Do Russians not have the fucking Internet anymore? If not, I know what Eve Online sov I'm invading.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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Is that fucking Kano in the road, there?!?
Oh FFS.
I agree. The peaceful people in Russia don't deserve to be invaded. Pity there's not many of them, though.
There is plenty, and the general sentiment is anti-war. It's just hugely unsafe to speak out publicly against the regime. In private, most people seem to agree that this is a bloody massacre nobody asked for.
Some of these users need to learn to separate a government from it's people. The Russian people don't really have a choice.
That fiddle is much too large. I hope he is playing 'My heart pumps piss for you pooty poot"
How about this one?:
Or the Spinal Tap classic, Lick My Love Pump
Are those the same peaceful people that think that the Ukrainians should be exterminated? Yeah cry more Russia.
This is massively embarrassing for Putin. Getting counter-invaded by your small, theoretically much weaker neighbour is a joke. And the Ukrainians have faced relatively little resistance. If Putin wasn't the evil bastard that he is, he'd call time on this pointless, wasteful war.
The concerning thing now is that he can use this Ukrainian incursion into Russia as justification for his claims that the west is trying to destroy Russia, even though he set off this chain of events with his actions.
Putin can (and does) claim anything at any time. No reason to worry about giving him ammunition to claim shit.
What’s Putin worried about? He’s sure the Ukrainian invasion will be over in only 3 days. /s
That’s not concerning at all.
They’ve made up shit to justify everything up until now. They don’t need a justification to be made for them.
He can't back down and survive. He's all in.
I mean, he's right. It's not the people's fault he's a piece of shit and should get out of Ukraine.
It's not some people's fault. Like the ones blowing up Russian infrastructure.
Everyone else aren't fundamentallly different from Germans pretending they didn't know what was going on in the town's concentration camp.
Lol, stfu and get your shit out of Ukraine.
I don't understand the nuances well enough to know, but the thought control is still pretty strong in Russia. I do wonder if the populous will see this as the manifestation of what Putin has been saying all along, which is that the Ukraine means to bring violence to them and all efforts so far have been to keep this at bay. If so they will double down on their support for the dictator.
I often think about how much brain washing the Trump group has been able to do in the US even with free press and open access to the rest of the world. Imagine the power of the mind control one could achieve with an entire infrastructure built to support just that.
Nothing will make a difference unless it reaches Moscow or st Petersburg. Most of the population is too poor/oppressed to make a big difference at this point. The people Putin needs to avoid upsetting are all living in the cities, at least according to an ex-pat friend of mine
Putin is going to use this to the extremes. He's going to spur more enlistment, perhaps a full mobilization if he can spin enough outrage.
People don't deserve to be invaded, but Putin sure does. Get fucked, Putin.
Specifically the Gaddafi treatment.
I agree.
HOWEVER…
Seems like the 901st day of the 3-day special military operation isn’t going too well
Classic elementary school bully bullshit. Mercilessly pick on a kid until that kid punches them square in the nose. Then all of a sudden they (the bully) are the poor helpless victim. Cry me a fucking river.
As Russian military continues to purposely destroy supermarkets, homes, schools, hospitals, energy infrastructure, entire towns, etc.
I wonder how many "innocent" Russians know of any of that. Or that their soldiers kidnapped and raped women and children. Tortured and executed others. "Fake news" I'm sure they'd conveniently claim. Ignorance is bliss, until the bombs start dropping on their town.
They raped men too. "They rapin e'erybody out here!"
I wonder how a vote to join Ukraine in the occupied region would go.
Agh, figures that the Russian Volunteer Corps was apparently in on the action. It just never fails to boggle my mind that the majority of the anti-Russian militias that are fighting in Ukraine are so far right that they think Putin isn't fascist enough.
Like, yeah, it's great that they're fighting Russia, but holy fuck is it this hard to find people in Russia who aren't complete pieces of shit and are also willing to fight Putin?
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