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bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:14 am

Chilidog wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:06 am https: //twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1502624752900399109?s=21

I'm suspecting Photoshop. I see railcars under the rocket. There are several sets of tandem axles.

bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:14 am

Chilidog wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:06 am https: //twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1502624752900399109?s=21

I'm suspecting Photoshop. I see railcars under the rocket. There are several sets of tandem axles.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:49 am
I think it was intended as a joke. There’s another one of a tractor pulling a plane through the air.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:52 am I also suspect which begs the question: What do you call propaganda when it helps your side?

Chilidog wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:06 am

RVInit wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:57 pm Searched for Fuck You Putin on Etsy and here is what you can get!

https://www.etsy.com/market/fuck_you_putin

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:04 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:05 pm

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:04 pm

Problem is this time, it could mean the end of humanity...

I respect Vindman, and feel the pain for his countryman, but what he's suggesting means the end of humanity....


Putin will go into "watch the world burn" mode if we get involved....

max seddon @maxseddon
In southern Ukraine, Russian forces reportedly introduced a curfew in three towns and banned weapons and "non-sanctioned" protests.

Rule-breakers will be "strictly punished" by "military law enforcement." And there's a call for informants. via @zn_ua

Brent Renaud, an award-winning US film-maker whose work has appeared in the New York Times and other outlets, has been killed by Russian forces in the flashpoint town of Irpin, outside Kyiv. A US photographer, Juan Arredondo, was wounded.

Renaud, 51, was hit in the neck and died after coming under Russian fire while working on Sunday, according to local police officials and multiple Ukrainian sources.

Jane Ferguson, a reporter for PBS Newshour who was nearby when Renaud was killed, tweeted: “Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukrainian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. Outraged Ukrainian police officer: ‘Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.’”

Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukranian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. Outraged Ukranian police officer: “Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.”

Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM
President Zelensky walked to a hospital today to visit wounded Ukrainian soldiers and award them with state honors for their sacrifices.

10:04 AM · Mar 13, 2022

[Russia is] a military-police dictatorship. Those are the people who are in power. In addition, it has a brilliant coterie of people who run macroeconomics. The central bank, the finance ministry, are all run on the highest professional level. That’s why Russia has this macroeconomic fortress, these foreign-currency reserves, the “rainy day” fund. It has reasonable inflation, a very balanced budget, very low state debt—twenty per cent of G.D.P., the lowest of any major economy. It had the best macroeconomic management.

So you have a military-police dictatorship in charge, with a macroeconomic team running your fiscal, military state. Those people are jockeying over who gets the upper hand. For macroeconomic stability, for economic growth, you need decent relations with the West. But, for the military security part of the regime, which is the dominant part, the West is your enemy, the West is trying to undermine you, it’s trying to overthrow your regime in some type of so-called color revolution. What happened is that the balance between those groups shifted more in favor of the military security people––let’s call it the thuggish part of the regime. And, of course, that’s where Putin himself comes from.

The oligarchs were never in power under Putin. He clipped their wings. They worked for him. If they didn’t work for him, they could lose their money. He rearranged the deck chairs. He gave out the money. He allowed expropriation by his own oligarchs, people who grew up with him, who did judo with him, who summered with him. The people who were in the K.G.B. with him in Leningrad back in the day, or in post-Soviet St. Petersburg––those people became oligarchs and expropriated the property to live the high life. Some of the early Yeltsin-era people were either expropriated, fled, or were forced out. Putin built a regime in which private property, once again, was dependent on the ruler. Everybody knew this. If they didn’t know, they learned the lesson the hard way.