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Mocking people in agony is as low as it gets.
You are basically the bad guy in a horror movie if you get some joy out of this.
I understand being indifferent to an enemy combatant's death, but celebrating pure suffering and pain is literally the archetype of Satan.
Unforgettable adventures of a Russian propagandist in Soledar
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The death toll of today's attacks is...11
Nearly 100 missiles, accurately hitting their intended targets across the entire country, and only 11 people died.
Ukraine killed five people blowing up the Crimean bridge alone.
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The fact that there are large columns of "Ukrainian" refugees escaping Ukrainian control(!!) is a huge story which should complicate the West's picture of Ukraine.
We're not talking a few opportunist "collaborators". A huge % of the population was obtaining Russian passports.
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The child death toll in Gaza has now officially exceeded the child death toll in Ukraine. In just one week.
According to the UN, a total of 560 children have died in Ukraine, a substantial portion of which died from Ukrainian shelling in Russian controlled regions.
BREAKING: UN International Children's Emergency Fund spokesman says over 700 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip so far
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On Russian state TV, Moscow State University professor Vitaly Tretyakov said (and I'm paraphrasing):
"The West thinks there will be social unrest in Russia in order to make the war stop. In reality, there will be social unrest if we don't become more active in this war."
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@KyivIndependent
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Imagine if you gave him two or even three apples. He'd pass out from the intensity of the emotions.
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Thank God there's a country with balls.
Imagine if Russia didn't exist. Actually try to imagine the course of history without Russia. Imagine the absolute uncontested supremacy of America there would be today otherwise.
This is why so many countries secretly like Russia.
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It's times like this when I feel an enormous respect for Russia.
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Russian hackers managed to find their way into Liz Truss's phone data and into the American command and control software 'Delta'.
Russian intelligence is extremely formidable. Everyone, including myself, underestimated it.
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Would be hilarious if two NATO countries went to war with each other.
NOW - Greek S-300 air defense locking on Turkish jets is a "hostile act," says Erdogan.
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The idea that Russia would leave Kiev government buildings completely untouched, but would destroy a Russian Orthodox Church in Odessa (whose members and the Odessa population in general are persecuted by UKR) is absurd on its face.
We don't need to get too scientific about it.
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Just double-checked this for myself because I worried it sounded like the same excuse Ukraine makes when shelling Donetsk.
It is absolutely 100% undeniable that this came from Ukraine. The trajectory is unambiguous.
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lol pro-UKR calling for NATO intervention.
I thought you could handle it yourselves?
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Lukashenko on McDonald's leaving Belarus:
"Can't we cut a bun in half? And cram a piece of meat and salad into these two halves?"
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Reminder that this is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
If you tell us that Ukraine is fighting for the future of Europe, why do you still not provide Ukraine with battle tanks and other modern weaponry?
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Belarus is one of the most misunderstood countries in this whole drama. Very few people actually understand its political position and mentality.
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His name is Pondin Evgeny Nikolaevich and he's from Kiev. He's a company commander of the National Guard, and did not live in Kherson.
Good acting though. Zelensky should employ him in the presidential administration.
⚡️ "We have no heating, no electricity, no water, no mobile phone and no Internet, but there are no Russians! I am extremely happy, because now we are free (from the occupiers)," a resident of Kherson told AFP journalists.
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Ukraine just did a HIMARS strike on a hospital and killed 14 people, among them patients and medical staff. Dozens injured too.
I retweeted two other posts on this, including a video of the aftermath, but it doesn't seem to have caused a reaction, so here's a third post.
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This liberal-democratic mob, who hold most of the world's wealth and power, are throwing everything they can at Russia, while Russia does this alone.
It doesn't have allies in the way Ukraine does. It has friends who watch with admiration how Russia does it alone.
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Ukrainian soldiers stepped on mines and people start bawling their eyes out. Yes war is tragic etc, but these are soldiers on the attack.
I don't recall these bleeding heart threads when they kept launching petal mines into Donetsk city ripping random pedestrians' legs off.
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Upwards of 10% of Ukraine's entire army has been extinguished trying to gain those areas.
More than 30% of their Western-donated equipment -- also gone.
They dehumanised Russia and convinced themselves that Russia is a mindless apathetic horde. They discovered something else.
⚡️ Parts in blue are what the Ukrainian counteroffensive achieved in two months.
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"Putin doesn't care, he's safe in his bunker"
...what bunker? What is this bunker you keep talking about?
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Zelensky had to do a lap dance in Washington DC to get 18 howitzers. Russia just opened one of its warehouses.
