I’d say a lot if that is psychological stuff- Koninsberg is a made up Russian exclave that doesn’t belong to them, was planted with foreigner from Russia, well isolated off from the “mainland”. It’s right that it’s made feel as uncomfortable and isolated as possible. Because if it was the other way the scumbags in Moscow would long since have tried to take it back
The type of imam's who issue fatwa's are extreme right wing.
The type of Mosque or people who attended that Mosque, considering it's in Ukraine, would not be right wing.
Unless the imam of that Mosque is still alive and is reaaaally ticked off and can be pursuaded to do so.
I saw mention on twitter of the Russians making moves to create a Kherson People's Republic. Depressing sign of where this sordid war is going.
The Russian denials about this were a mass of contradictions on Thursday. Some outlets admitting the hospital was deliberately bombed, but there were only Ukrainian soldiers in it : others claiming the bombing hadn't even happened or was staged by the Ukrainians.
More sickening again are the foolish Irish people that believe this. Never underestimate the power of propaganda. I also notice a very subtle change in the tone of the top comments from the Daily Mail, along the lines of “there are two sides”.
more choppers chopped
It will be interesting though to see if Imran Khan is as supportive of Russia after this
The Irish media need to stop giving oxygen to this ballbag scrote who is just at trolling levels of bs now.
At this stage if the Russian Ambassador claimed it was raining I'd walk outside to check myself.
If it's a Russian chopper, fantastic. Hope their entire air force gets blown to smithereens.
See a foot poking out of the wreckage at the end, there.
Assuming Ukraine is forced into surrendering/accepting a brutal peace deal that sees the country partitioned and turned into a client state do we think the west will happily accept that and go back to business as usual with Russia quickly?
Absolutely they shouldn't be given any publicity at all.
Given the lies he has told he should have been on a plane back to Mother Russia weeks ago.
Mark Felton report on Britain's defence capability against potential conventional Russian attacks on military & civilian infrastructure. Many points of weakness, including reduction of AEW aircraft & lack of defensive bunker protection around military bases & government facilities.
Deploying military forces to bolster the NATO response in Eastern Europe has further reduced defensive capabilities.
Nice one!
Serves the basket right for blowing up innocent people himself.
Send that to his mommy in Russia so she has some "closure".
RF-1340
i see that now, wont go down well for Russians watching, they are in danger of losing their huge aircraft supremacy at this rate, unsustainable youd imagine over a 6 month period even nevermind a 10 year period which is what this will become without some kind of ceasefire and agreement
not good
There's a video of the mass graves in Ukraine. People disposing of all the bodies. Bodybags, not fully covered bodies.
There are actually people commenting on the authenticity of the bodies.
Disease is one of life’s greatest injustices. Nothing else matters when a person is truly ill. To willingly risk inflicting disease on hundreds of thousands of healthy people is truly evil
Might depend on the sect that was bombed. If it was Shia for example, the Sunny lads would be delighted and vice-versa
Seems to be a well worn Russian tactic to wear down the population with extreme violence and then install some thug in power.
Maybe, we will see. But the Chinese were more than concerned when the Taliban returned and were amongst the first to recognize them and seek assurances that they would not " facilitate" any Islamic Terrorist activity in Afghanistan especially with reference to Chinese Uighurs. But while a Fatwa would make it official, nothing to stop a devout Muslim from killing the perceived enemies of Islam, as we have seen here in Europe, where there has been many examples of this, and enemy's of Islam is a title the Russians have well earned.
One of the worst things about the Internet is that it has given cranks a way to communicate and coordinate, and validating each others beliefs. That 'movement' has gotten to where any official line must be lies. They'll take absolutely ridiculous and abhorrent stances in pursuit of this twisted 'truth-seeking'.
If you want to make yourself mad, watch the opening of this Vice News piece where said cranks are telling the father of a child killed in a mass shooting that it was all faked,
And, not surprisingly, they're doing the same thing with this war. 'I'm told Putin is bad, so.... he must be good. It must all be propaganda against him.' It's this cadre of people and their growing influence in Western politics that has had Russia and China belly-laughing at us all for the last 10 years. Like, seriously on the floor rolling around.
Can anyone explain the difference between mig29 s piloted by Ukrainians flying into Ukraine (and staying there) from NATO territory and Drones being delivered from Turkey ?
This in the context of the one option being totally ruled out because of repercussions.
Kinda makes a change from the usual US / UK flag burning......talk about changing times !!!🤗
The longer the Russians continue with this offensive, the more I consider that bombing Russia back to the stone age is a good thing for humanity
I wonder if anyone has told the mercenaries about female soldiers in the Ukrainian army. ISIS fighters were very nervous of the Kurdish female units (or so the story goes). Apparently if you're killed in battle by a woman, no paradise for you...
The Germans will, anyway
They'll end up bankrupting themselves back to the 1980s at this stage. Not quite the stone age, but their public won't be happy.
As I said before, what we're witnessing is the last gasp of a failing superpower. Somebody posted a great article a while back about Russia and one of the points made was that Russia has for much of its history been attempting to play catch up with the West and never quite managing it, and the overstretching has at times really hurt its economy.
It's like the country has never really looked after its affairs at home. It's never used its plentiful resources to make life quite good for its own people, and that has only been salved by an apparent fetishisation of hardship. It's a country that doesn't really seem to believe in cultivation of soft power. Just might. I mean, yes the ballet and Rachmaninoff and chess and Dostoyevsky are wonderful things, but they're also fairly niche and intellectual and a little bit fusty. They've never really become that economic and cultural centre that aspirational countries look to join up with, and Russia instead relies on geographic position (Kazakhstan) and intimidation (Ukraine) to try and keep its sphere of influence going. Is it any wonder why Ukraine looked west? I think not.
I remember many years ago watching a mini-series about Peter the Great (1682-1725), he had great idea and intentions from modernising Russia, but always seemed to be held back by vested interests at home. Nothing much changes, it seems.
I wholeheartedly agree on the soft power point. Russia (Putin really) has completely blown the opportunity of an open society with flowering in the arts, culture, civil society etc. A country where an outspoken intellectual is more likely to find him or herself choking on their own vomit on an internal flight having been poisoned rather than get a hearing in the media is not an attractive country.
In the USSR era, satellite countries only looked to Moscow as a center of gravity because they did so under the barrel of T-series tanks. Putin, being Homo-Sovieticus, is trying to repeat the trick.
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