"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

Video in the tweet.


https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1569276017922957312?s=46&t=iFx5pi9RcQBQ9MSJ17DJMw

How’s the joke go? My grandfather was responsible for bringing down dozens of German planes in WWII. He was the worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe.

The number of Duma members asking for Putin's resignation is up from 7 to 18 in 2 days. A trend?

There's also reports of Russian army units staging in Moscow.

Russian State TV commentators begin the blame game, suggesting Putin got bad advice ahead of the invasion. They're still pushing the lie about Nazis and avoiding the word "invasion" but the cracks are showing - one guy used the C-word (colonialism) and had to be slapped down.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...v-ukraine-success_uk_631f20d4e4b0eac9f4d963dd

Tucker Carlson had his favorite military analyst, Douglas Macgregor, last Friday night.

Macgregor stated that the war might soon be over as Ukraine was failing and they were about to be wiped out south of Kharkiv.

Macgregor made his name as the commander of the US armor group that won the famous battle of 73 Easting.

He's now overtly a pro-Putin Russian apologist.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1569321565531115523

The dictator who made it illegal to be gay in public and who decriminalized domestic violence is on the brink of losing his imperial war of expansion and the left is very upset about this for reasons they can't articulate.

https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1569138821081567232?s=46&t=3_zeZhsIoNdIw-q5wTnI5g

Not the left as a whole. Just Tankies.

"America bad. American military really bad. America help Ukraine buy weapons, therefore Ukraine bad."

Azerbaijan has invaded Armenia. This appears to be a direct result of Putin’s war in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/mhikaric/status/1569537020304965632?s=46&t=TJ-CCSxlG2hNwbQHF76JkA

Ukrainian farmer upset that he didn’t get to keep the abandoned Russian tank he found. https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1569455628049063938?s=46&t=TJ-CCSxlG2hNwbQHF76JkA

Russian forces reported to be fleeing Crimea. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-at...crimea-and-southern-ukraine-intelligence.html

Good thread:

https://twitter.com/markhertling/status/1569704142167506944?s=46&t=gOXK7goGWztZrC8C5ds-JA

This is worth watching:

Moscow confirms Russian teachers in Ukr's Kharkiv Region have been arrested by advancing Ukr forces. The teachers had been reportedly sent by Moscow to teach a Rus curriculum in schools in occupied Ukr territory. When Rus forces retreated, it seems the teachers were left behind.

https://twitter.com/bbcwillvernon/status/1569586731573301252?s=46&t=gOXK7goGWztZrC8C5ds-JA

My understanding is that these folks could technically be charged with genocide (helping stamp out Ukrainian language/culture in occupied areas) but hopefully things don’t get there.

EU MP calls for sanctions against Azerbaijan in the wake of the invasion.
https://twitter.com/TheScarmind/status/1569659375681150976?s=20&t=3KaG1j9uPxNuofI4kQs6bg

The number of regional councilmembers who are calling for Putin's resignation have gone from 18 to 50 - sorry, it turns out they are Duma members, but not the Federal Duma. So these are local members. Still, actively calling for Putin's resignation is something, and it's centered around St Petersburg, with some even in Moscow.

If they were actually nice to the trannies, drag queens, and women you would not have this problem because they would out them and kick their asses for you. If I saw some trump shitbag trying to avoid fighting by blending in to the left wing by dressing in women's clothing there would be no mercy.

Reports coming in that Georgia is planning on having a referendum to see if the people back opening a second front with Russia.

The word is they intend to retake South Ossetia and Abkhazia which Russia 'liberated' in 2008.

I've found it in the Moscow Times and the Odessa Journal, haven't seen it in any Western news agency yet. Still, intriguing if true.

HuffPo also reporting that Russia is having to import weapons from NK and Iran.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...th-korea-and-iran_uk_63218062e4b082746be4c056

Ukraine apparently shot down a Russian-operated UAV of Iranian manufacture.

