Seth takes a closer look at Russia launching a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, surprising everyone except the leader of the Republican Party Donald Trump.
Wendy Rogers is scheduled to speak on Friday in Florida at an event that’s being organized by white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar spoke at the same event last year.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) February 25, 2022
I was wondering when we would see this.
Looks like Ukraine launched a ballistic missile strike to a Russian airbase at Rostov Oblast. Good job! https://t.co/9q5c11LfTE
— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) February 25, 2022
We should also point out victories. Russian soldiers are also abandoning trucks, taking their uniforms off & fleeing into the woods. pic.twitter.com/3IcTklhnET
— J. Paul Kirby (@JPaulKirby) February 24, 2022
re: #3 Dave In Austin
Dog, I hope these reports are true.
Ukrainian medics treating the wounds of a Russian soldier taken as a POW, last name Telkov. The POW says: “Nobody is happy with the Russians here” pic.twitter.com/q8FuwaOIJs
— J. Paul Kirby (@JPaulKirby) February 24, 2022
Oh FFS
I don’t care what you think about Trump, but he knew one key thing. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer https://t.co/8BPJcxxS4f
— Bronwyn 🌲 (@elvishcelt) February 25, 2022
Concerning, to say the least. Brest is only about 10 miles (17 km) from the Polish border with Belarus.
NEW: Russia has assembled troops, armor, artillery, and more than 50 heavy equipment transporters a training area in Brest, near the Polish border.
Russia has also added more equipment at a nearby railyard in Belarus.
📷:@Maxar pic.twitter.com/H2SDzWQDPP— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) February 24, 2022
re: #6 electrotek
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Right, which is why he did everything in his power to fuck over our allies while arguing aloud on multiple occasions why we couldn’t be closer friends with Russia.
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Would like to issue formal apology to @TuckerCarlson over remarks he’s an appeaser. These are wrong & inaccurate. He’s actually a collaborator.
Regret error.— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) February 25, 2022
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So, one of the Swedish Battalions posted this on their Facebook page. Good advice. I’ll share, as well as a generic version of it. Maybe something to combine with reused posters of old, as memes? 🤔🤔🤔
“The Armed Forces’ ships, vehicles, aircraft and soldiers will be visible in many places in Sweden in the future. Do not post information about where and when you see different parts of the defense appear, whether it is as a picture, film or text.”
Generic version:
The Armed Forces’ ships, vehicles, aircraft and soldiers will be visible in many places in in the future. Do not post information about where and when you see different parts of the defense appear, whether it is as a picture, film or text.
Various clips of statements from Tucker leading up to yesterday pic.twitter.com/J1ARXGLt8R
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 25, 2022
The Putinversteher over at moonofalabama posted today that the war in Ukraine was mostly America’s fault for backing Putin into a corner.
I am done with those dicks. Granted, there are some grievances and Ukraine has some major issues but nothing that would warrant an all-out invasion.
re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Putinversteher over at moonofalabama posted today that the war in Ukraine was mostly America’s fault for backing Putin into a corner.
I am done with those dicks. Granted, there are some grievances and Ukraine has some major issues but nothing that would warrant an all-out invasion.
I thought the ex-KGB thug dispelled most of those talking points the other day when he outright declared that he doesn’t believe Ukraine has the right to exist and he’s planning to take the country over to defeat the “Nazis”?
re: #14 Targetpractice
I thought the ex-KGB thug dispelled most of those talking points the other day when he outright declared that he doesn’t believe Ukraine has the right to exist and he’s planning to take the country over to defeat the “Nazis”?
And that is what amazed me: those fuckers over there just doubled down in blaming the West and the Zionist/Nazi thugs running Ukraine.
re: #15 William Lewis
Hadn’t heard of that place before.
MoA was a shadow site of whiskeybar, which I used to frequent around the time of the Iraq War. It has since been overrun by people who hate Western corporate Zionist capitalists so much that they will support anyone whose agenda counters their interests, to the point of supporting Lukaschenko.
They are the ones who brought me here over the Mohammad cartoons, when I came out against the mullahs calling for blood over a set of editorial cartoons, someone said “shouldn’t you be posting over at LGF?”
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has since been overrun by people who hate Western corporate Zionist capitalists so much that they will support anyone whose agenda counters their interests, to the point of supporting Lukaschenko.
So you mean like half the lefties on Twitter.
re: #18 JC1
I got it in 4 after narrowing it down to 2 possibilities. My coin flip picked the wrong one of the 2 on line 3.
re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that is what amazed me: those fuckers over there just doubled down in blaming the West and the Zionist/Nazi thugs running Ukraine.
Just reading the front page along feels like reading Soviet-era Pravda. Did you know that the Euromaiden revolution was actually a CIA-backed coup to remove the popular pro-Russian government in favor of a pro-US puppet? Or that Vlad had no choice but to invade now, as the US is totally planning to invade Russia by way of forcing Ukraine into NATO membership? Guessing by the posts, apparently his dick also must be more addictive than crack and heroin combined, from how hard they’re slobbering all over it.
re: #19 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
So you mean like half the lefties on Twitter.
so far left that they rationalize their support for right-wing authoritarian dictators as being “anticapitalist”, so “anti-Zionist” that they are more anti-Semitic than the Nazis.
From all accounts, Russia is having a hell of a time executing that plan to just roll over the Ukrainian military and plant their flag. Even if only half the reports are accurate, they’ve lost several aircraft and tanks, they’ve had troops captured or deserted, and they’ve failed to take and hold vital objectives if they wanted a swift end to things. And this is just the invasion portion, we haven’t even begun the long slog that will be the inevitable occupation.
Well now, isn’t this interesting?
🚨 Non-Nato members Sweden and Finland will attend tomorrow’s Nato summit according to @jensstoltenberg
— Shona Murray (@ShonaMurray_) February 24, 2022
Tucker Carlson enrages me.
Tucker Carlson’s defense of Vladimir Putin on Tuesday was rebroadcast with Russian subtitles by Kremlin-backed outlet RT (via @ragipsoylu) pic.twitter.com/PsZZ9enuJD
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) February 24, 2022
*rolls eyes* Retire this “empath” bullshit ASAP. Like, empathy is not a special esper ability, it’s something almost all of us are friggin’ born with.
To my fellow empaths whose hearts are breaking for those here & abroad, a thought you can take or leave as you need it:
It’s important to be informed & to ask how we can help, but if you need a break, take it. There is no shame in finding peace & calm before getting back to it.— Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) February 24, 2022
Mornin’ everyone. Sincere gratitude for the support in the previous thread. Needless to say my mind’s been racing all night. I’ve been preparing for this for some time. I’ll be fine. Just need to say thanks and good bye to dad. Everything else - family politics, estate concerns, etc. is really meaningless at this point.
Doing my ‘put the laptop on my chest and fall asleep to the warm glow of the screen’ thing I often do in the mornings.
Oh, and wordle tried to fuck me…but I eliminated all the consonant blends so the solution stood out fairly brightly.
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re: #2 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I was wondering when we would see this.
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a slight warning that scrolling down that thread, we come to a photo of what i assume is a russian soldier who took a bullet to the head and is quite dead. fortunately, I saw don mctavish on youtube getting completely destroyed in the Permatex 300, so my stomach is stronger than it once was, but your results may vary.
Building a shit-ton of respect for the Ukranian people…and their women in particular.
re: #29 Teukka
*rolls eyes* Retire this “empath” bullshit ASAP. Like, empathy is not a special esper ability, it’s something almost all of us are friggin’ born with.
Key word: Almost. The problem is, there seems to be a rather disturbing rise in those born without it. Either that, or people are choosing to abandon it, which is almost more disturbing.
re: #29 Teukka
*rolls eyes* Retire this “empath” bullshit ASAP. Like, empathy is not a special esper ability, it’s something almost all of us are friggin’ born with.
I will tolerate empaths if they display cleavage like Commander Deana Troy…
re: #20 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I got it in 4 after narrowing it down to 2 possibilities. My coin flip picked the wrong one of the 2 on line 3.
yeah, one of those typical ones where my third choice was right except for the first letter, and then had to remember one of the easily forgotten rules—even in the same damned problem!—in order to finally get that one.
This recent argument between @Tobias_Ellwood and @BorisJohnson is absolutely jaw dropping, and shows how little the prime minister and his advisors understood Putin and his ambitions https://t.co/OftEEuu3lW
— Robert Peston (@Peston) February 25, 2022
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
Key word: Almost. The problem is, there seems to be a rather disturbing rise in those born without it. Either that, or people are choosing to abandon it, which is almost more disturbing.
Some people seem to be born without it. This is seen as a form of mental illness.
For others, it is simply seen as a sign of weakness. (“Fuck your feelings!”) Which is a sickness in itself.
Every new hour Russia is unable deliver a decisive blow, the will to fight grows in Ukraine. https://t.co/P2Jd6cxyQW
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 25, 2022
My standard starting words eliminated a lot of possibilities, leaving me racking my brain for possibilities that were actual English words I knew. First word that matched turned out to be the word.
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Since I had to post this elsewhere, for thy copy/pasting needs. Links go to wikipedia pages on the topics.
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by the combatants, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, the conscription of children in the military, committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
War crimes, murder, massacres, dehumanization, genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportations, unethical human experimentation, extrajudicial punishments including summary executions, use of weapons of mass destruction, state terrorism or state sponsoring of terrorism, death squads, kidnappings and forced disappearances, use of child soldiers, unjust imprisonment, enslavement, torture, rape, political repression, racial discrimination, religious persecution and other human rights abuses may reach the threshold of crimes against humanity if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.
As an alternative to foreign military support from outside Ukraine, Zelensky could offer dual citizenship to any military personel who so wishes to fight in Ukraine for Ukraine. Could work.#Ukraine
— Dissented (@DISSENT_4_4) February 25, 2022
Wonder if they’ll take fat 58 year olds?
Interesting idea over at dKos. Kick Russia out of the UEFA Champions League.
Russians love their soccer.
re: #30 darthstar
Mornin’ everyone. Sincere gratitude for the support in the previous thread. Needless to say my mind’s been racing all night. I’ve been preparing for this for some time. I’ll be fine. Just need to say thanks and good bye to dad. Everything else - family politics, estate concerns, etc. is really meaningless at this point.
Doing my ‘put the laptop on my chest and fall asleep to the warm glow of the screen’ thing I often do in the mornings.
Oh, and wordle tried to fuck me…but I eliminated all the consonant blends so the solution stood out fairly brightly.
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I loved my mother dearly, but my dad’s death affected me more mentally, probably because I’d been hanging out with him, looking after him, for quite some time. And when it came time to break up the estate, it turned out that even four siblings who mostly really like each other can get pretty heated with one another, so just be prepared for that.
Here in Czech Republic, there’s a bank run on Sberbank underway, as jittery Czech accountholders are nervous that upcoming sanctions may force Sberbank out of the EU.
The Russo-Ukrainian war forced the Czech clients of Sberbank to act. They are starting to leave her and on Friday she even lost her internet banking.
