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Well they have a lot of gas.

Sorry couldn't resist. 😯

What a surprise a skanger in a tracksuit.

I have always wondered whay skangers wore before tracksuits?

There's actually a pretty decent interview with an ex RT affiliated Journalist who left when the invasion happened here. Seems the culture was that they collectively were uncomfortable with the worst of the propaganda and some would try to minimise it, but the invasion in particular crossed far to many lines for them.

There's no way any of these atrocities are 'accidental' or 'collateral damage'. It's been obvious for weeks that the regime is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure (and people) - look at the amount of residential dwellings hit in Bucha, Irpin and Bordianka. This is the Putin playbook in action.

I believe it will be common knowledge in Russia within a year or so that the regime carried out a brutal war of annihilation against its neighbour, did unbelievable damage and killed tens of thousands of civilians. How could they even begin to cover up a war of this magnitude lasting months? There will be huge repercussions for Russia and even their own citizens (all of them) are going to have to confront what has happened and the long term fallout.

Jaysus Joe were you really that naive to not cop on that Russia were hugely behind Trump.

FFS Trump was a disgrace the way he ar** licked Putin when they met.

He basically told the world he believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies.

They should have fooked the guy out of Air Force 1 on the way home.

Trump set about dismantling the US involvement in world matters, pulling advisors out of Kurdish areas, trying to pull the rug from under NATO, etc, etc.

And to top it off he withheld aid to Ukraine.

Putin has even said that the worst thing that ever happened was the end of USSR because it left just the US.

And then to add insult to injury he saw the power of growing expanding EU taking in not alone former Warsaw Pact states, but former Soviet states.

So Putin set up distablising both EU and US, and he damn well succeeded.

Putin's little ally in Belarus tried to use migrants and often questionable refugees to flood into EU to destablise it.

So as sure as hell Putin may have had hand in massive movements over the last 10 years.

It suited him perfectly as he could use it to divide people.

He saw Britain leave EU, he saw rise of right leaning pro Russia parties in numerous EU countries.

He looked at US and saw a deeply polarised society, a totally fooked up electorate with the Republican party veering towards dictatorship.

I would bet he had hand in antifa, QAnon and all the rest.

He gambled that the US would not rally behind Ukraine and that the EU would not rally behind them either.

And to a degree he was almost right with the Germans and some others more worried about keeping their ar**es warm.

He has totally miscalculated on a number of fronts and rather than divide his opponents he has brought them together.

He has the EU to follow the lead of the former Soviet/Warsaw Pact countries and stand up to him.

He has gotten two Nordic countries, one an agreed non alignged bordering country and one a neutral country to seek membership of NATO.

And some eejits thought he was a genius.

PS: a lot of the rallying and support by EU, US and other countries round the world would not have happened if the Ukrainians themselves had not stood up and fought.

And a hue amount of that is down to their leadership.

So he totally miscalculated on Zelensky and the Ukrainians.

The Duma is entirely captive. These aren't politicians, they are a junta.

What does that mean?

You can't measure the volume of dead Ukrainians but Berlin can measure the volume of cheap Russian gas.

It's that blunt.

If Germany changes position, then the Russian economy takes a fatal hit and it will stop Putin.

If Germany maintains its course then Russia will keep up its war of attrition, it's willing to kill be killed in incredible numbers.

It's choice and I think we all can see that Putin will not be concerned.

Rich Russian women are making videos of themselves chopping up their Chanel handbags to show the world they don't need them. Video: Russian woman cuts up her Chanel bag to protest 'Russophobia' | Daily Mail Online

As I said yesterday some of those handbags are probably worth more than the average Russian's salary.

This is what is so unbelievable, you have these self entitled c u n ts chopping up designer handbags worth thousands, you have Putin appearing at rallies wearing designed coats worth thousands and the plebs are still supporting them and worst still probably seeing their sons go off to war.

Then again some of their sons are murdering raping bastards so no loss to mankind if they end up rotting in Ukraine being eaten by dogs.

Germanys view of eastern europe seems to have reverted to that of Bismarck in the 19th century...

I shall not advise any participation in the war as long as no German interest shall be called in question that may be considered worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Also drunks….

"Residents of London brought things to the Russian embassy that they can take for themselves as "trophies". Among them: a washing machine, a toaster, rags, linen, toys and decorations. Everything that the Russians looted on Ukrainian soil."