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No. There are no downsides. Everybody wins.

Will they start killing each other already ffs

I agree with you here. This is Russia. Without spilling a lot of blood nothing ever moves there. And note that even GKCHP coup was way more violent than this, with tanks firing on parliament. Here it looks like a show of force, flexing - "see, I have muscle - so give me stuff". After all if Prigozhin is willing to negotiate - that's not really a coup isn't it.

Well at least all these "good" russians start dropping all pretenses and openly support murderers, looters and rapists either side.

Here's hoping they start shooting each other and this whole show won't just evaporate through talks.

I hope not. Because he is just as insane and barbaric and he is unhappy only because Ukraine still exists.

I wouldn't believe a single word Prigozhin says. Especially now that he's "retconning" the missile strikes, it's arty and choppers now. But I'm somewhat interested what this show really is about.

Javelin is a spear

"No Russian Soldiers want to be in Ukraine" does he or anyone really believe that at this point? Pretty sure if someone doesn't want to be somewhere and he's also armed with really really big guns - he will be elsewhere.

That Will guy has a tweet about Bush did 9/11, not quite sure if his target audience will somehow get any different world view than they already have.

ATACMS is a ballistic missile. Which means it ain't getting shot down by russians. Granted they have trouble with shooting down Storm Shadows as well, seeing as how various colonels, and now a general, spontaneously combust in a myriad of HQs

Phone/tablet screens are to small. Awareness and feeling where you are (as a drone) is much better when it's full view. Hence why such an insane precision with them. Furthermore if it's two cameras - that's a 3D image which allows you discern details even better.

the problem here is that there's nobody to negotiate with, no matter the terms. There are no russians that want anything else other than Ukraine gone and our people to not exist anymore.

Been there en masse since day 1 of full scale invasion, even earlier than that in not so large quantities. Demands for Ukraine to cease resisting and get genocided were voiced by everyone from Hungary to Red Cross.

granted for the past year especially those putin's words bear all too literal context now.

That's not a deep fake, that's Putin's comments during invasion of Crimea in early March of 2014

Not to be fair to the UN - they themselves automatically decided Russia = USSR (which it is and is even more damning to the UN) back in 1991 and gave russians all the same powers and the seat USSR absolutely abused. Because what could possibly go wrong? I guess since Russia now had democratic McDonald's in Moscow and only bombed Moldova right away it was OK. Furthermore if one of your members supposedly abuses the organization for decades - shouldn't you be doing something about it?

Ugh, people go to work at UN not to resolve some world problems, it's an international VIP club, where you just chill at the bar all day talking to people from all over the world. There has not been any major war since 60s and no wars of genocide since 40s, that's like 3 generations of UN deputies away. What else is there to do all day for the past so many years? After so much time of just being a poster organization people who work at UN have zero clue about responsibility and are not competent in resolving major conflicts, they are there to look good and talk good - and I'm not joking here sadly.

Meanwhile russians are shelling evacuation spots in Kherson, while some people are arguing that Russia didn't do it.

Wonder which large caliber Ukrainian sniper rifle is it? looks like .50 cal to me

I did that in HoI4. It's doable. They probably stole my savegame.

Yes because Ukraine is so evil it would just drown its own people and deny itself the ability to easily liberate south of Kherson area. Because it carefully targeted a bridge (and never a dam itself) with high precision HIMARS as not to cause any damage to the dam itself previously. Now why would russians, who themselves openly threatened to blow up the dam if Ukraine tries to cross way back in October 2022 and stated time and again that they mined it - do it? Nah, russians certainly care about poor people on occupied territories, not like that "Kyiv regime". And especially they care about their own soldiers as evidenced by 200k+ losses in a war of genocide. So poor russian soldiers, who fully controlled the dam, with tears in the eyes watched as evil Ukrainian saboteurs planted tons of explosives under the dam because it's the only way to destroy it as the thing is made to... you know... withstand thousands of tons of water pressure and that's why it can't be destroyed by any goddamn arty. I feel you man. Guilty as charged. Now let's talk about elite Ukrainian divers opening a portal to northern seas to blow up a pipe.

And indeed they are. They are shelling their own territories using rocket arty and dropping bombs from planes in Belgorod oblast like it's nothing. Heck russian soldiers are looting russian shops and apartments there. What a twist. It's just back to the question of what "russian" is. It's neither ethnicity nor nationality. Because Russia is an old empire, meaning it did a lot of ethnicity mixing over centuries like empires do to delete identities - there's no dominant ethnicity or nationality they would consider their own. So, of course, people from freshly occupied territories are even less human beings to them then people that were always part of the empire. Hence their brutality towards their "own" Novaya Tavolzhanka and Shebekino. And if need be they would level Moscow too, don't have any doubt about that. In fact they already did that once in history.

Crimea is an occupied Ukrainian territory. Why would russians suddenly care if local population has drinking water?