Further to that, the pundits are getting even more uppity - with The Daily Beast seeing one comment as the "Are we the baddies?" moment:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...t-ukraine-erasure_uk_6321aa35e4b0ed021df7ebb6

PMC Wagner Group Evgeny Prigozhin is at a penal colony looking for new assault infantry to join his company. Refers to some of those who served 30 years in prison and died in battle as "heroes".

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1570123353331011586?s=46&t=6gdsRvdo6Q-3NGjMOjEkPw

A mercenary group, made up of criminals, named after Hitler’s favorite composer.

Is any other term for this except comic-book villains?

Zelenskyy's car was hit by another vehicle. Apparently he sustained "no serious injuries" but that gives a bit of wiggle room - the driver of the other vehicle had to have emergency treatment and be taken away by ambulance so a pretty hard impact.

Accident or malicious?

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...lenskyy-car-crash_uk_6322d4ace4b082746be69b3d

Russian state TV's Vladimir Solovyov says his country should form an international coalition for its war in Ukraine including Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1570350377878585346?s=46&t=D8UfC59g8p7xDou9Pd5sDg

I watched Lex Friedman's podcast the other day and his guest, Andrew Bustamante, a former CIA operative, says the outcome looks bleak for Ukraine.

He predicts that Russia will end up controlling natural resources in the east and access to food and money in the south and Zelensky will end up being replaced. It will essentially end in a cease fire with Russia having stricter control over Ukraine. They will be allowed to call themselves a "sovereign" nation while still being under Russia's influence. It will be an example to other former Soviet satellite states. They will be limited in how they can engage in the West and with NATO. He also goes on to say that the US' support is purely ideological. We have no real economic interests in Ukraine.

I highly recommend watching the entire podcast, but if you don't want to do that, here are the relevant bits. The things I mention starts around the 22:44 mark.

Former CIA operative means 'doesn't have access to current intelligence.' And he's categorically wrong about the assessment that Ukraine is not getting any material support from the West. They are getting huge stores of weapons, which have made their current offenses possible.

It's possible he's correct, but he's basing it entirely on political will, as opposed to capability. Russia having to import weapons from North Korea and Iran, which oh by the way have high failure rates, is not a ringing endorsement of Putin's regime. They fired yet another General in charge of the Ukraine 'special operation' two days ago. This one lasted a grand total of 16 days.

In the meanwhile there's a war of assassination raging in Russia. The last one who mysteriously died due to suffocation - almost certain a toxin of some kind - was a media magnet and hard line Putin ally.

A partial list of Russian oligarchs and media heads that have died in the last year:

Leonid Shulman - Gazprom Invest head of transport - "suicide", January 30th
Alexander Tyulakov - Gazprom top executive - "suicide", February 25th
Mikhail Watford - oil/gas oligarch - "suicide", February 28th
Vasily Melnikov - MedStom (medical supplies) owner - "murder-suicide", March
Vladislav Avayev - former Gazprombank VP, Kremlin official - "murder-suicide", April 18th
Sergey Protosenya - Novatek (gas) deputy chairman - "murder-suicide" (hanging), April 19th
Alexander Subbotin - Lukoil former manager - "found in the basement of a shaman’s house", "had been seeking a hangover cure and was poisoned", early May
Ravil Maganov - Lukoil chairman - "suicide", August 31st
Ivan Pechorin - Far East and Arctic Development managing director - "fell off a boat", September 10th
Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin - managing director of Komsomolskaya Pravda - "suffocated" on Busines Trip, Sept 14th

Ukraine finds mass graves in liberated areas. https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-says-graves-torture-centres-113921819.html

Wow. Indian PM Narendra Modi directly tells Putin that now is not the time for war in a stunning public accusation. "I know that today's era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to you on the phone about this," Modi said.

https://twitter.com/maryilyushina/status/1570780514340212736?s=46&t=HeG66gFgl20pBs191xrqEA