Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

And further to my experiences while living in Russia, especially with the police..

Yesterday, a guy wrote that he left Russia by car four years ago, but fresh traffic fines keep coming for his car. Russia has already moved to a quantum level, where you can get busted in different places at the same time. So everything’s fine, folks, no need to worry.

It hasn't gone down very well in Ukraine, seems to be a complete mess now. Obviously the vatniks will want to highlight it.

I see the Putin apologists, useful idiots and Russian bots are all over it online. It's telling how in sync they all are.

As for the bill, I can understand why the Ukr parliament voted for it considering how corruption investigations could be abused by Russian aligned interests during war-time. That said, the optics of it look bad and they should have anticipated that part.

Well here we go, friends of Russia can go back to posting maps of fields now

Maybe they can also contemplate how is it that people can peacefully influence politics unlike in their dictatorship

This is a very feeble line of logic and I would expect better from you. Reminds me of when Putin once said "Russia will do democracy in its own way, you can't just change overnight" (or words to that effect).

Large protests against the Zelensky government amidst a war are a serious sign of dissatisfaction among the population that this is happening.

Hopefully the government listens and will respond appropriately

Big booms in Sochi

BBC Steve R continues to chronicle the deteriorating Russian economy based on their own newspapers

”economy on verge of recession”

“Petrol on rise”

”beetroot prices up 58%”

And

Glass half empty view again, you see what happened in Ukraine as weakness i see it as a strength

That there is the possibility and occurrence of protests (and speed of organization!) and free and open media to document these shows that Ukraine is an anti Russia in every respect

Meanwhile situation in Russia must be like a pressure cooker where the population has no avenues to vent steam (while the economy deteriorates day after day, and men die by their hundreds of thousands) or even influence their dictatorship in any way shape or manner

During WW2 there were massive and regular protests in UK culminating in Churchill being voted out as soon as war ended, that’s what democracies do

“In 1943 there were two major stoppages, one was a strike of 12,000 bus drivers and conductors and the other of dockers in Liverpool and Birkenhead. Both were a considerable embarrassment to Bevin since they involved mainly TGWU members. 1944 marked the peak of wartime strike action with over two thousand stoppages involving the loss of 3,714,000 days' production. This led to the imposition of Defence Regulation 1AA, supported by the TUC, which now made incitement to strike unlawful.”

At the time the British were engaged in total war with the Germans.

Who are we at war with?

To no surprise to anyone he didn’t last a week there

In the last twenty years, Russia has engaged engaged in large scale political interference in EU countries. They have engaged in chemical and radioactive attacks in the UK. The chemical attack ended up with member of the public dying. On top of that, you've got the passenger airplane that they shot down. On top of that, cyber attacks have been heavily associated with the Russian state.

So while Europe may not officially be at war outside of Ukraine, we very much so have reasons to view Russia as a threat even within our own borders.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the drone video comes out demolishing the narrative she is making under obvious duress, there’s no way to verify its even her (she probably already selling herself on OnlyOrcs)

They went to Russia to “escape the gays” from US, documented whole process and her husband then “voluntarily” joined the meatgrinder where life expectancy for Russians is measured in hours

The An-24 that crashed in the Amur region was 49 years old — the aircraft was manufactured at the Kiev Aviation Plant in 1976.

According to SHOT, the plane flew for various Russian airlines, including "Izhavia" and "Nizhny Novgorod Airlines," as well as for a carrier from Cambodia. The aircraft joined the "Angara" fleet in 2021.

The crash of the An-24 in the Amur region has been reported to Vladimir Putin, Peskov said.

Further comment from a Russian:

"The flight was delayed due to weather; usually, they wait until the weather conditions are suitable for flying not only from the departure point but also at the destination. When the weather allowed, we took off, but during the flight, the weather changed at the destination. The decision to land or divert to an alternate airport is made by the crew commander. It's currently vacation season, and passenger traffic is high; if the plane had returned or landed at another airport, the airline would have incurred costs... and the pilots practically live in these planes. In airlines, not only the aircraft but also the people are worn out."

Struggling for pilots are we Russia?

You might be happy for the Orcs to get their corrosive, murderous and destructive way in the world at the cost of the values the west tries to live by, but I am not. This is an existential crisis, Europe is at war with the Orcs - the Mongol DNA is strong in them and they are pushing East again.

The Celtic interconnector, already way over budget, has just been announced delayed by at least another year, with hints it will be more. Hmmm, why might that be, the article talks of issues with burying the cable?

My hope is that it relates to that Orc shadow fleet vessel that was recently spotted dropping anchor in the Irish sea where there is a concentration of submarine comms cables, possibly about to drag it's anchor and sever the lot of them, just as the Chinese have done near Taiwan and the Orcs in the Baltic. Luckily it was spotted and asked what it was doing and kept under observation and it suddenly upped anchor and pissed off.

So hopefully this issue with the Celtic interconnector is a sign of someone deciding to bury the cable in places it was going to left exposed on the sea floor. Expect the cost to the Irish taxpayer to blow out considerably, if that is the case.

I'm at war with the Orcs, I'll continue to name them as I see fit.