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This is absolutely heartbreaking. A young lad with his whole life ahead of him was forced into taking his own life.

His final words "We have all become captives of a maniac, who gives us the choice of either jail, or the army, or the choice I made" should be heard and heeded by every single Russian citizen. May he rest in peace.

The battlefield setback prompted the Chechen leader and hardline Moscow ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to comment that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in the face of such defeats.

The mood of Russian commenters online is very sombre and downbeat. Retreats and defeats in Ukraine are a big shock to the system - they were assured by Putin throughout this year that such retreats would never happen and 'everything is going to plan'.

The Japanese were looking for a way out before the first bomb fell. After Operation Meetinghouse, they knew the game was up and by the late spring of 1945, the home islands were blockaded. Nothing got in or out without Allied knowledge or interference. In Suzuki's cabinet, only the Army and Navy ministers (Anami and Yonai) were for in favour of holding out and their reasoning was that they didn't want the Emperor to be harmed in the event of the war ending. The American demand for unconditional surrender stuck in the craw of the Japanese, as it would with any nation.

Hirohito, himself, had demanded that they make it possible to bring the war to a close and, in fact, dispatched Prince Konoye to Russia to try and get them to mediate between themselves and the Americans. But Stalin had had other plans. He'd promised Roosevelt at Tehran that Russia would come into the war against Japan 3 months after the German defeat, which he duly did. So he had no intention of passing any information onto the Americans about the Japanese envoy's mission.

Of course, the Americans had been well aware of all this because Purple had been picking up Japanese coded messages for a long time. They understood very well that a slightly modified surrender demand would have, more than likely, ended the war peacefully. But that would have meant that the atomic bombs would have remained untested on actual targets in wartime conditions. If they had so wished, they could have let the Japanese know that they had no intent of harming Emperor Hirohito in any way. In fact, he wasn't even on their radar as they had rightly understood that the Emperor was really only a nominal figurehead (despite being head of state) and not somebody that was at the forefront of decision making as far as the war was concerned. Even as the war played out, the Japanese Emperor largely escaped Allied attention after the war ended because he was never the target of such attention in the first place.

But testing Fat Man and Little Boy proved to be too much of a temptation, especially on the virgin targets that were chosen. There's a reason why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted and not the capital and seat of Japanese power, Tokyo. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't been bombed, but Tokyo was a shell of a city by 1945. So the results of the test would have been pretty much null and void. But there was never any compelling reason, other than to test a new weapon for the potential future war with Russia, for the atomic bombs to be used.

F!@Kin cowards.

Putin's been told in no uncertain terms what'll happen if he tries to use a nuke. The response will be decisive and make the Russian military look like the amateurs they are.

20,000 orc's heading to Belarus, yeah I know Belarus won't do this and Belarus won't do that,

But 20,000 orcs on Ukraines flank while they are pushing forward could cause the Ukrainans to redeploy forces to secure the border and flank with Belarus which in turn could slow the advance on Kherson and elsewhere

Same way Russia Liberated Mariupol.

Drive everybody who is not pro-russian out of the area and level everything to ensure that they don't come back. That way you can rebuild with Loyal citizens.

Putin is not going to nuke anything. All this talk is only for russian public consumption to show how strong and cool he is. It worked for the last 20 years. He knows if he crosses the nuke line its all over for him.

Every now and again some weird Irish commentator pops up on my twitter feed to claim that all the Russian massacres were actually carried out by Ukraine and America is the biggest threat to peace in the world. As it happens they all seem to be SF supporters but Im sure that’s just a coincidence

Likely his only source of income now. That's really hitting rock bottom. but to be fair, his previous should inspire the rapists the russian army has conscripted.

That’s probably the objective. They won’t even need to be armed, just sit at the border for the winter getting drunk. Could actually be a smart move by Putin for a change.

The footage and reports on some of ten reddit pages makes it seems like a near rout of Russians forces from Lyman. It reads that rather than surrender the Russians attempted to retreat along the main road which may have been mined, AT2 rockets, artillery, etc, etc.

This looks like a very bad idea from the Russians, how bad, we'll find out in a couple days I'd say.

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere yet:-