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having a finger deleted isn't really appealing, especially if this is a yearly procedure. I'm glad I haven't been required to do that.

there was an article in the honorable NZZ (the paper had been a mandatory morning read on most intelligence officers' desks during the cold war and long after) about the Ruzzo-Ruzzian power dynamics behind Putin's war in Ukraine - Putin might be forced to withdraw his best soliders from Ukraine to instead protect his regime, and Prigozhin as well as Kadyrov might do the same - not necessarily to challenge Putin but as a measure of self-preservation. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/timothy-snyder-wie-der-ukraine-krieg-ohne-bombe-enden-koennte-ld.1706730 the article is in German, there are enough options for translation. NZZ has published a lot of articles in the past weeks about power dynamics in Ruzzia. I'd say something is simmering around the Kremlin.

very probable and the SBU already announced it yesterday. the new Ruzzian theater commander is a real piece of work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Surovikin I don't know if they did it on purpose or what, now I'm torn between calling him Azog Surovikin or Dr. Evil Surovikin

do we know anything about the origins of the fight ? what the video clearly shows is that it was a "normal" fight and the kicks and punches were not intended to cause serious harm and that the Thai fell unlucky. we also see that the French guy tried to walk away even after he was on the ground and kicked by the Thai. how is the Thai public reacting to the longer video ?

ah, it needs a book ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/23/ideology-alexander-dugin-global-far-right/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics commentary: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49832-0 anyway, it's pretty revealing that for you the main thing that would separate Putin's Ruzzia from "proper" fascism is the existence of a book ... I guess it's good we even have a book then.

Putin has built up an Ideology, it also got a symbol: "Z" https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-ideology-behind-russias-war https://www.uu.nl/en/news/putins-motive-the-radical-ideology-of-a-holy-russian-nation the list of wars is there to illustrate Russia's need for drones, as your point was that Russia has not been involved in enough conflicts for it to have a need for drones. I would hold the opinion that the nature of the conflicts, local, internal, etc. and the opponents in the conflicts are largely irrelevant in the question of the need for drones. drones are needed in every war, and Russia was involved in many.

okay, let's check: what is fascism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism far-right: kind of checks authoritarian: oh yes and then some ultranationalist: check Putin's speech at the annexation ceremony dictatorial leader: check centralized autocracy: check militarism: check forcible suppression of opposition: check belief in natural social hierarchy: check subordination of individual interests for the nation and race: check regimentation of society and economy: check apparently, I also "declare something a war crime when something may not be a crime" ... this requires examples, please. the list of conflicts I presented contained no non-existing items. some were repeated because there were several armed conflicts, sometimes because Russia lost the first time but came back for more. all armed conflicts (including "special military operations" !) within or outside of Russia's alleged borders I listed are real and involved Russian troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia again, about war crimes, find posts where I said something was a war crime when it wasn't. and about negotiations: asking for negotiations now is a pro-Russian propaganda ploy because negotiations would reward Russia's aggression, putting it into the situation of offering things it does not own as "goodwill". The precondition for any negotiation is Russia offering to evacuate from all Ukrainian territories it illegally occupies.

"a realistic picture where one could hardly find something special comparing to another wars." you are joking, right ? show me another recent large-scale war where a large democratic country has been attacked and invaded by fascists ? and on top of that it happens in Europe ! it is reminiscent of WW2, and WW2 was very very special. "You and your friends igniting hate and doing the propaganda." uuh sure. do you have examples of me doing propaganda? wow, you offer to "shut up" in order to not hurt my feelings ... err... why couldn't Russia simply stop the war in order to stop hurting people for real ? So you are against the war ... you do realize that if Russia stops fighting and withdraws within its internationally recognized borders, the war stops, right ?

"wars periodically happen" ... no they are started by warmongers, they don't just "happen". Yes, we could witness Russia's defensive military doctrine in Georgia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, East Prigorodny, Tadjikistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Chechnya 2, Georgia, North Caucasus, Syria, Central African Republic and Ukraine. "unlike US which is doing small wars periodically" ... yeah, right. Russia only did "special military operations" in the above countries. I will stop there because your post is just pro-Russia propaganda drivel trying to portray Russia as the victim. good luck with that. seems a new wave of trolls were commissioned in Olgino...

depending on how long you had your computer, you might also want to replace the thermal paste, both under CPU and GPU. typically it should be done after 3-4 years, even if some paste has been reported to last for 8 years (arctic mx-4), but one rarely knows which type of paste has been used by the manufacturer. I've also seen really bad paste applications.

and until recently it was even presided by Saudi Arabia.

yeah, well, who are you to tell Ukrainians what to do and if they wanted to join the EU, why should they ask your permission or Putin's ? and they should give up some land ? for real now ?

thankfully I don't have to look at things from the perspective of a madman .

I really don't understand that talk of "escalation". Nothing Ukraine can do with its own weapons (not western ones) can be seen as escalation. Ukraine is defending in Ruzzia's full-out war. Short of using WMD, everything Ukraine does to strike Ruzzian military targets is fair game.

err... they have had that right since 2014.

they have even better military reasons to prevent the removal of Ruzzian heavy equipment over that bridge. soldiers will have no trouble fleeing using small boats, ferries, etc. but they will have to leave their tanks behind.

Maxar publishes satellite images of Crimea Bridge following explosion https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/maxar-publishes-satellite-images-of-crimea-bridge-following-explosion I expect another strike to finish the job.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/08/ukraine-stamps-celebrate-kerch-bridge-explosion-hours-crimea/ I hope the BBC will not be categorized as "trolling" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63183409

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/10/8/7370891/ https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/podolyak-crimean-bridge-explosion-result-of-inner-conflict-among-russian-law-enforcement hmmmmm... or ... Kiev is massively taking the <deleted>

nice photos and videos here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63183404 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html

sad news if true. maybe it's just "feel good" news from Ruzzia for its own audience. let's wait to see how many Ruzzians were actually encircled.

Governor: Ukrainian forces trap 5,000 Russian troops in Lyman About 5,000 Russian soldiers are encircled by Ukraine's Armed Forces in Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, said Serhiy Haidai, the governor of neighboring Luhansk Oblast. According to him, Russian troops asked their commanders if they could retreat but the request was turned down. https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/governor-ukrainian-forces-trap-5-000-russian-troops-in-lyman

I listened to Putin's speech and wow, it was full of spite, inferiority complex, vindictiveness and small d*ck syndrome. and lies of course, besides a few arguments that were accurate. many aspects of what he said were reminiscent of Hitler. in the attendance, nobody was smiling. but it still is only bla-bla. at the same time, the AFU are close to scoring another win at Lyman.

yes. Ukraine will continue to defend its territory, fake "referendums" and unilateral annexations will change nothing.

neither nor is my guess. he's doing it for profit: scaremongering, building up conspiracy stuff, distrust in own governments, etc. it generates many followers that are the people who are the most active online, spreading lies. I know several other "authors" surfing on the same wave: covid, the "great reset", etc. their goal is just to stir the pot, make money, become famous and meet powerful people, which mostly are those who benefit from these lies. he probably also wants to use the people he manipulates to influence politics. from his wikipedia page it's pretty clear he's a demagogue.