Everyone with half a brain knows the purpose of sanctions, coup didn’t take place. And as far as carving of Russia goes, they know this has been the wet dream for ages now of many, so here is the answer from Mr Medvedev “I am often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh. The answer is I hate them. They are bastards and just cunts basically. They want death for us, death of Russia. And as long as I'm alive, I will do everything to make them disappear.” I assume he is specifically referring to nazis and Canadians.
Russia is pushing harder on their own soldiers who are end of contract end of june. It was already clear that they would not escape that easyily. Russia proposes them now 1 week holiday and a new contract for an "unlimited" time and a few hundred thousand roubles. Or the Russia will do this:https://www.newsweek.com/russias-co...eatened-criminal-charges-if-they-quit-1707108 It is clear that Putin even does not care about Russian soldiers dying. All he wants is become the best Tsaar Russia ever had. No matter at what price. Quote from the Security Service of Ukraine: "We hope that the [size of the] invading army will decrease by the summer. If not, our defenders will help them return home. As we have already helped the more than 30 thousand invaders who have died in the war".
Putin is taking a lot of heat for sending conscripts and regular recruits to Ukraine - among other things, it gives him a sense of how much backlash there will be if he calls a general mobilization. So the way the geniuses are trying to deal with it is by taking territory in the donbas and conscripting all the men in the areas as they are occupied. That way you are not sending them there because they are already there. WHAT COULD GO WRONG THERE? Other than everything. The pro-Putin types here can argue that Russia is nevertheless advancing and that is true, but these local-yocals that they are sending to slaughter are just that- local yocals being sent to slaughter. From the beginning I have said that this would ultimately be all about Russian artillery and it is. All these poor bastards being sent to slaughter couldn't operate an electric toothbrush. Russia turns to Donbas conscripts to fill front lines https://www.ft.com/content/e5b88958-b6e4-4417-ba50-eb1916092acd
I think that there are not many pro-Russians living in Donbas anymore. Most people in Donbas realize now what the Russians plan is. Russians give no sh*t about the people in Donbas. More people from Donbas will die fighting for the Russians then the number of deaths caused by the "Ukrainian genocide" that never happened. By accepting Russian occupation many of them signed unknowingly their death sentence.
'We have no food' Putin rocked by army morale collapse - Donbas troops stage filmed revolt VLADIMIR PUTIN faces a catastrophic collapse in army morale after Russian conscripts from the Donbas protested about their abysmal conditions. https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...rale-collapse-donbas-putin-ukraine-war-update
Yeah, no. Nobody had a plan to carve up Russia, this was the fever-dream of Russian propogandists. Its not even desirable to have more and more unpredictable countries with legacy nukes on their soil. But now the West has a problem it can only fix by investing in new power systems like fusion and better solar etc. This all has to be done anyway or the planet as we know it is doomed so it's unavoidable pain. In the meantime China with ass-rape Russia with unpredictable results for the world. All because of the ambitions of one dying man.
Hopefully, because this will be a distraction for them as they currently have intents on Taiwan and Pacific Ocean countries and islands.
A thread reader summary of sixteen Tweets... Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1535617894045868033.html
My autocorrect is sic A problem with three languages loaded. Something the Russians around here are not getting, sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy. They as a people will find they much preferred the West's friendly disrespect to China's long term plans which are a metastasizing cancer. Taiwan is a lovely place, I enjoyed my short time there. A shining example of what the Han Chinese could have been. Along with the plans you described to grab the seas, the CCP wants rid of a successful alternative model.
New (not sure what to call it - statue? abomination? joke?) opening in Russia. Basically a weird cult or a mass psychosis.