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

Biden says Putin needs to leave Ukraine if he wants peace.

https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1590902941602353152?s=20&t=lOi4ZUTRuta16GU4zOBLGg

What's the current death toll on Russian senior officers winding up dead? Have more of them been killed in Ukraine than died from sausages on Feb 7th, 1981?

One of the replies:

There is a Soviet joke: Three cell mates chat in the prison on why they end up in Jail. The 1st person: "I am in jail because I support Nikolai Bukharin." The 2nd: "I am in jail because I am against Nikolai Bukharin." The last person: "I am Nikolai Bukharin."

https://twitter.com/soraprayer/status/1590731788150001665?s=20&t=dcybERr31Sg_rDU211222Q

https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine?s=09

So, 16 admirals and 12 generals in 1981, with 10 generals and 0 admirals in Ukraine. We need to get Ukraine some sausages!

BREAKING: Ukrainian Armed Forces enter Kherson

You thought protests are banned in Russia? Not this one in central Moscow. “Nuke Washington” because “we will end up in paradise and they will just die.” Imperial delirium tremens.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1591399097432674306?s=46&t=D0Viz4ZKSrVZLKZhWsfadg

I wonder if anyone told them the tune they were playing was written by a gay man.

This doesn't bode too well as regards Putin's long-term plans:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...aining-in-schools_uk_637096abe4b0d82d23a838bd

They want 140 hours of academic study on this. But they aren't putting it in place until Sept 2023... so Putin is in this for the long haul. Given it'd be at least a couple of years before these kids are out of school and conscripted...

Ya think he's going to wait until the kids have graduated? Aren't you the optimist.

One possibility is he realizes that so many soldiers have died/will die in Ukraine that combined with populist backlash to the defeat/loss of soldiers he’ll need a fresh supply to hold down his domestic population, especially in the ethnic areas.

Aggressive mobiks at the training centre near Moscow are not happy with the training provided to them. Here the man is arguing with the officer, blaming him for not providing enough shooting drills, and threatening to put him in his place.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1591784368506564609?s=46&t=Zef7GzC_1NRpD8JmqC7x1w

A comparison of two videos:

1) Official video of most jubilant and very excite crowd to celebrating official changing of colors as Mother Russia liberates Kherson from most horrible Nazis regime.

https://twitter.com/infrrrared/status/1524686421369446400?s=46&t=Zef7GzC_1NRpD8JmqC7x1w

2) A cellphone video from a rando Ukrainian soldier mobbed while entering Kherson.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1591466265687769088?s=46&t=Zef7GzC_1NRpD8JmqC7x1w

Yep. Or the next guy. Not sure how much longer Putin has left.

Indonesian officials: Russian FM Lavrov taken to hospital

He's having "heart problems." Didja know that digitalis is a common heart medicine that in too large of a dose is fatal? Foxglove is the plant that produces digitalis (indeed the scientific name for it is Digitalis purpurea). The leaves of the plant wouldn't look out of place in a salad. Not saying that dude was poisoned with it, but given his age, he's probably already taking it, and upping the dose wouldn't be hard, because my understanding is it doesn't take much of the leaves to give someone a fatal dose.

Zelenskyy holds press conference in Kherson. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1592098313431822338?s=20&t=9nqSxzpiGMNGvBibB0Xl9A

One of the reporters points out that the Russians are still close to the city and Zelenskyy says that it's important for him to be there for morale purposes. Has Putin bothered to visit any of the captured territories? Even W went to Iraq and Afghanistan when things were still dicey.

Props to the NYT headline writer.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1591709422925283328?t=5D2-S1UTK6D3-ag-02LGWg&s=19

A T-62 Obr 1967. No ERA, no thermal sights, no night vision, no nothing. But, hey, the Cope Cage is in full effect.

That's some real discipline, these guys are displaying. That officer is gonna get fragged.

Meet the Putin Youth. https://twitter.com/siamneil/status/1592419646824906752?s=20&t=4A2z_Ih4X5SnvBGdpH6zFw

Russian missiles have killed two people in Poland. Apparently they went astray or some such. A dangerous moment.

Poland might think about triggering Article 4.

Somebody bought $72 million worth of drones. The manufacturer is refusing to say what country bought them.

Aren't military drones subject to the same sort of end-user certification as other arms deals?

Video of an explosion in Dnipro. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1593170935498280960?s=20&t=3Qk2wVYuWLlGcOi3qk0BYQ

Shadow war continues apace in Russia - man they are dropping a lot of bodies in leadership. https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1593120830908616704

Vadim #Boyko, Russian Navy Colonel & Deputy Head of Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in #Vladivostok has been killed in his office with 5 bullets to the chest. He was heavily involved in Putin's mobilization efforts. Russia propaganda reports it was suicide (I am not kidding).

Looks like Ukraine has some new toys, including an M113.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1593274852277747712?s=20&t=nJq8pWPlgn8yxEBkcQmHAw

But not Spartan 113.

Ukraine-Russia news - live: Putin has lost 83,400 troops during war, Kyiv claims

Christ, we were in 'Nam a decade and didn't lose that many people.

And the US not only had 50m more people in 1970 than Russia has today but thanks to the baby boom we had disproportionately large number of young men at the time. Unlike Russia who’s population is shrinking and disproportionately old.

Then you have all the young people who have fled due to the sanctions and then mobilization. Some will come back eventually but many will not.

The long term demographic repercussions on Russia will be debilitating.