Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Here's that trillion-dollar US intelligence apparatus I keep posting about.

 

We need to box out China in the low post.

 

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One of the great joys of the biz was driving Quark 125 mph with 3 pages to go and 12 minutes till deadline.

 

Another morning, another war crime.

 

100,000 casualties since December? Holy crap.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/russia-ukraine-war-news-2/

 

Goin’ great! Идет отлично!

The banning of public events during the May holidays is less likely to be out of concern for citizens’ safety, and more to do with Putin’s paranoid obsession with shutting down any channel for criticism of his war, even if open support for Ukraine is tiny and the threat of a popular uprising very remote.

At the same time that public protest is being pre-emptively suppressed, dissent and conflict continues to grow in military circles. In a 90-minute interview with a military blogger on 29 April, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the de facto leader of the Wagner private military company, bemoaned the catastrophic state of the Russian army, and said that “the time has come when we have to stop lying to the population of the Russian Federation saying that everything is OK”. He sarcastically called the war in Ukraine “the so-called special military operation”, in a veiled criticism of Putin’s ban on the use of the word war to describe events in Ukraine.​

Putin claims he’s cancelling public celebrations over safety fears. The truth is more humiliating — Guardian US

 

Все круто!

The Kremlin Is Deploying Obsolete T-55 Tanks in Southern Ukraine. The Last Time It Did This, With T-62s, The Tanks Got Massacred. — Forbes

 

Serious question: If Putin were out of the picture, would anything change? Is there enough support from other politicians in Russia that the war would continue? Or is this just Putin's Folly?

 

Now we know what Baghdad Bob has been up to: