NB: The source is Ukrayinska Pravda
Crime doesn’t pay for thieving Russians:
If only washing machines had similar remote-disabling capabilities.
Today it was reported that this railway bridge in Russia’s Kursk region met with some terrible misfortune:
I’m sure it’s just faulty maintenance.
Then again as with the Moskva it would be credible if it were just that it fell apart on its own.
OTOH… which is it, Russian opsec sucking even worse than so far revealed, or some truly boss intel being shared with the Ukrainians by the West?
(or for those favoring conspiracy theories: inside job, Vlad himself was setting up the Chief to get “martyred” in the front and provide an excuse to crank up the savagery. )
Or he’s decided that his generals are somehow a threat to his power and need to be purged.
Aren’t expendable redshirts usually low-ranking types? I think The Czar has it backward.
Or not. I hope it’s not a situation where Putin wants to launch the nukes, and it’s only the generals that have been standing in his way of following the launch order.
I hope so, too, but I’m not terribly optimistic, the 2020s being about that kind of decade.
Reading the article, they were John Deere machines. American – and I assume Canadian – farmers have been complaining for years about how they’re forced to use JD dealers for maintenance and parts. Looks like the same problem, squared, for the thieves.
Or Ivan Ivanovitch dropped a cigarette butt again. That guy really should quit smoking.
Interesting BBC story, outlining views on the war in non-Western countries:
Speaker Pelosi and Members of a Congressional Delegation made the trip to Kyiv.
It’s a strong statement of Ukraine.
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/5122
That article just confirms that countries with authoritarian regimes are the ones supporting Russia or refusing to condemn them. Not all that surprising. IMHO all those authoritarian regimes, even though they play for different teams, are all members of the same league playing the same game. They thus have a shared interest in supporting one of their own against the people who want to keep that league from expanding and adding additional teams.
ETA. I think Bush Jr. was right when he said they (the authoritarian regimes) hate us (the democracies) for our freedom. This is just another manifestation of that.
Russian fighter jets have been making threatening moves bordering NATO airspace over the past four days:
please…Russia…VIOLATE THAT AIRSPACE!!!
An actual direct confrontation between Russia and NATO greatly increases the risk of nuclear exchange. This is not a good thing to be hoping for.
I’ll reserve my hopes for a coup that removed Putin or something medical that incapacitates him. That is the best hope for and end to this madness.
I don’t think either of those is very likely either, at least in the short term. The complete collapse of the Russian military is more likely imo.
Agreed. I said hope. I’m afraid of what will happen if the war escalates.
I am hoping for something that makes him really ill, fairly quickly. And maybe makes him glow in the dark for a bit. Bury him in a lead-lined coffin.
I wouldn’t put India or South Africa into the category of “authoritarian regimes” and dismiss the issue so easily.