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I suspect the real reason is more prosaic. If it is not for him to give them advice, it might be that the opposite is the case: they give him 'advice'...

As argued in the letter, an emulation of Maidan is the answer to that. I.e. do what the Ukrainians did. I still note that you treat Ukrainians very di...

Well then, you can't really comment on Littell's letter, because it's not about what non-Russians can do. Why are you comfortable writing about what t...

When you say 'we' you mean pro-Putin guys like you, or some other group? Stick to what Russians themselves can do, as this is the subject of the lette...

Just saying, if you want to talk about that letter, do talk about what is actually said in the letter, rather than other stuff that has nothing to see...

The letter is not mine. It was written by Franco-American writer-activist Jonathan Littell, who spent a lot of time in Russia when he was working for ...

Somebody controlled by the FSB, I would guess. FAUX News is a lie machine BTW.

All the demons from Dante's Hell perhaps...

I would say it is honest and blunt. Not the kind of boring, tasteless, manipulative or dissimulative PC op-ed one would read in your average US newspa...

He is predicting much sufferings for Russians if they don't get rid of Mr Putin now.

Who told you she wasn't?

Since we've started making predictions, let us hear what Jonathan Littell predicts... It's harsh. My Dear Russian Friends, It’s Time For Your Maidan J...

Thanks for the laugh. You're a bit late to predicting this future. My wife has been warning us all of the same things for the past three decades.

That would assume that you care enough to understand the difference, which I doubt.

From that site, cartooning for peace: https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NARDI-GUERRE-e1498655377673.jpg By Nardi from Ital...

Why is that a problem for you? I thought you liked bears more than hens. Edit: I think I understand now what you meant: that as a piece of western pro...

Just as yours. Don't try and argue you know what's happening in Putin's head. You're not credible.

I'm not trying to prove anything. You are. You are peddling the message that they know what they are doing. I just think they don't.

https://img.lemde.fr/2022/03/21/0/0/1654/1063/1328/0/45/0/a6cb79f_1647860457244-000319ours.jpg "How about becoming a neutral henhouse?"

I think it's the opposite: you took his advice.

Nothing looks reasonable here, on the Russian side. It's all about war crimes, power trips, incompetence, and keeping a zombified political system ali...

More importantly, Mr Putin himself followed your advice. Ain't you proud? Or maybe it's the other way round: he advised you first.

They are in damage control mode right now, saying they didn't really care for Kiev now that they have been repelled from there, and after having sacri...

That was already a failure to start with: no clear goals, so you have soldiers asked to sacrifice their lives for... well... everything and nothing.

We call it la Nouvelle Orléans.

LOL. Been there too (before the hurricane) and liked it even better than Budapest. :grin: I hope they are back on their feet.

No, never in Ukraine. I was in Kosovo, which had some similarities I think. For instance, every single village and town in Kosovo had two different na...

DISCLAIMER: Those men are not naked. They all wear a proper speedo, of a dark navy blue with a gold blazon if they are members. I thought this needed ...

There are some of these horrible places called "striptease joints." :halo: With a number of interesting options inside. :naughty:

Yep, that's kinda cool. It's like a huge spa from before WW1, I think, all with naturally hot spring water that doesn't stink sulphur too much. There'...

What?

Yes, i've been to Budapest since, and you can have good fun there. I recommend the art deco baths, where you can play chess in the water. https://pbs....

It's not rocket science. But you have managed to understand the point. Well done. It seems to me that you are trying to say something here. So instead...

Yes, of course. In the worse countries, you couldn't even trust the taxi drivers. Those queuing at the airport in particular could be bugged or the dr...

It must be pretty schizophrenic. I travelled through Hungary in the 80's. It was rather sad how nobody would ever speak their mind in public but would...

But we were talking of propaganda dominance, not 'press dominance', whatever that means. Try to focus. If the state can forbid all independent media, ...

You were talking of dominance, remember? You were saying that there was no way to assert or measure that the propaganda in Russia was more dominant th...

Did you not?

Your problem is that you don't want to understand. The difference between living under Putin and under Biden in terms of freedom of access to accurate...

You cut a piece out of my sentence, a classic disinformation trick.

That's not what I said.

That is true but it's another topic.

The argument is that they developed their influence not by killing people, but by creating new media. And people can do what they did, develop new med...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9ea7c0154471b9169f57db6d6d70ac0fc8644f4/0_0_6001_4001/master/6001.jpg?width=480&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s...

Amazing how people can get dirty on a message board, make it all personal, lie through their teeth to score a point, and still expect to be taken seri...

Please do so. I will spare you my presence as well.

This is a lie, one of many that your side spread, all the while crying us a river about western propaganda. Stop your propaganda first. This thread is...

What makes you think something so outlandish? And also, why does this debate has to be about what I care for? I don't care what you care for or not, S...

The question of how successful or not the invasion is from a Russian standpoint is not equivalent to the question of how many Ukrainian lives are lost...

There is such a thing as a Pyrrhic victory after all.