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2,001 respondents throughout non-occupied Ukraine aged 18 or older took part in the survey Analytical report based on the results of WAR, PEACE, VICTO...

Drennan opines: Only one thing will bring Putin to ceasefire: Crimea — Patrick Drennan · The Hill · Aug 17, 2023 At least a fairly straightforward acc...

:) (where's that photo from anyway?) Conversely, Ukraine had (and has) international and domestic monitors. I guess that would end if they were to be ...

Russia opens a criminal investigation into a leader of a prominent election watchdog — AP · Aug 17, 2023 Nothing new I guess, "foreign agent" and "und...

Well, considerable resources have gone to Ukraine. Weaponry production has been up'd here and there due to supplying Ukraine. (The providers haven't p...

They're all right. Discuss the lot, too.

, there are reasons for suspicion of involvement. Seems unlikely that the coup-doers would hail far-away Putin and wave Russian flags like so, out of ...

, yeah, there are some effects: Russia’s central bank raises interest rates to 12% after the ruble plunges (Anna Cooban, Vasco Cotovio · CNN · Aug 15,...

, there was briefly some speculation about Russia in that respect, but nothing further has surfaced (that I know of). Russian flags, "Vive Putin", etc...

, apologies, will try being more "fleshy". :) (After a while this stuff got so repetitive.) By the way, it was a response to this comment, but would b...

, the Mossad, the Israelis, they really blundered, eh? :D • Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection • Nov 21, 2022

Those people that went to Israel for an official get-together? Mossad must have blundered royally. (incidentally Aug 2, 2023) The Nazi thing is straig...

Yeah, you are. Just about verbatim. I'm not. So, bare racism accusation. Tu quoque style at that.

Why are you parroting Putinist propaganda? :roll: Putin has managed to create much hate (May 26, 2023; Aug 1, 2023) etc, not the least in Ukraine (Aug...

Yeh, it is. In general, there's much to be said about democracy of course: technicalities, implementation, practicalities, ... A large topic in its ow...

Ukraine desperate for help clearing mines, says defence minister — Daniel Boffey · The Guardian · Aug 13, 2023 ... Great lengths gone to install then ...

Somehow made me think of the Trump circus Llama On The Loose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnTkfqbhacE

: And (as they incidentally point out) it's not the first such report. Aug 4, 2023 ( :grin: Ghosts ... Nov 18, 2022 )

Kherson is Crimea's northern neighbor. Russians stop providing insulin to civilians without Russian citizenship in occupied village in Kherson Oblast ...

Maybe it's worthwhile making explicit why more people leave/defect Putin's Russia, than the other way. BBC News Russian: Russian officer flees to Lith...

US government sanctions Russians on the board of Alfa Group in response to war in Ukraine — AP · Aug 11, 2023 4 billionaires (Aven, Fridman, Khan, Kuz...

6 Western nations demand Russia return two regions it took from neighboring Georgia 15 years ago — Edith M Lederer · AP · Aug 10, 2023 A fifth of Geor...

Chae takes a swing at gravity Breakdown of the Newton–Einstein Standard Gravity at Low Acceleration in Internal Dynamics of Wide Binary Stars — Kyu-Hy...

Russia and Ukraine trade aerial attacks as Zelenskyy makes another move against corruption — Samya Kullab, Illia Novikov, Emma Burrows · AP · Aug 11, ...

, haven't seen the movie either. The Iraqi ban wasn't about the movie, by the way. If only attitudes (liberal or not) leaned toward being humane...

, as mentioned, repeats, including regress/progress. :/ Yes, that's a fallacy :D (the linked one, this is a philosophy forum).

Hmm Getting into repeats. :/ ? This would be a common fallacy. It's been a while since Crimea was a part of Russia. It's been a legitimate part of Ukr...

Probably not that simple, and rightly isn't quite right. :) But you're right that Crimea has had an increasing population of Russians. Whether Khrushc...

Stories from Zaporizhia: ‘We expected less resistance’: Ukrainian troops on southern front learn not to underestimate their enemy — Nick Paton Walsh, ...

Has 2023 taken steps backward? Lebanon moves to ban 'Barbie' film for 'promoting homosexuality' — Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily, Toby Chopra, Nick Macfie...

Ough. Disgusting. What the heck is going on in Florida? Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum — Oliver Milman · The G...

, no, it wouldn't be stabilizing, and Putin presumably knows. (Not sure why you keep writing that.)

(You know how in certain subcultures there are certain things that cannot be said suggested questioned?) Impressive, sinister, disgusting: Russia’s la...

, turning it into a nuclear war wouldn't stabilize anything, it'd be like a defcon 2 or 1 escalation (sort of, to use old verbiage). I'm assuming the ...

... ... is a good place to start, wouldn't you say?

, losing out in Ukraine wouldn't destroy Russia, though it might be detrimental to Putin. Starting a nuclear war on the other hand...

Chellaney opines impatience: Biden’s Ukraine strategy is failing — Brahma Chellaney · The Hill · Aug 8, 2023 Organise or fight? Three years in exile, ...

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The get-together apparently reflected the UN. Ukraine calls Jeddah talks productive, Russia calls them doomed — Pavel Polityuk, Hatem Maher, Angus McD...

, it's not quite that simple. You have emergence and breakup of ring species for example. Biology ain't neat and simple. Discovery overrules definitio...

Attempting to figure out China's stance towards Russia isn't the easiest. Various experts have various takes. (Shen Dingli goes as far as saying Russi...

Looks like Bayer agrees with @"boethius", sort of, in a way, partially... It's time for Zelensky to get tough with Biden - opinion — Alexei Bayer · Th...

Hmm... • without physics there'd be no metaphysics • without metaphysics there'd be no physics

You might get it your way @"Isaac": Most say Congress should not authorize more funding for Ukraine: survey — Julia Shapero · The Hill · Aug 4, 2023 A...

910 of 58,000 Belarusian citizens, and 254 of 16,000 Russian citizens, were given a month to leave Lithuania or can appeal the decision in court: Lith...

, at least the greenery can't complain about CO2 levels. Being among generations where future generations say "They knew, and didn't do anything" isn'...

... Accident? (????????) Incompetence? Not knowing there's a bit of tension at the moment? Provocation? Russians have done some of that lately anyway....

, nah, we = voters

, well, personally, I've been increasingly worried about the environment since ehh the 1980s I think. :) (paralyzing panic doesn't help though)

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