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Indeed, I get quite emotional every time I see videos like this. And I really don’t care what those cowards on Fox are showing. I do know that Putin and his cronies were rooting hard for that ‘big red wave’ (and Prigozhin had been deploying his army of trolls for months to that end), but fortunately they didn’t get their way. Disaster averted. Two more years until the next potential disaster.

Indeed: where are the 87% who voted for Russia?

So good to see all the videos of people being ecstatically happy to be liberated from the Russian oppressors. Russia and Putin keep maintaining it’s their territory, though. Completely bonkers.

Banksy doing his art on the wall of a destroyed house near Kyiv: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1bqL6MsMu/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=09ca451a-f26a-4307-a043-8ec8c1094665

I saw footage of large stockpiles of ammo/shells left behind as well. Same thing happened around Lyman. It just shows that the Russian army is not nearly as good as everyone thought. Discipline is apparently very low, moral as well, and they don’t seem to give a toss if they have to leave all their equipment behind and run like hell to save their lives. Mind you, the commanding officers seem to be the first ones to haul @ss when the going gets tough, so they don’t exactly set a good example for their troops.

Yeah, Kherson is liberated by Ukrainian troops! This was the kind of reception the Russians expected to get. What a monumental error of judgement the Russians made there, and it’s going to haunt them for decades to come.

Why shouldn’t they complain about their decisions? I just said that people usually don’t become billionaires by giving a toss about anyone but themselves. In my opinion, this is just another example of a selfish and greedy billionaire who wants more and more and more money, just because he can. I find that quite despicable.

I can imagine it must feel so incredibly good to get rid of the Russian oppressors. I live in The Netherlands and have family who lived through five years of German occupation in WWII, and they told me it was one of the happiest moments of their lives to see English or Canadian troops arrive in their villages and towns, knowing that the horrors of the German occupation were finally over. Here’s hoping the Ukrainians manage to kick the Russian army all the way back to their own country, where they belong.

I never said he would, and I don’t expect he will. People usually do not become billionaires by giving a toss about anyone but themselves.

Apparently all Russian troops and equipment have now been withdrawn from Cherson.

Unfortunately it’s not just this guy. All those a-hole fascist pundits on Russian TV are trying to top each other in extremist talking points. Goebbels was a peace loving pacifist compared to some of these idiots.

It’s not only that $8. It’s $5 more here, and $7 more there, and so on and so forth. It all adds up to having to pay a lot more money for everything, and I’m pretty sure a lot of companies are using this crisis to jack up their prices more than necessary, they see it as an opportunity to squeeze a little more money out of us consumers. This billionaire’s plan to have to pay an extra 300 baht per room falls in that category, in my opinion, and I’m sick of being taken advantage of. Many (big) companies are making record profits, and it all goes to ridiculously high bonuses for CEO’s and managers, and to shareholders. And the average Joe gets screwed.

What with the high inflation and prices skyrocketing, some of us do need to be a little careful how and where we spend our money. So when a billionaire suggests raising hotel prices with 300 baht, with all the price gouging I see going on around me already, I tend to get somewhat suspicious about the motives of said billionaire.

The question from Russia should not be “why do we need hungry, cold, dirty, poor Europe”? Which in itself is a dead giveaway of the arrogance and ignorance of the guy posing the question, since (most of) Europe is neither hungry, cold, dirty nor poor. The question the Russians should ask themselves is why Europe would need hungry, cold, dirty and poor Russia? Because that is what is going to happen soon to Russia. So far about 100,000 men killed, wounded or missing in the war, and probably many more casualties before this is all over. Millions of Russians have fled their country already, many more will follow. This alone is enough to cripple their economy. The western sanctions are probably not helping either. Russia has shot itself in the foot big time, and it will be many years before they recover.

Russia being sore losers, as usual.

Ukrainian troops liberated coastal town of Stanislav, just west of Cherson.

American military and intelligence agencies are supplying Ukraine with intel as we speak, so they probably know the lay of the land, and that’s why they’re being so cautious. And they have been quite successful scoping out the Russians and their positions with drones as well.

As I understand it, there will still be plenty of restrictions. Buying land will only be possible for rich foreigners (who have substantial investments in Thailand, among other things), it will not be possible for your ‘average Joe’. And they will only be able to buy one whole rai. So why everyone is getting so worked up is beyond me.

I would suggest donating all your money to charity and refrain from making ridiculous suggestions in the future.

More than 400 Russian reservists died after their commanders ran away during a Ukrainian artillery bombardment, Russian soldier says. “I saw men being ripped apart in front of me, most of our unit is gone, destroyed. It was hell,” said Aleksei Agofonov. “When it all started, the officers immediately ran away.” https://www.businessinsider.nl/more-than-400-russian-reservists-died-after-their-commanders-ran-away-during-a-ukrainian-artillery-bombardment-russian-soldier-says/

I don’t watch Russian TV, but I’m curious: do they have this kind of thing every night on TV there? I mean with the host and the three or four guests, discussing the war and launching all kinds of crazy ideas and conspiracy theories?

I was just going to post exactly the same video. It looks like more and more soldiers/conscripts are becoming more and more unhappy with how their ‘superiors’ are running things. But I was quite amazed to see how they openly confronted a general. Hope there’s much more of this to come.

This may not be the right thread to post this, but it gives a clear picture of Russia’s MO and how they (try to) meddle and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries: Russia’s Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/russias-prigozhin-admits-interfering-us-elections-2022-11-07/ “We have interfered in US elections, we are interfering and we will continue to interfere”. They have obviously been interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs for a long time already.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/11/05/the-soviet-army-once-shot-its-own-troops-for-retreating--the-russian-army-could-do-the-same/ Maybe you should read up on the history of your beloved Russia (or Soviet Union) a bit.