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^^^ Russian general lies .. shouldn't Putin be be nodding and looking pleased as he is told how well the special operation is going? Instead he looks serious, concerned and quite possibly constipated. Clearly this is a good way to get fake news out .. maybe Putin's reactions are genuine.. or maybe it simply doesn't matter.

(Sep 2, 2022 01:41 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]accidentally jumped out a window.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62750584

Quote:The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
The company confirmed his death but said only that Maganov, 67, had "passed away following a severe illness".
Russian media said he was being treated at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and died of his injuries.
Maganov is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.
Investigating authorities said they were working at the scene to establish how he died. Tass news agency quoted sources saying he had fallen out of a sixth-floor window early on Thursday morning, adding later that he had taken his own life.

i wonder if he was dosed up with some drugs & then thrown out

maybe he had terminal cancer & committed suicide

Whats more likely is the coffers are getting empty (considering how money is being thrown around for contract troops etc) and anyone with money is being asked to donate/pledge/show their support, and when they fail to do so, they are removed and the money taken anyway. That's how a dictactor can put all the countries companies and hopes of freedom back under the thumb of state control.

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to manipulate/setup assassinations too look like they are done by the West or the Ukraine or those that support either, since those targets are people on sanctions lists. (You'll probably find more of the sanctioned will meet sticky ends for that reason alone)

(Sep 2, 2022 01:41 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]accidentally jumped out a window.

"Accidently" jumped out a window. Perhaps with a little help?

I have as little confidence in their FSB goons as I have in our own FBI goons.

Here's one of the best things I've read about the Ukraine War, where it is now and how it is likely to evolve in the future.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/article...51628.html

Day 192 summary. We heard a lot a few days ago about a big Ukrainian offensive in the area of Kherson, but it seems to have come to nothing so far. The Ukrainians have clamped a media blackout on what is happening, but internet rumors speak of the Ukrainians suffering heavy casualties and their attempts to advance being driven back. Despite the attacks on the bridges, the Russians still seem well equipped.

Meanwhile, Russian attacks in the east appear to be having as little success. Sloviansk, Siversk and Bakhmut remain in Ukrainian hands.

This Ukraine war is definitely showing that the defense on both sides has the upper hand, as front lines grow stagnant and fixed. The Russians' superiority in numbers isn't winning the war for Russia, nor is Ukraine's advantage in superior Western weapons winning the war for Ukraine. So it looks to me like a war of attrition where Russia's larger size may eventually be determinative.

https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-192-summary/

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgro...eptember-3

(Sep 4, 2022 04:13 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Here's one of the best things I've read about the Ukraine War, where it is now and how it is likely to evolve in the future.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/article...51628.html [...]

"Eventually, stalemates end. Sometimes, the exhausted belligerents recognize the futility of continuing hostilities. Other times, one of the combatants gains a war-winning advantage and emerges victorious. In either case, the issue becomes: Can the former enemies secure a lasting peace?"

Bottom line is that this conflict is being fought on Ukrainian turf. Aside from striking close-to-border military targets, no significant destruction (and its re-think effects) is being inflicted upon the Russian intruders' motherland.

The population of the invaded country is the one that's going to be incrementally smothered under the accumulating weight of survival hardships, property damage, economy wreckage, and an eroding infrastructure and goods supply-chain. 

While not protected by the breadth of two oceans, Ukraine's persecutor might as well be considered as enjoying a good chunk of the degree of insulation that the mainland United States had during WWII.

(Sep 2, 2022 06:20 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]

(Sep 2, 2022 01:41 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]accidentally jumped out a window.

"Accidently" jumped out a window. Perhaps with a little help?

I have as little confidence in their FSB goons as I have in our own FBI goons.

i think the FSB would be serial killer personalitys
im sure its filled with psychopaths

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(Sep 5, 2022 04:58 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5hZxVjRvIM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkOHEA8Uko

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLI0zDa0kTo

With respect to the last one, sabotage from Russian dissidents themselves is one limited way of carrying the conflict into the otherwise secure invader's homeland. But given the state's ability to round suspects up and sentence them without due process (or with a speedy, sham version of that) and punish them to the max... One has to wonder how long the insurgents can maintain their numbers of "willing to sacrifice all to damage military logistics" participants.

However, French resistance endured through WWII -- the height of it was late in the war. Not quite the same thing, but Germans controlled France and were arguably a threat to the French underground as much as Russian dissidents are menaced by Vlad's domestic agencies.