Seems that Putin has managed to solve the spare parts problem's or at least some of them, for the western planes he hijacked back in Feb last year.
How Russia keeps its fleet of Western jets in the air | Reuters
Putin blames the west... blah blah blah
Somewhere. just like Prigozhin, he has a grip on Putin, and maybe its enough to bring Putin down if anything happens to him? Otherwise, he'd be long gone.
From that article:
"Putin as he prepares to launch an expected bid to be re-elected next March for six more years in the Kremlin."
Gee I wonder who'll win that election?
"The West, of course. Duh..."
Translation: oh, we never really wanted Ukraine so we're taking Georgia instead. They have a good rugby team and ours needs the new blood.
Their dropping of the pretence their interventions have anything to do with "liberation" would be amusing if only that all the tankies will either miss this comment - or twist their logic to maintain their anti West stance.
There's a not unreasonable theory he's being paid by some Russian interests; the EU parliament already had an issue with corruption lately - I doubt that was the only case.
I guess they're not bothering with the "referendums" any more.
Annexation would be bad news for Abhasian or South Ossetian - guess who'd get drafted to the Russian army right after they became a part of Russia.
Precisely.
That is Putins right hand?
Love how Russia has made the word annex normal.
It’s like it’s accepted when they annexed Crimea and now Ukraine.
Add in formally for good measure.
Medvedev now threatening Georgia with formally annexing the occupied territories.
Russia is truly a sick country....but NATO are the imperialists /s
Nato was set up to counter the threat from USSR.
Has something changed?
Being anti Nato then was certainly to be soft on countering that threat.
Not so now?
No, there are certainly exceptions.
Being anti NATO does not mean that you automatically support Russia FFS
If the airport reception that was held for Lavrov was anything to go by, its not much of a hard on, is it?
Jesus, he is some gombeen
It's baffling you can be that much of a gobshite....is he on the take or brainwashed...
He is definitely a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic if he believes any of the shite he is spouting.....
Someone should tell these people it's OK to change your opinion if your initial position turns out to be that of a fool....it doesn't help to continue digging, you can admit you are wrong, no one worthwhile will think any less of you than if you keep clinging to the boat as it goes down.
Dont forget what hand you wear your watch on...
That was some reception....3 lady dancers, and a few people hopping around!! He couldn't wait to get away from them.
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I always thought it was more like the teacher character from Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Lavrov is transforming into Morn from Star Trek DS9
Elected in our region - I doubt he'll be foolish enough to run again next year. He'll be slaughtered.
Look forward to his speech when Ukraine win this thing, Russia completely falls apart into another Civil War, while Kyiv starts rebuilding with EU/US funds. "Sacraficed", Mick? That suggests Russians is winning the war you fraggle haired buffoon. We can all see what's happening.
For the sake of Peace, I think we should offer Russia something. I propose we offer them Wallace.
If they don’t withdraw from Ukraine at once and sue for peace, we send Wallace over with a one-way ticket (we’ll even thrown in that other muppet if they start messing about in Crimea).
If they refuse…well…Expedia is about to get some swift business…and we’re down one headache. Win / Win.
It seems that the only one not getting fired for failing to deliver what he set out to deliver is Putin.
Ukrainian writer tells his war story.
It's a pity they haven't got a hard on for looking after their own people, South Africa is just another corrupt African basket case of a country.
Surovikin sounds like he's officially gone now
South Africa's Govt have a serious hard on for Russia.
Wallace isn't the only one showing solidarity this week. German Socialist leader Scholz puts the kibosh on reaching NATO spending target, the German Greens and Liberal party fought him on it all the way.
The Irish neutrality lot as well were freaking out about training of Ukrainian forces ,Paul Murphy leading the charge there, they were very quiet about Irish companies goods ending up in Russian hands though.
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