Are we on the brink of World War III?

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Haha that's rich.  Let's check some boxes here: Impatient, annoyed, aggravated, feeling of being above having to wait.  Yup.   And final check, fake hey+smile when the man finally shows up.  Nice cherry on top being all fake for the cameras who caught the whole stretch.  He used to just have others wait and would be all rigid and controlled because he could control it, here it's foreign and amusing.

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Statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin appears in New York City playground

https://www.yahoo.com/news/statue-russian-president-vladimir-putin-203537299.html

"This sculpture aims at denouncing the absurdity of war and at highlighting children's courage when faced with violent, catastrophic situations triggered by others," the street artist wrote in an Instagram post about the statue.

 

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[Reed Rothchild | 9,538]

Pretty incredible interview

 

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I assume this is to send a clear message to Putler

[Reed Rothchild | 9,538]

I'd say this sums up the last few weeks pretty well..

 

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Municipal deputies from Moscow and St. Petersburg call for Putin’s resignation

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-12-22#h_280c69104479678d4adeb8a2a1e12d6e

Deputies from 18 municipal districts in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kolpino have called for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s resignation, according to a petition with a list of signatures posted on Twitter on Monday.

“We, the municipal deputies of Russia, believe that the actions of its president Vladimir Putin are detrimental to Russia’s and its citizens’ future. We demand Vladimir Putin’s resignation from the post of the President of the Russian Federation,” said the petition posted by Ksenia Thorstrom, a local deputy of the Semenovsky District in Saint Petersburg.

The petition follows Russia’s first regional and municipal elections since the start of the war, which brought a sweeping victory for pro-Kremlin candidates.

“The petition’s text is concise and does not “discredit” anyone. If you are mundep [municipal deputy] and want to join, you are welcome,” Thorstrom said in a Twitter post.

The council of one Moscow district (Lomonosovsky) also demanded Putin’s resignation, saying: “Your views and your model of government are hopelessly outdated and hinder the development of Russia and its human potential.”

Last week, the deputies of the Smolninskoye municipality of St. Petersburg called on the State Duma of the Russian Federation to bring charges of treason against Vladimir Putin. Several of them now face charges for discrediting the Russian army, according to a Twitter post from one of the local officials, Nikita Yuferev.

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They're on a ticking clock that may have already expired for more fake charges of loaded bs to be put out of service for daring to talk reality about Putin.  Good on them to do it, but maybe a mistake, since they'll likely just be worked to death or just fast tracked to death.  Maybe they hope it'll encourage more and more to speak out against that totalitarian troll enough that the incarcerations will get nasty enough even the military and regular citizens will rally against the bastard.

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22 hours ago, Tanooki said:

They're on a ticking clock that may have already expired for more fake charges of loaded bs to be put out of service for daring to talk reality about Putin.  Good on them to do it, but maybe a mistake, since they'll likely just be worked to death or just fast tracked to death.  Maybe they hope it'll encourage more and more to speak out against that totalitarian troll enough that the incarcerations will get nasty enough even the military and regular citizens will rally against the bastard.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-council-faces-dissolution-call-173859031.html

A group of St Petersburg local politicians who called for President Vladimir Putin to be sacked over the war in Ukraine faces the likely dissolution of their district council following a judge's ruling on Tuesday, one of the deputies said.

Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said the greater risk to the Kremlin lay not in the councillors' protest itself but in the danger of responding too harshly to it.

"The reaction, or overreaction, may cause more political damage to the regime than this petition. But I have no doubts that all those who signed the petition will (come) under political pressure," said Stanovaya, founder of the independent analysis project R.Politik.

"under political pressure" is clearly code for prison or worse. That said, I'm impressed people had the guts to speak out against Putler! I think this shows that the rosy picture the Kremlin is painting is not as rosy as they want the world to think it is.

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Need less of this...

 

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[Reed Rothchild | 9,538]

What a fiasco 

 

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Germany takes control of 3 Russian-owned oil refineries

https://apnews.com/article/germany-government-and-politics-1a0bd7bf480c84a61b795e2de6df0270

The Economy Ministry said in a statement that Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH will be put under the administration of Germany’s Federal Network Agency. As a result, the agency will also control the companies’ shares in three refineries: PCK Schwedt, MiRo and Bayernoil, located in the east and south of the country.

 

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-panic-over-war-mobilization-spirals-with-arson-streets-fights-and-manhunts

The Kremlin wants you to know there’s absolutely no panic in Russia a day after Vladimir Putin called up hundreds of thousands to go fight in Ukraine—just ignore the burning military recruitment offices, protests shutting down highways, and college students being snatched from their classes to go kill or be killed.

It’s also absolutely normal for protesters to be pulled from jail and sent to the front, and reports of men flocking to airports to get the hell out of the country are “fake,” according to Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

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He's going to get himself taken out if this bs keeps going, if it's not selective journalism as propaganda that is.  If people are bailing that hard, fighting that much, protesting and dodging the kremlin in enough numbers they'll have a serious problem when and if it persists.  The one that gets me is taking people they sort of illegally detained for protest and are now arming them and sending them out of the country to fight people they don't want to, I don't see that ending well.  They'll either turn on their russian patsies since they're armed and feel trapped, or like earlier this year a bunch will just go on on so called patrol and drop their weapons and defect.  If they don't want to fight, they won't, one way or the other.  Let that ruin the morale of their side even more, it'll be fantastic.

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[Tanooki | 4,934]

Seems more Russians are standing up to Putin, conscripting basically kids through older men for a war that's illegal to call a war is souring more and more.

I'm kind of enjoying the meltdown as much as seeing the one going on in Iran right now.  That country is even more repressed and sickens you if you look up pre-1980 images of that country, especially women, science, education -- terrible.  Currently the gen-z and millennials are having a fit starting fires, protesting, fighting, burned out a military post in the north.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,538]

Unreal.  Feels like a parody 

edit: Ok, it is.  I was like there's no way 

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Seems like that ass in the suit isn't that much off the other guys age talking crap, hopefully he gets his papers.  He'd make a decent sized target.

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Petraeus predicts US would lead NATO response to ‘take out’ Russian forces if Putin uses nuclear weapon

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3671100-petraeus-predicts-us-would-lead-nato-response-to-take-out-russian-forces-if-putin-uses-nuclear-weapon/

“And what would happen?” Karl asked. 

“Well, again, I have deliberately not talked to Jake about this. I mean, just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a NATO, a collective effort, that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea,” Petraeus replied. 

 

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State of the invasion:

 

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Top Putin Lackey Urges Russians to Choose Violent Death Over War Defeat

https://www.thedailybeast.com/margarita-simonyan-urges-russians-to-choose-death-over-defeat-in-ukraine-on-kremlin-state-tv

In a response that seemed to spotlight the descent of Russian foreign policy to nuclear terror tactics, Putin scoffed: “I did it on purpose to make you worry a little. Mission accomplished.”

Putin’s answer stumped his own media mouthpieces. So much so that Margarita Simonyan, head of state news agency RT, decided to take the non-response as an opportunity to reaffirm her readiness for martyrdom for the sake of the Russian president.

The panelists admitted that they “all shuddered” after the pause Putin made when confronted with Fyodor’s question. Nonetheless, they emphasized that they would rather die than live in a world where people can deal with their own sexuality according to their own free will.

How about that, the Russian oligarchs have no problem saying how "glorious it is do die for the Motherland!" and yet, none of them ever seem to serve in the military.

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