He was able to do that in Grozny because no one cared or even really took an interest. He was able to enter the theater in Syria because of Obama failing to act upon his supposed red line. And he is able to do it in Ukraine because, as part of his calculus and rationale for undertaking the current slaughter, he observed that the current POTUS is in his second childhood. Russia, mainly through Lavrov, has been pushing the notion of a post-western/US led order for years now. Now they're making it an observable reality on the ground.
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There must be some higher-up renegade in the Russian government that can off him.
Didn't need to look at the name
He’s the one cnut you can wish an injury on here.
We’re approaching the point where there will have been more refugees coming out of Ukraine in just over a week than there were in the entire year of the 2015 migrant crisis. It’s incredible how the neighbouring countries have coped.
Trouble is they’re trained, masters of disguise. You wouldn’t know one until it was too late.
Look at this one down our local cat rescue centre. Looks entirely innocent.
I'm hoping for a bullet to the back of the headitis.
It's so unlikely that he gets it considering the lengths he's going to avoid it.
I can feel it first hand here in Kraków which has probably taken the largest number of all European cities. It’s going to be okay as long as people keep the same attitude they had for the last week. We already had a big Ukrainian community here even before war, it’s going to increase significantly but I really think they will feel welcomed here.
Apparently around 450k of the 660k that had left until yesterday want to remain in Poland.
Border is still surreal. Went to a different one today, felt even more ridiculous. It’s like a completely different world to what I’m used to.
Saw this story on BBC News tonight… families waiting in Berlin for Ukrainian refugees to offer them a room/home.
Every time you think the worlds going to shit, good people remind you it’s not all bad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60611188
We wish we could do the same here. I’m ashamed our government will not allow them to come.
Shelling a nuclear power plant...
Jesus this is not good at all. Let's hope they can get it under control or that's got disastrous consequences
Based on everything the past 20 years. Despots and tyrants haven fallen all over the world. Some replaced by other despots and tyrants, and some not replaced at all.
Russia is a mafia state. Their political core of corrupt gangsters are turning on the leader. Will the people finally turn on the gangsters in the aftermath?
I really don't see why this is such an unrealistic outcome.
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Provided that a war is always unpredictable, the Guardian is now reporting this, which at least suggests they are trying to agree a playbook:
- The Pentagon has established communication with the Russian ministry of defense, “for the purpose of preventing miscalculation, military incidents, and escalation”, a defense official told the AP. That such a “deconfliction” line has been established has not been officially announced yet, but multiple news organizations have confirmed the news. The line was reportedly established on 1 March.
It’s more like Ukraine is just the latest, unfortunate, underserving warground in a more general list of wargrounds scattered on the entire planet, with any interested party playing their part.
What are these stupid cretins doing near that nuclear power plant? It's like they are either on a suicide mission or so utterly dumb they don't understand if that thing goes on meltdown they're all dead.
Tbf, you wouldn't even get that in a game or a movie. It'd be at least John Wick/Bourne/a long campaign mode that ended with a 1 on 1 Putin boss fight.
You might be right, but I can guarantee you that if your view prevailed at any point during the Cold War, human civilization wouldn't exist today. People aren't using "they've got nukes" as an excuse, it's the end game. War sucks, but even for the Ukrainians this is infinitely better than it would get if a genuine nuclear exchange took place, with World War 3. And even if everyone manages to restrain themselves enough to keep it a limited nuclear exchange and not the total destruction of humankind, the War that follows is going to be worse than anything we've seen yet.
It's basically the plot of Mission Impossible 4, to be fair, without the Putin.
The bit about choosing lower risk today for higher risk tomorrow is very poignant. That was basically Merkel's approach to governing Germany (and by extension setting the general direction for the EU), for all her supposed successes.
And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
I thought there were rumours he was shit-scared of dying (in general as well) of Covid. Now he feels safer that he (probably) has the Western vaccine (no way he uses the Russian one
).So he's up for the 'challenge' of making a historic mark, especially because he's lost two years of the very few he's probably got left, withou the speculated illness and other threats around him.
I didn't reply to your earlier post and I'd love for you to be right about him being cooked but I don't see it (no expert, just my opinion/feeling).
Suffice to say, for the past 15 years, whenever I've felt things can get worse, no matter how far-fetched, it's happened. I feeling dread about this guy and all the cronies too afraid to raise a hand against a geriatric.
It's all a big pile of shite this world we live in with all these super power nations finding themselves in the need of producing nuclear bombs. They can all go feck themselves. For what purpose other than to obliterate the planet would you ever need such a thing?
The thing is to what end goal? The USSR-Afghanistan war nearly bankrupted and eventually broke up the USSR.
With all the current sanctions, how long can he maintain that posture?
Very good.
The covid germs would instantly flee from his parasitic body.
This is giving me PTSD. Another Chernobyl would be too much...
The incompetent feckers can poison Europe before even getting into a real conflict.
I actually have PTSD and all of this shit show has made it worse. I am trying to stay away from all this but it's almost impossible not to follow as it feels the entire planet is on the line here.
Dear god…
McDonald's where I dine everyday could be closed...Wow that guy really has his priorities straight..
It's fecked up. I've learnt to ignore a lot in my life to stay sane but this is a step too far.
My family may be in the way of another nuclear disaster, happening in the same country as Chernobyl. But this time because of a rabid egocentric maniac with an incompetent army.
Meanwhile, Roman is getting praise for donating to charity and being a good owner of Chelski. Just too much.
Jeez you’re right, forgot about that movie
I hope he gets a case of the Covidchok.
I'm curious what his precautions are right now for meetings aside from the two week isolation. I wonder if they have to go through metal detectors, etc. to be near him. Would be a real shame if the Kremlin received a bunch of nasal swabs covered in novichok for their COVID testing. Or maybe spike his Botox so he gets botulism.
This is the MoFA speaking.
What the hell is there to gain from destroying something so dangerous. This would probably make you lose any support you had. Wreckless