Looks like business is...
*puts on sunglasses*
Booming.
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We're disgruntled workers. Hey, people are raping half eaten corpses in the Ukraine?
Ivan, remember game we play last week? Now, we make it real!
“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.
Are people even surprised by fires? There are what? 1.5 Milion Ukrainians living/working in russia. Most of them working in factories/construction. Thats quite alot of people who have both skills and opportunities to pull sabotage here and there.
There's no political opposition in Russia.
Russians love this shit. Dictator daddies who make their country stronk.
If they replace Putin they'd replace him with another stronk daddy who will make Russia stronk. It will be a change without distinction.
Russia in its current incarnation is irredeemable.
Its power needs to be reduced to a point where it will no longer have any influence over the stans (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan etc), nor will it have the means to militarily threaten Scandinavia, Baltics, Ukraine, Georgia etc. And preferably it needs to go through a 2nd Balkanization period.
Long term western strategy towards Russia needs to be military containment and economic isolation.
Let it collapse under it's own weight. Then bit by bit the spin-offs like the Baltics and Ukraine and Georgia today can be re-integrated into the global community.
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"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
Lulz.
Russian state media commedians are now saying that it's only 1 dead and 27 missing from the Moskva, CNN reports.
One crew member died and 27 are missing after Russia's guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva, sank last week in the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Friday, according to Russian state media TASS.
It added that the remaining 396 crew members were evacuated from the Moskva cruiser to nearby Black Sea fleet ships and sent to Sevastopol.
The ship sank in the Black Sea on April 14 and CNN reported it was the biggest wartime loss of a naval ship in 40 years.
Ukraine and Russia have provided conflicting accounts of what happened that day.
Ukrainians said the Moskva sunk after being struck by Ukrainian missiles, but Russia denies the claim, insisting that the reason for the sinking was a fire. But the US on April 15 confirmed Ukraine's account, with a senior defense official saying that the US believes that two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit the Russian warship.
R.I.P. Democracy
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
i'm sure that russian infrastructure is nothing like russian military equipment, and the infrastructure has been well-maintained and isn't extremely vulnerable to sabotage, right? because it'd sure be bad for russia if ukraine were able to get saboteurs into russia and they found everything was already being held together by duct tape and chewing gum.
During the Cold War, the US and NATO had SF teams tasked with training and preparing for sabotage missions behind Soviet lines in the event of war. And the Soviets did the same.
Why am I bringing this up? No reason.
Reports of water gates having been blown causing severe flooding near Krasnodar Russia
Maybe its signs of some significant power struggles. All these events are ultimately bad on Putin. Either there is direct significant damage to stifle the war effort or the optics of losing control over the country when so many similar events keep happening.
The executions of those oligarchs project some extra paranoia from Putin as well.
To be fair, calling them Germans might be true in the strictest sense of the word, but it does help to keep in mind that these crises were managed by different chancellors/parties in power. It might not be as harsh a shift as, say, the Trump years were for the US, but it really is less about the reliability of a country and more about the parties/people involved. Merkel, being mostly a reactionary, would probably have taken more measures by now. Scholz is just so passive in some ways that is quite aggravating, at least to me. Though on the other hand, he probably has a lot less leeway to act given the pains of the three-way currently going on.
Either way, reliability is often a bit of a victim of democracy, if the parties with a shot at power are sufficiently different. Just like if Le Pen wins in France, it could not really be relied upon the same way. True reliability in the sense of continuation ironically comes more from autocratic regimes because you tend to know where you are at most of the time.
The president of Russia's central bank has said the reserves are almost gone and the economy will plummet in the second and third quarters but Putin is ignoring the evidence.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-a...e-warning.html
So the chemical plant fire the other day? It might just be more impactful than first realised. Interesting thread on it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Spoonamor...10440598843394
Without those chemicals you can't make jet/rocket fuel or even explosives or ammo.
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