Sprawling Russian Thread
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The Sheep Look Up
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I wouldn't even give them that. "Why are we in UK? Sightseeing! We love beautiful nondescript residential neighborhood in" [checks map with Cyrillic text and skull-and-crossbones marker] "Salisbury! So much like picture books! Why wearing of the surgical gloves? Can never be to careful with germs on vacation."
As does Putin's new pal Kim Jong Un; his brother got ill in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, remember?
Maybe I'm unduly stereotyping Russia, but I just don't see them having a very extensive program to offer support to their returning soldiers, especially with mental issues. Even disregarding the pardoned cannibals, just normal soldiers running around with all kinds of PTSD and nowhere to get help dealing with it has to kinda suck for everyone.
Russian soldiers returning home are sending crime higher, and a bigger wave could be on the way that hits the economy
A postwar surge in crime may cost Russia as much as 0.6% of its gross-domestic product, according to Bloomberg Economics.fortune.com
Article about the interrelation of war and domestic crime - war does lower crime, for a while. On the other hand, it turns out that recruiting and ultimately releasing people who were in prison for a reason has consequences.
Delightful. Also, something that hasn't been mentioned - they're short on cops, at a time when they just might be useful.
What returning soldiers? If too many soldiers return from the front then the average Russian is more likely to hear about the gross negligence and incompetence at the front, undermining Putin’s rhetoric. As they get closer and closer to their discharge date the likelihood of being chosen for a meat wave infantry assault goes up.
Russia seems to be very consistent with their main condition: unconditional surrender of Ukraine, and eradication of any existing Ukrainian person or cultural trace within Russia's proposed new expanded land area.
Dmitry Rogozin said on June 27 that it is "time to burn everything Ukrainian down to the root" so that "there is no trace left." Rogozin at least explicitly states what Putin and Lavrov more diplomatically imply.
Ukraine does not seem to accept this Russian condition as the basis for a lasting peace.
Are you suggesting they jump on the FOSS train and switch to Linux?
/duck /poe
/duck /poe
If I squint really hard it kinda looks like "Jeremy Bearimy"Kind of disappointed I see no "Slawa Ukraini"-like flight path; I blame the decline of cursive writing required to write that (well, sans the dots) with an aircraft flight path.
Anders Puck Nielsen is at it again. This time, he explains clearly what the goal is for Russia t commit war crimes.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMdPMoGJus
Like everything he has done since 2000, Putin is doing his work of undermining the International Rule of Law, and affirming the status of Russia as a Sovereign State, defined as a state independent from the rules limiting countries actions, like territorial grabbing, or genocide.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMdPMoGJus
Like everything he has done since 2000, Putin is doing his work of undermining the International Rule of Law, and affirming the status of Russia as a Sovereign State, defined as a state independent from the rules limiting countries actions, like territorial grabbing, or genocide.
SuinusLatinus
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A country that considers itself independent from international law has no right to seat in the UN security council*, much less to tell others what they can or can't do regarding aid to another country.
It's a shame that the UN doesn't kick them out of the security council.
* IMO, they shouldn't ever had that seat assigned to them, period. When the USSR fell, the seat should've had become a rotating seat, like the other 10 seats.
It's a shame that the UN doesn't kick them out of the security council.
* IMO, they shouldn't ever had that seat assigned to them, period. When the USSR fell, the seat should've had become a rotating seat, like the other 10 seats.
FTFY. Russia wants to behave like a pariah state, they should be treated as such and removed from the community of nations entirely.
Agreed, but it was the only way to get all the major parties to the table at the time.