‘Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man with a knife.’ - Klingon proverb
Thanks! I buy a deluxe version of the subscription because I get a gift subscription I give to my mom. It looks like it’s still 10 gift shared per month.
Also, I saw that the Washington Post has lifted its paywall for readers in Ukraine and Russia. Possibly most important in Russia, where real journalism is hard to come by.
In addition to the weapons currently being sent to Ukraine, start sending large amounts of serious archery equipment for silent resistance attacks.
The killings in Ukraine sound really bad. I don’t think they’ve quite reached the organized Nazi death squads. Where hundreds were lined up and machine-gunned into trenches. The Russian’s are capable of that same savagery.
It is horrific in Ukraine. I mentioned earlier the West can’t allow these butchers into Odessa. The bombardment by ships has to be stopped. The Ukrainian soldiers need anti-ship missiles.
In the following image, the top map shows the situation from a couple of weeks ago. I have crudely edited the bottom map to show the current situation, or how it will look in a day or two when the Russian withdrawals have been verified.
This thread is so fast moving I can’t find it, but upthread someone linked to a story about Russians retreating from a town and poisoning a bakery before they left. Now this story comes out and I’m wondering if it’s fucked up reporting on the same story or an actual payback from Ukrainians that heard about the original story. And it seems like half the sources never do follow up stories.
As far as the alcohol poisoning goes, I wonder how much of that is self inflicted. With the Russian reputation for heavy drinking/alcoholism, who knows what they tried to drink when they were stalled for two or three weeks. They were probably filtering antifreeze thru gauze bandages to drink. I also assumed they cleaned out any booze they found in homes or liquor stores.
It’s not only Georgians. Even countries like Mexico that are letting Russians in don’t really want them there. They would be happy to pass them to the US, but the US already has a huge backlog of Russians that they aren’t going to let in without really thorough background checks. Frankly, it’s going to suck being an ordinary Russian with no special skills or background almost anywhere they go.
Good work, I can hardly see the black Sharpie lines that were added on! 
Post #3766.
Others have posted in this thread about how the Russian tank factories have had to shut down due to the sanctions. Even if this is the extent of what the sanctions accomplish, that’s something.
Very sad story:
Zelensky’s speech:
I want to read this, as it challenges my own semi-fixed view that sanctions rarely work (South Africa being the prime exception). But, going back many posts, I am missing your link. Can you repost?
If Russia didn’t use the last eight years, of being under sanctions, to switch weapons production to local and Chinese electronics components, that is a failure up there with sending out tanks without infantry support.
It may have been mentioned in passing but I hadn’t seen that wiki article, so thanks. Gave them up and received “assurances”.
There’s quite a number of reports on the Russian tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod shutting down due to the sanctions. However, they all seem to be based on a claim made in a facebook post by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As far as I can tell the claims have not been verified by anyone, so I’d take them with a rather large grain of salt.
Here’s the article. I posted it over in the Sanctions thread, sorry. As keeganst94 comments, it is sourced from Ukraine defence, so difficult to know if it’s correct or not.
I’m just not buying that. It took Germany, and Japan, a lot less than 80 years to “live down” what happened in World War II and both of them did a lot worse than anything Russia has done in Ukraine.
Interesting fact of the day:
Donetsk, the largest city in the contested Donbas region and its “unofficial capital”, was founded by a Welshman called John Hughes. Until 1924, the city was named after him as Hughesovka or Yuzovka (Юзовка), with “Yuz” being a Russian-language approximation of Hughes.
The bit you are commenting on is not Zelensky’s speech. That’s just a reply in the comments to the Twitter post.
I don’t know why it sometimes includes a reply when pasting a Twitter post in this thread.
Zelensky’s speech is a video in the linked post.
Thank you.
Yes, it is hard to know, what with truth being the first casualty. I hope it is true that Russian weapons commonly require Western imported parts, since it would mean Russia will have to wind down the war. It sounds almost too good to be true.
(As far as the truth of today’s reports of atrocities, while it is possible early reports aren’t quite right, or concern rarities, the chances that Russian forces have committed other atrocities, at least as bad, are all too high.)
This is absolutely correct. In my early days as a young Canadian naval officer I spent three days in a then-West German frigate and I had a great time. At the same time we (NATO squadron) spent a few days in Port in
Bremen.
A couple of years earlier I worked with some young Japanese naval officer cadets. In both cases, with the Japanese and the Germans, there was absolutely no problem with the history from 40 years earlier.
To me, however, this situation is different. I think that regarding WW II we were all, for the most part, able to look back on that as the end of a bad era in human history, and that we as a species might be starting to mature.
As such, what Putin has done is violent, vile, unforgivable, and horribly out of place for the times in this part of the world.
Yes, and your point is? 
Here’s Zelensky’s speech: