Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #13031     Jul 11, 2023
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

     
    #13032     Jul 11, 2023
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark




    Well most of that was before invading Crimea and Ukraine.Obviously opinions change when you become the modern day Hitler.
     
    #13033     Jul 11, 2023
  4. Apparently he resigned from the military right before the Special Military Operation but then was called up again as part of the reserves.

    Keeping the "special" in Special Military Operation since February 24, 2022.

    Sucks to be Oleg.
     
    #13034     Jul 11, 2023
  5. piezoe

    piezoe

    The word "paranoia" would usually to refer to irrational fear. In Putin's case however his paranoia seems entirely rational. There must be millions who would like to see him dead, and hundreds willing to pull the trigger. I don't know whether in English we have a proper word for that kind of self-created, rational paranoia.
     
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    #13035     Jul 11, 2023
  6. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    (Semafor)

    Prigozhin met Putin after putsch

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    Sputnik/Mikhail Tereshchenko/Pool via REUTERS

    The Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin days after the former led a failed mutiny against the latter.
    The BBC’s Russia correspondent noted that Putin accused Wagner of “treachery,” that Russian pilots were killed, and that Russia’s state media is still working to discredit Prigozhin — highlighting his “criminal past” — suggesting that the meeting “was no ‘kiss and make up.’” Yet Prigozhin remains free. What Prigozhin has over Putin is unclear. Perhaps unrelatedly, Reuters reported that during the mutiny, Wagner troops drove to a nuclear weapons base in Russia, although it seems none of the small nuclear weapons apparently stored there were taken.
     
    #13036     Jul 11, 2023
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    #13037     Jul 11, 2023
  8. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    thoughts and prayers.
     
    #13038     Jul 11, 2023
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    #13039     Jul 11, 2023
  10. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    And 100% "approval" of all those he had pushed out of 5th floor windows ...... who wouldn't drink the tea.
     
    #13040     Jul 11, 2023