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Wonder what's going on here. Precautions or Russians up to something
what perspective?
Multiple times on this thread people said they didn’t agree with some of the actions done by the US and everyone seemed to agree. Russia is doing what the US did but with a higher frequency and atrocity level. Russia is playing in the Champions League while the US is playing in County Dublin championship.
Really?Over a million Iraqi civilians killed. Delusional and disgusting how you made that comment
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and over a million (and counting) in over 3 years because of the Russian invasion. The rate is higher with Russia special operation. Do you find this disgusting?
A million civilians dead in Ukraine? What are you on about
Oh I wonder who was behind this sabotage, it truly is a wonder.....
Overall, not only civilians.
Yea and I'm talking about civilians, there's nothing anywhere near the number of civilians dead in Ukraine compared to just Iraq by itself, and your comment downplaying that is fairly disturbing
Quit fishing, russia has been pretty despicable to itself and others in recent history with Ukraine another big casualty mess that they got themselves into.
Are you clutching the pearls tightly?
I am not downplaying anything. That’s what you understood. Bombing residential buildings, hospitals, children playground, I find disgusting. Don’t you think?
Russians live in a dictatorship and don't have a choice. Hundreds of thousands fled after the invasion and several hundred thousand more professionals fled after the partial mobilisation in the second half of 2022 (but it's harder to exit the country now).
Genuine opposition is pretty much non-existent in politics there. Anyone who tries is struck off the register for bizarre administrational reasons (or are arrested/poisoned/killed). The Kremlin is blocking or throttling an increasing number of foreign websites. Even when Russians try to get around this with VPNs, those are being increasingly restricted or targeted. Most media there is now state owned or influenced, independent media are considered "foreign agents" or just straight up banned. More laws have been passed during the invasion to criminalize dissent and negative views of the Russian military. Mentioning support for Ukraine in any way can land someone a long stay in a Russian prison - even holding up a blank piece of paper in public can result in arrest and prison time.
It's a country run by a criminal cartel with nuclear weapons. Putin has been in power a quarter century, he'll be in power until he dies or is killed.
Yes, that's why the BBC documentaries from 10 years ago in the the Donbass are relevant to the perspective of how both sides see this
To be honest.....stealing cables, id multiple suspects in my mind!
in fairness they were already there to do a bit of tarmac.
Whataboutery and it's not a competition.
Individuals don't get to dismiss or minimize the Russian invasion because they can cherry-pick something from history to act selectively concerned about.
Ah but Iraq was a “civil war”
Am I doing this right?
It is not relevant. There is no excuse for such behaviour from Russia.
The illegal invasion of Ukraine is about as clear an example of, one side being wrong and the other side being right, I can think of from history. There is no both sides to mass murder in areas of Ukraine occupied by putin's terrorists and in areas of Ukraine where putin launches mass attacks with missiles and drones on civilians that have been spared genocide to some extent by the valiant efforts of the armed forces of Ukraine to hold the front lines. The only positive I can see from the war is that at least putin's terrorists are being thought a lesson on why it is not a good idea to attack your neighbours:
My favourite is where action man goes scuba diving and miraculously surfaces with two perfect specimens of amphora, which are proudly displayed to the press.
What a find; the luck involved is hard to believe.
That 1 submarine makes me smile every time. To lose one is bad but to lose one to a nation with negligible navy is just careless.
I'd love to see a few more added to it all the same.
Totally normal russian behaviour. Indoctrinate children in a poor country to dress as russian nazis and hope that they will fight and promote the russian cause of world supremacy.
It's just child abuse as normal in russian society and they are being made fun of at their own expense for sh*t and giggles back in Russia.
Eastern europe and Ukraine have been warning western europe they've first hand experience of this crap from soviet union days when russia wanted everyone russian.
Malian heritage and history say "What" to russian supremacy.
Want to live in that sphere, or have no choice? I get what you are saying, and why you are saying it. But when historically, when did they ever have any choice? Society is geared so that everyone has to be criminal, even in small ways,,baksheesh at every turn.. the brand-new vehicle turns up at the registration and MOT centre, the glove box is opened, the ash tray is opened, under the floor mats is searched…no "present", no certificate. Crossing from one republic, to another, documents are searched, and something is wrong,(always) Pay up or else….park your vehicle over there, with the others, the ones with the missing windows and headlights..so you pay up,and as you know, behind the collectors are armed guards. Everything is available…but at a price. In the film Chernobyl, there were several examples of this, when the nuclear physicist wanted to see her husband, money was always offered. It was customery to offer a "Gift". So the system makes a criminal of everyone.This is not the lifestyle the Russian leadership and top brass choose for their family's,,not even Putin. Their families are educated and live in Europe, Switzerland etc. Having said all of the above, overall, I liked my time there, its a fantastic country, to travel to the mountain top restaurent on El Brus, ride the Moscow Metro, shop in the moscow open market, a gigantic kind of weekend boot sale, or the Stari Arbat, and of course tour the Kremlin. But theres always the underlying uneasines in everythng you do, as soon as officialdom appears, be it in uniform, or civilian clothes,I would go back, and have several invitations to return, but not while Putin is in charge.
Ukraine sensing a message with the drones tonight
The whole point about the Donbass is that when the USSR collapsed, and the republics were offered independence, 95% of Ukraine voted for independence,and Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians got along fine with each other until Putin stirred up tensions beween the two groups, then invaded to protect ethnic Russians. He did the same thing in Georgia, and I remember when Putin was giving out Russian passports to all and sundry to increase the so called ethnic Russian population that needed protection from the locals. All complete and utter rubbish.Especially when you hear Lavrov lecturing the world on Russia protecting its citizens, no matter where they are in the world. The thing is, that once such territories fall under Russian control, they very quickly become typical Russian Republic Sh*t holes. Karelia, once part of Finland, and as it is today.
https://x.com/i/status/1916118678984167800
just trying a bluesky link reply to see if it posts properly here
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Do bluesky links not display properly on boards or am i just panhandled
They don't embed, but the link works. If you put fx before bsky.app in the url, you at least get a thumbnail with the link.
Brits are getting very worried as it finally sunk in that Russia already considers itself at war with them
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/05/starmer-prepares-for-attack-by-russia/
