A Potemkin crowd for a Potemkin Hitler. The whole country is now more or less an empty theatre, and the hall of war criminals watching the farcial proceedings already knew that. In good Scots we´d ca… (View Post)

Some Russian sources saying the Lyman pocket is now sealed. Perhaps 2000 troops now cut off. Large surrender underway soon, Seems like other areas are also in trouble and the deployment of the new co… (View Post)

A few developments after Putin´s ridiculous rant this morning. A few comments from a Russian friend: The faces on the people in the audience during the speech. Holy shit. I think everyone there is fe… (View Post)

FWIW there is growing sense among people who deal with Russia on a daily basis that if this (frankly laughable) attempt to annex territory they don´t control does not stop the war within a few weeks,… (View Post)

Some truth in this, but actually I don´t think the pygmy Russian state is anything like the threat that the USSR was: in the 1970s, we really were within a 4 minute warning of total nuclear obliterat… (View Post)