Private individuals, companies and non-profit organizations have accounts with the Russian-connected Sberbank. Now they are distancing themselves from it due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Clients are cancelling their accounts with Sberbank and transferring to other companies. “We withdraw money from accounts with Sberbank and cancel it,” said the governor of the South Moravian Region, Jan Grolich, on Twitter.
“I am waiting here to transfer the money to another account, because the bank has lost its internet banking today. I’m worried about my money, I’m afraid they’re not safe here, “said one of the bank’s clients.
Another client in the approximately 30-meter queue is waiting to withdraw cash from his savings account. “I’m waiting for a cash withdrawal. I have to transfer it to another bank because I can’t leave it at home under the mattress. The fall of internet banking has not brought me here, I want cash withdrawals because I am worried that no financial orders done through Sberbank will work in the coming days. I no longer trust them”, the client said.
“We are afraid they will have no more cash for us. We’ve been waiting here for over an hour. I was here yesterday and they warned me that cash withdrawals can be a problem”, added another client waiting for cash deposited in the bank.
re: #43 steve_davis
I’ve got one brother who’s a lawyer - now disbarred - who has pissed away his family, their kids’ college education savings (they managed without his help), and whom my mother has been supporting financially for over a decade…and he believes in Qanon. He can fight with the others.
“Close the sky today”. I think Zelinski requests a no-fly zone.
Doing thread of latest Zelenskiy telegram video. He is visibly exhausted. He switches back and forth between Ukrainian and Russian. Here’s what he says…
— Zoya Sheftalovich (@zoyashef) February 25, 2022
re: #45 darthstar
I’ve got one brother who’s a lawyer - now disbarred - who has pissed away his family, their kids’ college education savings (they managed without his help), and whom my mother has been supporting financially for over a decade…and he believes in Qanon. He can fight with the others.
This is going to sound really cynical, but just be prepared for him to turn out to be the sane one when it comes to probate. I mean, I know movies make it look like people only fight over big stuff, like who’s getting money and how much, but in reality, the thing that caused us immediate tension was that my dad had designated my mom as the personal rep for the estate, and she pre-deceased him by some 20 years, so we had to spend the first month sweating that the son-of-a-bitch rotten lawyer that everyone hated might help himself to 10-15% of the estate in order to fulfill that function. I hated the guy, and he apparently hated me, but for some reason, he just took a real shine to my older sister and he allowed her to be the personal rep. He died an apparently horrible death roughly six months after the estate settled, so, I guess no comment on that one.
I am concerned about what an occupied Ukraine will look like if partisan warfare spreads. It could get really ugly, especially as it will likely attract foreign mercenaries.
When Ukraine became independent, there was discussion of erecting a monument to the partisan leader Stepan Bandera, who fought against both the German and Russian occupiers during and after WW2.
Someone suggested that he be shown holding a crucifix in one and and in the other, a pitchfork with a dead Russian hanging from it. “Yes,” added a commentator, “and every day we change it out for a new dead Russian!”
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s not nice of me but I find that really funny ;)
re: #49 William Lewis
It’s not nice of me but I find that really funny ;)
Right after Gagarin’s flight, a young Ukrainian boy runs up to his grandpa: “Didushka! The Russians have flown into space!”
Grandpa’s eyes light up: “Really? All of them!”
DarthStar…….
Thinking of you today Brother. Stay strong. Private me your FB if you’re still on.
The Japanese ambassador to Ukraine stayed in Kiev.
His great-grandfather’s samurai sword and traditional armor was delivered to him from Tokyo, Japan.
In a FB post, he declared that the samurai must protect the country in which he is!
“Glory to Japan! Glory to Ukraine!”
🇯🇵🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/kixeXfumqx— Visegrád 24 🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰 (@visegrad24) February 24, 2022
My great-aunt was in a concentration camp, lined up, shot in the back, kicked into a ditch full of bodies, played dead in there for days, escaped, survived the war living in a box in a Christian family’s basement, and made it to America. Don’t tell people not to fight back. https://t.co/ph4dx4LiJi
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 25, 2022
re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Putinversteher over at moonofalabama posted today that the war in Ukraine was mostly America’s fault for backing Putin into a corner.
I am done with those dicks.
Granted, there are some grievances and Ukraine has some major issues but nothing that would warrant an all-out invasion.
We on the left have to stop qualifying our statements like this.
re: #54 Belafon
We on the left have to stop qualifying out statements like this.
At this point, yes. There was a time when I could even see some validity to Russia’s claims to the Crimea, but not the use of military force to exert them. And this invasion is well beyond the pale of what the world should even begin to accept.
re: #29 Teukka
*rolls eyes* Retire this “empath” bullshit ASAP. Like, empathy is not a special esper ability, it’s something almost all of us are friggin’ born with.
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There definitely different levels, and a whole lot of people feel nothing. I know where she’s coming from. I can’t watch sitcoms because the awkward situations in those make me physically hurt. I think it’s those with a large amount of empathy that end up with PTSD.
Bear in mind that Ben Shapiro hired her to be the smart one pic.twitter.com/BsOTVuaate
— StandWithUkraineHat (@Popehat) February 25, 2022
Powerful words from Lithuania’s foreign minister:
“Today the fighting in Kyiv reminds us that a war is going on, not only against Ukraine but against all of us and what we stand for. And it has to cost. If we want to win.”
🇱🇹 https://t.co/7pcMFEvUSl— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 25, 2022
Putin’s values are aggression, violence, deceit, nationalism, and totalitarianism, which I would previously have felt comfortable saying can’t reasonably be described as Christian values in Americahttps://t.co/Pgt7ll5HkM
— StandWithUkraineHat (@Popehat) February 25, 2022
re: #42 darthstar
Interesting idea over at dKos. Kick Russia out of the UEFA Champions League.
Russians love their soccer.
They’ve been denied the right to host games by the UEFA.
EU preparing more sanctions on Russia over invading Ukraine - official https://t.co/oYQykneDDL pic.twitter.com/OwZT1yc63s
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 25, 2022
BREAKING 🚨: President Biden will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court — who would be the first Black woman ever on the highest court in the nation.
— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) February 25, 2022
I’m fine with this.
She’d be better at the job than every last right winger on the bench.
She’s had to be to get where she is .
re: #66 lawhawk
I’m fine with this.
She’d be better at the job than every last right winger on the bench.
She’s had to be to get where she is .
WOO HOO! She sounds like a great choice, from what I’ve heard. I can’t wait to hear the wingnuts screaming about ZOMG HE NOMINATED A BLACK WOMAN LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD and ZOMG HE’S TRYING TO DISTRACT FROM HIS FAILURE IN UKRAINE BY NOMINATING A HIGHLY DIVISIVE SCOTUS APPOINTEE. Count on it.
Given his denial of Ukraine as a nation, isn’t Putin technically committing genocide?
….genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
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His goal is to destroy the concept of Ukrainian as an identity and Ukraine as a nation.
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
Given his denial of Ukraine as a nation, isn’t Putin technically committing genocide?
His goal is to destroy the concept of Ukrainian as an identity and Ukraine as a nation.
Putin should hang, but he has nuclear weapons, so the Russian people have to get that job done themselves.
Drone footage shows British troops arriving in Estonia, transporting military equipment and tanks.
The deployment is part of a NATO mission and comes as Russia invades Ukraine.
Latest: https://t.co/2rBbDHxDu2 pic.twitter.com/la70BMIpwC— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 25, 2022
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
Given his denial of Ukraine as a nation, isn’t Putin technically committing genocide?
His goal is to destroy the concept of Ukrainian as an identity and Ukraine as a nation.
Putin and his lapdogs in Russia have long expressed similar resentments and eliminationist rhetoric towards “the West” and much of the world in general.
Putin is much more than a mere genocidal maniac. Based on his rhetoric and now his actions he is a xenophobic threat to the entire world and I’m sure those around him used to wealth and power who thought he could be contained are now convinced the monster is loose and cannot be re-chained again. I suspect many of them now realize he must be eliminated the old school Russian way. Look for internal purges soon conducted by Putin as a dead giveaway.
It was obvious a while ago, like when he lobbied for martial law to steal the election. But Flynn is simply a villain. pic.twitter.com/Yx0JMwzaj4
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) February 25, 2022
re: #72 Florida Panhandler
Putin and his lapdogs in Russia have long expressed similar resentments and eliminationist rhetoric towards “the West” and much of the world in general.
Putin is much more than a mere genocidal maniac. Based on his rhetoric and now his actions he is a xenophobic threat to the entire world and I’m sure those around him used to wealth and power who thought he could be contained are now convinced the monster is loose and cannot be re-chained again. I suspect many of them now realize he must be eliminated the old school Russian way. Look for internal purges soon conducted by Putin as a dead giveaway.
it’s time for NATO to commit troops to this. I know it’s easy for me to say behind a keyboard, but fuck, so far what we’ve offered by way of pushback is pretty thin gruel. The Ukrainians are doing the best they can, but unless we would like to have the lesson for the world from this be that eliminating your nuclear weapons and having a democracy will get you overrun by your neighboring madman, it’s time to kick some ass.
re: #72 Florida Panhandler
Putin’s probably terrified his end comes like this - just imagine Putin in the place of Beria (played by Simon Russel Beale):
The “old school Russian way”, indeed.
re: #74 steve_davis
it’s time for NATO to commit troops to this. I know it’s easy for me to say behind a keyboard, but fuck, so far what we’ve offered by way of pushback is pretty thin gruel. The Ukrainians are doing the best they can, but unless we would like to have the lesson for the world from this be that eliminating your nuclear weapons and having a democracy will get you overrun by your neighboring madman, it’s time to kick some ass.
It’s not having a democracy that subjects you to possible overthrow or invasion, it’s not having nuclear weapons. I doubt we would have been so eager to invade Iraq if Saddam actually possessed them.
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
Putin’s probably terrified his end comes like this - just imagine Putin in the place of Beria (played by Simon Russel Beale):
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The “old school Russian way”, indeed.
Except Putin is Stalin not Beria in this scenario. None of Stalin’s minions would have dared to try to overthrow him.
Reports that a Ukrainian kindergarten, used as a shelter, was hit. I will not share the images as they’re too graphic. Absent an extremely compelling explanation - hard to imagine what it could be - this is a war crime.
— Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya) February 25, 2022
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
Unless it was used as a shelter for troops, if I have my war crimes law correct - which is dubious at best.
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
Except Putin is Stalin not Beria in this scenario. None of Stalin’s minions would have dared to try to overthrow him.
There were many attempts to assassinate Stalin. They all failed.
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
His goal is to destroy the concept of Ukrainian as an identity and Ukraine as a nation.
Sounds like what China is doing to Uyghurs, no?
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
Stalin was feared even as he was on his deathbed. Everyone feared he’d rise up from the dead like some Rasputin-like figure.
Putin’s end will come soon. Perhaps not soon enough for the majority of Russians, let alone Ukraine. The longer the invasion of Ukraine goes without a clear Russian win, the worse it gets for Putin and the more likely it becomes that the military sees this as a folly.
re: #82 lawhawk
Stalin was feared even as he was on his deathbed. Everyone feared he’d rise up from the dead like some Rasputin-like figure.
