I want Ukraine to win and hope Putin is removed, I’m just saying that Russians are a lot more used to death
If I were planning a way to foul up the Russian logisitics in the area, I’d be more interested in the rail junction at the nearby town of Dzhankoy. All trains into and out of Crimea must transit here. Destroy the junction and you force everything onto the roads (including that half-bridge they still have left at Kerch.)
They are going to get plenty more used to it.
I can only imagine the stories of horror that will come out of Kherson now that it has been liberated and we get the full story of what life is like living under degenerate scum.
Is that because they have no option but to accept it. Eg Look at what happened to the mother that wanted to ask a question about her navy son at a meeting which the navy hierarchy Held to ‘ explain what had happened’ A ‘ kindly nurse’ sidled up to her from behind with a syringe and she was seconds later being carried out - to an ambulance, I assume, as one is won’t to do.
What’s next for Ukraine?
Bakhmut still holding?
Moscow is there for the taking
Yes but that’s no guarantee that Putin is overthrown
Still holding and deflecting attacks near daily. Sterling work from the AFU there.
Taking Crimea earlier might hasten Putin's demise.
Also, once taken, it might propagate a sense of everywhere else's retaking being a foregone conclusion.
It would be the heaviest punch of the war.
This. We would all love a situation where Putin reaps what he has sown, and that’s not impossible, but my gut tells me that we might get disappointed by Putin’s fate. Either he dies of some illness before justice gets to him, or he “retires” and just melts away ala Idi Amin. I’d love him delivered to the ICC by a reformed democratic Russia and answer for his crimes, but I don’t see it happening
Putin is the last of the dinosaurs. History will see him as an aberration in Russia's bid to become free and determine its own fate.
I doubt that, there is as compelling an argument that things like Democracy, what we consider human rights, worker's rights etc etc are being rolled back or attacked across the world, historically, socially, culturally they are a Western European concept and are alien to much of the world. Especially as they now look to their own values and beliefs rather than copying the West.
There will be a lot less democracies in 10 years than there are now.
500'000 Lifetimes? Whats wrong with eternity? Much better solution.
Would he be blaming Putin for his daughter's death by any chance?? Be interesting to hear the triumvirates (Skabeena, Solovyov and Simonyan) comments on that. 😀
But that's the problem, he may not be the last of the dinosaurs. since the fall of communism, in which everyone was basically just a Nr, and the whole concept of democracy unknown, Putinism was a kind of natural inheritor to that system, and then by fair means or foul (mainly foul) he shaped and molded Russian society into what it is today, a complete dictatorship. And you can be sure that his "understudy's" are already mapping the future post Putin and vying for position. The knives are being sharpened.
There will be a lot less "west" than there is now. We seem to think that we can bring the masses in from these countries and by some magic they will imbibe western values from the very air that they breath
The same type will emerge again believe it. Russia needs to be shattered and broken up into a dozen independent countries
Russia is actually more manageable when its unmanageable.
Its such a nightmare size for a struggling administration to secure, that its far better for the West to leave them to their mess.
Besides, if Russia did break up into its 89 Republics, Oblasts and Federal Cities, it would bring untold poverty to most of them, having no resources as they do.
Those republics and oblasts are already living in ww2 era poverty, outside of the major cities the majority seem to be living in 1950s time capsules,
It be be interesting to see how the cities fare in a proper break up without Europes oil ,gas and other limited trade
The arrogance of the rich ruling class.
Note how nobody from the regime or their propagandists makes the slightest mention of the recent "referendum" that was held in Kherson. If people in the region really did vote to be part of Russia six weeks ago, surely withdrawal from the city equates to the greatest betrayal in Russian history.
Nice. I like Banksy's work.
^^^ apparently the Judo one is a child throwing Putin 😅
This video goes into more details about what I mentioned recently about Russia's use of long range missiles to impact on the civilian population
I saw that on the BBC site earlier. My only thought was "He must surely have informed the authorities before skulking around at nighttime putting those up because otherwise he would have run the risk of being mistaken for a Russian agent and shot by someone"
It's been a long time since current art was relevant for most of us and especially politically relevant. Banksy is pretty much it today.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. Pablo Picasso. Talking about his anti war/facism Guernica painting.
Putin is a well known judo player of course, hence the symbolism.
More people on the streets of Kherson city today. I remember them facing down Russian tanks and army trucks back in the first weeks of the war. It's so great to see them having this moment.
Kherson grandmother arms the troops and tells them to go kill the fuc*ers.
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