Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Because a medical doctor has never been a psychopath and/or broken their oaths? Not that you even need to be a psychopath to make threats like that really; honestly seems rather tame as far as the spectrum of nastiness we've seen so far in this conflict goes.

I don't really get why anyone is surprised to be honest.

Even in the West with all of the widely and freely available sources and resources at their fingertips there are large swathes of people who constantly parrot the same inaccurate talking points about "MSM" and "leftists" and "cancel culture" and "Nazis" and "far-right" and every other bloody thing.

So just imagine what it must be like when your entire country, every social media platform, every pub/workplace/whatever is just full of the same echo-chambers repeating the same crap about Russia and the West. You would actually need to go very far out of your way to find any conflicting view points.

A complete narcissist. His lack of humility would be equally disturbing and bemusing to those of us in the West because we recognise it as an pretext to a particularly pronounced kind of tyranny.

There used to be a show on a channel called NTV that was launched during the Yeltsin years. It was called Puppets and was extremely similar to Spitting Image. It sent up prominent Russian people, including Putin. Shortly after Putin came into power, he had the head of NTV thrown in jail. Supposedly, the show bothered Putin tremendously, especially its parody of him.

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day, maybe he's on to something with lowering the price of oil ???

Didn't realise he redesigned submarines and nuclear weapons, I'm both shocked and awed

Why am I thinking "Flash Gordon's father, out for the day" ?

And we've priced ourselves into a nasty little box too because the cost of living and average wage in many parts of the West is so high that to actually...

• Find land for a new warehouse/factory.
• Build the new warehouse/factory.
• Equip the new warehouse/factory.
• Bootstrap the workforce for the new warehouse/factory.

... would require vast amounts of capital investment before even a single product rolls of the production line.

It's an awful shame companies were ever allowed to build entirely proprietary devices and actively encouraged to plan for obsolescence whilst discouraging the repair of said products. We may yet come to seriously regret consistently selling to the lowest bidder and rarely if ever considering long-term consequences.

Every piece of gear Ukraine has they bought, so why the flying fck can't the West continue to sell them the fighter jets they need, forget the word '' give'' sell them the fighter jets, what they do with them is their doing, not supplying them is stupid.

Putin is known to be a big fan of dogs. With footage of him being presented with various pups by various world leaders, frolicking with his dogs in the snow, and him bringing one of his dogs to a meeting with Angela Merkel, who is apparently terrified of dogs.

This Russian interest website has some of the details.

Maybe like the guy in the video you linked to, it's true that no one likes poor vlad except for the dogs?

Apparently he was just some randomer mouthing off - and he's not even part of the Ukrainian military, rather a civilian medic :

"In a statement since: 'has not engaged, is not engaged and does not plan to sterilise Russian invaders, let alone captured Russian soldiers'.

"Our mission is to save lives. The head of PDMS apologizes for his emotions, caused, again, by brutal threats to him and his family,""

And proudly touting that Trump wanted to start WWIII (dronestrikes on Russian targets)

lolol

Also there seems to be claims that there are a number of desertions within the Russian army. Are these being captured as POW's and if so, how is Ukraine managing to look after them. Could they not be sent over the border to a NATO country and be used as bargaining chips?

Marie Curie was Polish, not French. Amazing how many years I maintained an Idea she was French. I did read a history of the discovery of Radium and nowhere did it mention this detail.