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Over $150,000 raised in a day in crowdfunding in Ukraine for the capture of Igor Girkin, a prominent Russian nationalist who led Kremlin-backed separatists suring Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. He is also wanted over the downing of flight MH17 in 2014. Hope they catch the s.o.b. soon. May he live to be 115 years old and spend every miserable second of the rest of his life behind bars. https://www.ft.com/content/7c425499-3673-4a22-84ee-f02e4bc62a23

This is a so-called Islamic state, supporting the barbaric regime of a country that actively suppresses Islamic minorities and more or less destroyed Chechnya, killing tens of thousands people there. If anyone still had any doubts about what the mullahs in Teheran want, this should clear that right up. The hypocrisy is appalling.

I think what Placeholder meant was that Putin gets laughed at far more than Zelensky…..

Putin alone will probably not be enough, unfortunately. There would have to be a whole lot more caskets with all the Russian war-mongering idiots in them.

Just another one of Russia’s many, many war crimes: Yurii Kerpatenko, principal conductor at the Kherson Music and Drama Theatre, has been killed by Russian occupiers in Kherson. His death was announced on 14 October, said the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy. The ministry said Yurii Kerpatenko had been shot dead by the Russian military in his own home after he refused to cooperate with the invaders. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/15/7372099/

Two Finnish guys have ‘annexed’ the parking spot of a Russian diplomat in the town of Turku, after holding a ‘referendum’. There is now a big Ukrainian flag painted on that parking spot. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10160562681689948&set=a.10150145169469948&type=3

Can’t find the link, but apparently the BBC has a phone call from a Russian soldier to someone back home. He said the new conscripts were nothing more than cannon fodder, being sent to the front straight away, without any training, and even without decent weapons. He said there were dead bodies of Russian soldiers everywhere. I feel sorry for those poor guys, but not sorry that Russia seems to be losing more and more ground.

There are simple psychological tests that applicants could be required to do before joining the RTP. Or they could even make those tests mandatory for everyone already in the RTP. But then (at least) half the police force would probably be sacked, and there would be hardly any new recruits either.

Over 90,000 Russian soldiers have died, cannot be accounted for, or have suffered such serious injuries that they are unable to return to service, independent Russian media project iStories reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to the Kremlin. And Putin thought his little ‘special military operation’ would be over in a few days….. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/12/over-90k-irrecoverable-losses-suffered-by-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-istories-a79070

Like some posters keep/kept repeating here: if only Ukraine had surrendered or given up a sizeable chunk of its territory to Russia, this whole war would not have been necessary. Madness!!

“Interior ministry and police force declare war on drugs” Yeah, right, and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? Not in a million years. Both police and army make way too much money with the drugs trade, so maybe they will make some token busts, as per usual, but other than that I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Wow, 23 million baht! Talk about a drop in the ocean. How about scrapping that ridiculous plan to buy submarines and doing something good for the people instead? But the military gotta have their toys, no matter how the people are suffering.

I read that this guy is an extremely brutal and also very corrupt general, even by Russian standards, which says a lot. So Ukraine knows what it’s up against.

Psychopaths, narcissists and madmen only see the evil in others, never in themselves. It’s always someone else’s fault, they are never to blame for anything.

Be careful what you wish for, with the likes of Prighozhin and other such sinister figures chomping at the bit to take over.

To reform the RTP needs a complete overhaul of Thai society, because there in lies the problem, the general mindset that corruption is not necessarily a bad thing. There have been polls for many years with questions about corruption, and they always show that at least 65 to 70% of the Thai people are not opposed to corruption: as long as they can profit from it!

Ukrainian officials say that at least 180 bodies, including "whole families" with young children, have been discovered in a mass grave in Lyman less than one week after troops reclaimed the formerly Russian-occupied city. As the Ukrainian army liberates more towns and villages, we can probably expect many more of these horrible finds. https://www.newsweek.com/whole-families-among-180-bodies-found-mass-grave-lyman-ukraine-1750064

Or maybe had a lot of dirt on some people higher up?

Did drugs since high school, violent history, got his drugs from another cop, not doing his job. So all the necessary requirements to become or be a cop, then. Jeez, how can someone like that even enter the TGP? Don’t they have some kind of screening process? Or are the ‘qualifications’ that this guy had actually viewed as positive and contributing to the RTP?

That guy has got a sense of humor on him! I mean, really? Then why are we not all driving Russian cars, and using Russian iphones? The only thing that Russia excels at right now is subhuman behavior in their war against Ukraine, and in the parts of Ukraine they occupy. They’re also getting very good at oppressing their own people in ‘mother Russia’.

Královes (formerly known as Kaliningrad) belongs to the Czech Republic now. After the successful referendum it turns out that 97,7% of the people want to be part of the Czech Republic.

In my country there are plenty of right-wingers saying how convenient this war is for the ‘liberals’ to achieve their energy transition goals, seeing as how prices of gas and electricity are going through the roof.