I would have thought an assassination attempt (especially a successful one) would be welcomed by literally all parties involved (on both sides), with be exception of some mercenary groups who enjoy wars.
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No so much criminality, more that she was trying to muscle into the political arena . . . which as you remember from previous Oligarchs falling out of their luxury penthouse apartment windows to a 'not in any way suspicious' deaths was Putins way of reminding people that politics was his 'thing' and that the Oligarchs should keep to stealing from the private industry, stealing from the Russian state was Putins exclusive area of operation.
Again, from the tweet Darya Dugina comes across as bit naive, openly attacking Sergei Shoigu, he hasn't survived in Putins inner court up until now without getting some blood on his hands . . .
She's not in the ground yet and the bs is coming fast
Retaliation for what though? Apparently she wasn't even that well known in Russia.....she would be the type of young hothead who would occasionally show up on GB News if she was in the UK. She would be a bizarre assassination choice for the Ukrainians.
If that's accurate, then that bridge is totally fcuked and out of commission for a fair while...... Particularly when the repair base with the equipment was blown up last week lol
Doubt it
No they havent, nothing short of assassinating Putin would lead to nuclear options.
Putin deploying Nukes would mean the end of Russia, and most of the Western world.
Not that I know of, but to be fair I'm not watching Russian TV and can't speak it and Russian bots on twitter seem to be either Indians or Africans jumping for joy against the "west" so...
One Russian I know who is supportive of Russia(mostly from loyalty because it's Russia, deeper questions are not asked or answered) did say to me a couple of weeks ago when I mentioned the apparent stalling that according to him/them they bumped into some heavliy fortified Ukrainian positions which was costly in men and materiel so are standing off and hitting them with artilliery and after they're reduced to rubble moving in the troops and tanks and its moving slowly, but they are moving forward.
Who's to say at this stage. Outside of the morality and casualties all wars when they boil down to it are propaganda and economics. Ukraine has certainly won the former and let's face it Russia is helping them with their idiotic near childish attempts at propaganda and their bumbling push on Kyiv and the atrocities they left in their wake among other things like no independent journos from the West.
Economically Russia's now screwed as far as access to Western economies and investment, but still flogging their oil and gas raking in billlions(Turkey's now openly buying their oil, no doubt at some discount) and with the Ukrainian land they've already stolen they're sitting on even more natural resources. They may as well go all in at this stage. Putin could have called for some sort of BS "humanitarian" ceasefire along the front to take the international pressure off and the pressure from his own troops and consolidate, but he hasn't. And it's not as if he'd be against reneging on any deal when it turned to his advantage to do so. This suggests to me he reckons he doesn't need to.
Ukraine on the other hand is in a far more tenous position economically. It's pretty much entirely reliant on outside help. Outside help that is in turn reliant on public opinion in democratic nations, public opinion that could shift. EG in places like Germany come winter. The US are most likely to keep piling on as they get to bleed out their enemy from the sidelines and at a relative bargain as far as their overall defence budget goes, but they're also dealing and in a sabre rattling contest with China over Taiwan. If push comes to shove and it's an either or, I'd bet they'd pivot to the Taiwanese. Again because of basic economics and the Pacific is much more in their and their allies "back yard" in many ways. They know Putin won't move beyond the borders of Ukraine and attack a NATO country. That his ambitions and capabilities are confined to what he's already stolen and maybe the Black sea coast.
In the long term Russia will lose. Beligerent armies and nations who don't offer anything better than the previous status quo pretty much always do. This is what eejits like Hitler who wanted to ape the Roman empire always fail to understand; Outside of her military might Rome spread and stayed put most of all because after the battles were over, bodies were buried and the dust settled Rome offered the potential of a better life, a better economy and more cash in the pocket of those they conquered and invited those they conquered into their world as equal citizens. That's why I have always held that for Putin the EU is far more dangerous an entity than NATO with all their tanks and missiles. The differences between a town in Mother Russia and anywhere across the EU border are stark. That's why he and those who follow him hate something like the EU.
