I’m afraid you’re going to have to get in line behind the Karens who say they’ve reported me for not believing history began on Feb 24, 2022.
I would have agreed with this maybe ten years ago but when you have been a dictator for as long as Putin has it warps your thinking. Putin has been surrounded by yes men for so long. I am no longer sure he thinks he can miscalculate.
It’s so funny to me, how some people think Putin can be separated from the people he governs, his own Russians. Recently, his approval rating dropped, from 83% to 77%, probably because Russians are growing impatient with his kid gloves approach to the war ... Poll shows Putin's popularity took hit in September but remained as high as 77%
LOL, angry Republicans in the Bronx. FYI: Democrats and Republicans are virtually in lockstep regarding the proxy war.
Russian Officials Quit in Droves After Conscripted Colleague Killed—Report (msn.com) Russian journalist Roman Super, citing Kremlin sources, said on his Telegram channel that Moscow government employees are handing in their notices following the killing of Aleksey Martynov, the head of a department within the Moscow city government. Martynov, 28, was reportedly conscripted on September 23 as part of President Vladimir Putin's mobilization decree, despite having no combat experience. He was killed on October 10 while fighting in Ukraine. "We have a mass exodus—employees leave, leaving notes in the nightstands. IT people, advertisers, marketers, PR people, and ordinary civil servants. A real mass exodus," a government source told Super. "Let me remind you that yesterday it became known about the death of a mobilized employee of the Moscow government Aleksey Martynov," Super wrote. Natalya Loseva, the deputy editorial director at RT, a Russian-state media broadcaster, said on her Telegram channel that Martynov was killed in Ukraine just days after joining Putin's army.
Thanks for this. I listened during my lunch break. She is spot on and a bit scary in her assessment of Putin and nukes.
Hilarious. Nothings says "We're losing badly" like "We need to take a break to get our sh!t together". Putin is begging Ukraine for a cease-fire agreement, so he can (you can only choose one): a) shore up his defenses, b) delay a while so winter can set in and Ukraine's advance will be slowed or stopped, c) get some time to train his new volunteers which end of the gun the bullets come out of, d) give the 1960's-era T-62 tanks a tune-up so they can be ready for battle, or e) scrape together enough steel and explosives to manufacture enough shells to continue fighting for a few more weeks. Putin wants to offer Ukraine a pause to prepare for a new offensive
Go easy on Lee Harvey over there, he's havin' another rough day. His team keeps losing battle after battle. He's gonna have to learn to speak Ukrainian when this war is over, and that's killing him.
I thought that Putin was going to nuke Ukraine if he was desperate and felt like he was losing ? But now you’re saying he wants to talk ? How crazy is it that anyone should be willing to talk at this stage ?
When the war started and gazprom2 was cancelled and sanctions were announced, there was a mysterious explosion at the largest LNG export terminal in the US that took a large part of capacity offline. Then gazprom pipelines were destroyed. Now a Russian with drones is caught in Norway after repeated sighting of drones flying around Norweigan oil and gas facilities. Who has the most to gain by destroying energy infrastructure to put the squeeze on Europe? Are the Norwigan facilities next on the hit list or have other targets already been scouted? Norway: Russian man detained with drones, suspected of breaching sanctions | Euronews A 50-year-old Russian man has been detained in Arctic Norway with two drones and is suspected of flying the unmanned aerial vehicles somewhere in the country. Numerous drone sightings have been reported near Norwegian offshore oil and gas platforms in recent weeks. The Russian citizen, who was not identified, was detained on Tuesday. Norwegian media reported that customs officers found two drones and several electronic storage devices in his luggage during a routine check at the Storskog border crossing, the sole crossing point between NATO-member Norway and Russia. Norway's Arctic border with Russia is 198 kilometres long.
Ukrainian forces blow up Russia's ammunitions depot near border, says governor (msn.com) Ukrainian forces on Thursday blew up an ammunitions depot in a Russian border village. The development was confirmed by Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia's frontier Belgorod region on Telegram. "In a village of the Belgorod district an ammunition depot was blown up as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Gladkov said as quoted by news agency AFP. He further added that residents would be taken to a safe distance. According to reports, a border post in the frontier town of Shebekino was also destroyed. Notably, Shebekino adjoins Ukraine's eastern region of Kharkiv.
Now we know why Russia leaves so much ammo behind when they retreat--the ammo dump could be blown up at any time, so don't get near it.
Putin has said that there is no need for massive new missile strikes on Ukraine, and no need to destroy the country. What a nice guy. (Translation: we are running out of missiles, and must hold on to them for final desperation attack.) Putin says no need for massive new strikes on Ukraine Do you think he'll send flowers to Kiev?
While Russia loses an ammo dump, the Zelensky regime is experiencing an operational crisis in Bakhmut. Zelensky forces are beginning to retreat from the city. Bakhmut has been regarded as the linchpin of Zelensky’s defensive system in the Donbas. Two versions of what will happen ... One, Zelensky forces will surrender the conurbation to Russia. Two, Zelensky will have to strip forces, from other locations, in a desperate attempt to hold the city.
You pretty much have to resort, to Russia running out of missiles, to sustain the narrative of Putin as genocidal maniac.
