R.I.P. Democracy
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
It's rather telling that as soon as a pro-Russian war crimes account gets banned, another conveniently takes its place.
Apparently Ukraine managed to hit Millerovo military airfield (in Rostov) with ballistic missiles, destroying a number of aircrafts.
If true that is highly embarassing for Russia.
A bit more worrying is reports just emerging that a Romanian flagged tanker was fired upon and hit by the Russian Navy. Romania is a NATO member.
Edit:. Might be a Moldavian flagged ship. Still not good but they aren't NATO at least.
Last edited by Corvus; 2022-02-25 at 12:29 PM.
Is anyone else disgusted with the mobile crematoriums? Can't they at least bring the bodies of their soldiers back to their country so they are buried with honor?
Not even Hitler thought about something like this, you no longer need to carry people to auswich, you can now burn them in their homes.
I'm amused about the contribution of Russia in the world of technology, I wonder if these mobile crematoriums can work with wifi too.
You don't want to send the dead back. Someone might just count them instead of goimg with the propaganda number.
To add a bit of insult to injury tho... For practicing Orthodox, cremation is generally a big no.
When my Greek grandfather died we had to get a special dispensation from a Bishop that took weeks and even then it was hard to find a priest willing to do the service.
We just wanted to return the ashes to Greece to bury him near other family and transporting the whole body was impossibly expensive and complicated.
So I'm sure there are a bunch of parents and babushkas in Russia "pleasantly" surprised they won't be able to give their children a proper religious funeral.
Last edited by Mihalik; 2022-02-25 at 12:52 PM.
Internet Russian troll factories are working overtime in St. Petersburg lately.
The EU just announced they are freezing assets of Putin and Lavrov.
Makes one wonder just how brainwashed the Russian troops have to be, to have the motivation of carrying on with the invasion. They know they are worth nothing to their country; even their death won't be recognized by Russia, they'll just get burned and deleted as if they never existed to avoid bad PR.
Its absolutely grotesque. As Mihalik said, cremation is forbidden in Orthodoxy. It goes beyond not just treating a solider with honor.
But even more disturbing is probably how we will see these being used by other regimes in future. I can only imagine China has ordered several dozen as soon as they saw them.