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ADL is the archetype of cancel culture. It is the model which all other enemies of free speech imitate
The fact that it can realistically threaten to ruin any organisation is an insane imbalance of power. It is functionally equivalent to state power
Enough is enough.
#BanTheADL
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Literally got chills down my spine.
This is an accurate simulation of a NATO vs Russia battle. Western missiles, Western tanks, Western air defence, Western electronic warfare, Western intelligence and reconnaissance. In the hands of motivated troops. Now a load of scrap metal.
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@narrative_hole
"attack" is a loaded term. If law enforcement pursues a violent criminal, are they "attacking" him?
If relevant authorities don't answer your call, or if they secretly dislike you and tell you you're imagining a threat, is protecting your family against the threat "an attack"?
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We are witnessing a very clear example of Russian freedom of speech.
This is a straight-up populist rebellion against Russia's security and defence officials (who apparently rule Russia).
Not to end the war, but to intensify it and bring it to a quicker conclusion.
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The Odessa protests are somewhat significant. They give us a slight foretaste of how Ukraine could succumb to internal problems in the future.
Not a single video I've seen shows the Odessans bashing Russia. 100% of their emotional output is directed against the Ukrainian elites.
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Not to link everything back to the Russia-Ukraine war (my attentional center of gravity), but the # of civilian casualties in the Israel-Palestine conflict per day really puts into perspective how much worse the Ukraine war could be if Putin was indifferent to civilian casualties
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Arestovich protested a ban on Russian science textbooks. He said it would completely destroy science in Ukraine, including defence R&D. Translating everything would take years
(Btw, if S-300 is called "Russian-made rocket", one could also say Ukraine is a "Russian-made country")
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The Russian people actually want to win this war in the most maximal way possible. They are a significant part of the driving force.
This nonsense about "this is Putin's war" is laughable to anyone actually observing Russian society at the moment.
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Ukraine is a terrorist state.
That is not a play on words or an attempt to be witty. That is simply an accurate and literal description of the current situation.
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@WarMonitors
Not a single word about Donbass or Crimea. Just a very loose and inappropriate analogy with Palestine, which is disingenuous. Tell me which Palestinians have asked for Israel to liberate them? Which Palestinians would be willing to be mobilised by Israel and fight for Israel?
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The symmetry between Ukraine and Taiwan is shocking sometimes.
Taiwanese nationalists have also developed theories about them being a different ethnicity to the mainland Chinese.
As with Ukraine, these start out as marginal ideas, but can quickly become mainstream.
A new memorial in southern Taiwan has been unveiled to remember the 1,000s of Taiwanese youths who volunteered to help the Japanese war effort during World War II.
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People who follow the 18+ channels will know what I mean by this: The Ukrainian army is getting mauled at the moment.
It's been a while since I've seen this many dead Ukrainian soldiers. Probably Lisichansk was the last time I saw this. It's actually worse than then.
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He fought for the Ukrainian army, but was disillusioned after Ukraine banned his church. He is now considered a state traitor.
(He's from Odessa btw)
⚡️Boxer Vasyl' Lomachenko was added to the Register of state traitors.
The reason for its inclusion in the register is a video of a sermon by the Metropolitan of the UOC-MP, where he says that Ukraine has started a war against God.
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A Ukrainian just did a selfie video of him picking up the burnt corpses of his dead comrades.
I just don't understand these people sometimes.
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Russia using cluster munitions. In this case, to devastating effect.
Definitely haven't seen footage like this before, so Russia couldn't have been using them much before. This would be easy to identify in previous footage if they had been.
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Being an intelligent, thoughtful person in Ukraine at the moment must be one of the loneliest experiences in the world.
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"Russian-made"
Nearly every Ukrainian missile is "Russian-made". Was it a Kalibr or not?
UPDATE - Poland's Foreign Ministry says a "Russian-made" missile fell on its territory, killing two Polish citizens.
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The Zaluzhny interview in The Economist is remarkably gloomy, and even pessimistic at times.
Even if he's exaggerating Ukraine's problems, the fact he needs to plead like this says there are indeed problems.
I'll give some examples:
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*Russia captures a settlement*
"Kyiv in 3 days 😜"
*Russia captures another settlement*
"What happened to Kyiv in 3 days lmfao?"
*Russia captures another settlement*
"Look at this map, you wanted these big encirclements, and now you're happy with this small encirclement"
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I had to double-check this was real.
Turns out he really did say this. He enthusiastically backs Ukraine joining NATO. So what the fuck is the point of Russia maintaining any kind of relationship with this fickle good-for-nothing moron?
⚡️ Erdogan during a press conference with Zelenskуу said that Ukraine deserves NATO membership.
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Anywhere Russia advances, it's a "desperate attempt to achieve some kind of victory, regardless of its importance".