Putin’s end will come soon. Perhaps not soon enough for the majority of Russians, let alone Ukraine. The longer the invasion of Ukraine goes without a clear Russian win, the worse it gets for Putin and the more likely it becomes that the military sees this as a folly.
I’m worried for zelensky and family. I understand the rationale behind staying in the capitol, but the government needs to continue to function, even if it has to be a shadow government from elsewhere. Granted, Zelensky may be calculating that if he’s captured and executed, it might be the only way to force NATO to recover Ukraine from the Russians, but I think it would still work better for Ukraine if he continues to be the head of a government in exile, inspiring fighters and preventing Russia from being able to install a “legitimate” successor.
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
Except Putin is Stalin not Beria in this scenario. None of Stalin’s minions would have dared to try to overthrow him.
There’s long been talk that Beria may have killed Stalin.
Beria would’ve known damn well that another purge was coming (the “Doctor’s Plot”) and he certainly remembered the fate of his predecessors, Yogoda and Yezhov. Beria could’ve easily obtained poison - the most commonly mentioned is warfarin - and he and Stalin would hang out quite frequently.
After the deaths of both Stalin and Beria, there was Kremlin gossip that Beria had a hand in Stalin’s demise. Now to be fair, Stalin was no spring chicken and had been chain-smoking for the better part of six decades. Stalin’s official cause of death was a massive cerebral hemorrhage, as per the autopsy.
Of course, there’s no proof (to the best of my knowledge) that Stalin was poisoned by a fearful Lavrenty Beria, worried that Stalin was gonna purge him next (Stalin’s motto being “stone dead hath no fellow”…another way of saying “dead men tell no tales”). And if proof someday did emerge, given Beria’s monstrous nature, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
re: #76 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s not having a democracy that subjects you to possible overthrow or invasion, it’s not having nuclear weapons. I doubt we would have been so eager to invade Iraq if Saddam actually possessed them.
Correct. Now, if Putin didn’t have nukes, his military would be non-existent after this BS.
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
Ukraine plans to submit evidence of Russian artillery hits on a kindergarten and an orphanage to the ICC as an war crimes. https://t.co/mImmxODCIF
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) February 25, 2022
#BREAKING: Over 20 fighter jets of the air forces of #US, #Ntherlands, #Germany, #Poland, #Romania are patrolling over #Poland & Romania and are being refuelled by three KC-10A tankers and one KC-135R. They are on high alert to confront #Russian Air Force when it is necessary. pic.twitter.com/WQ4eYzlbVS
— Babak Taghvaee - Μπάπακ Τακβαίε - بابک تقوایی (@BabakTaghvaee) February 25, 2022
They’ve been hiding a MUTO (Titan) there all along? pic.twitter.com/vR8HAXpOqh
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 25, 2022
Seriously, the reason I think they went after Chernobyl is to be a staging area where they think the could be free from counter attacks because of the risk of releasing radiation into the environment. Seems like the Russians did that anyways.
re: #74 steve_davis
it’s time for NATO to commit troops to this. I know it’s easy for me to say behind a keyboard, but fuck, so far what we’ve offered by way of pushback is pretty thin gruel. The Ukrainians are doing the best they can, but unless we would like to have the lesson for the world from this be that eliminating your nuclear weapons and having a democracy will get you overrun by your neighboring madman, it’s time to kick some ass.
No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
re: #89 No Malarkey!
No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For me, it’s a tough call. Maybe if Russian soldiers started committing mass atrocities against the civilian population, that might be enough to spark a NATO intervention in Ukraine. As for the risk of nuclear war, we’ve been much closer to the brink than this. Hell, the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example. The question is that delicate game of chicken: Say we intervened - how far could we push Russia out of Ukraine before the red balloon goes up?
Personally, I say the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, plus Crimea. That’s Putin’s absolute red line. He would go nuclear rather than lose Crimea.
re: #89 No Malarkey!
No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Putin is doing fine with his puppet government in Belarus.
re: #28 Ming5000
Tucker Carlson enrages me.
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— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 25, 2022
Just a little update on the Sberbank situation I posted earlier, Sberbank Czech Republic closed all of its branches in the country at 2 pm local time, no reason was given. No word yet either on when they’ll reopen.
There’s also a boycott of all Russian services underway here in Czech Republic as protest against Russia’s illegal war and occupation against Ukraine.
re: #90 Dr Lizardo
For me, it’s a tough call. Maybe if Russian soldiers started committing mass atrocities against the civilian population, that might be enough to spark a NATO intervention in Ukraine. As for the risk of nuclear war, we’ve been much closer to the brink than this. Hell, the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example. The question is that delicate game of chicken: Say we intervened - how far could we push Russia out of Ukraine before the red balloon goes up?
Personally, I say the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, plus Crimea. That’s Putin’s absolute red line. He would go nuclear rather than lose Crimea.
I say help Ukraine as much as we can to fight for themselves. Putin has just shown he isn’t a rational actor, and he has the biggest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world, so we can’t make assumptions for what his red line for the use of nukes would be if NATO forces engaged Russians in Ukraine. As Iraqis showed us, a committed insurgency can keep large regular army units tied up for years to come, and send a lot of Russians home in body bags with crude but effective weapons.
re: #89 No Malarkey!
No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
we have ways of avoiding that. biden can have a very private talk with putin, indicating that NATO will play with sandbox rules in Ukraine: everything will be contained in Ukraine, we won’t spill over into Russian territory. Russia can bring as many troops as it wants into the Ukraine conflict and that will be fine. We won’t attack Russian forces outside the Ukraine zone. Hell, we did it in Korea and Vietnam.
re: #93 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
@TuckerCarlson Had enough yet #TuckyoRose?https://t.co/qkm5TZOAgC
— Ivanka’s in Handcuffs (@DaveoutofAustin) February 25, 2022
And now Putin on TV again. Describes Zelensky’s government as a “band of drug addicts and neo-Nazis that has lodged itself in Kyiv and taken hostage the entire Ukrainian people.”
— Anton Troianovski (@antontroian) February 25, 2022
re: #96 steve_davis
we have ways of avoiding that. biden can have a very private talk with putin, indicating that NATO will play with sandbox rules in Ukraine: everything will be contained in Ukraine, we won’t spill over into Russian territory. Russia can bring as many troops as it wants into the Ukraine conflict and that will be fine. We won’t attack Russian forces outside the Ukraine zone. Hell, we did it in Korea and Vietnam.
And what makes you think Putin is willing to play by rules made in D.C.? If this Ukraine adventure ends in rapid, humiliating defeat for Russia, Putin is as good as dead, and he is entirely likely to be willing to take the entire world with him.
re: #95 No Malarkey!
I say help Ukraine as much as we can to fight for themselves. Putin has just shown he isn’t a rational actor, and he has the biggest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world, so we can’t make assumptions for what his red line for the us of nukes would be if NATO forces engaged Russians in Ukraine. As Iraqis showed us, a committed insurgency can keep large regular army units tied up for years to come, and send a lot of Russians home in body bags with crude but effective weapons.
Remember though, the Russian military is notorious for carrying out atrocities against civilian populations. I can all too easily imagine them pulling a modern-day Lidice Massacre as reprisal measures.
Then the question becomes, do we - as NATO - sit back while Russian soldiers gun down entire villages, men, women and children, and wag our finger at Putin, telling him to stop being such a naughty boy?
I have little doubt whatsoever that the Russian military will carry out atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.
Arms distribution to anyone willing to fight for Ukraine:
re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter
Putin is doing fine with his puppet government in Belarus.
And if Putin thinks Ukraine is Belarus and not Iraq or Afghanistan, he may have made a very serious miscalculation.
re: #98 Teukka
Putin is calling PM and President of Ukraine Nazis. Both are Jewish.
Putin isn’t making a secret of his absolute disregard for reality (just like another thug - Trump).
Zelensky is the legitimately elected leader of the sovereign Ukraine. Putin’s the autocrat who rewrote laws to stay in power. This is just more projecting like IMAX.
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
I can confirm, the images are really graphic. Turns my stomach. I may describe if asked, but only behind spoiler… If Vlad and the Kremlin Krew don’t pay for this in full…
*roars and breathes fire*
re: #71 Dr Lizardo
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Those are Challenger II’s. Arguably the most advanced tank in the world. I’d not want to be in a T90 against that.
re: #79 Dopamine Fish
Unless it was used as a shelter for troops, if I have my war crimes law correct - which is dubious at best.
If troops were in there, it would be a legitimate target.
I doubt that there would be. Ukrainian Ground Forces have shown themselves too professional and disciplined for that.
What you had was a pilot who didn’t care what the target was.
re: #100 Dr Lizardo
Remember though, the Russian military is notorious for carrying out atrocities against civilian populations. I can all too easily imagine them pulling a modern-day Lidice Massacre as reprisal measures.
Then the question becomes, do we - as NATO - sit back while Russian soldiers gun down entire villages, men, women and children, and wag our finger at Putin, telling him to stop being such a naughty boy?
I have little doubt whatsoever that the Russian military will carry out atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.
Maybe so. But there are very close ties between Ukrainians and Russians, lots of them have relatives in Ukraine, and there is a good chance they will refuse such orders. I thought the Red Army would massacre the protestors in Moscow in 1991, but they didn’t, and the coup failed. In any event, a global nuclear holocaust is too great a risk to take; Biden’s first duty is the defense of the U.S.
Our pilots didn’t target Iraqi weddings, but we hit a few. There is a lot of optimism in the terms “precision weapon” and “military intelligence”..
Czech Republic has suspended the issuance of visas (with the singular exception of educational visas) to all Russians. Family visas, work visas, all of them are scrapped for Russians. You simply cannot get a visa if you’re Russian.
Jesus…apparently the car’s driver survived.
Barbaric Russians run over a car of a civilian in Kyiv pic.twitter.com/C3j5CsLnrN
— Mykhailo Golub (@golub) February 25, 2022
Another one for “We’re not making this shit up, really”…
Ukraine invasion: Putin urges Ukraine military to overthrow country’s leaders https://t.co/m6DW7nrneD
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 25, 2022
Czech Republic and Poland have closed their respective airspace for all Russian airliners.
re: #111 Teukka
Another one for “We’re not making this shit up, really”…
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re: #111 Teukka
Heh. Sounds like things aren’t going so well for Putin if he’s having to resort to that.
Smells like….flop sweat.
re: #114 Dr Lizardo
More sauce for the goose. You aren’t making demands like this if you’re winning and can finish off the Ukrainian govt. It’s something that reeks of trying to cut losses and hope people are bluffed into accepting a bad hand.
Here’s the counter:
Russia tucks tail and runs back to Moscow and takes their forces out of Crimea, DNR and LNR.
Putin submits to war crimes at the Hague.
Russia relinquishes all claims to lands belonging to sovereign Ukraine.
Ukraine is free to join whatever orgs it wishes.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 25, 2022
re: #114 Dr Lizardo
Heh. Sounds like things aren’t going so well for Putin if he’s having to resort to that.
Smells like….flop sweat.
