oh no oh nooooooo dont pressure putin he might do. he might do Something
i like how that op-ed completely ignores ongoing stream of arson cases and other sabotage. no mention of baltyisk gps jammer either
Strange take. The article is in no way suggesting appeasement, and is entirely critical of Putin as a leader.
it does take that turn at the very end
I can’t see the part of the article behind a paywall, but I read it as that familiar quote of a cornered animal being the most dangerous. If he believes he has nothing left to lose, he’s more likely to strike out without inhibitions.
That’s not a call to appeasement but a warning that things can get even more dangerous just before the end. If Putin really is in fear of losing, or in fear of losing his power, will he stop at conventional attacks? Will he stop at the country he’s already attacking? Or will he strike randomly wherever and howeverhe can do the most harm?
Goddammit it's been over 4 years hasn't it.
But the sentiment expressed in the first 2 paragraphs is nothing new. Collapse has been imminent for a while, but it's happening too slowly. The Kremlin has employed all sorts of life-extending tricks in the past years and probably they can still keep it up for a while.
Media has been giving a lot of credit to the head of the Russian central bank holding everything together. When she disappeared, I was wondering if it all was finally falling apart.
But she’s back
Arson cases?
Archived link - https://archive.ph/idGqu
I don't even click on archive.is (also .today, .md, .fo, .li, .vn, .ph) anymore.
Every page contains (and has for months) this code. It's a DDOS attack on a blogger who dared to investigate who runs the site.
Further, archive.nn started altering archived pages:
Do not use it anymore. It's not enough that µBlock blocks the attack, because many people don't use µBlock. Also you're increasing archive.nn's popularity.
I've heard that. I'd be happy to switch to something different, but this is the only one I know of that still works. Recommendations welcome.
This site can’t be reached The webpage at https://archive.ph/idGqu might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
So slow, it times out on Firefox in all 3 lower 48 US timezones (tested via AWS and VPN).
But thank you for trying to provide an alt link none the less.
Odd, still working for me with or without a VPN. Here is another link through a different domain, but it's from the same service so I don't know if it'll work any better for you.
That worked. I circled back and found my dns pihole list was causing it. Thank you!
Works fine ,here in Europe, try change your DNS to one from here ,test again
Works for me
Site works fine.
I'm pro-Ukraine and fuck Putin. I'm conflicted though because I've always loved Russian art and literature. That comes from the people though, not the power. The people are almost the same everywhere. If the people ever get their collective shit together then watch out power!
But the great Russian art and literature is mostly from the Russian empire. That Russia is long gone
Even literature protesting the Soviet Union belongs to a Russia that’s long gone
Oh no, again that analytics like "country X sinks soon", "rockets stockpiles is almost depleted", "warmonger Y is struggled in that wartimes", "country A economics blows in X days, Y months". You may paste here Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, USA or countryname_in_conflict and vary of self-pronounced intelligence or different countries and nothing changes, none of them is truth and works only on feelings of reader at the moment of reading and slightly after it forming subjects "own" point of view if that "intelligence" will be delivered constantly by some time to the same username.
Soviets fought Nazis in WWI?
News to me.
longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I
Two separate things. That sentence was totally unambiguous to me.
~~Bro failed the history exam.~~
Edit: oh my god
Soviets fought Nazis in WWI?
News to me.
Found the American
They were being overly pedantic about a sentence in the article in the article that I found intelligible imo, but read their comment more carefully. WWI is the first world war, the one before the Nazis came on scene.
They were being overly pedantic about a sentence in the article
I guess you could read it that way. Unfortunately, emotion and speaking mannerisms don't translate through text. Which is why Poe's law exists. I read the comment at face value.
WWI is the first world war, the one before the Nazis came on scene.
Fair point. I guess I'm just too used to people generalizing and overusing the term "Nazi". My mind just took their meaning as "I didn't know the Soviets fought the Germans". And I've met people who didn't know that fact, so it's not a stretch.
has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.
While it sounds a bit awkward, I expect that the "Soviet fight against Nazi Germany " roughly-approximates to "The Great Patriotic War".
I'm surprised that there's not just an endless stream of drones blowing up at whatever his last known location was at this point.
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