Notices tagged with russia
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https://gleasonator.com/objects/e0f159a2-6329-4f42-b72a-3a55d156a305
#Ukraine: drone drops a grenade on a hole filled with #Russia soldiers; the soldiers barely react. Speculation is that they are suffering hypothermia due to lack of food, warm clothing, etc.
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One of the implications of a likely Republican surge in Congress is that many of them appear to be putinoid bootlickers who will be more likely to balk at continuing to supply weapons, training, and economic assistance to #Ukraine as it struggles to dislodge the invaders from #Russia.
As anyone who has thought about the past few decades of Russian invasions should notice, the only way to be sure this doesn't recur is to defeat them so soundly that it spurs internal political change.
This happened when #Afghanistan militias, armed with US-supplied weapons, sent the USSR scurrying home with its tail between its legs.
If we stay the course, Russia may be transformed into a good citizen on the world stage.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/288235 [trib com] This article claims that many Russians do not support #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine.
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/25/7373492/ [www pravda com ua]
#Chechnya leader: #RU conscripts should not complain about the old, outdated weapons they've been issued; instead, take better weapons from #UA troops
What? You're personally seeing that #Russia's endemic cronyism and corruption could put the national future at risk and instead of railing against the oligarchs who stole the improvement and replacement funds, you're blaming it on people that are being forced to use the weapons that were slated for replacement?
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https://nu.federati.net/url/288194 [www celebretainment com]
More rumors about #Putin's health.
While the rumors might provide an explanation for the timing of going from a smoldering proxy war in the #Donbass to attempting to extinguish #Ukraine's independent statehood, one can look back and see that some of the ideas that led this way were already prominent in 2014 and possibly earlier. One can also see that even if #Russia's leader was to pass away from a fatal disease, the war would likely continue, because the ideas and circumstances leading in that direction would still be widespread among national leadership as well as the nation's people themselves.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/288183 [theweek com]
#Russia’s forces are in retreat across #Ukraine, but their soldiers and #Wagner Group #mercenaries are continuing to attempt to capture the city of #Bahmut.
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Is #Putin's #Russia planning to use #Belarus for renewed attacks against #Ukraine's capital Kyiv? https://nu.federati.net/url/288007 [www atlanticcouncil org]
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Nine Central and Eastern European countries voiced support for #Ukraine’s application for #NATO membership after #Russia moved to annex captured territory. https://nu.federati.net/url/288004 [apnews com]
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I have suspected from the moment of 2022 #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 that it will eventually end up with NATO and Russia’s 🇷🇺 alliance actually shooting at each other. Their annexation of Ukrainian territory seems to confirm this.
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Now that he's a citizen of #Russia, I guess he can place his national loyalties there. In other words, he has little reason to hold back on revelations of what he observed inside the US government's security apparatus, even things that were not illegal / unconstitutional ... but still classified or at least non-public.
Personally, I think that his revelations of unconstitutional data collection, routinely spying on ordinary citizens without even a "reasonable suspicion" with which to seek a warrant, should have been met with an offer of pardon ... which should have been conditional upon him testifying before Congress about what he observed. There was no reason for him to be forced to remain in Russia all these years, subject to whatever Putin's security apparatus demands.
"Well what if he was really a Russian spy?"
It would not have been necessary to give him the same job he had before and access to the same types of information that he had before.
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https://fortune.com/2022/09/24/europe-energy-crisis-winter-natural-gas-putin/ [fortune com]
#Russia’s war in #Ukraine expected to have big effect on European energy and economy.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/287903 [www telegraph co uk]
Secret section of #Putin order may allow up to 1,000,000 to be called up for deployment to #Ukraine. Protesters in #Russia being conscripted.
Border crossings have long waits and security forces starting to screen people to prevent escape.
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@geniusmusing While I’m glad to see a little opposition arising in #Russia, I think #Putin has put himself in a win-or-die situation in #Ukraine.
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#Putin: partial mobilization to continue invasion of #Ukraine, votes in captive areas to join #Russia, threats of nuclear war https://nu.federati.net/url/287879 [www nbcnews com]
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#Russia’s #Ukraine invasion: https://birb.site/@charlag/109032007836088244
I did not check for sources, but according to this person, #Putin is escalating.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/287852 [www atlanticcouncil org]
Polls show dramatic shift in Southern #Ukraine views since #Russia invaded.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/287851
More on the apparently shaky support.
#Russia #China #Ukraine
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/15/world/ukraine-russia-war/putin-xi-meeting
#NYTimes: #China support for #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine appears shaky after summit speeches.
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#Ukraine believed to have captured high ranking general from #Russia last week. https://nu.federati.net/url/287848 [www news com au]
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#Ukraine success destroys #Russia claim to be a superpower https://nu.federati.net/url/287841
I think nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them / threaten to use them is currently the main thing that makes one nation "a superpower". Otherwise, the Taliban would be the superpower (having driven both the USSR and USA out of Afghanistan within the past 40 years).
Yes, I am aware that by that definition, North Korea is a superpower.
Having a significantly better and bigger conventional military than most other nations has to count for something. Until that military is tested in battle, one does not know how well or how poorly it will perform, but one already knows that nukes can bring unprecedented devastation ... and that nearly everyone gives nuclear-armed nations some leeway.
(In the case of Russia, I suspect their corruption problems are a big contributor to their poor battlefield performance, as is their top-down authoritarian organization.)
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