Also, the thing about the call with Xi that occurs to me—China is in a fix if the global economy sinks. They manage public approval through propaganda of course, but what really matters is economic growth. It’s why they kept the renminbi artificially low for so long.
re: #115 lawhawk
More sauce for the goose. You aren’t making demands like this if you’re winning and can finish off the Ukrainian govt. It’s something that reeks of trying to cut losses and hope people are bluffed into accepting a bad hand.
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Yep. I’d change the Ukrainian demands.
Russia withdraws from the entirety of Ukraine, including Crimea. However, understanding that it’s important for the Black Sea Fleet, we’ll lease it to you for $10 a year.
Russia will accept Ukraine’s accession to the EU and NATO, if it so chooses.
Vladimir Putin will shoot himself on live TV, after saying, “I hereby resign, effective immediately.” If that’s too much for Pootie-Poot, he will submit to arrest and be handed over for trial on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges.
It gets WILDER:
🚨BREAKING🚨: Russia threatens Sweden & Finalnd with “military and political consequences” if they join NATO.
— Politics For The UK 🚨🇬🇧 (@PoliticsForUK) February 25, 2022
So, Graham’s busy kvetching over Biden’s pick of Jackson for the Court.
This you? You’re such a transparently spineless hack that you can’t be bothered to stick to facts or reality. Jackson was Breyer’s clerk. You previously approved her elevation to the Circuit Court. pic.twitter.com/KtAZfnMe9t
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 25, 2022
Graham voted to confirm Jackson to the Circuit Court just this past June. Does that make Graham a blackout drunk who can’t remember what happened, a radical lefty for approving her for the Court, or both?
re: #119 Teukka
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OK, time to tell Putin to go pound sand. Finland and Sweden tell the Russians to go fuck themselves and state quite clearly, “We’ll do as we goddamn please.”
Fuck off…… Seriously F.U.C.K O.F.F.https://t.co/nF2EjRFWnX
— Ivanka’s in Handcuffs (@DaveoutofAustin) February 25, 2022
re: #119 Teukka
It gets WILDER:
CONFIRMED:
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova warns Finland and Sweden they would ‘face some military and political consequences’ if they tried to join Nato
— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) February 25, 2022
re: #123 Teukka
CONFIRMED:
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova warns Finland and Sweden they would ‘face some military and political consequences’ if they tried to join Nato
Consequently, Finland and Sweden they will ‘face some military and political consequences’ if they don’t join NATO.
re: #119 Teukka
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oh well, if I know the Finns, that’ll definitely keep them out /////
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Consequently, Finland and Sweden they will ‘face some military and political consequences’ if they don’t join NATO.
Well, Finland will, for sure. Does Russia consider Sweden one of its historical territories?
re: #124 darthstar
So Russia is basically threatening NATO.
Yep. Why do I feel that Sweden will trip the Readiness Alarm before this weekend is out?
re: #127 Dopamine Fish
Well, Finland will, for sure. Does Russia consider Sweden one of its historical territories?
Their statement indicates that they consider it a nation whose foreign policy they can dictate.
re: #127 Dopamine Fish
Well, Finland will, for sure. Does Russia consider Sweden one of its historical territories?
yes, finnish consequences would be 1) a whole shit ton of NATO forces would be happy to bolster its defenses; and 2)Russia would cut off political ties, which probably aren’t going to amount to much anyway considering the sanctions on Russia aren’t coming off anytime soon.
This is interesting….
At least two of China’s largest state-owned banks are restricting financing for purchases of Russian commodities, underscoring the limits of Beijing’s pledge to maintain economic ties with one of its most important strategic partners in the face of sanctions by the U.S. and its allies.
Maybe behind-the-scenes, we asked the Chinese, “Hey, would you like some sanctions too? We got sanctions for every motherfucker all up in here!!”
Read more at: bloombergquint.com
Important considerations mitigating against NATO intervention into Ukraine, besides the risk of nuclear war, are that first, I doubt Russia has the capacity to sustain a long term military occupation of Ukraine, so this adventure is likely to fail if we just give it time. Second, a lot of Russians are opposing this war and its possible that domestic opposition could become a serious problem for Putin. If NATO intervenes, it could rally Russians around the flag. Third, most of the world is opposing this blatantly illegal imperialist attack; if we widen the conflict to make it NATO v. Russia, suddenly its Russia that looks like the victim of Western imperialists, at least in some places, such as China. I am very confident that NATO forces are not going to enter Ukraine to fight the Russian army.
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Just threaten to freeze WalMart and China will bend.
re: #132 No Malarkey!
Important considerations mitigating against NATO intervention into Ukraine, besides the risk of nuclear war, are that first, I doubt Russia has the capacity to sustain a long term military occupation of Ukraine, so this adventure is likely to fail if we just give it time. Second, a lot of Russians are opposing this war and its possible that domestic opposition could become a serious problem for Putin. If NATO intervenes, it could rally Russians around the flag. Third, most of the world is opposing this blatantly illegal imperialist attack; if we widen the conflict to make it NATO v. Russia, suddenly its Russia that looks like the victim of Western imperialists, at least in some places, such as China. I am very confident that NATO forces are not going to enter Ukraine to fight the Russia army.
I’m just a little queasy about the Ukrainian government agreeing to really bad terms, just in the interests of keeping its populace alive. I want us to offer some kind of help beyond just the javelins and some sanctions that Russia prepared for, though I also realize coming in like Crusaders isn’t realistic. Will the Ukrainians be able to resist long enough and hard enough to make Russian occupancy untenable?
re: #132 No Malarkey!
Important considerations mitigating against NATO intervention into Ukraine, besides the risk of nuclear war, are that first, I doubt Russia has the capacity to sustain a long term military occupation of Ukraine, so this adventure is likely to fail if we just give it time. Second, a lot of Russians are opposing this war and its possible that domestic opposition could become a serious problem for Putin. If NATO intervenes, it could rally Russians around the flag. Third, most of the world is opposing this blatantly illegal imperialist attack; if we widen the conflict to make it NATO v. Russia, suddenly its Russia that looks like the victim of Western imperialists, at least in some places, such as China. I am very confident that NATO forces are not going to enter Ukraine to fight the Russia army.
Those are very good points. And it seems like despite surface appearances, things might not be going so well for the Russian Army.
Hoo, boy….could you just imagine if the Russians were forced to withdraw back to those so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk? It’d be a strategic debacle and Putin would end up looking like a reckless adventurer who rolled the dice and squandered it all.
Looks like the Pennsylvania branch of the Onevoy is over.
dailykos.com
Man did I stare long and hard at this one.
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re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Those are very good points. And it seems like despite surface appearances, things might not be going so well for the Russian Army.
Hoo, boy….could you just imagine if the Russians were forced to withdraw back to those so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk? It’d be a strategic debacle and Putin would end up looking like a reckless adventurer who rolled the dice and squandered it all.
I take great pleasure in thinking about Putin realizing that every Russian tank destroyed is basically coming with a “hi, I was made in the good ol’ USA!” message attached to the killing device.
re: #66 lawhawk
I’m fine with this.
She’d be better at the job than every last right winger on the bench.
She’s had to be to get where she is .
So presumably Joe found a way to mollify the South Carolinians (who had their own homegirl to put up)? Though maybe there’s another senior seat to fill….
ETA: oops, didn’t see #120
It’s Pop Geopolitics, but didn’t the reports state that we had guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity somewhere along the way? Making that a sham will have long-term global consequences.
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
This is interesting….
Maybe behind-the-scenes, we asked the Chinese, “Hey, would you like some sanctions too? We got sanctions for every motherfucker all up in here!!”
Read more at: bloombergquint.com
Looks like they might be telling Putin, we’ll still trade, but we’re not going to wash your money for you.
Oh, good morning!
re: #89 No Malarkey!
No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How many European countries are you willing to give up to avoid nuclear war?
re: #134 steve_davis
I’m just a little queasy about the Ukrainian government agreeing to really bad terms, just in the interests of keeping its populace alive. I want us to offer some kind of help beyond just the javelins and some sanctions that Russia prepared for, though I also realize coming in like Crusaders isn’t realistic. Will the Ukrainians be able to resist long enough and hard enough to make Russian occupancy untenable?
Yes, if they have the will to. US resources are essentially limitless, and yet Iraqi and Afghan insurgents eventually rendered our occupation untenable. Russia’s resources are vastly more limited than ours, and this war is already unpopular in Russia.
re: #133 darthstar
Just threaten to freeze WalMart and China will bend.
Just announcing that Sec. Blinken is making an official trip to Bentonville might do it.
re: #98 Teukka
I suspect Ukraine isn’t going to settle for China and Russia deciding their borders.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Those are very good points. And it seems like despite surface appearances, things might not be going so well for the Russian Army.
Hoo, boy….could you just imagine if the Russians were forced to withdraw back to those so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk? It’d be a strategic debacle and Putin would end up looking like a reckless adventurer who rolled the dice and squandered it all.
That is exactly what I think is going to happen, which is why I was frankly surprised that Putin was willing to gamble on a reckless full scale invasion of Ukraine, instead of a limited occupation of the separatist regions.
re: #119 Teukka
It gets WILDER:
How to get countries to join NATO.
Step 1:
🚨BREAKING🚨: Russia threatens Sweden & Finalnd with “military and political consequences” if they join NATO.
— Politics For The UK 🚨🇬🇧 (@PoliticsForUK) February 25, 2022
Tough.
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Several pro-Kremlin Czech language websites have just been taken offline by order of the Ministry of the Interior.
The following websites were taken down: Aeronet, Protiproud, Ceskobezcenzury, Voxpopuliblog, Prvnizpravy, Czechfreepress, Exanpro and Skrytapravda.
These were super-hardcore pro-Kremlin disinformation websites, all primary sources of the vast majority of Russian disinfo circulating in the country.
If you need a five-minute break for some beautiful cat footage (I’ve been to the Nebuta festival featured at the end; it’s really something).
re: #142 Belafon
How many European countries are you willing to give up to avoid nuclear war?
Ukraine. Russia doesn’t have the capacity to invade any other country while most of its army is tied down in Ukraine. Putin will have no way to free them up for other adventures without losing Ukraine, because any puppet government he installs would fall as fast as Kabul did last year without the Russian army to back it up.
Above and beyond
“To stop the advance of the tank column, the decision was to blow up the Henichesk bridge. The engineer Skakun Vitaliy volunteered to perform this task. He mined the brdige but couldn’t leave and blew it up together with himself.” The unit successfully redeployed - Land Forces pic.twitter.com/7eMWTv03kX
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 25, 2022
re: #127 Dopamine Fish
Well, Finland will, for sure. Does Russia consider Sweden one of its historical territories?
Former mortal enemy.
The Russians still say that somebody “fell like a Swede at (the Battle of) Poltava” when they go down hard, be it from drinking, a bar fight, a rolling pin to the forehead etc…
Ukraine ready for talks with Russia about maintaining a neutral status. news.yahoo.com
NEW: The January 6th Committee is currently deposing Kimberly Guilfoyle
— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) February 25, 2022
Can’t wait to learn how many times she took the 5th.
