Yes, been there and also if you post and then see a mod warning - but in this instance it is more scenario where you post in a thread and then remember you are thread banned.
I'll leave it at that and return us to our regular Slavia Ukraine programming...
Blaney - Donegal
it's Slava Ukraine - u need to be re-programmed.
Oops. That's be the fault of Slavia Prague FC for putting the word into my brain with an i.
From Norway in the Arctic north to Kaliningrad in the west, Russia is making a mockery of Putin’s claims by dramatically reducing its military presence along the country’s borders with the NATO Alliance. If Putin genuinely believed NATO posed a threat to Russia, would he voluntarily disarm his entire front line?
It's actually Slava Ukraini
you're right, my phone auto-corrected. That pickup in your signature is an eyesore however.
The last one was apparently triggering to some ,
Crimea, again
Good riddance
this is the 7 year old the Rascists have killed in latest shelling yesterday
Seems Finland is set to close that last remote border crossing mentioned upthread. Western movement options now sealed off entirely.
You mean NATO member Finland?
The one that shares a long ass border with Russia?
The same Russia that claims its Ukraine war is about securing its border?
The same Russia that is basically removing all its defence equipment along its border to use in Ukraine.
The same Russia that was using immigrant bicycle brigades to cross into Europe.
Fair fcuks Finland lol.
Ha…that comment almost makes it seem like supporting a nation that’s under attack from an aggressive neighbour hell bent on destroying it; is somehow a bad thing, and worth ridicule?
I might invite the Russian-supporting posters here (and you know who are are) to take a long hard think as to why the vast bulk of us here wish well for Ukraine and wish defeat upon the Russians. While they’re at it, they might want to reflect on why they hold up the likes of the Russians with such high esteem given everything we now know about them, and how dead-set the nations they used to occupy are at preventing them from coming back.
Bad day to be a Russian
Probably posted something, and forgot account was banned off the thread. Did not see it but I'll engage my psychic powers now and and predict it was an article or tweet involving one or more of following topics:
Russia is already in a demographic crisis - they've a major shortage of people 20 to 40, ie those of child bearing age, also a culture of small families - thats hard to shift ,
And add in a war thats decimating the numbers of young men , and ruining the economy so a less positive view of the future , itll take more than a presidential statement
Thes are obviously based on official stats , possibly massaged?
I wonder how many kids his daughters are being made to produce
Arent his youngest kids in Switzerland?
It would be great for Ukraine, though unrealistic to ask of NATO, if the NATO countries ostentatuously increased gheir presence along the Russian border, effectively forcing Putin to return troops back to those border areas and away from Ukraine!
Even before this war, Russia faced a deomgraphic time-bomb that had been ticking for decades.
Russia lost an increadble amount of of young people during WWII, and that loss has triggered generational dips in the population every couple of decades since then. To reverse this, the Russians really needed some new blood to come in and for the birthrates to pick up. But unfortunaty for Russia, the place never seemed that attractive to immigration, and given how high the abortion rate has apparently been, there has been very little desire to raise kids in that country.
By the end of this conflict, Russia might also be looking at the loss of a couple million young men to death, crippling injury or flight from Russia. Russia could not afford an actual war with Ukriane demographically speaking. They were already in a hopeless position, and Putin has now almost ensured demographic collapse. Even if Putin's mad plan to force Russian women to have a litter of children is enacted, I sense that it is already too late.
Russia really needed to get her act together post Cold-War. She really needed to embrace democracy, warm up to the West properly and then make the place more attractive to immegration from around the world. Maybe then, Russia could have saved herself.
But as the Knight from Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade might say: They have chosen....poorly.
That’s one of two Russian strategic railways (the other is trans Siberian) that connect Russian far east, severed.
I am surprised that that Ukrainians are claiming they done it, would have been much better if to stay quite and let Russian paranoia that it was Chinese who done it and grow their fears that half of Siberia can be “liberated” by China and Putin be able to do nothing about it without these railways
I find that if you start a post, then decide to delete it, the window will not close, you have to type something, and the minimum is 2 characters, but they can be any characters, so people just type ' or .. some even get artistic \-=/ ~/`etc.
Or maybe it WAS the Chinese who did it with a view to taking control of Siberia and the Ukrainians are in on the plan and have agreed to claim responsibility so that Putin doesn't suspect the Chinese. 😃
"Watch your house Anto".
That's the supply line to China fcuked.
Great news lol.
edit: and Best Korea
I’ve said it before Russia being massive in some respects is a disadvantage for them, how the hell do Russians defend every bridge, tunnel, junction, power station and other pieces of critical infrastructure from partisans operating far behind front lines
Washington Post
of the 68$ billion spent by US on Ukraine 90% stayed in US creating jobs
https://archive.ph/b2JvR
Good luck with the GOP & Trump shuttering support for Ukraine if they win in 2024. Mind you, given the collective brain trauma the GOP/MAGA movement appears to suffer from, I'd not put it past them either.
But that would have meant the select few giving up their wealth and position.
Russia continuing its intentional regression towards the 20th century and older: any and all LGBTQ+ activism is now considered an "extremist" movement. Presumably Hungary to follow suit the moment it think it can get away with it. Any tankies, Far Left and those wingnuts in the EU Parliament still supporting Russia should take a long hard look at themselves.
Russia’s supreme court has outlawed what it called an “international LGBT public movement” as extremist, in a landmark ruling that representatives of gay and transgender people warn will lead to arrests and prosecutions of the already repressed LGBTQ+ community.
The ruling in effect outlaws LGBTQ+ activism in a country growing increasingly conservative since the start of the war in Ukraine. The “extremist” label could mean that gay, lesbian, transgender or queer people living in Russia could receive lengthy prison sentences if deemed by the authorities to be part of the so called “international LGBT public movement”.
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