My 3 cents anyway.
the chances of a retaliatory Nuke strike on Kiev or a nuclear power plant have risen with the car bomb
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Head doesnt match the shoulders, ffs, reminds me of the famous picture of the nazi flag and Sims games, remarkable sleuthing by the FSB altogether. The fact that something so blatantly bullshít has come from a state agency just defies belief, is anyone at all buying it barring the most fanatical simpletons?
This is good thread on the assassination
There are pics of what the FSB are saying the Ukrainian agent who did it but people are pointing out that her ID card looks fake.
That shirt would have broken her neck 😂
Have Russia claimed they are taking 'a lot of territory lately'?
I've been following this guy Willy beating cancer for a while now. He comes across as measured and eager for the wider context and truth of things in this war and as an ex military guy he'd have some insight there too. He is far more sympathetic on a personal level towards the Ukrainian cause, but that hasn't stopped him from asking questions. Things like how some of the foreign fighters experiences, incompetent and wasteful Ukrainian commanders and the like are being ignored or glossed over.
Anyway his latest vid explains how he was trying to get acreddited by the Russian authorities to report from inside the Donbas to get that wider picture and truth from that side(even though it would almost certainly mean the Ukrainians would never let him back in) and surprise, surprise they turned him down. I'm shocked I tells ya....
Anyway what he said as part of this as almost an aside jumped out for me:
"Russia's taking a lot of territory lately". Yet others in the media are usually saying they're stalled for over a month and even ready to pull back from some areas?
Realising Karma might be a thing can do that to you.
Looks like the Antonivsky bridge was hammered again this time while 9 Russian trucks full of ammunition and weapons were sitting waiting to cross
I wonder if the heart attack was chemically induced?
Twitter's saying Dugin had a heart attack and is in hospital. Hopefully he doesn't leave it other than feet first.
Yeh, possibly a new stage in this war, rats turning on each other
Reading that thread, it seems quite possible she was murdered by the FSB. She sounded radical and highly opinionated and was using her platform constantly...perhaps the regime viewed her as some sort of 'threat' to Putin.
Would have been considerably less damaging to Putin's inner circle to get someone to bomb Red Square and plant some Ukraine Flags onto it. Her death is not much use as a false flag.
They're not particularly good at false flag events. Just prior to the invasion they were setting up events where Ukraine had apparently shelled some schools in Donbas. It was pretty obviously an attempt to create pretext for invasion...but they never really followed up on that message. They either sensed that no-one was buying thier story, or that they were just too feckless in running such a scam.
Starting to look more and more that it was internal Russian criminality that killed her, thread
I was reading that most people in Ukraine had never even heard of Daria Dugina. Whatever this is, it is something purely internal to Russia.
The FSB seem to know, in fact they seem to have solved the crime before it happened.
False flag maybe? Encourage the Russian people to actually declare it a war rather than a "Special Operation"
Yeah, Putin really does not need to kill the daughter of a man who supports his war and ideology in Moscow to justify further atrocities in Ukraine to the Russian people. Makes no sense. The whole thing looks very fishy but really none of us have a clue what the story is behind it
Yes it's an utterly implausible figure. The battle for Mariupol, the fierce fighting in Donbass for months on end,not to mention numerous confirmed hits on military barracks in the early days of the war where troops were housed. Number must be at least 2-3 times higher, if not more.
Irish embassy has reopened in Kyiv. A number of Western countries, including the UK, United States, France, Spain and Italy have also re-established a diplomatic presence in Kyiv.
Why do you think that. They are fighting a defensive war. They are looking after there wounded soldiers better than the Russian army. Traditionally the wounded to deaths ratio was 3-1. In reason conflicts the US has got that to 15+-1.
Assuming a 5-1 figures that would be 45k.wounded to 9 k deaths. The Russian army deaths are magnified by there poor handling of wounded. There information that there deaths to wounded is 1-1. 35 k of each giving a 70 k total
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