Jen Psaki responds to Ted Cruz calling her “Peppermint Patty” at CPAC today. pic.twitter.com/l1gMsclckN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 24, 2022
re: #155 lawhawk
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Can’t wait to learn how many times she took the 5th.
or drinks one
re: #139 Jay C
So presumably Joe found a way to mollify the South Carolinians (who had their own homegirl to put up)? Though maybe there’s another senior seat to fill….
ETA: oops, didn’t see #120
I was sort of pulling for Childs as well. Because
1) she’s not Ivy.
2) Jim Clyburn deserves a flashy win.
But Ketanji doesn’t bother me. And maybe Childs will be named to Ketanji’s seat on the DC Appellate Court.
re: #29 Teukka
It is very rare in the history of war for so many of Earth’s people to be aware it is happening as it happens. We still aren’t great as a species at processing our own reactions to constant bombardment of traumas happening to others. Bear this in mind over the next few days. https://t.co/IQAbUWOV0C
— Dara Lind (@DLind) February 24, 2022
⚡️ Russia’s membership in the Council of #Europe suspended
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 25, 2022
Russia has been expelled from the Council of Europehttps://t.co/H5SS1kVEjR
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) February 25, 2022
re: #147 Belafon
How to get countries to join NATO.
Step 1:
re: #154 No Malarkey!
Ukraine ready for talks with Russia about maintaining a neutral status. news.yahoo.com
Just guessing here, but if this were going to end well for Putin, it would have ended already. Everything anyone publishes in this kind of situation is bullshit, but Ukraine still obviously exists, and that’s all it has to do.
re: #159 Belafon
Dealing with reports of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide will be rough on anyone. Take breaks from the task, especially if it involves gross crimes. Take measures to mitigate what’s known in the field as “vicarious traumatization”.
CW/TW: War Crimes bellingcat.com Although originally intended for the conflict in Syria, this will show you the basic ropes on what vicarious traumatization is, how it expresses itself, and how you can take steps to mitigate and treat it. CW/TW: War Crimes
Wikipedia articles on subject: en.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org
Ted Cruz called Jen Psaki “Peppermint Patty”, and some genius made this wonderful meme.
This is what I’m here for. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/2pt5rLeoZ6— enrich12 (@enrich1212) February 25, 2022
GERMAN FINANCE MINISTER SAYS WE ARE OPEN TO CUTTING RUSSIA OFF SWIFT
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 25, 2022
re: #162 Teukka
Dealing with reports of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide will be rough on anyone. Take breaks from the task, especially if it involves gross crimes. Take measures to mitigate what’s known in the field as “vicarious traumatization”.
CW/TW: War Crimes bellingcat.com Although originally intended for the conflict in Syria, this will show you the basic ropes on what vicarious traumatization is, how it expresses itself, and how you can take steps to mitigate and treat it. CW/TW: War Crimes
Wikipedia articles on subject: en.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org
The US has a couple hundred cable channels streaming atrocity porn 24/7. We’re pretty well de-sensitized.
re: #163 Dopamine Fish
Ted is a real pusillanimous fuck. In certain boneheaded circles, PP is thought to be gay and she and Marcie are a lesbian couple. I have little doubt that TC had that nuance at the back of his twisted little mind when he came out with those comments.
What the Readiness Alarm sounds like in Sweden:https://t.co/AtERH0EcV6
The Readiness Alarm is a way for the Swedish government to announce that there is an immediate danger of war, or that the country is at war.
1/3— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) February 25, 2022
If you have a war stationing, you must immediately go to the place you have been told about previously.
The signal consists of a 30 second tone followed by 15 seconds of silence, repeated for 5 minutes.
3/3— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) February 25, 2022
I spent way too much time staring at the abyss before the abyss stared back at me.
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re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Former mortal enemy.
The Russians still say that somebody “fell like a Swede at (the Battle of) Poltava” when they go down hard, be it from drinking, a bar fight, a rolling pin to the forehead etc…
Heh. Russians have long memories: I think they’re still pissed at France over Napoleon’s invasion: and they haven’t forgotten either that they’re only a maritime power because Peter the Great had to conquer the Baltic shores from the Swedes in the early 1700s.
In line with the Statute of the Council of Europe, the Committee of Ministers has today decided to suspend the Russian Federation from its rights of representation in the Committee of Ministers and in the Parliamentary Assembly with immediate effect as a result of the Russian Federation’s armed attack on Ukraine.The decision adopted today means that the Russian Federation remains a member of the Council of Europe and party to the relevant Council of Europe conventions, including the European Convention on Human Rights.
The judge elected to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Russian Federation also remains a member of the Court, and applications introduced against the Russian Federation will continue to be examined and decided by the Court. Suspension is not a final measure but a temporary one, leaving channels of communication open.
“How To Win Friends and Influence People: Kremlin Edition”
LOLOL
I too stared into the abyss. Perhaps even longer.
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re: #158 sagehen
I was sort of pulling for Childs as well. Because
1) she’s not Ivy.
2) Jim Clyburn deserves a flashy win.But Ketanji doesn’t bother me. And maybe Childs will be named to Ketanji’s seat on the DC Appellate Court.
Kinda what I thought. Is Judge Jackson’s seat senior to the one Childs currently occupies, or would it be a “sideways promotion”?
EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION SAYS NO RUSSIAN ACT WILL PARTICIPATE IN THIS YEAR’S EUROVISION SONG CONTEST -rtrs
— Tommy Lund (@TommyLundn) February 25, 2022
Becoming a loaf.
Crumb https://t.co/fnTGITgQO1 pic.twitter.com/g1X4UOJlWF
— Illegally Smol Cats (@IllegallySmol) February 25, 2022
re: #173 Teukka
“I am the Lion of Love”
Kentucky is one of the least vaccinated states in the country & still struggles w/ the coronavirus. It has a high positivity rate & high Covid hospitalizations. Average Kentucky positivity rate is ~11% compared w/ 2% in NY where #omicron has already peaked https://t.co/ezBS3WNhVl pic.twitter.com/I2wYJPd9uA
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) February 25, 2022
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“I am the Lion of Love”
Send these guys over to the Kremlin, and Putin will immediate capitulate and hail Mr. Lordi as Russia’s new Tsar….
And yeah…..Lordi actually won that year’s Eurovision contest.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
That is exactly what I think is going to happen, which is why I was frankly surprised that Putin was willing to gamble on a reckless full scale invasion of Ukraine, instead of a limited occupation of the separatist regions.
I wonder if Putin over-estimated how much help his western fifth column would be, that massive pro-Russian demonstrations and political action would force western governments to withdraw their support for Ukraine or even advise immediate surrender. They have certainly paid a lot of attention to Tucker Carlson and similar tools. How could the Russians miscalculate so badly when they have conducted the most successful propaganda and subversion campaign in history during the last few years? I think their efforts succeeded only because they had such a vast supply of willing accomplices in the corrupt Republican party and its European analogs. They are not really especially good at it, as shown by their support for the farcical California and Texas secession movements.
Russian censor RossComNadzor announced it starts partial blocking of Facebook/@Meta “due to violations of freedom of speech”.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) February 25, 2022
Not gonna happen.
As someone who has worked in energy over 30 years, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
These are lobbyist talking points - not real world solutions.
Also plays to Putin’s goal: increase US oil & gas dependency.
Educate yourself before you tweet again.— Kafka (@KStovring) February 25, 2022
re: #172 Jay C
Kinda what I thought. Is Judge Jackson’s seat senior to the one Childs currently occupies, or would it be a “sideways promotion”?
per wiki:
en.wikipedia.org
In January 2021, U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn sent a letter to President Biden’s transition team encouraging Biden to nominate Childs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[27] On December 23, 2021, Biden announced Childs as his nominee for that court,[28] and her nomination was sent to the Senate on January 10. Childs’s nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[27] The seat had been vacated by Judge David S. Tatel, who will assume senior status upon confirmation of a successor.[29]
On January 28, 2022, the White House stated that Childs was among those being considered for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the seat that will be left vacant after Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement.[30][31] Two days later, one of her home-state U.S. senators, Republican Lindsey Graham, voiced his support for her potential nomination.[32] Childs’ surprising ascent from district court judge to supreme court finalist can also be attributed to Jim Clyburn, the number 3 Democrat in the house who has been lobbying Biden to nominate Childs notwithstanding concerns over Childs’ conservative record as a judge and trial lawyer.[33]
Labor rights groups have voiced their displeasure with Childs’ consideration for the U.S. Supreme Court given her private sector experience working at a law firm many considered to be an “anti-union” law firm.[34]
ETA: 11th Appellate Circuit is definitely a promotion.from district court judge. Any appellate seat would be, but especially the 11th.
Mark Zuckerberg should send Putin a butthurt report form….
* RUSSIA TO PARTLY LIMIT ACCESS TO FACEBOOK
* RUSSIA SAYS MOVE DUE TO FACEBOOK’S ‘CENSORSHIP’ OF RUSSIAN MEDIA@Reuters $FB— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 25, 2022
Night is upon Kyiv again, and the sirens are wailing
re: #185 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Night is upon Kyiv again, and the sirens are wailing
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OK, a number of fighters are flying around overhead here in Jacksonville as I posted that.
Invokes a rather weird feeling hearing the two sounds together, though continents apart
re: #90 Dr Lizardo
For me, it’s a tough call. Maybe if Russian soldiers started committing mass atrocities against the civilian population, that might be enough to spark a NATO intervention in Ukraine. As for the risk of nuclear war, we’ve been much closer to the brink than this. Hell, the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example. The question is that delicate game of chicken: Say we intervened - how far could we push Russia out of Ukraine before the red balloon goes up?
Personally, I say the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, plus Crimea. That’s Putin’s absolute red line. He would go nuclear rather than lose Crimea.
We were dealing with Khrushchev then and not Putin. Khrushchev was a thoroughly rational actor and not a reckless paranoid planning to restore a lost empire.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
We were dealing with Khrushchev then and not Putin. Khrushchev was a thoroughly rational actor and not a reckless paranoid planning to restore a lost empire.
You’re defining a “Nutcase Veto”.
re: #179 Dr Lizardo
Send these guys over to the Kremlin, and Putin will immediate capitulate and hail Mr. Lordi as Russia’s new Tsar….
And yeah…..Lordi actually won that year’s Eurovision contest.
A buddy of mine was working in Finland the year that they won and named his project
Laser-Organic Digital Interface
(LORDI)
2 more merchant ships hit by Russian attacks in Black Sea.
Japanese bulk carrier MV Namura Queen hit by a rocket at anchor off Yuzhne.
Moldovan chemical tanker MV Millennial Spirit hit and set on fire 12 miles to the southhttps://t.co/fazJtNvJk6
Video: suvaribeyinnotdefteri pic.twitter.com/p5BHZmUPIk— Navy Lookout (@NavyLookout) February 25, 2022
re: #191 Teukka
Russia trying to piss everyone off, it seems.
BOOM
#BREAKING International Olympic Committee (IOC) urges all federations to cancel events in Russia or Belarus #AFPSports pic.twitter.com/qyzhXWx4xc
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 25, 2022
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
Except Putin is Stalin not Beria in this scenario. None of Stalin’s minions would have dared to try to overthrow him.
Beria would. I have long suspected that Beria did.
