Putin Invades the Ukraine

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The reason: Re Russia/Ukraine, the NYTimes is like the Business Insider.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_nWPC8d4TLA

Douglas McGregor? Seriously? He's who Fox News turns to whenever they need a presumed military expert to push the White Nationalist's pro-Putin narrative. He has been on Tucker's Carlson White Supremacist Power Hour 48 times spewing his pro-Kremlin garbage.

In the words of Max Boot, he's a "a racist crackpot who is pro-Russia, anti-Merkel, anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican," an assertion that has plenty of evidence to back it up. He's basically a Michael Flynn type of deranged wingnut.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The reason: Re Russia/Ukraine, the NYTimes is like the Business Insider.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_nWPC8d4TLA

You and Whell have your fake "news" sources in common.

[Dondilion]

Nothing fake about Mcgregor's substantive military exposition.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Nothing fake about Mcgregor's substantive military exposition.

Bullshit, to coin a phrase.

I listened to a bit of it. Just heard opinion, no analysis at all. After a couple of minutes I jumped to the middle. I hit him 'refuting' another person by simply crying 'perposterous" and baldly asserting his opposite belief, without offering supporting facts or anything. This sort of rhetoric is not what I call 'substantive analysis.'

[finnbow]

AMSTERDAM, March 17 (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

The bold legal move will obligate the court's 123 member states to arrest Putin and transfer him to The Hague for trial if he sets foot on their territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...es-2023-03-17/

So, Putin will be shackled as soon as he steps off the plane in ~2/3 of the world's countries (which excludes the USA, but he'd never come here anyway).

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

AMSTERDAM, March 17 (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

The bold legal move will obligate the court's 123 member states to arrest Putin and transfer him to The Hague for trial if he sets foot on their territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...es-2023-03-17/

So, Putin will be shackled as soon as he steps off the plane in ~2/3 of the world's countries (which excludes the USA, but he'd never come here anyway).

Trump might just invite Putin to his inauguration.

[Chicks]

Russian pro-war blogger killed in St Petersburg restaurant blast
https://www.ft.com/content/e0823df3-...1-a0c311e3e107

Kudos to whomever accomplished this.

[donquixote99]

I hear he was very critical of the Russian commanders, and it was a complex hit in the middle of town that really looks like a GRU/FSB job.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I hear he was very critical of the Russian commanders, and it was a complex hit in the middle of town that really looks like a GRU/FSB job.

Here's a good, informative article on what we know to date about this.

Prigozhin confirmed that the cafe in which the explosion occurred belonged to him and commented on the incident:

"Indeed, I gave the cafe to the patriotic movement KIBER FRONT Z, and they held various seminars there. This tragedy most likely occurred at the seminar. As for the death of Daria Dugina - yes, everything is similar. But I wouldn't blame the Kyiv regime for these actions. I think a group of radicals who are unlikely to have any connections with the government are acting."

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Russian pro-war blogger killed in St Petersburg restaurant blast
https://www.ft.com/content/e0823df3-...1-a0c311e3e107

Kudos to whomever accomplished this.

Thoughts and prayers.