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Whichever way you look at it and however much credibility you give to the reports I think you have to accept that we are looking at over one hundred thousand deaths as a result of this war:
Whichever way you look at it and however much credibility you give to the reports I think you have to accept that we are looking at over one hundred thousand deaths as a result of this war:
Whatever the number, whether it be 1 or 100,000, it’s all for one man’s dream of empire and ‘new world order’. Paid in blood. It’s disgusting. Putin doesn’t care. The lost lives are about as important as what lies in the dogs£t bin. Run out of conscripts? Get some more. The supply is almost inexhaustible.
Regardless, Bakhmut looks like like it will fall soon so the Russians will be able to claim success there. It’s a real slog fest but they’re making progress. Poor Ukraine - such bravery.
On the PR front BBC produced an interesting article on Russian tv and how the State presents the war.
She’s been put into a children’s home, her father arrested and facing jail probably for a long time. Appalling. Incredible in the 21sr century in Europe we have an essentially imperial war and a dictator of the worst kind where a child’s picture can become a crime.
Basically, it’s one people, one view, no opposition tolerated. It reminds me very much of Hitler’s Germany. If enforced correctly it works too. The Nazis got it perfected in that neighbours would inform on each other, children on their parents etc. total control. it was so effective that Hitler enjoyed massive support until the day he died. Any excesses were greeted with comments like ‘if the Fuhrer knew’.
It was as if people were conditioned to accept complete control, shepherd and his flock, right to the point of sending the Berlin Home Guard (Volkssturm) out to their pointless deaths with a salute and a Panzerfaust in 1945.
I can only see this getting worse for the Russian people and see no real end to it. Bottling Russia up and waiting for it to implode as the USSR is the best hope, though given it is a country rich 8n resources others want, I can’t see that happening any time soon. Killing Putin might help.
I’m amazed Navalny has lived so long tbh. At 46 he’s tailor made for a ‘heart attack’, but I guess it’s less controversial to basically starve him to death.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 07:22 - Apr 12 with 4648 views
I notice in the above 394 MPs out of 395 voted for it with one abstention. Now that’s decisive democracy at work! Why can’t we have a system that works as well as that?
I guess there will be a vacancy now the soon to fall out of a window, heart attack, accidentally poisoned, suicide MP that abstained.
‘There are "lots of reasons" why the Russian president has chosen to visit occupied parts of Ukraine - but chief among them will be his desire to show he is "in control" at a time when his war is not going to plan, military analyst Sean Bell has told Sky News. The war is "not going well", Bell said, noting Russia has lost 50% of the territory it initially captured since the invasion. "This is about Putin demonstrating his leadership, demonstrating that he is in control with the commanders on the ground," he said. Another motive could be a show of defiance to Ukraine's allies after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest last month. This visit "will show he is free to move around" despite being a wanted man. The president will also want to send a message back home that "Russia is in control and the war in Ukraine is on track". This is critically important because the Russian army is "desperately short" on soldiers and needs to recruit more men. There are limits on where Mr Putin can go, however - he visited military headquarters in Kherson and Luhansk, two of four regions he illegally annexed in September, but it is unlikely he is meeting any soldiers on the ground, Bell said, particularly in Bakhmut. The city in Donetsk has been the site of fierce fighting for months and has earned the nickname the "meat grinder" for the thousands of fighters to have died there. Mr Putin "probably won't want to hear" what Kremlin troops in the city have to say and "almost certainly wouldn't be safe there", Bell said.’
It will be interesting to see what Putin does next. Meeting meat for the grinder soldiers isn’t one of them, it would seem. Recruitment (mass conscription) and more human wave tactics looks the best option, on the assumption that wearing out Ukraine and the west is the best option.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 13:09 - Apr 19 with 3975 views
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 06:24 - Apr 19 by Churchman
From Sky re Putin’s Ukraine visit:
‘There are "lots of reasons" why the Russian president has chosen to visit occupied parts of Ukraine - but chief among them will be his desire to show he is "in control" at a time when his war is not going to plan, military analyst Sean Bell has told Sky News. The war is "not going well", Bell said, noting Russia has lost 50% of the territory it initially captured since the invasion. "This is about Putin demonstrating his leadership, demonstrating that he is in control with the commanders on the ground," he said. Another motive could be a show of defiance to Ukraine's allies after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest last month. This visit "will show he is free to move around" despite being a wanted man. The president will also want to send a message back home that "Russia is in control and the war in Ukraine is on track". This is critically important because the Russian army is "desperately short" on soldiers and needs to recruit more men. There are limits on where Mr Putin can go, however - he visited military headquarters in Kherson and Luhansk, two of four regions he illegally annexed in September, but it is unlikely he is meeting any soldiers on the ground, Bell said, particularly in Bakhmut. The city in Donetsk has been the site of fierce fighting for months and has earned the nickname the "meat grinder" for the thousands of fighters to have died there. Mr Putin "probably won't want to hear" what Kremlin troops in the city have to say and "almost certainly wouldn't be safe there", Bell said.’
It will be interesting to see what Putin does next. Meeting meat for the grinder soldiers isn’t one of them, it would seem. Recruitment (mass conscription) and more human wave tactics looks the best option, on the assumption that wearing out Ukraine and the west is the best option.
I'm sure people will be rushing to download the app!
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