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Declarative levels never ever matter. After all only a week ago Iran was still 'declaring' that they never ever sold a single drone to Russia. China also won't ever admit it's their drones simply put together at Iranian factories either.

putin dying natural death, even if from cancer, will be extremely anti-climactic though.

No idea why western press cares so much if he has cancer or whatever else at this point. With modern medicine (and he gets the absolute best of it) he can easily live for another 10 or even 20 years. So no illusions there. Granted yet another reason I want putin to die is to see how those same journos, who repost news about putin having cancer monthly, will explain why nothing has changed after his death.

It's Geraschenko, just like Arestovich and Tryxa. Even if their posts are sometimes half-truths - half-truths are still bad because they are still misinformation.

Yeah, who was an absolute imperialistic filth and openly supported genocide of Ukrainians. An extremely bad example.

Simple: You can see russians doing pro-war marches in various countries, Germany in particular being the weirdest example, where you see them rallying in support of genocide in the center of Berlin which should've been a huge no no alone. But you do not see them doing any rallies in support of Ukraine. In fact usually it's everyone but russians doing it. War, especially a genocidal one, makes things black and white - if somebody stays silent (especially in safety provided by the West) - that somebody probably simply does not exist in the first place.

Russians literally in every single western country prove this is not the case. In fact to this very day you cannot name a single russian "freedom loving" leader of any "liberty adoring" faction of some kind in their whole history, both sides of the border. Just various shades of imperial insanity.

Yes, it's all correct.

"Comrade Ivanov today your task is to bomb civilians in..." "Say no more."

Yeah and it didn't delay German advance for a second, but resulted in ~100k dead civilians. Historians argue it was more of a retaliation towards Ukrainians for not supporting or actively opposing Red Army (duh)

Yeah I don't get why some people think Russia cares about Crimea or people there. It's an occupied Ukrainian territory with people they consider "untermenschen" - they only need it as a fleet base. Blowing up the dam would mean they acknowledge they will not be able to hold and exploit fertile lands of Kherson area and will be done to deny Ukraine using them either - which is very very russian.

I already provided you with such source the last time which describes demographics of RA and their change from '39 to '45. For some reason you didn't reply to it and we aren't doing the same dance again.

Not comparable, from 1944 russians were a minority in Red Army, throwing everybody else into the meat grinder, as discussed before. When Red Army was mostly composed of russians in 1939-1942 - they've been chased off to Urals. If Germans weren't as violent and as barbaric as their former allies, which resulted in them losing local support in Ukraine and Belarus and locals rushing to join Red Army en masse in retaliation - the outcome on the eastern front could've been very different.

Maybe he will announce "full" mobilization that requires 10 million mobilized

More like the boy who cried wolf eventually

Rogov told the news agency that about 30 boats participated in the landing attempt, but that the situation was under control, and there were no plans to evacuate Enerhodar, the settlement attached to the ZNPP. RIA did not publish any evidence to back up the claims other than Rogov’s words. Russian forces have occupied Europe’s largest nuclear power plant since the earliest days of the war. Both Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of firing on the power plant and risking a nuclear accident. Attempts to have the area declared a demilitarised zone for nuclear safety reasons have floundered. The ZNPP is located in Zaporizhzhia, one of the regions that Russia has claimed to “annex”. 2 The Sun reports that Mad Vlad is considering a nuclear demonstration. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20152793/vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons-black-sea-ben-wallace/ Yes, this is the 5th time they are repulsing Ukrainian special forces trying to retake ZNPP. As usual no bodies or boats to show.

To be fair on one hand we have "jews did holocaust" courtesy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and on the other hand we have Israel cancelling any military talks with Ukraine after that very same MoFo said "giving any Israeli weapons to Ukraine will make us feel bad" yesterday. I think at this point Israel is more concerned with making an immediate 15% of their voters happy than long term issues with Iran or so it seems.

Yep, if West keeps being reactive - we may see Iran getting nukes by the end of this year or at the start of the next. And then they can finally be "deeply concerned" about that too.

China, Russia and Iran are allies (or rather one is more and more like a master putting its dragon claws deeper into the other two). Besides Russia and China already helped DPRK get nukes and those are carefully watched by them. Iran would be going all in only if something HUGE like getting nukes was at stake, not to mention it already worked well and there was zero consequences from the West. The truth is that certain Western powers are still very (purposefully) slow in their response, probably due to still hoping Russia and Ukraine will get tired and the war will get "frozen" and everybody will be doing business as usual once again. Hence the West is only being reactive instead of proactive. Hence the ban on tanks and talks about help with ADs only now getting serious, when it may just be too late in a month.

It's a war that russians want to end with them exterminating as many of us as possible, even all of us if they decide so (as per their very own statements) - so any civilian casualties fall in with that goal. Don't even need to look for any sane reasoning after all the massacres they do in person from town to town. More dead Ukrainians is all that they truly want since they can't get any more land.

Since russians do not have air superiority and operate only near frontlines at best - most MANPADs remain unused, so diverting them to shoot down drones shouldn't put much of a dent in their numbers, not to mention that shooting down a $20.000 drone with a missile that costs $120.000 literally saves millions of $$ in repairs, not to mention lives.

Because no methodology is really representative since the only country that can provide it is... Russia. The old trick here is that any member of any so called "minority" was being forced to register himself/herself as of "russian" nationality throughout whole USSR's existence because not being "russian" meant you were a second rate citizen (even more second rate really than others) that couldn't get any reasonable education or good job or even move to live in another city. It was part of the imperial attempts to erase ethnicities and turn them into "russians" (got so ridiculous - USSR was changing last names of children on birth to sound more "russian", KadyrOV is literally one such example) and something tells me not much has changed since 1991 in there. But that's how you most likely get "minorities" being 15-19%. It can even mean many of those are people that simply refused to accept becoming "russian".

They are going all the way. They are spamming us with drones mixed with whatever missiles they have left without cannibalizing their emergency stocks much. Zelenskyy claimed russians have 2400 Shaheds and since they throw at least 40 daily at us - they can keep going for 2 months non-stop even without more chinese "iranian" drones and missiles. What will help is ADs that were asked for 6+ months ago.

yeah but "whiter skin" is soon to be a minority even in Moscow where it shuts up and downs their head when they pass by chechens or dagestanis (or I guess tajiks now too) which are already quite numerous and also consider themselves superior to "whiter skin" and regularly bully them. So it's a mess. But certainly "nats" should keep amplifying that mess until it reaches the boiling point.

But that's the thing. There's no core ethnicity in Russia. Every time some russian "nat" complains about other ethnicities - even I, being their neighbor, have no idea what he's talking about, especially since russian "nats" themselves look like a huge mix of all the ethnicities present in Russia. But maybe hopefully every and each one of those 20-30 ethnicities in Russia considering themselves the "main" one is what leads to brutal downfall of the empire.