Come on, don't be so pessimistic. Putin seems pretty unhinged and demanding right now, plus he has over 6000 nukes at his disposal, so chin up as you might not miss out on the end of humanity.
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Come on Khor Tose, you know Moses doesn't let facts get in the way of perfectly consumable bias.
Ukrainians are evil child murdering nationalists, and Russians are peace keepers who just wish we could all get along. What's so hard about that?
If current reports are to be believed, sounds like the Russians are getting a bit of a smackdown over there...
Never ignore a learning experience, in case you find yourself in urban combat someday, some tips from a US marine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...former_marine/
Not a land mines, but shells. It is typical mistake what does not native translators: in Russian and Ukrainian shells and land mines named "mines" - "мины"
https://sharij.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/miny.jpg
As they say you can’t reason with a drunk
Sounds like they weren't just killed by Nationalists. More propaganda.Quote:
The Alley of Angels in Donetsk, Ukraine is a memorial for children of Donbas killed during the War in Donbas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_of_Angels
From SWIFT to Russia - “Goodbye”
“ First, we commit to ensuring that selected Russian banks are removed from the SWIFT messaging system. This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.
Second, we commit to imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...omic-measures/
some "selected banks" should we care? here are 600+ banks what are using SWIFT... by the way: there are about 20 banks located in Crimea, all not using SWIFT and all are working normally already 8 years... Russia has own international system for interbank messaging along with Chinese own system...
Correction: now in Russia are 331 bank, 5 of them are under sanctions.
Now just watch Moses, in a few months when Russia's economy really begins feeling these impacts you're going to get all pissed off and blame the West. Can't possibly be the dear leader's fault for invading Ukraine... no, no... it'll be the West's fault for being a bully.
One thing I've never understood... nobody really knows, but tere's speculation Putin is worth around $200 billion USD. Whatever the amount is, it's massive and he's most likely the richest man in the world.
How are Russians who support Putin possibly ok with that though? Do they think he's just a really intelligent businessman, or are they totally fine with him being a criminal who plunders and pillages what should be one of the wealthiest nations on the planet while leaving his fellow countrymen to suffer widespread poverty?
For example, if it somehow emerged that Trudeau had a good $60 billion tucked away in personal wealth, I'm quite confident he'd have some explaining to do to the Canadian people. It'd make that recent trucker protest look like Sunday brunch at church.
This historic level of sanctions being imposed on Russia is in a state of flux which is understandable. I don't think the European Commission has released the actual number of Russian banks which will be blocked from SWIFT yet. They have simply announced the fact that a decision has been made to block select banks.
One could imagine that the blocking of SWIFT from select Russian banks is just a small piece of a very large picture with so many countries imposing sanctions simultaneously. it will probably take weeks if not longer to see how these small pieces fit together in order for Russia to realize the full impact.
Hopefully (for every ones sake) Putin will agree to negotiate some sort of compromise before more people die.
Even the world's favorite eccentric billionaire is helping out. Activated Starlink in Ukraine, and is sending more modules to the country for communications and internet access that Russia can't knock out.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317
Hmmm... not much in terms of news tonight.
I'm going to assume this isn't one of those cases where no news is good news?
Anyway, wonder if those Canadian truckers and others feel stupid about crying bloody murder about the Canadian government and that tyrant Trudeau for asking them to get a vaccine hence stripping them of their basic freedoms?
I guess as truckers they're licensed to drive heavy vehicles. The UK Ministry of Defence is reporting that the advancing Russian army includes mobile crematoriums to dispose of the bodies of dead soldiers so the scenes of body bags returning to Russia can be avoided (so upsetting to their families, you know, who might be tempted to blame Putin)
So how much does a dead 19 year old net you in the motherland?
EDIT: Well, that didn't take long to find. I guess the Russia government just says the kid died instead of got killed, hence no need for this whole compensation thing.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/09...but-not-killed
no... mercenary - soldier in private military company, contractor - solder in state army... they have quite high salary, insurance, health service benefits and 45-days holidays with free tickets to any point of Russia for whole family yearly... in case of death at time of service family will receive insurance (it is enough for to educate 2 kids 6 years each in top-50 Russian University, or 1 kid 6 years in TOP-1 University) + 1 year salary
2007, really? and 41 case for 10 years? Sure, it is enough for to make conclusion :)
"Died" means death from non-combatant reasons: died in drunk fight and so on.
