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The crazies are at it again. “Several state lawmakers belonging to Germany’s AfD party intend to visit Donbass in the coming days, one of them confirmed on Twitter on Monday, but called “fake news” the insinuations by a US-based think tank and Ukraine’s former ambassador to Berlin that they are agents of Russian propaganda.” To put things in perspective: the official AfD party line is that they are against sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, and many AfD politicians and party members have openly expressed their admiration for Putin. https://csmtimes.com/german-mps-to-visit-donbass

Short video, very revealing:

I had a 5 year plan to become dictator of the world. Unfortunately that didn’t work out either….

One of Russia's most popular singers, Alla Pugacheva, has called on the Russian authorities to declare her a "foreign agent", in solidarity with her strongly anti-war husband Maxim Galkin. She has been a big star for decades. She said the Kremlin's "illusory aims" in Ukraine "make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62948146

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russian forces previously occupying much of Ukraine's Kharkiv region of employing the widespread use of torture. At least 10 torture sites had now been discovered in the liberated eastern region, Zelensky said in his evening video address on Saturday. Russia, of course, denies everything and calls it a smear campaign. https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/09/18/zelensky-accuses-russian-fascists-of-torture-in-kharkiv-region

I totally agree. I just repeated what Putin used as an excuse (it's all Ukraine's fault) to continue with his war of terror that is doomed to fail. In the end, Putin is fully responsible for this senseless war, as well as for the countless war crimes being committed by the Russian army (and its allies, like the Wagner group and the pro-Russia militias in Donbass).

He also said it’s all Ukraine’s fault it’s still going on, because Ukraine refuses to negotiate.

Prison is way too good for people like Putin and his cronies. Just dump them on one of the uninhabited islands in between Siberia and the North Pole and let the polar bears take care of them….

President Zelensky said on Friday many Ukrainians were buried at various sites in the newly-recaptured northeast including whole families and people who were tortured, likening the aftermath to Russia’s withdrawal from near Kyiv months ago. Zelensky: “Russia leaves only death and suffering. Murderers. Torturers.” https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/09/16/zelensky-alleges-torture-and-war-crimes-evidence-in-recaptured-northeast

Not sure if I agree with you. Birds of a feather stick together. Just look at that Wagner group, I don’t think there’s a larger group of violent nutters and psycho’s in the world, and they seem to be doing quite well, so they apparently make it work somehow.

Privateers were quite common in those days, it's one of the reasons how a small country like The Netherlands could become the most powerful nation on the planet for quite a while. But that was 400-500 years ago, times were a little different back then. Torturing prisoners to extract a confession was quite normal, for instance. Life was very cheap. Times have changed since then, however. The death penalty has been abolished in a lot of countries, torturing prisoners (or anyone else, for that matter) is frowned upon and going to war because a wannabe fascist dictator has delusions of grandeur is something most civilized countries strongly disapprove of. Apparently Putin doesn't care about all that, though, and wants to go back in time a couple of centuries. I feel sorry for Russia for having such an insane leader, and such a kleptocratic elite who care about nothing and no one, only about themselves, the size of their bank accounts and their giant ego.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1652045/putin-news-russia-ukraine-wagner-group-prisoners-murderers-troops-defence-latest "Recruiters show interest in those convicted for murder and robbery. Those inmates in prison for drug and sex offences are normally not selected."

I read somewhere that there are (at least) 5 million yaba addicts in Thailand. How are you going to win the war on drugs with 5 million yaba addicts alone? Because that’s not even counting all the other addicts hooked on hard stuff like heroine and such.

Not just any convicts; they are specifically looking for murderers.

This is the grim reality of Russian occupation in Ukraine. Mass grave with more than 400 bodies found in Izium. How anyone in the West - or on this forum - can keep defending this Russian invasion is beyond me. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-mass-grave-found-izium-where-russians-ousted-days-ago-2022-09-15/

What an absolute selfish moron. Glad he came to his sensen and restored it to its original state.

That seems to be par for the course in Thailand: they just won’t stop, not even when they see someone crossing and know they’re going to crash into that person. Even when there are traffic lights, many still won’t stop. If the Thai authorities really want them to stop at zebra crossings, the only thing that would probably work is a barrier, like at railroad crossings.

And another one bites the dust, they’re dropping like flies. Apparently, over the last six months or so, it’s been very unhealthy for some people to belong to Putin’s inner circle: https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-sungorkin-dead-death-putin-ally-komsomolskaya-pravda-1742913

Jeez dude, stop with the deflection already. Russia is the aggressor here, the one that invaded Ukraine and the one committing all the war crimes. And also the one acting like a fascist nazi country.

Even more proof (not that we need more proof by now) of Russian army’s depravity.

Indeed. I was born not long after WWII, and I had plenty of relatives who were there when the allied forces liberated The Netherlands, and I heard plenty of stories from them how they welcomed the (mostly Canadian and English) soldiers and they partied for days, knowing that their ordeal was over, after being occupied for five years by the Germans, who became increasingly more brutal and repressive as the war dragged on. Fortunately the Ukrainians in Charkiv Oblast didn’t have to wait that long, but I can very well imagine how immensely glad and relieved they must have felt when their towns and villages were liberated from Russian occupation by the Ukrainian army. I hope they can keep up their momentum and keep pushing the Russians back further and further.

I read the same stories, of Russians torturing people with electricity, people being kidnapped/deported, people being summarily executed, women and children getting raped, Russians stealing everything they could lay their hands on before fleeing. Absolutely horrible and appalling. Seems to me that this is not just random stuff, this is either orders coming from higher up, or the Russian army has a serious problem with discipline. Or maybe both.

Russian energy boss dies after ‘falling overboard’. His predecessor died earlier this year from a ‘stroke’. Nothing to see here, folks, just move along…

CNN: ‘See what Russians left behind after being run out of city’. https://youtu.be/wT_8HXAHZXE