Qooper on 28/3/2024 at 22:00
This explains why it took the russian police so long to respond to the terrorist attack:
[video=youtube;sFEbCm5uxmY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEbCm5uxmY[/video]
So if this is accurate, my earlier thinking that putin was involved was wrong. The cause is simply how the russian police works and what its main purpose is, which is to uphold and protect the power of the tsar. This would make sense and it would result in this behaviour.
Starker on 13/4/2024 at 20:39
Timothy Snyder talks about the nature of fascism and the current state of the war in the geopolitical context with one of the neocon hawks of the old old times:
[video=youtube;SLCyk41w9gU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCyk41w9gU[/video]
Starker on 18/4/2024 at 01:19
Ukraine gets more ammo. And if by some chance they run out of that, partisan warfare is an option. It bears repeating again and again -- Russia hasn't even gotten to the hard part yet.
Barring some extraordinary event that's somehow able to greatly shift the odds in favour of Russia or some extraordinary political weakness from Ukraine, the war will go on. So far, Russia hasn't been able to make any significant gains since the initial invasion while Ukraine has taken back significant parts of its territory. Russia has more manpower and equipment, but it also loses far more than Ukraine, due to having to attack fortified positions and not having the capability to conduct combined arms warfare to overcome them. The only thing they can do is to shell everything to rubble, bit by bit, making extremely slow gains. Other than that, Russia is resorting only to terror attacks against Ukraine's infrastructure -- dams, power plants, hospitals, apartment buildings, shopping centers.
There is no wunderwaffe or a turnaround in the war that Russia can employ. They don't have the equipment to scale up the war and conquer Ukraine. Using nukes is political and quite likely literal suicide. The allies they have won't support them beyond what they are already doing.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has the political will to continue the war, largely supported by the populace. For Ukrainians, it is not a contest of power, it is a fight for survival. They have seen what happens in occupied areas and to the soldiers captured by their enemy. And they have seen what happens to countries like Chechnya that made peace with Russia. To give Russia a breather, letting it catch its breath and rebuild, only means certain destruction of Ukraine as as a state with horrific results for Ukrainians. Hence there is no incentive for Ukraine to sue for peace or give up and there is every incentive to not let Russia make further gains, whatever the cost.
heywood on 18/4/2024 at 09:30
Don't underestimate the power of Russian propaganda to shape the narrative against Ukraine. It is having a big effect in my country.
lowenz on 18/4/2024 at 13:10
Quote Posted by heywood
Don't underestimate the power of Russian propaganda to shape the narrative against Ukraine. It is having a big effect in my country.
In EVERY country.
This things is WIP since 2010 (just check when
"conservative parties" - Moscow puppets - switched to isolationist / "anticonglomerate" policies - antiUE like Brexit, antiWTO, etc. etc. OR "redpilled" nuts - remember that Peterson gone to Russia to "cure" his benzos addiction)
Cipheron on 20/4/2024 at 20:59
Yeah, with Brexit it's directly out of "Foundations of Geopolitics" the innocuous sounding textbook that's Dugins actual thesis on Russian world domination
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics)
Quote:
The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.
However much of the book's ideas are delusional and show a profound lack of understanding of how other state's generally think. For example they thought they could bribe Germany to be anti-American by offering them a bunch of slave/puppet states in Eastern Europe.
lowenz on 21/4/2024 at 08:00
You see? They can play "geopolitics", the others can't cause...SATAN! It's this mystic vision (like the imperial japanese one, the fascist italian one, the nazigerman one) that must be eradicated from russian "psyche".
And they need to feed this tradition-driven mysticism, nurture it in other countries to get to their imperialistic goals.
It's not just "we take our people back from Donbas(s) ukronazis", that's a political-correct excuse ("people autodetermination" sounding so right and kind) for something else.
Azaran on 3/5/2024 at 17:44
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https://www.odditycentral.com/news/russian-man-gets-prosecuted-for-dyeing-his-hair-yellow-and-blue.html)
Quote:
A young Moscow resident was recently fined and prosecuted by police for dyeing his hair yellow and blue, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
On the night of April 27, Stanislav Netesov was attacked by unknown assailants at a bus stop in the center of Moscow as he was returning from work. He had his phone stolen and a tooth knocked out, but
when he went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tverskoy district the next day to report the crime he was shocked to learn that, instead of providing him assistance, the authorities were more interested in the color of his hair. Netesov had his hair dyed yellow, blue, and green which the police considered a symbol of Ukraine and an offense to the Russian army, which is punishable by law.
Speaking with OVD-Info, Stanislav Netesov said that police drew up a report on him for his “crime”, took his fingerprints, and
handed him a summons to the military registration and enlistment office, declaring that they would force him to “kiss his native soil in the trenches.”
lowenz on 3/5/2024 at 18:41
Perfect russian ever-'800 protofascist psyche.
There's nothing "odd", it's how Russia works (and why communist revolution started as a liberation process) as a state - and every other state.....150 years ago.