, the tweet shows fine in my browser. I think Krasovsky took a bit of heat for that one, and Zakharova was a bit too trigger-happy with a "template" r...
Side-effects of the war ... 2 intensifying border wars show Putin is losing sway in his neighborhood while Russia struggles in Ukraine (businessinside...
According to Reuters, the US and Spain are looking into sending HAWK defense systems to Ukraine — reuters direct (Oct 25, 2022), via msn. Can save liv...
Over time, you can probably find a few conflicting statements from Putin + team. (And a lot of bullshit.) Not generally reliable as such. Expect more ...
, I'm guessing he's just reiterating a justification (perhaps preparation) for taking over Ukraine. Some of this stuff is about telling propagating se...
Putin speaks of missiles on the other side of their borders. I think he meant nuclear implicitly. (Something substantial at any rate.) Surely he knows...
, Åslund's proposal is better than Musk's. But, from the looks of it, that ship has sailed, train has left the station, the genie is out of the bottle...
• Putin's Russia is a present existential threat to Ukraine, to which the Ukrainians are responding • until Putin's Russia has taken over all of Ukrai...
David V Gioe, William Styles (Sep 16, 2022): Vladimir Putin’s Russian World Turned Upside Down I, for one, don't want to see a Russia "limp along". If...
(my emphasis) Right. The aid to the Ukrainians makes the providers proxied elements. Though, I don't think the instigator meant to (ultimately) attack...
Bondarev is a Russian diplomat that was assigned to the UN. He resigned the position May 23, 2022 due to the war. His resignation letter: • US divisio...
I'm not convinced communism is realistic or feasible in general, at least not as the political philosophers mused, perhaps, in some respects, going al...
It was argued earlier in the thread that the US and the UK should stay out of such efforts. (You?) Maybe talks could be held under the auspices of the...
:up: Finland-Sweden relations, Poland-Ukraine relations, ..., regardless of whatever history. With Putin at the helm, it seems genuinely difficult to ...
Your mileage may vary, (taking) control is a special theme among autocrats: Vladimir Putin: Experts reveal reason why the Russian President declared m...
Since 2014, Donetsk + Luhansk (? Donbas) have been an organized Russian staging area, and Crimea was grabbed. By 2022, with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, ...
, I'm not quite sure how it was before with respect to the languages. (Don't think Ukraine received all that much attention before the invasion.) I ad...
Ukraine war: Belarus is not yet committed to a closer military partnership with Russia – here’s why (Jennifer Mathers; The Conversation; Oct 19, 2022)...
Hate is one of the "winners" here. :/ Was just looking over some of the cultural moves... On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians (Vladimir...
@"Manuel", you're right of course (I'm surely guilty). That said, things go awry when someone points (or keeps pointing) elsewhere at a supposed "real...
Such destruction. Civilians To Be Evacuated From Ukraine's Kherson As New Commander Says Situation 'Tense' For Russian Forces (RFE/RL; Oct 18, 2022) U...
, OK, no predicting the future then, we can run with that. So, fast forward to today. What do we have? Just the facts. A Russia with nuclear weapons o...
Nah. NATO's a threat to Putin's ambitions, a threat to free Kremlin movements/actions, to Putin's Russia bulging. Should be clear to anyone. NATO isn'...
FYI, should anyone still be interested, a handful of recent articles: Sep 26, 2022 Association of Primary and Booster Vaccination and Prior Infection ...
I'll just note that the more complex (or "chained") the speculation, the less accurate it's likely to be. Anders Åslund, Ukraine’s six key conditions ...
@"Isaac", here's one for your consideration. The Battle of Culiacán: Back in 2019, the Mexican government arrested a son of crime boss El Chapo, who, ...
Putin frames it in terms of threats, danger, fear. So, we could try to examine that. First, though... Broken promise or not? This seemed to me a recur...
3 ways of looking at Putin’s barbaric escalation against Ukrainian civilians (Vox; Oct 17, 2022) The international level, The domestic level, The psyc...
, these scrolled by a while back (your mileage may vary) ... Why white evangelical Christians are Putin's biggest American fan base (MSNBC; Mar 2, 202...
And that snippet is more subtly echoed by Putin, Matviyenko, and probably a few I forgot (including in the US). A call for nationalism in a category t...
, in case no one else welcomed you: welcome to. :) Yes, you'll find grumpy old folks and angry young folks here, but more importantly smart and knowle...
Re the (existential) threats ... Apart from Turkey, NATO members close to Russia don't host nuclear weapons (Canada not shown here): /uploads/resized/...
No one's marching on Moscow, has expressed wanting to, threatened with. This part is about Ukraine, sovereignty, self-determination, self-power. Ukrai...
, equivocation aside, the Russian autocrats can say and do whatever, and that's what they do — with or without others. Should others then stand idle b...
I think the Ukrainian government should arrange a large formal ceremony, to officially declare the Russian referendums not worth the papers they're wr...
, you tell me? The referendums don't really mean anything, as per the UN and most others (is my guess). Those regions aren't part of Russia, regardles...
Russia stretches just about all the way to Japan, to Alaska, out to the Pacific. As far as I know (correct me if wrong), they've never expressed wanti...
, the existential thing is quoting Putin. Strategic interests are other matters. Then there's the context, further elaborating interests. Besides, goi...
Territorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations (Oct 7, 2022) • illegal so-called referendums • unlawf...
A bit of the here-and-there regarding culture Mar-May: • Putin lashes out at Russians with Western mentality (CNN; Mar 17, 2022) • Putin Lashes Out at...
Some things mentioned earlier in the thread, apologies for the repeat... • Putin's Russia goes (increasingly) autocratic non-democratic authoritarian ...
Does that disturb you? ;) Not much of a rallying cry, though, and hardly sudden. Besides, becoming a member isn't (just) their choice, seeking members...
I'll just sneak a "missing" bit in. :) By the way, they say there's been a surprising amount of unity/direction among the Ukrainians. ROC style (in en...
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