Everything about this war is unreal and enraging. But reports surfaced that civilian houses were marked with certain symbols for airstrikes. Kyiv city authorities now urgently appeal to residents of high-rise buildings to check their buildings for those tags. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/jRef048PXD
— Mattia Nelles (@mattia_n) February 25, 2022
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Consequently, Finland and Sweden they will ‘face some military and political consequences’ if they don’t join NATO.
Bully rants louder as the playground kids realize that banding together is the only viable way to stop the bully.
re: #192 Eclectic Cyborg
Russia trying to piss everyone off, it seems.
Did their submarines surface to machine-gun the survivors?
They are really trying to play Kaiser Wilhelm in 1917.
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A buddy of mine was working in Finland the year that they won and named his project
Laser-Organic Digital Interface
(LORDI)
My ex were watching that and when Lordi won, my ex turned to me and said, “What?! Seriously?”
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
My ex were watching that and when Lordi won, my ex turned to me and said, “What?! Seriously?”
*whistles as he walks by and drops an URL*
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I think Putin’s overestimated one helluva lot of things. From all accounts, he’s been cooped up the last two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Left pretty much alone, with his thoughts, and getting high on his own flatulence.
This is just a tiny slice of what Tucker and Trump and Dinesh and Bannon and the rest of the feculent parade of Putin whores on the right support.
The murder, torture, rapine, and cruelty will be sweeping, systemic, and hideous, and they’re cheering for it. https://t.co/zC2wVYdDo5— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 25, 2022
re: #200 Dr Lizardo
I think Putin’s overestimated one helluva lot of things. From all accounts, he’s been cooped up the last two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Left pretty much alone, with his thoughts, and getting high on his own flatulence.
Plausible.
The hits just keep on comin’…..
Translation: “German authorities have terminated export credit insurance for Russia - Handelsblatt newspaper, citing sources in the Ministry of Economy”
⚡️Власти ФРГ прекратили действие страхования экспортных кредитов для России — газета Handelsblatt со ссылкой на источники в Минэкономики
— Alver ❌ (@Alla91748059) February 25, 2022
re: #191 Teukka
Going at merchant shipping is how you get the United States to go to war. Just ask the Germans how well it went in 1917 when they sank the Lusitania.
Translation: “Since February 24, the German brand Audi has stopped shipping cars to dealerships in the Russian Federation. In addition, messages of a similar nature were recorded from General Motors, Volkswagen, Skoda and Land Rover.”
Немецкая марка Audi с 24 февраля прекратила отгрузки автомобилей в адрес дилерских предприятий РФ. Помимо этого, сообщения похожего характера зафиксированы от General Motors, Volkswagen, Skoda и Land Rover.
— Alver ❌ (@Alla91748059) February 25, 2022
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
My ex were watching that and when Lordi won, my ex turned to me and said, “What?! Seriously?”
Eurovision is a mystery. I have an Australian friend who is a big fan (Australia is an honorary member of Eurovision, go figure) and every time I watch it with her I come away shaking my head in dispbelief.
There was already a big blowup over a Ukrainian artist doing a song that Russia found offensive from 2016 about how the Russians ethically cleansed the Crimean Tatars for supporting Germany in WW2.
re: #137 Eventual Carrion
Man did I stare long and hard at this one.
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re: #204 Dopamine Fish
Going at merchant shipping is how you get the United States to go to war. Just ask the Germans how well it went in 1917 when they sank the Lusitania.
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re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
You and I faced a similar dilemma!
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The gang from NASASpaceflight are streaming the west coast SpaceX Starlink launch.
TO about 7 minutes away
In Ukrainian Militopol’, Russian troops are firing at the hospital. In the video, the missile is hitting the oncology department. pic.twitter.com/YZe3s93tNS
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) February 25, 2022
If the votes of the right 50,000 Americans had been suppressed or discounted, Putin would have a free hand to do anything he wants.
EXCLUSIVE: I have been given a copy of document issued today by Russian Ministry of Health. It indicates Russia is anticipating a massive medical emergency & has ordered health organisations to immediately identify medical staff ready to relocate & work. pic.twitter.com/iwl7NwqbZ8
— Emma Burrows (@EJ_Burrows) February 25, 2022
I checked, and the drug addicts and Nazis are still in Florida hanging out with a failed former President who works for Putin.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 25, 2022
re: #209 wrenchwench
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re: #204 Dopamine Fish
Going at merchant shipping is how you get the United States to go to war. Just ask the Germans how well it went in 1917 when they sank the Lusitania.
Minor points: it was May, 1915, and the Lusitania was a British, not an American vessel, and thus somewhat of a vaguely “legitimate” target. Especially as it was suspected (and later confirmed) that she was, indeed, carrying some armaments. Not that most U-boat captains would have cared anyway…
Zing!!
There are already tens of thousands of russian troops in #Finland. They are located along the eastern border line, about six feet deep.
— Arto Kivelä #NATOon (@Kivelart) February 25, 2022
and
Putins worst nightmare trying to log in pic.twitter.com/dvoOwunmn1
— Olof Holmer (@OlofHolmer) February 25, 2022
Another possible motivation: Putin was advised that his economy was steering off a cliff. What is the best way for him to distract from it and blame the faltering economy on Western Sanctions?
re: #216 Jay C
Minor points: it was May, 1915, and the Lusitania was a British, not an American vessel, and thus somewhat of a vaguely “legitimate” target. Especially as it was suspected (and later confirmed) that she was, indeed, carrying some armaments. Not that most U-boat captains would have cared anyway…
Sorry, you’re right on the date. And yes, while the RMS Lusitania was a British vessel (which I knew), the presence of Americans on board the ship, as well as the secret nature of the armaments it was carrying (by necessity), caused widespread outrage in the States.
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Another possible motivation: Putin was advised that his economy was steering off a cliff. What is the best way for him to distract from it and blame the faltering economy on Western Sanctions?
He also could’ve subscribed to the notion that war stimulates the economy. Which really only works if you don’t end up getting your ass handed to you in the long run.
re: #219 Dopamine Fish
Sorry, you’re right on the date. And yes, while the RMS Lusitania was a British vessel (which I knew), the presence of Americans on board the ship, as well as the secret nature of the armaments it was carrying (by necessity), caused widespread outrage in the States.
I could swear reading that the Germans actually published a notice in one of the big American newspapers that the RMS Lusitania was liable to be sunk as a legit war target, and warned Americans not to sail on her.
re: #220 Dr Lizardo
He also could’ve subscribed to the notion that war stimulates the economy. Which really only works if you don’t end up getting your ass handed to you in the long run.
That might work (at least in the short term) in a capitalist economy that needs a shot in the arm, not in his oligarchic mess that is staggering along and barely functioning.
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I wonder if Putin over-estimated how much help his western fifth column would be, that massive pro-Russian demonstrations and political action would force western governments to withdraw their support for Ukraine or even advise immediate surrender. They have certainly paid a lot of attention to Tucker Carlson and similar tools. How could the Russians miscalculate so badly when they have conducted the most successful propaganda and subversion campaign in history during last few years? I think their efforts succeeded only because they had such a vast supply of willing accomplices in the corrupt Republican party and its European analogs. They are not really especially good at it, as shown by their support for the farcical California and Texas secession movements.
I wonder if the separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine told Putin they had lots and lots of supporters in the rest of Ukraine that would help out and make things easier since the Ukrainian government had no real support and would fold quickly to a Russian show of force.
In other words, Putin was fed garbage by some puppets and wanted it to be true. So he essentially had propagandized himself.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
We were dealing with Khrushchev then and not Putin. Khrushchev was a thoroughly rational actor and not a reckless paranoid planning to restore a lost empire.
The guy who beat the desk with his shoe was a rational actor?
I think that Putin is also a rational actor. He knew that we wouldn’t do anything besides sanctions.
re: #221 Dr Lizardo
I could swear reading that the Germans actually published a notice in one of the big American newspapers that the RMS Lusitania was liable to be sunk as a legit war target, and warned Americans not to sail on her.
Yep.
More than one paper: the German warning was published just before the Lusitania sailed, in several major East-Coast journals, IIRC.
re: #223 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
In other words, Putin was fed garbage by some puppets and wanted it to be true. So he essentially had propagandized himself.
And you know what? I’d love to be a fly on the wall when Putin has his “Steiner moment”.
re: #223 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder if the separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine told Putin they had lots and lots of supporters in the rest of Ukraine that would help out and make things easier since the Ukrainian government had no real support and would fold quickly to a Russian show of force.
In other words, Putin was fed garbage by some puppets and wanted it to be true. So he essentially had propagandized himself.
Sort of like how all the anti-vax propaganda they were spreading in the States led to disastrously low vaccination rates in Russia?
re: #223 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder if the separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine told Putin they had lots and lots of supporters in the rest of Ukraine that would help out and make things easier since the Ukrainian government had no real support and would fold quickly to a Russian show of force.
In other words, Putin was fed garbage by some puppets and wanted it to be true. So he essentially had propagandized himself.
He threw shit at a mirror and it stuck.
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Another possible motivation: Putin was advised that his economy was steering off a cliff. What is the best way for him to distract from it and blame the faltering economy on Western Sanctions?
When oil is above $70 or so, the Russian economy is fine.
Someone I know is watching Russian news for domestic consumption:…
Example:
Putin at Security Council accused Ukrainian military of deploying artillery systems in the cities ‘so we have to bomb them”. Calls for military take over of the power
re: #224 JC1
The guy who beat the desk with his shoe was a rational actor?
I think that Putin is also a rational actor. He knew that we wouldn’t do anything besides sanctions.
Of course we’re not going to get into a nuclear war with Russia.
Those sanctions will do a lot of damage to Russia, and are the rational response to Vlad’s irrational invasion of Ukraine.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
The brass and the suits.
re: #229 JC1
When oil is above $70 or so, the Russian economy is fine.
I think that Covid hit it a lot more than anyone wants to officially admit
and oil is up, but it spent over a year well below $70 per barrel in 2019-20
re: #223 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
In other words, Putin was fed garbage by some puppets and wanted it to be true. So he essentially had propagandized himself.
I’m not so sure: for all of Vladimir Putin’s manifold shortcomings, I can’t imagine that “credulous belief in his own carefully-manufactured propaganda” is one of them.
Though it is an interesting point to raise about just how much the Russians may have mis-estimated the effects of their decades-long online disinformation campaigns and social-media message-leveraging. I wonder how Vlad’s Ukrainian adventure is doing in approval polling (in the part of the world that is Not-Russia)?
re: #229 JC1
When oil is above $70 or so, the Russian economy is fine.
What’s Russia’s break even point on oil production?
Vlad is a cold, calculating long-game player. This is only an opening gambit. I cannot imagine him being surprised by any outcome or not having a contingency in place to deal with it.
We need to recognize that.
re: #211 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Russia’s trying to see if there’s a limit before NATO gets involved.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Vlad is a cold, calculating long-game player. This is only an opening gambit. I cannot imagine him being surprised by any outcome or not having a contingency in place to deal with it.
We need to recognize that.