If Russia captures rural farm land, that's Russia being desperate to take anything.
If Russia storms a city, this is also desperate attempt to take useless land.
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Oh no, can you imagine if they did a pro-Russia coup d'etat and allowed Russia to station troops there in order to liberate Odessa?
Man that would be awful.
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The fact the West feels it can issue arrest warrants like this is disgustingly arrogant.
It's not a "joke" that they've done this. It shows their arrogance knows no bounds. It's the crux of the problem!
Imagine if China said it intends to arrest Angela Merkel or Boris Johnson.
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The Russian military is vastly better now than it was in Feb 2022 when it was taking huge swathes of territory.
The war map doesn't give you a qualitative sense of what's happening.
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Rybar:
"A special post for those who do not understand what is happening in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.
At Sukhoi Stavka, at the outskirts of Vysokopole, and near Posad-Pokrovsky, there are the bodies of at least four thousand Ukrainians."
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Notice that every video of a provincial Russian town bordering Ukraine is instantly recognisable by its superior maintenance and nicer appearance.
Cross the border into Kharkov and everything instantly downgrades.
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The Russian government has opened a criminal case against Zaluzhny. Quite a significant escalation.
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Their minds are fixated on the WW2 analogy of him being Hitler in his last days hiding in a bunker.
No one's hiding in a bunker except Zelensky and his comrades.
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It amazes me that people can look at a magnificent structure like the Crimean Bridge and say "oi, dats illegal". Imagine looking at Roman aqueducts and thinking "hm, did they do this legally?"
Ukraine couldn't get shit done. Russia is a civilisation and builds like one.
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When you see a factory like this, it brings to life Putin's claim that Russia produces more air defence missiles than the rest of the world combined.
🇷🇺 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu Visits Missile Production Facility
Shoigu visited one of the production plants of the Almaz-Antey Corporation, one of Russia’s missile-making majors.
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It's been said a million times, and it needs repeating: Putin is the nice guy.
He is not the total war dictator the West accuses him of being, but such people do exist in Russia. They can emerge.
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Pro-UKR will have trouble pretending to have the moral highground given its enjoyment of this war and the delight it has taken in human suffering.
You indulged your primal instincts and enjoyed it. There was nothing lofty about it. You had an enemy. Well, so do I: it's you.
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The meeting between Xi and Putin the other day was one of the most extraordinary displays of friendship between the two countries in their history.
I know it's not as cool as a military victory, but this is a diplomatic success for which Putin (the man himself) deserves credit.
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The Guardian just said that Chinese social media is bursting with enthusiasm for Russia's decision.
YES CHINA! Showing loyalty in this most difficult period for Russia!
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Even if you get a secret satisfaction from it, doesn't your conscience present another hurdle before you decide to publicise this satisfaction and normalise it among your audience?
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Odessa must be liberated. It doesn't matter how overly-ambitious or unrealistic that sounds at the moment. It simply must happen.
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The narrative that this was some bloodbath is ridiculous.
Ukrainians will live. Hospitals and other humanitarian necessities will still have electricity.
All that's happened today is that Ukraine's ability to function (including militarily) is significantly lessened.
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Russia is attacking critical infrastructure to distract away from its battlefield successes in Bakhmut region.
This just shows Russia's weakne-
Wait, that narrative doesn't make sense actually.
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It's remarkable how much more accepting the West is of civilian deaths in Middle East wars.
In Ukraine, not once has a tragedy been dismissed as collateral damage. If 313 Ukrainian civilians died in one day, an international tribunal would log it down as a crime of
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300,000 additional troops, an intact economy, an untouchable industrial base with infinite natural resources to keep up a war of attrition indefinitely.
UKR not having an electric grid, an economy, continuous supplies, etc, etc.
A war is more than just a map being coloured in.
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How are they going to win when all they do is abandon territory?
Not a troll, but completely honest.
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Ukraine's suicidal crossings at Antonovsky Bridge demonstrate that they are still remarkably indifferent to death.
They get injured with little hope of timely medical evacuation. Many have died already. There is no hope of them succeeding in large numbers, but they do it anyway.
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I wonder what % of people believe this.
⚡️Russians torture Ukrainian children and even "set up" separate torture chambers for this purpose, – the parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, – Dmytro Lubinets.
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I can't stop thinking about how beautiful it will be when the Ukrainian armed forces are outnumbered by Russian forces for the first time in the war.
We're nearly at that point. By the end of this month, it should become reality.
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Pro-Russia people complaining about this are politically naive.
Today has been a diplomatic success. Russia and China look reasonable, while the West and Ukraine appear hungry for more war.
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