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They do drink detergent.

The Ukrainians said they were using the Bushmasters a lot for urban warfare because the situational awareness was so much better than BMPs and tanks, which crash into trees and other things a lot because the drivers can barely see.

My side good, uggh. No talk about bad side uggh

More donations in Kherson-

Wishful thinking on my behalf but indulge me: Putin is in Kazakhstan this morning for an Asian business meeting, and I wonder whenever he leaves Russian airspace does the thought cross his mind whether he'll get back in ? Would there be anyone in the Kremlin right now who could harness the anxieity of the elites and use their influence to get control of the army and put an end to Putin's disastrous misadventure ? Having said that, I recently read a piece which suggested that Putin is not the least worst option in the Kremlin right now, that there are more extreme figures in there... which is a chilling thought.

Like when Gorbachev got effectively placed under house arrest in his Crimean dacha?

'No' is the simple answer. The power vertical only contains those loyal to Putin. There are no effective leaderships in waiting (even 'the opposition' in the Duma answers to him).

What Iran gets out of it is food and 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' as runner up. They imported a huge quantity of grain from Russia last year due to a terrible harvest and given all the sanctions, hard currency may be a bit scarce, so this might be one way to pay for food they need. Food is a pretty big motivator and is what I think Putin is really after in Ukraine.

Those drones are fairly simple and cheap so I'd imagine they can make them quite rapidly, even though they are supposedly hand made and not on a production line.

Forbes have another take on Irans motivations that I don't agree with: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2022/10/13/why-iran-arming-russia-with-drones-is-utterly-cynical/

Reminds me the proposed pipeline from iraq , Syria, Turkey and then into Western Europe bypassing the need for the Russians gas and oil , which supposedly prompted putin to support Assad and keep him in power

This is absolute first,

Drone wars , Ukrainian drone vs Russian guess who loses

In the west, we like to frame votes such as this as if it is a global universal viewpoint. When in fact, the result actually represents less than half of the world's population. But the UN is supposed to be about a global effort towards international peace and co-operation. But rather, it very often serves as a vehicle for mostly the old world legacy powers to do whatever they wish.

Right from the outset of Russia's invasion (and even beforehand), there has been deep discontent with western leadership/strategy towards this conflict from many nations around the world. Even some who voted in favour of this resolution have voiced their concerns about certain aspects of this approach. But you can see the arrogance of western powers in how dismissive they are of these concerns. The percentage of the world's population that didn't back this resolution, doesn't even warrant much of a mention in western media or political discourse. Never mind a deep in depth discussion, which it most certainly deserves.

This is why I wrote that post, because many in the west will be unaware of those stats. It is framed in such a way, to deceive the casual observer in quite a duplicitous manner.

Most of the nations on that list, are not necessarily endorsing Russia's war in Ukraine. Only 5 nations outright rejected the resolution. So it's not correct to say, that just because the other 45 nations failed to back the resolution that they are supporting war. This again, would be a disingenuous statement to make.

Really, it's a stark rejection of western leadership and strategy. The approach of attempting to sanction Russia into oblivion, and create yet another internationally ostracised pariah state to add to the giant pile we already have, is being rejected by quite a considerable group of nations. For a very simple and logical reason, they're smart enough to know that this strategy does not work and will not work. In the long run, it will only make things worse from a global perspective.

And also, many of these nations are unhappy with what they see as western interference having helped to create this situation in the first place.

The fact that most in the west, see no cause for self reflection or introspection from such a vote is quite revealing of our mindset in this part of the world. We really couldn't care less about any nations that don't see the world our way. We don't really value any coherent notion of a "global community"... we merely pay lip service to such ideals. And many nations are wise enough to see through our insincere approach to international relations.

We won't get away with this arrogant approach for very much longer. Many of these nations may not have the legacy power that the old guard have, but they are growing in strength and influence every year. Individually, you may get away with ostracising one or two nations. But collectively, on a large scale, it's a disastrous strategy. And it will blow up in our face in the years to come.

Not to mention, all of these nations are important for the future of our world. The strategy of creating isolated pariah states is incredibly stupid.

Just take Russia as one example, they own roughly 10% of the earth's entire landmass - and possibly the deepest untapped array of natural resources of any nation on earth. Many people used to believe that most of their territory was useless frozen tundra, but not anymore. They thought the same about Alaska back when Russia sold it to the US, calling it "Seward's folly" as useless frozen wasteland. But now it's the most resource rich state in the entire USofA. And ecologically, an area I'm very familiar with, Russia is also massively important for the future of our planet. As just one example, Russia is home to more than one fifth of all the trees on our planet. So attempting to turn 10% of our world's landmass into an isolated pariah state with over 6,000 nuclear warheads, is one of the most monumentally dumb ideas you could ever possibly think up.

So yes, the UN is not fit for purpose. They do not help to protect the interests of the global community, but rather act as a self serving conduit for a relatively small corral of western old world elites. Just like many other outdated international organisations and useless "clubs" that mankind has invented to wield it's power. We need to bin most of them, and start again.

It sounds like these are separate incidents. The one you're posting is from Poltava. The one I posted yesterday is from Vinnystia.

It's hardly surprising both sides are losing aircraft. Even to a complete lay person like me, the missions they are doing are very risky.

No idea about the veracity, but that is a pro-Putin Twitter account full of Kremlin propaganda.

And it's getting repeatedly on here as varifed fact ...

The UN never forced russia to invade its neighbour and kill thousands of civilians including whole families and children and dumping their bodies in mass graves and indescriminately bombing areas where their ground forces have failed to gain control. Framing the recent UN vote as anything other than a condemnation of russias actions is one of the most ridiculous things I have read. You are describing russia as the victim in this sitaution which I think is very sick way of looking at recent history and current events.

if you rip up the world and start all over again, in time it will end up the very same again . A tiny elite controlling most of the resources . Maybe a different tiny elite but it will be equally as tiny and equally elite.