This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Hard to know what is intentionally set and what is a “normal” fire, but they seem to have a lot of them at manufacturing plants
The Russian currency has lost a third of its value since December alone.
On Thursday it was trading at more than 90 Rubles per US dollar.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, it was revealed that Russia's revenues from oil and gas fell by 47 percent in the first half of the year compared to 2022.
The country's economy remains among the worst performers in emerging markets this year.
Sad? Looks glorious to me. Fvck everything Russian
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Now then! Türkiye finally grows into the role.
Gotta either…., or not.
He intended to tighten it after the vodka break.
I am curious what the target was. I imagine we will soon find out. Russians claim it was an attack on a nuclear power plant but the missile hit something 70 km (43 miles) away from the plant.
Medvedev is as nuts as any of the Russian “leadership”……..that is all…….
I think this is fair but a bummer for Ukraine. Let's get this war overwith... so long as it leads to a Russian demise and an absense in Ukraine. I don't like that he said he was giving Ukraine this ammo since they are running low.
www.nytimes.com
Biden Says Ukraine Is Not Ready for NATO Membership
President Biden, who will attend a NATO summit in Europe this week, said it was “premature” to allow Ukraine to join the alliance as the war with Russia continues.
Well, that explains the delay on Sweden
I'm starting to think the WH claim of low supplies of munitions in Ukraine is merely justification to supply the cluster ammo to Ukr.
At least that's my hope.
At least that's my hope.
Bust it up. Scare those immigrants who moved to Crimea. Get out, vagrants. Get out.
How so? I thought their big complaint was that Sweden is too soft on the killing of Kurds?
Turkey finally offering to protect food shipments is about inflation and food insecurity in Turkey. Erdogan just "won", another term, but the people are getting restless.
Edit: The popular theory was that there wouldn't be movement on Swedish membership until after Erdogan's re-election. He needed to play the tough guy card to the fanatics.
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Why did russia invade Ukraine 🇺🇦?
🔵 Much depends on how we answer this seemingly obvious question... if we can get to the root of russia's rot, we'll learn to stop worrying about Ukraine's victory & accelerate the return of a lasting peace to Europe.
🔴 Was the decision to invade a miscalculation by putin or a historical inevitability?
🔴 Should we blame the tyrannical kleptocracy motivated by money & power or the tacit acquiescence of the russians?
🔴 Is this a revanchist regime led by an autocrat whose worldview is shaped by the "humiliating collapse of the USSR," or is this a manifestation of russia's imperial DNA stretching back centuries
🔵 for me, the deeper you dig, the more obvious it becomes that at the root of it all is one phenomenon: russian elites in Moscow generate wealth & power by extracting it from faraway lands (e.g. Siberia)...
🔵 what's the connection, you might ask? Well, bear with me for a second. Moscow rules over its colonies with an iron fist. The governance model is known as a "power vertical," and it's been this way for centuries, no matter what the polity was called: the grand duchy of moscow, the russian empire, USSR, or the Rashist Federation.
🔵 this wealth-extractive (or colonial) structure has to be justified to the russian elites & the subjugated population alike. In other words, Moscovia has to explain to itself & the world why it exists, why it gets to control the riches of Chechnia or Siberia, & why the "strong center" & "stability" are in the interest of the Peoples of the Russian Empire/Federation & the world.
🔵 russia - branded as the Soviet Union at the time - attempted genocide of the Ukrainians in the 1930s. What's happening today is what russia does. It is not an aberration. The Rashist Federation just can't help it.
🔵 Whether consciously aware or not, the russian elites understand that the russian national idea is conquest and subjugation. They viscerally sense that an independent, democratic, & prosperous Ukraine will expose the root of russia's rot, and #RussianColonialism will have to end, making them less rich/powerful and more pathetic/irrelevant...
Illegitimate Terrorist regime commits yet another war crime.
If the numbers of late are accurate, the pace has really slowed down. I wonder if they are waiting for the cluster bombs before making the next move.
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