So you think all this might be a negotiating move in order to get the Ukrainian government to accept the puppet “republics” with their old oblast borders?
re: #236 Dr Lizardo
What’s Russia’s break even point on oil production?
From what I read, around $70.
But they need $100 if they want to grow and expand, and that has not been happening for a long time.
Judge Ketanji Jackson has left the DC federal courthouse, presumably on her way to the White House. She gave a “no comment, thanks” when I asked her about her nomination. We will see her speak with the president at 2pm.
— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) February 25, 2022
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Vlad is a cold, calculating long-game player. This is only an opening gambit. I cannot imagine him being surprised by any outcome or not having a contingency in place to deal with it.
We need to recognize that.
He is playing a game the rest of the world quit playing. If he wanted to help his country he would help his country, this isn’t helping. The image of Putin being a stable genius is just a sham. Putin has kept Russia from being prosperous, not helped.
This seems….unusual.
EXCLUSIVE: I have been given a copy of document issued today by Russian Ministry of Health. It indicates Russia is anticipating a massive medical emergency & has ordered health organisations to immediately identify medical staff ready to relocate & work. pic.twitter.com/iwl7NwqbZ8
— Emma Burrows (@EJ_Burrows) February 25, 2022
Photos from protests against the Russian invasion, which are taking place around the globe. On these photos: Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; New York; the US; Istanbul, Turkey. pic.twitter.com/NoPJgmbCKU
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 25, 2022
re: #239 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So you think all this might be a negotiating move in order to get the Ukrainian government to accept the puppet “republics” with their old oblast borders?
I think it goes well beyond that. He has gone for broke on this one, Belarus is now under his control and he is going to start reporting on how ethnic Russians in other republics are struggling for “self-determination” and how Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia do not have any historical justification, etc…
re: #243 Dr Lizardo
This seems….unusual.
[tinfoil] Planning use of some new weapon which may cause a mass casualty event? [/tinfoil]
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 25, 2022
re: #242 b.d
He is playing a game the rest of the world quit playing. If he wanted to help his country he would help his country, this isn’t helping. The image of Putin being a stable genius is just a sham. Putin has kept Russia from being prosperous, not helped.
He does seem to have a personal grudge against how the West has treated Russia.
And I believe that it was a mistake to buck NATO right up against his borders.
But none of that justifies what he is doing now by a long shot.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Vlad is a cold, calculating long-game player. This is only an opening gambit. I cannot imagine him being surprised by any outcome or not having a contingency in place to deal with it.
We need to recognize that.
There’s a very thin line between genius and crazy, especially when it comes to power.
re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
From what I read, around $70.
But they need $100 if they want to grow and expand, and that has not been happening for a long time.
Dammit, I wish we could pressure the Saudis and their pals to get oil down to about $15/barrel. Keep that price there for the next 12 to 18 months.
Dublin, Ireland. Angry crowd harasses a car carrying the Russian ambassador as it tries to enter the Embassy.
Ireland, I am proud of you.❤️🇮🇪pic.twitter.com/nnuXM9kQL2— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) February 25, 2022
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He does seem to have a personal grudge against how the West has treated Russia.
And I believe that it was a mistake to buck NATO right up against his borders.
But none of that justifies what he is doing now by a long shot.
The only reason this has anything to do with NATO is Putin doesn’t want the former Soviet controlled countries to be able to determine their future without Russia’s input. If NATO had stayed out and those countries formed their own alliance, they would still be in this situation.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, the Irish know a thing or two about their neighbors invading and colonizing their country.
This is not a drill….
BREAKING — NATO to provide air defense systems to Ukraine and more weapons — Stoltenberg
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 25, 2022
According to intelligence, Russia plans a massive false flag operation to ‘dehumanize’ Ukrainians and accuse Ukraine of alleged inhuman actions. Don’t trust fakes. Ukraine defends its land in a just and defensive war. Unlike Russia, we don’t target kindergartens and civilians.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) February 25, 2022
re: #252 Belafon
The only reason this has anything to do with NATO is Putin doesn’t want the former Soviet controlled countries to be able to determine their future without Russia’s input. If NATO had stayed out and those countries formed their own alliance, they would still be in this situation.
You all know my ongoing rant about how his long-term goal is to re-unite the old Russian Empire or at least bring those areas into his sphere of economic, political and military interest.
NATO is anathema to that.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You all know my ongoing rant about how his long-term goal is to re-unite the old Russian Empire or at least bring those areas into his sphere of economic, political and military interest.
NATO is anathema to that.
The European Union as well.
And another BOOM…
Call with my Italian counterpart @luigidimaio. Full solidarity with Ukraine. My colleague assured me that Italy will support banning Russia from SWIFT.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) February 25, 2022
I learn to use #Kalashnikov and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our #women will protect our soil the same way as our #men. Go #Ukraine! 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/UbF4JRGlcy
— Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 25, 2022
I asked Lee Weissman if he could share a link for aid to Ukraine since there are many Breslov Hasidim living in Ukraine. He said Breslov sucks at fundraising but he would RT any link that I sent him.
For those who would like to help the Jewish community of Ukraine at this difficult time. https://t.co/V5HNMOdMWn
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) February 25, 2022
I think this real estate is gonna cost Russia more than “two dollars in sanctions”
The most obvious proof that Ukraine isn’t led by neo-Nazis, besides the duly elected Jewish president, is that Trump isn’t praising the country. https://t.co/DsxPyVQUBC
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 25, 2022
A minor correction….
He did not say this!
He said individual NATO countries decided to supply such systems.
NATO is not supplying any weapons to Ukraine.— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) February 25, 2022
Clever. Plausible deniability. If/when the Russians start screeching, NATO can turn around and say, “Hey man, it’s not us. It’s Poland (or Czech Republic, or Slovakia, or Estonia). Go talk with them.”
re: #256 Teukka
Remember that report about “medical emergency” expected on the Russian side? $.02 on this being related
re: #265 Teukka
Remember that report about “medical emergency” expected on the Russian side? $.02 on this being related
Contingency in the event this war expands beyond Ukraine.
re: #265 Teukka
Remember that report about “medical emergency” expected on the Russian side? $.02 on this being related
Maybe the Russians are planning a false flag terrorist incident. Some kind of mass casualty attack on a high-value target in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
re: #264 Dr Lizardo
A minor correction….
Clever. Plausible deniability. If/when the Russians start screeching, NATO can turn around and say, “Hey man, it’s not us. It’s Poland (or Czech Republic, or Slovakia, or Estonia). Go talk with them.”
Biden: We’re not supplying weapons to Ukraine at this moment. But we are supplying them to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Estonia.
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that Covid hit it a lot more than anyone wants to officially admit
and oil is up, but it spent over a year well below $70 per barrel in 2019-20
According to some estimates, Russia had over a million excess covid deaths. The highest percentage of any country.
Ukraine’s ministry of energy says Russian forces not following Chernobyl safety guidelines putting world at risk. “For the second day, the occupiers have been detaining the personnel of the Chornobyl NPP station, not allowing them to rotate as required by technical safety rules.”
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 25, 2022
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
A common trope amongst Gun-humpers in the US is Hitler “took away people’s guns” and this defines fascism.
Well, here we are with the Ukrainian Government issuing arms directly to citizens… for better or worse, I can’t think of a more effective way to get them on Ukraine’s side, especially if pointed out Putin restricts guns in Russia.
re: #269 JC1
According to some estimates, Russia had over a million excess covid deaths. The highest percentage of any country.
They already had “supply chain issues” before Covid hit. That’s gonna leave a real mark.
Living standards have been going down for all but the oligarchs now for years.
re: #211 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Geolocation of footage showing heavy fighting in Melitopol in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine. The building attached is marked on its front as a hospital and the building seen is listed on Google Maps as the Oncology Center. Location: 46.839817, 35.371137.https://t.co/IclIrJlhzJ pic.twitter.com/C4cKPAQnVP
— Centre for Information Resilience (@Cen4infoRes) February 25, 2022
Seeing himself on Kremlin TV may have made him realize how deep he is into betraying the West.
Hey, y’all remember when an unusual amount of pregnant Russian women were renting/buying condos in Trump buildings?? I do. https://t.co/JJ7V2z1wDW
— Steph 💉💉💉🏠😷🍸☕ (@NOLADuchess) February 25, 2022
LOL Kennedy learned all about Jackson last year when she came before the Judiciary Committee, of which Kennedy is a member, for her DC Circuit confirmation hearing.
He only asked her one question: “Do you think the federal judicial system is systemically racist?” pic.twitter.com/3fWNaxLOeU— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 25, 2022
Of note about Jackson’s last confirmation hearing, and perhaps a preview of what’s to come:
Republicans didn’t appear to see any real problems with her record, so they just kept asking her if she knew who @WeDemandJustice was. LOL. (She didn’t really.) https://t.co/fdC4mqr0zd pic.twitter.com/fazh9x7BEI— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 25, 2022
re: #246 Teukka
[tinfoil] Planning use of some new weapon which may cause a mass casualty event? [/tinfoil]
The war is a mass casualty event. Lots of badly wounded Russian soldiers are going to be needing medical care.
re: #268 Belafon
Biden: We’re not supplying weapons to Ukraine at this moment. But we are supplying them to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Estonia.
Biden: And what they do with them, well…you’re gonna have to ask them. We’re not their boss.
Russia done gone and fucked up. The Mrs… who is far more dovish than I am, is calling for hellfire to rain down on Putin’s regime and the Russian military and that the US and NATO should do more than issue platitudes, sanctions, and get into the fight even if it means a wider conflict.
I am the one trying to talk her down from what could turn into a world war because Putin thinks Russian imperialism is his manifest destiny and that Ukraine isn’t a legitimate sovereign nation.
re: #277 No Malarkey!
The war is a mass casualty event. Lots of badly wounded Russian soldiers are going to be needing medical care.
Wounded Russian soldiers needing care on top of an exhausted health care delivery infrastructure ruined by covid.
Yeah, that’ll really work out well for those who are injured in Putin’s quest to build a new Russian empire.
re: #274 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Maybe he realized what happens to collaborators is usually quite unpleasant.
re: #259 Dr Lizardo
And another BOOM…
And another boom, this time, Germany. Weren’t Germany and Italy the two countries blocking removing Russia from Swift?
#Breaking German Finance minister says Berlin is open to cutting #Russia from SWIFT
— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) February 25, 2022
The Dow is booming today, after the Nasdaq jumped up 3% yesterday. finance.yahoo.com
Oh right I forgot we’re about to face a wave of sexualizing Ukrainian women https://t.co/XeWpzZWGxh
— alex (@kinxside) February 24, 2022
re: #236 Dr Lizardo
What’s Russia’s break even point on oil production?
keep in mind, 70 dollar oil for Russia isn’t the same as 70 dollar oil for Exxon. Exxon is high-tech and mostly corruption-free, except the bribes I assume they pay in places like Nigeria to keep the workers happy and local governments off their backs. For Russia, they have the issue of what I’d guess is crummy infrastructure in the oil industry, combined with oligarchs raking off their cuts, as well as local governments raking off theirs, and Putin ultimately racking off his. I’d guess that Putin really needs oil at least at 100 to keep everybody swimming. At 70, I’d bet they’re all mostly just breaking even.
