“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Indeed, hence the "dog-and-pony show." And like I said... I don't think Russia's national perception of their invasion of Ukraine would have been negative enough to oust Putin, even if the elections were real. If the population doesn't outright promote it, the rest of them, largely, are content to be apathetic towards it.
So it's good that Ukraine is striking more and more prominently at military infrastructure in Russia. Start making this less of a "one way" war and weigh a bit more heavily on the minds of Russia's citizens.
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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Quite a few stories of Russians throwing Molotov cocktails, paint and ink on ballot boxes. It won't matter but these people do seem to disagree with pootpoot.
Finnish foreign minister Valtonen has come out saying that deploying NATO troops into Ukraine should not be excluded from decisions on how to aid Ukraine further. Seems like that despite some notable cowardly nay-sayers there are substantial amount of pro-presence countries.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2...nuclear-en.pdf
Looks like you are mistaken.
Yet another refinery struck. russia seems incapable of stopping it.
Ukraine can reportedly make 3 of those 1000km drones a day, and 30 of the medium range ones so this campaign isn't ending anytime soon.
Ir seems Ukraine isnt just trying to do random damage to the refineries, which russia might be able to brute force repairs to, but are aiming for the cracking towers, the most expensive and hard to replace part of the whole thing.
I've read a number of people who say they work in the industry that the cracking towers have to be specifically designed for each refinery and they take at least 18 months to make. Probably longer in the current climate.
The campaign does seem to be having some effect as russia has again banned export of petrol, and despite that price have hit a 6 month high. There will be some lag time before the effects really become known.
Even before the attacks, there was no lot of speculation that russia would have to import petrol soon. Kind of embarrassing for a petrostate. No doubt China or India will import cheap oil, refine it, then sell it back to russia at a significant cost increase.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Fake news! That only makes 100% voter turnout. You'll be window accidented for reporting anything short of 125%.
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No one reasonable believes that nuclear annihilation of RuZZia and the West is the immediate outcome of RuZZia losing a war of aggression outside of it's own territory. Regardless of whether it's Ukraine or NATO that kicks RuZZia back behind it's own borders.
Interesting fantasy though. Are you saying that you would gladly blow up yourself, your house, your neighbors house and the family, over being denied stealing said neighbors backyard, and simply being told to be content with what you own (no loss, no penalty, just denied the parts you attempted to steal)?
PS. By the way, speaking of cold war lessons: Launch orders were already disobeyed at least once by soviet troop, when the threat of US missile launch towards RuZZia wasn't clear enough (because it didn't happen, and was radar problems). Basically, it's evident the troops don't want to blow up everyone for shits and giggles, when something isn't evidently about to blow up their homes.