I would have preferred that he fall out a window. It would be a fine message to Putin that the Ukrainians are now adept at the new Russian sport of window-falling.
Imagine the betting opportunities.
Well, ill-advised cigarette smoking is another well-known Russian problem.
Into a burning car.
Filled with killer bees.
Bit unfair to the bees.
Or in a smoking accident with a cigarette with killer bees and when he smokes the killer bees shoot out.
We’ve got to work polonium in here somehow… Maybe the bees are radioactive?
Where’d the other 4 fallers go? Peterson should have landed on a heap, not on a sidewalk.
England has an efficient government service for that.
The bees have very small, polonium and ricin tipped umbrellas.
A few of the survivors are in the US for physical and psychological treatment.
I can’t imagine anyone that survived Mariupol will ever escape the trauma of PTSD.
Russia’s losses in Ukraine haven’t stopped them from expanding into the Arctic.
Who is Russia so paranoid about?
NATO has never shown any interest in taking Russian territory. Ukraine’s possible membership would primarily been defensive.
Russia could be doing really well. Nord Stream 2 would have made a lot of money and increased dependency on Russian gas.
Putin has his own reasons. They don’t seem very logical.
I hate seeing the Arctic militarized.
They’re projecting their own thought patterns onto the West. If they were in the West’s position, they’d be swooping in and “claiming” the countries for their own. They fail to see how most of the former Soviet bloc intentionally joined NATO and the EU, or think it was done through subterfuge and lying, because that’s exactly how they would have done it.
In other words, “every accusation is a confession”.
Which would have functionally prevented him from taking/vassalizing Ukraine. Some analysts think Putin wanted to go down in history as having restored the old borders of the USSR. Either actually or de facto by proxy (i.e. a bit like Belarus now). NATO had already cock-blocked him in the Baltics. Allowing Ukraine to remain independent, hostile and untouchable was not a tolerable option for him.
What it feels like to be on the receiving end of artillery. A British mercenary/volunteer gives an interview.
I know I would go stark raving mad if I had to face this for 6 months and would eventually just stand out in the open hoping to get blown up.