It could be done very easily. There are a lot of ships in the Baltic, but a small team in a small boat is a very hard thing to detect, a submarine is even more so. Unless one of those ships happened to be basically ontop of…
I’m a bit of an amateur historian and this reminds me of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward a bit (and hints of Pol Pot’s war with Vietnam) It wasn’t necessarily that they forget. But if you shoot the messenger enough times in an autocracy, you eventually only get…
[–]s3k2p7s9m8b5 1535 points1536 points1537 points 10 hours ago (88 children) It’s crucial that we figure out ways to promote and make this info and website available for the Russian people: The government of Ukraine has launched the “I want to Live” telegram channel, aimed at Russian conscripts, to educate…
That and, in particular, to get him back into the news. Snowden is a black stain on the U.S.’s relationship with its own citizenry. He’s a victim of doing the right thing. Russia’s just getting him back into our consciousness. But come on, it’s not like we forgot…
Democracy isn’t having parties and voting. There were plenty of governments in latin america that have both of these things and yet are consided dictatorships by their own people, like Chile post coup, Brazil, Argentina, etc. What characterizes a democracy is the power the majority has, where majority…
Italy baby wut happened?… The lady’s wiki page is so bad. It’s like checking every single box, none of these traditional values will fix anything in their lives: Opposed to the reception of non-European migrants and multiculturalism, she has been accused of xenophobia and Islamophobia Meloni is opposed…
Full Transcript Below: EUROPEAN PRAVDA – SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2022, 17:52 Despite its close relationship with Russia, Serbia will not recognise the results of the sham referendums held on the occupied territories in eastern and Southern Ukraine. Source: Nikola Selaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, quoted in…
“Russian President Vladimir Putin escaped to his secret palace near Gelendzhik, about halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg, amid anti-draft protests in Russia, MailOnline was first to report. According to independent journalist Farida Rusamova, who cited three sources familiar with Putin’s schedule, the Russian president traveled to his…
I’m not sure the Russians have the capacity to orchestrate that kind of false-POW stunt. They’d have to have highly trained, designated infiltrators who put on enlistee uniforms and surrender without getting killed along the way. Then: Profit? It’s not clear what exactly the upshot is. You’ll presumably…
Funny you should say that, the norwegian journalist Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld told a story about being served coffee by Putin while meeting with some KGB brass in the late 80s. Edit: Here’s the relevant text blurb from the article, and then put through google translate. «Vi (Steinfeld og tidligere…
