I am actually surprised still that Trump didn't recognise Crimea as Russian.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...ople-speak-russian-g7-summit-2018-6?r=US&IR=T
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-ukraine-russia-putin-crimea-annexation/27892208.html
It might not have been official but unofficially he pretty much did
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Yup, that's what happen when a state is corrupt to the bone.
Looks like they might have done done exactly this on NS2. The gasflow had subsided. When the investigative team from Sweden approached, the gasflow increased again.
These feckers. I hope Putin gets thrown into the Gates of Hell gas crater.
Is there any option that internal sabotage would help to put an end to the invasion?
Internal incompetence will be more than sufficient for that.
The parody camp strikes again.
It is actually incredible how the corruption and incompetence has so thoroughly saturated all layers of the Russian state. I used to think of it as a kleptocracy in the sense of the top people being thieves. But Russia seems to be run on a wholly kleptocratic foundation. Everyone steals, your station simply determines how much. Is Russia basically a kleptocratic culture at this stage?
Easy to imagine what happened here. Some functionary snapped a photo of some winter uniforms taken from an open crate, in front of some other closed crates, reporting "1.5m uniforms present and accounted for", paid a few bribes downwards, a bigger bribe upwards and pocketed the difference himself from buying 15 uniforms and a bunch of crates, rather than 1.5m.
Basically nothing changed since the soviet era, hardly a surprise they want to restore it.The parody camp strikes again.
It is actually incredible how the corruption and incompetence has so thoroughly saturated all layers of the Russian state. I used to think of it as a kleptocracy in the sense of the top people being thieves. But Russia seems to be run on a wholly kleptocratic foundation. Everyone steals, your station simply determines how much. Is Russia basically a kleptocratic culture at this stage?
Easy to imagine what happened here. Some functionary snapped a photo of some winter uniforms taken from an open crate, in front of some other closed crates, reporting "1.5m uniforms present and accounted for", paid a few bribes downwards, a bigger bribe upwards and pocketed the difference himself from buying 15 uniforms and a bunch of crates, rather than 1.5m.
I wouldn’t call it incompetence, they’re pretty good at what they do (stealing).
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Some news about Russian nuclear submarine Belgorod disappearing from the grid.
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"in an interview with CNN‘s excellent Matthew Chance, Zelensky made it clear that he had actually accepted U.S. intelligence warning of a Russian invasion but wanted to downplay that so as not to tip off Russia to the fact that Ukrainians were furiously preparing a defense, deliberately trying to throw the Kremlin off so that if/when the invasion came, the Russians would be caught off guard, fall behind schedule, and sustain more casualties from a far more prepared Ukraine than anticipated, a point I have yet to see anyone else make."
https://realcontextnews.com/putins-zombie-russian-slavic-ethnonationalism-is-utterly-banal/
https://realcontextnews.com/putins-zombie-russian-slavic-ethnonationalism-is-utterly-banal/
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Ukrainian armed forces asked for operational silence (not sharing any speculation and information in the social media regarding the advances) from everyone at this time, it gives me a good feeling (considering the panic in russian chats I’m reading today across most fronts).
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I guess russian governemt considers Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts a free game.
They also “annexed” Donetsk and Luhansk based on the 2014 borders, they know what’s coming and the backtracking has begun.
Absolutely I agree. The contrast in professionalism between the two armies is so stark.
At some point it hopefully will be announced that Putin has had a heart attack and died in his sleep, and the next leader can do what Khrushchev did to Stalin's legacy and memory. We can but hope.
Is the captain Lithuanian?
With a shocking accent. His deputy also has an unhealthy interest in dinosaurs.
Yeh, I think rest of the world is calling their nuclear bluff, and they've been found out. Just like attacks on Crimea before, they are playing it dumb as not to seem like they're not following through on their threats.
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I'm not. Even Belarus doesn't quite de jure and that has only really begun to change in the last 12 months.
I think this has already been conveyed to Vlad during backchannel communications.
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It increasingly feels as if they didn't want that red line to be a red line.
This is quite impressive. If extrapolated over another month or two, it would pin most eastern Russian positions back to where they were pre-invasion.
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I knew sooner or later the midget would bring the events of ~~80 years ago as some sort of sick justificarion.
Different precedent now, though. Attacks on Belgorod, Crimea etc, he put on random natural causes, now, his claimed territory is actually getting conquered by nazis, and he can't hide that.
He has escalated twice recently, with moblization and annexation ceremony, one can breathe a sigh of relief, that western politicians are not trying to avoid confrontation and look for appeasement through any means necessary.
What a clown.
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If my auto-translate is correct, these are new guys recently called up.
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