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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 5, 2022 16:56:48 GMT
Not sure they have to be desperately poor...
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 8, 2022 12:39:11 GMT
The partial destruction of the Crimea-Russia bridge today may have pushed the Armageddon clock a few seconds forward.
However, the Pont de Crimée in Paris is still holding up.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2022 5:33:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2022 6:09:46 GMT
I realize this is deadly serious & no laughing matter, but "sandals made out of tires" and "thick and sticky rhetoric" cracked me up.
Marden seems to be outraged that Ukraine fought back -- those meanies!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2022 17:32:05 GMT
Ukraine does not lack humour whnen communicating with other countries.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 8, 2022 21:29:43 GMT
I don't know about the rest of you, but I always want to know things like how Ukrainians will handle things if all of their electricity gets cut off this winter. (I do suspect that this family is better off than many.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 12, 2022 18:54:52 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Nov 12, 2022 20:08:41 GMT
...and then it got worse. Russians are so beaten down and broken they no longer possess any will to improve themselves in any way. Maybe it's always been that way— or at least since the time of the Bolsheviks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 12, 2022 20:48:11 GMT
From the video, I understood that the problem was "the faggots and Jews."
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2022 18:43:24 GMT
This reminds me of so many stories I heard from 70 years ago. Nothing ever changes.
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Post by rikita on Nov 14, 2022 18:53:19 GMT
Ukraine does not lack humour whnen communicating with other countries. there is a somewhat similar spot for germany: (for some reason i could find various videos reporting about that spot, but none really just showing the spot)
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 25, 2022 20:25:10 GMT
Urban life without electricity.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 8:14:39 GMT
I'm very sympathetic to the plight of Ukraine just to make that clear - but, and there has to be a but, purely on the subject in the video of power cuts and living with them, it's worth making a video about it to bring it to attention for sure, but for example, those dastardly coal mine workers in the UK holding the UK to ransom instigating the three day week etc etc and the power supply situation in many countries makes this situation not unusual. Having no internet was mentioned many times, and having to use the data on the phone which was getting blocked up was never a concern. I see they have a gas cooker, hopefully not supplied from Russia.
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Post by bjd on Nov 27, 2022 16:14:16 GMT
I heard on the radio news today that when the Russians pulled out of the city of Kherson 2 weeks ago, they took everything they could carry from the city museum and mined the entrance. They also destroyed the paperwork of what had been in there. The new director used to work at the museum and said the previous one had collaborated with the Russians and left with them.
And of course, now that they have pulled out to the other side of the river, they are shelling the city.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 27, 2022 17:28:36 GMT
I see they have a gas cooker, hopefully not supplied from Russia. I imagine that they have bottles of butane (where does that come from?) in cases like that. And of course, now that they have pulled out to the other side of the river, they are shelling the city. Since they claim it is part of Russia now, it means that they are attacking their own country.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 19:03:01 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2022 16:28:24 GMT
So, the special military operation started exactly 10 months ago, except that Putin accidentally (?) called it a war yesterday.
I find it interesting that most Ukrainians have apparently moved Christmas to December 25th instead of the traditional January 7th because they don't even want to share Christmas with Russia anymore.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2022 19:53:24 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2022 19:30:58 GMT
What a difference a year makes. I find this heartbreaking.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 1, 2023 0:56:11 GMT
Moi aussi. Did you know that Canada, especially the Prairies that resemble the Ukrainian wheatfield flag, is one of the most Ukrainian countries on Earth? Only Russia, and obviously Ukraine, are home to more Ukrainians. Zelensky looks ten years older now. .
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 5, 2023 18:15:56 GMT
Aw, Putin has called for an Orthodox Christmas truce. That is so adorable.
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Post by bjd on Jan 5, 2023 19:49:36 GMT
Yes, especially since the Dec 25 Christmas was celebrated by 3 days of heavy bombing of Ukraine.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 12, 2023 19:24:07 GMT
Looking at the drone footage of the front line in the snow, the craters everywhere in the soil look just like the terrain around Verdun.
Meanwhile, I saw that something like 18 Russian oligarchs critical of Putin have died in a variety of ways since the beginning of the Ukraine war. Some of them fell out of their hotel windows, some crossed the street at the wrong time, some ate unhealthy food... Wow, these people are seriously unlucky, since it didn't just happen in Russia but in a variety of countries.
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Post by questa on Jan 14, 2023 2:22:46 GMT
I don't mind the culling of the oligarchs, they were not an asset to the Russian people who have internationally acclaimed episodes of memory loss. No, I'm more interested in who will cull the cullers.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 14, 2023 19:18:30 GMT
Here is the Russian view of Christmas in Western Europe.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 18, 2023 5:07:51 GMT
Russians are trash. Russia is trash. Garbage nation, garbage culture.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 31, 2023 23:12:00 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2023 21:14:34 GMT
After an afternoon in London, Zelensky is in Paris tonight for dinner. Macron brought over Olaf Scholz to spare him a stop in Berlin, but tomorrow he is going to Brussels for an EU summit. I hope he is not taking too many amphetamines.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 9, 2023 16:52:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2023 13:43:31 GMT
This thread is well named, since 'Ukraine war' would have been too limited a title to encompass all the fallout. This article is an overview of Russians who have elected to leave their country. It's presented in relatable human terms, although the sheer numbers are reaching points that are hard to imagine. Excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war has set off a historic exodus of his own people. Initial data show that at least 500,000, and perhaps nearly 1 million, have left in the year since the invasion began — a tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Now, like then, the departures stand to redefine the country for generations. And the flood may still be in its early stages. The war seems nowhere near finished. Any new conscription effort by the Kremlin will spark new departures, as will worsening economic conditions, which are expected as the conflict drags on. The huge outflow has swelled existing Russian expatriate communities across the world and created new ones.Russians abandon wartime Russia in historic exodusThe above is a Washington Post article which supposedly is shareable. If not, here is Wikipedia on the subject. It's less up to date, but with an extensive list of references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_emigration_following_the_2022_invasion_of_Ukraine#:~:text=In%20this%20third%20wave%20alone,conscription%20since%20it%20was%20announced.
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