Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Yiu made two obvious mistakes there

1. Having a tik tok account
2. Following the account of the divisive account the algorithm pushed to you

I had a twitter account for sports results for about 6 months and even that was nasty. I have no other social media.

The world would be in a better place if individuals curated their own information sources rather than allowing social media companies do it for them.

The ecosystem currently is designed to amplify bad actors/conspiracy nonsense/idiots

Not a go at you personally but my personal dislike of Tik Tok got me typing!

Meanwhile at the front, it's being noted that Russian meat is being sent towards inevitable death without even helmets or any body armour in bigger and bigger numbers… some are sent out even without a rifle, and their sole job is to gather the guns & ammo from their recently composted comrades to re-distribute to the next wave of soon to be dead meat.. Apparently 4 out of every 20 going out might have a helmet/armour… the rest have to scavenge what they can from the death zone.

Then there are the runners (or camels as they are known), who are sent out with no gun or armour, only supplies to try and bring forwards.. The Ukranians say they are usually spotted & killed within seconds of emerging, and that it's too easy to pick them off, but they remind themselves if these runners get through, it means Ukranians can die so it's an easy target to aim for…

Anyway, Putin rejected the U.S./Ukraine deal did he? Ok then so how/when is Trump going to punish Ukraine for this insubordination? because this will be on anyone except Putin…

I actually think when it comes to algorithm TikTok is vastly superior. I have an account and all mine shows me is games, football, funny **** and animals. I do tend to get the odd political one but it's either about something I agree with or something neutral.

If you do interact with MAGA/conspiracy theory/… nonsense it will keep feeding it to you but it's imo also very good in hiding it if you made it clear you're not interested.

When it comes to negotiations Putin is a wind-up toy that says the same thing every time. Even compared to the other thieves who run Russia he stands out as a terrible burden for the country to carry.

It’s a real stroke of luck that the Russians hid so much money away in Europe and can’t get at it at the moment.

Russia and Trump's America have some neck pointing to Ukrainian corruption but it’s par for the course with them. Bear in mind that Ukraine is a Soviet republic in recovery, born with corruption and struggling to throw off that poisonous legacy ever since. Yermak is being investigated by Ukraine at a horribly inconvenient time but they went ahead with it anyway. By contrast, corruption is obligatory in Russia’s elite. Nobody is allowed to have clean hands. And what can we say of Trump? He has already enriched himself to a level that puts him in the first rank of kleptocrats in human history.

Within part 14 of the "plan" it was stated that "$100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine; the US will receive 50% of the profits from this venture."

I wonder who will in "the US" will be receiving that 50% of future Ukrainian profits?

Makes more sense now that Trump sent his son-in-law "business man" to the talks

There's too many men, too many people making too many problems. And not much love to go around.

The thing that gets me about these powerful people is that they don't seem to give a sh*t about how they're remembered. I was listening to a podcast about Neville Chamberlain recently. He's not remembered fondly for obvious reasons but all he was trying to do was to avoid a whole generation of people getting slaughtered. It's not like the Nazis had paid him off or he was a moron or anything.

Chamberlain was a successful industrialist. This is the equivalent these days:

I see NATOs chief is praising Trump again for the breakthrough in the Ukraine war. What is this guys agenda??

He still thinks buttering up Trump will cause him to change his mind.

This was similar in WW2, just shows Russian "tactics" haven't evolved a great deal beyond feeding meat to the grinder.

At least back then they had a guy like Zhukov running the show who wasn’t afraid to put the boss right. Apparently, he would actually argue with Stalin, normally a capital offence.