a "patriot". How detached from reality must you be to believe that.
Peace isn't in the interest of the leaders of the DNR and LNR. Their entire use to Putin and existence is defined by being an antagonist to the rest of Ukraine. Early leaders of the DNR and LNR were already replaced by various means once they exhausted their usefulness. These current leaders will be just the same.
Just compare what Mariupol and Volnovakha look like compared to Donetsk, if you want to understand which parties are invested in a prosperous and peaceful future, and which want to maintain power through a campaign of terror.
And you wonder why people are disgusted about the Red Cross seriously proposing to facilitate the evacuation of Ukrainian refugees to Russia:
There are times I doubt it... Mainly becuase so many others do and consider it a conspiracy theory. Then I actuallly put some thought into it and realise that's just silly.
Yanukovich, Lukashenko, Trump and whatever other Russian puppets exist across the world, I don't see really much difference.
It's not an irony for many of them, because they have perverted the definition of "patriot" so that (for them) it now means opposition to genuine democracy, opposition to law and order, and support for authoritarian "strong men" like Trump. Much of the alt-right in America is now pretty much indistinguishable from Russian ultra-nationalist supporters of Putin.