By the way: this 19 yo kid wasn't contractor. He was trainee in military camp. Russia has 2 kinds of "soldiers": trainee and soldier.
Trainee - guy btw 18 and 27 yo who should visit mandatory 1 year training. Trainee has to be healthy, to finish school / high school / college. They are living in the camps in own regions and have intensive trainings, day-time-sleep, small allowance monthly (for canteen: cigarettes, ice cream; for cinema in local town), day off by weekends after first 3 months for to leave camp and visit local town. Parents may visit them by weekends. As alternative trainee may choose not army training but civilian service in hospital, hospice, clinic, house for elders. There are waiting lists in some regions for to became trainee - service in state companies and in any govt position is opened only for guys who finished his trainee year.
Soldier - guy after 21 yo, who finished trainee year and chooses to serve in army by contract. Only soldier may be used in military conflict by order of Ministry of defense.
Russian law forbids to use trainee in any military conflict unless whole state mobilization is declared by parliament.
Do you have any idea of how heartless and void of empathy that makes you sound?
For example, when Canadian soldiers get killed in the line of duty you don't hear Canadians saying, "well tough shit for them, if they didn't want to get killed they shouldn't have signed up". That's just not normal.
Well. Yearly tens or hundreds of Canadian truck drivers are killed in car accidents. What Canadians says about them? Yearly tens Canadians oil drillers / coil miners / fisherman are killed on their work places, what Canadian says about them?
Every profession has own risks.
Again: each profession has own risks: to be involved into urban fight, or to be involved in lungs asbestos pollution... does it important for relatives if result is the same? risks are known and accepted before to put signature in contract...
for me personally the most tragic is death or teachers who are killed in schools by guns in hands of drugged kids... because this risk is really unpredictable... but risk of soldier to be killed is the same as risk or police officer on duty - both professions have dangerous risks...
How about this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...mily_and_dogs/
I can't see it, but from the comments, sounds pretty fucked up.
Reddit? Are you serious? Just fake as circulated in Twitter photos from last few days of dropped/burned "Russian" military cars (in fact on photo is Ukrainian truck "Bohdan" with Ukrainian car plate, but who on the West knows about "Bohdan" and how Ukrainian plates look like?)
Matt, hint for you: you may choose also xhamster with video "dad fucks son" and clime what it is deadly Russian tortures poor Ukrainian civilian as a proof... and BDSM videos are suitable for that the most... Pffff... Reddit...
There are so many fake "news" in social medias...
"Kiev bombing" 2 days ago. On the video Ukrainian rocket destroys also Ukrainian SU-27 and it slowly falling in fire on building
"Russian rocket targeted civilian building in Kiev" - photo of the high-rise building with one destroyed apt - it is clear what it was damaged by poor targeted Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile - damage is too small for real Russian rocket - it will destroy whole building.
"Russia bombing Ukrainian island Zmeyiny and kills whole harisson" , and after it president Zelensky made all of them "Heroes of Ukraine" - and yesterday video of captured harisson healthy arriving to Crimea on Russian military ship, all 82 soldiers...
2 days ago in Kiev govt made free distribution of AK-47 and ammunition to civilians, they just drop boxes with guns and ammunition on streets in hopes what it will increase resistance to Russian invasion. Anyone who wants may take it, no need to show passport, no accounting who takes it. They distributed over 20 000 pieces.
At the closest night almost all jewelry shops and supermarkets in capital were robbed, few rich families were robbed and killed, street gang fights were there amplified. As result lot of killed Ukrainian civilians, without Russians soldiers in Kiev.
We're they doing the Nazi salute while yelling Heil Hitler, doing meth, and beating the gays at the same time?
Fresh news: Kiev just announced what they will free any prisoner who wants "to protect Ukraine" and give them weapons. This includes all formerly soldiers from nationalist battalions who was jailed for robbing and killing civilians in prev. years. Well right steps. next step will be complains what "Russian robbed and looted all jewelry shops in Kiev".