Crutonius
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This is your brain on ketamine.
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Elon here says: "Whether Russia ultimately takes Odesa/Odessa is the only remaining question, in my opinion. Russia for sure will not rest until all oblasts incorporated into the Russian constitution (Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia) are taken. That is their stated policy."
He'll stop when he falls out a window or eats a bad potato. I don't think the FSB does it NKVD style any more.Exactly. Putin will stop when he is forced to stop. Not an inch less. He's running the country like he's playing a game of Civilization.
...] I don't think the FSB does it NKVD style any more.
Perhaps referring to Russia's historical changes in name of their NKVD->KGB->FSB. Same right hand instrument of Russia's 21st and 20th century dictators, but with fewer executions and gulags out in the open these days?Meaning?...
Back in the NKVD days they weren't as subtle as the KGB and now the FSB is. It was usually just a bullet at the base of the back of the head, which was their signature.Meaning?...
Elon here says: "Whether Russia ultimately takes Odesa/Odessa is the only remaining question, in my opinion. Russia for sure will not rest until all oblasts incorporated into the Russian constitution (Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia) are taken. That is their stated policy."
Stated policies alone are irrelevant. Just days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia said they would not invade. Russia also placed several red-line threats which were also false. Point being - Putin/Russia should be understood based on historical patterns/actions.
All of Putin's main goals failed. These included his objective to reach Kiev and at a minimum install a puppet Russian leader. He also failed to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine. Instead, Ukraine is hugely militarized and now makes orders of magnitude more indigenous weapons than before.
So these days, Putin's best hope is for Ukraine to become a failed State. That means his next steps will include renewed attempts to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure.
Eastern Europeans are rightly worried Putin will try similar approaches on them if given the opportunity. What has been long said remains true – Putin only understands/respects power.
Following the passage of a long-awaited, multibillion-dollar US military aid package for Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s war effort will resume its downward trajectory. The Kremlin, no longer with time on its side, will desperately await its own saviour: the messiah from Mar-a-Lago.
One of the Russian Dicator's latest War Crimes. Putin and his minons used a ballistic Iskander-M with a Cluster Munition War Head to attack Civilians in Ukraine at the Odesa boardwalk(?). 5 dead this far and ~30 injured. There's video clearly showing the Cluster Munition exploding in the post/tweet below.
Updated: Russian strike on Odesa kills 5, injures around 30
According to Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper, a missile struck residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.kyivindependent.com
twitter.com/StratcomCentre/status/1785255104154640776
I think the misinterpretation is by a few of those reading the Newsweek article. I found it to be both accurate and informative.I think they're misinterpreting the situation. They might not be aware that Russia shuts down bridge traffic anytime there's anything happening near it without appreciating that there's other targets than the bridge in that area.
I think the misinterpretation is by a few of those reading the Newsweek article. I found it to be both accurate and informative.
- A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine has escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10km (six miles) alone, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane. Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska became separated from her family and continued alone after they decided to leave the frontline town of Ocheretyne. “Once I lost balance and fell into weeds. I fell asleep … a little and continued walking. And then, for the second time, again, I fell. But then I got up and thought to myself, I need to keep walking, bit by bit,” Lomikovska said. Eventually she was picked up by Ukrainian soldiers and taken to safety.
- A group of western insurance firms, the International Group of P&I Clubs, complained to the same hearing that the oil price cap is being bypassed by Russia using its own fleet or switching to shipping companies that are outside the west’s influence.
Ukraine will start operating F-16s after Orthodox Easter on May 5, Kyiv has said, as the country contends with devastating Russian bombardment and the long wait for the Western-made fighter jets.
"We are waiting," Ukrainian air force spokesperson Ilya Yevlash said, adding the jets will be taking to the skies over the war-torn country "after Easter," according to remarks reported by Ukrainian media on Wednesday.