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Ukrainian band that I follow (Stoned Jesus) are harshly critical of the TV presenter, saying it's 100% a stunt and an attempt at saving face. That these shows are pre-recorded so it wasn't this one presenter going rogue.

Trump would have had no reason to disbelieve Putin that he was de-nazifying Ukraine, even if his own intelligence services were telling him it was rubbish.

I am convinced, and was advocating it from the start, that real intervention will happen. Estonian parliament calling for a no-fly zone is pretty big. Kasparov and Kozyrev are both several orders of magnitude more expert on Russia, the Russian mindset and Putin, than most people on the planet, let alone on this thread.

>Andrei V Kozyrev

@andreivkozyrev

Last week, I read critiques of my position on Putin’s rationality and possibility of nuclear war. Many are not realist enough about the nuclear threat or the right response. I argue in this thread that if we “blink” on Putin’s nuclear threat, we will increase the risk of WWIII. < https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/status/1503404009142423558

Their propaganda strategy is getting a bit desperate, it seems to be to bombard as much meaningless **** as possible in the hopes not that people will believe the individual stories, but that the overall sentiment of 'US/NATO/Ukraine bad' sticks.

On another note, the Polish, Czech and Slovenian PMs are currently in Ukraine on their way to Kyiv. Fair play to them for putting themselves in danger in the name of solidarity. It'll also be a blow to the Russian morale if they can just waltz in and out of Kyiv that easily:

Perhaps you could bother to post links...

Fuckin hell, that's a bold move.

Wonder would the Russians target them

No messing about with the Eastern European leaders. I can't see Johnson or Michael Martin busing it into Kyiv.

Yeah, I understand that they're hurting. But saying all Russians are complicit is like saying all Irish people were complicit in throwing unmarried women into laundries.

Look up "birds aren't real" and the back story to it. Very interesting, started as an obvious hoax to show how thick some people are, and like flat earthers, covid deniers and anti vaxxers it shows how there are people so stupid that yes they will answer that phone call to the Nigerian Prince and transfer money to them

Did nobody ask Westlife yet for their input? I also tend to get most of my political opinions from various music bands.

Especially given their name suggests a commentary on life in the West.

I'm not sure whether those East 17 crowd are still on the go to give a strong political counterpoint for the sake of balance

I don't think it's a surprise that a Moscow based TV producer would have some English, and I don't think it's a surprise that she would use some of it to help her action get as much attention as possible. Given the Russian media crackdown on dissent, one of the major ways the message of her actions would get to other Russians who weren't watching the broadcast would be though international media coverage of it. I think it's perfectly sensible that she'd use an English language phrase as part of the sign (there's a lot of it in Russian too), and the only people who would find it suspicious would be those going out of their way to find things to be suspicious of.

Turns out "Flying Without Wings" is about all the Russian aircraft shot down by the Ukrainians.

E17's "Stay Another Day" is obviously problematic.

Russia is planning to hold a referendum in the city of Kherson to become an independent state