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Article 5 is more likely in this case since russians are notoriously bad at hiding traces. I mean Scholz may BS about how it's better for Germany to do barely anything, but try doing 'just' visa ban when FSB ends up being responsible for murdering 30-40 people in the center of Berlin. And russians are extremely awful at timing and targets. Said Albania is a great example - just before the visa talks they mess things up next to another potential hotspot everyone is watching. What a talent to f everything up.

Not letting them in is a much better and simpler solution. Not to mention safer, in the long run too. They'll have the rest of the planet to tourrorize anyway.

That's the whole point.

That's russians firing at our ICEYE satellite. After successfully killing 1000 Bayraktars they are now ready for the finar battur.

There's no consensus because one takes russian self-invented history at face value. And then wonders why nothing makes sense. However if one is to draw Russia's roots not from (semi)republic that was Rus (to which it has zero relation) but to Golden Horde as the initial point and go from there up till now - you suddenly realize that 100% of russian history is serfdom. They have zero clue what democracy is, their culture only knew violent dictatorship. Historians easily accept that stolen "Roman Empire" of barbaric Germanic tribes was indeed stolen and nobody questions any point in German history because of that. But not accepting Peter I and his exiled Germans that invented Russia and Romanov dynasty doing the same is what leads to this mess.

Now, now, they will run out of their elite troops in 2 minutes and will complain it doesn't have spawn cannon fodder button

CMx2 has DRM I'm afraid.

It may be much simpler that that. Why waste lives (and huge cash) on a country that does not want to change and does not want you there? As was clearly proven by an instant collapse when the big guy was out - everybody rushed towards supporting and joining Taliban. Real "Mission Accomplished" was at least a decade ago. Staying in Afghanistan was only helping people that cope with reality by thinking that dictators run the show and not people put dictators in power, hence why people need somebody else to depose that one for them and guide them to Democracy, Liberty and Freedom.

Worth noting that Echo of Moscow was "opposition-oriented" in name only. It was 100% owned by Gazprom e.g. putin himself and its execs (most of whom were Echo's journalists) had their shows in that media and were really imperialistic and aggressive in their views, especially towards Ukraine from as far as 2007 at least. I guess their goal was to cater to the "intelligencia fascists" that hoped to occupy Ukraine without the war, the ones people in the West mistakenly consider "opposition" - but after the full scale invasion started and it turned out that there's zero difference between russian "opposition" and Z-tattooed crazies - there was no point in pouring millions of $$ into it - spare money russians don't exactly have lying around anymore.

Nah, everything was literally in the open for nearly a year at least. But people, who screamed on top of their lungs that Russia is going to invade soon were laughed at and had buckets of **** poured on them on TV. Intelligence officers daring to claim that invasion is happening soon were fired. It was a literal Don't Look Up for a year. When that movie came out - it was extremely painful to watch and we still had two months to go.

Any sane Ukrainian knew that Russia was planning a full scale invasion as early as spring 2021 (and anyone with a historic background knew they were planning that invasion since 1991). In fact it was pretty huge - russians have pulled nearly 90000 troops to our borders under the classic guise of "doing exercises". But in May 2021 they decided 90k rapists probably wouldn't be enough to do a 3 day war, so decided to double that number over the next half of a year. Of course I have my view on why nobody listened to Americans in autumn 2021, but I'll keep it to myself until after the victory when heads of the responsible will hopefully fly en masse, so to speak.

You laugh now but Sims 3 is an officially Nazi approved concentration camp simulator. You put those little russian speaking people (what did you think that gibberish they speak was anyway, lol) into a house... and then you wall them in - without food or the toilet. And then you watch them suffer, as they die praying to St. Stalin, while their parents get a free russian car.

I like how all Nazi literature is written exclusively in russian. Only a true Ukrainian Nazi will read that.

anti-smoking campaign

best part is that russians boasted they moved a division of S400 to Zhankoi to protect Crimea. Who bought S400 again?

Ah, careless smoking again

Latvia also stopped letting russians in and Estonia today as well. Czech did it right away back then. It's a process which will only gain momentum as russians keep pissing everyone off all around the world by being what they truly are. Remember how half a year ago I wrote here that russians are all the same and need to get "cancelled" everywhere because all of them are responsible - and some people here were "naaah you are just being bad saying all russians are bad" - but as it turns out it's all about sitting back, relaxing and simply letting russians do what they do best - and they will eventually get noticed. And promptly squished. Serves them right.

They all know they have huge losses, they just don't care. russians aren't civilized people and they do not have concept of human life having any value. When a father gladly exchanges a life of his son for a cheap car - it's all you need to know to stop thinking "public view" changes anything. But killing the enemy is the correct way. Less russians is less that can kill.

RU population is in total submission. And they are enjoying it.

adding reported 7k-8k unretrieved dead bodies in morgues here - it adds up to the reported number of 35k dead quite well.

So poetic justice from a regime he was a strong supporter of. Yashin is a known russian fascist that for many years claimed that Ukraine is a Nazi country where "in Kyiv on every step a Nazi uniform is being sold, Nazi flags are everywhere". He basically did everything to help putin create a propagandist image of bad and evil Ukraine that has to be punished. And now he got what was coming to him for a long time. I hope all the other "opposition" politicians like him will follow in his steps.

Poor russian stepmother that is clearly not a supporter of evil putin's regime cries over her untimely stepson's death who was forced to go and kill Ukrainians by the evil putin: 1. "they gave us money only for the coffin and a monument". How a russian family struggles to get any compensation for the death of a soldier? 2. "never hurt anyone in his life, why him?" 3. Fridge with a Ukrainian warranty ad sticker, clearly looted by the evil putin himself.

it doesn't matter what russians say or write (e.g. lie). Reality is that they support every single war they start wholeheartedly and proof is that since 1991 there was not a single anti-war movement despite wars in: Moldova, Chechnya (twice), Azerbaijan, Georgia(twice), Syria, Ukraine and many other more minor stuff like russian troops exterminating Armenian parliament or taking part in Srebrenica massacre. On the other hand there are constant marches and events supporting every single war they start. Today russians murdered another civilian crowd in a peaceful city. Guess how many russians did something to stop that? 0. Words mean nothing. Only actions do. And actions prove that russians are pro-war.

Those are great counter-arguments but since 1991 Russia invaded a dozen of countries, committed countless warcrimes, Yeltsin in particular was a humongous warmonger, starting a new war or two EVERY year - and had an insane support among russians up until Russia lost the war in Chechnya. In fact if it didn't - Yeltsin wouldn't have lost people's support, wouldn't have been poisoned, stayed a Tsar and you'd be blaming him for the war in Ukraine today and putin would've stayed a nobody.

Hardly any signs to the outside maybe. It wasn't an information age so no way of knowing for anyone outside (and many inside) about the non-stop local wars and uprisings that were going back and forth through that former russian empire. This time it's different however because the return to the old days of barbaric ideology of Muscovy mixed with 20th century Nazism found very strong support and response among the russian populace. Because soviet ideology was built on lies about the bright future and everybody in the world living in poverty, while a "soviet citizen" was living the best life ever - and that didn't fly because it wasn't true. Current russian ideology, founded by Yeltsin, offers brutal truth: yes we are poor af and there's no freedom - but who cares - let's invade everything, rob, rape, whole world is there for the taking, it's all free - we got nukes and nobody will ever stop us. And thus you see an absolute unity among russians in favor of all the wars since 1991.