Russia - threadbanned users in OP

What is it - not viewable by anyone without a twitter account?

It's the attack in Crimea from weeks ago, just a different angle.

Well, not in the democratic sense anyway.

I hear Russia is petitioning the IOC to make ballot box stuffing an olympic sport.

I have lived in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan ( and most other @stans ) and that's only in that neck of the woods. You can throw in Africa, Asia, Middle east and Russia. So I'm pretty familiar with their appearances, customs etc. In Afghanistan and Pakistan ( not so much in Iran that I saw ) people with red hair and blue eyes while not exactly plentiful, did exist. And not only that, but they like it so much, they dye not only their hair and beards a type of Orange / Red color, ( Henna) but their animals too, it's that popular.

I just heard a great summary of the Russian predicament in Kherson: "swim or surrender".

It's the exact same mentality that drives those PBP clowns. Hatred of the US/EU and the West is their raison d'être.

Yeah I don't like being sadistic but I would have quite happily seen those fleeing soldiers, and especially their leaders and commanders, the f*ckers who are now senselessly firing rockets at Kharkov for maximum destruction, surrounded and slaughtered or at least rounded up and given long jail sentences in Ukraine.

There are hundreds or thousands of war criminals who will now slip back into Russia and pay no price for their crimes - or even worse, regroup and come back. Still, it's not the most important issue right now

Lol

No, I do not have to take the persecution delusions of a paranoid schizophrenic as justification for their murderous and barbaric behaviour. Have you ever known a paranoid schizophrenic? I have - their partner justifiably saw them as a threat to themselves and their child and gave them the boot. They didn't think it necessary to have any sympathy for their viewpoint.

Stalin engineered the deaths of 7-10 million Ukrainians in order to stamp out Ukrainian nationalism and as punishment for them wanting to eat some of what they had grown instead of allowing every last ear of grain to be sent to feed Russians in Russia because communism didn't work. Putin is just Stalin Mk II in his attitude, actions and motivations regarding Ukraine. Trying to justify your lie by an implication that Russia’s viewpoint is innately superior to everyone else's is sick-making.

Stalin's actions had nothing to do with centuries past invasion routes and neither does Putin's. It's still about Russia wanting all of what Ukraine has; being mostly it's grain. The fuc​kers are even stealing their children, washing machines, ships full of grain, agricultural equipment, Irish owned aircraft, and all you can see is the bullshit official Russian propagandic justifications. This is about a grab for resources, like the invasion of Iraq, not because NATO have been planning and scheming for a Russian invasion since it's formation, likely to happen any century now. The Mongols were easily the worst invaders the Russians have known, I don't see them pulling this nonsense in the far east because they are afraid of an imminent repeat.

The world does not have to kow-tow to the views of a cleptocracy.