Russia - threadbanned users in OP

IMHO, I don't agree with the gist of this.

Do you think Putin will or will not take Ukraine eventually? I do think he will even if it takes a number of years.

The 'keyboard warriors' as just trying to prevent things getting way worse, in the sense this extends to other countries, even if that takes years to transpire.

As for Kasparov, I don't see how hating Putin means he hates Russia. And he's good at taking out Kings and Queens! By using the best strategy.

Dictators like Putin are in this for the long game, 10 years, 20 years, whatever. It is simply my strategy to finish this as quickly as possible, rather than passively let it go on for decades.

And when it comes to Putins nuclear war threat's, why can't we threaten him with the same? Why are we intent on looking so passive. I don't get it.

The UA army announced that in Mariupol’ it eliminated a senior #Putin regime terrorist holding the rank of major general it’s the commander of the elite 150th Motorized Rifle Division, Oleg Mityayev

Meh. The Israelis got someone in a Dassault office in Switzerland, to sneak out the entire plans and schematics for the Mirage fighter bit by bit, day after day, where each would be photocopied and returned. Then Israel started manufacturing Mirages without paying Dassault. The Chinese had a great role model when it comes to theft of intellectual property.

Because he knows NATO leaders are rational people and would never follow through on such threats. So they would be just bluster..

Whereas the West cannot be absolutely certain the same applies in reverse...Hence the strategic advantage of 'playing the madman'....

Fixed that for ye.

It seems to be accepted by nearly every military analyst that the war is going very badly for Putin. The Russians have made surprisingly little ground in Ukraine in nearly three whole weeks of fighting - they can't even be said to have gotten off to a particularly good start in the first two or three days of the war.

How are they bullshit? They have been pictured together plenty of times.

Abramovich was a governor of an area in Easter Russia under Putin. A high court judge in 2012 stated he had a "very good relations" with Putin and "privileged access to" him. He was also the first seemingly to recommend to Yeltsin that Putin should be his successor. I would consider those close ties personally.

If you think Russian is a relatively simple language you must speak very little, yes words like "internet" and mobilniy telefon are close to identical, but it stops there. For native English speakers Russian is an extremely difficult language, and compared to French, Italian, even German there are very few shared words. And yes, I understand it well.

As for Russian culture post 1992, there's plenty if you care to look. One example: the film's of Zvyagintsev, which take an extremely critical view of modern Russia

"Like children" is putting it mildly.