Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Corvus]

The daughter of Alexander Dugin has died after her car exploded in Moscow. Dugin is called Putin's philosopher and is a full on fascist, calling for a new Russian empire, saying places like Ukraine and the Baltics have no rights to exist etc etc. His daughter was a politician who espoused her father's views as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EndGameWW...00947924869120

There is video of a man looking like Dugin at the scene.

This looks like either a false flag to rile up the nationalist population or internal politics spilling over as infighting starts. Dugin might have been the intended target as they were both at a talk together just before and talk is he was meant to be in the car with her but changed his mind.

[jonnysensible]

lol dugin family wrecked, better luck next time assassins.

some russian spies got captured trying to take pictures of a military facility in albania.

and obviously various shenanigans going on in crimea

good stuff.

[Corvus]

On the Albaniann thing - 3 suspected Russian agents on tourist visa were arrested after attacking two guards with a chemical substance in an attempt to break into a weapons factory. Albania is a NATO member.

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad2...97650350575617

[postman1782]

On the Albaniann thing - 3 suspected Russian agents on tourist visa were arrested after attacking two guards with a chemical substance in an attempt to break into a weapons factory. Albania is a NATO member.

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad2...97650350575617

They really want to start off WW3 right now, don't they? They really can't afford to be attacking people, especially when they are already losing to a smaller country.

[Liftbrul]

The daughter of Alexander Dugin has died after her car exploded in Moscow.

Too bad they missed Dugin himself, but at least there's one scumbag less in the world.

[Rasulis]

Nearly 4M Russians Left Russia in Early 2022 – FSB

‘We realized that there’s no way we can return’: Russia’s best and brightest are leaving the country in record numbers. 6 young Russians explain why they left

The mass flight of human capital—tech workers, academics, journalists, and anti-war activists—could decimate certain sectors and hurt a Russian economy that’s already reeling and largely cut off from international trade and business.

The country has now lost its “most valuable human resources,” Michael Reynolds, director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Princeton University, told Fortune. “Young, educated, talented, and entrepreneurial Russians who, with their education and skills, would have become leaders in the Russian economy and helped drive its growth,” he says.

Some Russians will continue to contribute to their home economy through remote work, and can act as a sanctions buffer by setting up import-export operations in countries like Turkey, Armenia, and India. But the “bulk of this talent will be lost,” Reynolds says.

The Russian economy isn’t simply going to collapse because of the exodus, experts say. The supply of talented and skilled workers remaining in Russia—only 30% of Russians hold a passport that lets them travel—is “sufficient to keep the economy afloat,” Margarita Zavadskaya, a social science senior research fellow at the University of Helsinki's Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, told Fortune.

“But those who would replace [emigres] are likely to be less [skilled] on average and will… be more politically compliant," she says. Some young Russians who stayed behind, like poet and teacher Katya V., who told her story to Fortune in March, says that her friends who remained in Russia did so to support their families and protest from within. "I don't want to give up everything here for [the government] to enjoy [ruling] without any resistance," she says.

Still, the bottom line is that the Russian economy is losing competent and competitive [workers],” Zavadskaya says.

[Voidism]

The daughter of Alexander Dugin has died after her car exploded in Moscow. Dugin is called Putin's philosopher and is a full on fascist, calling for a new Russian empire, saying places like Ukraine and the Baltics have no rights to exist etc etc. His daughter was a politician who espoused her father's views as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EndGameWW...00947924869120

There is video of a man looking like Dugin at the scene.

This looks like either a false flag to rile up the nationalist population or internal politics spilling over as infighting starts. Dugin might have been the intended target as they were both at a talk together just before and talk is he was meant to be in the car with her but changed his mind.

yawn, couldn't have happened to a worse family. This is how it is in russia. They want to live like this, apparently.

Anyways...

[Warning]

There's something ironic about that picture of Dugin at the wreckage, reaping the rewards of what he's worked so hard to achieve.
Overall I'd say it's good to see consequences coming home to Russia. There is no reason these propagandists should live comfortably and safely in their homes while they rile up and send thousands of young people off to murder Ukrainians. Shame they didn't get Dugin himself though, but there's always tomorrow.

[jonnysensible]

these propagandists should live comfortably and safely in their homes while they rile up people.

is it bad this is how i feel about alot of political hacks.

Dugin should look on the brightside, for one night his daughter was the hottest woman in Russia.

[Iphie]

On the Albaniann thing - 3 suspected Russian agents on tourist visa were arrested after attacking two guards with a chemical substance in an attempt to break into a weapons factory. Albania is a NATO member.

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad2...97650350575617

Interesting detail: 2 have the russian nationality and 1 the Ukrainian according to Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...nt-2022-08-20/

Espionage won't trigger art. 5 though I think.

[Makabreska]

Ooof, crazy night. VIP car being rigged in the middle of the Moscow means Putler cannot protect his closes allies (disregarding an inside job theory). One more brick towards "is he really up to the task" tower.

[Arrashi]

Dug-in? More like Dug-out am i right?

[Makabreska]

Dugin on the scene vs bombed Mariupol theatre with few hundred children inside. Hard to whip out any sympathy.



Also, this Tweet from a year ago:

[Kallisto]

So Dugin and his daughter were going to be in the exact same car, then at the last possible moment, he decided not to for some unknown reason. Is it outside the realm of possibility he is the guilty party?

[Saradain]

So Dugin and his daughter were going to be in the exact same car, then at the last possible moment, he decided not to for some unknown reason. Is it outside the realm of possibility he is the guilty party?

Or he expected to be invulnerable to consequences of his sins and now he got the big prize of seeing his daughter burn alive (or die straight from explosion). Maybe he'll start avoiding windows now, seems like russian people start to get tired of their rightful punishment from their genociding.

[Lanrefni]

Wonder if some one decided to turn his daughter into a martyr to drum up more support from the public,like the way the Chechen's got blamed for the apartment bombings.

[Arrashi]

Wonder if some one decided to turn his daughter into a martyr to drum up more support from the public,like the way the Chechen's got blamed for the apartment bombings.

If they wanted martyrs they had Moskva crew for that. Nobody really cares about some roasted bimbo.
The most possible scenario is that some other faction wanted to get rid of him to send message to everyone. Now entire russian elite will be shitting themselves 24/7.

[Makabreska]

So Dugin and his daughter were going to be in the exact same car, then at the last possible moment, he decided not to for some unknown reason. Is it outside the realm of possibility he is the guilty party?

An inside job of a third party is more plausible. I mean, Ruskies shown to be incompetent af, but could Ukrainians really rig a car o a high profile VIP in the middle of Moscow?

[jeezusisacasual]

While she is clearly a terrible person i am still sad she did not live long enough to change her horrific views.

[Cynical Asshole]

So let me get this straight.

A bunch of "terrorists" somehow outsmarted the KGB, who is supposed to keep on eye on this guy day and night, and managed to plant a bomb in his car. Like, not even a surprise attack like a sniper or something, just out right planting a bomb in the supposed view of the KGB agents.

Hmm...sounds almost as strange as a bunch of terrorists using boxcutters to highjack several commercial airplanes and crash them into buildings.

OOOOORRRRR, more likely, Putin just had enough of this guy who advised him to invade Ukraine and put him in a giant mess that he can't back out of now, so he decided to fire him the Russian way, but his daughter changed cars and accidentally got killed instead of the real target.

And of course, now the Russian media will blame Saddam Hus...I mean Vladimir Zelensky, in order to motivate Russians to support Putin's invasion of Iraq...I mean Ukraine. Totally original, totally not done before. *cough* *cough*