Oligarches are not warlords, true. But Putin buddies like Prigozhin, Shoigu, etc are not just rich people, they have a lot of power and influence.

Yes but I don’t feel like the Civil War is nearly a good comparison. It’s a completely different era and the Confederacy was never a Sovereign nation. A succeeded union, sure, but pretty conceptually different. An ongoing civil conflict with a short few years of independence.

Also it’s interesting when Russians talk about Nazi’s, because so many westerners are contextualizing “nazi” to be a universal term. “Nazi” to Russia has never meant “Nazi” the way the US see it. Lots of interesting reads out there on this topic. In short, it is about the invaders from the west that caused the Great Patriotic War, or WW2.

The Nazi terminology in the Ukraine war is much more about the western favoring government that “infiltrated” this ex-Soviet state back in 2014. Which makes sense, since Kiev has suppressed and attacked the Russia-favoring republics of Donetsk and Luhansk for nearly a decade. The Nazi narrative makes some sense when you look at it from that perspective, “invaders from the west”.

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TV propaganda does not work on his cronies, though. Coup is a possible threat.

She's an Israeli citizen. Read the article

I think a whole lot of Russian citizens have been "quiet quitting" since about ten years after the Soviet collapse. They have seen the massive corruption of the Soviet heirarchy, combined with the economic octopus of the black and grey markets merge into a system of looters and absconders and resource-partitioning oligarchs to a point where American corporatist capitalism looks like free market anarchy by comparision. They have checked out, ducked their heads, and "gone along to get along" so long that they have no tools to respond to pressure from above. This affects Putin, because by doing the bare minimum, or doing their jobs only on paper, they have allowed or even actively particiapated in a dissection, hollowing out and selling off of all the things that in Putin's view made the country great. He tried to attack a foreign state with a paper army, and now he knows he must win before it collapses of its oen weight and takes him--and a lot of the Russian system of governement--with it. Riding a tiger is only dangerous when you try to get off. Riding a Paper Tiger is dangerous when the rest of the tigers cease to be fooled.

Guess we got to convince people that a rising tide lifts all boats. Its a shame.

In real world, by the time you lose five million your soldiers are already hanging you.

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I wasn't sure whether to have any sympathy for the dead - until you mentioned the women and children. Thanks so much for the clarification !

This strikes me as a similar move to England’s 1950’s Royal World Tour that the at-the-time Princess Elizabeth was embarking on. Imperial influence waning, time to do a show and tell with the locals. Pretty tone deaf.

> What they can do is periodically move troops around and make blustery noises and force Ukraine to keep some troops in the North just in case. That’s basically free. So they keep doing that.

Oh, believe me, the Ukrainian border guards in the north and making their thoughts on the bluster very well known.

I feel like those might have happened in the same night.

I follow, thanks for the clarification, I completely agree.

The US Navy is going to learn several thousand men in a tub might not be as impervious as they used to be. Time on target works with drones.

Ah? Didn't know that. Why the name?

Not just any shit. When all you have is explosives, everything starts looking like Russian plane.

A good chunk of the Belarusian military has already said they will just go AWOL if ordered to invade. Almost none of the civilian population would be okay with it.

The helpers are often referred to as “flying monkeys.”

The partisans have entered the boarding gate. Now if the Russian partisans could get busy in Moscow helping Pooty’s friends ascend tall buildings.

It's always a mug's game answering that question in a forum like this. The questioner is most likely being disingenuous and will attack any proof provided. Anyone who really cares to find proof knows how to use a search engine. The only correct answer is to rickroll them.

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Well, the nuclear regulation authority in the article is a department in Japan’s government, presumably at least somewhat beholden to politicians and therefore TEPCo and other businesses as well. Do you have info on a non biased organization which corroborates their conclusion?

Again, it may be completely safe, and probably is. But the reason the”solution to pollution is dilution” was used as justification for waste disposal while creating horrible environmental disasters is because each individual polluting act is just as they say - essentially harmless to the environment. It’s the consistent release of pollutants over a long period of time which destroys the environment, and it’s been 12 years since the tsunami, and this is hardly the first irradiated water they’ve released.

But the prisoners are in their cells and will never leave them again. Except for legal hearings by video and for punishment in the isolation cells.

The biggest problem is thst with 100 prisoners per cell and only 80 bunks. They're going to be ultra-violently fighting for each bunk and food. As well as being bored out of their skulls. With the only entertianmnet being torturing the other prisoners.