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A very good breakdown of Turkey and their role. I personally think they are playing both sides so that they come out smelling like roses no matter what the outcome.

 
This is something which is more fun if one is aware that in Russian or Ukranian that the word 'blyat' has the same meaning that 'fork' does here at Saints Report.

In Cyrillic script 'blyat' in either Ukrainian or Russian is spelled as 'блять'. So 'блять' is what 'fork' looks like when one is there.


"Russian warship: go blyat yourself!" Did I use that right?

I like how the de-tankinated turret lying on the ground looks kind of like a skull.
 
Belarus is stationing more and more troops on UKR border including special forces. They and Russia claim that Poland is going to attack them. Sound familiar?

I know they don’t want to initiate anything because they would get it handed to them. But, they are staging for something.
 
Belarus is stationing more and more troops on UKR border including special forces. They and Russia claim that Poland is going to attack them. Sound familiar?

I know they don’t want to initiate anything because they would get it handed to them. But, they are staging for something.
Belarus is gonna be in a world of hurt if they get involved. They have a lot of opposition in their own country. They will not like being drawn into the conflict by Russia.
 
Belarus is stationing more and more troops on UKR border including special forces. They and Russia claim that Poland is going to attack them. Sound familiar?

I know they don’t want to initiate anything because they would get it handed to them. But, they are staging for something.
My guess is that Lukashenko desperately does not want to get dragged into this, but he's got to do things for show to make Putin happy.

Putin's stretched pretty thin right now. If he makes Lukashenko send Belarussian troops into Ukraine, there would be a substantial chance of a civilian (not to say military as well) uprising and Putin is not in nearly the same position of strength to help prop up Lukashenko as he was last time.
 
Michael Weiss is a reliable and well-published free-lance journalist covering international affairs and wars. He has been reporting on Ukraine since the 2014 Russian invasion.






 
Michael Weiss is a reliable and well-published free-lance journalist covering international affairs and wars. He has been reporting on Ukraine since the 2014 Russian invasion.







I just hope his illness is not an excuse to keep the entire apparatus in place. I'd rather Putin and his cronies be completely overthrown than keep their deeply flawed system in place.
 
I just hope his illness is not an excuse to keep the entire apparatus in place. I'd rather Putin and his cronies be completely overthrown than keep their deeply flawed system in place.

I don't think there's any disagreement there. Russia deserves so much better - Russia has produced and continues to produce culture, scientists, athletes, etc. Russians deserve democracy. But they have never had it, going from Tsar to the Party, then to a transition to crony kleptocracy morphing into authoritarianism. If Putin is to end soon, will Putinism go with it? What will follow?
 
Michael Weiss is a reliable and well-published free-lance journalist covering international affairs and wars. He has been reporting on Ukraine since the 2014 Russian invasion.







I liked this news article for two reasons. One, it may insert some doubt and hesitancy in the minds of those FSB agents that are in the field to "promote morale" amongst the Russian soldiers and Two, that Putin may actually be dying and, I hope, filled with pain.
 
I don't think there's any disagreement there. Russia deserves so much better - Russia has produced and continues to produce culture, scientists, athletes, etc. Russians deserve democracy. But they have never had it, going from Tsar to the Party, then to a transition to crony kleptocracy morphing into authoritarianism. If Putin is to end soon, will Putinism go with it? What will follow?
I agree, but at this point it’s hard to imagine Russia remaining democratic in its current physical make-up. Maybe, someday, if the Asian parts separate into their own countries leaving a “European” Russia that can once and for all look west and dispense with grandiose notions of an empire.

But I don’t see it. The Russians truly are genius in so many ways - maybe a bad analogy, but almost every genius-level person I’ve met in my own life had a screw loose.
 

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