This is a vexing question. There was a post in the WaPo comments that suggested the reason may be internal. Putin blows the pipelines and the oilygarchs' power is diminished; a message is sent to those around him that he can break them without resorting to defenestration.
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Absolutely nothing to do with the war, but does anyone know why Meloni has the Arabic letter "noon" in her name?
Its Spectre.
Its usually written in solidarity to persecuted Christians around the world. ن is to indicate Nasara or Nazarenes, which have allegedly been used as pejoratives against Christians, most recently by the likes of ISIS in Iraq.
She is basically using the ن on her socials to campaign against "Christian oppression". Not particularly surprising coming from a right wing politician in the west.
That's news to me. Cheers bro
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I hope those aren’t loaded…
There have been some horrific images from this war, but this is almost as heartbreaking. That old man looking at his rifle might end up dead in a ditch somewhere in Ukraine. What a monumental waste of real lives because of the actions of a deranged idiot.
deranged idiot -dash- master strategist!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...gozhin-admits-founding-wagner-mercenary-group
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits founding Wagner mercenary group
Russian businessman confirms deployment to countries in Latin America and Africa in first public confirmation of link
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Wagner has been accused of committing human rights abuses in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Central African Republic, Sudan and Mozambique. The group’s alleged co-founder, Dmitry Utkin, has been linked to the far right and is believed to have named the group after Hitler’s favourite composer. The US and EU have imposed sanctions on Prigozhin and Utkin for their role in Wagner.
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Last week the Guardian reported that Prigozhin was personally recruiting soldiers from Russia’s extensive penitentiary system in an attempt to compensate for acute shortages of personnel on the battlefield.
In one leaked video, Prigozhin is seen telling inmates they would be freed if they served six months with his group.
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits founding Wagner mercenary group
Russian businessman confirms deployment to countries in Latin America and Africa in first public confirmation of link
[...]
Wagner has been accused of committing human rights abuses in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Central African Republic, Sudan and Mozambique. The group’s alleged co-founder, Dmitry Utkin, has been linked to the far right and is believed to have named the group after Hitler’s favourite composer. The US and EU have imposed sanctions on Prigozhin and Utkin for their role in Wagner.
[...]
Last week the Guardian reported that Prigozhin was personally recruiting soldiers from Russia’s extensive penitentiary system in an attempt to compensate for acute shortages of personnel on the battlefield.
In one leaked video, Prigozhin is seen telling inmates they would be freed if they served six months with his group.
"Jesus Christ! Get your gun out of my face, bro, feck!"
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Havent kept track, what's the situation in EU energy wise?
Yeah I’m not really comfortable laughing at this. Find it pretty damn sad
Generally stable now, but quite vulnerable, there aren't much options if a pipelone from Norway gets destroyed or something like that.
Well they'd have to prepare for some rationing and more LNG and whatnot to be bought. It would be chaos but they've had plenty of time to prepare contingencies. In the UK we are more independent theoretically, but our doomsday cult won't have planned any sensible response should any lines go down I shouldn't think...
Tragi-comic.
As water always finds its level, Russia seems to always find the path that says "show me you are the baddies without telling me you are the baddies."
ISIS definitely blew up the pipeline.
It’s interesting when will Germany wake up to the fact that they’re being ridiculed by Russia in this hybrid warfare and that’s time to start acting properly and with a bit of the backbone.
They couldn't do it when they were at their strongest position and now they think they'll do it, when Ukrainians are well equipped and ready, just cause they'll throw few hundred thousand unprepared and underequipped soldiers into a meat grinder.
He has gone full hitler
The Kremlin will end up making the number of Chinese and North Korean casualties during the Korean War look like a footnote in comparison. And I thought those idiots had learned since then that numbers do not win wars.
I’m pretty sure there’s a huge misreporting ongoing right from the ground troops to their commanders and generals and when the information finally reaches Putin it barely resembles the reality. That’s how regimes built on corruption work.
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It all reminds me of that scene from Downfall movie in the Hitler bunker.
This is brilliant:
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It's a pisstake.
First they came for me, and I spoke out - because I’m not a paedophile or a pervert!
This is a joke like the hitler meme right? At first I believed it!
Is it? I don’t find it particularly funny personally. For those who don’t speak Russian, which is the majority of people here, the subtitles have nothing to do with what they’re actually saying.
Exactly. They’re gonna have to do another round of draftees before they ever leave Russia.
It's a pisstake as I mentioned. A parody. I think it's spot on personally.
It's a pisstake but not far from the truth.
Yes, far more heartbreaking than anything else. Putin is basically holding an entire nation hostage in order to preserve his own life.
Making it all about himself as per usual.