I have seen reports that the Putin military has special logistic vehicles for cremations.
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There could be special forces taking care of this - like FSB types. Take the wounded away, finish them off out of sight, burn the bodies.
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This is war. And Pootie’s favorite mistress and baby momma is a gymnast.
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As of Friday, she had not succeeded — reports say she had only been told to get in touch with the FSB, the country’s internal security service.
This is, of course, Russian for “STFU, if you know what’s good for you.”
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Hey, just bring it full circle, as in, just how did we get here anyway? :
Power has its own logic, it matters little who’s wielding it, everything is situational.
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in terms of what is more worthy - what is more admirable - yes - your guy is right at the top
but it may take a ridiculously over the top worldwide event - with the participation of egotistical well known figures -that captures the attention of billions of people … to crush the toxic propaganda that this vile psychopath Putin has brewed up and decanted for his brainwashed population
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Most likely those weren’t for their own soldiers.
It’s just much more convenient than a mass grave of a bunch of kindergartners that you just slaughtered being dug up by investigators down the line to prove your war crimes.
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Zenobia of Palmyra. Elizabeth I.
What? WWII ended in 1946, the youngest vet would have been about 73 when the war started and 93 when it ended. What number of vets would have upset them?
We certainly didn’t win Korea or Veitnam, so they had alot of company.
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Can’t say I thought of that use, but now that you’ve mentioned …
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There is a reason for the expression Combat Speed
The alacrity of necessity
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I’ve seen that reported as a Ukrainian government press release, so grain of salt.
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The Kenyan ambassador to the UN talks eloquently about the embers of dying empires and their propensity to leave behind division and chaos.
After I saw this speech, I realized why Josh’s use of the word “revanchism”, which I had to look up, was so appropriate.
It is very weird that Pootie Patootie rose to power after the disintegration of the Soviet empire and his psychopathic traits emerged following the COVID-19 pandemic. It mirrors the developments in Germany following WW1 and the Spanish flu or Great Influenza epidemic.
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If there’s anything to buy.
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They have learned some lessons from history, like the unfortunate uncovering of when they slaughtered basically the entirety of the surviving Polish officers under their control in WWII, tried to cover it up by blaming the Nazis later, and only well down the road had to acknowledge that Stalin himself signed the death warrant.
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threading the needle, but
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Good grief.
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Many have said - whoa, whoa Putin is not Hitler …
well, yeah , precisely & technically they are not identical …
but in all of the essential ways they are not a tiny bit substantially different.
They are both unhinged, hate-filled racist anti-Semitic warmongers intent upon waging war as much for the pure killing as the ultimate material gains.
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Trump, Putin and Boris Johnson are all symptoms of the same disease-carrying ‘aura of change’ that is sweeping the planet. It’s not a coincidence that these upheavals are all taking place at the same time. The more united the world has become, the more our ‘social evolution’ comes more in synch.
We are becoming better than we were, but the process of getting there is not at all without consequences and pitfalls.
But I firmly believe that.
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