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Rasta Tank will soon be smoking.
I wouldn't calling it a potentially regime ending showdown but live in hope.
This reply is worth posting on its own 😁
All because a pedophile dwarf hiding in the Kremlin bunker lost the run of his ego.
pedo ?
More falling debris…..😁
These blue sky accounts still post on twitter so it's better to embed that version if you want your information to get a greater reach. Anyone having a problem with twitter just follow Pro Ukraine channels and block the vatniks.
The BBC were running with a story this morning.
They were saying the Russians are contacting the families of captured Ukranian troops and trying to coerce them into sabotaging Ukranian infrastructure or giving over info into their army's whereabouts.
They promise an early release for their loved ones…or torture.
There's a certain low that you shouldn't go…and then there's a Russian Low.
No, not for me, its time to push the change to bluesky (if we want).
But nothing stopping you from setting up an Bsky account, and keeping Musk's-X account too ,if you really want to,
You can post from X, if you want (I cannot view X fully anymore, but that's my choice), and we can post fro Bsky
When you see what Putins regime is prepared to do to their own citizens, there's no depths of depravity that they will not stoop to with POW's.
Nato is nearer to Russia now becuse of Putin's actions.
I'll not be setting up a bsky account and neither will the majority. It's more important to keep sharing the pro Ukraine voice in the far more popular app then run away to an echo chamber.
A lot of schools in Lithuania are receiving (again) today letters/emails with bomb threats etc….. all in the wonderful Russian language..
Their entire existence is only about antagonising everyone else, and causing as much hassle as they possibly can.
They are absolute scum.
Isn't it interesting how the Russians have a knack of leaning onto the threat of violence to keep nations within their "family"? The Baltics are a classic example. Nations that wanted independance from the Russians but time and again had their efforts smacked down by the loving embrace of the Soviet military.
Now again, a modern Lithuania faces threats of violence for having the audacity of existing…much like what Ukraine is dealing with.
This is the counter to an argument that NATO is the cause of Russia's aggression. NATO exists because the Russian State is aggressive, it is not the cause of that agression. Something for our local Russia fan-boys to consider the next time they wheel out the "NATO bad!" strawman.
Yesterdays Ukraine the Latest pod had a very interesting discussion about what a peacekeeping operation if there is a deal might look like and various ways Russia might will try to undermine it
Aside: lads above do great job almost daily keeping up with developments and regularly have interesting interviews
Wasn’t discussed in the episode but it got me thinking that if the UN won’t step in for peacekeeping then likes of India and China could be viewed as neutral enough by both sides to stay on the russian side of the line
That way any attacks by Russians will have to go thru Indian/Chinese then European before reaching Ukrainians
Now obviously Putin doesn’t want peace but interesting discussion nevertheless
Yeah, seems like they were saving them up for a massive assault … but decided not to wait for Trump. 40 missiles launched at energy infrastructure this morning. It was foreseen (lots of "heads up" info last night) but not sure how many, if any, were intercepted.
It looks like most of them were directed at the westernmost parts of Ukraine, and arrived there without any problem, so there's obviously still a lot of work to be done on defending against this form of attack.
Plans are afoot (if you can believe what you read on the internet) …
While the Germans agonise over their level of involvement in the conflict and Scholz trembles at the risk of "escalation", the French appear to be going all-in, supplying Scalp missiles, Caesars, Mirages and now, maybe, boots on the ground.
One of the many allegations by Litvinenko and others.
India / China would have no interest in that
"Peacekeepers" by definition aim to keep the peace. Whereas my impression is that they are quite happy for the war to continue, and to try to profit from it.
Gary Kasparov was right - they should have called Putin's bluff at the beginning.
A really horrendous story and probably true. Mafia state in action
Yes, he has been accused. And there's this -
Kissed by Vladimir Putin: how Russian president treats kids
I don’t disagree however if there are peace talks attempts should be made to involve them
If they decline well then that’s further proof these countries are not interested in peace but at least attempts are made to involve counties that claim to be neutral with large number of troops that will be needed for peacekeeping
Russia will probably want troops form Kazakhstan and Belarus involved as well
Twitter is owned by Musk, who is Putin's most valuable agent - helped get Trump elected, meddling on behalf of far-right wing pro-Putin political parties in Germany and the UK. You can drink from Musk's/Putin's tainted fountain, but I wont - slava Ukraini.
It's yet to be seen if trump will be better or worse because Biden was a lame duck IMO. We'll find out soon. Locking yourself away from the majority of public discourse is exactly what Putin would want.
X is owned by Elon Musk and it's the rotten husk of the Twitter platform he over-paid for.
Elon Musk is a reprehensible human that already has too much money and is highly likely working on Putin's behalf or in partnership with him.
Ergo, I no longer visit X. I don't want my news filtered through a nazi prick like Musk and I certainly don't want him benefitting from me adding to the site's advertising revenue.
Own goal?
Hmmm 🤔 this is suspiciously timed
Okay, things not quite as bad as inferred from the early reports: Ukraine brought down 30 out of the 43 missiles used overnight (and rendered harmless 100% of the Shaheds, again).
As usual, bombers from the Olenya airbase were involved. IIRC, in the novel Red Storm Rising the Russians successfully bait a NATO squadron into taking off from their base, then destroy it so the planes can't land. With all their creative ingenuity, surely by now the Ukrainians must be capable of doing something similar once they know the Tu-22s are in the air ?
I hope this happens, won't hold my breath, so called 'diplomacy' is generally disgustingly useless and wrong headed.
Why Penny Wong has to expel Russia’s ambassador Russia places little value on human life, but the feared execution of Australian man Oscar Jenkins cannot go unpunished…
Are Russian's in control of youtube now?
Many videos on the topic of the war or related to it are spammed with tons of pro-russia comments, very few comments from the other pov.
On a recent DW news channel video about russian drones and industrial sabotage in Germany I made a comment 'the poison dwarf Putler won't be laughing when he's in the dock in the Hague', a few seconds after posting it disappears.
So figuring the AI censors are responsible, I then post an ammended comment 'the war criminal Putin won't be so smug when he's on trial in the Hague'. (changed to his proper name as maybe that's what triggered the removal).
About half a minute later, an window pops up - in large bold:
'Commenting paused to protect the community. We've discovered that comments you've left violate community guidelines:
You'll be able to post comments again in 1 week
ffs this is a joke, western social media seems to be an ally of russia given their biased censoring.
I've noticed on some channels in particular such as DW news, practically all comments seem to be cheering on russia, so I'm guessing most anti-russia comments are removed before anyone can see them, the viewership couldn't be that overwhelmingly anti-western surely?