And that means any additional jolts at all will tend to do real damage.
CPAC now stands for Cluster of Putin’s Ass Clowns.
— 💀 Scary Larry 💀 🇺🇸🌊✊🏻🗽 (@StompTheGOP) February 25, 2022
re: #284 electrotek
I don’t see that as a bad thing. The person she’s replying to is a child, but anything that builds sympathy for the Ukranian people is helpful.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) objected to the timing of President Biden’s announcement of a Supreme Court nominee on Friday, the HuffPost reports.Said Blackburn: “President Biden’s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate. Once again, Biden is putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what is best for our nation.”
R’s are jealous that dems can walk and chew gum
or more accurately, counter russia and announce a scotus nominee
The fetishizing of Ukrainian women is certainly not restricted to Chinese men - it’s a global men problem. Take this charming ‘refugees welcome’ trend here on Twitter for a start. pic.twitter.com/leGrE9Zl8o
— Francesca Jordan 喬楓 (@ffranjordann) February 25, 2022
re: #246 Teukka
[tinfoil] Planning use of some new weapon which may cause a mass casualty event? [/tinfoil]
Chernobyl is just full of “weapons”.
re: #255 Dr Lizardo
This is not a drill….
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Putin kicked the hornet’s nest - twice - first by invading Ukraine and then by threatening NATO and Finland and Sweden
re: #288 Dangerman
R’s are jealous that dems can walk and chew gum
or more accurately, counter russia and announce a scotus nominee
SCOTUS has nothing to do with Russia. Fuck Republicans are stupid.
Maybe President Biden should just leave the seat vacant until Russia gives Ukraine back.
re: #292 darthstar
SCOTUS has nothing to do with Russia. Fuck Republicans are stupid.
There is literally nothing Biden could do that they won’t attack him for doing it.
re: #293 darthstar
Maybe President Biden should just leave the seat vacant until Russia gives Ukraine back.
it’s way too close to the next election…
re: #282 aatharuv
And another boom, this time, Germany. Weren’t Germany and Italy the two countries blocking removing Russia from Swift?
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Threatening Sweden and Finland and the rest of NATO wasn’t a great move on Putin’s part. Hard to walk back words like that.
re: #291 darthstar
Putin kicked the hornet’s nest - twice - first by invading Ukraine and then by threatening NATO and Finland and Sweden
Yep, and I think he wasn’t expecting this. He probably figured it’d be another Crimea cakewalk, where the world shakes their heads in disappointment, but other than that, it’s business as usual.
Now he’s getting sanctioned up the wazoo, it’s looking like Ukraine may end up being a tougher nut to crack then he’d anticipated, and if Finland (at least) did end up throwing in their lot with NATO, all he will have succeeded in doing is….getting a lot of soldiers killed, expending God knows how much money on a ridiculous military adventure and - ironically - expanded NATO by one country.
Good job, Putin.
May they soon face the torment of the grave. https://t.co/T4DGahLhij
— Umar Lee 🇺🇦 (@UmarLeeIII) February 25, 2022
re: #296 darthstar
Threatening Sweden and Finland and the rest of NATO wasn’t a great move on Putin’s part. Hard to walk back words like that.
Look, as soon as he made that speech about the Ukraine’s political and historical viability, it was clear that he was going to go whole hog. He is not finessing, he falling back on intimidation and threat.
He also made it clear that all the former Soviet Republics were Russia’s sphere of influence and that he saw any western involvement in them as a provocation - and now he is done being provoked.
re: #289 electrotek
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presumably there just aren’t enough icelandic women to meet demands.
re: #297 Dr Lizardo
Yep, and I think he wasn’t expecting this. He probably figured it’d be another Crimea cakewalk, where the world shakes their heads in disappointment, but other than that, it’s business as usual.
Had he stopped at occupying the “breakaway republics” it might have worked, but he clearly has designs that go far beyond lopping off more territory from Ukraine.
I’ll laugh so fucking hard if Japan uses this moment to take back the Kuril Islands from Russia while Russia is preoccupied with Ukraine.
re: #283 No Malarkey!
The Dow is booming today, after the Nasdaq jumped up 3% yesterday. finance.yahoo.com
Oy…my one big Pharmaceutical buy I did early in Covid because they had a promising treatment (200 shares at 2.33) is now at 0.45. How did they screw the pooch so bad? Well, they still make a decent HIV, cancer, and other drugs. Also my investment in penis pills isn’t rising to the occasion. Don’t invest in companies that advertise on facebook. Still have one solid stock though…and my ESPP at work is solid.
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Had he stopped at occupying the “breakaway republics” it might have worked, but he clearly has designs that go far beyond lopping off more territory from Ukraine.
Gonna have to slap him down then.
America. Love it it leave it. Comrade. https://t.co/FeiYT9sqhm
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) February 25, 2022
Pentagon: Russian troops have slowed down the pace of the invasion https://t.co/AmE74YkObL via @komadovsky #Ukraine
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) February 25, 2022
re: #236 Dr Lizardo
What’s Russia’s break even point on oil production?
Their production costs are in the low to high $40 range, depending on whether on or offshore. I think that they need oil at around 70 to not run deficits.
re: #305 DodgerFan1988
Dinesh de Felon has thoughts…
Social media. Considering its messages of hate and war crimes the Russian government must break every single user agreement on social media. Why aren’t all the Russian social media accounts shut down? Take Russia off social media!
— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund) February 25, 2022
I’m laughing at this like I know I shouldn’t but Europeans very regularly fight each other over like… football matches https://t.co/k8TgO6yDdB
— Elle Em (@ellle_em) February 25, 2022
Which is like, something a professor at Yale should understand
— Elle Em (@ellle_em) February 25, 2022
Not a TYT fan, but when they’re right, they’re right.
re: #250 Dr Lizardo
Dammit, I wish we could pressure the Saudis and their pals to get oil down to about $15/barrel. Keep that price there for the next 12 to 18 months.
Not enough oil in the world for that. OPEC doesn’t have much excess capacity left. If we allowed Iran to pump and sell all they can then we’d make a dent. But, if Russia decided to take half their production offline, there just wouldn’t be enough oil left to meet supply.
re: #312 JC1
Not enough oil in the world for that. OPEC doesn’t have much excess capacity left. If we allowed Iran to pump and sell all they can then we’d make a dent. But, if Russia decided to take half their production offline, there just wouldn’t be enough oil left to meet supply.
It’s not just the ability to pump oil out of the ground, but to refine it into gasoline and other fuels. There’s some additional capacity there, but not enough to truly dent the price of oil. OPEC has cut production precisely to keep prices artificially high. This maximizes profits and the markets spiked above that thanks to the Russian invasion. US continues with record production and is essentially energy independent, but the price of oil doesn’t budge because the market is global.
Want to fundamentally change the price of oil and its effect on the global economy? Get off fossil fuels as a cornerstone of energy production, transport, and product manufacturing.
I just looked at my Facebook friend requests for the first time in years. There’s a lot of cleavage in there from sex workers who wanted to be “friends.”
re: #298 electrotek
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Chechens, huh?
So I’m guessing when they end up in Allah’s Anteroom courtesy of those Javelin missiles, it’s gonna be like:
WUT? You guys are up here cause of fighting for the Russians???? Sorry, dudes: the down escalator is over there. But you’re gonna have to wait….
re: #312 JC1
If I recall $100 a bbl is high enough to trigger a lot more production right here. That should put downward pressure on prices.
Approximately now.
In 10 minutes, @katiecouric will interview me on IG Live. Come on over!
— Terrell Jermaine Starr (@terrelljstarr) February 25, 2022
Russia’s Assault on Ukraine Has a Crusader Element
A religious historian breaks down the Orthodox Christian aspect to Putin’s calculations.
esquire.com
Butler Bass goes on to an account of the historic role that Ukraine played in the formation both of the Russian state and the effect that the split between Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches have played in that history. And this is not ancient history, either.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine had several different Orthodox churches, only one of which was in close relationship to Moscow. In 2018, two of those Ukrainian churches and some of the Moscow-leaning Orthodox parishes joined in a union and created a newly unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a fully independent national ecclesial body under no control from Moscow, with its head in the ancient seat of Orthodoxy in Kyiv.
Putin and the Moscow Russian Orthodox church authorities protested. They’ve been claiming the 1,000 years of Kyiv Christianity as its own — basically appropriating Ukraine’s church history — to the point of erecting a gigantic (and controversial) statue of St. Vladimir outside of the Kremlin.…
Just what this nightmare needs: the influence of a 13th-century religious conflict.
re: #316 Rightwingconspirator
If I recall $100 a bbl is high enough to trigger a lot more production right here. That should put downward pressure on prices.
For sure. A lot of US production will come back online. But it’ll still amount to under 1m barrels per day extra. Nigeria and Angola are actually not meeting their OPEC quota, probably due to decaying infrastructure.
Maybe Putin is seeing the writing on the wall with the electric car revolution. By far the largest use of petroleum products is for transportation. As the world goes more electric, Russia and OPEC will be done.
Anyway Newsweek used to publish good work and it’s sad to see it descend to Fascist Highlights.
— StandWithUkraineHat (@Popehat) February 25, 2022
re: #320 JC1
The same oil companies are sitting on tons of oil leases without developing them precisely because the costs are far higher than it takes to develop and extract the oil and gas from them.
The breakeven point isn’t there - and may never be there. But these same energy companies are more than happy to rack up record profits because global oil prices remain high because OPEC cuts supply and keeps oil artificially high during the pandemic, and then keeps them high as the demand bounces back.
So of course Pence is trying to show that he remains a know nothing with no clue how anything actually works.
Gas prices have risen across the Country because of this Administration’s war on energy—shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, shutting down oil and gas leases in this Country—while they were incomprehensibly green-lighting the Nord Stream 2 deal for the Russians. pic.twitter.com/gMxrnnLf19
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) February 25, 2022
Oil companies are sitting on thousands of leases for which they are doing nothing because oil prices aren’t high enough to warrant taking action. The cost to develop those leases is higher than what it takes to extract oil/gas.
It’d help if you stuck to what you know: nothing.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 25, 2022
re: #88 lawhawk
Seriously, the reason I think they went after Chernobyl is to be a staging area where they think the could be free from counter attacks because of the risk of releasing radiation into the environment. Seems like the Russians did that anyways.
I think they gave up their nukes and Chernobyl gives them materials to make dirty bombs.
re: #138 steve_davis
I take great pleasure in thinking about Putin realizing that every Russian tank destroyed is basically coming with a “hi, I was made in the good ol’ USA!” message attached to the killing device.
The NLAWs are made by SAAB.
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Several pro-Kremlin Czech language websites have just been taken offline by order of the Ministry of the Interior.
The following websites were taken down: Aeronet, Protiproud, Ceskobezcenzury, Voxpopuliblog, Prvnizpravy, Czechfreepress, Exanpro and Skrytapravda.
These were super-hardcore pro-Kremlin disinformation websites, all primary sources of the vast majority of Russian disinfo circulating in the country.
Good! Keep squeezing them!
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